Alexander Schulze

Manager for Knowledge and Requirements Management Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and as-a-Service Solutions, Strategy and Planning Systems for Software Automation, Big Data, Machine Learning and Process Optimization, Standard- and Custom Specific Software Development. Author, Trainer, Speaker at International Conferences.

Coach, Project Manager and Scrum Master (CSM) for a Semantic Product Engineering System, a Knowledge Graph based process assistance platform in product development, AI-assisted knowledge creation and smart human-machine interfaces. Technologies: Stardog, Topbraid EDG/CE, RDF/S, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, JS, Nest.js, React, NLU, ChatGPT, Aleph Alpha, Puppeteer (scraping), integration of heterogeneous ontologies.

Head of Business Development & Product Manager Smart Tourism Solutions Online Travel Portal & Internet Booking Engine solutions for the tourism industry. Smart chat bots & natural language human-machine dialogue systems, AI-based search result optimization, semantic profile & matching systems, interactive presentation systems, content management, image recognition & processing, internationalization, business analysis & development, process automation & optimization, integrations & quality assurance.

Coach for the semantic standardization of the working model for MindSphere 3.0: Creation of a tool-independent knowledge database for storing, linking, querying and comparing process and working models as a basis for documentation, training, evaluation, further development, harmonization, integration and automation with the aim of improving requirements management, traceability and reporting.

Coaching and Implementation in the Areas of Data Warehousing and Process Automation, Middleware and Load Balancing, Real-Time Communication and Online-Collaboration Technologies, Scaling and Monitoring, Security Technologies and Single-Sign-On, Web Client and Server Technologies, Databases, Profiling and Performance Optimization in the area of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as well as Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications.

Coached and implemented an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) knowledge base for the reduction of complexity and maintenance effort by a semantic harmonization of ALM solutions and variants. Provided tools, proved effectiveness by metrics and KPIs. Analyzed similarities and distances, established terms and synonyms and a platform independent ALM reference model. Used Enapso Dash and semantic Web technologies for traceability and predictive impact and risk analysis, data synchronization and reporting.

Lectures and trainings, mentor for 20 students. Specification of thesis topics, coding standards and user interfaces, documentation standards and quality assurance processes. Supervisor for the entire software life cycle and the thesis implementations, from requirements and specification via implementation and documentation up to automated tests and deployment. Assistance in publications, review and evaluation of the thesis.

Book (580 pages): More and more developers have to deal with web applications. The book shows you how to create secure and performant crossbrowser-compatible Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for the Web 2.0. Learn how a complete RIA framework is constructed. The included framework can be used immediately for your own applications. ISBN 978-3-86802-000-7 entwickler press (Verlag), 2008

Maintenance and migration project of custom specific ERP software "Trumpf TMSA" to SAP. Production Planning, Accounting, Work Time Recording, Production Data Capture. Source code and data model reverse engineering, documentation of Btrieve database, created backup and recovery tools in Borland Pascal and Delphi, administration and user guides, provided remote support and maintenance, set up and adjusted reports, created and documented export interfaces for migration to central SAP solution.

Responsible for the conception and development of a software remote control application for HEAD acoustics' recording and playback devices based on Microsoft Pocket-PC, for the "HEAD Wireless Terminal", a Windows CE based application for Web-Pads to automate and monitor Remote Desktop Applications as well as for the "Launcher", a Windows CE application to ensure automated application restarts even after cold boot and battery exchange based on Flash-Memory.

Responsible for the conception and development of integrated POS/ERP solutions for the gastronomie and retail sector (partly in cooperation with Casio Europe GmbH), integration of payment systems, point-of-sale hardware for inventory and order systems, for personnel identification and customer interaction; time registration, payroll accounting, customer management and reporting. Established products: innoCash Gastro1, innoCash Retail und innoStore

Projects: 1998-2001 "BKI Kostenplaner" (Baukosteninformationszentrum Deutscher Architektenkammern) 1998 "Zinsen & Tilgung" (Interests and Amortisation) 1996-1997 "BTK" (Spezialprogramm "Gebäudeschäden" für Würtembergische Versicherung) 1995-1996 "BTK" (Kostenermittlung mit Bauteilen)

Responsible for Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) products, SPARC Workstations and the GIGAmachine (SPARC cluster), market and competitor analysis, product placement, customer acquisition and project calculation, support, trainings, fairs, documentation as well as press releases and advertising strategies

Book (332 Pages): Table of contents: http://d-nb.info/891170936/04 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D891170936 ISBN: 3-88229-103

3 year apprenticeship at Profi-Partner GmbH für Kommunikations- und Datensysteme, Stolberg, NRW, Germany. Development of Interactive Videotex Services for Stock Exchange Trading, Online Banking and Logistics.

High-School Graduation, "Zeugnis der allgemeinen Hochschulreife, first graduate in informatics at this high school.