Nicolas Stern

Software developer
2870 Pharr Court South
Atlanta GA 30305
USA
stern_nicolas@hotmail.com

Professional objective

Software Developer: Database, Internet, E-Commerce, E-Business, Data Warehouse in Atlanta Metro Area.

Summary

Software Developer, fluent in French, German and English. Experience wit IT solutions development for scientific research, E-Commerce, international business, sales and marketing, and in biochemistry.

Professional experience

Software Developer, Project Leader

Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland (10/99 - 06/02)

The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research center for natural sciences and technology. In national and international collaboration with universities, other research institutes and industry, PSI is active in solid state physics, materials sciences, elementary particle physics, life sciences, nuclear and non-nuclear energy research, and energy-related ecology.

Leader of project team on scientific, technical and business applications
Coordination with external suppliers and other partners
Realization of scientific, technical and business applications from project acquisition to implementation, including programming
Main projects

Particles accelerator control system and data acquisition system
Safety database application
Database for tracking of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants

Migration of legacy business applications on mainframe to SAP
Consulting for database technology on scientific and business projects
SKILL: Combining business experience with my scientific education gave me the ability to understand requirements from scientists, engineers or business partners, enabling me to play a central role in projects.

Junior Software Developer, Software Developer, Junior Project leader

ABB Business Services Ltd., Baden, Switzerland (10/97 - 9/99)

ABB is one of the largest industrial, energy and automation companies in the world, with 150,000 employees in 100 countries. ABB serves manufacturing, process and consumer industries, utilities, and the oil and gas sector. The 370 employees of ABB Business Services Ltd. provide services in Business Consulting, Business Applications and IT Service Center for ABB companies worldwide.

Realization of business applications, from project acquisition to implementation, including programming:

Realization of Web applications for Sales, Marketing, Purchasing and Technical Support
Building of interfaces between the different lead ERP tools (SAP, PDM Software) on data integration projects

Leading of the team of external programmers - up to 3 persons, during implementation
Troubleshooting of legacy applications
SKILL: Ability to offer language skills and intercultural experiences to this international environment.

PC Supporter

Biocenter of the University of Basle, Switzerland (50%, 02/95 - 04/97)

Swiss National Science Foundation, Information and Communication Center of the Biotechnology Priority Program, Basle, Switzerland (20%, 03/95 - 04/96)

I worked at these two part time positions in parallel to my postgraduate education in computer engineering at the Basle School of engineering.

Call center, system administration, network administration, webmaster
Development of business and scientific applications on MS-Access and FileMaker

Sales engineer, Jr. Product Manager

Macherey-Nagel AG, Oensingen, Switzerland (11/92 - 12/94)

Macherey-Nagel is a German high-tech company in the field of high precision laboratory supplies for analytical chemistry, with own R&D.

Sales engineer for one product line in the German speaking part of Switzerland
Product manager for specialty products in the entire country
Key account management: universities and research centers

Education

Basle School of Engineering

Postgraduate engineering degree, computer engineering (1997)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Master in Science, Biochemistry (1993)

College Saint-Michel

Baccalaureate Type A (1987)

Language skills

French (fluent)
German (fluent)
English (fluent)

Technical skills

Databases

SQL
PL/SQL
Oracle Developer /2000 and Developer /2000 server release 1.6 - 9i
Oracle Designer /2000 release 1.3 - 6i
Oracle JDeveloper release 3.2.3 - 9i
JDBC
Visual Basic
Oracle Enterprise release 7.3 - 9i
Microsoft Access

Web servers

Oracle Web Application Server release 2.1 - 9i
Apache, Tomcat
BEA WebLogic
Netscape Enterprise

Internet

HTML
Java, Java Server Page
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
XML
Modelling with UML

Other programming languages

Unix scripting
C, C++
MatLab
RSI IDL

Operating systems

Unix - Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-Unix
VMS
MS-Windows NT, Windows 2000

Certified software skills

Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 1.1
Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 1.2
Oracle Certified Professional (Application Developer Rel. 2)