Resume

of Bernhard Tschirren

 

Personal
Name .....................
Bernhard Tschirren
Address ..................
10707 111th Ct NE Apt P101
Kirkland, WA, 98033
USA
Telephone ...............
+1 425 269 3112
E-Mail .....................
bernie@btschirren.net
Website .................
http://www.btschirren.net/
Date of Birth ...........
26th July 1979
Citizenship ..............
Australian, Swiss
Fluent Languages .....
English, German

 

Employment
2005 - Present ........
Company .........
Microsoft Corp.
Position ...........
Senior Software Development Engineer
Description ......
See Microsoft section below
2001 - 2005 ............
Company .........
PalmTeq Limited (Australia)
(renamed from Uniwell Systems)
Position ...........
Systems Programmer for Research Dept.
Description ......
See PalmTeq section below
1998 - 2001 ............
Company .........
Uniwell Systems (Australia)
Position ...........
Part Time Programmer
1994 - 1998 ............
Company .........
Agape Group of Companies
Position ...........
Part Time Programmer
1994 - 1994 ............
Company .........
Agape Group of Companies
Position ...........
Work Experience

 

OpenSource
1998 - 1999 ............
Project ............
AMesa - Allegro Driver for Mesa
Website ..........
www.mesa3d.org, allegrogl.sourceforge.net
Description ......
This driver became an official part of Mesa 3.0. It has now been incorporated into the AllegroGL project.
1997 - 1998 ............
Project ............
GNU Pascal Compiler
Website ..........
www.gnu-pascal.de
Description ......
Basic testing and bug reporting.

 

Education
2000 - 2001 ............
Completed First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) at Curtin University of Technology (School of Computing).
1997 - 2000 ............
Completed Degree of Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) at Curtin University of Technology (School of Computing).
1992 - 1997 ............
Completed Secondary Education (Year 12) at
Thornlie Senior High School.

 

Microsoft
Web-Site ...............
http://www.microsoft.com/
Accomplishments ....
o Worked entire Visual Studio 2010 product cycle on suite of architecture tools, including UML designers and code visualization.
o Technical lead on the Visual Studio 2010 Layer Designer, a tool to help validate architectural compliance at build time.
o Worked entire Visual Studio 2008 product cycle on architectural system designers initially shipped in Visual Studio 2005.
o Worked end of Visual Studio 2005 product cycle evaluating and performance testing Team Foundation Server for internal adoption.

 

PalmTeq
Web-Site ...............
http://www.palmteq.com/
Accomplishments ....
o Designed and developed handheld ordering software (WaiterPad) for PalmOS devices.
o Designed and developed distributed database and synchronization prototcols to support large scale restaurant chains.
o Worked closely with in-house hardware engineers to develop second generation wireless communications protocol.
o Worked with a third party to design and develop third generation communications hardware, firmware and software.
o Worked closely with programming team to develop a suite of hospitality software, including point-of-sale (WaiterPos), back-of-house administration and reporting (SystemGenerator), sales analysis (SalesAnalyst), stock control (StockPro) and membership (MarketManager).