Specialist for Electronic Publishing (DOCX, DITA, PDF, EBooks, XML Content Management)
Freelancer for Python, Plone and web application development
Vendor independent NoSQL consulting
I studied computer science and electrical engineering at the Universität des Saarlandes and graduated with a master degree. Since 1995 I worked as developer and system analyst in the Electronic Publishing departments of Saarbrücker Zeitung and Haufe-Lexware. In 2001/2002 I worked as software engineer for Zope Corporation in the United States and founded. After returning to Germany I founded my own company ZOPYX Limited in 2004.
I offer consulting and project management for web-based applications as well as implementation work.
As Python, Zope & Plone developer I implemented dozens of add-ons and modules and contributed in various forms to many more third-party packages. I served the community as Zope 2 release manager for almost eight years until 2010.
I am a co-founder of the Deutschsprachige Zope User Group (now know as Python Software Verband e.V.) and served as member of the board for almost ten years. I am also member of the Zope Foundation and Plone Foundation. In 2011 I became a nominated member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF).
Key competences
- Requirements analysis, project management, programming, quality assurance
- Electronic Publishing, web portals, custom Python development, domain-specific applications with complex backend logic and calculations, information retrieval, fulltext search
- High-quality PDF generation using PDFreactor, PrinceXML, Antennahouse (CSS Paged Media)
- DOCX conversion to XML/HTML
- E-Book (EPUB, EPUB3, Kindle, Mobi)
- Python, Zope, Plone, MongoDB, Postgres, XML, PDF generation, SOLR, Java, HTML, Javascript, CSS.
- Docker, eXist-db, BaseX, Marklogic server, ArangoDB, Cassandra
- Languages: German (native), English (fluent reading and writing)
- My competences in detail as mindmap
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Resources
- zopyx.com - website of my own company ZOPYX
- My Single-Source Multi-Channel Publishing solution Produce & Publish
- XML Director - my XML content management suite for single-source multi-channel publishing applications
- print-css.rocks - CSS Paged Media tutorial and tool comparison
- My blog - insights on technical and social issues
- Follow me on Twitter
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Work experience
- worked on the first online edition of a German newspaper (SZ Newsline)
- involved in several multi-lingual projects for the Office for Publications of the European Union (OJS, OJS/L)
- involved in the CMS developed for a publisher
- multiple large industry and company sites
- consulting for universities
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References
- Haufe-Lexware
- TQM Systems
- Enquos.com
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie
- Energieberatung GmbH
- Humboldt Universität Berlin
- and many more
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Contact
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My external profiles
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