Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Marcus Rickert

German Citizen
Married, two children

Education

February 1st, 1998	Ph.D. ("Dr. rer. nat.") in computer science from the University of COlogne with overall grade "excellent" (1.0 on a scale of 0.7 (best) through 4.0 (worst)); advisors: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem and Prof. Dr. Rainer Schrader; title of the Ph.D. thesis: Traffic Simulation on Distributed Memory-Computers.
1994 - 1997	Four stays at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA; work in the TRANSIMS research group as Graduate Research Assistant (GRA).
May 2nd 1994	Diploma in physics from the university of Cologne with overall grade "excellent" (1.0 on a scale of 0.7 (best) through 4.0 (worst)); advisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem; title of the diploma thesis: Simulation zweispurigen Verkehrsflusses auf der Basis zellulärer Automaten (English: Simulation of two-lane traffic flow based on cellular automata)
1989 - 1994	Undergraduate assistant at the Department of Mathematics, at the Department of Computer Science, and at the Center of Parallel Computing (now: ZAIK) of the Cologne University; tutoring of undergraduate computer science classes.
September 28th 1989	Pre-diploma ("Vordiplom") in physics.
October 1st 1987	Enrollment into physics at the Cologne University.
June 3rd 1987	Final Examination ("Abitur") with overall grade "excellent" (1.3 on a scale of 0.7 (best) through 4.0 (worst)).

Since Januar 2009	Technical Consultant with Capgemini sd&m AG in Bonn, Germany.
July 1999 - December 2008	Senior Software Engineer with sd&m AG (software design & management AG) in Bonn, Germany.
March 1998 - April 1999	Post-Doctoral-Position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Group TSA-SA, TRANSIMS Project).
1991 - 1993	Tutoring in office-software (e.g. MS-Excel, Word-Perfect) for Lenze und Grützner, Bonn.
1990 - 1993	Consultant with the software company Profi.S, Remscheid.
1987, 1988, 1989	Summer job with Bayer AG (now Lanxess), Leverkusen, in the departments mathematics and production line planning

January 95 - December 97	Scholar of the Graduate College Scientific Computing at the Cologne University.
1996	Diploma thesis: Second Prize in the competition of the European association Club KM 92.
1987	Third Prize of the federal state Nordrhein-Westfalen in the competition Jugend Forscht.

Human Languages: native language German, fluency in English (9 years at school and 2.5 years in US), proficiency in French (5 years at school), beginner's knowledge of Russian (3 years at school) and Spanish, Latin (6 years at school, "Großes Latinum").
Programming Languages: very good knowledge of C and C++; good knowledge of (object-oriented) Pascal, perl, SQL, PL/SQL, Python, Java, XML, XSLT; basic knowledge of Fortran and assembler.
Programming Paradigms: object-oriented programming, distributed memory with message passing (PVM and MPI), multi-threading with shared-memory (pthreads), Single Instruction Multiple Data on vector computers, ETL processes in data warehousing, MOLAP.
Operating Systems: Unix derivatives (e.g. Solaris, HP-Unix, Irix, Linux); Windows NT/XP, proficiency in system administration of Linux.
Packages and Tools: ab initio, Clearcase, Cognos, Eclipse, Informatica, IntelliJ, Oracle Forms, Microsoft-Office Applications, Word-Perfect, LaTeX, Postgres, SUN-Teamware, Visual Source Safe, CVS, GNU-tools (e.g. bash, gawk, etc.).

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