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- Name: Norman May
- Birthday: 18.4.1976
- Birthplace: Leipzig
School Education
- Sept. 1981 - May 1990: primary school in Leipzig
- May 1990 - May 1995: Gymnasium, Bismarckschule Hannover, Grade:
Abitur
Academic Record
- Oct. 1996 - Jun. 2002: studies of Business Administration and Computer
Science
basic courses
- Oct. 1996 - Sept. 1998: basic courses at University of Mannheim
- courses taken in the first two years:
- Computer Science: Introduction to Computer Science 1 und 2, Data
Structures and Algorithms, Programming laboratory, programming
certificates in COBOL, and ABAP/4
- Mathematics: Analysis 1 und 2, Linear Algebra 1, and Numeric
Computation 1
- Business Administration: Management Accounting, Production
Management, Marketing, Financial Accounting, Tax Administration, and
Management Sciences.
- Statistics: Introduction to Statistics.
studies abroad
advanced courses
- Oct. 1998 - Jun. 2002: advanced Studies in Business Administration and Computer
Science at the University of Mannheim
- courses taken:
- At the department of Prof.
Schader: object oriented analysis (esp. UML), object oriented
design, object oriented programming with Java, distributed objects (esp.
RMI, CORBA und Servlets), and object oriented data bases.
- At the department
of
Prof. Hoitsch: Controlling, Production Management, Management
Accounting, several seminars in SAP R/3, ARIS
- House Of Business
- In Computer Sciences: Database Management Systems (Department
of Prof.
Moerkotte), Multimedia and Computer Networks (both Department
of Prof.
Effelsberg)
- project work at ProMinent GmbH,
Heidelberg; Implementation of tools for sales support using ABAP/4
- seminar work about character
encoding sets including the Unicode
Standard.
- project work at the Department
of Prof.
Moerkotte: implementation of a generic string class and
integration into the Natix database system.
- thesis at the Department
of Prof.
Moerkotte: extending the implementation of a code generator of a
query optimizer.
PhD studies
- since Aug. 2002 PhD studies at the Department
of Prof. Moerkotte
- topic of my thesis: algebraic optimization of XQuery
- further research interests: query execution, benchmarking, schema management, statistics
- my publications and teaching record can be found on my web page or at DBLP
Internships, Jobs
- Aug. 1995 - Sept. 1996: civil service
- since 1997 instructor for introductory computer courses at the University
- July - Oct. 1997 and May - July 1998: internship at Mercedes Benz, Mannheim;
quality management
- 1999 - 2002 independent working instructor for computer courses and
software developer for Absolventum GmbH
Foreign Languages
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