Dipl.-Phys. Ing. Gordon Taft
Experience
Marketing Research Company
Senior Applications Developer. Work items:

·   Optimization of market research statistic algorithms.

·  
Development of parallelized algorithms

·  
Multi-Core programming with Pthreads and OpenMP.

·  
Development of GPU based matrix algorithms (OpenCL)

·  
GUI MVC design and implementation (C++)

·  
Development of a high performance LAPACK and CUBLAS
   based C++ wrapper class.


Mitsubishi Electric
Micro PLC development. Key aspects of design:


·  NEC V850 Firmware (C / C++) development.

·  PLC Bluetooth Module development and programming

·  Physical process simulations in Matlab and C++

·  IIR digital filter design with parameter determination
  functions.


·  PID Autotuning algorithms


Institute for distance learning
Development of a text converter for Braille-Scripts and integration into MS Office applications. (C++, VBA)


Wurm-Systems
Internship: Development of a Fan control system with C programming based on a PIC processor.

Boston (USA)
11/2008 - until now















Ratingen (Germany)
10/2006 - 10/2008













Hagen (Germany)
01/2001 - 06/2006


Remscheid (Germany)
11/2002 - 08/2003

University of Wuppertal
Diplom (equivalent M.S.) Physics Engineer

Master Thesis: Development of a wavelet based bacteria analyzer (Final mark “A”)

Content of main study:
Electric circuit design, Signal analyzing, microcontroller (68HC11), tech. optic, automatic control engineering, medical technology (X-Ray, MRI, Sonography), Finite element methods

Content of basic study:
Mechanics, electrical engineering, wave physics, quantum mechanics, numerics, software development (C++, C, ASM), mathematics, algorithms



Tech Highschool of electric engineering
Content of schooling:
Electric circuit design, microcontroller (Intel 8051), PLC programming, control engineering, C programming. electronic basics
Wuppertal (Germany)
10/1999 - 10/2005

















Wuppertal (Germany)
10/1994 - 05/1997