Sven Dowideit

Current

• senior developer and team lead at foswiki open source project
• co-Founder at WikiRing.com
• Consulting wiki Engineer at fosiki

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Past

• core developer and admin at twiki open source project
• Senior Software Engineer at Altiris
• Senior Analyst/Programmer at HSA Systems

• Senior Software Engineer (ACUS) at Unisys
• Citect Support and Network Engineer at Citect

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Education

• The University of Queensland

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Industry

Computer Software

Sven Dowideit’s Summary

I worked in the development of specialized shrink-wrap development tools and products for 10 years. Experienced the entire technical Software Development Lifecycle, from pre-sales, consulting, specification, design & development, through to testing, deployment, maintainence, support, management and process design.

Sine 2005, I've been consulting with companies to help them better leverage their in-house knowledge, through the uses of Wiki concepts.

I specialize in the implementation, deployment and core development of Data-Wiki's, notably TWiki and Foswiki.

Sven Dowideit’s Specialties:

knowledge management, process development, quality systems, SDLC, software, network, web, internet, wiki, twiki, foswiki

Sven Dowideit’s Experience

• senior developer and team lead

  foswiki open source project

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  I'm continuing the leadership, development and maintenance work that I had been doing on the TWiki codebase.

• co-Founder

  WikiRing.com

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  The WikiRing Partnership is a pool of the world's most experienced Wiki users, developers, and consultants, who have partnered to provide users of open source Wiki and web collaboration tools with a one-stop support solution.

• Consulting wiki Engineer

  fosiki

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

• core developer and admin

  twiki open source project

  (Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2008 (9 years )

• Senior Software Engineer

  Altiris

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Altiris Patch Management Team
  
  ASP.NET, SQL Server, XML

• Senior Analyst/Programmer

  HSA Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 6 months)

  Worked on the Ecdis certification effort of HSA Endevour and ADI Vasco, Lead process change, culminating in the use of TWiki for task tracking and ISO9001 process managemement

• Senior Software Engineer (ACUS)

  Unisys

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1998 — March 2001 (2 years 5 months)

  worked on NT LINC and LDA III direct generate. TCP/IP, Winsock, IPC, UNIX portability , C, C++, Java, MFC, Visual Studio build. brought TWiki into Unisys, and made many local customisations.

• Citect Support and Network Engineer

  Citect

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  March 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 9 months)

  Citect support, Engineering support, Training, some development in mfc & c++, Windows network administration

Sven Dowideit’s Education

• The University of Queensland

  BEng , Computer Systems , 1990 — 1995