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Bernd H.-Graduate Mathematician

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Verbandsgemeinde Diez, Germany

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Experience

Oct 2023 - Present
Frankfurt, Germany

Deutsche Bahn

Position summary
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Migration of the platform to X systems
  • Analysis of changes related to TCP/IP communication
  • Handling error tickets
  • Installation and configuration of Xypro Security 1 attack detection
  • Setting up an SNMP.v3 connection to send alert traps to Netcool (Tivoli)
  • Installation and configuration of the RemoteAnalyst software
  • Migration of master data and timetable data
  • Setting up and monitoring MQ pipelines to external partners
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Bielefeld, Germany

Miele AG

Position summary
Industries
Manufacturing
Business areas
Logistics
Production
  • Development of a streaming process that forwards incoming orders to warehouse management and production
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Cologne, Germany

Bank-Verlag

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Authorization of card transactions, with a focus on high availability and massive parallelism
  • Card transactions without CVM (Cardholder Verification Method)
  • Design and implementation of MasterCard MoneySend transactions
  • Project lead for separating the switching centers and splitting the authorization center into 2 separate applications for different groups of banks
  • Development of financial transactions with authentication based on mobile apps (CDCVM)
  • Design and development of database archiving and cleanup programs
  • Design and development of a limit method for foreign currencies
  • Design and development of reservations for Visa debit cards, Girocard AppPayment and Girocard ApplePay
  • Working with APIs: MasterCard, Visa, Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft
  • Data migration for retail and cooperative banks
  • Coding unit tests and handling error tickets
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Zürich, Switzerland

Six Payment Systems

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Calculation of Swiss stock market indices and STOXX indices, with a focus on high availability and massive parallelism
  • Development of an interface (API) to Reuters Data Feed
  • DevOps: application maintenance and monitoring
  • Data migration for STOXX/Six
Mar 2012 - Aug 2016
Ratingen, Germany

Ingenico Payment Systems

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Scoring and rating card transactions in real time
  • Design, development, installation and configuration of an application for online payments with credit or debit cards
  • Focus on high availability and massive parallelism
  • Transaction data historization (slowly changing dimensions)
  • Interfaces to SironAML (Anti-Money Laundering) and PayPal API
  • Incorporating external rating information into the scoring algorithm
  • SQL statement performance analysis and optimization
  • Development of web services for database requests via SOAP API
  • Reporting on direct debits, matching them with the original transaction and introducing the SEPA CAMT format
  • Migration of DTS packages to SSIS
  • Fraud detection: real-time delivery to the Actimize interface
  • Coding unit tests and specialized Java clients for performance testing
  • Building an MSSQL cube for statistical analysis and fraud tracking
Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
Murrhardt, Germany

Kugler Consulting

Position summary
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business areas
Information Technology
Logistics
  • Maintenance of the warehouse management application
  • Porting the user interface to a web-based GUI
  • Replacing embedded PL/SQL statements with JDBC access
Jul 2009 - Jun 2011
Frankfurt, Germany

Commerzbank AG

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Connecting external securities trading platforms (Global Trading Pool, proprietary trading)
  • Migration of Dresdner Bank applications
  • Development of interface programs between Summit, Murex and the Global Trading Pool
  • Design and implementation of shell scripts for program control
  • Data migration between Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank
Aug 2008 - Mar 2009
Nuremberg, Germany

EDS-Itellium

Position summary
Industries
Retail
Business areas
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
  • Functional enhancements to Karstadt/Quelle's warehouse logistics
  • Introduction of multi-tenancy in warehouse management
Jan 2008 - Jul 2008
Mülheim, Germany

Mannesmann

Position summary
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Redesign of computer connections via TCP/IP sockets
  • Development and implementation of new programs
Apr 2007 - Dec 2007
Bad Vilbel, Germany

FirstData International

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Online authorization of card transactions at ATMs and POS terminals (GANS)
  • Migration of the application to Itanium
Sep 2005 - Mar 2007
Berlin, Germany

T-Systems International

Position summary
Industries
Healthcare
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Installation and configuration of a BEA WebLogic cluster for the Electronic Health Card
  • Installation and configuration of the Real Time Information Director (RTID)
  • Fail-safe configuration via Parallel TCP/IP
  • Coaching and configuration management
  • System administration
Aug 2004 - Aug 2005
Darmstadt, Germany

T-Systems International

Position summary
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Installation and configuration of the middleware infrastructure (CORBA and Tuxedo) for a highly available distributed application
  • Storage and printing of monthly invoices in PDF format
  • Porting and maintenance of application programs for interprocess communication under NonStop OSS
  • System administration
Jan 2004 - Aug 2004
Wiesbaden, Germany

Tengelmann

Position summary
Industries
Retail
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Design, development and implementation of a Pathway server class for online access to an Oracle database
Jun 2003 - Dec 2003
Brussels, Belgium

ING-Bank

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Installation and configuration of MQ-Series on NonStop
  • Porting of a Unix-based middleware application to NonStop
  • Maintenance and further development of processes with MQ interface
Oct 2002 - Jun 2003
Frankfurt, Germany

Dresdner-Bank

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Porting of core banking from z/OS to NonStop
  • Selection of master data from DB2
  • Creation and initial loading of the SQL/MP database
Jul 2001 - Oct 2002
Düsseldorf, Germany

AGES

Position summary
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
  • System analysis of a billing process for truck tolls
  • Application design
Apr 1999 - Jul 2001
Eschborn, Germany

Deutsche Bank

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Porting of a home banking application
  • Development of the connection between the EAI server (Solaris) and the backend system (Tandem) via MQ-Series
  • Development of user identification using SecurityCard
  • Development of a WAP application for stock trading via mobile phone
Oct 1997 - Apr 1999
Darmstadt, Germany

Deutsche Telekom

Position summary
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Migration of an information system to NonStop (Europe’s largest online database, 15 TB)
  • Optimization of database access for OLTP and batch processes
  • Design, development, and implementation of a connection between IBM and NonStop via MQ-Series
Oct 1996 - Sep 1997
Frankfurt, Germany

Dresdener Bank

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Design, development, and implementation of an OLE server for client PCs to access NonStop using CORBA
  • Development of interfaces to access the UDS database on BS2000 computers
Jul 1995 - Oct 1996
Eschborn, Germany

Deutsche Bank

Position summary
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Further development of a home banking application
  • Development and implementation of a connection between IBM and NonStop via MQ-Series
  • Development and implementation of OLTP servers
Oct 1987 - Jun 1995
Frankfurt, Germany

Deutsche Bahn

Position summary
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Finance
Information Technology
Sales
  • Design, development and implementation of the ticket sales and billing system (KURS’90)
Jul 1986 - Sep 1987
Wörth am Rhein, Germany

Daimler Benz

Position summary
Industries
Automotive
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Supply Chain Management
  • Analysis and high-level design of a spare parts warehouse for passenger cars and trucks
  • Statistical analysis of sales data
  • Development of interface programs for communication between host and process computers
Jul 1985 - Jun 1986
Montabaur, Germany

Lagerdata

Position summary
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Supply Chain Management
  • Design, development and implementation of an automated high-bay warehouse
  • Development of interface programs for communication between host and process computers
Jul 1981 - Jun 1985
Berlin, Germany

Freie Universität Berlin

Position summary
Industries
Education
Business areas
Research and Development
  • Development of mathematical algorithms

Industry experience

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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Transportation, Education, Information Technology, Telecommunication, and Healthcare.

Banking and Finance
Transportation
Education
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Healthcare
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Business area experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Finance, Sales, Business Intelligence, and Project Management.

Information Technology
Product Development
Finance
Sales
Business Intelligence
Project Management
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Skills

  • Software Development In C/C++, Java, Cobol

  • Good Knowledge Of All Common Programming Languages

  • Design And Development Of Client/Server Applications

  • Operating Systems (Nonstop-Kernel, Guardian, Oss)

  • Databases (Nonstop Sql, Oracle, Db2)

  • Middleware (Mq-Series, Corba)

  • Disaster/Recovery (Rdf)

  • Project Management

  • Development Of Software Programs For Guardian, Oss, Ibm Hosts And Unix In Cobol, C/C++ And Java

  • Development Of Database Applications (Nonstop-Sql, Db2, Idms, Oracle)

  • Creating Tables, Queries, Reports And Macros

  • System Software Installation And Configuration

  • Problem Analysis, Project Planning And Coordination

  • Configuration Management

  • Software And System Testing

  • Devops

  • Java

  • C/C++

  • C#

  • Cobol

  • Pl/I

  • Tal

  • Screen Cobol

  • Fortran

  • Pascal

  • Html, Dhtml, Dom, Xhtml

  • Xml / Xsl

  • Shell Scripts

  • Perl

  • Tacl

  • Tandem Nonstop Sql

  • Sql/Mx

  • Oracle

  • Db2

  • Informix

  • Access

  • Odbc

  • Jdbc

  • Microsoft Sql Server

  • Transact-Sql

  • Pl/Sql

  • Uds/Utm

  • Kordoba

  • Sybase

  • Nonstop-Kernel (Guardian And Oss)

  • Unix (Solaris, Hp-Ux, Aix, Linux)

  • Mvs

  • Zos

  • Cics

  • Windows Nt / 2000 / Xp / 7 / 10

  • Bs2000

  • Ethernet (Ieee 802.1-3)

  • Tcp/Ip

  • Ftp

  • Nfs

  • X.400

  • Ipx/Spx

  • Netbeui

  • Ibm Token Ring

  • Snax

  • Smtp

  • Mq-Series

  • Ibm Websphere

  • Corba

  • Tectonic

  • Tuxedo

  • .Net

  • Visual Studio

  • Etk (Pc Cross-Compiler For Nonstop)

  • Eclipse

  • Rational Rose

  • Jbuilder

  • Bea Weblogicserver

  • Jboss

  • Dsm/Scm

  • Rdf (Remote Database Facility)

  • Dataloader (Etl Tool For Nonstop)

  • Ms Office

  • Pvcs

  • Vaadin

  • Visualsourcesafe

  • Visual Inspect

  • Summit

  • Murex

  • Cvs

  • Clearquest

  • Xpediter

  • Sironaml

  • Actimize

  • Uc4

  • Xypro

  • Uml

  • Zle

  • Stored Procedures

  • Embedded Sql

  • Multithreading

  • Unit Tests

  • Scrum

  • Kanban

  • Ci/Cd

  • Tdd (Test Driven Development)

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Jul 1981 - Jun 1985

Freie Universität Berlin

Graduate Mathematician · Mathematics · Berlin, Germany

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Experience

Total positions 24
Experience in Banking and Finance 19 y
Avg length 1 y 10 m
Longest experience 7 y 8 m

Global experience

Countries worked in 3 (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium)
Primary country Germany

Expertise

Main industries Banking and Finance, Transportation, Education
Main business areas Information Technology, Product Development, Finance

Qualifications

Highest degree Master
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Bernd is based in Verbandsgemeinde Diez, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

Bernd speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

Bernd has at least 44 years of experience. During this time, Bernd has worked and for 21 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 10 months. Note that Bernd may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

In recent years, Bernd has worked for Deutsche Bahn and Bank-Verlag.

Bernd is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Transportation, and Education. Bernd also has some experience in Information Technology, Telecommunication, and Healthcare.

Bernd is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Finance. Bernd also has some experience in Sales, Business Intelligence, and Project Management.

Bernd has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance and Transportation.

Bernd has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Bernd holds a Master in Mathematics from Freie Universität Berlin.

Bernd is immediately available for suitable projects.

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