Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Name	Jochen Michael Wolfgang Kirstätter
Alias	JoKi

Passport photograph

Date of birth	22th May 1976
Location of birth	Ludwigshafen (Rhein), Germany
Family status	Married
Parents	Wolfgang Wilhelm Kirstätter Dagmar Ruth Ursula Waltraut Kirstätter, nee Obser

Career summary

Experience in project and change request management, coordinating time schedules and task management for project team members. Good communication skills with customers and understanding of their business workflows.

Extensive experience in software development and testing in Microsoft Visual FoxPro and knowledge in C#, including both GUI-based and web-based development with different remote database backends like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Skills

Excellent skills in designing and implementing database-driven applications.
Being self-organized and goal-oriented to focus and excel given deadlines.
Good skills in coordinating and parallizing project tasks.
Good communication skills with customers and understanding of their business workflows.
Being a team player with good leading capabilities.

Work experience

2009 - today

IOS Indian Ocean Software Ltd., Vandermeersch, Mauritius
Software Architect/Engineer/Developer

Task summary	Supervising the software development and database department. Designing and implementing of customer-specific requirements.

Technology summary	Windows (NT 4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008, MySQL 4.x and higher, PostgreSQL Microsoft Visual FoxPro (6.0 till 9.0), C# with Visual Studio (2005 till 2010)

03.2007 - 2009

ProLib Ltd., Cybercity, Mauritius
Project Supervisor

Task summary	Supervising several project teams and coordinating communication and tasks with various Project Leads back in Germany. Responsible for design and implementation of specified requirements in given time. Analyzing local market for software development projects in banking and insurance sectors.

Technology summary	Windows (NT 4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008, MySQL 4.x and higher, Oracle 9.x, PostgreSQL Microsoft Visual FoxPro (6.0 till 9.0), C# with Visual Studio (2002 till 2008)

06.2002 - 02.2007 (additionally)

ProLib Software GmbH, Seebruck, Germany
Senior Software Developer

Task summary	Developing and Testing of Active FoxPro Pages 3.0 in combination with different web servers. Writing of product documentation and technical specifications. Being part-time technical supporter for customers using Active FoxPro Pages world-wide. Working as software developer in several other projects of ProLib Software GmbH.

Technology summary	Windows (NT 4, 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista) Active FoxPro Pages on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Apache HTTPd Webserver and other ISAPI capable Web servers. Microsoft Visual FoxPro (7.0 till 9.0), C#, XML, DocBook, WISE 9

03.1999 - 12.2006

Kheops GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany (merged with ProLib Software GmbH in 2006)
Senior Software Developer

Task summary	Starting as Junior Software Developer and assisting in various projects on Visual FoxPro and Sybase SQL. Upgrading to Software Developer in 2001 while start working on a Medical & Surgical Management application running on Visual FoxPro 6.0 and SQL Server 2000. In 2003 working as Chief Software Developer on a distributed Tax Office Management application (VFP 8.0 and SQL Server 2000). Starting as Senior Software Developer in 2004 on a distributed Craftsman Office Management application in replication scenario (VFP 9.0 and SQL Server 2000/2005). Upgraded in September 2005 as Project Lead managing a team of five to eight developers, and dealing with customer requirements and change requests. All projects lasted more than one year with varying budgets between 150.000,- Euro and 800.000,- Euro.

Technology summary	Windows (NT 4, 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista) and Linux Sybase SQL Anywhere, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005, MySQL 3.x and higher, PostgreSQL Microsoft Visual FoxPro (6.0 till 9.0), C# with Visual Studio (2002 till 2005) Knowledge in 'Mere Mortals VFP' framework and 'The Lib' and 'Acodey' component libraries.

04.1998 - today (additionally)

MiDeK - Internet Publishing, Rockenhausen-Marienthal, Germany
CEO

Task summary	Development of a variety of different Web solutions for several customers. Mainly, dynamic data-driven Web sites based on script languages like Perl and PHP with MySQL database backend. Experience in design and implementation of scalable, multilanguage-enabled applications. Consulting and installation services on local area networks with Linux mail servers, gateways and firewalls as well as Windows Servers for small offices (approx. 5-10 clients)

Technology summary	Linux (Debian and SuSE) and Windows (NT 4, 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista) PHP (3.x till 5.x), some Perl knowledge, MySQL and PostgreSQL HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, WAI 508 and other accessibility rules

Certificates

06.2004	Microsoft Certified Professional 70-155 Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft® Visual FoxPro® 6.0

06.2004	Microsoft Certified Professional 70-156 Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft® Visual FoxPro® 6.0

Community experience

03.2008	Founder of Mauritius Software Developer User Group (MSDUG) Initiated a local user group for software developers and engineers. Monthly meetings with varying topics on object-oriented programming and database development. Mainly focused on Microsoft Windows platform but not restricted. See blog articles in category MSDUG.

06.2007	Beta Tester for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008

04.2007	Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Visual Developer for Visual FoxPro

12.2006	Microsoft 'Ask The Expert' for Windows Vista Introduction roadshow on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007

11.2006	Speaker at German Developers Conference Visual FoxPro Sessions on NET4COM, Writing an CLR Host and Active FoxPro Pages

04.2006	Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Visual Developer for Visual FoxPro

03.2006	Beta Tester for Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007

02.2006	Microsoft 'Ask The Expert' for SQL Server 2000/2005 Software Launch on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006

11.2005	Speaker at German Developers Conference Visual FoxPro Sessions on Subversion, Regular Expressions, Visual FoxPro running on Linux w/ wine, and essential development tools

11.2004	Speaker at German Developers Conference Visual FoxPro Multiple sessions on Active FoxPro Pages, and Visual FoxPro running on Linux w/ wine

11.2003	Speaker at German Developers Conference Visual FoxPro Sessions on Visual FoxPro running on Linux w/ wine

11.2002	Speaker at German Developers Conference Visual FoxPro Sessions on Active FoxPro Pages

Since 11.2004	Member of International .NET Association (INETA) Membership is based on user group activity on Microsoft .NET technology, Microsoft SQL Server and Visual FoxPro.

03.2004 - 01.2007	Regional director of German FoxPro User Group (dFPUG) at Speyer Monthly meetings with sessions and discussions on Microsoft Visual FoxPro, SQL Server and other programming languages. Sessions on several topics like Subversion, component development, unit testing, etc.

Since 10.2003	Member of Microsoft CLIP

Educational experience

09.1995 - 04.1999	Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Chemistry science studies

08.1992 - 05.1995	Gymnasium Weierhof, Weierhof, Germany Foreign language(s) English Grammar school

08.1989 - 05.1992	Realschule, Rockenhausen, Germany Foreign language(s) English, French and Spanish Secondary modern school

08.1986 - 07.1989	Anne-Frank-Realschule, Ludwigshafen (Rhein), Germany Foreign language(s) English and French Secondary modern school

07.1982 - 07.1986	Ernst-Reuter-Schule, Ludwigshafen (Rhein), Germany Elementary school

Avocational experience

08.1995 - 01.2007	Auxiliary fire brigade, Rockenhausen, Germany Department of Disaster Control Courses on group leader, Chemistry and Health Physics

02.1992 - 05.1998	Auxiliary fire brigade, Marienthal, Germany Courses on voice radio, self-contained breathing/respiratory protection and squad leader