Curriculum Vitae of Rainer Gerlich
| Name: | Rainer Gerlich |
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| Year of birth: | 1945 |
| Current position: | Founder and Head of Company, Systems and Software Engineer at GSSE |
| Contact: | rainer.gerlich@gsse.biz |
| Profiles: | ResearchGate LinkedIn |
Books
Author of 111 Thesen zur erfolgreichen Softwareentwicklung, Springer, 2005.
Main Activities
- Management and coaching of software projects
- Consulting in strategy and problem solution
- Definition and development of project management tools
- Organisation of the software development process
- Software architecture and test management
- Safety and mission critical software
- Automated system and software generation
- Automated software test (incl. generation of test inputs)
- Model-based development, model-driven architecture
- Embedded systems, GUIs
Application Domains
Aerospace, Automotive, Medical Engineering, Telecommunication, Automation
Methodological Competence
- Model-Driven Engineering
- Various development methods, own methods regarding software automation and quality are ahead of state-of-the-art as required by standards
- Process improvement, efficiency analyses, risk analyses, quality analyses, workflow improvement
- Requirements validation
- Management of contractual interfaces
- Software metrics for quality assurance, tailored tools for quantitative measurement of properties of software systems
- Model-based development incl. verification and validation of models and code generator based on automatons
Education
| 1976 | "Dr. rer. nat." of University of Marburg, Germany in Theoretical High Energy Physics |
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| 1971 | "Diplom-Physiker" of University of Marburg, Germany in Experimental Nuclear Physics |
Relevant Experience
| 1996- | GSSE System and Software Engineering Dr. Rainer Gerlich |
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| 1991-1996 | Space Electronics & Control Division at Dornier |
| 1984-1991 | Space Division / Automation and Control Department at Dornier |
| 1978-1983 | Consulting Division at Dornier |
Programming Languages
UML, AADL, Ada, C, SDL, FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/1, LISP, REDUCE, SNOBOL, ALGOL, BASIC, Assembler (various dialects)
Operating Systems
- UN*X(Solaris, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X)
- Microsoft® Windows™, Microsoft® DOS™
- Mac OS 9
- VxWorks
- MVS/JCL(IBM mainframe)
- VMS, RSX-11 (DEC)
- Siemens ORG/PV
Projects
| 2009 | extension of the automated test approach for DCRTT |
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| 2009 | Definition of an integrated approach to cross-system engineering and project management |
| 2009 | Consulting of SMEs in the area of process improvement |
| 2008 | Quality and risk analyses for a major IT-project in telecommunication area |
| 2008 | Project planning based on SPM (Systematic Project Management) in telecommunication area |
| 2008 | Requirements engineering based on SRM (Systematic Requirements Management) in telecommunication area |
| 2008 | Coaching of a major IT-project in telecommunication area |
| 2007-2008 | manager of a DLR project on quality and risk analyses for space software |
| 2007 | Classification and harmonisation of diverging product configuration data in the area of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) |
| 2007 | Coaching of requirements engineering in telecommunication area |
| 2007 | Definition of an approach for automated verification of the ISG code generator chain (CGV tool, Code Generator Verification) |
| 2006 | Quality analyses of requirement based on SRM in telecommunication area |
| 2006 | Quality analyses of project planning based on SPM in telecommunication area |
| 2006- | Definition of an approach for verification and validation of requirements (SRM tool) |
| 2006- | Definition of an approach for verification of workpackage contents and interfaces / dependencies (SPM tool) |
| 2005- | definition and implementation of a fully automated approach (incl. generation of test inputs) for C software (DCRTT tool) |
| 2005 | auto-integration of Ada and C code for model-based auto-code generation |
| 2004-2005 | manager of AISSV (Automated ISVV) project for ESA/ESTEC (quality and risk analyses) based on full test automation |
| 2004 | definition and implementation of a fully automated approach (incl. generation of test inputs) for Ada software (DARTT tool) |
| 2004-2008 | manager of GSSE subcontract for CEC contract ASSERT (Automated proof-based System and Software Engineering for real-time systems) |
| 2004-2006 | manager of GSSE subcontract for ESA/ESTEC contract ACG (Automatic Code Generation) |
| 2003- | other (confidential) projects outside space |
| 2003 | infotainment project in automotive |
| 2002-2003 | concept for high precision, contactless 3D tool positioning system (development of algorithms, simulation, verification, user handling) |
| 2002- | automated generation of the complete software required for hierarchical GUIs (Java) and C interfaces from C type declarations |
| 2000-2002 | development of a "Virtual User" for Macintosh platform covering automated verification of GUIs (Tool: AutoPilot) |
| 1999 | validation of the MSL (Material Science Laboratory on ISS) software |
| 1999-2000 | provision of real-time infrastructure and data processing software for MSL |
| 1998-1999 | development of the ISG environment for automated and instantaneous software generation |
| 1997-2001 | ESPRIT CRISYS on "Critical Control Systems", validation of distributed control systems in the areas of nuclear technology, aircrafts, petrochemistry, automation |
| 1998 | portation of online maintenance technology for Ada to Sparc architecture and Aonix/Alsys and GNAT Ada compilers in the course of the project OnlineM |
| 1997-1998 | design and development of CADIS (Call data Acquisition and Distribution Integrated System) in cooperation with SingTel Paging (Singapore Telecom) and T-Mobil (German Telecom) |
| 1997 | OPAL study on Online Data Interchange standard for Eurocontrol Experimental Centre in Bretigny |
| 1996 | ESTEC evaluation of executable specifications: specification and code generation with SDL tools |
| 1996 | Design and Implementation of EaSySim II |
| 1995-1996 | Manager for subcontract of study on "Data Management System Design Validation" (DDV) at Dornier |
| 1994-1995 | Manager for subcontract for the SOFTPAR project (ESPRIT 8451) at Dornier |
| 1993-1995 | Manager for ESTEC study OMBSIM ("On-Board Management System Behavioural Simulation") |
| 1993 | Responsible for interface to ECLSS Flight Application Software |
| 1992-1994 | Manager for subcontract of study on "Highly Reliable DMS and Simulation" at Dornier |
| 1990-1992 | Software Engineering COLUMBUS ECLSS (APM/MTFF) |
| 1990 | Member of COLUMBUS/MATIS team at Dornier |
| 1990 | Software Engineering for COLUMBUS GNC (MTFF) |
| 1987-1990 | Software Engineering for COLUMBUS RM (Resource Module MTFF) |
| 1987-1988 | Software Engineering for ROTEX Robotics Experiment for German D2-Mission |
| 1986-1992 | Manager of Dornier in-house studies on
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| 1986-1989 | Manager for "Study on AOCS Embedded Software Design" (Phases I and II) |
| 1986 | Manager for development of software for graphical display of radar tracks |
| 1985 | Image processing (classification of one-dim. structures) Proposal Manager for "Study on Star Pattern Recognition" Contribution to "End Effector Development" Study |
| 1984 | Design and development of Star Catalogue Generation
Software for IPS, Analysis of Star Identification Procedures for
IPS, Analysis of Star Acquisition Probabilities for IPS
Test Equipment Specification for EURECA, Phase B |
| 1978-1983 | Project Management, Definition of Dialogue- and Data Base Software, Human Interfaces, Fail-operational / fail-safe data base concepts for automated fire guard centre |
| 1975-1978 | Computer-aided classification of lattice framework Design of electronic equipment for scientific applications |
| 1971-1975 | For physical application: Symbol manipulation in High Energy Physics (LISP, REDUCE) |