CV, Armin Faltl

Skills

• Diplom Ingenieur of mechanical engineering, naval architecture on the Technical University of Vienna.
• Software engineer by training on the job, literature and courses.
  
• Unix, Linux and Windows NT administrator, basic networking knowledge by training on the job literature and courses.
• Design of electronics hardware including micro controler-, instrumentation amplifier- and DC/DC-converter boards by training on the job and literature.

Experience

• Design and implementation of 2 revisions of a dynamic web application (corresponding to revisions of the underlying Dimetra System) that shows the current state of radio base stations, the main switching offices and connection land lines for the Austrian ministry of internal affairs as a subcontractor of Alcatel-Lucent.
• Development of a series of LED-iluminated tables including the mechanical, optical and electronics design for an event furniture service. The electronics performs recharge control of the LiFePO accumulators, step-up conversion to LED voltage level and PWM dimming of the LEDS.
• Construction and build of a 10" Newtonian telescope with optimized mirror cell and full tube.
• Reengineering and integration of a new base station type in a C++ accounting and management software as a contract work for Nokia Austria in Eisenstadt.
• Construction dimensioning and build of the flipable roof of a small astronomical observatory. A special feature of this roof is its four-joint kinematics.
• Development (with partners) of a training machine for the medical rehabilitation sector. My part of the work was the design of the electronic controls, part of the electronic hardware and firmware development and a part of the mechanical design and construction.
• Development of a force measurement system for another training machine including a strain gauge sensor element, the instrumentation amplifier circuit and software for the microcontroller that transfers the data to a PC.
• Construction and build of a fire emergency staircase made of steel for a three-level building.
• Construction and build of a cleaning machine for large scale heat exchangers. The build of the prototype was done in cooperation with a special machine manufacturer.

2002 Trade-legal manager for a locksmith's shop.

1995 - 2002 Work for Siemens AG Oe, PSE:
Design, implementation (scripting) and application of software development policies and configuration management systems. Advanced knowledge on Rational ClearCase, basic knowledge on CVS (including RCS).

Design of a string pattern matching algorithm for combining incomplete scanner input from OCR.

Development of a fault tolerant transaction based data synchronisation tool including a socket based client-server system for data transport and remote execution on UNIX (HP-UX and SINIX).

1994 - 1995 Work for the "Commission for Acoustic Research" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences:
Implementation of a Fast Hartley Transform algorithm in DSP assembler and two real time display widgets derived from MFC on Windows NT, one of oscilloscope and one of spectrogram type.

1994 Military Service:
Serving as a truck driver.

1992 - 1994 Diploma thesis:
Design and implementation of a graphical pre- and postprocessor for a naval buoyancy calculation program. Usage of threedimensional parametric splines, display transformations. Added bouancy, stability and wetted surface calculations, and a developable surface generator after finish of thesis.

Programming Skills

Craftsmanship

In summer 2011 I acquired the certificate of being an International Welding Specialist for pipe welding for the processes stick welding (111) and MAG (135, 136) in all positions.

Patents:

Education

Other (partly private) Projects

• I have done work in the field of stereo photometrology, including the development of a precision measurment widget for (planar) images, lens (un-)destortion equations and their parameter optimization. This work is now combined with a pre-existing metrology application available to me.
• Design and implementation of an optimizer for a storage problem similiar to Knappsack.
• Implementation of a simple two-dimensional boundary element method in computational fluid dynamics, to compute surface pressure distribution and velocity field with streamlines around a profile, including angle of zero lift. The effect of different implementations of the Kuta-condition and the stability and speed of different solvers for the resulting linear equation system have been investigated.
  
• Development of a governor simulation system in C, with dynamically configurable controll loop.
  
• Implementation of basic algorithms for the simulation and control of a six-leged walking robot in C/C++ using OpenGL for the display.
  
• Participation at the (regretably vapoure-ware) Free Desinger project: I did literature research and specifications in the fields of parametric and constraint based modeling, combinatorial solid geometry, geometrical object databases and memory organization.
  
• Implementation of a simple 3D CAD program. This work was inspired by the use of QCad which is a 2D system.

Hobbies