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Occupation and education
I am currently working as software developer for an Austrian company named MJL
(website is in German language) in Graz since March 2004. I am developing software using the programming languages Visual Basic and Oracle PL/SQL.
This autumn I am beginning to study "information technology and IT-marketing". It's a part-time course at a university of applied sciences.
Education & knowledge
I graduated from a HTL majoring in "computer science (EDP) and business education" in summer 2003. HTL (Höhere Technische Lehranstalt) is a secondary education school that permits students to acquire the university entry qualification and professional training at the same time.
I was able to acquire an extensive knowledge in the field of computer science during my time as student and of course also afterwards:
- Programming languages
- C/C++ (Microsoft Visual C++ and MFC)
- Microsoft Visual C# with ADO.NET
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Borland Delphi
- Scripting languages
- PHP4/5
- JavaScript
- Web technologies
- (X)HTML
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Relational databases
- SQL and Oracle PL/SQL
- database design, Entity-relationship diagrams
- DBMS: Oracle, MySQL, Interbase (Firebird), SQLite
- Version control systems
- Subversion
- CVS
- Microsoft Visual Source Safe
- Network engineering
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), part 1 - 4
- Operating systems
- Microsoft Windows 9x/2000/XP/2004
- Linux (Debian-Woody)
Additional skills
In 2002 I took part in an English language course and gained the Cambridge First Certificate in English.