Project Manager

8/2005 – 5/2006

Project Management focused on Embedded Systems

- Manage projects through the assigned Technical Staff, measured by completion of the design project within time and budget parameters to meet contract requirements
- Coordinate the definition of project specifics, deliverables, and estimate scope, duration, and level or effort of proposed work, in conjunction with the Technical Staff
- Responsible for the definition and development of the complete quote based on concise, well-defined descriptions of work to be performed
- Work with the Service Sales Manger, Business Development and Technical Pre-Sales Teams on architecture, project feasibility, cost, schedule, deliverables, and requirements for Statement of Work and Proposal
- Prepare proposal presentations to customer
- Assure availability of all software and hardware deliverables provided to the customer; work with customers through acceptance of deliverables
- Perform the project management in conjunction with world wide Technical Staff to carry out contracted projects
- Work with peer Technical Staff Supervisor on optimum resource allocation
- Report on project status as well as revenue forecast
- Responsible for customer satisfaction including the evaluation of customer needs throughout the lifetime of a project, together with Sales field staff

10/1996 – 2/2004

I managed the development of a residential gateway reference design based on moving code middleware technology enabling internet from the socket by routing data from ISDN trunks to the in-house powerline network. This project was finished successfully and showed the proof of concept of its cross platform moving code middleware software innovation.

Successful Development internet from the socket in DATASOFT. The product was designed for mass market production. As to my knowledge, this design was the first broadband powerline device in Europe providing both CE and FCC approval matching the world market requirements due operating concurrently within a voltage bandwith of 90V-250V. This project was a great technical success in 2001 with successful setup and first licenses to EPRI, China, a Chinese power utility company. The development got honored with the award of innovation by the state of Lower Austria.

Successful development of Moving Code Technology enabling development and test of software with focus on communication protocols and stacks before microprocessor decisions are made. The
method enables development of code independent from microprocessors, operating systems and hardware peripherals gaining a radical reduction of development efforts for earlier time to market and concurrently increasing quality of code due to a generic software design re-use concept.

In series, I managed successfully various embedded system designs. This developments where focusing in the field of ISDN PC boards, a/b (POTS) for voice recording systems as well as switch solutions and reference designs for customers as Infineon (now Lantiq), Munich, Germany, Philips Semiconductors (now NXP), Gratkorn, Austria and Schrack Seconet, Vienna.

BEKO ING. P. Kotauczek GmbH contracted DATASOFT with the development of a powerline device enabling internet from the socket. The project was finished successfully and was one of the world wide first in-house powerline devices enabling internet from the socket.

Development of hardware and software of an ISDN board. The project was funded by the Forschungsförderungsfonds (FFF). The company proceeded in growth and I founded DATASOFT Systems GmbH. Developing business with OEM customers, DATASOFT won its first project integrating its ISDN protocol stack software for a leading Taiwan company.

Jump into the free fall entrepreneur ship setting up DATAPLUS [...] [...] together with my wife in 1994. Still working as consultant for the Bank Austria AG, I started offering know how in
communication technologies with focus ISDN. Later on I founded DATASOFT Systems GmbH focusing on Internet from the socket applying powerline technologies.

4/1996 – 9/1996

After termination of my employee status at the Bank Austria AG, I proceeded working as a consultant at the Bank

2/1994 – 12/2006

1994 - 1996 management consulting in research for the departments of technology and innovation of

- Ministry of Public Economy and Traffic Affairs
- Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Ministry of Science, Art and Public Traffic Affairs
- Telekom Austria AG

2/1993 – 3/1996

Software Design Engineer

Working on software development automizing software updates with the networking infrastructure of the bank based on IBM OS/2 operating system

Expertise in ISDN technology, move to the Bank Austria AG

5/1989 – 1/1993

Software Development Engineer

As member of the software development team, I focused on developing the ISDN capable number 7 signaling system protocol TUP+ and its interworking to ISDN (ISUP) red/bluebook for the
Deutsche Telekom.

I was member of the pioneering team at Siemens taking the first international european ISDN connection into operation successfully connecting Germany and France.

After this start, I changed to software and moved to the SIEMENS AG ßsterreich.

Echtzeit-Betriebssysteme, Assemblersprache

3/1988 – 5/1989

Hardware design of video recording systems

- Engineering and design of video recording systems (VCR) for OEMs;
- Supporting the project manager in general as project
- Resource and planning of schedules during the course of projects
- Coordination of mounting and re-mounting of prototypes
- Analyze competitive landscape with focus on prize targets
- Creating the appropriate documentation and hand outs
- Backup the project manager
- Preparations to finalize decisions in terms of test procedures for manufacturing in series