Dr. Robert Rodosek

As optimization expert provide guidelines to design, implement and deliver solutions in demanding customer projects. Responsibility for quality assurance, development methodology, education.

Led and managed the Product Development team. Provided the pre- and post-sales technical support. Developed a routing module for IP networks.

Led the Networking R&D team to develop solutions for managing bandwidth in IP/MPLS networks. Established the third largest research group in Europe on solving routing optimization problems in communication networks.

Let the Engineering team to develop the Traffic Flow Analyzer product RiskWise to manage provider's IP networks. Established a subsidiary Parc Technologies GmbH in Munich and led the Professional Services team. The company sold to CISCO SYSTEMS in 2002.

Developed new approaches for solving industrial combinatorial optimization problems. Implemented and delivered solutions to the existing scheduling and planning problems in networking (British Telecom) and transportation (British Airways). Supervisor to PhD students.

Developed, implemented and maintained a job-shop scheduling tool for the European Remote Sensing Satellite ERS-1.

Planning and Scheduling, Constraint Logic Programming, Artificial Intelligence