Biography/CV

Name: Siegfried Wagner
Academic Degree: Diplom Informatik (Univ.)
Nationality: German
Date/Place of Birth: 6th August 1975, Neuburg/Donau, Bavaria

Education
June 1995 High School Graduation (Abitur) at Holbein Gymnasium Augsburg, main subjects mathematics, physics, english and economy
Sep. 1995 – Sep. 1996 social service at ökumenische Sozialstation Göggingen (in Augsburg)
Oct. 1996 – Dec. 2002 student of Computer Science (Major) and Kommunikationswissenschaft (Minor) at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU)
Nov. 1999 – Apr. 2001 courses in journalism, presentation and audio engineering for radio production at AFK-Radio M94.5 in munich
Jun. 2002 – Dec. 2002 diploma thesis on “Generierung von Objektsequenzen anhand von personalisierten multidimensionalen Bewertungsdaten”
December 2002 diploma in Computer Science (eq. to Master)

Experience
May 1997 – Dec. 2002 student job at system administration group of the university’s computer science department (Rechnerbetriebsgruppe):administration and installation for HP-UX, Solaris and Linux workstations (about 200 machines) and servers (services: WWW, News, Mail, NFS, Samba, etc.), user helpdesk, tool programming
July 1999 – Sep. 1999 student job at SUPRATEC GmbH
March 2000 technical assistant at Antenne Bayern
Nov. 1999 – Apr. 2001 radio production at AFK-Radio M94.5 in Munich
April 2003 – March 2006 research and teaching assistant at the LFE Medieninformatik (Media Informatics) at LMU
Oct. 2005 – March 2006 radio production at AFK-Radio M94.5 in Munich
July 2006 – April 2008 researcher in the area of Multimedia and Interactive Services at Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.) in Vienna
April 2009 – now web development and research for digital publishing (dp) in Munich

Projects
Internet servers since 1997: several private servers with internet services (e.g. Web, Mail, DNS, …) on Debian GNU Linux
Websites design and programming of websites in HTML, PHP, CGI (Perl), Typo3 and Zope, examples: www.happyradio.de, munichwebradio.com, unisono-muenchen.de, mycyberhome.net,digitalpublishing.de
Software projects webradio system for automatic playlist management, continuous automated music playback, streaming architecture and web interface integration, open-source playback engine (http://mixplayd.sf.net/), several activities in different open-source projects, and some small software projects for the university (e.g. tools for system administration), 2008: open-source Symbian development for Mobile TV research (http://mivibes.sf.net/)
Internet radio Nov. 1998 – Feb. 2003: management, design, production and development for my own web radio station HappyRadio, and support for other web radio projects

Skills
Languages German (native), English (fluent), French (basics), Spanish (basics), Italian (basics)
Programming languages Symbian (good), Java (good), JavaScript (very good), C/C++ (good), Perl (very good), Python (basics), Ruby (basics), HTML (very good), XML (good), PHP (very good), SQL (good), Flash/ActionScript (good), Haskell (basics), Prolog (basics), Unix shell (very good)
Programming techniques procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, (constraint) logic programming
Unix administration experience in the administration of Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X
Networking administration and integration of heterogeneous Unix/Windows networks and various intra-/internet servers
Databases maintainance and SQL programming (mainly with MySQL but also Oracle, Postgres)
Radio presentation live radio shows at my own web radio HappyRadio (Nov. 1998 – Feb. 2003),at FM radio station AFK-Radio M94.5 (Nov. 1999 – Apr. 2001 and Oct. 2005 – March 2006), at web radio IntersurfRadio (June/July 2000), and at web radio entire-radio (Aug. – Nov. 2000)
Teaching courses for Media Informatics (main topics: video, sound and streaming technologies), courses for Macromedia Flash with ActionScript programming

Hobbies
Public & New Media general interest in traditional public media, i.e. radio and TV (technical aspects, content and media politics), but also in all new forms of new media, e.g. web radio and mobile applications, etc.
Sports Tae Bo, fitness, ballroom/salsa dancing, biking, inline skating, skiing, badminton.
Music once played the trumpet and a little bit piano, but today it’s only singing in a choir: Senti Voces
Computers first computer: Schneider CPC 464 homecomputer (programming in Basic and Z80 Assembler); later: PCs with operating system IBM OS/2 and several Linux distributions; in general: Open-source software and Linux preferred; current preferences in operating system for workstations: Mac OS X

By Siegfried February 7, 2010

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