Niels Liebisch

The unique challenge of creating new technology is the unknown. By definition, your product has never been used before, and you have to answer questions like: Will it scale or will it blow up? Will it be used or will it be ignored? Will it cost too much? Or even, is it doable at all? At virtualQ, I have answered questions like this with careful planning, team work and computer simulation.

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is a non-profit organization founded by the British biologist Richard Dawkins to promote scientific literacy and secularism. I helped the foundation to position themselves as one of the largest secular organizations worldwide, using new web technologies and social media. Office in Colorado Springs, Colorado Area, USA

Chief Quality Officer at LEGO Universe, a multiplayer online game for kids. My team worked in a Debian based Linux environment, using C/C++ and Eclipse, with Agile/Scrum best practices and Sprint Iterations. Office in Louisville, Colorado

Managed a Multimedia Task Force that solved high profile Show-Stopper issues under time pressure. Developed Driver- and UI-Layers for SAMSUNG 3G mobile phones. The teams were deployed to Denmark and Korea to support on site bug fixing. Office in Linz, Austria.

Supported and improved a numerical model for ground water and surface flows for the Everglades in Florida, USA. Worked as a consultant for the South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL.

Worked through nights and weekends to meet release deadlines. Applied Lauterbach TRACE32® in an Eclipse IDE for ARM-based Applications. Developed embedded C/C++ applications using embedded Linux and Eclipse, Object Modeling CASE tools (OOA/OOD) and UML, and QT libraries. Worked in Germany and Austria.

First researcher to tie numerical optimization techniques in fluid mechanics to Artificial Intelligence algorithms, in particular with Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks.