Stefan Birrer
Computer Science graduate from University for Applied Science Aargau, with MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University. Currently working as President of Dosensio Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.dosensio.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | Architecture, Business, Computer Engineering, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, German, Languages |
| Location: | Chicago |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Trading services |
| Tags: | document management, offline collaboration, sharepoint |
| Schools: | Northwestern University |
FEATURED STARTUP
Dosensio
Dosensio
Simplifying enterprise content management for SharePoint users.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Dosensio Inc., Evanston (USA) |
| Position: | President |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Design and manage products for enterprise collaboration. Lead company research in collaborative peer-to-peer technology. Oversee engineering team. |
| Employer: | Metis Enterprise Technologies LLC, Evanston (USA) |
| Position: | President, Technology and Research |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Designed content distribution platform and peer-to-peer streaming technology. Oversaw product life cycle from concept to market. Managed engineering team. |
| Employer: | IBM Almaden Research, San Jose (USA) |
| Position: | Research Intern |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Researched offload caching as a value-added services running on an enterprise storage server. |
| Employer: | IBM Almaden Research, San Jose (USA) |
| Position: | Research Intern |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2005 |
| Description: | Explored resource tradeoffs of value-added services running on an enterprise storage server. In particular, running DB2 on AIX on a DS8000 storage system with transactional and decision support benchmarks. |
| Employer: | Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2006 |
| Description: | CS390/490: Distributed Systems (Winter 2003/04), CS343: Operating Systems (Fall 2004/05, Fall 2005/06), CS322: Compiler Constructions (Winter 2005/06) |
| Employer: | Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University |
| Position: | Graduate Research Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2001 - November 2007 |
| Employer: | Siemens Building Technologies, Zug (Switzerland) |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | December 2001 - November 2002 |
| Description: | Evaluated and designed a web enabled management system. Leveraged Microsoft state of the art technologies. Verified correctness with hundreds of reproducible test cases. Applied eXtreme Programming. |
| Employer: | Basoft Ag, Dietikon (Switzerland) |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | December 2000 - November 2002 |
| Description: | Designed and developed a reusable components library. Successfully coped with legacy system requirements. Tested the system with reproducible test cases. Applied eXtreme Programming. |
| Employer: | InovaTech, Strengelbach (Switzerland) |
| Position: | Teacher |
| Time period: | December 2000 - November 2001 |
| Description: | Developed and taught an introductory course about the C programming language. Improved
communication and presentation skills. |
| Employer: | Zeitgeist Interactive GmbH, Baden-D¨attwil (Switzerland) |
| Position: | Programmer |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2001 |
| Description: | Developed a web-based content management system. Designed and normalized the database model. |
| Employer: | University for Applied Science Aargau, Brugg-Windisch (Switzerland) |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | December 1998 - November 2000 |
EDUCATION
| University: | Northwestern University |
| Time period: | 2008 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, PhD |
| University: | Northwestern University |
| Time period: | 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Yi Qiao, Dong Lu, Fabi´an E. Bustamante, Peter Dinda and Stefan Birrer, “Improving Peer-to-Peer Performance Through Server-Side Scheduling“, In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, July 2007.
Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “A Comparison of Resilient Overlay Multicast Approaches”, In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) – Special Issue on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems, July 2007. Guohan Lu and Yan Chen and Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante and Chi Yin Cheung and Xing Li, “End-to-end Inference of Router Packet Forwarding Priority”, In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM’07), Anchorage, AK, USA, May 2007. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “Resilience in Overlay Multicast Protocols”, In Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS’06), California, CA, USA, September 2006. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “The Feasibility of DHT-based Streaming Multicast”, In Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS’05), Atlanta, GA, USA, September 2005. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “Magellan: Performance-based, Cooperative Multicast”, In Proc. of the IEEE Tenth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (IWCW’05), Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2005. Stefan Birrer, Fabi´an E. Bustamanta, Dong Lu, Peter A. Dinda and Yi Qiao, “FatNemo: Multisource Multicast Overlay Fat-Trees”, In Proc. of the NSDI’05 Poster Session, Boston, MA, USA, May 2005. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “Bandwidth Intensive Application-layer Multicast in Dynamic Environments”, In Proc. of the INFOCOM’05 Student Workshop, Miami, FL, USA, March 2005. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “Resilient peer-to-peer multicast without the cost”, In Proc. of the 12th Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN’05), San Jose, CA, USA, January 2005. (Also published as Tech. Report NWU-CS-04-36) Stefan Birrer, Dong Lu, Fabi´an E. Bustamante, Yi Qiao and Peter Dinda, “FatNemo: Building a Resilient Multi-Source Multicast Fat-Tree”, In Proc. of the Ninth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (IWCW’04), Beijing, China, October 2004. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast from the Ground Up”, In Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium of Network Computing and Applications (NCA’04), Adaptive Grid Computing Workshop, Cambridge, MA, USA, August/September 2004. (Also published as Tech. Report NWU-CS-03-22) Non-Refereed Publications Stefan Birrer, Fabi´an E. Bustamante and Yan Chen, “Can We Trust ICMP-based Measurements?”, Tech. Report NWU-CS-04-48, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, November 2004. Stefan Birrer and Fabi´an E. Bustamante, “The Costs of Resilience in Overlay Multicast Protocols”, Tech. Report NWU-CS-04-50, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, October 2004. |
| Patents: | Compressed Cache in a Controller Partition,
U.S. Application No. 12/033,271. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | Neokast Fellowship 2006
Siemens Building Technologies Scholarship 2001 Muller Martini Foundation Award for Culture, Science and Education 1997 |
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Computer Science graduate from University of Applied Sciences, MSc in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. Currently working as CTO at Supertext AG.
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