Raimund Feldmann

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Raimund Feldmann

Dipl.-Inform.

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  • 3018 Bern
  • Switzerland

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Personal information

Professional experience (16 years, 6 months)

  • Employment status
    Employee

Educational background

  • Oct 1990 - Sep 1996
    Universität Kaiserslautern / University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Informatik / Nebenfach Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Diplom Informatiker

    Software Engineering, Wissensmanagement, Prozeßverbesserung / Controlling und Personalführung (Software Engineering, Knowledge Management, Process Improvement / Controlling and Human Resources)

  • Languages
    German, English

About me

RESUME
Raimund L. Feldmann

SUMMARY
Goal oriented, creative, solution driven, reliable and responsible with a strong customer orientation, I am searching for new challenges to optimally apply my qualifications. Consultant and project manager, used to work with international and cross company teams in many business areas. Accomplished in projects focusing on all software engineering aspects, including, process and quality improvement, KM initiatives, definition of process and measurement programs, training and education. Specialist in best practices and lessons learned portals with detailed knowledge in classification and organization of assets and information, as well as tailoring technologies to specific organizational needs. Trained and certified in PRINCE2, as well as in the SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI); profound knowledge in MS Office 2007 including Project and Visio, skilled in SQL and HTML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
02/04–12/10: Consultant, Fraunhofer USA, Inc., Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland (CESE), College Park, Maryland, USA
• Project manager CESE strategic research projects, for National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, and industry cooperation’s with, for instance, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, MITRE cooperation, or the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
• Consultant and trainer in international and interdisciplinary teams.
• Technical Area Lead ‘Experience and Knowledge Management’.
• Coordinated tasks and supervised CESE’s off-site representative in Seattle, WA, as well as international interim students at CESE.
• Consulting team member for the ‘Best Practices Clearinghouse’ (BPCh) knowledge portal (https://bpch.dau.mil) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Lead for engineering and improving the content processes and defining knowledge characterization and classification schema of the knowledge base. As content manager, training and coaching of subject matter experts, identifying sources of potential content, plan and conduct content related interviews in support of content collection, mining and integration of specific experience and knowledge artifacts, as well as outreach and marketing activities. Project manager duties, including monthly effort estimation, and budged control, reporting, and supervision of team members.
• Team member of award winning project team ‘Full Life-Cycle Defect Management Assessment’ for NASA, as part of the ‘Software Assurance Research Program (SARP)’; manager of the tool development team for a prototype to support planning of inspections of requirements documents, code, and test case, as well as analyzing of collected measurement data.
• Project manager and initiator of the strategic research project ‘Focus oriented information on demand’. As part of this project developed and researched ‘REPERTUS’ a flexible search and retrieval architecture which combines database, WWW, shared drive, and desktop search into one tool.
• Lead-author of the RO1 proposal ‘A Repository for the Dissemination of Software Engineering Knowledge to Dispersed Research Teams’ to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with partners from the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), MITRE Corporation, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
• Lecturer for the 2009/2010 & 2010/2011 Software Engineering class (ENPM 611) as well as the 2010 Systems and Software Requirements class (ENPM 612) of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.
• Part of an international team which defined and conducted the state of the practice survey on ‘Software Engineering Techniques in Medical Device Production’.
• Coordinated, organized and hosted CMMI trainings classes at CESE.
• Responsible for Google AdWord marketing campaigns of CESEs training offerings.
• CESE’s representative at the Washington DC Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) chapter meetings.
• Holder of a U.S. Department of Defense CAC card (Common Access Card).

03/97–12/03: Researcher, Software Engineering Research Group (AGSE) headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Rombach, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
• Member of the strategic grant project SFB 501 (Sonderforschungsbereich 501) 'Development of Large Systems with Generic Methods', funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).
• Design and maintenance of the SFB 501 Experience Base as part of the SFB 501 Software Engineering Laboratory’ to centrally document research results and experimental findings; including initial schema definition and experience characterization, as well as project support by creating and integrating specific project databases. Results have been published and presented in more than 15 technical papers and international conferences.
• Conducted several GQM-based measurement programs as a quality manager for evaluation and improvement of newly developed methods and techniques.
• Participated in several technology transfer projects at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (FhG IESE). Among others, responsible for the definition of the schema for characterizing and representing the knowledge base entries of the “Software-Engineering-Wissensdatenbank” of the portal (http://www.software-kompetenz.de), funded by the Department of Education and Research (bmb+f) of the German Federal Government, to offer up-to-date SE knowledge to Germanys SMEs.

11/96–02/97: Employee, Kiefer & Veittinger GmbH, Consulting EDV, Mannheim, Germany.
• Acting group leader of a distributed team of database component developers in Bangalore, India and Mannheim, Germany.

04/95–09/96: Employee (part time), Software Technology Transfer Initiative Kaiserslautern (STTI-KL), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
• Definition of a GQM-based measurement program (including the development of an effort and error model) for baselining and quality improvement purposes; cooperation between STTI-KL and Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany.

EDUCATION
• 09/96: M.S. in Computer Science with focus on software engineering and a minor in controlling & human resources. University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Computer Science Department. Title of master thesis: View-Support for GQM Plans.
• 03/93: B.S. in Computer Science with minor in business administration. University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Computer Science Department.
• 05/89: Abitur (compares to high school degree). Staatliches Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied, Germany.

LANGUAGES
• German: native speaker
• English: fluent in conversation and writing

CERTIFICATES
• PRINCE2, foundation training, APM Group / Serview GmbH, January 2011.
• Information Assurance & Awareness, version 7.0, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), March 2009.
• Introduction to CMMI, version 1.2, Software Engineering Institute (SEI), June 2007.
• Protection of Human Subjects (IRB certificate), Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), April 2008.

SKILLS
• Consulting for software process- and quality improvement
• Definition and documentation of processes
• Introduction and analysis of software measurement programs
• Classification and organization of knowledge
• Documentation and dissemination of experiences (Lessons Learned / Best Practices)
• Planning and managing of projects
• Support and preparation of CMMI assessments
• Conducting specific trainings and education programs for members of the workforce

AWARDS
2007 NASA SARP Persistence Award as a member of the FC-MD project team “Full Lifecycle Defect Management Assessment” for state of the art software inspections and readings

AFFILIATIONS
• Member of IEEE Computer Society
• Member Washington DC KM chapter of the Knowledge Management Institute (KMI)
• Since 2009, program committee member of the 'Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science' (ONTOSE) workshop series
• Since 2008, North America publicity co-chair and program committee member of the 'International Conference on Product Focused Development and Process Improvement’ (PROFES) conference series
• Since 2001, steering committee member of the international Learning Software Organizations (LSO) workshop series; program chair of LSO’01 (Kaiserslautern, Germany) and LSO2008 (Rome, Italy)

INVITED TALKS
• Semantic Search and Evaluation Support; FDA, White Oak Campus, 15 July 2010
• Providing Relevant Knowledge Assets Based on Learner Needs; 2010 Innovations in eLearning Symposium, George Mason University 03 June 2010
• “Beg, Borrow, Steal” Making use of free KM portals in the WWW; KM Café, meeting of the Washington DC chapter of the Knowledge Management Institute (KMI), 16 December 2009


PUBLICATIONS
• F. Shull, R.L. Feldmann, C. Seaman, M. Regardie, S. Godfrey: Fully employing software inspections data. Journal of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering – A NASA Journal, volume 6 May 2010, Springer-Verlag London Limited
• M. Lindvall, R. L. Feldmann, G. Karabatis, Z. Chen, and V.P. Janeja: Searching for Relevant Software Change Artifacts using Semantic Networks. Proc. 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., March 8-12, 2009, pages 496-500, ACM Press
• F. Shull, M.A. Shaw, R.L. Feldmann: Making Lessons Learned Come Alive and be Practical. Proc. 11th Annual Systems Engineering Conference (NDIA), San Diego, CA 2008
• J. Rech, R.L. Feldmann, E. Ras, A. Jedlitschka, B. Decker: Knowledge Patterns and Knowledge Refactorings for Increasing the Quality of Knowledge. In: Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory and Transfer Behavior: Global Approaches and Advancements. IGI, Hershey, PA, November 2008, chapter XVII, page 281ff
• F. Shull, R.L. Feldmann: Building Theories from Multiple Evidence Sources. In: Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, London, 2008, pages 337–364
• M.A. Shaw, F. Shull, R.L. Feldmann: U.S. Department of Defense Approach to Best Practices: Leveraging Others’ Experiences and the Evidence to Support It. Proc. Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC), June 18–21, 2007
• R.L. Feldmann, F. Shull, C. Denger, M. Höst, C. Lindholm: A Survey of Software Engineering Techniques in Medical Device Development. Proc. High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP), Cambridge, MA, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2007, pages 46–54
• V.R. Basili, F. Bomarius, R.L. Feldmann: Get Your Experience Factory Ready for the Next Decade—Ten Years After “How to Build and Run One”—. Tutorial 29th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2007
• R.L. Feldmann, F. Shull, M.A. Shaw: Decision Support for Best Practices: Lessons Learned in Bridging the Gap between Research and Applied Practice. Defense Acquisition Review Journal, 14(1):234–247, Defense Acquisition University Press, 2007
• R.L. Feldmann, J. Rech, A.J. Wenzler: Experience retrieval in LSOs: Do you always find what you are looking for? Proc. 8th Int. Workshop on Learning Software Organizations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 16 2006
• F. Shull, R.L. Feldmann, M.A. Shaw: Building Decision Support in an Imperfect World. Proc. 5th ACM-IEEE Int. Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE’06), vol II, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 21-22, 2006
• R.L. Feldmann, R. Carbon: Experience Base Schema Building Blocks of the PLEASERS Library. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) 9(7):659–669, 2003
• R.L. Feldmann, K.-D. Althoff: On the Status of Learning Software Organizations in the Year 2001. Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2001), Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2176, Springer Verlag, September 2001, pages 2–6
• W. Kobitzsch, D. Rombach, R.L. Feldmann: Outsourcing in India. IEEE Software, 8(2):78–86, 2001
 

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