Daniel Pietzsch

Current

• Software Developer at Trifecta GIS

Past

• Graduand at innoQ Deutschland GmbH
• Administrator assistant at TDK Marketing Europe GmbH
• Apprentice at NIIT Technologies Limited

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Education

• Fachhochschule Bochum
• Berufskolleg Hilden
• Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Daniel Pietzsch’s Summary

I am a graduate engineer for computer science.
I am creative and like to work in a creative environment. I like new challenges and therefor I am always interested in learning about new technologies and in gaining new skills.
I am passionate about the usability of an application and I always want to deliver the best possible user experience.
The collaboration with co-workers is very important to me, too. I like to share my knowledge as well as learning from my colleagues.
Being part of the whole process from planning to deploying of a software product is what I really enjoyed in the past, as this really suits my versatility and creativity.
I would like to continue working in the web development area, especially using Ruby On Rails.

Daniel Pietzsch’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, CSS, PHP, Usability, HTML, Javascript, Java, C++

Daniel Pietzsch’s Experience

• Software Developer

  Trifecta GIS

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

  I do a diversity of tasks. Mostly Ruby On Rails development and integration with the Adobe Flex frontend of our application(s).
  Also RubyCAS, Reports (iReport, JasperServer), importing/migrating data and the typical sysadmin stuff.

• Graduand

  innoQ Deutschland GmbH

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  July 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  After getting into Ruby On Rails, my first task was to port the company‘s website back-end from a Movable Type CMS to Ruby On Rails, by keeping its original design. This involved an analysis of how the website used to work and how it was designed. After this, the database structure had to be completely redesigned and it should contain some improvements over the CMS‘s database design. The third part was executing all the planned steps by programming the new back-end in Ruby On Rails.
  
  The practical part of my diploma thesis was to plan, develop and introduce a new web application. The software enables to administer the company‘s customer contracts and -contacts as well as invoices for those customers.
The project involved a close collaboration with the co-workers in order to understand the in-house workflow concerning customer relations, invoice management and time tracking. I was responsible for every aspect of this web application, which included the planning, designing and coding.
The application was programmed using the Ruby On Rails framework with an MySQL database. Technologies used for the UI design and functionality included CSS and JavaScript.
During the work on the thesis, I gained in-depth knowledge of how the Ruby On Rails framework works and what it is able to do.

• Administrator assistant

  TDK Marketing Europe GmbH

  (Public Company; TDK; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )

  As a part-time assistant to the administrator of the Information Technology department I dealt with a diversity of technical problems of the IT-infrastructure and was partly responsible for extending and maintaining the internal network- and telephone-system.
I was a contact person for the international staff to help them with their different types of software- and hardware-problems, too.
Further tasks included the installation and configuration of servers using different Linux distributions, for example Debian, Ubuntu or Redhat.
Giving telephone support for field staff was also part of the job.

• Apprentice

  NIIT Technologies Limited

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 6 months)

  I first passed the Trainee program of the company, which included training in the relevant software developing tools CA 2E and CA Plex. 
I worked in many of the company‘s different departments such as Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing and Customer Support. I spent the biggest amount of time in the Customer Support department. Tasks often included a collaboration with customers on software development related problems (mostly problems with using the CA Plex product) via phone calls or e-mail.
The apprenticeship was accompanied by 2 days each week at a professional school. The subjects were for example Software Development, Project- and Time-management, Business English and Business Studies.
My thesis was about developing a web application using the PHP language.

Daniel Pietzsch’s Education

• Fachhochschule Bochum

  2004 — 2008

• Berufskolleg Hilden

  Programming, Project Management, IT-Infrastructure 2001 — 2004

• Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium

  Abitur , English, Math, Geography, Sports , 1991 — 2000

Additional Information

Daniel Pietzsch’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Daniel Pietzsch’s Interests:

Web Development (especially Ruby on Rails), Software Development, Usability, Getting Real, New Technologies, Apple, Mac, Music, Playing Guitar (and sometimes even piano or drums), Travelling

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