Experience :: Projects

Here's a list of my longer-running projects, i.e. projects that involved more than a couple of days of consulting. Note: Since 2007 I spent most of my time doing short to medium term consulting around MDSD and DSLs. I have stopped listing these projects separately.

Art: Development Zeitraum: summer 2006 - summer 2006 Kunde: ZF Friedrichshafen	Tool integration for ZF
	About the Project I was building a tool chain to integrate UML-based architectural models of embedded systems with implementation models based on Matlab/Simulink My Role Implementation of the transformations Technologies/Tools openArchitectureWare Matlab/Simulink

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: autumn 2006 - ongoing Kunde: SIEMENS	AMPLE
	About the Project I am helping SIEMENS in the EU research project "AMPLE" with MDSD, PLE and AOP. My Role Consulting, Development, Coaching Technologies/Tools openArchitectureWare

 

Art: Development, consulting Zeitraum: autumn 2006 - ongoing Kunde: PrismTech	MDSD Tooling
	About the Project I am helping Prismtech with their MDSD tooling infrastructure My Role Consulting, Development, Coaching Technologies/Tools openArchitectureWare Eclipse GMF CORBA DDS

 

Art: Development Zeitraum: 2004 - ongoing Kunde: openarchitectureware.org

Development of the openArchitectureWare generator

About the Project openArchitectureWare is a powerful MDSD/MDA generator framework. It provides hooks and features for building large, complex code generators. During 2004 and 2005 I have been involved in continuing the development of this generator tool, including a plugin-based configuration frontend, various utilities, a metamodel generator (which generates Java metaclasses from UML models) as well as model-to-model transformations that are aligned along the concepts (though not compatible with) the OMG QVT. My Role Technologies/Tools MDSD openArchitectureWare

 

Art: Consulting/development Zeitraum: 2005 - early 2006 Kunde: T-Mobile

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About the Project In this project we build an enterprise-wide service repostory for a SOA implementation in a major german mobile telecoms company. The repository is based on openArchitectureWare, Hibernate and JavaServerFaces. My Role Definition of the SOA Metamodel/Approach/Programming Model/Infrastructure Implementation of the repository as well as of the JSF-based data management GUI. Technologies/Tools openArchitectureWare JavaServerFaces Tomcat Hibernate MySQL

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: autumn 2006 - autumn 2006 Kunde: SIEMENS Netwoks	- Undisclosed -
	About the Project I was helping SIEMENS to build an MDSD tool chain for JAIN SLEE based software development. My Role Consulting for code generation Tool Integration Technologies/Tools openArchitectureWare JAIN SLEE Rational Software Architect

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2005 - 2005 Kunde: - Undisclosed -

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About the Project In the context of this project my job is to consult on software and systems architecture. Using MDSD, I am helping the team to build a generator to support application development in an agile scenario. The technology is based on Spring on the server, as well as the Eclipse plugin runtime on the client. My Role Architecture Consulting. Definition of component model and related programming model. Implementation of a generator to support software development in the project. Technologies/Tools openArchitectureWare Eclipse Tomcat Spring

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2005 - 2005 Kunde: - Undisclosed -

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About the Project In the context of this project my job is to consult on the server-side architecture as well as on model-driven software development. I have devised a simple, technology agnostic programming model based on UML and other models. The technology is based on J2EE on the server, and Eclipse Rich Clients. My Role Architecture Consulting. Definition of component model and related programming model. Implementation of a generator to support software development in the project. Technologies/Tools Eclipse openArchitectureWare J2EE/BEA Borland Data Express

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2002 - 2005 Kunde: ESO, NRAO

ALMA

About the Project ALMA is short for Atacama Large Milimeter Array and means a new international radio telescope jointly developed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), MPI, the american National Radio Astronomy Organisation (NRAO) and other institutes around the world. It will be an array of 64 antennas located at 5000 meters in the Atacama desert in Chile. These 64 antennase will work together as "one big antenna", a concept known as (radio-)interferometry. ALMA is very special for resolution and signal quality, as well as online data reduction and ease of use allowing measurements by non-radio astronomers. For more information take a look at the ALMA project web page, or at a presentation which Heiko Sommer has created My Role In this project I serve as an external consultant. Together with the highly skilled people at ESO I work on the software architecture and the high-level design. I am also involved in process issues, such as introducing a Wiki to the project, facilitating design workshops or project retrospectives. This task is especially interesting because it is a relatively unusual context, there are people from many countries on the project, everything happens in English, and the staff there is exceptionally highly skilled. Technologies/Tools container/component infrastructures code generation from UML models XML and Castor CORBA GUI development

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2004 - 2005 Kunde: BMW Car IT

Autosar Proof-Of-Concept

About the Project The AUTOSAR standard is a component-based middleware for use in automotive ECUs (electronic controllers). The middleware is implemented using model-driven software development techniques to meet the required performance and resource constraints. Together with my customer, I have been implementing a proof-of-concept prototype for the generator as well as for an IDE. My Role Consulting on model driven software development Consulting on component/container infrastructures Consulting on communication middleware concepts Review and Feedback for the standards documents Consulting for Eclipse-based IDE extensions Technologies/Tools OSEK CAN openArchitectureWare Eclipse

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2004 - 2005 Kunde: Siemens CT

Embedded Model-Driven Development Research

About the Project MDSD will play an important role in various Siemens (embedded) projects. In order to gather experience with the approach, I have run various small MDSD research projects with Siemens CT staff. My Role Consulting on model driven software development Consulting on component/container infrastructures Consulting on communication middleware concepts Review and Feedback for various Siemens Projects Technologies/Tools J2ME Linux openArchitectureWare QT

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2002 - 2003 Kunde: Dynetics, GM

Proactive Maintenance

About the Project The proactive maintenance project is a project run by a major automaker that will provide support for advanced vehicle and fleet management services. As such, an embedded computer will be installed in the car, running an OSGI gateway. This gateway will run several, dynamically adaptable diagnostic applications that report data to a backend application for further diagnostic processing. The system will provide secure communication using mainly GSN-based wireless technologies anf will be scalable to accomodate for hundres of thousands of vehicles. Web access will be provided for user interfaces. My Role chief architect for the J2EE based server infrastructure involved in the security concepts and implementation of the communication f/w design support for the OSGi based client design of the archiving subsystem process consulting for the project Technologies/Tools J2EE, Weblogic OSGi JMS

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2003 - 2003 Kunde: ESG, DaimlerChrysler

DAiSY

About the Project This project aims at producing a system that allows a major german automotive vendor to author, structurize and manage all the after-sales documentation for workshops. Technically, the system will have a J2EE backend, an explicit workflow component and a (fat) client, based on the Eclipse platform. Artikel aus der AUTO und ELEKTRONIK My Role chief software architect design support for the development team technology consulting J2EE technology consulting Eclipse (RCP) coaching and reviews load tests operating concept Technologies/Tools J2EE, Websphere JUnit Ant Webserivces DB2 SWT Eclipse Plugin Development

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2003 - 2003 Kunde: Fulcrum Software	TENA
	About the Project This project, part of the FI 2010 initiative aims at creating an infrastructure for common reuse of artifacts on US training and testing ranges. My Role Consulting on model driven design, code generation and metamodelling Implementation of an IDE for the system based on Eclipse Technologies/Tools CORBA IKE2 Rational Rose XMI openArchitectureWare Eclipse

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2001 - 2002 Kunde: dvg/FinanzIT

Himalaya II

About the Project Himalaya II will be the base architecture for the applications of the northern german Sparkassen, a large group of banks in Germany. The system is based on J2EE using WebLogic Server, with access to legacy mainframe applications based on WebLogic Enterprise and C++. The front end is built on browser technology. The project consist of more than 100 developers. My Role My role was to be part of the architecture team. Definition of the component architecture for the system Definition and description of the programming model Code Reviews and coaching EJB consulting Technologies/Tools J2EE EJB Weblogic Server HTML JavaScript

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 2001 - 2001 Kunde: IBM

e-Diag

About the Project Testing vehicles efficiently after they have been delivered to the customers is a major undertaking. Usually, embedded PCs are distributed to the garages, they contain decision-tree based software to support the technician with his work. There are several problems with this approach: The test strategy (decision trees) is not suitable for modern vehicles which contain many embedded computers. The equipment in the garages (PCs) is expensive. Updating the data on the PCs is difficult an expensive. The approach designed together with IBM France and Dynetics is rule-based and client-server. In the garages, there is only a small embedded device which "talks" to the vehicle and is remotely connected to a central diagnostics engine, based on J2EE (Servlets and EJBs). My Role I was very much involved in the design of the test approach. Architecture and design, as well of the coaching of the implementation of the system. Technologies/Tools J2EE EJB Websphere J2ME

 

Art: Consulting Zeitraum: 1999 - 2000 Kunde: DaimlerChrysler

Prodikos

About the Project PRODIKOS is the new production test and diagnosis system for DaimlerChrysler, designed and developed by IBM. It will replace Daimler's NISP and Chrysler's various systems in all DaimlerChrysler plants worldwide. The most important goal of PRODIKOS is flexibility. It is intended to be used well into the next generation of vehicle electronics, i.e. it must be possible to run parts of the system "on board", i.e. on small computers inside the vehicles. The system uses Java as its primary plattform. To achieve the required degree of flexibility, a CORBA based peer-to-peer architecture was implemented. All parts of the application are implemented as services which can be dynamically configured to run on any node in the system. Communication among the peers is based on a set of generic interfaces (pipes and filters), which have been implemented based on sockets, CORBA, MQSeries, and others. The system also provides a nice graphical authoring system. It allows to specify tests using a powerful state chart notation. My Role My role was primary system architect. Analysis of the system and its requirements Basic architecture of the kernel and services as well as the pipes and filters approach Implementation and coaching during prototyping of these frameworks Prototyping of the authoring system using my FAF framework. ´ In a later stage of the project, I did several code and and architecture/design reviews. Technologies/Tools J2SE Swing CORBA MQSeries