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Telekommunikation und Mobilsysteme
Prozessanalytiker
Leistungselektronik
Analyse
C
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Elektronik
Spezifikation
Geschäftsprozessoptimierung
Embedded Systems / Betriebssysteme
Elektrotechnik
Embedded
Embedded Systems / Firmware
Firmware
Linux
Beratung
Prozessoptimierung
Projekt Management
Requirementsengineer
Ausschreibung
Scrum
LPIC1
MBSE
SysML/UML
Distributed Systems
Funktionale Sicherheit
Systemarchitekt
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Scrum Projektleiter
Abteilungsleiter
Geschäftsprozessmanagement
CEO
Firmware Entwickler
Elektromobilität
Autonomes Fahren
hoch redundant
Skills
LUDWIG JAFFÉ
E-Mail: Ludwig.Jaffe@gmail.com
Phone: +49 160 333 999 8 (Germany)
Phone +972 54 5885998 (Israel)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Date of birth
09/14/1972
Place of birth
Munich
Nationality
German
Work permit
EU (German Citizen), Israel
Education
01.10.2002 - 14.03.2006
Studies of Systems Engineering at University of applied science
Munich, Germany
Degree: Master of Systems Engineering
October 1996 - September 1999
Studies of Electrical Engineering with specialization in automation
and control at University of cooperative education in Ravensburg
Degree: Dipl.-Ing. (BA)
October 1994 -October 1996
Studies of electrical engineering at University Ulm, BW, Germany
1984-1993
Secondary School „Fichtegymnasium“ in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Exam: Abitur /Allgemeine Hochschulreife
1979-1984
Primary School „Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Bismarckstrasse“
in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Certifications
PRINCE 2 Practitioner in Project Management
(GR657068060LJ)
PRINCE 2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
(GR656147904LJ)
ITIL Foundation, ITIL4 Edition (GR671169016LJ)
Agile Scrum Master (6336372.20797637)
Agile Scrum Foundation (6336372.20793236)
LPIC-1 (lpi.org/v/LPI000214128/674ebhcn3a)
BMW internal driving license B1 (driver training)
Know How and Experiences
systems engineering :
System development, system modeling, simulation of systems,
partitioning of distributed systems, V-Model, systems engineering
methodology
:
project management
Specifications, multi project management, risc management, resource
and capacity planing, project control, decision methods, Networks of
influence (Vernetztes Denken by F. Vester)
Tools: Primavera, MS-Project, Timeline, Expertchoice
Methods: Gantt, Pert, CPM, MPM, trend analysis, ...
Process management:
Re-Engineering of Business Processes
Analysis of process compliance according. to CMMI, SPICE
(ISO15504), others
Modeling in ARIS, IBO-Prometheus and GRADE, BPMN
Interviews to gather actual process
Analysis and optimization of Business Processes, Roll-Out support
Hardware Development:
EMC oriented Design,safety electronics,
High aviable Systems, hot / cold redundancy
reliabiliy, FMEA, FTA
signal integrity, EMC, hierachical design, cost centered design,
manufactureability, test and verification
Digital Electronics:
High-Speed Digital Design, Processor architectures: Intel x86, Sparc,
PowerPC,ARM, misc. Microcontrollers (8051, Z80, 6502, AVR, NXP
MRKII, PIC, MSP430, .. ) , DSPs
Programable Logic (FPGA, CPLD) of vendors xilinx, lattice, altera,
microsemi. Languages Verilog, VHDL, ABEL
Analog Electronics:
Measurement amplifiers, filters, sensors, actors,
A/D & D/A-Converters, Software-Defined-Radio, RF-Technology,
Power management, power electronics, switch mode power supply
Automatic Control:
Analog and digital Control, Fuzzy Control
Programing Languages:
C (gcc, Keil, Visual Studio), Pascal (Turbopascal, freepascal,
Lazarus), Assembler, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, UNIX-Shell, BASIC,
Fortran (gnu compiler)
Operating Systems:
Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 8/9,
WINDOWS NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, WINDOWS 9x, DOS, CP/M
Datea bases:
SQL (Postgress, MySQL), DBASE
Networks/ Communication:
TCP/IP, ISDN, HDLC
Software/ Methods /Tools /
ARIS, GRADE,IBO-Prometheus, UML,
Cadence Concept HDL (PE14.0) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Concept
(97A) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Allegro (Layout),
Altium Designer, Protel, ORCAD, EAGLE, KEIL-Compiler,
ASCET, INCA, MATLAB, SIMULINK, Vissim
MS-Office, Libreoffice, MS-Project, Primavera, Timeline,
Expertchoice, Adobe Frame-Maker, Adobe-Acrobat, Gimp, Xfig,
Eclipse, Lauterbach Trace32, GnuDebugger, GnuDebugger, DDD,
Jenkins, yocto, bitbake, buildroot, openwrt, uboot, gentoo, eclipse,
pycharm
Measurement Technology:
logic analyzer, Oscilloscopes (digital & analog), spectrum analyzer,
Receiver, EMC measurements, signal generators, IEEE488-Control,
voltage controlled analog measurements, temperature measurements,
thermal imagers, infrared imagers, visible light imagers, UV imagers,
misc. sensors.
Building of Prototypes:
SMD soldering using microscope, trouble-shooting, measurement,
metal work.
SAP
SAP R/3 MM.
Fields of work:
Specifiation, architecture, project management, systems-engineering,
strategic planing, embedded software development, hardware
development (analog and digital), product development, quality
management, System- and Network administration
Employments and Freelance Projects
05/2022 - 11/2022
Employed as scientist in computer science for development and operation of
small HA cluster using Proxmox-Linux to serve lecture environments.
Technologies: Proxmox, Softswitch, Mellanox 40GBit/s Ethernet boards with
fiber DAC cables, guacamole, VDI, FusionDirectory, OpenLDAP, Asus
Servers with AMD Epyc 7763 (Zen3), NVME SSD, pci express Gen 4 switch
12/2020 - 04/2022
Employed as Systems Development Engineer for electrical two wheelers for
the lower price segments in Asia.
Tasks: technical lead in the area of systems concepts and development,
supplier management, research, development of ECUs.
In house consulting on E/E and systems engineering, development
methodology, V-Model. CMMI
04/2020 – 08/2020
Break to get trained and certified in PRINCE2, SCRUM and ITIL
01/2020 – 03/2020
Project: Continued development of an Internet of Things device to save
energy until it is ready for the market.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
10/2019 – 12/2019
Project: Debuggung of a Linux based Router-Fimware in order to locate the
problem of wrongly encrypted IPSEC traffic.
Tools: Mercurical, Debian Linux, gdb, Traffic-Generator, OpenWrt-Router
with VLAN-Switch, tcpdump Wireshark, for traffic recording and analysis
Libre-Office for documentation.
07/2019 – 09/2019
Part time project: Development of a n Internet-of-Things-Device for energy
saving.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
02/2019 – 06/2019
Head of Hardware Development (manufacturer of measurement systems),
Responsibilities: Disciplinary and professional leadership of 7 employees in
the department Hardware Development. Coordinate product development with
departments of physical engineering and application software.
Tools: MS-Office, special project management software, Libre-Office, GanttProject, KICad, EAGLE, LT-Spice, Oscilloscope, Clamp Meters, Digital
Multimeter.
07/2018 – 02/2019
Part time project: Evaluation of various open-source document management
solutions and older scanner systems to set up various scanning services.
Tools: Debian Linux, sane, tesseract-ocr, samba, Python, C ++, Gui with Qt
on Linux
07/2018 – 08/2018
Development of real-time software for STM32F4 (ARM-Cortex M4 Core) for
multi axis motor control using an ASIC made by Trinamic.
Tools: Atollic Studio, STM32CubeMX
11/2017 – 06/2018
From the findings of the previous project, it became interesting to design a
highly secure appliance for HIP (Host Identity Protocol), and to develop a
concept study.
Tasks: Analysis of public documents available covering HIP, development of a
concept for a HIP-appliance, based on OpenBSD and back door free x86
hardware. Prototype build.
Tools: Linux, QubesOS, OpenBSD
Plattform: OpenBSD
11/2016 –09/ 2017
Architect / Development of an Architecture for reliable mobile
communication to be used for passenger information and remote sensing in
trains.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop network
connectivity concept that allows for connectivity under difficult conditions of
moving trains in areas with bad radio coverage using a multitude of radio
modems to cover different providers (HIP, multi homing, mobility), Internet
of Things, MQTT, IPSec
Tools: MS-Office, Gimp, Linux, QubesOS, OpenWRT, Amazon AWS, git
07/2016 – 10/2016
Application development of customer specific business software.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop database
driven applicationss in Oracle PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Python
Tools: Oracle virtual box, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio, Pycharm
11/2015 – 03/2016
Employed at Start-up as Research Engineer
Tasks: Analyze and improve distributed IT-systems based on Amazon Cloud
services, Linux, OpenWRT and Automation products. Program custom
software in Python, C
Tools: RS485-Analyzer, Kali-Linux, cygwin, OpenWRT, Lab-Equipment, vi,
emacs, gcc, make, gdb, ddd, pycharm
06/2015 – 10/2015
Part-time project of developing an electric bike drive using a brush less DC
motor, Tasks: Analyze requirements, set up experimental environment for
development of motor controller.
Tools: Kicad, Lab-Equipment (mechanical and electric)
03/2015 – 05/2015
Freelance Consultant for BMW.
Tasks: Evaluate wireless communication concepts (reliability and
performance) for wireless charging of electric vehicles.
Tools: OpenWRT (build environment, system), Iperf, custom build kernel for
6loPAN and Bluetooth LE, Android-Tablets, Kali-Linux, MS-Office, Adobe
Acrobat, cygwin, Spectrum Analyzer
11/2014 – 01/2015
Freelance Consultant for 1st tier automotive supplier.
Tasks: Requirements Management, technical clarification with Automotive
OEM, systems-engineering. Identification of impact of functional safety.
Tools: DOORS, MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, cygwin
06/2014 – 09/2014
Development of a controller for brush less DC motors using a XMC4500 (arm
based) processor from Infineon, to operate a
brush less DC bike motor.
Tasks: Analyze requirements of advanced bicycle drive using 2 quadrant
FOC, program field oriented control for bicycle motor in C using DAVE-IDE,
develop hardware to control bicycle motor using KICAD, build prototype
board and integrate system
Tools: Kicad, Infineon-DAVE (eclipse based IDE)
05/2014 – 06/2014
Freelance Consultant for motor control systems.
Tasks: Consulting and support client with software architecture and
specification for a new developed embedded motor control platform (uses
infineon xmc4500).
Tasks: Writing specifications for software modules, consult about testing
procedures, scale object oriented architecture against plain C, code efficiency
with RTOS uc/osII, analysis and optimization of development processes
(CMMI), leading 3rd party for software implementation.
Tools: MS-Office, uCOS II, IAR, Eclipse, Eclipse Keppler, Eclipse
Requirements Modeling Framework
04/2014 – 05/2014
Freelance Consultant for Battery Management Systems
Tasks: Consult Client about cell leveling and charging methodology of
Lithium Ion Cells in 400Ah range. Development of functional safety concept
based on redundant self monitoring Hardware. The safety system is SIL4
according to ISO61508. In order to prevent catastrophic explosion or fire
caused by big Lithium-Ion cells.
Writing and reviewing documents, specifications and architectural proposals.
Jan 2014 – Mar 2014
Employed as CTO in a small start-up company
IT/Advertisement-Company
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD machines, and
administration of virtualization servers using Citrix XenServer, development
of small electronic boards, development of system solutions for remote
control of vending machines
Tools: Linux, XenServer, wireshark, Kicad, C/C++, Java, Python, BashScript
12/2013 – 12/2013
Employed as UNIX and network (cisco, linux) administrator
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris machines, and
cisco switches and administration of virtualization servers using VMWare
Vsphere and Citrix XenServer.
Tools: shell, Vsphere, XenServer, Jira, wireshark
Dec 2013 – Dec 2013
part-time freelance project in programing an MITT-Transport interface in C
for Linux.
IT-Company
Freelance
Tasks: analyze requirements, implement MQTT-payload to IP socket
converter in C for Linux.
Tools: gcc, make, vi, gdb, wireshark
09/2013 – 11/2013
Part-time freelance project in consulting about PLC communication in the
area of smart metering
Tasks: checking documents and standards of PRIME, G3-PLC, P1901.2
Tools: MS-OFFICE, libreoffice, Gimp, Adobe Acrobat
05/2013 – 08/2013
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
automotive vision system (Lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane
and sign recognition) at Audi
Automotive supplier
Temp. Employment at service provider company.
Tasks: measurements at CAN bus, and trouble shooting to locate root cause
of problems in complex vehicle system, mounting and calibration of cameras,
attend test drives, evaluate effects on other system and functional safety
according to ISO26262.
Tools: Mobile-Eye Toolkit, Vector CANanlyzer.
04/2013 – 05/2013
Reverse engineering of embedded control system for industrial plasma
generator. Gain access to parameter sets and recorded data
Freelance Project
Tasks: consulting for methodology, tooling, identify components and reverse
engineer circuitry as far as needed, gain access to device communication
Tools: multi meter, Flash-Programmer, SPI-Tool, RS485-Interface, Linux,
68HC11 simulator THRSIM11. hexeditor, Serial sniffer, Debian Linux,
Raspery Pi board with raspian.
04/2012 – 09/2012
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
keyless entry project at BMW
Automotive supplier
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for improvements of radio key circuits, tool improvement,
trouble-shooting, product improvements, RF-measurements, telegram
measurements, side channel analysis of key, NXP MRKII assembler code
review, trouble shooting,
Evaluate security of system.
Tools: self developed comparator amplifier for differential power analysis,
digital-oscilloscope, CANoe, spectrum analyzer, protocol receiver build from
atmel rf-evaluation boards
01/2012 – 02/2012
Employment as project manager and analyst
Employed
Tasks: Requirements analysis, public bids, writing of technical concepts,
project management of public transport project public transport ticketing and
erp system
07/2011 – 12/2011
Consulting, trouble shooting and technical improvement of inverter
for hybrid electric car
Liebherr Elektronik GmbH
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for FPGA programming (VHDL), optimization and
debugging of schematics trouble shooting, repairing prototypes, high
voltage tests, temperature measurements, vibration measurements,
integration of test system
Set-up and operation of test stand for electrical machine and inverter,
forensic analysis of defects and root cause analysis.
Evaluate functional safety of protection functions according to
ISO26262.
Tools: current clamps, digital oscilloscope, CANalyzer, CANape,
Libero (FPGA-Proasic3 Actel), Xilinx ISE (Xilinx Spartan 3A loaded
by DSP), Codeworrior (TI-DSP 2xxx), Lauterbach Debugger ICD,
Lauterbach Trace32, PAC-Designer (Lattice power manager ISPac),
Diamond (Lattice), OpenFTA, high power high voltage supply,
insulation tester, high voltage safety
03/2011 – 05/2011
consulting test development for rfid chipcards acc. ISO14443
Giesecke & Devrient (chipcard company)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting about special active modulation techniques that
enhance range and are compatible with ISO14443 readers,
optimization of 13.56MHZ antennas, development of automated tests
in java using G&D IFDSIM
Tools: chip card reader CLT-One, digital oscilloscope, network
analyzer, Eclipse, IFDSIM, open source and G&D proprietary
libraries in Java
11/2010 – 12/2010
consulting regarding systems architecture and requirements of high
voltage system and safety requirements for emergency switches for
electrical vehicle
Drexlmayr (Automotive supplier)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting regarding methods of requirements engineering and
demands by ISO26262,
Writing of requirements lists and analysis of impact, coordination
Tools: MS-Office
08/2010 – 10/2010
Project management for development of military 4m radio system
Thales, Pforzheim
Freelance project
Tasks: Lead and coordination of project team, tracking milestones and
costs,plan dependencies with other projects and blocked resources,
check configuration items, results, reports, support and consulting for
trouble shooting, coordination
Tools: MS-project, MS-Office, Doxygen (check software structure and
documentation), Doors (check requirements and documentation)
Project has been canceled because of political changes at far east
customer.
04/2010 – 06/2010
Development of reliable firmware for micro controller development
tool containing MSP430
Texas Instruments
Freelance project
Tasks: Development of firmware in C with special safety functions to
communicate to host via usb, and ensure the device is always bootable
state under all circumstances of firmware upgrade and other failures.
Debugging using JTAG, oscilloscope
Programming language: C
Processor: MSP430
Tools: IAR, JTAG debugger, mixed-signal oscilloscope (protocol
debugging)
11/2009 – 02/2010
Employment at Annax Information Systems (equipment for public
transport) as systems engineer
Employed
Tasks: Consulting, Requirements management, public bids
Functional safety acc. to ISO61508, consulting regarding ISO 1558
Writing of technical concepts, specifications
Software development in c,c++ for Linux and windows.
09/2009 – 10/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed simulation software to
visualize and test complex character based display systems in the area
of passenger information
Customer: Annax Information Systems GmbH
Tasks: Analysis of micro controller software used in displays,
refactoring of monster loop based approach to thread based state
machine based approach integration of the code into TCP based
simulation system, writing of GUI, test and integration
Programming language: C, C++
Target: Windows (Gui MFC), Windows/Unix (data server)
Processor: x86
Tools: Eclipse (UML, development environment), Visual Studio (for
MFC GUI),
gcc, gdb (for server), Wireshark (Network test),
Logik-Analyzer (Analysis of RS485 states)
08/2009 – 09/2009
Freelance: Consulting about embedded computer architectures for bid
project „passport reader“
Customer: Rode & Schwarz
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, SystemsEngineering, cost estimation, negotiations with prospective suppliers
06/2009 – 07/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed maximum power point charger
system for island supply of mountain huts.
(Own project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, prototype
development. Systems-Engineering, HW development, power
electronics (DC-DC-converter buck/boost cuck-type),
HW-Development, SW-development in C for MSP430, development
of rs485 based field bus for control
06/2008 – 02/2009
Freelance: Development of DSP-Software for optical Instrument to
measure security features of bank notes.
Customer: Bundesdruckerei GmbH (value print)
Tasks: Analysis, and documentation of legacy software, introduction
of new methods and tools, addition of functions, writing drivers and
embedded OS. Improvement of measurement hardware
Programming language: C.
Processor: Motorola DSP-56F807
Tools: Vmware, Codeworrior, Doxygen, Cygwin, oscilloscope, logic
analyzer
08/2007 – 12/2007
Freelance: Development of embedded firmware for industrial HMI
Customer: Trupf Group
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering,
Processor: Infineon C167;
Tools: Keil-C, Easy-Code (was required by customer), Doxygen
03/2007 – 07/2007
Development of technical concept for product SAR „Drone“
(Development Project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering, HW-development
of motor drives, hw development of redundant computers (flight
controllers), HW development mission system. SW-development for
sub systems.
Not finished.
10/2006 – 01/2007
Development of „Communication Box“
(Own Product, discontinued)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, software
development
Tools: Linux-Kernel, vi, make, phyton, perl, gcc, OpenOffice.
Resultat: prototype of linux based ISDN-PBX, thas is used by some
people
08/2006 – 09/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for airport displays
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train equipment supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, development and
test of prototypes.
Result was a prototype of a passive cooled (special cooling concept)
1,7GHz Intel Core2-Computer to present HDTV-Spots, which is
equipped with WLAN and UMTS for feed, and was capable to work
at 50 °C under full CPU-load.
02/2006 – 07/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for passenger information at train stations
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, Development of concepts, development
and test of prototypes, development of test software,
Setup of an adapted embedded Linux distribution, write kernel module
for GPIO-board.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, Gimp, Measurement of
temperatures and signals using climate chamber and measurement
fixtures
07/2005 – 02/2006
Freelance: Development of „HSM-Box“ und „Kernel-AcceleratorDevice“
(Product for own use)
Development of universal FPGA-Platform to accelerate Linux Kernel
(KAD) and a key storage sytstem (HSM-Box)
Tasks:
Concept and specification of open development platform for FPGA
based systems, Concept of cheap FPGA-based secure secret storage
system (system concept, HW-development, VHDL-coding)
Office-Tools: Open-Office, Gimp
EDA-Tools: Xilinx-ISE, Altera Quartus, gEDA
Talks: „The Kernel Accelerator Device“
02/2005 – 05/2005
Freelance: Project management and consulting for Development of
embedded system to upgrade ICE1 trains with new passenger
information system and reservation displays
(Management of hardware part of project)
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (railway electronics)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, feasibility analysis, development of
technical concepts, development and test of prototypes, development
of test software, provide support and inputs for mechanical designers,
negotiations with suppliers in Taiwan, ROC.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, OpenOffice, Gimp
11/2004 – 12/2004
Freelance: consulting in the field of software logistic concepts
Client: BMW
Tasks: Requirements analysis, development of concepts, participation
in comitees
Tools: MS-Office, Visio
08/2004 – 10/2004
Freelance: Development of concepts for embedded computers
(concept development, specification writing)
Freelance Project for
Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Supplier of train equipment)
Tasks: conceptual development of embedded computers architectures,
writing specs and bid-documents
Tools: MS-Office, MS-Visio
05/2003 – 05/2004
BMW AG Munich:
Masters Thesis „Analyse und Optimierung des Änderungsprozesses
bei der BMW Fahrzeugelektronik- und Software-Entwicklung“
(Process analysis and improvement at R&D of car electrics,
electronics and software)
Grade of Masters Thesis: 1.0
Tasks: Analysis and improvement of software-logistics (configuration
management / change management & integration) processes at BMW
Acquisition of actual processes, analysis and identification of
improvements, development of process improvements, design of new
business processes according to CMMI.
Tools: modeling in ARIS, GRADE
04/2000 – 04/2002
Force Computers GmbH:
Employment
Hardware Engineer in Board-Business-Unit
Tasks: Development, Debugging, new product introduction of
computer boards with Intel x86, PowerPC, Sparc processors for
telecom applications. HW development (about 100 pages schematics,
16 Layers, 2 impedance controlled, VHDL und Verilog coding for
4000 series Xilinx-FPGAs)
Tools: Framemaker, MS-Office
EDA-Tools: Cadence Concept HDL (PE14), Concept (97A)
Cadence Allegro, Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Verilog-XL,
Solaris, Agilent logic analyzer, digital osciloscope
Tools new product introduction:
SAP/R3, Unix-Scripts
Project management using MS-project
Team: 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software-Engineer, 2 Test engineers
Position: hw development engineer
10/1999 – 04/2000
Kontron embedded computers AG:
Employment
Development Engineer in Board level development department
Tasks: Hardware development, hardware oriented software
development, power management
Development of power management for industrial notebook computer
Tools: Orcad, Pspice, Excel-Sheets, self written c-programs, Keil-IDE
for 8051
Team: (1 Mechanical Engineer, 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software
Engineer)
Job: Hardware development engineer
09/1996 – 10/1999
Mayser GmbH & Co. KG: Internship for Practical part of studies at
University of cooperative education Ravensburg
Tasks: Development of micro controller- and logic based controllers,
development of safety electronics, development of PLC software
Tools: EAGLE, Pspice, Step-5-programmer,
Z80-emulator
Job: electronics developer
Attended Seminars
Time-Management
English (Berlitz-Seminars, Unicert3),
Power-PC Architektur
Software-Defined-Radio (Analog Devices)
Identity Management with Omada
Führung im Mittelstand
PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner, Agile
Exin Agile Scrum Master, Agile Product-Owner, Scrum Foundation
ITILv4 Foundation, Practitioner
Languages
-English fluently written and orally:
Certificates: Unizert 3, Berlitz Level 8
-German :(Mother tounge)
Driving licenses
Classes A, BE, CE, C1E, MSLT; BMW Internal driver training B1
Hobbies, sports, special interests
Sports
Sailing, climbing, hiking
Hobbies
Open-Source, Linux, BSD, vehicles, ham radio (license: DL1EHU),
Making
Special interests
Economy, science, inventions
Date: 01/01/23
E-Mail: Ludwig.Jaffe@gmail.com
Phone: +49 160 333 999 8 (Germany)
Phone +972 54 5885998 (Israel)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Date of birth
09/14/1972
Place of birth
Munich
Nationality
German
Work permit
EU (German Citizen), Israel
Education
01.10.2002 - 14.03.2006
Studies of Systems Engineering at University of applied science
Munich, Germany
Degree: Master of Systems Engineering
October 1996 - September 1999
Studies of Electrical Engineering with specialization in automation
and control at University of cooperative education in Ravensburg
Degree: Dipl.-Ing. (BA)
October 1994 -October 1996
Studies of electrical engineering at University Ulm, BW, Germany
1984-1993
Secondary School „Fichtegymnasium“ in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Exam: Abitur /Allgemeine Hochschulreife
1979-1984
Primary School „Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Bismarckstrasse“
in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Certifications
PRINCE 2 Practitioner in Project Management
(GR657068060LJ)
PRINCE 2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
(GR656147904LJ)
ITIL Foundation, ITIL4 Edition (GR671169016LJ)
Agile Scrum Master (6336372.20797637)
Agile Scrum Foundation (6336372.20793236)
LPIC-1 (lpi.org/v/LPI000214128/674ebhcn3a)
BMW internal driving license B1 (driver training)
Know How and Experiences
systems engineering :
System development, system modeling, simulation of systems,
partitioning of distributed systems, V-Model, systems engineering
methodology
:
project management
Specifications, multi project management, risc management, resource
and capacity planing, project control, decision methods, Networks of
influence (Vernetztes Denken by F. Vester)
Tools: Primavera, MS-Project, Timeline, Expertchoice
Methods: Gantt, Pert, CPM, MPM, trend analysis, ...
Process management:
Re-Engineering of Business Processes
Analysis of process compliance according. to CMMI, SPICE
(ISO15504), others
Modeling in ARIS, IBO-Prometheus and GRADE, BPMN
Interviews to gather actual process
Analysis and optimization of Business Processes, Roll-Out support
Hardware Development:
EMC oriented Design,safety electronics,
High aviable Systems, hot / cold redundancy
reliabiliy, FMEA, FTA
signal integrity, EMC, hierachical design, cost centered design,
manufactureability, test and verification
Digital Electronics:
High-Speed Digital Design, Processor architectures: Intel x86, Sparc,
PowerPC,ARM, misc. Microcontrollers (8051, Z80, 6502, AVR, NXP
MRKII, PIC, MSP430, .. ) , DSPs
Programable Logic (FPGA, CPLD) of vendors xilinx, lattice, altera,
microsemi. Languages Verilog, VHDL, ABEL
Analog Electronics:
Measurement amplifiers, filters, sensors, actors,
A/D & D/A-Converters, Software-Defined-Radio, RF-Technology,
Power management, power electronics, switch mode power supply
Automatic Control:
Analog and digital Control, Fuzzy Control
Programing Languages:
C (gcc, Keil, Visual Studio), Pascal (Turbopascal, freepascal,
Lazarus), Assembler, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, UNIX-Shell, BASIC,
Fortran (gnu compiler)
Operating Systems:
Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 8/9,
WINDOWS NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, WINDOWS 9x, DOS, CP/M
Datea bases:
SQL (Postgress, MySQL), DBASE
Networks/ Communication:
TCP/IP, ISDN, HDLC
Software/ Methods /Tools /
ARIS, GRADE,IBO-Prometheus, UML,
Cadence Concept HDL (PE14.0) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Concept
(97A) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Allegro (Layout),
Altium Designer, Protel, ORCAD, EAGLE, KEIL-Compiler,
ASCET, INCA, MATLAB, SIMULINK, Vissim
MS-Office, Libreoffice, MS-Project, Primavera, Timeline,
Expertchoice, Adobe Frame-Maker, Adobe-Acrobat, Gimp, Xfig,
Eclipse, Lauterbach Trace32, GnuDebugger, GnuDebugger, DDD,
Jenkins, yocto, bitbake, buildroot, openwrt, uboot, gentoo, eclipse,
pycharm
Measurement Technology:
logic analyzer, Oscilloscopes (digital & analog), spectrum analyzer,
Receiver, EMC measurements, signal generators, IEEE488-Control,
voltage controlled analog measurements, temperature measurements,
thermal imagers, infrared imagers, visible light imagers, UV imagers,
misc. sensors.
Building of Prototypes:
SMD soldering using microscope, trouble-shooting, measurement,
metal work.
SAP
SAP R/3 MM.
Fields of work:
Specifiation, architecture, project management, systems-engineering,
strategic planing, embedded software development, hardware
development (analog and digital), product development, quality
management, System- and Network administration
Employments and Freelance Projects
05/2022 - 11/2022
Employed as scientist in computer science for development and operation of
small HA cluster using Proxmox-Linux to serve lecture environments.
Technologies: Proxmox, Softswitch, Mellanox 40GBit/s Ethernet boards with
fiber DAC cables, guacamole, VDI, FusionDirectory, OpenLDAP, Asus
Servers with AMD Epyc 7763 (Zen3), NVME SSD, pci express Gen 4 switch
12/2020 - 04/2022
Employed as Systems Development Engineer for electrical two wheelers for
the lower price segments in Asia.
Tasks: technical lead in the area of systems concepts and development,
supplier management, research, development of ECUs.
In house consulting on E/E and systems engineering, development
methodology, V-Model. CMMI
04/2020 – 08/2020
Break to get trained and certified in PRINCE2, SCRUM and ITIL
01/2020 – 03/2020
Project: Continued development of an Internet of Things device to save
energy until it is ready for the market.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
10/2019 – 12/2019
Project: Debuggung of a Linux based Router-Fimware in order to locate the
problem of wrongly encrypted IPSEC traffic.
Tools: Mercurical, Debian Linux, gdb, Traffic-Generator, OpenWrt-Router
with VLAN-Switch, tcpdump Wireshark, for traffic recording and analysis
Libre-Office for documentation.
07/2019 – 09/2019
Part time project: Development of a n Internet-of-Things-Device for energy
saving.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
02/2019 – 06/2019
Head of Hardware Development (manufacturer of measurement systems),
Responsibilities: Disciplinary and professional leadership of 7 employees in
the department Hardware Development. Coordinate product development with
departments of physical engineering and application software.
Tools: MS-Office, special project management software, Libre-Office, GanttProject, KICad, EAGLE, LT-Spice, Oscilloscope, Clamp Meters, Digital
Multimeter.
07/2018 – 02/2019
Part time project: Evaluation of various open-source document management
solutions and older scanner systems to set up various scanning services.
Tools: Debian Linux, sane, tesseract-ocr, samba, Python, C ++, Gui with Qt
on Linux
07/2018 – 08/2018
Development of real-time software for STM32F4 (ARM-Cortex M4 Core) for
multi axis motor control using an ASIC made by Trinamic.
Tools: Atollic Studio, STM32CubeMX
11/2017 – 06/2018
From the findings of the previous project, it became interesting to design a
highly secure appliance for HIP (Host Identity Protocol), and to develop a
concept study.
Tasks: Analysis of public documents available covering HIP, development of a
concept for a HIP-appliance, based on OpenBSD and back door free x86
hardware. Prototype build.
Tools: Linux, QubesOS, OpenBSD
Plattform: OpenBSD
11/2016 –09/ 2017
Architect / Development of an Architecture for reliable mobile
communication to be used for passenger information and remote sensing in
trains.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop network
connectivity concept that allows for connectivity under difficult conditions of
moving trains in areas with bad radio coverage using a multitude of radio
modems to cover different providers (HIP, multi homing, mobility), Internet
of Things, MQTT, IPSec
Tools: MS-Office, Gimp, Linux, QubesOS, OpenWRT, Amazon AWS, git
07/2016 – 10/2016
Application development of customer specific business software.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop database
driven applicationss in Oracle PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Python
Tools: Oracle virtual box, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio, Pycharm
11/2015 – 03/2016
Employed at Start-up as Research Engineer
Tasks: Analyze and improve distributed IT-systems based on Amazon Cloud
services, Linux, OpenWRT and Automation products. Program custom
software in Python, C
Tools: RS485-Analyzer, Kali-Linux, cygwin, OpenWRT, Lab-Equipment, vi,
emacs, gcc, make, gdb, ddd, pycharm
06/2015 – 10/2015
Part-time project of developing an electric bike drive using a brush less DC
motor, Tasks: Analyze requirements, set up experimental environment for
development of motor controller.
Tools: Kicad, Lab-Equipment (mechanical and electric)
03/2015 – 05/2015
Freelance Consultant for BMW.
Tasks: Evaluate wireless communication concepts (reliability and
performance) for wireless charging of electric vehicles.
Tools: OpenWRT (build environment, system), Iperf, custom build kernel for
6loPAN and Bluetooth LE, Android-Tablets, Kali-Linux, MS-Office, Adobe
Acrobat, cygwin, Spectrum Analyzer
11/2014 – 01/2015
Freelance Consultant for 1st tier automotive supplier.
Tasks: Requirements Management, technical clarification with Automotive
OEM, systems-engineering. Identification of impact of functional safety.
Tools: DOORS, MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, cygwin
06/2014 – 09/2014
Development of a controller for brush less DC motors using a XMC4500 (arm
based) processor from Infineon, to operate a
brush less DC bike motor.
Tasks: Analyze requirements of advanced bicycle drive using 2 quadrant
FOC, program field oriented control for bicycle motor in C using DAVE-IDE,
develop hardware to control bicycle motor using KICAD, build prototype
board and integrate system
Tools: Kicad, Infineon-DAVE (eclipse based IDE)
05/2014 – 06/2014
Freelance Consultant for motor control systems.
Tasks: Consulting and support client with software architecture and
specification for a new developed embedded motor control platform (uses
infineon xmc4500).
Tasks: Writing specifications for software modules, consult about testing
procedures, scale object oriented architecture against plain C, code efficiency
with RTOS uc/osII, analysis and optimization of development processes
(CMMI), leading 3rd party for software implementation.
Tools: MS-Office, uCOS II, IAR, Eclipse, Eclipse Keppler, Eclipse
Requirements Modeling Framework
04/2014 – 05/2014
Freelance Consultant for Battery Management Systems
Tasks: Consult Client about cell leveling and charging methodology of
Lithium Ion Cells in 400Ah range. Development of functional safety concept
based on redundant self monitoring Hardware. The safety system is SIL4
according to ISO61508. In order to prevent catastrophic explosion or fire
caused by big Lithium-Ion cells.
Writing and reviewing documents, specifications and architectural proposals.
Jan 2014 – Mar 2014
Employed as CTO in a small start-up company
IT/Advertisement-Company
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD machines, and
administration of virtualization servers using Citrix XenServer, development
of small electronic boards, development of system solutions for remote
control of vending machines
Tools: Linux, XenServer, wireshark, Kicad, C/C++, Java, Python, BashScript
12/2013 – 12/2013
Employed as UNIX and network (cisco, linux) administrator
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris machines, and
cisco switches and administration of virtualization servers using VMWare
Vsphere and Citrix XenServer.
Tools: shell, Vsphere, XenServer, Jira, wireshark
Dec 2013 – Dec 2013
part-time freelance project in programing an MITT-Transport interface in C
for Linux.
IT-Company
Freelance
Tasks: analyze requirements, implement MQTT-payload to IP socket
converter in C for Linux.
Tools: gcc, make, vi, gdb, wireshark
09/2013 – 11/2013
Part-time freelance project in consulting about PLC communication in the
area of smart metering
Tasks: checking documents and standards of PRIME, G3-PLC, P1901.2
Tools: MS-OFFICE, libreoffice, Gimp, Adobe Acrobat
05/2013 – 08/2013
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
automotive vision system (Lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane
and sign recognition) at Audi
Automotive supplier
Temp. Employment at service provider company.
Tasks: measurements at CAN bus, and trouble shooting to locate root cause
of problems in complex vehicle system, mounting and calibration of cameras,
attend test drives, evaluate effects on other system and functional safety
according to ISO26262.
Tools: Mobile-Eye Toolkit, Vector CANanlyzer.
04/2013 – 05/2013
Reverse engineering of embedded control system for industrial plasma
generator. Gain access to parameter sets and recorded data
Freelance Project
Tasks: consulting for methodology, tooling, identify components and reverse
engineer circuitry as far as needed, gain access to device communication
Tools: multi meter, Flash-Programmer, SPI-Tool, RS485-Interface, Linux,
68HC11 simulator THRSIM11. hexeditor, Serial sniffer, Debian Linux,
Raspery Pi board with raspian.
04/2012 – 09/2012
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
keyless entry project at BMW
Automotive supplier
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for improvements of radio key circuits, tool improvement,
trouble-shooting, product improvements, RF-measurements, telegram
measurements, side channel analysis of key, NXP MRKII assembler code
review, trouble shooting,
Evaluate security of system.
Tools: self developed comparator amplifier for differential power analysis,
digital-oscilloscope, CANoe, spectrum analyzer, protocol receiver build from
atmel rf-evaluation boards
01/2012 – 02/2012
Employment as project manager and analyst
Employed
Tasks: Requirements analysis, public bids, writing of technical concepts,
project management of public transport project public transport ticketing and
erp system
07/2011 – 12/2011
Consulting, trouble shooting and technical improvement of inverter
for hybrid electric car
Liebherr Elektronik GmbH
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for FPGA programming (VHDL), optimization and
debugging of schematics trouble shooting, repairing prototypes, high
voltage tests, temperature measurements, vibration measurements,
integration of test system
Set-up and operation of test stand for electrical machine and inverter,
forensic analysis of defects and root cause analysis.
Evaluate functional safety of protection functions according to
ISO26262.
Tools: current clamps, digital oscilloscope, CANalyzer, CANape,
Libero (FPGA-Proasic3 Actel), Xilinx ISE (Xilinx Spartan 3A loaded
by DSP), Codeworrior (TI-DSP 2xxx), Lauterbach Debugger ICD,
Lauterbach Trace32, PAC-Designer (Lattice power manager ISPac),
Diamond (Lattice), OpenFTA, high power high voltage supply,
insulation tester, high voltage safety
03/2011 – 05/2011
consulting test development for rfid chipcards acc. ISO14443
Giesecke & Devrient (chipcard company)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting about special active modulation techniques that
enhance range and are compatible with ISO14443 readers,
optimization of 13.56MHZ antennas, development of automated tests
in java using G&D IFDSIM
Tools: chip card reader CLT-One, digital oscilloscope, network
analyzer, Eclipse, IFDSIM, open source and G&D proprietary
libraries in Java
11/2010 – 12/2010
consulting regarding systems architecture and requirements of high
voltage system and safety requirements for emergency switches for
electrical vehicle
Drexlmayr (Automotive supplier)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting regarding methods of requirements engineering and
demands by ISO26262,
Writing of requirements lists and analysis of impact, coordination
Tools: MS-Office
08/2010 – 10/2010
Project management for development of military 4m radio system
Thales, Pforzheim
Freelance project
Tasks: Lead and coordination of project team, tracking milestones and
costs,plan dependencies with other projects and blocked resources,
check configuration items, results, reports, support and consulting for
trouble shooting, coordination
Tools: MS-project, MS-Office, Doxygen (check software structure and
documentation), Doors (check requirements and documentation)
Project has been canceled because of political changes at far east
customer.
04/2010 – 06/2010
Development of reliable firmware for micro controller development
tool containing MSP430
Texas Instruments
Freelance project
Tasks: Development of firmware in C with special safety functions to
communicate to host via usb, and ensure the device is always bootable
state under all circumstances of firmware upgrade and other failures.
Debugging using JTAG, oscilloscope
Programming language: C
Processor: MSP430
Tools: IAR, JTAG debugger, mixed-signal oscilloscope (protocol
debugging)
11/2009 – 02/2010
Employment at Annax Information Systems (equipment for public
transport) as systems engineer
Employed
Tasks: Consulting, Requirements management, public bids
Functional safety acc. to ISO61508, consulting regarding ISO 1558
Writing of technical concepts, specifications
Software development in c,c++ for Linux and windows.
09/2009 – 10/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed simulation software to
visualize and test complex character based display systems in the area
of passenger information
Customer: Annax Information Systems GmbH
Tasks: Analysis of micro controller software used in displays,
refactoring of monster loop based approach to thread based state
machine based approach integration of the code into TCP based
simulation system, writing of GUI, test and integration
Programming language: C, C++
Target: Windows (Gui MFC), Windows/Unix (data server)
Processor: x86
Tools: Eclipse (UML, development environment), Visual Studio (for
MFC GUI),
gcc, gdb (for server), Wireshark (Network test),
Logik-Analyzer (Analysis of RS485 states)
08/2009 – 09/2009
Freelance: Consulting about embedded computer architectures for bid
project „passport reader“
Customer: Rode & Schwarz
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, SystemsEngineering, cost estimation, negotiations with prospective suppliers
06/2009 – 07/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed maximum power point charger
system for island supply of mountain huts.
(Own project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, prototype
development. Systems-Engineering, HW development, power
electronics (DC-DC-converter buck/boost cuck-type),
HW-Development, SW-development in C for MSP430, development
of rs485 based field bus for control
06/2008 – 02/2009
Freelance: Development of DSP-Software for optical Instrument to
measure security features of bank notes.
Customer: Bundesdruckerei GmbH (value print)
Tasks: Analysis, and documentation of legacy software, introduction
of new methods and tools, addition of functions, writing drivers and
embedded OS. Improvement of measurement hardware
Programming language: C.
Processor: Motorola DSP-56F807
Tools: Vmware, Codeworrior, Doxygen, Cygwin, oscilloscope, logic
analyzer
08/2007 – 12/2007
Freelance: Development of embedded firmware for industrial HMI
Customer: Trupf Group
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering,
Processor: Infineon C167;
Tools: Keil-C, Easy-Code (was required by customer), Doxygen
03/2007 – 07/2007
Development of technical concept for product SAR „Drone“
(Development Project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering, HW-development
of motor drives, hw development of redundant computers (flight
controllers), HW development mission system. SW-development for
sub systems.
Not finished.
10/2006 – 01/2007
Development of „Communication Box“
(Own Product, discontinued)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, software
development
Tools: Linux-Kernel, vi, make, phyton, perl, gcc, OpenOffice.
Resultat: prototype of linux based ISDN-PBX, thas is used by some
people
08/2006 – 09/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for airport displays
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train equipment supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, development and
test of prototypes.
Result was a prototype of a passive cooled (special cooling concept)
1,7GHz Intel Core2-Computer to present HDTV-Spots, which is
equipped with WLAN and UMTS for feed, and was capable to work
at 50 °C under full CPU-load.
02/2006 – 07/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for passenger information at train stations
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, Development of concepts, development
and test of prototypes, development of test software,
Setup of an adapted embedded Linux distribution, write kernel module
for GPIO-board.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, Gimp, Measurement of
temperatures and signals using climate chamber and measurement
fixtures
07/2005 – 02/2006
Freelance: Development of „HSM-Box“ und „Kernel-AcceleratorDevice“
(Product for own use)
Development of universal FPGA-Platform to accelerate Linux Kernel
(KAD) and a key storage sytstem (HSM-Box)
Tasks:
Concept and specification of open development platform for FPGA
based systems, Concept of cheap FPGA-based secure secret storage
system (system concept, HW-development, VHDL-coding)
Office-Tools: Open-Office, Gimp
EDA-Tools: Xilinx-ISE, Altera Quartus, gEDA
Talks: „The Kernel Accelerator Device“
02/2005 – 05/2005
Freelance: Project management and consulting for Development of
embedded system to upgrade ICE1 trains with new passenger
information system and reservation displays
(Management of hardware part of project)
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (railway electronics)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, feasibility analysis, development of
technical concepts, development and test of prototypes, development
of test software, provide support and inputs for mechanical designers,
negotiations with suppliers in Taiwan, ROC.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, OpenOffice, Gimp
11/2004 – 12/2004
Freelance: consulting in the field of software logistic concepts
Client: BMW
Tasks: Requirements analysis, development of concepts, participation
in comitees
Tools: MS-Office, Visio
08/2004 – 10/2004
Freelance: Development of concepts for embedded computers
(concept development, specification writing)
Freelance Project for
Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Supplier of train equipment)
Tasks: conceptual development of embedded computers architectures,
writing specs and bid-documents
Tools: MS-Office, MS-Visio
05/2003 – 05/2004
BMW AG Munich:
Masters Thesis „Analyse und Optimierung des Änderungsprozesses
bei der BMW Fahrzeugelektronik- und Software-Entwicklung“
(Process analysis and improvement at R&D of car electrics,
electronics and software)
Grade of Masters Thesis: 1.0
Tasks: Analysis and improvement of software-logistics (configuration
management / change management & integration) processes at BMW
Acquisition of actual processes, analysis and identification of
improvements, development of process improvements, design of new
business processes according to CMMI.
Tools: modeling in ARIS, GRADE
04/2000 – 04/2002
Force Computers GmbH:
Employment
Hardware Engineer in Board-Business-Unit
Tasks: Development, Debugging, new product introduction of
computer boards with Intel x86, PowerPC, Sparc processors for
telecom applications. HW development (about 100 pages schematics,
16 Layers, 2 impedance controlled, VHDL und Verilog coding for
4000 series Xilinx-FPGAs)
Tools: Framemaker, MS-Office
EDA-Tools: Cadence Concept HDL (PE14), Concept (97A)
Cadence Allegro, Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Verilog-XL,
Solaris, Agilent logic analyzer, digital osciloscope
Tools new product introduction:
SAP/R3, Unix-Scripts
Project management using MS-project
Team: 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software-Engineer, 2 Test engineers
Position: hw development engineer
10/1999 – 04/2000
Kontron embedded computers AG:
Employment
Development Engineer in Board level development department
Tasks: Hardware development, hardware oriented software
development, power management
Development of power management for industrial notebook computer
Tools: Orcad, Pspice, Excel-Sheets, self written c-programs, Keil-IDE
for 8051
Team: (1 Mechanical Engineer, 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software
Engineer)
Job: Hardware development engineer
09/1996 – 10/1999
Mayser GmbH & Co. KG: Internship for Practical part of studies at
University of cooperative education Ravensburg
Tasks: Development of micro controller- and logic based controllers,
development of safety electronics, development of PLC software
Tools: EAGLE, Pspice, Step-5-programmer,
Z80-emulator
Job: electronics developer
Attended Seminars
Time-Management
English (Berlitz-Seminars, Unicert3),
Power-PC Architektur
Software-Defined-Radio (Analog Devices)
Identity Management with Omada
Führung im Mittelstand
PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner, Agile
Exin Agile Scrum Master, Agile Product-Owner, Scrum Foundation
ITILv4 Foundation, Practitioner
Languages
-English fluently written and orally:
Certificates: Unizert 3, Berlitz Level 8
-German :(Mother tounge)
Driving licenses
Classes A, BE, CE, C1E, MSLT; BMW Internal driver training B1
Hobbies, sports, special interests
Sports
Sailing, climbing, hiking
Hobbies
Open-Source, Linux, BSD, vehicles, ham radio (license: DL1EHU),
Making
Special interests
Economy, science, inventions
Date: 01/01/23
Projekthistorie
01/1999
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bis jetzt
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Phone: +49 160 333 999 8 (Germany)
Phone +972 54 5885998 (Israel)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Date of birth
09/14/1972
Place of birth
Munich
Nationality
German
Work permit
EU (German Citizen), Israel
Education
01.10.2002 - 14.03.2006
Studies of Systems Engineering at University of applied science
Munich, Germany
Degree: Master of Systems Engineering
October 1996 - September 1999
Studies of Electrical Engineering with specialization in automation
and control at University of cooperative education in Ravensburg
Degree: Dipl.-Ing. (BA)
October 1994 -October 1996
Studies of electrical engineering at University Ulm, BW, Germany
1984-1993
Secondary School „Fichtegymnasium“ in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Exam: Abitur /Allgemeine Hochschulreife
1979-1984
Primary School „Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Bismarckstrasse“
in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Certifications
PRINCE 2 Practitioner in Project Management
(GR657068060LJ)
PRINCE 2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
(GR656147904LJ)
ITIL Foundation, ITIL4 Edition (GR671169016LJ)
Agile Scrum Master (6336372.20797637)
Agile Scrum Foundation (6336372.20793236)
LPIC-1 (lpi.org/v/LPI000214128/674ebhcn3a)
BMW internal driving license B1 (driver training)
Know How and Experiences
systems engineering :
System development, system modeling, simulation of systems,
partitioning of distributed systems, V-Model, systems engineering
methodology
:
project management
Specifications, multi project management, risc management, resource
and capacity planing, project control, decision methods, Networks of
influence (Vernetztes Denken by F. Vester)
Tools: Primavera, MS-Project, Timeline, Expertchoice
Methods: Gantt, Pert, CPM, MPM, trend analysis, ...
Process management:
Re-Engineering of Business Processes
Analysis of process compliance according. to CMMI, SPICE
(ISO15504), others
Modeling in ARIS, IBO-Prometheus and GRADE, BPMN
Interviews to gather actual process
Analysis and optimization of Business Processes, Roll-Out support
Hardware Development:
EMC oriented Design,safety electronics,
High aviable Systems, hot / cold redundancy
reliabiliy, FMEA, FTA
signal integrity, EMC, hierachical design, cost centered design,
manufactureability, test and verification
Digital Electronics:
High-Speed Digital Design, Processor architectures: Intel x86, Sparc,
PowerPC,ARM, misc. Microcontrollers (8051, Z80, 6502, AVR, NXP
MRKII, PIC, MSP430, .. ) , DSPs
Programable Logic (FPGA, CPLD) of vendors xilinx, lattice, altera,
microsemi. Languages Verilog, VHDL, ABEL
Analog Electronics:
Measurement amplifiers, filters, sensors, actors,
A/D & D/A-Converters, Software-Defined-Radio, RF-Technology,
Power management, power electronics, switch mode power supply
Automatic Control:
Analog and digital Control, Fuzzy Control
Programing Languages:
C (gcc, Keil, Visual Studio), Pascal (Turbopascal, freepascal,
Lazarus), Assembler, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, UNIX-Shell, BASIC,
Fortran (gnu compiler)
Operating Systems:
Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 8/9,
WINDOWS NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, WINDOWS 9x, DOS, CP/M
Datea bases:
SQL (Postgress, MySQL), DBASE
Networks/ Communication:
TCP/IP, ISDN, HDLC
Software/ Methods /Tools /
ARIS, GRADE,IBO-Prometheus, UML,
Cadence Concept HDL (PE14.0) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Concept
(97A) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Allegro (Layout),
Altium Designer, Protel, ORCAD, EAGLE, KEIL-Compiler,
ASCET, INCA, MATLAB, SIMULINK, Vissim
MS-Office, Libreoffice, MS-Project, Primavera, Timeline,
Expertchoice, Adobe Frame-Maker, Adobe-Acrobat, Gimp, Xfig,
Eclipse, Lauterbach Trace32, GnuDebugger, GnuDebugger, DDD,
Jenkins, yocto, bitbake, buildroot, openwrt, uboot, gentoo, eclipse,
pycharm
Measurement Technology:
logic analyzer, Oscilloscopes (digital & analog), spectrum analyzer,
Receiver, EMC measurements, signal generators, IEEE488-Control,
voltage controlled analog measurements, temperature measurements,
thermal imagers, infrared imagers, visible light imagers, UV imagers,
misc. sensors.
Building of Prototypes:
SMD soldering using microscope, trouble-shooting, measurement,
metal work.
SAP
SAP R/3 MM.
Fields of work:
Specifiation, architecture, project management, systems-engineering,
strategic planing, embedded software development, hardware
development (analog and digital), product development, quality
management, System- and Network administration
Employments and Freelance Projects
03/2023 – 07/2023
System architecture and feasibility study of hot-redundant distributed
automotive computer system for level-5 autonomous driving, as well as
architecture of a communication unit "TCU" which enables multiple
redundant internet connections via 5G, as well as diversity broadcast reception
(FM, LW, MW, SW, DAB) and WLAN for the passengers of the vehicle.
Technologies: GSML2, CSI2, FPGA video sharing solution, PCI Express
switches with address translation, Infiniband RDMA, 10Gbit Ethernet
switches, Mac security, Nvidia Orin Drive, virtualization on 64Bit ARM
SOCs, functional security according to ISO26262, Software Defined Radio
05/2022 - 11/2022
Employed as scientist in computer science for development and operation of
small HA cluster using Proxmox-Linux to serve lecture environments.
Technologies: Proxmox, Softswitch, Mellanox 40GBit/s Ethernet boards with
fiber DAC cables, guacamole, VDI, FusionDirectory, OpenLDAP, Asus
Servers with AMD Epyc 7763 (Zen3), NVME SSD, pci express Gen 4 switch
12/2020 - 04/2022
Employed as Systems Development Engineer for electrical two wheelers for
the lower price segments in Asia.
Tasks: technical lead in the area of systems concepts and development,
supplier management, research, development of ECUs.
In house consulting on E/E and systems engineering, development
methodology, V-Model. CMMI
04/2020 – 08/2020
Break to get trained and certified in PRINCE2, SCRUM and ITIL
01/2020 – 03/2020
Project: Continued development of an Internet of Things device to save
energy until it is ready for the market.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
10/2019 – 12/2019
Project: Debuggung of a Linux based Router-Fimware in order to locate the
problem of wrongly encrypted IPSEC traffic.
Tools: Mercurical, Debian Linux, gdb, Traffic-Generator, OpenWrt-Router
with VLAN-Switch, tcpdump Wireshark, for traffic recording and analysis
Libre-Office for documentation.
07/2019 – 09/2019
Part time project: Development of a n Internet-of-Things-Device for energy
saving.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
02/2019 – 06/2019
Head of Hardware Development (manufacturer of measurement systems),
Responsibilities: Disciplinary and professional leadership of 7 employees in
the department Hardware Development. Coordinate product development with
departments of physical engineering and application software.
Tools: MS-Office, special project management software, Libre-Office, GanttProject, KICad, EAGLE, LT-Spice, Oscilloscope, Clamp Meters, Digital
Multimeter.
07/2018 – 02/2019
Part time project: Evaluation of various open-source document management
solutions and older scanner systems to set up various scanning services.
Tools: Debian Linux, sane, tesseract-ocr, samba, Python, C ++, Gui with Qt
on Linux
07/2018 – 08/2018
Development of real-time software for STM32F4 (ARM-Cortex M4 Core) for
multi axis motor control using an ASIC made by Trinamic.
Tools: Atollic Studio, STM32CubeMX
11/2017 – 06/2018
From the findings of the previous project, it became interesting to design a
highly secure appliance for HIP (Host Identity Protocol), and to develop a
concept study.
Tasks: Analysis of public documents available covering HIP, development of a
concept for a HIP-appliance, based on OpenBSD and back door free x86
hardware. Prototype build.
Tools: Linux, QubesOS, OpenBSD
Plattform: OpenBSD
11/2016 –09/ 2017
Architect / Development of an Architecture for reliable mobile
communication to be used for passenger information and remote sensing in
trains.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop network
connectivity concept that allows for connectivity under difficult conditions of
moving trains in areas with bad radio coverage using a multitude of radio
modems to cover different providers (HIP, multi homing, mobility), Internet
of Things, MQTT, IPSec
Tools: MS-Office, Gimp, Linux, QubesOS, OpenWRT, Amazon AWS, git
07/2016 – 10/2016
Application development of customer specific business software.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop database
driven applicationss in Oracle PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Python
Tools: Oracle virtual box, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio, Pycharm
11/2015 – 03/2016
Employed at Start-up as Research Engineer
Tasks: Analyze and improve distributed IT-systems based on Amazon Cloud
services, Linux, OpenWRT and Automation products. Program custom
software in Python, C
Tools: RS485-Analyzer, Kali-Linux, cygwin, OpenWRT, Lab-Equipment, vi,
emacs, gcc, make, gdb, ddd, pycharm
06/2015 – 10/2015
Part-time project of developing an electric bike drive using a brush less DC
motor, Tasks: Analyze requirements, set up experimental environment for
development of motor controller.
Tools: Kicad, Lab-Equipment (mechanical and electric)
03/2015 – 05/2015
Freelance Consultant for BMW.
Tasks: Evaluate wireless communication concepts (reliability and
performance) for wireless charging of electric vehicles.
Tools: OpenWRT (build environment, system), Iperf, custom build kernel for
6loPAN and Bluetooth LE, Android-Tablets, Kali-Linux, MS-Office, Adobe
Acrobat, cygwin, Spectrum Analyzer
11/2014 – 01/2015
Freelance Consultant for 1st tier automotive supplier.
Tasks: Requirements Management, technical clarification with Automotive
OEM, systems-engineering. Identification of impact of functional safety.
Tools: DOORS, MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, cygwin
06/2014 – 09/2014
Development of a controller for brush less DC motors using a XMC4500 (arm
based) processor from Infineon, to operate a
brush less DC bike motor.
Tasks: Analyze requirements of advanced bicycle drive using 2 quadrant
FOC, program field oriented control for bicycle motor in C using DAVE-IDE,
develop hardware to control bicycle motor using KICAD, build prototype
board and integrate system
Tools: Kicad, Infineon-DAVE (eclipse based IDE)
05/2014 – 06/2014
Freelance Consultant for motor control systems.
Tasks: Consulting and support client with software architecture and
specification for a new developed embedded motor control platform (uses
infineon xmc4500).
Tasks: Writing specifications for software modules, consult about testing
procedures, scale object oriented architecture against plain C, code efficiency
with RTOS uc/osII, analysis and optimization of development processes
(CMMI), leading 3rd party for software implementation.
Tools: MS-Office, uCOS II, IAR, Eclipse, Eclipse Keppler, Eclipse
Requirements Modeling Framework
04/2014 – 05/2014
Freelance Consultant for Battery Management Systems
Tasks: Consult Client about cell leveling and charging methodology of
Lithium Ion Cells in 400Ah range. Development of functional safety concept
based on redundant self monitoring Hardware. The safety system is SIL4
according to ISO61508. In order to prevent catastrophic explosion or fire
caused by big Lithium-Ion cells.
Writing and reviewing documents, specifications and architectural proposals.
Jan 2014 – Mar 2014
Employed as CTO in a small start-up company
IT/Advertisement-Company
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD machines, and
administration of virtualization servers using Citrix XenServer, development
of small electronic boards, development of system solutions for remote
control of vending machines
Tools: Linux, XenServer, wireshark, Kicad, C/C++, Java, Python, BashScript
12/2013 – 12/2013
Employed as UNIX and network (cisco, linux) administrator
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris machines, and
cisco switches and administration of virtualization servers using VMWare
Vsphere and Citrix XenServer.
Tools: shell, Vsphere, XenServer, Jira, wireshark
Dec 2013 – Dec 2013
part-time freelance project in programing an MITT-Transport interface in C
for Linux.
IT-Company
Freelance
Tasks: analyze requirements, implement MQTT-payload to IP socket
converter in C for Linux.
Tools: gcc, make, vi, gdb, wireshark
09/2013 – 11/2013
Part-time freelance project in consulting about PLC communication in the
area of smart metering
Tasks: checking documents and standards of PRIME, G3-PLC, P1901.2
Tools: MS-OFFICE, libreoffice, Gimp, Adobe Acrobat
05/2013 – 08/2013
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
automotive vision system (Lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane
and sign recognition) at Audi
Automotive supplier
Temp. Employment at service provider company.
Tasks: measurements at CAN bus, and trouble shooting to locate root cause
of problems in complex vehicle system, mounting and calibration of cameras,
attend test drives, evaluate effects on other system and functional safety
according to ISO26262.
Tools: Mobile-Eye Toolkit, Vector CANanlyzer.
04/2013 – 05/2013
Reverse engineering of embedded control system for industrial plasma
generator. Gain access to parameter sets and recorded data
Freelance Project
Tasks: consulting for methodology, tooling, identify components and reverse
engineer circuitry as far as needed, gain access to device communication
Tools: multi meter, Flash-Programmer, SPI-Tool, RS485-Interface, Linux,
68HC11 simulator THRSIM11. hexeditor, Serial sniffer, Debian Linux,
Raspery Pi board with raspian.
04/2012 – 09/2012
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
keyless entry project at BMW
Automotive supplier
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for improvements of radio key circuits, tool improvement,
trouble-shooting, product improvements, RF-measurements, telegram
measurements, side channel analysis of key, NXP MRKII assembler code
review, trouble shooting,
Evaluate security of system.
Tools: self developed comparator amplifier for differential power analysis,
digital-oscilloscope, CANoe, spectrum analyzer, protocol receiver build from
atmel rf-evaluation boards
01/2012 – 02/2012
Employment as project manager and analyst
Employed
Tasks: Requirements analysis, public bids, writing of technical concepts,
project management of public transport project public transport ticketing and
erp system
07/2011 – 12/2011
Consulting, trouble shooting and technical improvement of inverter
for hybrid electric car
Liebherr Elektronik GmbH
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for FPGA programming (VHDL), optimization and
debugging of schematics trouble shooting, repairing prototypes, high
voltage tests, temperature measurements, vibration measurements,
integration of test system
Set-up and operation of test stand for electrical machine and inverter,
forensic analysis of defects and root cause analysis.
Evaluate functional safety of protection functions according to
ISO26262.
Tools: current clamps, digital oscilloscope, CANalyzer, CANape,
Libero (FPGA-Proasic3 Actel), Xilinx ISE (Xilinx Spartan 3A loaded
by DSP), Codeworrior (TI-DSP 2xxx), Lauterbach Debugger ICD,
Lauterbach Trace32, PAC-Designer (Lattice power manager ISPac),
Diamond (Lattice), OpenFTA, high power high voltage supply,
insulation tester, high voltage safety
03/2011 – 05/2011
consulting test development for rfid chipcards acc. ISO14443
Giesecke & Devrient (chipcard company)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting about special active modulation techniques that
enhance range and are compatible with ISO14443 readers,
optimization of 13.56MHZ antennas, development of automated tests
in java using G&D IFDSIM
Tools: chip card reader CLT-One, digital oscilloscope, network
analyzer, Eclipse, IFDSIM, open source and G&D proprietary
libraries in Java
11/2010 – 12/2010
consulting regarding systems architecture and requirements of high
voltage system and safety requirements for emergency switches for
electrical vehicle
Drexlmayr (Automotive supplier)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting regarding methods of requirements engineering and
demands by ISO26262,
Writing of requirements lists and analysis of impact, coordination
Tools: MS-Office
08/2010 – 10/2010
Project management for development of military 4m radio system
Thales, Pforzheim
Freelance project
Tasks: Lead and coordination of project team, tracking milestones and
costs,plan dependencies with other projects and blocked resources,
check configuration items, results, reports, support and consulting for
trouble shooting, coordination
Tools: MS-project, MS-Office, Doxygen (check software structure and
documentation), Doors (check requirements and documentation)
Project has been canceled because of political changes at far east
customer.
04/2010 – 06/2010
Development of reliable firmware for micro controller development
tool containing MSP430
Texas Instruments
Freelance project
Tasks: Development of firmware in C with special safety functions to
communicate to host via usb, and ensure the device is always bootable
state under all circumstances of firmware upgrade and other failures.
Debugging using JTAG, oscilloscope
Programming language: C
Processor: MSP430
Tools: IAR, JTAG debugger, mixed-signal oscilloscope (protocol
debugging)
11/2009 – 02/2010
Employment at Annax Information Systems (equipment for public
transport) as systems engineer
Employed
Tasks: Consulting, Requirements management, public bids
Functional safety acc. to ISO61508, consulting regarding ISO 1558
Writing of technical concepts, specifications
Software development in c,c++ for Linux and windows.
09/2009 – 10/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed simulation software to
visualize and test complex character based display systems in the area
of passenger information
Customer: Annax Information Systems GmbH
Tasks: Analysis of micro controller software used in displays,
refactoring of monster loop based approach to thread based state
machine based approach integration of the code into TCP based
simulation system, writing of GUI, test and integration
Programming language: C, C++
Target: Windows (Gui MFC), Windows/Unix (data server)
Processor: x86
Tools: Eclipse (UML, development environment), Visual Studio (for
MFC GUI),
gcc, gdb (for server), Wireshark (Network test),
Logik-Analyzer (Analysis of RS485 states)
08/2009 – 09/2009
Freelance: Consulting about embedded computer architectures for bid
project „passport reader“
Customer: Rode & Schwarz
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, SystemsEngineering, cost estimation, negotiations with prospective suppliers
06/2009 – 07/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed maximum power point charger
system for island supply of mountain huts.
(Own project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, prototype
development. Systems-Engineering, HW development, power
electronics (DC-DC-converter buck/boost cuck-type),
HW-Development, SW-development in C for MSP430, development
of rs485 based field bus for control
06/2008 – 02/2009
Freelance: Development of DSP-Software for optical Instrument to
measure security features of bank notes.
Customer: Bundesdruckerei GmbH (value print)
Tasks: Analysis, and documentation of legacy software, introduction
of new methods and tools, addition of functions, writing drivers and
embedded OS. Improvement of measurement hardware
Programming language: C.
Processor: Motorola DSP-56F807
Tools: Vmware, Codeworrior, Doxygen, Cygwin, oscilloscope, logic
analyzer
08/2007 – 12/2007
Freelance: Development of embedded firmware for industrial HMI
Customer: Trupf Group
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering,
Processor: Infineon C167;
Tools: Keil-C, Easy-Code (was required by customer), Doxygen
03/2007 – 07/2007
Development of technical concept for product SAR „Drone“
(Development Project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering, HW-development
of motor drives, hw development of redundant computers (flight
controllers), HW development mission system. SW-development for
sub systems.
Not finished.
10/2006 – 01/2007
Development of „Communication Box“
(Own Product, discontinued)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, software
development
Tools: Linux-Kernel, vi, make, phyton, perl, gcc, OpenOffice.
Resultat: prototype of linux based ISDN-PBX, thas is used by some
people
08/2006 – 09/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for airport displays
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train equipment supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, development and
test of prototypes.
Result was a prototype of a passive cooled (special cooling concept)
1,7GHz Intel Core2-Computer to present HDTV-Spots, which is
equipped with WLAN and UMTS for feed, and was capable to work
at 50 °C under full CPU-load.
02/2006 – 07/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for passenger information at train stations
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, Development of concepts, development
and test of prototypes, development of test software,
Setup of an adapted embedded Linux distribution, write kernel module
for GPIO-board.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, Gimp, Measurement of
temperatures and signals using climate chamber and measurement
fixtures
07/2005 – 02/2006
Freelance: Development of „HSM-Box“ und „Kernel-AcceleratorDevice“
(Product for own use)
Development of universal FPGA-Platform to accelerate Linux Kernel
(KAD) and a key storage sytstem (HSM-Box)
Tasks:
Concept and specification of open development platform for FPGA
based systems, Concept of cheap FPGA-based secure secret storage
system (system concept, HW-development, VHDL-coding)
Office-Tools: Open-Office, Gimp
EDA-Tools: Xilinx-ISE, Altera Quartus, gEDA
Talks: „The Kernel Accelerator Device“
02/2005 – 05/2005
Freelance: Project management and consulting for Development of
embedded system to upgrade ICE1 trains with new passenger
information system and reservation displays
(Management of hardware part of project)
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (railway electronics)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, feasibility analysis, development of
technical concepts, development and test of prototypes, development
of test software, provide support and inputs for mechanical designers,
negotiations with suppliers in Taiwan, ROC.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, OpenOffice, Gimp
11/2004 – 12/2004
Freelance: consulting in the field of software logistic concepts
Client: BMW
Tasks: Requirements analysis, development of concepts, participation
in comitees
Tools: MS-Office, Visio
08/2004 – 10/2004
Freelance: Development of concepts for embedded computers
(concept development, specification writing)
Freelance Project for
Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Supplier of train equipment)
Tasks: conceptual development of embedded computers architectures,
writing specs and bid-documents
Tools: MS-Office, MS-Visio
05/2003 – 05/2004
BMW AG Munich:
Masters Thesis „Analyse und Optimierung des Änderungsprozesses
bei der BMW Fahrzeugelektronik- und Software-Entwicklung“
(Process analysis and improvement at R&D of car electrics,
electronics and software)
Grade of Masters Thesis: 1.0
Tasks: Analysis and improvement of software-logistics (configuration
management / change management & integration) processes at BMW
Acquisition of actual processes, analysis and identification of
improvements, development of process improvements, design of new
business processes according to CMMI.
Tools: modeling in ARIS, GRADE
04/2000 – 04/2002
Force Computers GmbH:
Employment
Hardware Engineer in Board-Business-Unit
Tasks: Development, Debugging, new product introduction of
computer boards with Intel x86, PowerPC, Sparc processors for
telecom applications. HW development (about 100 pages schematics,
16 Layers, 2 impedance controlled, VHDL und Verilog coding for
4000 series Xilinx-FPGAs)
Tools: Framemaker, MS-Office
EDA-Tools: Cadence Concept HDL (PE14), Concept (97A)
Cadence Allegro, Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Verilog-XL,
Solaris, Agilent logic analyzer, digital osciloscope
Tools new product introduction:
SAP/R3, Unix-Scripts
Project management using MS-project
Team: 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software-Engineer, 2 Test engineers
Position: hw development engineer
10/1999 – 04/2000
Kontron embedded computers AG:
Employment
Development Engineer in Board level development department
Tasks: Hardware development, hardware oriented software
development, power management
Development of power management for industrial notebook computer
Tools: Orcad, Pspice, Excel-Sheets, self written c-programs, Keil-IDE
for 8051
Team: (1 Mechanical Engineer, 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software
Engineer)
Job: Hardware development engineer
09/1996 – 10/1999
Mayser GmbH & Co. KG: Internship for Practical part of studies at
University of cooperative education Ravensburg
Tasks: Development of micro controller- and logic based controllers,
development of safety electronics, development of PLC software
Tools: EAGLE, Pspice, Step-5-programmer,
Z80-emulator
Job: electronics developer
Attended Seminars
Time-Management
English (Berlitz-Seminars, Unicert3),
Power-PC Architektur
Software-Defined-Radio (Analog Devices)
Identity Management with Omada
Führung im Mittelstand
PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner, Agile
Exin Agile Scrum Master, Agile Product-Owner, Scrum Foundation
ITILv4 Foundation, Practitioner
Languages
-English fluently written and orally:
Certificates: Unizert 3, Berlitz Level 8
-German :(Mother tounge)
Driving licenses
Classes A, BE, CE, C1E, MSLT; BMW Internal driver training B1
Hobbies, sports, special interests
Sports
Sailing, climbing, hiking
Hobbies
Open-Source, Linux, BSD, vehicles, ham radio (license: DL1EHU),
Making
Special interests
Economy, science, inventions
Date: 04/08/23
to get a cv please write to
luja.job@openhardware.de
LUDWIG JAFFÉ
E-Mail: Ludwig.Jaffe@gmail.com
Phone: +49 160 333 999 8 (Germany)
Phone +972 54 5885998 (Israel)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Date of birth
09/14/1972
Place of birth
Munich
Nationality
German
Work permit
EU (German Citizen), Israel
Education
01.10.2002 - 14.03.2006
Studies of Systems Engineering at University of applied science
Munich, Germany
Degree: Master of Systems Engineering
October 1996 - September 1999
Studies of Electrical Engineering with specialization in automation
and control at University of cooperative education in Ravensburg
Degree: Dipl.-Ing. (BA)
October 1994 -October 1996
Studies of electrical engineering at University Ulm, BW, Germany
1984-1993
Secondary School „Fichtegymnasium“ in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Exam: Abitur /Allgemeine Hochschulreife
1979-1984
Primary School „Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Bismarckstrasse“
in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Certifications
PRINCE 2 Practitioner in Project Management
(GR657068060LJ)
PRINCE 2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
(GR656147904LJ)
ITIL Foundation, ITIL4 Edition (GR671169016LJ)
Agile Scrum Master (6336372.20797637)
Agile Scrum Foundation (6336372.20793236)
LPIC-1 (lpi.org/v/LPI000214128/674ebhcn3a)
BMW internal driving license B1 (driver training)
Know How and Experiences
systems engineering :
System development, system modeling, simulation of systems,
partitioning of distributed systems, V-Model, systems engineering
methodology
:
project management
Specifications, multi project management, risc management, resource
and capacity planing, project control, decision methods, Networks of
influence (Vernetztes Denken by F. Vester)
Tools: Primavera, MS-Project, Timeline, Expertchoice
Methods: Gantt, Pert, CPM, MPM, trend analysis, ...
Process management:
Re-Engineering of Business Processes
Analysis of process compliance according. to CMMI, SPICE
(ISO15504), others
Modeling in ARIS, IBO-Prometheus and GRADE, BPMN
Interviews to gather actual process
Analysis and optimization of Business Processes, Roll-Out support
Hardware Development:
EMC oriented Design,safety electronics,
High aviable Systems, hot / cold redundancy
reliabiliy, FMEA, FTA
signal integrity, EMC, hierachical design, cost centered design,
manufactureability, test and verification
Digital Electronics:
High-Speed Digital Design, Processor architectures: Intel x86, Sparc,
PowerPC,ARM, misc. Microcontrollers (8051, Z80, 6502, AVR, NXP
MRKII, PIC, MSP430, .. ) , DSPs
Programable Logic (FPGA, CPLD) of vendors xilinx, lattice, altera,
microsemi. Languages Verilog, VHDL, ABEL
Analog Electronics:
Measurement amplifiers, filters, sensors, actors,
A/D & D/A-Converters, Software-Defined-Radio, RF-Technology,
Power management, power electronics, switch mode power supply
Automatic Control:
Analog and digital Control, Fuzzy Control
Programing Languages:
C (gcc, Keil, Visual Studio), Pascal (Turbopascal, freepascal,
Lazarus), Assembler, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, UNIX-Shell, BASIC,
Fortran (gnu compiler)
Operating Systems:
Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 8/9,
WINDOWS NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, WINDOWS 9x, DOS, CP/M
Datea bases:
SQL (Postgress, MySQL), DBASE
Networks/ Communication:
TCP/IP, ISDN, HDLC
Software/ Methods /Tools /
ARIS, GRADE,IBO-Prometheus, UML,
Cadence Concept HDL (PE14.0) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Concept
(97A) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Allegro (Layout),
Altium Designer, Protel, ORCAD, EAGLE, KEIL-Compiler,
ASCET, INCA, MATLAB, SIMULINK, Vissim
MS-Office, Libreoffice, MS-Project, Primavera, Timeline,
Expertchoice, Adobe Frame-Maker, Adobe-Acrobat, Gimp, Xfig,
Eclipse, Lauterbach Trace32, GnuDebugger, GnuDebugger, DDD,
Jenkins, yocto, bitbake, buildroot, openwrt, uboot, gentoo, eclipse,
pycharm
Measurement Technology:
logic analyzer, Oscilloscopes (digital & analog), spectrum analyzer,
Receiver, EMC measurements, signal generators, IEEE488-Control,
voltage controlled analog measurements, temperature measurements,
thermal imagers, infrared imagers, visible light imagers, UV imagers,
misc. sensors.
Building of Prototypes:
SMD soldering using microscope, trouble-shooting, measurement,
metal work.
SAP
SAP R/3 MM.
Fields of work:
Specifiation, architecture, project management, systems-engineering,
strategic planing, embedded software development, hardware
development (analog and digital), product development, quality
management, System- and Network administration
Employments and Freelance Projects
03/2023 – 07/2023
System architecture and feasibility study of hot-redundant distributed
automotive computer system for level-5 autonomous driving, as well as
architecture of a communication unit "TCU" which enables multiple
redundant internet connections via 5G, as well as diversity broadcast reception
(FM, LW, MW, SW, DAB) and WLAN for the passengers of the vehicle.
Technologies: GSML2, CSI2, FPGA video sharing solution, PCI Express
switches with address translation, Infiniband RDMA, 10Gbit Ethernet
switches, Mac security, Nvidia Orin Drive, virtualization on 64Bit ARM
SOCs, functional security according to ISO26262, Software Defined Radio
05/2022 - 11/2022
Employed as scientist in computer science for development and operation of
small HA cluster using Proxmox-Linux to serve lecture environments.
Technologies: Proxmox, Softswitch, Mellanox 40GBit/s Ethernet boards with
fiber DAC cables, guacamole, VDI, FusionDirectory, OpenLDAP, Asus
Servers with AMD Epyc 7763 (Zen3), NVME SSD, pci express Gen 4 switch
12/2020 - 04/2022
Employed as Systems Development Engineer for electrical two wheelers for
the lower price segments in Asia.
Tasks: technical lead in the area of systems concepts and development,
supplier management, research, development of ECUs.
In house consulting on E/E and systems engineering, development
methodology, V-Model. CMMI
04/2020 – 08/2020
Break to get trained and certified in PRINCE2, SCRUM and ITIL
01/2020 – 03/2020
Project: Continued development of an Internet of Things device to save
energy until it is ready for the market.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
10/2019 – 12/2019
Project: Debuggung of a Linux based Router-Fimware in order to locate the
problem of wrongly encrypted IPSEC traffic.
Tools: Mercurical, Debian Linux, gdb, Traffic-Generator, OpenWrt-Router
with VLAN-Switch, tcpdump Wireshark, for traffic recording and analysis
Libre-Office for documentation.
07/2019 – 09/2019
Part time project: Development of a n Internet-of-Things-Device for energy
saving.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
02/2019 – 06/2019
Head of Hardware Development (manufacturer of measurement systems),
Responsibilities: Disciplinary and professional leadership of 7 employees in
the department Hardware Development. Coordinate product development with
departments of physical engineering and application software.
Tools: MS-Office, special project management software, Libre-Office, GanttProject, KICad, EAGLE, LT-Spice, Oscilloscope, Clamp Meters, Digital
Multimeter.
07/2018 – 02/2019
Part time project: Evaluation of various open-source document management
solutions and older scanner systems to set up various scanning services.
Tools: Debian Linux, sane, tesseract-ocr, samba, Python, C ++, Gui with Qt
on Linux
07/2018 – 08/2018
Development of real-time software for STM32F4 (ARM-Cortex M4 Core) for
multi axis motor control using an ASIC made by Trinamic.
Tools: Atollic Studio, STM32CubeMX
11/2017 – 06/2018
From the findings of the previous project, it became interesting to design a
highly secure appliance for HIP (Host Identity Protocol), and to develop a
concept study.
Tasks: Analysis of public documents available covering HIP, development of a
concept for a HIP-appliance, based on OpenBSD and back door free x86
hardware. Prototype build.
Tools: Linux, QubesOS, OpenBSD
Plattform: OpenBSD
11/2016 –09/ 2017
Architect / Development of an Architecture for reliable mobile
communication to be used for passenger information and remote sensing in
trains.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop network
connectivity concept that allows for connectivity under difficult conditions of
moving trains in areas with bad radio coverage using a multitude of radio
modems to cover different providers (HIP, multi homing, mobility), Internet
of Things, MQTT, IPSec
Tools: MS-Office, Gimp, Linux, QubesOS, OpenWRT, Amazon AWS, git
07/2016 – 10/2016
Application development of customer specific business software.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop database
driven applicationss in Oracle PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Python
Tools: Oracle virtual box, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio, Pycharm
11/2015 – 03/2016
Employed at Start-up as Research Engineer
Tasks: Analyze and improve distributed IT-systems based on Amazon Cloud
services, Linux, OpenWRT and Automation products. Program custom
software in Python, C
Tools: RS485-Analyzer, Kali-Linux, cygwin, OpenWRT, Lab-Equipment, vi,
emacs, gcc, make, gdb, ddd, pycharm
06/2015 – 10/2015
Part-time project of developing an electric bike drive using a brush less DC
motor, Tasks: Analyze requirements, set up experimental environment for
development of motor controller.
Tools: Kicad, Lab-Equipment (mechanical and electric)
03/2015 – 05/2015
Freelance Consultant for BMW.
Tasks: Evaluate wireless communication concepts (reliability and
performance) for wireless charging of electric vehicles.
Tools: OpenWRT (build environment, system), Iperf, custom build kernel for
6loPAN and Bluetooth LE, Android-Tablets, Kali-Linux, MS-Office, Adobe
Acrobat, cygwin, Spectrum Analyzer
11/2014 – 01/2015
Freelance Consultant for 1st tier automotive supplier.
Tasks: Requirements Management, technical clarification with Automotive
OEM, systems-engineering. Identification of impact of functional safety.
Tools: DOORS, MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, cygwin
06/2014 – 09/2014
Development of a controller for brush less DC motors using a XMC4500 (arm
based) processor from Infineon, to operate a
brush less DC bike motor.
Tasks: Analyze requirements of advanced bicycle drive using 2 quadrant
FOC, program field oriented control for bicycle motor in C using DAVE-IDE,
develop hardware to control bicycle motor using KICAD, build prototype
board and integrate system
Tools: Kicad, Infineon-DAVE (eclipse based IDE)
05/2014 – 06/2014
Freelance Consultant for motor control systems.
Tasks: Consulting and support client with software architecture and
specification for a new developed embedded motor control platform (uses
infineon xmc4500).
Tasks: Writing specifications for software modules, consult about testing
procedures, scale object oriented architecture against plain C, code efficiency
with RTOS uc/osII, analysis and optimization of development processes
(CMMI), leading 3rd party for software implementation.
Tools: MS-Office, uCOS II, IAR, Eclipse, Eclipse Keppler, Eclipse
Requirements Modeling Framework
04/2014 – 05/2014
Freelance Consultant for Battery Management Systems
Tasks: Consult Client about cell leveling and charging methodology of
Lithium Ion Cells in 400Ah range. Development of functional safety concept
based on redundant self monitoring Hardware. The safety system is SIL4
according to ISO61508. In order to prevent catastrophic explosion or fire
caused by big Lithium-Ion cells.
Writing and reviewing documents, specifications and architectural proposals.
Jan 2014 – Mar 2014
Employed as CTO in a small start-up company
IT/Advertisement-Company
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD machines, and
administration of virtualization servers using Citrix XenServer, development
of small electronic boards, development of system solutions for remote
control of vending machines
Tools: Linux, XenServer, wireshark, Kicad, C/C++, Java, Python, BashScript
12/2013 – 12/2013
Employed as UNIX and network (cisco, linux) administrator
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris machines, and
cisco switches and administration of virtualization servers using VMWare
Vsphere and Citrix XenServer.
Tools: shell, Vsphere, XenServer, Jira, wireshark
Dec 2013 – Dec 2013
part-time freelance project in programing an MITT-Transport interface in C
for Linux.
IT-Company
Freelance
Tasks: analyze requirements, implement MQTT-payload to IP socket
converter in C for Linux.
Tools: gcc, make, vi, gdb, wireshark
09/2013 – 11/2013
Part-time freelance project in consulting about PLC communication in the
area of smart metering
Tasks: checking documents and standards of PRIME, G3-PLC, P1901.2
Tools: MS-OFFICE, libreoffice, Gimp, Adobe Acrobat
05/2013 – 08/2013
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
automotive vision system (Lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane
and sign recognition) at Audi
Automotive supplier
Temp. Employment at service provider company.
Tasks: measurements at CAN bus, and trouble shooting to locate root cause
of problems in complex vehicle system, mounting and calibration of cameras,
attend test drives, evaluate effects on other system and functional safety
according to ISO26262.
Tools: Mobile-Eye Toolkit, Vector CANanlyzer.
04/2013 – 05/2013
Reverse engineering of embedded control system for industrial plasma
generator. Gain access to parameter sets and recorded data
Freelance Project
Tasks: consulting for methodology, tooling, identify components and reverse
engineer circuitry as far as needed, gain access to device communication
Tools: multi meter, Flash-Programmer, SPI-Tool, RS485-Interface, Linux,
68HC11 simulator THRSIM11. hexeditor, Serial sniffer, Debian Linux,
Raspery Pi board with raspian.
04/2012 – 09/2012
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
keyless entry project at BMW
Automotive supplier
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for improvements of radio key circuits, tool improvement,
trouble-shooting, product improvements, RF-measurements, telegram
measurements, side channel analysis of key, NXP MRKII assembler code
review, trouble shooting,
Evaluate security of system.
Tools: self developed comparator amplifier for differential power analysis,
digital-oscilloscope, CANoe, spectrum analyzer, protocol receiver build from
atmel rf-evaluation boards
01/2012 – 02/2012
Employment as project manager and analyst
Employed
Tasks: Requirements analysis, public bids, writing of technical concepts,
project management of public transport project public transport ticketing and
erp system
07/2011 – 12/2011
Consulting, trouble shooting and technical improvement of inverter
for hybrid electric car
Liebherr Elektronik GmbH
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for FPGA programming (VHDL), optimization and
debugging of schematics trouble shooting, repairing prototypes, high
voltage tests, temperature measurements, vibration measurements,
integration of test system
Set-up and operation of test stand for electrical machine and inverter,
forensic analysis of defects and root cause analysis.
Evaluate functional safety of protection functions according to
ISO26262.
Tools: current clamps, digital oscilloscope, CANalyzer, CANape,
Libero (FPGA-Proasic3 Actel), Xilinx ISE (Xilinx Spartan 3A loaded
by DSP), Codeworrior (TI-DSP 2xxx), Lauterbach Debugger ICD,
Lauterbach Trace32, PAC-Designer (Lattice power manager ISPac),
Diamond (Lattice), OpenFTA, high power high voltage supply,
insulation tester, high voltage safety
03/2011 – 05/2011
consulting test development for rfid chipcards acc. ISO14443
Giesecke & Devrient (chipcard company)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting about special active modulation techniques that
enhance range and are compatible with ISO14443 readers,
optimization of 13.56MHZ antennas, development of automated tests
in java using G&D IFDSIM
Tools: chip card reader CLT-One, digital oscilloscope, network
analyzer, Eclipse, IFDSIM, open source and G&D proprietary
libraries in Java
11/2010 – 12/2010
consulting regarding systems architecture and requirements of high
voltage system and safety requirements for emergency switches for
electrical vehicle
Drexlmayr (Automotive supplier)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting regarding methods of requirements engineering and
demands by ISO26262,
Writing of requirements lists and analysis of impact, coordination
Tools: MS-Office
08/2010 – 10/2010
Project management for development of military 4m radio system
Thales, Pforzheim
Freelance project
Tasks: Lead and coordination of project team, tracking milestones and
costs,plan dependencies with other projects and blocked resources,
check configuration items, results, reports, support and consulting for
trouble shooting, coordination
Tools: MS-project, MS-Office, Doxygen (check software structure and
documentation), Doors (check requirements and documentation)
Project has been canceled because of political changes at far east
customer.
04/2010 – 06/2010
Development of reliable firmware for micro controller development
tool containing MSP430
Texas Instruments
Freelance project
Tasks: Development of firmware in C with special safety functions to
communicate to host via usb, and ensure the device is always bootable
state under all circumstances of firmware upgrade and other failures.
Debugging using JTAG, oscilloscope
Programming language: C
Processor: MSP430
Tools: IAR, JTAG debugger, mixed-signal oscilloscope (protocol
debugging)
11/2009 – 02/2010
Employment at Annax Information Systems (equipment for public
transport) as systems engineer
Employed
Tasks: Consulting, Requirements management, public bids
Functional safety acc. to ISO61508, consulting regarding ISO 1558
Writing of technical concepts, specifications
Software development in c,c++ for Linux and windows.
09/2009 – 10/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed simulation software to
visualize and test complex character based display systems in the area
of passenger information
Customer: Annax Information Systems GmbH
Tasks: Analysis of micro controller software used in displays,
refactoring of monster loop based approach to thread based state
machine based approach integration of the code into TCP based
simulation system, writing of GUI, test and integration
Programming language: C, C++
Target: Windows (Gui MFC), Windows/Unix (data server)
Processor: x86
Tools: Eclipse (UML, development environment), Visual Studio (for
MFC GUI),
gcc, gdb (for server), Wireshark (Network test),
Logik-Analyzer (Analysis of RS485 states)
08/2009 – 09/2009
Freelance: Consulting about embedded computer architectures for bid
project „passport reader“
Customer: Rode & Schwarz
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, SystemsEngineering, cost estimation, negotiations with prospective suppliers
06/2009 – 07/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed maximum power point charger
system for island supply of mountain huts.
(Own project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, prototype
development. Systems-Engineering, HW development, power
electronics (DC-DC-converter buck/boost cuck-type),
HW-Development, SW-development in C for MSP430, development
of rs485 based field bus for control
06/2008 – 02/2009
Freelance: Development of DSP-Software for optical Instrument to
measure security features of bank notes.
Customer: Bundesdruckerei GmbH (value print)
Tasks: Analysis, and documentation of legacy software, introduction
of new methods and tools, addition of functions, writing drivers and
embedded OS. Improvement of measurement hardware
Programming language: C.
Processor: Motorola DSP-56F807
Tools: Vmware, Codeworrior, Doxygen, Cygwin, oscilloscope, logic
analyzer
08/2007 – 12/2007
Freelance: Development of embedded firmware for industrial HMI
Customer: Trupf Group
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering,
Processor: Infineon C167;
Tools: Keil-C, Easy-Code (was required by customer), Doxygen
03/2007 – 07/2007
Development of technical concept for product SAR „Drone“
(Development Project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering, HW-development
of motor drives, hw development of redundant computers (flight
controllers), HW development mission system. SW-development for
sub systems.
Not finished.
10/2006 – 01/2007
Development of „Communication Box“
(Own Product, discontinued)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, software
development
Tools: Linux-Kernel, vi, make, phyton, perl, gcc, OpenOffice.
Resultat: prototype of linux based ISDN-PBX, thas is used by some
people
08/2006 – 09/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for airport displays
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train equipment supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, development and
test of prototypes.
Result was a prototype of a passive cooled (special cooling concept)
1,7GHz Intel Core2-Computer to present HDTV-Spots, which is
equipped with WLAN and UMTS for feed, and was capable to work
at 50 °C under full CPU-load.
02/2006 – 07/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for passenger information at train stations
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, Development of concepts, development
and test of prototypes, development of test software,
Setup of an adapted embedded Linux distribution, write kernel module
for GPIO-board.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, Gimp, Measurement of
temperatures and signals using climate chamber and measurement
fixtures
07/2005 – 02/2006
Freelance: Development of „HSM-Box“ und „Kernel-AcceleratorDevice“
(Product for own use)
Development of universal FPGA-Platform to accelerate Linux Kernel
(KAD) and a key storage sytstem (HSM-Box)
Tasks:
Concept and specification of open development platform for FPGA
based systems, Concept of cheap FPGA-based secure secret storage
system (system concept, HW-development, VHDL-coding)
Office-Tools: Open-Office, Gimp
EDA-Tools: Xilinx-ISE, Altera Quartus, gEDA
Talks: „The Kernel Accelerator Device“
02/2005 – 05/2005
Freelance: Project management and consulting for Development of
embedded system to upgrade ICE1 trains with new passenger
information system and reservation displays
(Management of hardware part of project)
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (railway electronics)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, feasibility analysis, development of
technical concepts, development and test of prototypes, development
of test software, provide support and inputs for mechanical designers,
negotiations with suppliers in Taiwan, ROC.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, OpenOffice, Gimp
11/2004 – 12/2004
Freelance: consulting in the field of software logistic concepts
Client: BMW
Tasks: Requirements analysis, development of concepts, participation
in comitees
Tools: MS-Office, Visio
08/2004 – 10/2004
Freelance: Development of concepts for embedded computers
(concept development, specification writing)
Freelance Project for
Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Supplier of train equipment)
Tasks: conceptual development of embedded computers architectures,
writing specs and bid-documents
Tools: MS-Office, MS-Visio
05/2003 – 05/2004
BMW AG Munich:
Masters Thesis „Analyse und Optimierung des Änderungsprozesses
bei der BMW Fahrzeugelektronik- und Software-Entwicklung“
(Process analysis and improvement at R&D of car electrics,
electronics and software)
Grade of Masters Thesis: 1.0
Tasks: Analysis and improvement of software-logistics (configuration
management / change management & integration) processes at BMW
Acquisition of actual processes, analysis and identification of
improvements, development of process improvements, design of new
business processes according to CMMI.
Tools: modeling in ARIS, GRADE
04/2000 – 04/2002
Force Computers GmbH:
Employment
Hardware Engineer in Board-Business-Unit
Tasks: Development, Debugging, new product introduction of
computer boards with Intel x86, PowerPC, Sparc processors for
telecom applications. HW development (about 100 pages schematics,
16 Layers, 2 impedance controlled, VHDL und Verilog coding for
4000 series Xilinx-FPGAs)
Tools: Framemaker, MS-Office
EDA-Tools: Cadence Concept HDL (PE14), Concept (97A)
Cadence Allegro, Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Verilog-XL,
Solaris, Agilent logic analyzer, digital osciloscope
Tools new product introduction:
SAP/R3, Unix-Scripts
Project management using MS-project
Team: 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software-Engineer, 2 Test engineers
Position: hw development engineer
10/1999 – 04/2000
Kontron embedded computers AG:
Employment
Development Engineer in Board level development department
Tasks: Hardware development, hardware oriented software
development, power management
Development of power management for industrial notebook computer
Tools: Orcad, Pspice, Excel-Sheets, self written c-programs, Keil-IDE
for 8051
Team: (1 Mechanical Engineer, 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software
Engineer)
Job: Hardware development engineer
09/1996 – 10/1999
Mayser GmbH & Co. KG: Internship for Practical part of studies at
University of cooperative education Ravensburg
Tasks: Development of micro controller- and logic based controllers,
development of safety electronics, development of PLC software
Tools: EAGLE, Pspice, Step-5-programmer,
Z80-emulator
Job: electronics developer
Attended Seminars
Time-Management
English (Berlitz-Seminars, Unicert3),
Power-PC Architektur
Software-Defined-Radio (Analog Devices)
Identity Management with Omada
Führung im Mittelstand
PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner, Agile
Exin Agile Scrum Master, Agile Product-Owner, Scrum Foundation
ITILv4 Foundation, Practitioner
Languages
-English fluently written and orally:
Certificates: Unizert 3, Berlitz Level 8
-German :(Mother tounge)
Driving licenses
Classes A, BE, CE, C1E, MSLT; BMW Internal driver training B1
Hobbies, sports, special interests
Sports
Sailing, climbing, hiking
Hobbies
Open-Source, Linux, BSD, vehicles, ham radio (license: DL1EHU),
Making
Special interests
Economy, science, inventions
Date: 04/08/23
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LUDWIG JAFFÉ
E-Mail: Ludwig.Jaffe@gmail.com
Phone: +49 160 333 999 8 (Germany)
Phone +972 54 5885998 (Israel)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Date of birth
09/14/1972
Place of birth
Munich
Nationality
German
Work permit
EU (German Citizen), Israel
Education
01.10.2002 - 14.03.2006
Studies of Systems Engineering at University of applied science
Munich, Germany
Degree: Master of Systems Engineering
October 1996 - September 1999
Studies of Electrical Engineering with specialization in automation
and control at University of cooperative education in Ravensburg
Degree: Dipl.-Ing. (BA)
October 1994 -October 1996
Studies of electrical engineering at University Ulm, BW, Germany
1984-1993
Secondary School „Fichtegymnasium“ in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Exam: Abitur /Allgemeine Hochschulreife
1979-1984
Primary School „Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Bismarckstrasse“
in Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Certifications
PRINCE 2 Practitioner in Project Management
(GR657068060LJ)
PRINCE 2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
(GR656147904LJ)
ITIL Foundation, ITIL4 Edition (GR671169016LJ)
Agile Scrum Master (6336372.20797637)
Agile Scrum Foundation (6336372.20793236)
LPIC-1 (lpi.org/v/LPI000214128/674ebhcn3a)
BMW internal driving license B1 (driver training)
Know How and Experiences
systems engineering :
System development, system modeling, simulation of systems,
partitioning of distributed systems, V-Model, systems engineering
methodology
:
project management
Specifications, multi project management, risc management, resource
and capacity planing, project control, decision methods, Networks of
influence (Vernetztes Denken by F. Vester)
Tools: Primavera, MS-Project, Timeline, Expertchoice
Methods: Gantt, Pert, CPM, MPM, trend analysis, ...
Process management:
Re-Engineering of Business Processes
Analysis of process compliance according. to CMMI, SPICE
(ISO15504), others
Modeling in ARIS, IBO-Prometheus and GRADE, BPMN
Interviews to gather actual process
Analysis and optimization of Business Processes, Roll-Out support
Hardware Development:
EMC oriented Design,safety electronics,
High aviable Systems, hot / cold redundancy
reliabiliy, FMEA, FTA
signal integrity, EMC, hierachical design, cost centered design,
manufactureability, test and verification
Digital Electronics:
High-Speed Digital Design, Processor architectures: Intel x86, Sparc,
PowerPC,ARM, misc. Microcontrollers (8051, Z80, 6502, AVR, NXP
MRKII, PIC, MSP430, .. ) , DSPs
Programable Logic (FPGA, CPLD) of vendors xilinx, lattice, altera,
microsemi. Languages Verilog, VHDL, ABEL
Analog Electronics:
Measurement amplifiers, filters, sensors, actors,
A/D & D/A-Converters, Software-Defined-Radio, RF-Technology,
Power management, power electronics, switch mode power supply
Automatic Control:
Analog and digital Control, Fuzzy Control
Programing Languages:
C (gcc, Keil, Visual Studio), Pascal (Turbopascal, freepascal,
Lazarus), Assembler, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, UNIX-Shell, BASIC,
Fortran (gnu compiler)
Operating Systems:
Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 8/9,
WINDOWS NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, WINDOWS 9x, DOS, CP/M
Datea bases:
SQL (Postgress, MySQL), DBASE
Networks/ Communication:
TCP/IP, ISDN, HDLC
Software/ Methods /Tools /
ARIS, GRADE,IBO-Prometheus, UML,
Cadence Concept HDL (PE14.0) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Concept
(97A) (Schematic Entry), Cadence Allegro (Layout),
Altium Designer, Protel, ORCAD, EAGLE, KEIL-Compiler,
ASCET, INCA, MATLAB, SIMULINK, Vissim
MS-Office, Libreoffice, MS-Project, Primavera, Timeline,
Expertchoice, Adobe Frame-Maker, Adobe-Acrobat, Gimp, Xfig,
Eclipse, Lauterbach Trace32, GnuDebugger, GnuDebugger, DDD,
Jenkins, yocto, bitbake, buildroot, openwrt, uboot, gentoo, eclipse,
pycharm
Measurement Technology:
logic analyzer, Oscilloscopes (digital & analog), spectrum analyzer,
Receiver, EMC measurements, signal generators, IEEE488-Control,
voltage controlled analog measurements, temperature measurements,
thermal imagers, infrared imagers, visible light imagers, UV imagers,
misc. sensors.
Building of Prototypes:
SMD soldering using microscope, trouble-shooting, measurement,
metal work.
SAP
SAP R/3 MM.
Fields of work:
Specifiation, architecture, project management, systems-engineering,
strategic planing, embedded software development, hardware
development (analog and digital), product development, quality
management, System- and Network administration
Employments and Freelance Projects
03/2023 – 07/2023
System architecture and feasibility study of hot-redundant distributed
automotive computer system for level-5 autonomous driving, as well as
architecture of a communication unit "TCU" which enables multiple
redundant internet connections via 5G, as well as diversity broadcast reception
(FM, LW, MW, SW, DAB) and WLAN for the passengers of the vehicle.
Technologies: GSML2, CSI2, FPGA video sharing solution, PCI Express
switches with address translation, Infiniband RDMA, 10Gbit Ethernet
switches, Mac security, Nvidia Orin Drive, virtualization on 64Bit ARM
SOCs, functional security according to ISO26262, Software Defined Radio
05/2022 - 11/2022
Employed as scientist in computer science for development and operation of
small HA cluster using Proxmox-Linux to serve lecture environments.
Technologies: Proxmox, Softswitch, Mellanox 40GBit/s Ethernet boards with
fiber DAC cables, guacamole, VDI, FusionDirectory, OpenLDAP, Asus
Servers with AMD Epyc 7763 (Zen3), NVME SSD, pci express Gen 4 switch
12/2020 - 04/2022
Employed as Systems Development Engineer for electrical two wheelers for
the lower price segments in Asia.
Tasks: technical lead in the area of systems concepts and development,
supplier management, research, development of ECUs.
In house consulting on E/E and systems engineering, development
methodology, V-Model. CMMI
04/2020 – 08/2020
Break to get trained and certified in PRINCE2, SCRUM and ITIL
01/2020 – 03/2020
Project: Continued development of an Internet of Things device to save
energy until it is ready for the market.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
10/2019 – 12/2019
Project: Debuggung of a Linux based Router-Fimware in order to locate the
problem of wrongly encrypted IPSEC traffic.
Tools: Mercurical, Debian Linux, gdb, Traffic-Generator, OpenWrt-Router
with VLAN-Switch, tcpdump Wireshark, for traffic recording and analysis
Libre-Office for documentation.
07/2019 – 09/2019
Part time project: Development of a n Internet-of-Things-Device for energy
saving.
Tools: Debian Linux, Libre-Office, Gantt-Project, KICad,
LT-Spice, Oszilloscope, Software-Defined-Radio Transceiver,
Spectrum-Analyzer.
02/2019 – 06/2019
Head of Hardware Development (manufacturer of measurement systems),
Responsibilities: Disciplinary and professional leadership of 7 employees in
the department Hardware Development. Coordinate product development with
departments of physical engineering and application software.
Tools: MS-Office, special project management software, Libre-Office, GanttProject, KICad, EAGLE, LT-Spice, Oscilloscope, Clamp Meters, Digital
Multimeter.
07/2018 – 02/2019
Part time project: Evaluation of various open-source document management
solutions and older scanner systems to set up various scanning services.
Tools: Debian Linux, sane, tesseract-ocr, samba, Python, C ++, Gui with Qt
on Linux
07/2018 – 08/2018
Development of real-time software for STM32F4 (ARM-Cortex M4 Core) for
multi axis motor control using an ASIC made by Trinamic.
Tools: Atollic Studio, STM32CubeMX
11/2017 – 06/2018
From the findings of the previous project, it became interesting to design a
highly secure appliance for HIP (Host Identity Protocol), and to develop a
concept study.
Tasks: Analysis of public documents available covering HIP, development of a
concept for a HIP-appliance, based on OpenBSD and back door free x86
hardware. Prototype build.
Tools: Linux, QubesOS, OpenBSD
Plattform: OpenBSD
11/2016 –09/ 2017
Architect / Development of an Architecture for reliable mobile
communication to be used for passenger information and remote sensing in
trains.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop network
connectivity concept that allows for connectivity under difficult conditions of
moving trains in areas with bad radio coverage using a multitude of radio
modems to cover different providers (HIP, multi homing, mobility), Internet
of Things, MQTT, IPSec
Tools: MS-Office, Gimp, Linux, QubesOS, OpenWRT, Amazon AWS, git
07/2016 – 10/2016
Application development of customer specific business software.
Tasks: Analyze requirements and existing IT-systems. Develop database
driven applicationss in Oracle PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Python
Tools: Oracle virtual box, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio, Pycharm
11/2015 – 03/2016
Employed at Start-up as Research Engineer
Tasks: Analyze and improve distributed IT-systems based on Amazon Cloud
services, Linux, OpenWRT and Automation products. Program custom
software in Python, C
Tools: RS485-Analyzer, Kali-Linux, cygwin, OpenWRT, Lab-Equipment, vi,
emacs, gcc, make, gdb, ddd, pycharm
06/2015 – 10/2015
Part-time project of developing an electric bike drive using a brush less DC
motor, Tasks: Analyze requirements, set up experimental environment for
development of motor controller.
Tools: Kicad, Lab-Equipment (mechanical and electric)
03/2015 – 05/2015
Freelance Consultant for BMW.
Tasks: Evaluate wireless communication concepts (reliability and
performance) for wireless charging of electric vehicles.
Tools: OpenWRT (build environment, system), Iperf, custom build kernel for
6loPAN and Bluetooth LE, Android-Tablets, Kali-Linux, MS-Office, Adobe
Acrobat, cygwin, Spectrum Analyzer
11/2014 – 01/2015
Freelance Consultant for 1st tier automotive supplier.
Tasks: Requirements Management, technical clarification with Automotive
OEM, systems-engineering. Identification of impact of functional safety.
Tools: DOORS, MS-Office, Adobe Acrobat, cygwin
06/2014 – 09/2014
Development of a controller for brush less DC motors using a XMC4500 (arm
based) processor from Infineon, to operate a
brush less DC bike motor.
Tasks: Analyze requirements of advanced bicycle drive using 2 quadrant
FOC, program field oriented control for bicycle motor in C using DAVE-IDE,
develop hardware to control bicycle motor using KICAD, build prototype
board and integrate system
Tools: Kicad, Infineon-DAVE (eclipse based IDE)
05/2014 – 06/2014
Freelance Consultant for motor control systems.
Tasks: Consulting and support client with software architecture and
specification for a new developed embedded motor control platform (uses
infineon xmc4500).
Tasks: Writing specifications for software modules, consult about testing
procedures, scale object oriented architecture against plain C, code efficiency
with RTOS uc/osII, analysis and optimization of development processes
(CMMI), leading 3rd party for software implementation.
Tools: MS-Office, uCOS II, IAR, Eclipse, Eclipse Keppler, Eclipse
Requirements Modeling Framework
04/2014 – 05/2014
Freelance Consultant for Battery Management Systems
Tasks: Consult Client about cell leveling and charging methodology of
Lithium Ion Cells in 400Ah range. Development of functional safety concept
based on redundant self monitoring Hardware. The safety system is SIL4
according to ISO61508. In order to prevent catastrophic explosion or fire
caused by big Lithium-Ion cells.
Writing and reviewing documents, specifications and architectural proposals.
Jan 2014 – Mar 2014
Employed as CTO in a small start-up company
IT/Advertisement-Company
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD machines, and
administration of virtualization servers using Citrix XenServer, development
of small electronic boards, development of system solutions for remote
control of vending machines
Tools: Linux, XenServer, wireshark, Kicad, C/C++, Java, Python, BashScript
12/2013 – 12/2013
Employed as UNIX and network (cisco, linux) administrator
Employed
Tasks: administration of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris machines, and
cisco switches and administration of virtualization servers using VMWare
Vsphere and Citrix XenServer.
Tools: shell, Vsphere, XenServer, Jira, wireshark
Dec 2013 – Dec 2013
part-time freelance project in programing an MITT-Transport interface in C
for Linux.
IT-Company
Freelance
Tasks: analyze requirements, implement MQTT-payload to IP socket
converter in C for Linux.
Tools: gcc, make, vi, gdb, wireshark
09/2013 – 11/2013
Part-time freelance project in consulting about PLC communication in the
area of smart metering
Tasks: checking documents and standards of PRIME, G3-PLC, P1901.2
Tools: MS-OFFICE, libreoffice, Gimp, Adobe Acrobat
05/2013 – 08/2013
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
automotive vision system (Lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane
and sign recognition) at Audi
Automotive supplier
Temp. Employment at service provider company.
Tasks: measurements at CAN bus, and trouble shooting to locate root cause
of problems in complex vehicle system, mounting and calibration of cameras,
attend test drives, evaluate effects on other system and functional safety
according to ISO26262.
Tools: Mobile-Eye Toolkit, Vector CANanlyzer.
04/2013 – 05/2013
Reverse engineering of embedded control system for industrial plasma
generator. Gain access to parameter sets and recorded data
Freelance Project
Tasks: consulting for methodology, tooling, identify components and reverse
engineer circuitry as far as needed, gain access to device communication
Tools: multi meter, Flash-Programmer, SPI-Tool, RS485-Interface, Linux,
68HC11 simulator THRSIM11. hexeditor, Serial sniffer, Debian Linux,
Raspery Pi board with raspian.
04/2012 – 09/2012
Consulting, Trouble-Shooting as Resident Engineer for Tier1-Supplier for an
keyless entry project at BMW
Automotive supplier
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for improvements of radio key circuits, tool improvement,
trouble-shooting, product improvements, RF-measurements, telegram
measurements, side channel analysis of key, NXP MRKII assembler code
review, trouble shooting,
Evaluate security of system.
Tools: self developed comparator amplifier for differential power analysis,
digital-oscilloscope, CANoe, spectrum analyzer, protocol receiver build from
atmel rf-evaluation boards
01/2012 – 02/2012
Employment as project manager and analyst
Employed
Tasks: Requirements analysis, public bids, writing of technical concepts,
project management of public transport project public transport ticketing and
erp system
07/2011 – 12/2011
Consulting, trouble shooting and technical improvement of inverter
for hybrid electric car
Liebherr Elektronik GmbH
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting for FPGA programming (VHDL), optimization and
debugging of schematics trouble shooting, repairing prototypes, high
voltage tests, temperature measurements, vibration measurements,
integration of test system
Set-up and operation of test stand for electrical machine and inverter,
forensic analysis of defects and root cause analysis.
Evaluate functional safety of protection functions according to
ISO26262.
Tools: current clamps, digital oscilloscope, CANalyzer, CANape,
Libero (FPGA-Proasic3 Actel), Xilinx ISE (Xilinx Spartan 3A loaded
by DSP), Codeworrior (TI-DSP 2xxx), Lauterbach Debugger ICD,
Lauterbach Trace32, PAC-Designer (Lattice power manager ISPac),
Diamond (Lattice), OpenFTA, high power high voltage supply,
insulation tester, high voltage safety
03/2011 – 05/2011
consulting test development for rfid chipcards acc. ISO14443
Giesecke & Devrient (chipcard company)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting about special active modulation techniques that
enhance range and are compatible with ISO14443 readers,
optimization of 13.56MHZ antennas, development of automated tests
in java using G&D IFDSIM
Tools: chip card reader CLT-One, digital oscilloscope, network
analyzer, Eclipse, IFDSIM, open source and G&D proprietary
libraries in Java
11/2010 – 12/2010
consulting regarding systems architecture and requirements of high
voltage system and safety requirements for emergency switches for
electrical vehicle
Drexlmayr (Automotive supplier)
Freelance project
Tasks: consulting regarding methods of requirements engineering and
demands by ISO26262,
Writing of requirements lists and analysis of impact, coordination
Tools: MS-Office
08/2010 – 10/2010
Project management for development of military 4m radio system
Thales, Pforzheim
Freelance project
Tasks: Lead and coordination of project team, tracking milestones and
costs,plan dependencies with other projects and blocked resources,
check configuration items, results, reports, support and consulting for
trouble shooting, coordination
Tools: MS-project, MS-Office, Doxygen (check software structure and
documentation), Doors (check requirements and documentation)
Project has been canceled because of political changes at far east
customer.
04/2010 – 06/2010
Development of reliable firmware for micro controller development
tool containing MSP430
Texas Instruments
Freelance project
Tasks: Development of firmware in C with special safety functions to
communicate to host via usb, and ensure the device is always bootable
state under all circumstances of firmware upgrade and other failures.
Debugging using JTAG, oscilloscope
Programming language: C
Processor: MSP430
Tools: IAR, JTAG debugger, mixed-signal oscilloscope (protocol
debugging)
11/2009 – 02/2010
Employment at Annax Information Systems (equipment for public
transport) as systems engineer
Employed
Tasks: Consulting, Requirements management, public bids
Functional safety acc. to ISO61508, consulting regarding ISO 1558
Writing of technical concepts, specifications
Software development in c,c++ for Linux and windows.
09/2009 – 10/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed simulation software to
visualize and test complex character based display systems in the area
of passenger information
Customer: Annax Information Systems GmbH
Tasks: Analysis of micro controller software used in displays,
refactoring of monster loop based approach to thread based state
machine based approach integration of the code into TCP based
simulation system, writing of GUI, test and integration
Programming language: C, C++
Target: Windows (Gui MFC), Windows/Unix (data server)
Processor: x86
Tools: Eclipse (UML, development environment), Visual Studio (for
MFC GUI),
gcc, gdb (for server), Wireshark (Network test),
Logik-Analyzer (Analysis of RS485 states)
08/2009 – 09/2009
Freelance: Consulting about embedded computer architectures for bid
project „passport reader“
Customer: Rode & Schwarz
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, SystemsEngineering, cost estimation, negotiations with prospective suppliers
06/2009 – 07/2009
Freelance: Development of distributed maximum power point charger
system for island supply of mountain huts.
(Own project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, prototype
development. Systems-Engineering, HW development, power
electronics (DC-DC-converter buck/boost cuck-type),
HW-Development, SW-development in C for MSP430, development
of rs485 based field bus for control
06/2008 – 02/2009
Freelance: Development of DSP-Software for optical Instrument to
measure security features of bank notes.
Customer: Bundesdruckerei GmbH (value print)
Tasks: Analysis, and documentation of legacy software, introduction
of new methods and tools, addition of functions, writing drivers and
embedded OS. Improvement of measurement hardware
Programming language: C.
Processor: Motorola DSP-56F807
Tools: Vmware, Codeworrior, Doxygen, Cygwin, oscilloscope, logic
analyzer
08/2007 – 12/2007
Freelance: Development of embedded firmware for industrial HMI
Customer: Trupf Group
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering,
Processor: Infineon C167;
Tools: Keil-C, Easy-Code (was required by customer), Doxygen
03/2007 – 07/2007
Development of technical concept for product SAR „Drone“
(Development Project)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, systems engineering, HW-development
of motor drives, hw development of redundant computers (flight
controllers), HW development mission system. SW-development for
sub systems.
Not finished.
10/2006 – 01/2007
Development of „Communication Box“
(Own Product, discontinued)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, software
development
Tools: Linux-Kernel, vi, make, phyton, perl, gcc, OpenOffice.
Resultat: prototype of linux based ISDN-PBX, thas is used by some
people
08/2006 – 09/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for airport displays
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train equipment supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, concept development, development and
test of prototypes.
Result was a prototype of a passive cooled (special cooling concept)
1,7GHz Intel Core2-Computer to present HDTV-Spots, which is
equipped with WLAN and UMTS for feed, and was capable to work
at 50 °C under full CPU-load.
02/2006 – 07/2006
Freelance: Concept and development of embedded computer system
for passenger information at train stations
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Train supplier)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, Development of concepts, development
and test of prototypes, development of test software,
Setup of an adapted embedded Linux distribution, write kernel module
for GPIO-board.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, Gimp, Measurement of
temperatures and signals using climate chamber and measurement
fixtures
07/2005 – 02/2006
Freelance: Development of „HSM-Box“ und „Kernel-AcceleratorDevice“
(Product for own use)
Development of universal FPGA-Platform to accelerate Linux Kernel
(KAD) and a key storage sytstem (HSM-Box)
Tasks:
Concept and specification of open development platform for FPGA
based systems, Concept of cheap FPGA-based secure secret storage
system (system concept, HW-development, VHDL-coding)
Office-Tools: Open-Office, Gimp
EDA-Tools: Xilinx-ISE, Altera Quartus, gEDA
Talks: „The Kernel Accelerator Device“
02/2005 – 05/2005
Freelance: Project management and consulting for Development of
embedded system to upgrade ICE1 trains with new passenger
information system and reservation displays
(Management of hardware part of project)
Customer: Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (railway electronics)
Tasks: Requirements analysis, feasibility analysis, development of
technical concepts, development and test of prototypes, development
of test software, provide support and inputs for mechanical designers,
negotiations with suppliers in Taiwan, ROC.
Office-Tools: MS-Project, MS-Office, OpenOffice, Gimp
11/2004 – 12/2004
Freelance: consulting in the field of software logistic concepts
Client: BMW
Tasks: Requirements analysis, development of concepts, participation
in comitees
Tools: MS-Office, Visio
08/2004 – 10/2004
Freelance: Development of concepts for embedded computers
(concept development, specification writing)
Freelance Project for
Vossloh IT, Karlsfeld (Supplier of train equipment)
Tasks: conceptual development of embedded computers architectures,
writing specs and bid-documents
Tools: MS-Office, MS-Visio
05/2003 – 05/2004
BMW AG Munich:
Masters Thesis „Analyse und Optimierung des Änderungsprozesses
bei der BMW Fahrzeugelektronik- und Software-Entwicklung“
(Process analysis and improvement at R&D of car electrics,
electronics and software)
Grade of Masters Thesis: 1.0
Tasks: Analysis and improvement of software-logistics (configuration
management / change management & integration) processes at BMW
Acquisition of actual processes, analysis and identification of
improvements, development of process improvements, design of new
business processes according to CMMI.
Tools: modeling in ARIS, GRADE
04/2000 – 04/2002
Force Computers GmbH:
Employment
Hardware Engineer in Board-Business-Unit
Tasks: Development, Debugging, new product introduction of
computer boards with Intel x86, PowerPC, Sparc processors for
telecom applications. HW development (about 100 pages schematics,
16 Layers, 2 impedance controlled, VHDL und Verilog coding for
4000 series Xilinx-FPGAs)
Tools: Framemaker, MS-Office
EDA-Tools: Cadence Concept HDL (PE14), Concept (97A)
Cadence Allegro, Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence Verilog-XL,
Solaris, Agilent logic analyzer, digital osciloscope
Tools new product introduction:
SAP/R3, Unix-Scripts
Project management using MS-project
Team: 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software-Engineer, 2 Test engineers
Position: hw development engineer
10/1999 – 04/2000
Kontron embedded computers AG:
Employment
Development Engineer in Board level development department
Tasks: Hardware development, hardware oriented software
development, power management
Development of power management for industrial notebook computer
Tools: Orcad, Pspice, Excel-Sheets, self written c-programs, Keil-IDE
for 8051
Team: (1 Mechanical Engineer, 1 Hardware-Engineer, 1 Software
Engineer)
Job: Hardware development engineer
09/1996 – 10/1999
Mayser GmbH & Co. KG: Internship for Practical part of studies at
University of cooperative education Ravensburg
Tasks: Development of micro controller- and logic based controllers,
development of safety electronics, development of PLC software
Tools: EAGLE, Pspice, Step-5-programmer,
Z80-emulator
Job: electronics developer
Attended Seminars
Time-Management
English (Berlitz-Seminars, Unicert3),
Power-PC Architektur
Software-Defined-Radio (Analog Devices)
Identity Management with Omada
Führung im Mittelstand
PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner, Agile
Exin Agile Scrum Master, Agile Product-Owner, Scrum Foundation
ITILv4 Foundation, Practitioner
Languages
-English fluently written and orally:
Certificates: Unizert 3, Berlitz Level 8
-German :(Mother tounge)
Driving licenses
Classes A, BE, CE, C1E, MSLT; BMW Internal driver training B1
Hobbies, sports, special interests
Sports
Sailing, climbing, hiking
Hobbies
Open-Source, Linux, BSD, vehicles, ham radio (license: DL1EHU),
Making
Special interests
Economy, science, inventions
Date: 04/08/23