Guido Oswald   Group moderator

Career Development
2008 to present Sr. Solution Engineer at Progress Software
2001 to 2008 SENIOR PRESALES ENGINEER, ADVANCED APPLICATIONS, AMDOCS/CLARIFY-CRM, Munich
Working out solution scenarios together with customers, doing workshops and technical training for customers from the Telecommunications and Hi-Tech / Manufacturing market.
Leading PoC (Proof of Concept) for customer specific prototypes.
Developing Demo-Environments for the Pre-Sales community.
Internal technical and functional training for upcoming Clarify product releases.
2000 - 2001 TECHNICAL CONSULTANT, PRESALES, CLARIFY SOFTWARE GMBH, Munich
Preparing and presenting the Clarify Products to potential customers.
Doing RFI and RFP papers.
Preparing custom demos shown to various customers.
1999 – 2000 TECHNICAL ARCHITECT, UTIMACO SAFEWARE AG, Munich
Architectural responsibility for the Safeguard Advanced Security (SGAS) Product. Implementing a new configuration tool based on Microsoft’s Management Console, enhancing the Smartcard logon functionality to support new cards.
1998 – 1999 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, UTIMACO SAFEWARE AG, Munich
Implemented Logon functionality for Windows NT / 2000 (MS-GINA) using Smart Cards and Finger-Print scanner.

Education
September 2009 Master of Business Administration (MBA) at FOM / Munich
August 2006 TOEIC Test (975 out of 990 Punkten)
August 2006 Contribution Selling Workshop
October 2001 Language training (Malta - English)
October 1998 DIPLOMINGENIEUR (FH) TECHN. INFORMATIK
(GRADUATE ENGINEER IN INFORMATICS)
University of applied sciences, Bingen
Diploma Thesis about device driver development for Windows NT / 2000.
Developed and documented the driver for a PCI FastCrypt card at CE Infosys.
July 1993 FACHABITUR (A-LEVEL)
Fachoberschule Bingen
May 1992 AUSBILDUNG ZUM KOMMUNIKATIONS-
ELEKTRONIKER / INFORMATIONSTECHNIK
(VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ELECTRONIC ENGINEER)
IBM, Mainz
July 1989 REALSCHULE, Bingen
 
Skills
LANGUAGES
German: native speaker
English: fluent (spoken and written - 975 out of 990 points at TOEIC)
TECHNOLOGIES
SOA, BSS / OSS, J2EE (BEA Weblogic Server), EJB, Web Services, XML, HTML, MVC v2, JMS, Portal (BEA Weblogic Portal), CRM Technologies/Architectures, Relational Databases (MSSQL, Oracle)
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Java, Java Script, C, C++, Visual Basic, Clear Basic, Assembler.
 
Personal Interests
Amateur Radio, Swimming, Biking, Hiking