Christian Höltje

Current

• Sr. Applications Engineer at Vivisimo

Past

• Sr. Software Engineer at Timesys.com
• Sr. Software Engineer at Rackspace Managed Hosting
• Lead BuildEngineer at TurboLinux

• Development Operations/IT at Tandem Computers
• Test Suite Software Engineer at Argus Systems Group

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recommended

5 people have recommended Christian

Connections

150 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Christian Höltje’s Summary

I have over ten years of experience in programming, managing and designing software and systems. I plan to keep working with software. I prefer usability and interfaces and working with python.
I've been lucky enough to work with great people at the following companies:
Timesys - Software Production Engineer
Rackspace Managed Hosting - Lead Developer for CORE
Tandem Computers - Information System Analyst
Argus Systems Group - Kernel Test Suite Programmer
see my resume at http://docwhat.gerf.org/resume for more information.

Christian Höltje’s Specialties:

Usability Design,
Web Application and Services,
Python, HTML, CSS, etc.

Christian Höltje’s Experience

• Sr. Applications Engineer

  Vivisimo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Designing, writing and debugging applications using the Velocity enterprise search platform.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Timesys.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  * Designed, implemented, and maintained the LinuxLink BuilderSystem; a system to build, manage, publish and maintain projects used by both in-house engineers and external customers.
  * Designed, implemented and documented zero-downtime site management system.
  * Designed and implemented a prototype Automated Embedded Board Farm to automate installation, booting and testing of embedded systems from remote locations.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Rackspace Managed Hosting

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2000 — June 2004 (4 years)

  * Designed, implemented, and maintained [5]CORE; a custom built enterprise-wide CRM, Ticketing and Automation System using PHP, Perl, Python, SQL and Apache
  * Implemented and maintained internal use libraries and tools such as HTML GUI toolkits, version control (CVS and [6]Bit Keeper), Object Oriented Relational Model libraries, and Business Logic Libraries
  * Worked with other departments to design solutions to improve their performance and productivity

• Lead BuildEngineer

  TurboLinux

  (Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  * Designed, implemented, maintained and managed operating system platform development procedures and tools
  * Implemented and maintained automated RPM package tracking and build system
  * Built and updated RPM packages for the TurboLinux distribution
  * Performed as Gatekeeper and QA control for TurboLinux distribution

• Development Operations/IT

  Tandem Computers

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TDM; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

  Tandem was purchased by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1998
  * Maintained and provided support for Tandem NSK Systems to internal developers and external customers
  * Automated cold start procedure, reducing start time from 4+ hours to 1 hour
  * Administered all non-NSK systems and software: Solaris, Win NT, Win95/98, Storage Tek ACSLS, NSK Monitoring Solution
  * Devised and managed complete disaster recoverable backup strategy and schedule

• Test Suite Software Engineer

  Argus Systems Group

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  * Developed and maintained Kernel Test Suite for Argus's Solaris Based B1/ITSEC compliant secure OS (currently called PitBull)
  * Analyzed inconsistencies and provided QA for kernel developers
  * Developed initial public web site

Christian Höltje’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  BS, Computer Science, 1992 — 1996

  Graduated from the school of engineering with a bachelor of science in computer science with a goal directed sequence in music and sound theory

Additional Information

Christian Höltje’s Websites:

• My Website

Christian Höltje’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery

•    Tandem Alumni member
•    CAcert Community member

Christian Höltje’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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