Sebastian Schaffert

In the following, you can find a brief version of my curriculum vitae. Since I am currently happily employed, there is no up-to-date printable resume available. Please ask me if you are interested.

In Brief

Name:	Finn Sebastian Schaffert
Academic Degree:	Dr.rer.nat. (PhD), Diplom-Informatiker (Univ.)
Occupation:	Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies Group at Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Scientific Director Salzburg NewMediaLab, Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria
Family Status:	separated, two daugthers
Nationality:	European (German / Swedish)
Date/Place of Birth:	18th March 1976, Trostberg, Bavaria
Home Town:	Siegsdorf, Chiemgau, Bavaria
Current Location:	Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria

Education

June 1995	High School Graduation (Abitur) at Chiemgau-Gymnasium Traunstein in Mathematics, Physics, English and History
Jul 1995 – Jun 1996	Military Service at the 232nd German Alpine Batallion, Berchtesgaden
Oct 1996 – Apr 2001	Student of Computer Sciences (Major) and Educational Sciences (Minor) at the University of Munich
Oct 2000 – Apr 2001	Diploma Thesis on “Grouping Constructs for Semistructured Data”
Apr 2001	Diploma with Honors (Grade: 1.0) in Computer Sciences (eq. to Master), University of Munich
May 2001 – Oct 2004	PhD Thesis on “Xcerpt: A Rule-Based Query and Transformation Language for the Web”
Dec 2004	PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Sciences (Grade: “magna cum laude” – 1.0), University of Munich

Professional Experience

Salzburg Research
January 2010 -	Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies Group (Social Media, Semantic Technologies, Content and Media Management)
August 2005 -	Senior Researcher at Knowledge-Based Information Systems Group (Social Media, Semantic Technologies, Content and Media Management)
September 2006 -	Scientific Director of Salzburg NewMediaLab
March 2008 -	Coordinator of EU STREP KIWI (Knowledge in a Wiki)
Munich University
Nov 1998 – Dec 2000	Linux-, HP-UX and Solaris Workstation/Server (WWW, News, Mail, etc) administration and installation (ca. 200 machines), user helpdesk, tool programming
May 2001 – July 2005	Research- and Teaching Assistant at the LFE Programmier- und Modellierungssprachen,
Freelance Activities
2010 -	External Lecturer at Fachhochschule Salzburg, Multimedia Technologies
May 2008 -	Reviewer / Expert in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission
1997 – 1998	Giving lectures on various network-related topics (at BIMS and BTZ Traunstein)
1998 – now	Main developer and maintainer of the very successful OpenSource project JWebMail (see “Projects” and the WebMail homepage for details).
Mar 2000 – Oct 2000	Siemens AG, ICN: Working on OpenSource projects, mainly integrating mailservers and WebMail on Linux/Solaris machines
2000 – now	Linux system administration for various clients.

Skills

Generic
Languages	German (native), English (fluent), French (4 years school), Spanish (2 years university), Swedish
Computer-Related
Languages	Experience in (among others) Java EE, Seam, C/C++, Python, Perl, Prolog, Haskell, PHP, XML, XSL, Unix Shell, SQL
Techniques	Functional programming, OO-programming, (constraint) logic programming, etc
Unix Administration	Experience in the administration of Linux, *BSD and Solaris, and various other flavours of Unix
Networking	Integration of heterogeneous Unix/Windows/Novell networks, administration of various kinds of inter-/intranet servers
Databases	Administration and programming of various database systems (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)