Bernd (P.) Storsberg

IT Consultant

Erzhausen, Germany

Experience

Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
2 years 8 months
Baden-Baden, Germany

IT Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for Ferchau GmbH, Karlsruhe at a bank in Baden-Baden.

  • Eliminated security risks and modernized/optimized various banking applications (legacy code).
  • Hardened applications against cyber attacks after penetration tests.
  • Enhanced existing applications and tools using Perl, CPAN, MS SQL Server, HTML, JS, Ajax, Google Chrome.
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
1 year 8 months
Frankfurt, Germany

IT Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for etengo GmbH, Mannheim at a bank in Frankfurt.

  • Redesigned and expanded build and deployment management into a more efficient system for automated creation of banking applications using a database with Mercurial, Tortoise, Informatica, Automic UC4, SQLite, Oracle, Perl, CPAN, bash, Linux.
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
3 months
Koblenz, Germany

IT Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for etengo GmbH, Mannheim at a medical software provider in Koblenz.

  • Developed Bash scripts to test IPsec authentication and verification (Ubuntu Linux, Jira, Confluence, tcpdump, dig, openssl, ssh, nmap, wget).
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
6 months
Böblingen, Germany

IT Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for GULP GmbH, Stuttgart at Philips Medical Systems in Böblingen.

  • Developed, tested, and commissioned a Perl tool for remote integration of test procedures during FDA-driven changes in the medical field (HP-UX, Ubuntu Linux, XML, bash, Perl, MS Word).
Jan 2009 - May 2019
9 years 5 months

Web Shop Developer/Administrator

C.E.S. GmbH

  • Developed and updated a web shop with product management and placement.
  • Implemented legal requirements.
  • Automated order processing through invoicing and monthly newsletter distribution by email.
  • Technologies: LAMP, Ubuntu, Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL, MariaDB, phpMyAdmin, Pegasus Mail, MS Excel, VBA.
Nov 2008 - Dec 2014
5 years 2 months
Langen, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for GULP GmbH, Frankfurt at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, Langen. Project: ATCAS (Air Traffic Control Automation System), subsystem FDPS (Flight Data Processing System).

  • Software modifications and enhancements in ADA under ClearCase.
  • Updated and reviewed related documents (SDD, SRS).
  • Lab and regression tests per MIL-STD-498 guidelines: test case development, result documentation, synthetic test data generation, test procedure creation, test execution with client in lab (DAT, PQT).
  • Handled FDPS observations (controller feedback from ATCAS).
  • Syntax checks of flight plan data from external systems (other ATC centers, EUROCONTROL).
  • Requirements management with DOORS.
  • Applied metrics for ADA source quality assurance.
  • Tool development with Perl, PHP, and JavaScript for various tasks.
  • Environment: DEC Alpha, UNIX (SLES), ADA (VADS), Perl, Tcl/Tk, shell, ClearCase, DOORS, Ingres DB (SQL optimization reducing load time by 80%).
Jan 2005 - Oct 2008
2 years 10 months
Münster, Germany

Consultant/IT Specialist

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for Hays AG, Mannheim at a telecommunications provider in Münster.

  • Problem management in invoicing for service providers.
  • Handled and reconciled billing issues using Unix and Windows tools within a customer care and billing system (CARMEN, SPAS, cwb).
  • Technologies: SunOS, HP-UX, Oracle 8/9, Perl, bash, awk, TOAD, PL/SQL, SQLPlus, MS-SQL, XML, ClearCase DDTS, ITIL.
Jan 1999 - Nov 2005
5 years 11 months
Eschborn, Germany

Second-Level Support/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for Harvey Nash, Düsseldorf at a telecom provider in Eschborn.

  • Second-level support, issue and escalation management.
  • Tool development (Perl, C/C++, Java) for mass data processing and testing for a proprietary customer care and billing system (CCB modules: CCM, ERP, CBM, PSM, OP, CS).
  • Technologies: HP-UX, Oracle 8/9, Perl, ksh, C/C++, PVCS.
Oct 1998 - Nov 1999
1 year 2 months
Darmstadt, Germany

IT Consultant/Analyst

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for ASCENA-IT (Hays AG) at a telecom provider in Darmstadt.

  • Analyzed and developed a high-level IT concept for multi-tenant capability of an archiving system.
  • Prepared, executed, and evaluated load tests for “online billing”.
  • Technologies: TANDEM, Perl, VBA.
May 1998 - Sep 1998
5 months
Rüsselsheim, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment at a software company in Rüsselsheim.

  • Designed and implemented migration of a proprietary billing system to BSCS using UNIX tools (C, awk, csh) and Oracle for a mobile network operator.
May 1997 - Dec 2023
26 years 8 months

Network Administrator/System Administrator

C.E.S. GmbH

  • Built, managed, and administered the network of a toolmaking company including server connections to workstations and a heterogeneous CNC machine park.
  • Migrated servers from Novell NetWare to SuSe Linux.
  • Implemented asynchronous data mirroring.
  • Created backups with custom Perl scripts and rsync.
  • Ensured high availability.
  • Technologies: Samba, FTP, NFS, Perl, rsync, TeamViewer.
Sep 1992 - Nov 1992
3 months
Mülheim, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Direct assignment at a water utility in Mülheim/Ruhr.

  • Designed and implemented an information system for yard distribution centers on PC (Windows 3.1, Superbase).
Dec 1989 - Jun 1990
7 months
Wiesbaden, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Direct assignment at a software company in Wiesbaden.

  • Specified and implemented a SINEC-AP interface on TANDEM.
Jan 1988 - Dec 1989
1 year
Bremen, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Direct assignment at an automotive manufacturer in Bremen.

  • Supported and implemented TANDEM-based application systems (manufacturing control systems) on VLX and CLX.
Aug 1988 - Feb 1989
7 months
Ladenburg, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Direct assignment at an electronics company in Ladenburg.

  • Supported and implemented a maintenance control system B40 on DEC VAX in Pascal.
Jan 1987 - Jun 1988
6 months
Wiesbaden, Germany

Software Developer/Consultant

C.E.S. GmbH

Direct assignment at a software company in Wiesbaden.

  • Specified, implemented, and tested components of an attendance time-tracking system on TANDEM (Guardian 90, COBOL).
Feb 1985 - Apr 1998
13 years 3 months
Bremen, Germany

Software Developer/System Analyst/Project Leader

C.E.S. GmbH

Direct assignment at an electronics company in Bremen.

  • Designed and implemented a resource manager (master and slave) on CN-PDU network basis for a Bundeswehr training device (SGI Challenge, Ethernet under UNIX in ADA).
  • Converted terrain database and access functions from C to Ada (DEC Ultrix, SGI Challenge) with cross-development on PC under ActivAda for Windows (GUI).
  • Designed and implemented an offline generator and online processing for computed values and output signals within the measurement processing of a nuclear power plant simulator (DEC Alpha OSF/1, C, cross-development on PC under Linux, X11).
  • System analysis for the graphics component of a nuclear power plant simulator (DEC Alpha, OSF/1, C).
  • Designed and implemented a topology data generator for a tram simulator (SunOS, Solaris, Evans & Sutherland, C, C++).
  • Designed and implemented a graphical element manager for a Bundeswehr training device (CCC, SGI Indigo/Challenge, Ethernet under UNIX in ADA and C).
  • Designed and implemented a data initialization system and curve display for process visualization of a power plant simulator (MPR 1300, META).
  • Led a 3-person team: detailed specification, design, implementation, testing, and commissioning of a multiprocessor system for data distribution on the research vessel METEOR II (MPR1300, META).
  • Designed and implemented migration of an Atlas maintenance control system to a new database system (DHS) with process and simulation layers.
  • System design and implementation of process visualization for a power plant simulator on MPR1300 in META.
  • Designed and implemented components of a simulation system for firefighting training on MPR1300 in META.
  • System design and partial implementation of a radar training and education system on HP 9000/300 under HP-UX in ADA.
  • Designed, implemented, and tested an error analysis system for MPR2300 on DEC VAX under VMS in ADA.
  • Designed, implemented, and tested an audio-frequency remote control system for the Atlas maintenance control system AWL 1300 on MPR1300 multiprocessor in PEARL.
  • Designed, implemented, and tested functions (protocol functions, counter value processing) for the Atlas maintenance control system AWL1300 on EPR1300, MPR1300, and -SD (synchronous duplex) in PEARL, database system (DHS).
Sep 1980 - Dec 1985
4 years 4 months
Mainz, Germany

Software Developer/System Engineer

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment at a software company in Frankfurt.

  • Contributed to analysis, design, implementation, testing, and commissioning of a process computing system (37 EPR1300 and 1500 processors) to automate the ZDF broadcast center in Mainz in PEARL.
Dec 1977 - Jul 1980
2 years 8 months
Wiesbaden, Germany

IT Consultant/Project Group Member

C.E.S. GmbH

Assignment for a software company in Frankfurt at the Hessian Central Data Processing Center (HZD), Wiesbaden.

  • Project group DOMINIG II (information network of several hospitals using a centralized IT system).
  • Technologies: DEC PDP-11, FORTRAN.
Jan 1974 - Dec 1980
6 years
Dortmund, Germany

Research Associate

mbp GmbH

Research associate in an IT consulting firm. Responsibilities included:

  • (04.1976 - 11.1977) Contributed to realization and commissioning of the F1 operations computer at Blockbrammenstraße for Hoesch (Dortmund).
  • (05.1974 - 02.1976) Assisted in analysis of a complex information system for command support at the German Armed Forces.

Summary

  • Industries: Air Traffic Control, public sector clients, defense technology, steel mill, broadcasting company, plant engineering, shipbuilding, power plants (simulation), electricity utility, waterworks, automotive, banking, telecommunications.
  • Fields: Process control technology, real-time data processing, simulation systems (civil and military), software tool development (C, Perl, Perl/Tk, CGI), software engineering (build, development, test), software development following the V-model, CI/CD, project management, project leadership, UNIX system administration, networks (TCP/IP, NetBEUI, Samba, LAMP, NFS, SMB, CNC integration), PC hardware (servers, assembly, modification, expansion, troubleshooting, networks, WAN, WLAN), telecommunications systems, billing systems (BSCS, CCB, cwb), ITIL, data migration (ETL) to/from DWH, EDIFACT, web development/Apache PHP, interface development TCP/IP, ITIL, software development process according to DoD 2167 and MIL-STD-498, software testing (test planning, tester, test analyst), support for test management for module, system, commissioning, qualification, and regression tests, algorithm development, solution concepts, code generator and tool development to support various test stages and types, legacy code maintenance, refactoring.
  • Hardware: DEC Alpha, TANDEM/HP-NonStop, HP (9000, 300, SD), SUN, SGI, PC, Intel/AMD hardware, telecom systems, initial experience with Raspberry and Arduino.
  • Operating Systems: OSF/1, Guardian90, OSS, BS2000, Novell 3.x,4.x, MVS, Windows, UNIX variants (Solaris, SunOS, IRIX, HP-UX, Linux, SuSe, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, embedded Raspbian), Arduino.
  • Programming Languages: PL/1, ALGOL, COBOL, Pascal, TAL (TANDEM), VBA, ADA, C/C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, PHP, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, Python, UML, XML, HTML, CSS.
  • Databases: SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, NonStopSQL (TANDEM), Oracle 7,8,9i (SQL, SQLPlus, PL/SQL, Pro*C/C++, adodb), PostgreSQL, InterBase, MS Access, MS-SQL, Enscribe, Ingres.
  • Tools: UNIX (awk, sed, sh, ksh, bash, sccs, rcs, vi, etc.), rsync, Crystal Reports, CPAN, PEAR, MS Office, LaTeX, Visio, Lotus Notes, ClearCase, DOORS, Automic UC4, Mercurial, Informatica, Git, Jira, Confluence, VMware, Oracle VirtualBox, QEMU, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, image editing with IrfanView and GIMP.
  • Memberships: VDI (since 1968), VDE (since 1968), GI (since 1974).

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 1970 - Jun 1974

Technical University of Berlin

Dipl.-Ing., Computer Science · Electrical Engineering · Berlin, Germany

Oct 1966 - Jun 1969

State Engineering School for Mechanical Engineering Cologne

Engineering Degree · Communications Engineering · Cologne, Germany

Oct 1962 - Jun 1965
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Apprenticeship · Radio and Television Technology

Certifications & licenses

Introduction to TANDEM Systems

Essentials of Rational ClearCase for UNIX

ISDN Basics Seminar Ackermann TK-Systems

Ackermann TK-Systems

Authorization for Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Class B

Telelogic DOORS Foundation

Telelogic

Continuing Education in Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Workshop Linux Internet Connection with ISDN Router and Firewall

Workshop SuSE Linux for Partners

SuSE

Workshop TAL (Transaction Application Language by TANDEM)

Security Clearance Check §7 Air Security Act