DIRK RIEHLE - CURRICULUM VITAE

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EDUCATION

2000 - ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) - Zurich, Switzerland

• Doctor of Technical Sciences (Dr. Sc. Tech.) - Advisor: Thomas Gross - No grading

2004 - Stanford Graduate School of Business - Stanford, CA

• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - No grading

1995 - Universität Hamburg (University of Hamburg) - Hamburg, Germany

• Diplom-Informatiker (Dipl.-Inform.) - Advisor: Heinz Züllighoven - Grade: "very good"

1990 - Universität Hamburg (University of Hamburg) - Hamburg, Germany

• Vordiplom Physik - Grade: "good"

WORK EXPERIENCE

2006-present - SAP Research, SAP Labs, LLC - Palo Alto, CA

• Senior Research Scientist
• Principal investigator and leader of the open-source research group
• Leading research on open source
• Leading research on Web 2.0 applications
• Consultant to executive management at SAP on open source

2004-2006 - Bayave Software GmbH - Berlin, Germany

• Co-founder and Chief Scientist
• Co-developed go-to-market and developed technology strategy
• Built company team and drove development towards first release
• Designed overall system architecture including core frameworks

2003 - Sun Microsystems Laboratories - Mountain View, CA

• Emerging Technologies Intern
• Conducted market assessment, competitive analysis, and revenue projection for real-time Java virtual machine implementation

1999-2002 - SKYVA International - Boston, MA

• Software Developer and Team Leader, Business Modeling Group
• Designed and communicated SKYVA's second-generation approach to business modeling; acted as major information hub
• Developed SKYVA's Business Model Engine (partially patented) and successfully led five developers in its implementation
• Co-developed core business frameworks for organizational modeling and business process modeling
• Co-developed framework customization wizards and domain-specific languages and helped design IDE for these
• Successfully introduced component testing, defined repository strategy, standardized development tools, and created common guidelines
• Helped Marketing and Sales to better communicate product vision to customers and to translate customer requests into product features

1999 - Credit Suisse - Zurich, Switzerland

• Database Specialist
• Designed next-generation data-warehousing metadata-architecture of Credit Suisse

1995-1999 - Ubilab, UBS AG - Zurich, Switzerland

• Scientific Specialist and Team Leader, Software Engineering Group
• Led research group of three fulltime researchers and numerous students and consultants
• Solicited and led IT projects within UBS providing substantial in-house revenue for Ubilab (60% utilization, as desired, of group staff at top IT consulting market rates)
• Co-developed object-oriented frameworks for financial instruments, corporate client management, distributed computing, metalevel architectures, etc.

ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION

Steering Committees

• 2005-present - Chair and founder of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Wikis conference series
• 2001-present - Member of the Hillside Group (the non-profit behind the patterns community); treasurer since 2002
• 1998-2000 - Vice president of CHOOSE, the Swiss Informaticians' SIG on Object-Oriented Software Engineering

Editorial Boards

• 2008-present - Founding member and associate editor of the International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IGI Global)
• 2007-present - Founding member of the editorial board of Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming (Springer LNCS)

Conference Committees

• Treasurer of WikiSym 2008 - Porto, Portugal
• Treasurer of WikiSym 2007 - Montreal, Canada
• Treasurer of OOPSLA 2007 - Montreal, Canada
• Conference chair of WikiSym 2006 - Odense, Denmark

Program Committee Chairs

• Chair of OOPSLA Onward! 2008 - Nashville, TN
• Conference and program committee chair of WikiSym 2005 - San Diego, CA
• Program committee chair of the 1999 CHOOSE Forum on Object-Oriented Software Architecture - Bern, Switzerland
• Program committee chair of the 1997 European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming - Irsee, Germany

Workshop Organization

• Wikimania 2007 Workshop on "Bringing Wikipedia to Work: Open Collaboration within Corporations"
• OOPSLA 2004 Workshop on "Design Patterns Revisited"
• Workshop on "Biological Framings of Problems in Computing " - SFI, Santa Fe, NM
• OOPSLA 1999 Workshop on "Metadata and Active Object Systems"
• OOPSLA 1998 Workshop on "Metadata and Active Object Systems"
• OOPSLA 1998 Workshop on "Emergent Distributed Systems"

Further Activities

• 2003-2004 - President of the Stanford German Student Association

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Technical Conference Paper Reviews (Member of the Program Committee)

• ACM OOPSLA 2008, 2006, 2005 and 2003
• WikiSym 2008, 2007
• ACM SAC 2008, EIS track
• ACM OOPSLA Onward! 2007
• Wikimania 2006
• PLoP 2002, 2001, 1997

Journal Reviews

• TPLoP: 2008
• ACM TOSEM: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 1999, 1998
• IEEE Software: 2007, 2000
• IEEE Computer: 2007, 2003, 1996
• SoSyM: 2007
• Software Quality Journal: 2007
• CACM: 1997, 1996
• IEEE TSE: 1997
• TAPOS, SPE, IEE Proceedings, JSS: 2005, 2000, 1999, and 1996 respectively

Technical Conference Paper Reviews (in support of the PC chair or a PC member)

• Wikimania 2008, 2007
• EuroSys 2006
• Models 2006
• PPoPP 2005
• OOPSLA 2002, 2001, 2000
• ECOOP 1999
• PLoP and EuroPLoP 1996-present (basically, every year)

Workshop Reviews (Member of the Workshop Program Committee)

• TOOLS 2008 Workshop on Mining Web 2.0 Application Patterns
• ECOOP 2007 Workshop on Roles and Relationships in OOP, Multiagent Systems, and Ontologies - Roles 2007
• CAiSE Workshop on Views, Aspects and Roles - VAR 2006
• International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 2006, part of IEEE WETICE 2006)
• ECOOP 2005 Workshop on Views, Aspects and Roles - VAR 2005
• ECOOP 2005 Workshop "Architecture-Centric Evolution"
• UML 2004 Workshop "Software Architecture Description and UML"

Further Activities

• 1995-present - Professional member of the ACM, senior member since 2008
• 1993, 1995-present - Professional member of the IEEE (incl. Computer Society); member of the GI and SI

INDUSTRY

• Member of the program committee - Jazoon 2008, Zurich, Switzerland (Joachim Hagger)
• Technical advisor to board of startup New Wales Inc. - 1999, Zurich, Switzerland (Dominik Broderick)
• Reviewer for book proposals for Addison-Wesley, Wiley, etc.

PUBLICATIONS

• Please see http://www.riehle.org/publications/.

INVITED TALKS

• Please see http://www.riehle.org/presentations/.

TEACHING

Lecturer Positions

• Main lecture on object-oriented software development, WS 1998/1999, with Bruno Schäffer and Kai-Uwe Mätzel - University of Zurich (Martin Glinz)
• Main lecture on object-oriented software development, WS 1997/1998, with Bruno Schäffer and Kai-Uwe Mätzel - University of Zurich (Martin Glinz)

Courses

• "Object-Oriented Frameworks" - 1-week course given at UBS in Zurich, Switzerland in 1999

Tutorials (1-3h)

• "How to Benefit from Open Source" - Software Engineering Today 2008 (SET 2008), Zurich, Switzerland
• "Wikis and Open Collaboration" - Software Engineering Today 2007 (SET 2007), Zurich, Switzerland
• "Geld verdienen mit Open Source" - OOP 2007, Munich, Germany
• "Framework Design and Implementation using Java and UML" - OOPSLA 2002
• "The Story of a Framework" - OOPSLA 2000
• "The Story of a Framework" - OOP 2000, Munich Germany
• "Advanced Java Design and Programming" - Java for Enterprises Conference in Zurich, Switzerland

Doctoral Symposia

• Member of the OOPSLA 2002 Doctoral Symposium

Supervision of M.S. Students and Interns

• Mario Fernandez, Technical University of Munich (internship), 2008
• Oliver Arafat, Technical University of Munich (internship), 2008
• Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington (internship), 2007
• Martin Junghans, TU Cottbus (internship), 2007
• Amit Deshpande, University of Cincinnati (internship), 2007
• Mario Lopes, University of Porto (internship), 2007
• Eric He, University of Chicago (internship), 2007
• Jan Brunnert, Hasso-Plattner Institute (at University of Potsdam) (internship), 2006
• Pengcheng Wu, Northeastern University (internship), 2001
• Zsolt Haag, University of Glasgow (internship), 1998
• Om Damani, University of Texas (internship), 1998
• Frank Fröse, University of Hamburg (M.S. thesis), 1997-1999
• Patrizia Marsura, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (internship), 1997
• Bruno Essmann, ETH Zurich (M.S. thesis), 1997
• Frank Fröse, University of Hamburg (internship), 1997
• Roger Brudermann, ETH Zurich (M.S. thesis), 1997

Teaching and Research Assistant Positions

• Combined TA/RA position for main Software Engineering lecture - University of Hamburg (Christiane Floyd), 1991-1994

ENGINEERING SKILLS

Programming

• HTML, CSS, Javascript (1993-present)
• Java (1996-present), Smalltalk (1995-1996), C++ (1991-1995)
• C and Assembly Language (1984-1991), other

Architecture

• Design patterns (for Addison-Wesley, in 1995, translated the classic Design Patterns book to German)
• Object-oriented frameworks (see my dissertation on framework design), metalevel architectures
• Distributed service architectures (various in-house projects at UBS AG)
• UML (expert level, see software architecture publications)

Technology

• Familiar with J2EE technologies (Tomcat, Hibernate, etc.)
• Familiar with XML technologies (XML, RDF, etc.)
• Proficient with other OMG technologies (CORBA, MDA, etc.)
• Proficient with Unix (Linux variants), Windows

Open Source

• Provider of JValue framework for Value Objects in Java

Process

• Proficient in agile software development methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

• 2001 - Problem-Solving Leadership: Weinberg & Weinberg - Santa Fe, NM (1 week)
• 2000 - Microeconomics Theory - Harvard Extension School, Boston, MA (Summer School)
• 1998 - Project leader training-camp - UBS AG, Wolfsberg, Switzerland (1 week)
• 1998 - Team leadership course - UBS AG, Wolfsberg, Switzerland (1 week)
• 1998 - Global Banker seminar: ACF Consultants Ltd. - Wolfsberg, Switzerland (1 week)
• 1997 - Project management course: SGO (Swiss Society of Organization) - Zurich, Switzerland (1 week)
• 1996 - Banking overview course - UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland (1 week)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Bilingual German/English
• Practice improvisational story-telling and theater; enjoy the arts
• Enjoy running and the outdoors; avid snowboarder