beckr.org | Christian Becker

 

Work experience

2004 - current

MediaEvent Services, Project Manager, Lead Developer (Wetzlar)

• Lead Mobile Streaming Platforms (4 developers, 2 mobile operators)
• Proposal drafting and budgeting
• Developer interviews
• Assistance at streaming productions (including several MTV Europe Music Awards) and client meetings throughout Europe

01/2007 - 04/2007

Umanis France, Consultant XBRL (Paris, France)

• Consulting and user training sessions at the French central bank on the subject of XBRL/Basel II (in french)
• Preparation of marketing materials for Business Intelligence offerings, assistance at sales meetings
• Drafted system specification for a national XBRL processing system proposal

• Developed critical client components on a multitude of platforms: HTTP/1.1 client stacks, Push EMail components, Symbian EMail client basics and more
• Worked closely with US colleagues
• including 2 weeks at US headquarters, 1.5 months fulltime

Lufthansa Systems Network, Trainee, Developer (part time, Hamburg)

• Independently developed fully working prototype of an MPEG4 video mail terminal (C++, MFC/DirectShow)
• Database-driven generation of Flash content (C++, ImageMagick, ming)

Publications

• Christian Becker, Christian Bizer: DBpedia Mobile: A Location-Enabled Linked Data Browser. Presented at Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008) - Workshop at the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China, April 2008
• Ilias Michalarias, Christian Becker: Multidimensional Querying in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied computing- Special Track on Database Theory, Technology, and Applications (SAC-DTTA 2007), Seoul, Korea, March 11-15, 2007

Education

Freie Universität Berlin

Diploma Business Administration: Advanced studies (equiv. Master); current GPA in German notation: 1.5 (excellent)
Specializations Information Systems, Marketing, Accounting and Auditing

Université Paris X Nanterre

Master studies in business (French), Erasmus exchange programme

Freie Universität Berlin

Diploma Business Administration: Basic studies; grade in German notation: 2.5 (good)

High school diploma with specializations Computer Science and Maths; grade in German notation: 2.1 (good)

Skills

English (business fluent), French (fluent), German (mother tongue)

C, C++, PHP, Java/J2EE, Perl, Bash, ASP, JavaScript, MATLAB, UML

Windows Media (Encoder, Player, DRM), 3GPP/MPEG4, RTSP protocol

Activities

• Open-source project SpamIntelligence
• Travel and Languages