Curriculum Vitae

Name:

Marcus von Appen

Nationality:

German

E-mail:

mail@sysfault.org

WWW:

http://www.sysfault.org

Being an experienced software developer specialising in platform compatible back-end and front-end software using C, C# and Python, I am interested in challenging technical positions in software development, where I can bring in my experience about graphics and multimedia programming, I18N/L10N, user interfaces and accessibility technologies.

Languages

English (business fluent), German (mother tongue)

Software development

C, C++, Python, C#, Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, Java, C/AL, Shell scripting
Uniscribe, MSAA, ATK, Gtk+, Win32 Forms,SDL, X11, GDI, Autotools, CVS, Subversion, GCC, Visual Studio.NET, OOA/OOD, XP

Operating Systems

MS Windows (9x, NT, 2000, XP), MS-DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, QNX

Databases

MS Access, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Other

HTML, CSS, XML (Schema, XPath), DocBook, LaTeX

since 07/2009 Juwi MacMillan Group, Hannover/Bockhorn

Software development

• Design and implementation of backend tools and web services for the SDL Tridion CMS using C#, ASP.NET, SOAP techniques and COM Interop.
• Development of general purpose libraries and services for .NET related applications and tasks.
• Design and implementation of middleware and end-point solutions using Java, .NET and SOAP techniques.
• Build and deployment automations for Bamboo, remote services and release-driven development cycles.

12/2004 - 06/2009 DCC Global, Hannover

Software development

• Development of unicode enabled GUI elements and libraries for laying out and rendering text using C#, C and C++.
• Design and implementation of internationalisation and localisation solutions for PCs and embedded systems.
• Development of translation tools using C, C++, C#, Visual Basic.NET, MS SQL Server, MS Access and PostgreSQL.

08/2001 - 09/2004 L+S Computer Products, Hannover

Software development

• Design and implementation of software solutions based on the ERP system Microsoft Business Solutions Navision and C++.
• Development of tools and interfaces for data migration from arbitrary third-party systems into Navision using C++, C# and ODBC.

06/2000 - 07/2001 Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover

Alternative civilian service.

08.1993 - 06.2000 Sankt-Ursula-Schule, Hannover

University-entrance diploma.

09.2001 - 06.2004 Vocational School Burgdorf-Lehrte

Vocational training as IT specialist for application development.

09.2004 - 06.2009 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover

Electrical Engineering, 2 years only
Applied Computer Science

Ocean Empire

An economic simulation game based on Python and Pygame (SDL). The project settles on an own GUI toolkit written in Python, C and Pygame.

Pygame

A multimedia and game framework written on top of the SDL library, implemented in Python and C.

FreeBSD

Active maintainer of various applications, development of tools for the POSIX standard.