Thorsten Schneider

Born on 21st of May 1980 in Saarlouis, Germany

Education

2006
Degree in computer science (Diplom - Grade: 1.6)
2000-2006
Student of computer science at "Saarland University"
1999
Abitur (Grade: 1.8)
1990-1999
Max-Planck-Gymnasium, Saarlouis
1986-1990
primary school

Work Experience

02/09-todayOperations Manager at Coremedia AG, Hamburg
10/06-today
Co-founder and CEO of Geckobyte GbR
03/08-01/09Operations Engineer at Coremedia AG, Hamburg
10/99-12/06
Founder and chairman of Netstorm Systems, Thorsten Schneider
10/05-05/06Database administrator and Teaching Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christoph Koch, Saarland University
2003-2004
Teaching Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller (Two Software Design Labs), Saarland University
07/01-06/04
System administration of a heterogeneous network at the chair of Prof. Autexier, Saarland University
04/01-06/01
Software engineer at the DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken
07/01-09/01
Student trainee at Siemens A&D, Saarbrücken
03/97-07/98
Side job at the Meguin GmbH, Saarlouis
1996-1997
Internship at Rousselange Computersysteme, Schwalbach

Stay Abroad

10/07-01/08Educational journey along the australian east coast

Voluntary Service

2006-2007
Member of the organizing team of the "Firmeninformationstag" FIT2006 and FIT2007
2000-2005
Elected member of the student board, Faculty of Computer Science, Saarland University
2003-2005
Member of the examination board, Faculty of Computer Science, Saarland University
2001
Member of the organizing team of the "Firmeninformationstag" FIT2001
1997-1998
Member of the "Landesschülervertretung"

Skills

Programming Languages

C, C++,
Objective-C, Java,
Perl, PHP
and other scripting languages

Databases
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Operating Systems
Linux,
MacOS X,
MS Windows (3.0 - Vista),
MS DOS
Networks
Construction, cabling and maintenance of structured networks. Configuration of MTAs, web servers and other network services.
Languages
German (native)
Fluent in English
Elementary French and Spanish

Publications

Dynamics in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Networks
Thorsten Schneider, Saarbrücken 2008, 80 pages, paperback. ISBN 3-8364-9061-7

Interests

Diving (Skill level: PADI Assistant Instructor), biking, running and playing my guitar.