Gerhard Heinzel

Experience

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  ICL Office Systems Division

  May 1987 - Oct 1987

  Industrial Trainee

  Various Design, Coding and Documentation Tasks

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  IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Lab

  Apr 1990 - Jun 1990

  Summer Student

  Optimization of a Parallel Implementation of the 802.2 LLC Protocol on a Transputer Network

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  SIGOS GmbH

  Jun 1991 - Aug 1998

  Project Manager

  Consultancy on Testing (Text Centre Setup, Test Concepts, Test Specification Techniques, Test Automation), Conception & Implementation of Test Automation Systems (e.g. ACTT)

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  Swisscom Mobile

  Sept 1998 - Feb 2005

  Co-ordination of Supplier Contacts, Coaching of project members on Systematic Vendor Selection (RFI, RFQ, Negotiations), Devolpment of Tools to support the Requirements Engineering (based on MS Office) Processes and Tools for Mobile End-to-End Services Testing (Mobile Portals, PIM, E-Mail etc.), Process Definition and Introduction, ISO 9001 Certification Implementation of GPRS Roaming, Founding Chairman of the GRX (GPRS Roaming Exchange) Task Force of the GSM Association, Technical Speeches at Major Telco Conferences Automation of Protocol Tests (internal, Eurescom Projects), Project Manager GPRS Romaing, Technical Steam of UMTS Hardware Vendor Selection, Setup of National Center for Mobile Data Application Development

  • Procurement Process Optimization Expert

    Dec 2003 - Feb 2005

  • Head of Testing

    Oct 2001 - Nov 2003

  • Manager "Service Validation & Testing"

    Nov 2000 - Sept 2001

  • Project Manager

    Sept 1998 - Oct 2000
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  Swiss-select.com

  Mar 2005 - now

  Founder & CEO

  Implementation of next-generation e-commerce support tools using advanced web-technologies