Jochen Wendel

Experience

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  Jeppesen, a Boeing Company

  Aug 2001 - Jan 2002

  Internship

  Compilation of VFR flight information for VFR approach charts and development of a prototype for accessing digital VFR flight information (Electronic Flight Bag).

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  Union Pacific Railroad

  Jan 2006 - Aug 2006

  Master Thesis

  Evaluation of Location Based Services for the usage in the data workflow for large railroad operations.

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  MAHLE

  Oct 2006 - Jul 2007

  Logistics Consultant

  • Coordination of deliveries and inventory planning (SAP LO/LE modules)• Management of deliveries for customers in the automotive sector with JIT production

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  University of Colorado at Boulder

  Sept 2007 - Jun 2013

  Research Assistant and Lecturer

  Teaching Appointments2010-2012• Instructor of record for Cartography and Information Design GEOG 3053 (Intro GIS). Creation of new course material and teaching of 160 students in totalResearch Projects Appointments2007-2012• Implementation of data mining algorithms for analysis of micro level census data using MatLab as well as GIS for visualization.• Development of a searchable inventory of all literature involving the National Map by using methods from machine learning.• Development of new cartographic generalization algorithms for using ESRI GIS products and Python programming • Development of automatic indexing methods for USGS specific GIS software commands using SOM in Python and MatLab Show less

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  Esri

  Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

  ESRI Summer Internship Program

  Development of an ESRI Toolblox script for automatic cartographic generalization using Python. Software Products Department within the Cartographic Development Group

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  Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft / University of Applied Sciences

  Apr 2012 - Feb 2019

  Lecturer

  Department of Information Management and Media (IMM) • Location Based Services (2012, 2017) • Advanced Topics in Thematic Cartography (2017, 2018)

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  UC San Diego

  Jun 2012 - Dec 2014

  Research Scientist

  Founder of GlucoMap, a DIAL open-source framework for integrating multi-modal data from diabetes medical devices, body-worn physiologic monitors, and GPS devices• Data analysis of high dimensional temporal diabetes, fitness and geo-location data sets • Developing new methods for integrative visualization of diabetes and medical sensor data

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  Medtronic

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2013

  Visiting Data Scientist

  • Application of data mining methods to large medical databases (diabetes) • Introduction of data driven approaches for product enhancements based on user settings

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  EIFER - European Institute for Energy Research

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2021

  Project coordination of international research projects on Smart Cities and Citizen Science with external partners from research, industry and administration in Germany, Europe and US. Responsibilities included cordination of R&D activites and administrative oversight. Project lead on Augmented Reality Workspaces (ARW) for Apple iOS (ARKit). Development of Proof of Concepts (CoP) and data partnerships with external partners from the public sector and industry. Implementation of GIS functionalities on energy, mobility and IoT data, as well as the integration of sensor data into the analysis, modelling and visualization of urban energy data.

  • Project Coordinator

    May 2018 - Jan 2021

  • Project Lead

    Sept 2016 - Jan 2021

  • Research And Development Engineer

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2021
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  INIT Group

  Jan 2021 - now

  • Senior R&D Manager

    Sept 2024 - now

  • R&D Manager

    Jan 2021 - Aug 2024