1/8 CV Nicolai M. Josuttis Date: February 2007
2/8 To realize mission-critical projects successfully, you need an optimal collaboration of developers, managers, customers, and other stakeholders. But due to the pressure of time-tomarket this becomes more and more difficult. One key role is somebody, who speaks and understand the language of developers, who understands and transfers interests of managers, who introduces and filters requirements of customers, who is able to prepare and make the right strategic decisions, and who has the courage, to force pragmatism and excellence. I have taken this role in different forms in several mission-critical and successful IT projects. These projects were large in each sense (hundreds of developers, millions of lines of code, Gigabytes of data, thousands of end-users,...). My role was named technical project manager or system architect. However, sometime I just understand myself as being a communication manager with excellent social and IT background so that teams are forced to focus on working software (slides, concepts, and prototypes may not prove anything). Currently, the focus is on SOA (service oriented architecture), where I am one of the few world-wide experts having significant experience of implementing SOA in practice (being a team lead of a SOA system with hundreds of services in production producing millions of service calls a day). Use my competence and experience, to find and validate the technology, architecture, and processes that is appropriate in your concrete context. Use my courage and social capabilities to force to make the right decisions and to detect problems and risks before they lead to disaster. My advantage is independence. I have no products to sell and no people to place. I have worked for domains such as Banking/Finance, Automobile/Traffic, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing as technical leader, manager, or reviewer.
3/8 Competences Methodical: - Technical Project Management - System Architecture - Training, Coaching - Consulting - Reviews Technologies: - Architectures (SOA, J2EE,...) - Distributed Systems (Tibco, Web-Services,...) - Several Programming Languages (Java, C++, C,...) - Several Operating Systems (Windows, Unix, Linux,...) - Databases (Oracle, DB/2, OODBMS,...) - Graphical User Interfaces and Ergonomics (Browser, Eclipse, X, OSF/Motif,...) - Build and Configuration Management (make, ant, ClearCase,...) Business Know-how: - Banking, Finance - Telecommunication - Automobile - Manufactoring - Traffics Languages: - German and English (fluent in spoken and written) Soft-Skills: - Courage - Didactics - Experiences - Knowledge of human nature - Independence
4/8 Highlights Partner of IT-communication.com. Author of different books and articles about SOA, project management, object-orientation, C++, X and OSF/Motif Some of these books are well knows standard books translated into several different languages (see http://www.josuttis.com/books/books.html). Several talks and tutorials on conferences in Europe and North America (see http://www.josuttis.com/talks/talks.html). German delegate of the world-wide standardization of C++. German Academia Software Price 1989
5/8 Experiences The most important large projects and responsibilities in chronological order were: 2006 and 2007: Program chair, moderator, and keynote speaker of different SOA Days (WJAX SOA Management Days 2006, OMG SOA Informations Days 2007,...). 2006: Several SOA trainings and reviews for different companies and large projects all over Europe (trainings were public and in-house). 2005-2006: Team lead for the realization of a SOA landscape of a world-wide leading international mobile phone company (Tibco, Web Services, distributed systems, MDA, oaw,...). Key person between SOA IT and business IT. The SOA system runs in production connecting 30 international systems with at most 400 services (about 3 million service calls per day). 2004-2005: Consulting and coaching for the maintenance and development of a CRM system for more than 30 million customers of a telecommunication company (C++, J2EE, Oracle). A mission critical system with about 200 people in the team. 2003: Project, team, and communication management during the realization of a new generation of author and editor workplaces for the world-wide development of after sales documentation (such as repair instructions) for a major German automobile corporation (J2EE, Eclipse rich client platform, BEA and WebSphere Application-Server, DB/2). A mission critical project with more than 30 developers. 2002: Review of an international mission-critical project for the bank transfer for an European ATM machine network (England, Belgium, Germany) 2001-2002: Chief architecture and technical manager in a realization of a commercial mission-critical J2EE application with mainframe integration for banking services (in time, in budget, more than 100 developers, for 50,000 end users, successful adjustment after failed first trial) 2000: System development as part of the realization of connecting backend systems to a 3-tier banking system. 1999: Technical project manager for the realization of a graphical wire management system (GIS) for the a telecommunication company. 1999: Chief architect and business consultant for the standardization of an IT landscape of the financial affairs department of a German state. 1998: Technical project manager and system developer for the realization of a typical host interface due to the switch from a 2-tier to 3-tier banking architecture (C++, CORBA). 1997: Architect and technical project manager for the realization of the central data storage and integrated graphical user interface for program to design and layout individual large compressors for pipelines etc. (Fortran, Java, OODBMS). 1995: System development and consulting for the introduction of graphical user interfaces and object-orientation of the machines controlling large knitting machines (C++, OSF/Motif, Unix). 1992: System development of BXwidgets, a supplementary library of graphical user interface elements for OSF/Motif (C, X Window System). 1990: Implementation of a training center for trainings of Unix, X, OSF/Motif, C, and C++.
6/8 Customers The following did benefit from my support and work (extract): ABB, Mannheim Adtranz Signaltechnik, Braunschweig BMW, Munich Bull, Frankfurt Daimler Chrysler, Stuttgart DeTeMobil, Münster German Railways (DB), Frankfurt Deutsche Telekom, Darmstadt DLR, Göttingen Dornier, Immenstaad Ericsson, Hildesheim ESG, Munich Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart FinanzIT, Hanover IBM, Böblingen Mannesmann/Demag, Duisburg Nokia, Helsinki NorCom, Munich Oracle, Frankfurt, Munich Siemens, Greifswald, Munich, Vienna T-Mobile, Bonn TUI Infotec, Hanover TÜV, Hamburg Valtech, Düsseldorf, London Vodafone, Düsseldorf Wincor Nixdorf, Frankfurt
7/8 Technical Data Born 1962 1982 High school diploma at the humanistic Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Göttingen 1995 Graduate as Computer Scientist at the Technical University Braunschweig Author of: - SOA in Practice (O Reilly, USA 2007) - The C++ Standard Library (Addison-Wesley, USA) - Object-Oriented Programming in C++ (Wiley, UK) - Objektorientiertes Programmieren in C++ (Addison-Wesley, Germany) Co-Author of: - Erfolgreich mit Objektorientierung (Oldenburg, Germany) - C++ Templates (Addison-Wesley, USA) - Programmieren mit OSF/Motif (Addison-Wesley, Germany) German Translation of: - Agile Software Development in the Large (Dorset House, USA)
8/8 Contact Nicolai M. Josuttis Solutions in Time Berggarten 9 D - 38108 Braunschweig Germany Tel.: +49 531 129 88 86 (Germany: 0531 / 129 88 86) +49 700 JOSUTTIS (Germany: 0700 JOSUTTIS) +49 5309 5747 (Germany: 05309 / 5747) Fax: +49 531 129 88 85 (Germany: 0531 / 129 88 85) Mail: solutions@josuttis.com Web: http://www.josuttis.com/