Roland Mainz
Bahnhofsstraße 5
35390 Gießen
Germany
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:
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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:
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"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 -
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"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).
Gießen, August 2007
Roland Mainz