matthias-en.json

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	"title": "Curriculum Vitae von Matthias Christen",
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			"date": "*17. April 1980",
			"title": "Matthias Christen",
			"text": "<ul><li>Familienstand: ledig</li><li>Staatsangehörigkeit: Schweiz</li><li>Heimatort: Affoltern BE</li></ul>",
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		{
			"date": "1987 – 1999",
			"title": "Schule",
			"text": "<ul><li>Rudolf Steiner-Schule Sihlau (Adliswil ZH)</li><li>Rudolf Steiner-Schule Basel</li></ul>",
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			"date": "1996",
			"title": "Erster Computer",
			"text": "Entdeckung der Faszination «Programmieren», erste Schritte mit QBASIC und Turbo Pascal für Windows",
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			"date": "1999",
			"title": "«Fraktale Geometrie – Ästhetik des Chaos»",
			"subtitle": "Abschlussarbeit",
			"text": "Untersuchung von Fraktalen und Programme zu deren Erzeugung (Mandelbrot-/Julia-Mengen, Lindenmayer-Systeme, Iterierte Funktionensysteme)",
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			"date": "2000",
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			"date": "2000 – 2006",
			"title": "Diplom Mathematik",
			"subtitle": "University of Basel",
			"text": "<ul><li>Dipl. Mathematiker, Grade 5.5</li><li>Minors: Computer Science, Musicology</li><li>Diploma Thesis (with Prof. Dr. N. A’Campo): «Recursively Computing The Khovanov Homology Of Slalom Knots», Grade 6</li></ul>",
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				{ "name": "Maple", "level": 1.4 },
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			"date": "2000",
			"title": "OurClass",
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				{ "name": "MySQL", "level": 1.4 },
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				{ "name": "CSS", "level": 1 },
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			"date": "2001",
			"title": "CdCoverCreator",
			"text": "<a href='http://thyante.com/index.php?cdcovercreator' target='_blank'>Desktop application</a> for designing CD covers and booklets",
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			"date": "Oktober 2003",
			"title": "Application Developer",
			"subtitle": "Ritter electronics, Arlesheim",
			"text": "Design and implementation of an interface between Excel and Axapta",
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			"date": "Oktober 2003 – Juli 2005",
			"title": "Teaching Assistant",
			"subtitle": "Universität Basel",
			"text": "<ul><li>Teaching assistant in Web Technologies</li><li>Development of a graphical XML editor for the e-learning section of the Pharmacology department</li></ul>",
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				{ "name": "Java", "level": 3 },
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			"date": "2003",
			"title": "University Calendar Online",
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			"date": "Oktober 2005 – November 2006",
			"title": "Civil Service",
			"subtitle": "Schweizerische Orchideenstiftung am Herbarium Jany Renz, Basel",
			"text": "<ul><li>Weiterentwicklung der internen web-basieren Tools zur digitalen Archivierung von Beständen</li><li>Konzeption und Neuentwicklung Katalogisierungssoftware</li></ul>",
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			"date": "Dezember 2006",
			"title": "Application Developer",
			"subtitle": "HWI Solutions AG, Oberwil",
			"text": "Porting tax software from Delphi to Java",
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			"date": "2007 – 2011",
			"title": "PhD Computer Science",
			"subtitle": "University of Basel",
			"text": "<ul><li>Dr. phil. nat., magna cum laude</li><li>PhD student in the High Performance and Web Computing Group with Prof. Dr. H. Burkhart</li><li>Research areas: High Performance Computing, Scientific Computing, Compiler Technologies, Auto Tuning, Optimization</li><li>Dissertations project <a href='https://github.com/matthias-christen/patus' target='_blank'>«Patus»</a><li>Dissertation: <a href='http://edoc.unibas.ch/1418/' target='_blank'>«Generating and Auto-Tuning Parallel Stencil Codes»</a>, Hartung-Gorre, ISBN 978-3-86628-409-8</li></ul>",
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			"date": "2009-2012",
			"title": "Patus",
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			"text": "Code generator and auto tuner for parallel stencil codes, <a href='https://github.com/matthias-christen/patus' target='_blank'>github.com/matthias-christen/patus</a>",
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			"date": "August 2009 – Oktober 2009",
			"title": "Intern",
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			"text": "<ul><li>Intern in the Computational Research Division</li><li>Performance benchmarks and auto tuning</li></ul>",
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			"title": "Intern",
			"subtitle": "Laurence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley CA, USA",
			"text": "<ul><li>Intern in the Computational Research Division</li><li>Code transformations and auto tuning for scientific software</li><li>Performance benchmarking on HPC systems</li><li>Writing scientific publications</li></ul>",
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			"title": "PostDoc",
			"subtitle": "Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano",
			"text": "<ul><li>PostDoc at the Institute of Computational Science with Prof. Dr. O. Schenk</li><li>Research project <a href='https://github.com/matthias-christen/patus' target='_blank'>«Patus»</a></li></ul>",
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			"date": "Since Januar 2013",
			"title": "Senior Software Architect",
			"subtitle": "Vanamco AG, Zürich",
			"text": "<ul><li>Architektur und Entwicklung von Desktop-Applikationen (UI, Netzwerk, Compiler-Technologien)</li><li>Architektur und Entwicklung von web-basierter Software</li><li>Neuentwicklungen von hybriden mobilen Apps</li><li>Neu-/Weiterentwicklungen im Web-Frontend-Bereich</li><li>Neuentwicklungen interner Tools</li></ul>",
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			"title": "Ghostlab",
			"text": "«Synchronized web development, testing, and inspection»<br><a href='https://www.vanamco.com/ghostlab' target='_blank'>www.vanamco.com/ghostlab</a>",
			"type": "Project",
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				{ "name": "Python", "level": 1.4 },
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			"title": "Adaptricity AG",
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			"date": "",
			"title": "Here I am",
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