curriculum.vitae

EDUCATION   

1. MS Business Engineer (Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Research University, Germany, 2003. Focuses: computer science, economics, engineering, marketing, operations research, and telematics.
2. Economics, University of Berkeley, California, USA, 2001. Focuses: Economic development and international trade.

EXPERIENCE

Sales Engineer at ontoprise GmbH      October 2006 – Present

• Direct Sales      May 2007 – Present
  Generating new cutting edge projects on the basis of the established core technology of ontoprise. Acquiring customers in new market segments and regions. Examples include expert systems, predictive analytics systems, and advanced semantic search solutions in the United States, Asia, Switzerland, and Germany [1].
• Partner Management      October 2006 – Present
  Partner manager for solutions in the field of semantic search, intelligent guidance, Semantic Web, and artificial intelligence on the sectors automotive, manufacturing systems engineering, telecommunications, biotechnology, and nuclear power. Being a technical bridge between the development team and quote new features to the customers and partners, present technical highlights to enable partners to build new solutions on top of the core technology (an example is the partner Hignos AG [2] ).
• Pre-Sales Consulting      October 2006 – Present
  Working with the sales team to engage with sales prospects to understand and assess customer requirements. Preparing and presenting demonstrations, PoCs, and prototypes based on the core products through developing product extensions, modifications, and configurations. Finding solutions and addressing technical questions that arise throughout the whole sales process and engage directly with the customers on both technical and non-technical levels to ensure superior service. Further interacting directly with the product teams to resolve issues.

Solution Development at ontoprise GmbH      November 2002 – Present

• Director Solution Development      November 2002 – October 2006
  Leading the development of the customer solution software of ontoprise (SemanticGuide, SemanticIntegrator, and SemanticMiner [3]). The solutions are build on top of ontoprise's core products called OntoBroker and OntoStudio.
• Heading development of SemanticMiner      November 2002 – Present
  SemanticMiner is a semantic search solution. It uses the knowledge model represented in an ontology to refine and expand queries which are posed automatically to search engines. SemanticMiner also moderates and guides the users to refine the query in terms of the users' context [4] .
• Professional Services      November 2002 – Present
  Supporting the professional services team in doing complex and technically challenging project implementations. Designing solutions on architectural, functional, and user interface level.

Internship at DaimlerChrysler AG      September 1999 – January 2001

• Implementation of a database-powered web-interface to improve the project- and product controlling process in terms of efficiency in the MB Trucks division.

Internship at IBM Germany      April 1999 – August 1999

• Development of a process flow unification and optimization for the human resources department.

Self-employed consultant and reseller      January 1995 – January 2004

• CEO of Dream·Techs GbR during studies: Telecom, IT, Car-Hifi – Products, Services, Consulting

SKILLS

Information Technology (IT)

• Search Engines (underlying SemanticMiner / SemanticGuide): AltaVista, Arexera X-IIP, Google Desktop Search (developer of Java API), Google Enterprise Search Appliance, Apache Lucene, Microsoft Search & SharePoint , IBM OmniFind & WSRR, insiders mindaccess, OpenText LiveLink, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and Verity K2.
• Programming:
  Frameworks: Web application development with AJAX, ASP.NET, Flex, Java (Grails, JSP), Zope / Python
  Languages: Basic, C, C#, Groovy, HTML, LaTeX, F-Logic (rules), JavaScript, Modula 2, Pascal, Perl, Python, RDF(S), OWL, XML, XSL(T)
• Databases: Oracle DB, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL
• OS: Linux, MacOS, OpenBSC, Win32/64
• Applications: Office apps, graphic- and internet tools, IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio)

Languages

• Fluent in German and English; conversant in French

ACTIVTIES / OTHER

• Ski-Club Weilimdorf e.V.      January 2001 - Present
  Giving ski courses as instructor and administrating the web site of the club.
• Research Assistant      July 1997 – December 2001
  Assistance to Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH); tasks within the area of ontology-based knowledge management.
• AIESEC      October 1996 – December 1997
  International Student Association; organization and logistics of the "Firmenkontaktgespräch" (yearly career fair).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Eddie Mönch, Robert Schlieder, Henrik Oppermann, Hans-Peter Schnurr: Semantic FAQ System in Automotive Industry. Case Study: ThyssenKrupp Presta Steering. In: Proceedings of the ESTC2007 - 1st European Semantic Technology Conference.
2. Jürgen Angele, Eddie Mönch, Andreas Nierlich, Henrik Oppermann, Heiko Rudat, and Hans-Peter Schnurr: Applications and Good Practices of Semantic Technologies. In: Semantic Web. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2006, S. 337-358.
3. J. Iria, F. Ciravegna, P. Cimiano, A. Lavelli, E. Motta, L. Gilardoni, E. Moench: Integrating Information Extraction, Ontology Learning and Semantic Browsing into Organizational Knowledge Processes. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes, EKAW2004.
4. Eddie Moench, Mike Ullrich, Hans-Peter Schnurr, Juergen Angele: SemanticMiner - Ontology-Based Knowledge Retrieval. In: Special Issue of selected papers of the WM2003 in the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)
5. J. Angele, E. Moench, H. Oppermann, S. Staab, and D. Wenke: Ontology-Based Query and Answering in Chemistry: OntoNova Project Halo. In: Proceedings of the ISWC'03

HONORS

1. Best papers publication list for SemanticMiner: Ein Integratives Ontologie-basiertes Knowledge Retrieval System. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Professional Knowledge Management. Experiences and Visions, Luzern 2.-4. April 2003. GI-Edition, Lecture Notes in Informatics, P28. ISBN: 3-88579-357-1.
2. AAAI Student travel grant award from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2002.

REFERENCES

[1] http://www.ontoprise.de/index.php?id=307
[2] http://www.pressebox.com/pressemeldungen/ontoprise-gmbh/boxid-104130.html  (in German)
[3] http://www.ontoprise.de/index.php?id=181
[4] http://www.ontoprise.de/index.php?id=305