Christof Paal

Noppiusstrasse 7, 52062 Aachen

+49 - 241 / 27484

self@christof-paal.de

 

OBJECTIVE:

 

SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN DATA MINING

 

PROFILE:

·         Data Mining; Modeling, Development and Maintenance of Relational Client/Server Databases

·         Data Communication, Internet Technologies

·         Performance Modeling

·         Software Specification, Software Development, Customer Support

·         Database Systems: Oracle 8i, MS SQL Sever, MS Access

·         Programming Languages: VBA, SQL, Borland Pascal/Delphi, C/C++, Python, Modula2, Fortran 77

·         Operating Systems: Windows 2000 / NT 4.0 / 98 / 95, DOS, Linux / Unix

 

PROJECTS:

“Kompazz”, C-Com One                                                        08/00-04/01

Mobile commerce service. Development of applications that handle dialogue with customer (automatic response to incoming messages, for example in SMS games), personalized information retrieval (matching algorithms for news and products according to customer profiles), backdoor access to the database for entering data (product and price input to the live database and/or to a replicated offline database) and statistical evaluation of user behavior. Main responsibility for operating, maintaining and optimizing the Kompazz database (Oracle 8i). Project is at present still executed.

 

“Capacity Planning Tool”, Nokia Telecommunications              07/99-01/00

Simulative & mathematical performance analysis for a network management system, calculation of the resulting end-user service level (response times, waiting times, number of simultaneous user/network elements) for arbitrary telecommunications networks and server configurations.

 

“Management Information System”, Rasspe International         05/98-08/98

Database for incoming goods and customer objections, addition to existing system (gsb of Siemens), purchase information system for regional sales directors with ABC analyses, remote supervision for all sections.

 

“EuStone”, several companies in Stone Industry                        1997-1999

Data Warehouse System for Stone Industry containing flexible order and discount system, since no uniform articles exist.  Administration of orders, production, delivery and bills (esp. Italian law); multilingual, international user interface (primary German/Italian); distributed database system (Germany/Italy); remote supervision of Windows NT networks and MS Office applications.

 

CIVIL SERVICE:

SKM Altenheim Heilig-Geist, Aachen                                     09/92-11/93

Occupation in the nursing staff of an old people's home. Continued employment in this organization as temporary worker after the civil service from 1994 to 2000.

EDUCATION:

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochsule, Aachen              1991-2000

Studies of Computer Science, courses in practical and theoretical Computer Science

Principal Topic: Information Systems, (Relational, Object-Oriented) Databases

Practical Topic: Vector computers, parallel algorithms, Operating Systems

Theoretical Topic: Compiler construction, functional programming, semantics of programming languages

Subsidiary: Mathematics (Map theory)

Master thesis: “Modeling Information Systems for Capacity Planning” (in English language)

Degree: Dipl. Inform. (August 2000)

 

 

Kreisgymnasium Heinsberg (school)                                        1982-1991

Final exam: Abitur

Topics: Mathematics, Latin, Educational Theory, Computer Science

 

 

 

 

DATE OF BIRTH:

 

30.05.1972 in Heinsberg