Guido Oswald
Diplom Ingenieur (FH), MBA
Sr. Solution Architect(The company name is only visible to registered members)
- 8304 Wallisellen
- Switzerland
Personal information
- Haves
- Forward thinker and visionary (Big Data, Big Analytics, Information Management, BI, CRM 2.0, SOA, Cloud Computing) Pre-Sales Engineer/Architect with technical focus and strong industry knowledge, Leading Proof of Concept projects, designing proposed solutions/architectures, doing workshops with customers and delivering internal and external trainings. Always working with the latest technology, specialized in making customer demos look good and convincing/explaining complex architectures, products and technologies. Focus on SOA and CRM (some OSS) at Telecommunication providers (mostly Tier 0 and 1), Financial Services and large Enterprises. Technological background: Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), J2EE (BEA Weblogic Server), EJB, Web Services, XML, HTML, MVC v2, JMS, Portal (BEA Weblogic Portal), CRM Technologies/Architectures, Relational Databases (MSSQL, Oracle), Windows OS, Java, Java Script, C, C++, Visual Basic, Clear Basic, Assembler
- Interests
- Diving, Biking, Hiking, Swimming, Snowboarding
Professional experience (16 years, 8 months)
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Jul 2011
- present
(11 months)
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(Only visible for registered members)
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Jul 2011
- present
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Sep 2010
- Jun 2011
(10 months)
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NEXThink, http://www.NEXThink.com
Industry: Information Technology & Services
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Sep 2010
- Jun 2011
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Sep 2008
- Aug 2010
(2 years)
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Progress Software, http://www.Progress.com
Industry: Information Technology & Services
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Sep 2008
- Aug 2010
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Mar 2002
- Aug 2008
(6 years, 6 months)
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Senior PreSales Engineer, Advanced Applications
Industry: Information Technology & Services, CRM, IT, Consulting, Telecommunications Provider, HiTec-Manufacturing, Finance
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Mar 2002
- Aug 2008
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Jul 2000
- Mar 2002
(1 year, 9 months)
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Clarify, http://www.clarify.com
Industry: Computer Software
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Jul 2000
- Mar 2002
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Oct 1998
- Jun 2000
(1 year, 9 months)
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Utimaco Safeware AG, http://www.utimaco.de
Industry: Computer Software
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Oct 1998
- Jun 2000
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Sep 1989
- Aug 1992
(3 years)
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Industry: Information Technology & Services
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Sep 1989
- Aug 1992
- Employment status
- Employee
Educational background
- Aug 2007 - Aug 2007
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Pfeiffer University, Charlotte (USA)
Modules on International Economics and Managerial Negoations, Summer School
- Jul 2007 - Jul 2007
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University of Glamorgan, Pontybridd (GB)
Master Module on International Management, Summer School
International Management
- Sep 2006 - Sep 2009
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FOM - University of Applied Science for Management and Economics
Master of Business Administration, MBA, Master (Hons)
Module on International Management at University of Glamorgan, Pontybridd (GB); Modules on International Economics and Managerial Negoations at Pfeiffer University, Charlotte (USA)
- Sep 1993 - Sep 1998
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University of Applied Science, Bingen
Technische Informatik - Computer Science, Diplom Ingenieur
- Languages
- German, English
About me
since Jul 2011 Sr. Solution Architect at SAS
2010 to 2011 Sr. PreSales DACH at NEXThink S.A.
2008 to 2010 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
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