Gerald Pfeifer

Current

Director 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

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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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 Product Management

Novell

(Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Responsible for openSUSE and the SUSE Linux Enterprise product family (Server, High Availability, Desktop, Realtime, Thin Client, Point of Service,...).
Ports Committer

The FreeBSD Project

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

April 2002 — Present (7 years 8 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)