Michael Olschimke

Scalefree is a consultancy firm with focus on training and consulting on Data Vault 2.0 and other Big Data topics. We serve major customers throughout Europe across all industries. Our employees include leading experts from the business intelligence industry, who have played key roles in the governmental and industry sectors. Please visit us at: www.scalefree.com

Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Vault, Knowledge Management, Customer Relationship Management

Managed maintenance work of a legacy reporting system at a major client in the automotive sector; work included dealing with customer requirements and managing remote developers. • Rebuild a data warehouse for one of the largest car-makers in the world, based on Microsoft SQL Server and Informatica to reflect a changed system landscape.

Information Systems Management: IT Strategie, Prozesse, E-Commerce, Data Analytics, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence

Developed a data warehouse solution for a startup in the e-commerce sector. Solution was based on Open Source business intelligence tools such as Pentaho and PostgreSQL. • Migrated change requests from a legacy Lotus Notes system to Microsoft Team Foundation Server for a client in the automotive sector. • Development of custom controls for Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Development of strategic management information systems (MIS). • Maintenance of a strategic MIS for one of the largest car-makers in the world. • Led a small team of BI engineers to develop a data warehouse to reconnoiter criminal acts for a customer in state security. • Used Pentaho, SAP Business Objects, Oracle, SAP Xcelsius, SAP Crystal Reports, and SAP Web Intelligence.

Research on a sophisticated neural network for regression and classification • Build a central data warehouse for text processing and preparation • Used academic tools such as RapidMiner (Yale) for text classification and other analysis tasks • Mentored and taught fellow research assistants various techniques such as Support Vector Machines, text processing, and text classification

Introduced software engineering processes • Built a web based solution for the agriculture industry in Germany • Consulted business managers and developers

Run a project to redesign an expert system for the agriculture industry for optimizing feeds • Migrated from Client/Server to Web services • Migrated from Paradox database to Firebird SQL Server • Improved installation setups of other software products for faster deployment (saved approximately 50 % of preparation time per deployment)

Assisted disabled student daily during her studies

Migrated MS-DOS application to the Windows platform • Full redesign in Delphi • Major application of HYBRIMIN

Classes taken include: • Organizational Analysis & Management • Software Project Management • Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing • Ethics & Public Policy • Managing Teams and Projects • Financial Management & Accounting • Management of High-Tech. Firms • Managing Innovation&Technology

Classes taken include: • Management Information Systems • System Analysis and Design • Issues in Data Warehouses • Business Communication

Diploma thesis supported by Borland and Serena. Classes taken include: • Software Engineering • Computer Based Training • Operating Systems Design • Relational Database Development • Genetic Algorithms • Object-Oriented Development • C++