Information & Visualization

CV Edgar Kummer

Work experience
since 11/2007	Research Assistant Multimedia Center at the Information, Communication and Media Center, University of Cottbus Analysis, design and implementation of online community functiotnality for the online gaming platform REWERSE (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics). Interface design for the use of semantic information for agent-based simulations.
04/2006 - 06/2007	Student Assistant Multimedia Center at the Information, Communication and Media Center, University of Cottbus Integration of external data sources via XML into the TYPO3 CMS of the University of Cottbus. Re-design and optimization of the information architecture of the website of the University of Cottbus. Concept, information architecture, design, and implementation for a combined website of library, computing center, mulimedia center and operational data processing unit of the University of Cottbus.
02/2006 - 03/2006	Web Developer (Internship) Multimedia Center at the Information, Communication and Media Center, University of Cottbus Concept, design and implementation of the website "Lernende Lausitz" with a forum and news system based on application server ZOPE and CMS Silva.
07/2004 - 01/2006	Student Assistant Multimedia Center at the Information, Communication and Media Center, University of Cottbus Evaluation of several content management systems. Migration of the existing website of the University of Cottbus into the TYPO3 CMS. Re-design of the website with standard compliant HTML for better accessibility
02/2006 - 03/2006	Web Developer (Internship) Vattenfall Europe Information Services, Berlin Concept, design, implementation, and integration into existing CMS of the website for "European Transmission System Operators".
Education
04/2005 - 09/2007	Master of Science(M.Sc.) in Information and Mediatechnology, University of Cottbus Focus: Content management, internet technologies Thesis: "Ontology- and Role-Based Navigation Within an University CMS"
10/2000 - 03/2005	Bachelor of Science(M.Sc.) in Information and Mediatechnology, University of Cottbus Focus: Software development, media technology Thesis: "Improved Accessibility with Standard Compliant Websites"
Skills
Technologies	Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, XML, XSL, Web-Services, several sematic web technologies, content management systems (TYPO3, Drupal, Zope/Plone/Silva)
Languages	German: mother tongue English: very good French: basic