Florian Georg. CONTACT Bozenerstrasse 10 Freiburg Germany

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1 Florian Georg CONTACT Bozenerstrasse 10 Freiburg Germany SUMMARY My focus is to enable organisations and teams to deliver high-quality, innovative software by establishing effective engineering processes, practices and tools. Over the last years I worked as a client-facing solution architect, technical sales, software developer and consultant across a wide variety of technologies, disciplines and industries. In my current role at IBM, I'm primarily responsible for advising large clients in strategic changes to their software delivery models and act as technical lead for complex solution proposals and roll-out projects. I'm a frequent speaker at international conferences, a guest lecturer at universities and have published articles about agile software delivery and IBM solutions. SKILLS Consulting and leadership skills Client-facing, pragmatic and value-focused consulting Broad knowledge of end-to-end software delivery processes, practices and tools Consulting experience in multiple development disciplines - e.g. portfolio management, requirements engineering, project management, development, quality management and deploy/release management Advocating User Experience (UX) excellence and software-driven product innovation Project experience in broad range of industries - e.g. banking / finance, pharma, life sciences, public sector, transportation, manufacturing and individual software vendors (ISV) Skills in key IT development and compliance standards (ITIL, CMMI) Up-to-date knowledge of key industry trends and technologies in software development Key specialist skills Cloud development platforms, technologies and business models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and deploy and release automation (devops) Integration architectures for software delivery pipelines Visual modeling, Model-Driven Development (MDD) and domain-specific languages (DSL) Industry standard Open-Source technologies (Eclipse, Linux, Node.js...) Broad range of skills in programming languages, technologies and concepts Data analytics, data mining and visual exploration of information spaces Florian Georg 1

2 EXPERIENCE IBM Switzerland Solution Architect Jan 2013 Present responsible for sustainable business development, consulting and leading solution architecture proposals for IBM Rational technical account manager for the Rational brand, supporting clients of all sizes and industries responsible for leading the technical team in pre-sales and solution delivery phases responsible for territory planning, market trend analysis and technical sales strategy in Switzerland development of local business partner network and academic relations member of the world-wide core team for the "Collaborative Lifecycle-Management" Community of Practice, responsible for knowledge transfer and enablement of field professionals around the globe elected member of the IBM Technical Expert Council (TEC) for Central Europe member of the IBM Rational European Technical Leadership Council regular speaker on international conferences, with a focus on agile development, continuous delivery/devops and development tool integration architectures IBM Switzerland May 2011 Dec 2012 Client Technical Professional Technical Sales and trusted technology adviser for selected IBM Rational clients responsible for business development and software + services sales responsible for leading solution proposals, technical proof-of-concepts and pilot projects IBM Rational regional mentor for agile software development, Agility@Scale and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Subject matter expert for integration architectures based on Open Services for Lifecycle Integration (OSLC) IBM Switzerland Jun 2006 Apr 2011 Software Services Consultant client-facing software solution consultant focus on analysis, design and implementation disciplines for large clients and international projects responsible for method/process consulting and solution implementation subject matter expert for Model-driven-development, Enterprise Java, Eclipse and collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) IBM Rational regional mentor for agile software development in Switzerland Nycomed Chair for Bioinformatics and Information Mining, University of Konstanz Software Architect (part-time) Mar 2003 May 2006 architect for today's leading open-source data mining and information exploration platform KNIME ( responsible for scalable, extensible product platform architecture and the modeling client responsible for technology consulting for the research and algorithm teams Florian Georg 2

3 Innovations Software Technology Mar 2003 May 2006 Software Engineer developer and component lead for a market-leading visual business rule management (BRM) product responsible for domain models, user interface components, Java EE code-generator and quality assurance tools responsible for technology exploration and evaluation, consulting and interfacing with product management, marketing, sales and clients Reischmann & Kibele Sep 1998 Feb 2003 Lead Web Developer lead web developer in a small cross-functional web-agency team specialized in web-based B2C solutions, content management (CMS) and unified messaging responsible for project management, technical feasibility, quality assurance and implementation responsible for educating trainees and supervising thesis projects CERTIFICATIONS The Open Group Master IT Specialist (CITS) Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) OMG Certified UML Professional (OCUP-F) IBM Certified Solution Specialist - Rational Team Concert IBM Certified Solution Expert - Collaborative Lifecycle Management IBM Certified Solution Designer - Rational Software Architect EDUCATION MSc. Computer Science - Information Engineering University of Konstanz Nycomed Chair for Bioinformatics and Information Mining Main courses: Data Mining, Machine learning, Intelligent Data Analysis, Visualization of large information spaces Thesis: "A scalable and extensible platform for collaborative, distributed and integrated Information Mining based on REST, OSGi and KNIME", 2010 Dipl. Ing. (FH) - Applied Computer Science University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten Main courses: Information and Communication Networks, Software engineering, Human-computer interaction, Clinical expert systems ( Artificial Intelligence Thesis (external): "Concept and Implementation of a flexible and extensible Enterprise Reporting System based on J2EE and Web Services", 2003 Graduated with honors (best graduate 2002/2003) Florian Georg 3

4 Federal certified assistant for ICT Federal School for Technology, Tettnang Main courses: Information networks, microcontroller/embedded systems, web-based visualization of sensor data Thesis: "Java Applet for live visualization of photovoltaic sensor data", 1998 PUBLICATIONS AND TALKS Publications F. Georg, H.J. Pross, H. Sternkicker: "Agility zu Ende gedacht - von der Entwicklung bis zum Betrieb", in: SIGS Onlinespecial Agility, Florian Georg: Agility@Scale - Rahmenwerk zur Skalierung agiler Entwicklungsprozesse, in: Object Spectrum "Agility" Special, 2011 Florian Georg, Daniel Haischt: Agilität und Compliance durch durchgängige Prozessunterstützung, in: Object Spectrum "Agility" Special, 2011 Florian Georg: Agile Software Entwicklung mit Jazz, in: KMU Magazin Switzerland, 2010 Talks (selection): BigData Summit 14 (Zurich, 2014): "Visual data exploration for cloud-scale dimensional data" Eclipse Finance Day 2014 (Zurich, 2014): "Connecting the dots: Development Lifecycle integration with open standards" Jazoon Developer Conference (Zurich, 2014): "Efficient Visualization and Exploration of Large Data Sets with D3, Crossfilter and DC" IBM Innovate Conference (Orlando, 2014): "Software migration testing for the ILTIS operational railway control system" Guest Lecture HS Rapperswil (Rapperswil, 2014): "Development in the Cloud, for the Cloud" GSE Conference 2014 (Erfurt, 2014): "The IBM Open Cloud Architecture (and Platform)" Agile Leadership Day (Zurich, 2013): "Agile Development Intelligence Making process improvements measurable" Global Solution Exchange (GSE) - IBM Websphere (Leipzig, 2013): "Continuous Delivery - agile from Dev to Ops" Swiss Requirements Day (Zurich, 2013): "Requirements Management Tool Integration with OSLC" IBM Innovate Conference (Orlando, 2013): "From Agile Development to Strategic Business Planning" (with customer) Guest Lecture - University of Zurich (Zurich, 2012): "Scaling Agile Software Delivery" Swiss Requirements Day (Zurich, 2012): "How Requirements Management can benefit from the Semantic Web" IBM Innovate Conference (Orlando, 2012): "Software Application Lifecycle Management for a Worldwide Healthcare Business Intelligence Project"(with customer) Guest Lecture - HS Ravensburg-Weingarten (Weingarten, 2011): "Towards Development Intelligence Applying analytics and statistic modelling in the field of software engineering" IBM Symposium (Lucerne, 2011): "RTC and Lean Development with Kanban" IBM Innovate Conference Germany (Leipzig, 2010): "A solution for collaborative and agile effort estimation for distributed teams" Florian Georg 4

5 ALMConf (Stuttgart, 2010): "Kostenreduktion und Interoperabilität bei Multi-Vendor ALM Lösungen" (Cost reduction and interoperability on multi-vendor ALM solutions) Jazoon Developer Conference (Zurich, 2010): "Distributed Planning Poker: Integration of RTC and Google Wave for distributed effort estimation" Guest Lecture - HS Ravensburg-Weingarten (Weingarten, 2009): "Current Challenges in Software Development" Swiss Requirements Day (Zurich, 2009): "Reducing the cost and complexity of integrating requirements tools" IBM Rational User Conference (Zurich, 2008): "Introduction to Collaborative Lifecycle Management" Florian Georg 5