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From January 1990 until March 1999 I was an employee of CSC Ploenzke, the german division of the Computer Science Corporation (CSC), based in California, U.S.A. In various roles (project manager, management consultant, software developer, analyst, trainer and others) I was working on the following projects (selection):

1990-1991 Re-engineering of a mainframe-based material logistics system for Ford Motor Company in Cologne, Germany (fine-tuning, development and testing, technical environment: IBM-MVS, JCL, DB2, SQL, IMS-DC, COBOL).
1991-1995 Design and development of a mobile data communications system for the sales division of Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf, Germany. The systems functions were order-recording, daily work reports, statistics, e-mail and others (technical design, development and testing, impelmentation, technical environment: MS-DOS, UNIX, C and Oracle). For this client I also developed various other Client-Server-based systems in the area of sales and marketing.
July - Nov. 1996 Management Consulting: Development of a Network strategy for the Bayer Pharmaceutical Research Divison in Wuppertal, Germany (study about Server and Client operating systems, Helpdesk solutions, Maintenance, Systems management). The solutions suggested in this study were later on successfully implemented by the client.
Nov. 1996 - Mar. 1997 Standard software evaluation for Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf, Germany (business processes analysis, tender documents, evaluation of quotations, implementation)
Feb. - June 1998 Management Consulting: Study about Back-up/Disaster recovery Strategies and High-availability Lotus Notes Cluster Solutions for the Bayer Pharmaceutical Research Divison in Wuppertal, Germany.
May 1998 - Feb. 1999 Project Management: Development of an intranet-based finance reporting tool for Ford Motor Company in Cologne, Germany (Technical environment: IBM-MVS, DB2, SQL, IBM Web Server, Net.Data, HTML, Javascript)
July 1998 - Feb. 1999 Project Management and Management Consulting: Development of 2 Intranet Systems for Bayer Leverkusen in Germany: a virtual Year 2000 Office and and a Management Information System about SAP and Business Process Re-engineering.

From April 1999 until December 2003 I was working as a freelance Information Technology Consultant in Hanoi, Vietnam. Some of my clients/projects were:

April 1999 - Dec. 2003 IT support for the German Development Service Vietnam (DED) (General consultancy, procurement, website design, development and maintenance, LAN design and others)
February 2000 Workshop for the teamleaders of FPT-Soft about IT Project Management
April 2000 - May 2000 Website of the Vietnamese Traing Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists, a project of the GTZ (Information analysis, design, development, implementation)
June 2000 - Sept. 2000 Website of the German Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam (Information analysis, design, development, implementation, training of webmaster)
Sept. 2000 to June 2002 For Grant Thornton Vietnam and Bourne Griffiths Vietnam: Training of Vietnamese accountants - Information systems module of the ACCA-programme, a multi module education leading to the status of a Certified Chartered Accountant
October 2000 Workshop for the teamleaders of FPT-Soft about Customer Relationship Management
Nov. 2000 - Dec. 2000 Development of an application design for a software package (Administration and statistics) for the Vietnamese Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists, a project of the GTZ (Information analysis, specification of requirements, functional and database design, tender documents, evaluation of quotations)
March 2001 Website of the German Academic Exchange Service, Hanoi Office (Information analysis, design, development, implementation)
July 2001 - Jan. 2002 General consultancy and quality assurance on a study about the Vietnamese Software Industry, jointly conducted by SME-Promotion (a project of the GTZ) and the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)
Oct. 2001 - Feb. 2002 Website of the GTZ Office Vietnam (Information analysis, design, development, implementation, training of webmaster)
Nov. 2001 For Bourne Griffiths Vietnam: Project Management Training for the middle management of Vietnam Post & Telecommunication (VNPT)
Aug. - Dec. 2002 Project Management and Quality Assurance for the Vietnamese Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists, a project of the GTZ: Supervision of the Software Development of an Administration and Statistics Package, the software development was done at FPT-Soft.
Aug. - Sept. 2002 Consultancy, Staff Training and Quality Assurance for the Goethe-Institut Hanoi (Website)
Sept. - Nov. 2002 Planning and setup of a VPN (Virtual Priavte Network), connecting the GTZ Office Vietnam with it's headquarter in Germany.
Jan. - May 2003 Re-design of the Website of the German Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam (Information analysis, development, implementation, training of webmaster)
Oct. - Nov. 2003 IT systems analysis and support for the Vietnamese Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists, a project of the GTZ: System review, recommendations for backup and recovery, client pc setup and others.

Since January 2004 I'm back in Germany and working as a freelance Information Technology Consultant:

May 2004 - today For Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf: Web Content Management System Consulting: Project management, process management, co-ordination of customers requests and participating service providers, consulting on system re-design, quality assurance, evaluation of a new CMS solution and support of ongoing projects.
Oct./Nov. 2004 Back in Vietnam for a short-term consultancy at the Vietnamese Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists, a project of the GTZ: Evaluation of IT infrastructure, enhancements of their statistics software package.

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