Skills

Experienced system administrator, database administrator, and developer.

Read project-details here: ‘Projects‘.

System Administration & Database Admin/Dev

  • < 15 years System administration (Mac OS X, Unix, (Windows)(Solaris)) client stations, servers, network backup/restore, security, user management & support
  • < 10 years MySQL database administration and development (‘solution’ programming not guru)
  • < 2 years PostgreSQL database administration and development, PL/pSQL stored procedures, and PostGIS
  • < 3 years Oracle (8g) database administration
  • < 1 year R (data-mining and statistical analysis)
  • < 2 years teaching ‘Networks and Protocols’ course (EPFL 1996: 1st-year university-students)
  • + basic MPI (EPFL-course 2011)
  • + basic HPC (EPFL-course 2010)

Web Development

  • < 7 years developing solutions in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/JQuery for internals of small business (PME) in the medical field.
  • < 2 years postgreSQL including PL/pgSQL SQL Procedural Language
  • < 2 years developing an international multi-lingual database in Ruby/Rails.
  • < 1 year Google Fusion Table beta
  • < 1 year Google Maps API
  • + HTML, CSS, jQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, (XML), (Facebook API), (Twitter API), Google Analytics, SEO optimization
  • + familiarity with CMS’s WordPress, Jahia, Moodle (installation/configuration/patching/integration)
  • + familiarity with AddThis client API

Software Development

  • < 1 year iPhone application programming (Objective-C, Cocoa-Touch) + API’s for Facebook and Twitter
  • + basic Python (scientific-Python: EPFL-course 2010)
  • + basic MPI (EPFL-course 2011)
  • (< 2 years Java development using IntelliJ IDEA)

 

Other skills : Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

World Health Organization

[Shawn] understood exactly what was needed and made very thoughtfull and useful suggestions for the site’s usability. The evaluation of the site received excellent feedback from its users. In his work, Dr Koppenhoefer has proved to be a reliable, creative, enthusiastic and well organized colleague. I highly recommend him for his programming skills, as well as system administration and teaching capacities.
- Regina Kulier, Dr. med
www.who.org

ID Grafix

Ce Docteur en informatique se double d’un communicateur, et, mieux encore, d’un vulgarisateur hors pair qui sait allier son savoir et son imagination fertile pour exprimer en termes à la fois insolites et simples ce que son esprit conçoit si clairement.
- Lisa Brunner, Graphiste
idgrafix.ch

GIERTD Research and Tech. Development

His keen eye for a good user interface, sensibility to peoples needs and skills, and sixth sense for how people think, made the development process efficient. He is capable of getting the job done, especially if it involves HTML, JavaScript, and PHP.
- Freddy Santschi, President (GIERTD)
giertd.ch