Ulf Schwekendiek

Current

• Graduate Student & Research Assistant at NYU Polytech at New York University

Past

• QA Application Developer at Autodesk
• Software Developer at Autodesk
• Graduate Research Intern at Ericsson

• Coop student in the Software Security departement at Wincor Nixdorf

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Education

• Concordia University
• Universität Paderborn
• New York University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Thesis

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Summary

Programming languages:
- C, C++, C++/CLI
- Java (Eclipse platform development experience)
- Objective-C, Apple Cocoa Framework, Cocoa Touch Framework
- .Net (especially C#) / Mono
- Lisp, Ruby, Perl, Python, HTML, PHP, SQL
- Ruby on Rails

Version Control:
- Perforce, CVS, SVN, git, mercurial

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Experience

• Graduate Student & Research Assistant at NYU Polytech

  New York University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  We research and design digital games and other interactive media. Our focus is emotion and social connection--how these can be enabled and even enhanced by what we craft. We combine social science and design practices, moving between empiricism and intuition. We innovate in both design and evaluation practices. Current topics include characters and avatars, movement as a game mechanic, and design patterns that enhance learning.

• QA Application Developer

  Autodesk

  (Public Company; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

  April 2009 — August 2009 (5 months)

  I am now helping the 3ds Max automation team to design and implement an automation framework.

• Software Developer

  Autodesk

  (Public Company; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 5 months)

  I am working as a Software Developer at the 3ds max team.

• Graduate Research Intern

  Ericsson

  (Public Company; ERIC B; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)

  Intern in the following research group: "Modeling and Automatic Generation of Information and Upgrade Campaigns for Service Availability" I designed the architecture of the tool and did research on the upgrade campaign generation.

• Coop student in the Software Security departement

  Wincor Nixdorf

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years )

  Tasks and responsibilities included:
  - Programming Tools for ATM's in C/C++ and Java
  - Programming Exhibition Demos
  - gained Java Certicate and Windows Certicate

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Education

• Concordia University

  M.Comp.Sci. , Computer Science , 2007 — 2008

  Worked in the MAGIC Research Lab, Montreal, Canada (2007)
  
  MAGIC stands for \Modeling and Automatic Generation of Information and upgrade Campaigns for Service Availability". It is a joint lab between Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department and Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) Concordia University
  and Ericsson Canada Inc.
  
  Research Topic: Upgrade Campaign Generation for the AMF.
  (discontinued)

• Universität Paderborn

  B.S. , Computer Science with minor in Media Studies , 2004 — 2007

  Thesis: 'Integrating a GLR Parser Generator in Eli'
  Supervisors: Dr. Peter Pfahler / Prof. Dr. Kastens

• New York University

  M.Sc. , Integrated Digital Media , 2009

Additional Information

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Websites:

• My Thesis

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Interests:

Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Geek talk, Travelling, Apple

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Groups:

ACM member, IEEE member

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Autodesk'ers
•    3D Studio Max

Ulf Schwekendiek’s Honors:

Awards:
- ACP ICPC Programming Contest at McGill University 2006
- Microsoft Road Ahead Price Silver 2000

Languages:
- German (mother-tongue)
- English (second language, TOEFL Certificate from ESL Institute)

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