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Written by Andreas Schiffler
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
My latest Curriculum Vitae summary (Last update: Oct 2007).
Andreas Schiffler, born and raised in Germany attained his High-School diploma concurrently with a diploma as Chem-Tech in 1987 from the OSO, a private school near Frankfurt, Germany. He then moved to Canada in 1989 where he received his Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada in 1994. He continued his education in the area of Space Physics to complete a Masters of Arts & Science after only two years at the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS) in 1996, making some important contributions to the ISAS SuperDARN HF-radar software and upper-atmospheric plasma research. His expertise with Windows and Linux programming, image processing and 3D graphics combined with a well founded background in electronics and the sciences lead to a position with the internationally acclaimed media artists Prof. Jill Scott and later the Institute of Visual Media under Dr. Jeffrey Shaw at the ZKM media-art institute in Karlsruhe, Germany. During this productive time, he designed, built and participated in several permanent media installations, worked on a project for the Expo2000 exhibition and concluded his stay with several personal exhibits of media-art he made during his 6 month programmer-in-residence stipend with the ZKM. After a few teaching engagements as lecturer on internet-communications and encryption with several German universities, he returned to Canada in 2000 to join the startup company Tek21 Inc, Buffalo, NY as Senior Software Engineer. He was instrumental in the design and operation of a clustered webserver and database backend to the DeskPlayer Internet marketing product which generated $1M in sales with clients like Anhaeuser Busch and MGM. He left the company in 2001 to partner with several former DeskPlayer employees, to form a new company - Appwares Development Group. As partner and VP of Appwares, he emerged as the lead developer of the successful Integrated Media Portal (IMP) engine, the MyApp web-based content management engine for IMPs and other several spinoff products for direct-to-desktop communication with clients such as Sony Music Canada, Deloitte Consulting and Common Health. He joined a new venture in 2004 to create an RSS publishing system, and designed and completed the development of the RSS|vp ASP service by the middle of 2005 as partner of RSSvp LLC, DelRay Beach, FL. Mr. Schiffler is currently employed at IC-Agency (Canada) as Senior Software Architect, designing next-generation marketing webservices including the Holistis website personalization service. His allround programming talent is also apparent in the many other projects and software programs he has been involved in or created, including: the ProjectZ media player, several OpenSource libraries for the SDL cross-platform media framework, the CloneIt harddisk replication system, the StatementStation mobile video recording studio of the Hyperwerk, Basel, Switzerland and the eSkin project of the HGKZ/KTI institutes, Zuerich, Switzerland. He has also made several publications in scientific journals and software magazines over the years. Mr. Schiffler is currently pursuing a PhD in Computing from the University of Plymouth in the second year through the HdkZ, Zuerich Z_Node program on the topic of "Physics in Computergames".
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 October 2007 )
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