Phone: +49 641 3992797
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/SUS standards
• Desktop environments
• Artificial intelligence
• MPEG
• Unix
• Solaris/UNIX operating system development

Abilities:

• Various computer languages including
  • ISO C/C11
  • ISO C++/C++11
  • Fortran
  • JAVA
  • JavaScript
  • Pascal
  • perl
  • REXX
  • Unix shells (ksh88/ksh93, bash, original bourne shell (bsh))
  • Various POSIX/SUS utilities, including awk, join, grep, sed, sh, tr, etc.
• POSIX/SUS application programming, including threads, multibyte character support, localisation(=l10n), internationalisation(=i18n), realtime programming, regular expressions in various flavours etc.
• Unix system programming, including inner workings of libc and system interfaces
• Unix adminstration
• Creation/maintenance of documentation written in DocBook/XML
• Nine years experience in Unix administration
• Thirteen years experience in Unix programming
• Project lead for various projects, including:
• OpenSolaris.org ksh93-integration project
  (PSARC-EXT/2006/550, PSARC-EXT/2006/587, PSARC-EXT/2008/094, Phase II completed: 12/27/2008)
  See attachment I.
• Integration of the Xprint print module in Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey
• X.org's Xprint project
• Release manager for the X.org release X11R6.8.2
• Design and practical implementation of institute-wide HPC-infrastructure + training of university staff
  (see Medinfo 2001: Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics - Page 955)
• Other experience includes:
  • Several software projects in bioinformatics
  • Maintaining the Solaris port of Mozilla/FireFox/SeaMonkey
  • Maintaining the PostScript print engine, related layout code and a complex+dynamic print dialog written in XUL+JavaScipt of Mozilla/FireFox/SeaMonkey
  • Various MPEG1-related work, including parallelization of MPEG video encoders and decoders

Education:

• "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 -
• "Fachhochschule Gießen-Friedberg" (Higher technical  institute/University of applied sciences) - since 1999 -;
  intermediate examination for diploma in February 2001

Employment:

• Eckelmann AG - Senior Software Engineer Embedded systems
  February 2018 - present
   
• Consultant - Identity Management+LDAP+Kerberos 5
  October 2015 - January 2018
   
• RedHat - IPA/Identity Management+Kerberos 5
  August 2014 - September 2015
   
• Lead Researcher at MAINZ & Partner - IT Consultants
  January 2011 - July 2014 (3 years 7 months)
   
• Project lead of the ksh93-integration, POSIX utility modernization and shell projects at OpenSolaris.org
  February 2006 - December 2011 (5 years 11 months)
   
• Engineer at Sun Microsystems
  2008 - 2008 (less than a year, then moved to SUN's opensolaris.org project)
   
• X11R6.8.2 release manager at X.org
  September 2004 - May 2005 (9 months)
   
• Several internships with various companies (like Sema Group) and scientific institutions (like Forschungszentrum Jülich).

Roland Mainz