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		My name is Frederik Rudeck and I‘m a JavaScript developer at
		<a href="http://www.klab-berlin.com/">K.lab Berlin</a> in Germany,
		currently working on <a href="https://www.meinunterricht.de">meinUnterricht.de</a>.
		I recently graduated from the <a href="http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/">Hasso-Plattner-Institute</a>
		with a Master of Science in IT-Systems Engineering. My main focus at K.lab Berlin is the front-end development
	  of the web application, but I am also implementing parts of the back-end using Node.js.
		I enjoy almost every part of software development ranging from
		complex software systems to front-end user interfaces, that improve users everyday life.
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		My experiences are based on software projects in academic research as
		well as an internship during my study at <a href="http://www.sap.com/canada/about/saplabs/montreal-toronto/index.epx">SAP Labs Canada</a> in Montréal.
		As a result of the research my co-authors and I won a CHI 2010 best
		paper award for <em>Lumino: Tangible Blocks for Tabletop Computers Based
		on Glass Fiber Bundles</em>. I enjoyed doing research in the field of
		human-computer interaction and I love to work in a fast-paced start-up
		environment building awesome products, using my skills that I have
		gained throughout my career.
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		My interests are very broad and include web and mobile applications,
		tabletop systems, tangible user interfaces and artificial intelligence.
		Moreover, I like to design and build hardware prototypes with a 3D
		printer or a laser cutter. I‘m mainly working with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
		right now but I have experience with C/C++, Python, C# and Ruby.
		It doesn't take much for me to learn a new programming language or
		framework to get the job done.
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		If you think that I can help you feel free to
		<a href="/cv#contact">contact me</a> and I can provide you with more
		detailed information about myself. Have a look at my
		<a href="/projects/">recent projects</a> or at my
		<a href="https://github.com/polym0rph">github page</a> to see what I am
		doing.
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			<strong>Email</strong>
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			<a href="mailto:frederik.rudeck@googlemail.com">frederik.rudeck@googlemail.com</a>
			- <a href="http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x69620F5FF254877F">GPG Public Key</a>
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			<strong>Networks</strong>
			</br>
			<a href="http://de.linkedin.com/pub/frederik-rudeck/28/ba8/429">LinkedIn</a> - <a href="https://www.xing.com/profile/Frederik_Rudeck">Xing</a> - <a href="https://github.com/polym0rph">Github</a> - <a href="http://www.twitter.com/polym0rph">Twitter</a>
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				10/2007 - 01/2012
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				<strong>
				Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
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				Master of Science in IT-Systems Engineering
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					<li>
						Specializations in "Human-Computer Interaction" and
						"Mobile & Embedded Systems"
					</li>
					<li>
						Thesis: <em>Rock Paper Sliders: a pixel-wise
						reconfigurable touch input device based on optical
						fiber</em>
					</li>
				</ul>
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				10/2004 - 09/2007
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				<strong>
				Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
				</strong>
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				Bachelor of Science in IT-Systems Engineering
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				05/2012 - present
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				<strong>JavaScript Developer</strong>
				</br>
				K.lab educmedia GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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					<li>
						Implementing the web application <a href="https://www.meinunterricht.de">meinUnterricht.de</a> focusing on front-end development as well as parts of the back-end - JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js
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				09/2010 - 03/2011
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				<strong>Student Research Assistant</strong>
				</br>
				EPIC Group at Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam,
				Germany
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						Implemented and evaluated research prototypes for
						cache-conscious data placement in an in-memory key-value
						store - C, C++
					</li>
				</ul>
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				06/2009 - 07/2009
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				<strong>Student Research Assistant</strong>
				</br>
				EPIC Group at Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam,
				Germany
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				<ul>
					<li>
						Developed a geographic visualization of demand planning
						data stored in a SAP main-memory database running on
						Microsoft Surface - C#, Microsoft Surface SDK, WPF
					</li>
				</ul>
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				11/2008 - 04/2009
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				<strong>Web Developer Intern</strong>
				</br>
				SAP Labs Canada, Montreal, QC
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						Designed and implemented initial on demand prototype for
						small non-profit organizations to manage their
						operations - Adobe Flex, ActionScript 3.0, Ruby on Rails
					</li>
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						Received CHI 2010 BEST PAPER AWARD for <em>Lumino:
						Tangible Building Blocks Based on Glass Fiber
						Bundles</em>
					</li>
					<li>
						Gave a talk about <em>Lumino</em> at CHI conference on
						Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010 in front of ~500
						people
					</li>
					<li>
						Demonstrated <em>Lumino</em>  5 days at SIGGRAPH
						Emerging Technologies 2010 in Los Angeles
					</li>
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				<strong>Technical Knowledge</strong>
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						Programming: C, C++, JavaScript, Python 2.7, Ruby 1.8.7
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						Internet Technologies: HTML, CSS, Node.js,
						Google App Engine, Flask, JSON, XML, Ruby on Rails,
						</br>
						SQLite, MongoDB, NoSQL
					</li>
					<li>
						Frameworks and Libraries: Qt 4.6/4.7, OpenCV 2.1,
						Microsoft Surface SDK, WPF, STL
					</li>
					<li>
						Tools: Git, Subversion, TextMate, zsh, CMake 2.8,
						Doxygen, Visual Studio 2008
					</li>
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						Concepts: Object Oriented Design (UML, FMC), MVC
					</li>
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						Operating Systems: Mac OS X, GNU/Linux (Ubuntu), Windows 95-7
					</li>
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						Fabrication: 3D printing, Laser cutting, 3D modeling
						(SolidWorks), Phidgets
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				</ul>
				<em>Each category is sorted in descending order by the level of
				experience.</em>
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				<strong>Languages</strong>
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						German (native), English (fluent)
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				<strong>General</strong>
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						Experience in Scrum and project management
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						Interested in web and mobile applications,
						tabletop systems, tangible user interfaces
						and artificial intelligence
					</li>
				</ul>
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			<strong>
			Rock-Paper-Fibers: Bringing Physical Affordance to Mobile Touch
			Devices
			</strong>
			</br>
			Rudeck, F. and Baudisch, P.
			</br>
			In Proceedings of CHI 2012, Austin, TX, May 5-10, 2012, 4 pages
			(Note)
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			<strong>
			Lumino: Tangible Blocks for Tabletop Computers Based on Glass
			Fiber Bundles
			</strong>
			</br>
			Baudisch, P., Becker, T. and Rudeck, F.
			</br>
			In Proceedings of CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, April 10-15, 2010, pp.
			1165-1174, (22% acceptance rate)
			</br>
			<strong>CHI 2010 BEST PAPER AWARD</strong>
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			<strong>
			Lumino: Tangible Building Blocks Based on Glass Fiber Bundles
			</strong>
			</br>
			Baudisch, P., Becker, T. and Rudeck, F.
			</br>
			In SIGGRAPH 2010 Emerging Technologies, Los
			Angeles, CA, July 25-29, 2010
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			<strong>
			Invited Demo - Lumino: Tangible Building Blocks Based on Glass
			Fiber Bundles
			</strong>
			</br>
			Baudisch, P., Becker, T. and Rudeck, F.
			</br>
		 	At ITS 2010, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 7-10, 2010.
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				12/2010 - 07/2011
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				<strong>Master's Thesis - Rock Paper Sliders: a pixel-wise
				reconfigurable touch input device based on optical
				fiber</strong>, written at the Human-Computer Interaction group,
				<a href="/projects/rock-paper-fibers">project page</a>
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				<div class="abstract">
				Giving touch input controls custom shapes improves their
				physical affordance, but is currently limited to tabletop-size
				devices, as only those offer the required amount of space.
				<em>Rock Paper Sliders</em> brings custom-shaped controls to
				mobile touch devices. To accommodate the space constraints the
				concept is ported to a single control, which users constantly
				reshape - when necessary for every single interaction.
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				<ul>
					<li>
						Designed and built a deformable touch input prototype
						device based on diffuse illumination and a bundle of
						optical fiber - 3D modeling, 3D printing, laser cutting
					</li>
					<li>
						Implemented a software system to detect user
						interactions with the prototype that are mapped to
						high-level events and send over TCP/IP to connected
						applications - C++, Qt 4.6, OpenCV 2.1, Binary JSON
					</li>
					<li>
						Developed two demo applications to demonstrate the
						capabilities of the prototype (music player, Tetris
						game) - C++, Qt 4.6, Objective-C
					</li>
				</ul>
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				04/2009 - 10/2009
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				<strong>Lumino: Tangible Blocks for Tabletop Computers Based on
				Glass Fiber Bundles</strong>, Research project at the
				Human-Computer Interaction group, <a
				href="/projects/lumino">project page</a>
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				<div class="abstract">
				Tabletop computers based on diffuse illumination can track
				fiducial markers placed on the table's surface. <em>Luminos</em>
				are tangible building blocks that allow to do the same with
				objects arranged in a three-dimensional structure. In addition
				to a marker, each block contains a glass fiber bundle to guide
				light reflected off fiducial markers in the higher levels down
				to the table surface.
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						Designed and built several different versions of
						tangibl building blocks (Luminos) - 3D modeling, 3D
						printing, laser cutting
					</li>
					<li>
						Implemented three different demo applications (tangible
						checkers game, tangible image manipulation tool,
						construction kit that logs and critiques constructions)
						- C#, Microsoft Surface SDK, WPF
					</li>
				</ul>
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				04/2009 - 07/2009
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				<strong>Call Graph Analyzer tool chain for UNIX based
				systems</strong>, Project for the lecture "Software
				Visualization", <a href="/projects/cga">project page</a>
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				<div class="abstract">
				The Call Graph Analyzer (CGA) is a software visualization tool
				to give insight into complex, large-scale, existing software
				systems and their physical composition and relations.
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						Ported the windows only CGA tool chain (~70k lines of
						code) to Mac OS X and UNIX based operating systems
					</li>
					<li>
						Implemented a runtime library to log function enter and
						exit events in a lock free manner using atomic
						operations and asynchronous I/O - C++, GCC
					</li>
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				10/2006 - 07/2007
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				<strong>Bachelor's Thesis - Lecture Browser</strong>, written at
				the Internet Technologies and Systems group, <a
				href="/projects/lecture-browser">project page</a>
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				The goal of the project was to extend and enhance the tele-TASK
				platform with the functionality to search the content of
				multimedia data. The semantic data for the videos were generated
				with the help of OCR data and the extracted voice of the
				speaker. Moreover the project developed a tool to create
				time-related notes for the recorded lectures.
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						Designed and implemented an annotation tool user
						interface to store and share time-related notes for
						specific lectures - JavaServer Faces,
						JavaScript
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				10/2006 - 02/2007
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				<strong>Random Racer</strong>, Project for the lecture "Computer
				Graphics Systems", <a
				href="/projects/random-racer">project page</a>
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				<em>Random Racer</em> is a 3D racing game with procedurally
				generated NURBS-based endless terrain, multi-threaded physics
				and Quake-style console for Mac OS X.
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						Developed a Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS)
						implementation, based on the Cox-De-Boor algorithm, to
						generate parameterized random terrain meshes - C++
					</li>
				</ul>
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				07/2013
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				Peer reviewed a paper (10 pages) for Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2013
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				10/2012
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				Peer reviewed a note (4 pages) for CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013
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				10/2011 - 12/2011
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				Completed the Basic Track of Stanford University's online class
				"Introduction to Artificial Intelligence"
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				12/2011
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				Attended the Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon (2 days), <a
				href="http://www.rhok.org/solutions/txt4good">txt4good</a>
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				10/2011
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				Peer reviewed a note (4 pages) for TEI conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction 2012
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				Hobbies:
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				Playing soccer, running, hiking and reading good books
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				<strong>Software Engineering</strong>
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				Data-oriented XML
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				Middleware and distributed systems
				</br>
				Server operating systems
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				Software engineering for embedded systems
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				Software visualization
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				<strong>Human Computer Interaction</strong>
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				Geovisualization I/II
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				HCI research
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				Methods and concepts of visualization
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				<strong>Mobile & Embedded Systems</strong>
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				Operating systems for embedded computing
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				HCI research project
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				Model-driven software development
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				<strong>Soft Skills</strong>
				</br>
				IT-Entrepreneurship
				</br>
				IT case studies - What we can learn from failed IT projects
				</br>
				Software and internet law
				</br>
				Management
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