| Nationality: Swiss
Date of birth: August 27, 1972 |
astrebel@gmx.net |
| Experience | |
|---|---|
| Nov 2005+ | Microsoft, Zurich (CH)
Program Manager in the Unified Communications Group |
| Mar 2005 - Oct 2005 | media-streams.com, Zurich (CH)
Senior software engineer Acquired by Microsoft in October 2005. |
| Sept 2004 - Feb 2005 | Cisco Systems, Parsippany (NJ, USA)
Senior software engineer |
| 2001 - 2004 | dynamicsoft, Parsippany (NJ, USA)
Senior software engineer Acquired by Cisco System in September 2004. |
| 2000 | IBM
Zurich Research Lab, Zurich (Computer science dept. - Telecommunications group)
Integration of a publish/subscribe interprocess communicatin mechanism into a distributed platform for creation, deployment and execution of advanced telecommunication services. Design and implementatino of a H.323 RAS server for load balancing. |
| 1999 | Lucent
Technologies, Nice (France) (8 months, professional
thesis) Integration of voice/video over IP in Lucent's unified messaging platform: participate in the design and verification process. Implementation of the H.323 stack in the prototype. |
| 1997/98 | W-SOFT, 5622
Waltenschwil (25 weeks) Consulting and realization of Internet projects: design and implementation of Web sites, installation of mail/Internet gateways. |
| 1996/97 | W-SOFT, 5622
Waltenschwil (21 weeks) Software development with Delphi 2.0: Address manager, DB applications. Installation of PCs, end user training, support (Windows 3.11/95, Office) |
| Education | |
| 1998/99 | Eurecom
Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France Curriculum in communication systems, Majoring in Multimedia Communications |
| 1996-98 | Communications
Systems Division (SSC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) |
| 1996 | Undergraduate in Electrical Engineering, EPFL |
| 1992 | Matura type C (scientific high school diploma), equivalent
to ‘A’ level, Kantonsschule Wohlen/AG |
| Languages | |
| German | Mother tongue |
| English | Written and spoken, 2 years in USA |
| French | Written and spoken, 4 years of study at Lausanne, 1.5 years in France |
| Italian | Basic knowledge |
| Japanese | Beginner |
| Computer skills | |
| Operating systems | UNIX (Linux, SunOS), Windows XP/2000, OS/2 |
| Programming Languages | C++ (VC++, Visual Age C++, GNU C++), Java, C#, Delphi, C, Pascal, JavaScript, SQL, Perl |
| Networking | SIP, H.323, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, Ethernet |
| Software packages | MatLab, Rational Rose, Informix Illustra, IDEAS Master CAD, MS Office, Corel Draw |
| University projects | |
| 1998 | Multimedia Communications Division, Eurecom: MS TAPI voice server program for online audio newsgroup application. |
| 1998 | Corporate Network Division, Eurecom: Specification and C implementation of a Transport Protocol over IP. |
| 1997/98 | Signal Processing
Lab (LTS), EPFL MPEG4 encoder in Java: Design and implementation of the structure; implementation of basic functions. |
| 1997 | Audio Visual
Communication Lab (LCAV), EPFL Collaborative research and teaching environment in Java: development of the basic elements for a distributed multi-user application (graphical user interface and transport/control protocol). |
| 1996/97 | Audio Visual Communication Lab (LCAV), EPFL Web based application for collaborative research: creation of an interface between the Web and a database to handle multiple types of data. |
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