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Curriculum Vitae

Bernhard Reiter

born 1984-04-30 in Linz, Austria

Education

• 2003–present: Enrolled in the physics program at the University of Vienna, Austria
  • Completed first and second part of studies with distinction (2004-08-13 and 2008-03-05)
  • Currently working on diploma thesis (String-Localized Quantum Fields for Fermions)
  • 2006: Merit Scholarship
• 1994–2002: High school Akademisches Gymnasium, Linz, Austria
  Graduated with distinction; submitted graduation paper on Content-based Indexing of Music Data

Professional and Voluntary Experience

• 2009: Co-produced a short film for the Attac campaign no means no
• 2008: Created and illustrated a lecture script for Prof. Helmuth Hüffel’s Theoretical Methods of Physics 2 course, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2006: Participated in Google Summer of Code 2006, Google Inc., telecommuting from Vienna
  Worked with mentor René Rivera from boost.org to develop Boost.Tree, a generic tree container
• 2002–2003: Civilian Service, Upper Austrian Red Cross, Linz, Austria
  • Jan–Sep 2003: Participated in the Public Access Defibrillation Project
    Counselling of potential clients in Upper Austria, public awareness raising and comprehensive administration tasks
  • Oct–Dec 2002: Training and work as a paramedic
• 2000: Summer job as an assistant web designer, RACON-Software, Linz, Austria

Web Design and Development

• 2010:  Gourmet Recipe Manager Website Relaunch
• 2010: Private Flea Market Website (WordPress-based; in German)
• 2009–present: Implementation and maintenance of artists’s website kati.pregartner.net (WordPress-based)
• 1999–2002: Design and implementation of the first version of the AkadGymLinz high school website

Talks

• 2010: Workshop Democracy and Participation in the Web 2.0, Attac Summer Academy, Ranshofen, Austria

Participation in competitions, seminars and supplementary classes

• 2010: Participated in the Social Impact Award competition, Vienna, Austria (Submitted project Liquid Democracy Austria)
• 2002: theMuSE (practical implementation of the graduation paper) won 7th prize in the Austrian Computer Society‘s computer science competition for teenagers (aged 14 to 20)
• 1998–2002: Regional and nationwide Mathematics Olympiad and (2000–2002) Physics Olympiad courses and competitions
• 1999–2001: Student summer academies in Austria and Germany
• Classes on Economics and Psychology, Geometric Topology, and Bionics
• 2000: Introductory course on Electron Microscopes, Linz, Austria

IT Literacy

• Development: Contributions to Open Source projects Adhocracy, LyX, Gourmet Recipe Manager, Scribus, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo Linux, to some WordPress plugins, and various minor contributions to other projects
• Languages: C++, Python, PHP, Perl, FORTRAN 90, Bash
• Web: (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jquery, Prototype/script.aculo.us), WordPress, Django/Pinax
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access
• Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, Windows
• Typesetting/DTP: LaTeX, LyX (WYSIWYM frontend to LaTeX), Scribus
• Graphics: GIMP, Photoshop, Inkscape, POV-Ray
• Tools: Eclipse, Doxygen, Glade, revision control systems (Git, svn, CVS)
• OpenStreetMap: minor contributions

Languages

• German: native
• English: Advanced Placement International English Language Certificate (2002)
• French: Diplôme Supérieur d’Études Françaises Modernes, Alliance Française, Cannes (2001)
• Czech: basic skills

Interests

Free Software and Culture, Civil Society (member of Attac), e-participation, ecology, film, japanese aesthetics, genealogy, atheism, vegetarian cooking & eating, tea, cycling