User:Georg Heidenreich
The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.
Born July 21 1948, German citizen, living in an Asian country *) that monitors and censors the internet
Education/Qualification:
1965-1966 Exchange student in Iowa, USA, High School diploma
1967 German Abitur (equivalent to US High School diploma and then some)
1969-1977 Enrolled at Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany
subjects: Mathematics (no degree), Social Paedagogics, M.A.
1976-1981 Social Worker
1985-1986 Retrained as computer specialist
Since 1987 working as Quality Assurance "engineer" **), mainly for communication software and high availability systems, for a renowned German company, which operates worldwide.
1995-2003 Software QA engineer in Silicon Valley, California.
2005-2006 Support engineer for high availability software in that Asian country
Happily retired since June 2006. But if you think I should have lots of time, that only shows that you have never been retired...
*) PM me if you want to know
**) In the U.S. my title was "Senior Software Engineer", however in
Germany the title 'engineer' is an academic degree, so I in fact did an engineers
work for 20 years, but don't have a degree.
Due to my years in the US, I consider myself 100% bilingual (some accent never goes away, however).
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