• Designed, implemented significant parts, and drove to launch: Google Chart API; Google Webmaster Tools/Sitemaps; Public Transit on Google Maps; layers for Google Maps, such as Photos, Wikipedia, YouTube, Businesses, and Subways; Google Translation Dictionaries; Search features for European markets; Romansh Web Search; algorithmic transliteration of Google Maps to Japanese, Chinese and Russian.
• Helped starting up Google’s European Engineering headquarters, growing it several hundred employees. Interviewed candidates for positions in Software Engineering, Operations, Engineering Leadership, and Product Management. Trained new hires about Google’s systems infrastructure. Guided project teams through Google’s launch process, reviewing their systems design and making sure their additions fit into the existing production infrastructure.
• “Engineering Ambassador” in Tokyo, connecting Google Japan to other sites while leading a Japanese team. Lead engineer for Google Africa.

• Founded a consulting and software development business.
• Member of the Swiss delegation to the ISO technical committee for Geographic Information. Wrote the draft standard document for ISO 19137, and drove it through the standardization process in minimal time.
• Contributed several frameworks to the GNU implementation of the Java libraries.

• Co-authored a textbook on modeling spatial data.
• Member of the Swiss delegation to the ISO technical committee for Geographic Information.
• Implemented threading, exception handling and GUI modules for a proprietary cross-platform development platform.

• Designed a modular, distributed architecture to integrate heterogenous engines for analyzing semi-structured document collections.
• Implemented a prototype client/server application for assisting “knowledge workers.”
• Developed the statistical engine for an interactive classification program.

• Contributed to the design of an object-oriented modeling language for Geographic Information Systems. Developed a Java tool and class library for checking the semantic consistency of models.
• Designed and implemented a Modula-2 mapping for CORBA IDL.
• Consulted clients on data modeling issues, color management and client/server architectures.

• Taught a lecture (Lehrauftrag) on Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics.

• Designed a linguistic formalism for information extraction. Built a highly optimizing compiler for transforming such grammars into RISC machine code.
• Re-engineered Apple’s content analysis framework for higher performance.
• Specified an API for linguistic analysis.

• Developed a natural language parsing framework in C++.
• Implemented a component for visualizing the semantic construction process in the “Verbmobil” machine translation system (in Prolog, under X11).

• Improved the phrase structure grammar of a German text-to-speech synthesis system.
• Implemented Earley’s O(n³) chart parsing algorithm in Modula-2.

Minor subject: Computer Science. Passed with distinction. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.