Gerald Pfeifer

Current

• Director Inbound Product Management at Novell
• Ports Committer at The FreeBSD Project

Past

• Technical Project Manager at SUSE Linux Products GmbH / Novell
• Senior Researcher at University of Calabria
• Assistant Professor at Vienna University of Technology

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Education

• Vienna University of Technology
• Vienna University of Technology

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Gerald Pfeifer’s Summary

Complex projects spanning development teams at several locations, across timezones, languages, and cultures, with many internal and external stakeholders (such as customers, hardware vendors, chip vendors, software vendors).

Gerald Pfeifer’s Specialties:

Coordination and communication; leading high performing teams; strong technical background (and quick to learn); strong research background and Open Source experience; close collaboration between R&D, product management and marketing; feature coordination; release management; maintenance and support; alliances and partner handling; escalation handling; process definition.

Gerald Pfeifer’s Experience

• Director Inbound Product Management

  Novell

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Responsible for openSUSE and the SUSE Linux Enterprise product family (Server, Desktop, Realtime, Thin Client, Point of Sales,...).

• Ports Committer

  The FreeBSD Project

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  April 2002 — Present (6 years 2 months)

• Technical Project Manager

  SUSE Linux Products GmbH / Novell

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NOVL; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2003 — March 2007 (3 years 5 months)

  Project Lead Enterprise Linux Engineering

• Senior Researcher

  University of Calabria

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  March 2003 — October 2003 (8 months)

• Assistant Professor

  Vienna University of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  November 1997 — February 2003 (5 years 4 months)

Gerald Pfeifer’s Education

• Vienna University of Technology

  Dr. techn., Computer Science, 1996 — 2000

• Vienna University of Technology

  Dipl.-Ing., Computer Science, 1990 — 1996

Additional Information

Gerald Pfeifer’s Websites:

• My Website

Gerald Pfeifer’s Groups:

IEEE, VIBE!AT, GCC

•    Novell Alumni member

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