Responsibilities

Senior software engineer at Ergon Informatik AG, working as:

• SW-Architecture consultant
• lead engineer mobile and embedded solutions
• business developer

Interests

Mobile computing, embedded computing, electronic paper, Java (Java ME, Java SE, Java EE), VoIP, RailML, design patterns, frameworks, mobile devices, XP, IT security, Linux

Project selection

(ongoing)	Software Engineering; Mobile business development; technology watch; technology drafts for project offerings; internal education
since 2005	Technology and business consulting for the Zurich public transport authority ZVV/VBZ with the current S-POS ticket vending machine project
2010	Conceptual foundations for the future generation of the mobile train conductor device of SBB, including three software prototypes for the Android platform to show the feasibility of electronic ticketing and other concepts.
2010	Architectural design for a new mobile application for railway shunting workers of SBB.
2010	Project lead for the development of two business applications for the new Android based mobile phone of the SBB train staff.
2009	Location-aware mobile applications for the Android platform ("Google-Phone")
2009	XML-database to efficiently store, query and analyze huge amounts of data about public transport conditions (~2GB per data import)
2009	UI-simulator for a ticket vending machine, used to explore various usability aspects (Swing/Java rich-client)
2009	Several prototypes for emerging mobile technologies (banking, remote control, etc.)
2008/2009	Mobile weather application iWeather.ch on the iPhone platform, showing current snow and rainfall in Switzerland, weather forecast and recent weather observations
2008	Concept and prototype for a mobile business application on the iPhone platform (data acquisition tool for surveys and street interviews)
2008	Prototyping a mobile weather application on the iPhone platform, showing current snow and rainfall in Switzerland (screenshots here)
2008	Teaching high school students first steps in programming using an educational graphical programming environment (Scratch)
2008	Prototyping of mobile field force support applications on electronic paper devices
2007	Adaptation/internationalisation of an educational graphical programming environment (Scratch) to German and French; integration into the website of the "Swiss Year of Computer Science" (informatica'08)
2007	Technology exploration: electronic paper based mobile prototype application for swiss federal railways SBB (screenshots here)
2007	System architecture and detail concept for the mobile device management of the new train conductor device ZPG II of the swiss federal railways SBB
2006-2007	Designing and realizing a mobile industrial data acquisition system for Blaser Swisslube using Model-Driven-Architecture MDA methods
2006	Requirements analysis and detail specification for a mobile customer care and information system at swiss federal railways SBB
2005/2006	Consulting for Swiss Post for creating the mobile technology roadmap at Post IT-Services
2005	Architecture and design reviews for a mobile device management project of SBB
2005	Project lead for the development of a RFID-based ticket control software for the ZPG II of SBB for use with the GraubündenCard electronic ticket
2004	Consulting for the development team of SBB for the MMS-based mobile ticket in various mobile technologies (MMS-sending, 2D-Code Scanning)
2004	Architecture and realization of the mobile client of an application to request railway track paths for shunting workers at SBB
2003	Architecture and implementation of mobile Java ME based weather applications for MeteoSchweiz
2003	Coaching the Coop IT to use Java EE technologies for the creation of big web applications
2002	Implementation of a Java rich client for computer aided exams in IT education
2002	Realization of a system for web and mobile based tracking-and-tracing for logistics companies
2002	Implementation of a Java rich client to control a server application for the management of very huge music data
2002	Design and realization of various external interfaces for a workflow management system of the cantonal police Zürich
2002	Planning and realization of a unit testing framework for quality assurance of ATM server software
2002	Design and implementation of a framework for automated testing of telecom billing software
earlier	upon request

Previous occupation

• Highschool in Krumbach
• Studies of Computer Science at TU München
• Studies of Computer Science at ETH Zürich
• Research assistant at the Institute for Computer Systems at ETH Zürich
• Partner at ada.bit Consulting & Coaching GmbH
• Senior Research Engineer at Swisscom Innovations
• Joined Ergon Informatik AG as Senior Software Engineer

Talks

Date	Topic	Event	Slides
2010-10-19	OpenTrackHub (in substitution of Bernhard Seybold)	18. Konferenz der RailML.org Organisation, Berlin	(on request)
2009-10-06	Einsatz der open-source XML-Datenbank eXist zur Verarbeitung von grossen XML Datenmengen	16. Konferenz der RailML.org Organisation, Braunschweig	[download]
2009-05-14	Innovative ePaper Anwendungen	Orbit Zoom Days Konferenz 2009, Zürich	[download]
2008-12-16	Innovative e-Paper Anwendungen	Developer Day der SBB, Centre Löwenberg	[download]
2007-11-26	Developing Mobile Information Devices for use at Swiss Federal Railways SBB	JR East Japan Railways, Nisshin, Japan, JR東日本, 日進, 日本	[download]
2007-11-12	RailML data exchange standard and practical experiences in Europe (Peter K. Brandt with Markus Ullius, SBB)	JR Japan Railways, RTRI Railway Technical Research Institute, Kunitachi Japan, JR鉄道総合技術研究所, 国立, 日本	[download]
2007-09-20	Transformation von RailML timetable Daten zu SVG mittels XSLT zur Darstellung von Zeit-Weg-Liniendiagrammen	12. Konferenz der RailML.org Organisation, Dresden	[download]
2007-06-24	Model Driven Architecture Applied Software-Projects Using AndroMDA (Peter K. Brandt with Bruno Ziswiler, Ergon)	Jazoon 2007, International Conference on Java Technology	[download]
2006-05-17	Entwicklung und Betrieb des neuen SBB Zugpersonalgeräts (Peter K. Brandt with Thomas Stettler, SBB)	Tagung "Software Entwicklung für mobile Systeme" an der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Windisch	[download]
2005-10-26/27	Mobile Device Management bei der SBB AG in Zusammenarbeit mit Ergon Informatik AG	IBM Kundentag 2005, Zürich	[download]
2005-09-21	Kompakte Speicherung von RailML Daten mit WBXML	8. Konferenz der RailML.org Organisation, Dresden	[download]
2005-06-09	Mobile Device Management -- Einheitliche Verwaltung von Soft- und Hardware mobiler Geräte	Veranstaltung TECH4 2005, Technologieforum der SBB, Bern	[download]
2005-05-10	Mobile Kommunikation im SBB Rangierbetrieb -- Fallstudie einer dezentralen Applikation	Konferenz Software Engineering Today 2005, Zürich	[summary] [download]
2005-03-09	XML-RPC zur Backend-Kommunikation in einem mobilen SBB-Projekt	7. Konferenz der RailML.org Organisation, Zürich	[download]
2004-09-16	BTLink: Sendungsverfolgung und Fahrzeuglokalisierung	Fachtagung Satellitennavigation der Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft der Electrosuisse (ITG), Bern	[download]
2004-05-04/05	Echtzeit-Sendungsverfolgung mit mobile Java und GPRS	IBM Symposium 2004 am KKL Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern	[download]
2004-02-06	Echtzeit-Sendungsverfolgung mittels Mobile Java und GPRS	InternetExpo 2004, Zürich	[download]

Publications

Year	Topic	Media	Content
2010	Wetter aus der Jackentasche	Swiss Engineering STZ, Ausgabe 4/2010, Seiten 16-17	[download]
2009	Wetterbericht für die Hosentasche	Swiss IT Magazine, Ausgabe 11/2009, Seiten 46-47	[download]
2009	Mobile Geschäftsanwendungen auf E-Papier-Geräten	Bulletin SEV/VSE (Electrosuisse), Ausgabe 5/2009, Seiten 23-27	[download]
2009	Mobile Geschäfte mit elektronischem Papier	Handelszeitung, Ausgabe 18/2009, Seite 53	[download]
2008	Mobile Geschäftsanwendungen machen Papier überflüssig	Professional Computing, 2008-12	[download]
2008	Praxiseinsatz von Java in eingebetteten Systemen	Bulletin SEV/VSE (Electrosuisse), Ausgabe 5/2008, Seiten 20-24	[download]
2007	Mehr Flexibilität mit embedded Java	ComputerWorld, Ausgabe 22. Juni 2007, Seiten 20-21	[download]
2006	Plattformunabhängige mobile Software	Bulletin SEV/VSE (Electrosuisse), Ausgabe 7/2006, Seiten 15-20	[download]
2005	Erkenntnisse aus Open-Source Projekten: wichtige Impulsgeber für eine moderne Entwicklungsmethode	ComputerWorld, Ausgabe 25. November 2005, Seite 26	[download]
2004	Echtzeit-Sendungsverfolgung über das Mobilfunknetz	Bulletin SEV/VSE (Electrosuisse), Ausgabe 11/2004, Seiten 33-38	[download]

Other documents

2010	RFID/NFC-Ticketing (Suica / Mobile Suica / モバイル・スイカ etc.)	[download]
2008	About "Mobile Tagging" (QR-Codes etc.)	[download]
2007	Intelligent Online Business Solutions, based on State-of-the-art E-Paper Devices	[download]

Interests

Japanese; travel in Japan and Switzerland; swiss mountains; hiking Fujisan; city trips; old computer games (last played in 2002); old arcade games (first played about 1985); designing metal objects for my apartment; trains; technology gadgets; black

Sports

Jogging (Greifenseelauf), Ski (e.g. in Flumserberg or GALA Yuzawa), Mountain hiking (Fujisan)

Quotes

• "Man kann gar nicht so dumm denken, wie es kommen kann! " (unknown)
• "In hardware engineering, Ohm's law and Maxwell's equations pale in importance and influence next to Murphy's law." (Gordon Bell)
• "Und aus dem Chaos sprach eine Stimme zu mir: "lächle und sei froh, es könnte schlimmer sein". Und ich lächelte und war froh und es kam schlimmer" (unknown)
• "I just want to know god's thougths ... the rest are details" (A. Einstein)
• "1 = 2 --- für genügend grosses 1 und hinreichend kleines 2" (M. Erskine)
• "The good thing about bubbles and arrows, as opposed to programs, is that they never crash." (B. Meyer)
• "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." (Edward V. Berard: Life-Cycle Approaches, in Essays on Object-Oriented Software Engineering)

Rilke

Der Panther

Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
so müd geworden, dass er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.

Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein grosser Wille steht.

Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille -
und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Shinkansen

The world's coolest train: the Shinkansen 500-series at 300 km/h