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CHRISTIAN GOETZE
346 1st Street #202 415-336-7697
San Francisco, CA 94105 cg@miaow.com
http://www.miaow.com/people/cg
HIGHLIGHTS
* Over 30 years of software development experience.
* Consensus builder, communicator and coordinator
* Familiar with the dynamics of startups and growth companies.
* Fortified Bikesheds a blog on Release Management
EXPERIENCE
Red Brick Health, Minneapolis, MS
April 2012 - present
* Scala/Grails/Groovy
Snapfish by HP, San Francsico, CA
November 2011 - March 2012
* Mostly Java
Linden Lab, San Francisco, CA
June 2007 - September 2011
Tech Lead Release Engineering
* Weekly releases
* Codeticket Service
SenSage Inc., San Francisco,
CA June 2002 - March 2007
Release Engineer
Proficient Networks, San Francisco, CA
June 2001 - June 2002
Contractor
Digital Island (now Cable and Wireless), San Francisco, CA
June 1999 - Feb. 2002
Development Support - "Code Janitor"
Babycenter, San Francisco, CA
Jan. 2000 - Mar. 2000
Contractor
Quest Software Inc. (formerly Foglight, part of Captech Inc.), San Francisco, CA
July 1997-June 1999
Senior CM
BankAmerica, San Francisco, CA April 1997-July 1997
Consulting Software Engineer
BigBook, Inc., San Francisco, CA June 1996-March 1997
R&D Engineer
University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan April 1993-March 1996
Assistant Professor, Software Engineering
Telekurs GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany Sept. 1991-Jan. 1993
System Programmer/Consultant
EDUCATION
Universitaet Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany 1989-1991
Universite Scientifique et Medicale de Grenoble, France 1984-1988
Eberhardt-Karls-Universitaet, Tuebingen, Germany 1982-1984
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
* Expert level knowledge of GNU Make, cook, perforce, clearcase,
RPM, debian packaging, python, mercurial, C/C++, bash and perl.
* Evaluated and used a variety of automation tools: TeamCity, Coverity,
Electric Cloud, and various homegrown systems
* User of Amazon Cloud Services like EC2 and S3
* Proficient in web based development using CGI/MySQL/Javascript/JQuery/Django
* Java ecosystem knowledge - maven, ivy, scala/sbt, tomcat.
PUBLICATIONS
Fortified Bikesheds a blog on Release Management
Clearcase Extension Pack
C++ by Example
An Analysis of Lexical Frequency and Discourse Need for
EASE: A Software Integration Tool and User Interface
New Method for Determining Eigenvectors Using Parallel Processing
Strukturbestimmung von Diskreten Isoflaechen Masters Thesis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1992.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Languages Spoken: Excellent French, German and English; usable
Japanese
Citizenship: German/French
INS Status: Admitted as resident alien 3/11/97, Application for
citizenship pending.
Hobbies: Go (3-dan), Certified flight instructor instruments