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Dr Gerald Loeffler (Löffler), MBA | |
| date of birth: | 1968-09-16 | |
| citizenship: | austrian/eu | |
| address: | siebensterngasse 46/4/114, a-1070 vienna, austria | |
| tel: | +43 6763289588, +44 7794537226 | |
| email: | gerald.loeffler@googlemail.com | |
| web: | www.gerald-loeffler.net | |
Gerald Loeffler is a passionate and competent senior technical architect with copious software project experience and extensive skills in object-oriented and functional software development on the JVM, Java SE, Java EE (J2EE), SOA, ESB-style and message-based integration and related enterprise software technologies and software engineering practices. He has the capability to successfully guide medium-sized Java software development teams as team lead, technical project manager and architect. Gerald cherishes working at all levels of abstraction, including hands-on coding and design, to grasp a situation in its entirety, both from a technical and non-technical perspective. He has a long-lasting passion for coaching, training and teaching. Gerald has a PhD and research experience in Bioinformatics, holds a triple-accredited MBA and will finish an MSc in Psychology in April 2012. He is a Certified ScrumMaster, Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE 5, Sun Certified Java Programmer and is PRINCE2 Foundation certified.
| 01/2008 -now |
Senior Integration Architect, Professional Services, Guidewire Software (permanent employment through German subsidiary)
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| 03/2007 -12/2007 |
Senior Architect/Developer, ObjectLab Financial Ltd, London (permanent employment)
Enterprise Java software development for a financial software product targeted at the investment banking market.
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| 09/2006 -02/2007 |
Enterprise Architect and Team Lead Architecture and Java Software Development, ING Direct (ING-DiBa) Austria,
Vienna (permanent employment)
Contributed to the establishment of a Java EE-based SOA and BPM strategy and managed a team of 2 architects and 9 Java software developers (both internal and external; hiring 4).
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| 06/2005 -05/2006 |
Enterprise Software Architect, ShipServ Ltd, London (permanent employment)
Identification, evaluation and recommendation of software architectural choices; implementation of enterprise Java software following these architectural guidelines; supporting the IT team in the adoption of new software development and software engineering technologies.
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| 04/2005 -05/2005 |
Technical Architect, Enterprise Java Solution Centre, Capgemini UK, London (permanent employment) |
| 02/2001 -02/2005 |
Consulting Java Architect, Professional Services, Sun Microsystems (permanent employment through Austrian subsidiary)
Consulting in software development (as project manager, software architect, object-oriented designer, Java developer and mentor), typically at medium-size enterprise software development projects at customer sites for several months. Selected projects and roles:
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| 03/2000 -01/2001 |
Software Architect Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna (fixed-term employment)
Requirements engineering, architecture, design and implementation in Bioinformatics software development projects:
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| 09/1999 -01/2001 |
Freelancer/contractor in object-oriented analysis, design and implementation in Java (self-employed)
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| 03/1999 -02/2000 |
Software Developer and Software Architect, Apollo Imaging, Vienna (permanent employment)
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| 02/1998 -02/1999 |
Bioinformatics Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim R&D, Vienna (permanent employment)
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| 02/1997 -01/1998 |
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna (fixed-term employment)
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| 12/1994 -05/1996 |
UNIX system and network administrator, Molecular Dynamics group, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna
(fixed-term employment)
Workstations by SGI, HP and Sun |
| 10/1994 -01/1995 |
Tutorial leader for Parallel Algorithms in the Computer Simulation of Bio-molecules at the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna (fixed-term employment) |
| 07/1989 -06/1994 |
Freelancer/contract in software development, university tutorial demonstrator and other part-time jobs in chemistry/biology laboratories |
| 02/2009 -04/2012 |
Master of Science in Psychology (MSc), at The Open University (estimated end) |
| 10/2008 | Certified ScrumMaster awarded by the Scrum Alliance |
| 01/2008 | Guidewire Integration Certification |
| 12/2007 | Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) |
| 05/2003 -10/2006 |
Master of Business Administration (MBA), accredited by AMBA, AACSB and EFMD/EQUIS, at The Open University Business School |
| 06/2004 | Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) exam, the highest level of the Cambridge exams in English for speakers of other languages, passed with grade A |
| 06/2004 | Intensive 2 weeks hands-on training on Test-Driven Development at XPLabs |
| 04/2003 | PRINCE2 Foundation project management certification |
| 11/2001 | Principles of Managing Iterative Development (i.e., the Rational Unified Software Development Process) by Rational University |
| 06/2001 | Enterprise Development with iPlanet Application Server 6.0 Enterprise Edition by iPlanet |
| 11/1998 | Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.1 |
| 05/1995 -07/1995 |
Training and Research on Advanced Computing Systems (TRACS) at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) sponsored by the Human Capital and Mobility Programme of the EU |
| 05/1994 -01/1997 |
PhD in Bioinformatics in Prof. Steinhausers group at the University of Vienna. PhD thesis entitled "The Calculation of the Dielectric Properties of Many-Component Systems from Molecular Dynamics Simulations". Software development in Java, C++ and Fortran. |
| 10/1987 -05/1994 |
Magister ("Masters Degree") in Biochemistry at the University of Vienna. Masters thesis in the area of Bioinformatics entitled "Efficient and Correct Treatment of Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hydrated Systems". Software development in C. |
| 09/1975 -06/1987 |
School in Vienna |
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| [28] | Selected Topics in Java Web Application Development, guest lecture in "Web Engineering I" at the Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration on 27 October 2008. www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/java_web_app_dev_2008-10-27.pdf, isc.wu-wien.ac.at/docs/coursesinenglish/Gruber.pdf |
| [27] | Contemporary Application Integration: ESBs and SCA, presentation at JavaDeus 08 - Sun Microsystems Austria Java Developer Conference
on 19 June 2008. www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/integration_javadeus08_2008-06-19.pdf, at.sun.com/sunnews/events/2008/jun/javadeus08/agenda.jsp |
| [26] | Mule and Mesage-Based Integration - Using an ESB, presentation at a "Java Abend" in Vienna on 21 October 2007. www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/mule_javaabend_2007-10-22.pdf |
| [25] | Mule as an ESB-like Integration Frontend to Java EE Applications, presentation at the Enterprise Java User Group London on 25 June
2007. www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/mule_ejug_2007-06-25.pdf, video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4095445193456341022 www.ejug.org.uk/events |
| [24] | Enterprise Java: central concepts in Java EE 5 (German), 2-day course at the Institute for Systems Software at the University of Linz
on 9/10 March 2006. www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Teaching/Lectures/SpezialLVA/Loeffler/ |
| [23] | Developing Java EE 5.0 applications with EJB 3.0 and JSF, presentation at Java Special Interest Group London on 26 Jan 2006. www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/javaee5_jsig_london_2006-01-26.pdf, 209.235.197.109/seminars/2006/London/26January2006.html |
| [22] | J2EE: Introduction, Practice and Software Architecture, 2-day course at the Institute for Systems Software at the University of Linz
on 3/4 March 2005. www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Teaching/Lectures/SpezialLVA/Loeffler/SS2005/j2ee_introduction_and_practice.pdf |
| [21] | A. Juen, G. Löffler, An Evaluation of Popular Java Object/Relational Mapping Tools, Sun-internal report, 2004 |
| [20] | J2EE: Introduction and Practice, 2-day course at the Institute for Systems Software at the University of Linz in March 2004 |
| [19] | G. Löffler, Java in Space - JavaSpaces (German), JavaMagazin, 2/2004. entwickler.com/itr/online_artikel/show.php3?nodeid=97&id=489 |
| [18] | Building Web Applications in Java - Foundation and Best Practices, power workshop at W-JAX - Conference for Web Services, Java,
Apache, XML in Munich, Germany on 4 Nov 2002. www.w-jax.com/konferenzen/show.php3?id=19&nodeid=&_language=uk |
| [17] | Enterprise Messaging Architectures with JMS and XML, presentation with Marian Kuffner at Net.ObjectDays 2002 in Erfurt, Germany on 10
Oct 2002. www.old.netobjectdays.org/node02/de/Conf/publish/agenda.html#4-06%20Donnerstag%206.track |
| [16] | Java Message Service, power workshop at JAX2002 - Conference for Java, XML and Web Services in Frankfurt, Germany on 17 May 2002. www.jax2002.com/show.php3?id=32&nodeid= |
| [15] | Using Message Driven Beans, presentation at the Vienna Java User Group on 22 April 2002. www.javausergroup.at/events/Message_Driven_Beans.pdf |
| [14] | G. Löffler, P. Steinlein JMIMS - the Java Microarray Information Management System, Microarray Data Standards Meeting in Heidelberg, Germany (2000) |
| [13] | B. Eisenhaber, P. Bork, Y. Yuan, G. Löffler, F. Eisenhaber, Automated annotation of GPI anchor sites: case study C. elegans, Trends
Biochem Sci., 25 (7), 340-341 (2000) doi:10.1016/S0968-0004(00)01601-7, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler13.pdf |
| [12] | C. Stratowa G. Löffler, P. Lichter, S. Stilgenbauer, P. Haberl, N. Schweifer, H. Dohner, K.K. Wilgenbus, CDNA microarray gene
expression analysis of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia proposes potential new prognostic markers involved in lymphocyte trafficking, Int J
Cancer, 91, 474-480 (2001) www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler12.pdf |
| [11] | BioSymphony Beans: Software Components and Data Models for Bioinformatics, presentation with Anatoli Krassavine at Objects in Bioinformatics Conference in Hinxton, UK, 1998 |
| [10] | G. Löffler, Poisson-Boltzmann Calculations vs. Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Calculating the Electrostatic Potential of a
Solvated Peptide, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 101 (1-3), 163-169 (1999) doi:10.1007/s002140050424, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler10.pdf |
| [9] | G. Löffler, A Multithreaded Java Framework for Solving Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations in 3D, Scientific Computing in
Object-Oriented Parallel Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1343, 121 - 128 (1997) doi:10.1007/3-540-63827-X_52, www.gerald-loeffler.net/downloadloeffler9.pdf/ |
| [8] | G. Löffler, H. Schreiber, O. Steinhauser, Calculation of the Dielectric Properties of a Protein and its Solvent: Theorie and a Case
Study, Journal of Molecular Biology, 270 (3), 520 - 534 (1997) doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1130, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler8.pdf |
| [7] | G. Löffler, H. Schreiber, O. Steinhauser, The Frequency-Dependent Conductivity of a Saturated Solution of ZnBr2 in Water: A Molecular
Dynamics Simulation, Journal of Chemical Physics, 107 (8), 3135 - 3143 (1997) doi:10.1063/1.474703, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler7.pdf |
| [6] | O. Steinhauser, H. Schreiber, G. Löffler, W. Kleinert, Parallel Biomolecular Simulation: Theory, Algorithms and Implementation,
Simulation Practice and Theory, 5, 573 - 603 (1997) doi:10.1016/S0928-4869(97)00025-6, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler6.pdf |
| [5] | G. Löffler, H. Schreiber, Parallel Biomolecular Simulation: An Overview and Analysis of Important Algorithms, High-Performance
Computing and Networking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1067, 929 - 934 (1996) doi:10.1007/3-540-61142-8_653, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler5.pdf |
| [4] | G. Löffler, T. Mager, C. Gerner, H. Schreiber, H. Bertagnolli, O. Steinhauser, Static and Dynamic Structural Analysis of a Saturated
Solution of ZnBr2 in Water: Anomalous X-Ray Diffraction and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Journal of Chemical Physics, 104 (18), 7239 -
7248 (1996) doi:10.1063/1.471405, www.gerald-loeffler.net/download/loeffler4.pdf |
| [3] | G. Löffler, P. Maccallum, Molecular Dynamics of Solvated Proteins on the Cray T3D: Algorithms, Implementation, Benchmarks and Results, poster at ParCo 95 Conference in Gent, Belgium (1995) |
| [2] | G. Löffler, H. Schreiber, O. Steinhauser, Computer Simulation as a Tool to Analyze Neutron Scattering Experiments: Water at Supercritical Temperatures, Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, 98 (12), 1575 - 1578 (1994) |
| [1] | G. Löffler, W. Robien, Automatic Analysis of 13C-NMR-Spektra of Mixtures, poster at CIC-Meeting in Oldenburg, Germany (1990) |