Phone: +49 (0) 641 7950090
Email:   roland.mainz@nrubsig.org

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details:

• Name: Roland Mainz
• Nationality: German
• Languages: German (native), English (fluently), Latin (basics)

Research interests (focal points):

• Parallel and distributed computing
• Virtualisation
• HPC
• POSIX/standards
• Desktop environments
• Artificial intelligence
• MPEG
• Unix

Abilities:

• Various computer languages including
  • ISO-C/C99
  • C++
  • Fortran
  • JAVA
  • Pascal
  • perl
  • REXX
  • Unix shells (ksh88/ksh93, bash, bourne shell)
• Nine years experience in Unix administration
• Thirteen years experience in Unix programming
• Project lead for various projects, including:
• OpenSolaris.org ksh93-integration project
  (PSARC-EXT/2006/550, Phase I completed: 08/17/2007)
• Integration of the Xprint print module in Mozilla/Firefox
• X.org's Xprint project
• Release manager for the X.org release X11R6.8.2
• Design and practical implementation of institute-wide HPC-infrastructure + training of university staff
  (see Medinfo 2001: Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics - Page 955)
• Other experience includes:
  • Several software projects in bioinformatics
  • Maintaining the Solaris port of Mozilla
  • Maintaining the PostScript print engine and related layout code of Mozilla
  • Various MPEG1-related work, including parallelization of MPEG video encoders and decoders

Education:

• "Rheinische Akademie: Fachoberschule/Höhere Berufsfachschule für Technik, Fachrichtung Informatik" (Baccalaureate/Senior secondary education certificate;  privilege for higher technical institutes),  degree: "Staatlich geprüfter Informationstechnischer Assistent" (State examination as Assistant for Information Technologies) - 3 years -
• "Fachhochschule Gießen-Friedberg" (Higher technical  institute/University of applied sciences) - since 1999 -;
  intermediate examination for diploma in February 2001

Employment:

Several internships with various companies (like Sema Group) and scientific institutions (like Forschungszentrum Jülich).

Roland Mainz