Welcome!

Hi, my name is Stefan Gärtners as you might guess. :-) Iīm 46 years old and married with my wonderful wife Monika. We have three children, Sarah 8, Tim 5 and Laura 3 years old. We live in the city of Dinslaken in a beautiful region called "Niederrhein" in North Rhine Westfalia, Germany.

Hobbies

Driving a Segway x2 or Segway i2, Photography, Books and Cinema especially when related to Star Wars, Music, Computer, learning new programming languages, supporting my daughter Sarah (she's great in Artistic Roller Skating)

Work

Iīm working as a Developer for TimoCom GmbH in Germany, Europe's freight and vehicle exchange, with focus on internet / intranet development, process automation and the fully automated creation of PDF-Documents with Open Source Tools.

Some of my actual development "languages" are: Delphi, XSL / XSLT, XSL-FO, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP and Java

Employments / Work so far:
04/2009 – NowTimoCom Soft & Hardware GmbHDeveloper
07/2002 – 03/2009HSBC in GermanySenior Developer
07/1998 – 06/2002:WestLBAdministrator, Webmaster and Developer in the Risk Management Support & Control Department.
04/1997 – 06/1998:Kespret & LangConsultant and Systemdeveloper
11/1991 – 3/1997:Data Becker GmbHUnit Manager, Lector and Productmanager for Books and Software.
08/1989 – 10/1991:FreelancerSoftware Development.
08/1987 – 07/1989:FH BochumStudy of Building Services Engineering

Abilities

Dependability, Loyalty, Toughness, quick Apprehension, Automation of Businessprocesses, Automated creation of complex PDF-Documents

Programming Languages

Adobe AIR, XSL, XSL-FO, XPath, XHTML, XForms, SVG, Adobe Flex, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, Delphi, VB/VBA, Java, SQL, DocBook

Here you can find some information about my actual private development project.