Last updated: July 2025

 

Name: Ulrich Abele

Nationality: german, swiss

Schooling: Engineer with focus on Information Technology

Function/Position: Consultant / Software Developer

Professional life:


July 2025 - today: Glencore, Powerbuilder-Development

Juni 2022: Projectmanagement Certification: IPMA-D Level

June 2013: MCTS Certification: MS-Application Development with .NET 4.0

January 2005 : SUN Certification "SUN certified Java Developer"


March 2004 - March 2025: ETH-Zurich

Software development for the administration of the "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich" (Department IT Services)


Projects/Functions:
  • 21 years of PowerBuilder application development (n-tier architectur) for 
    the maintenance of students- and regulationsdata as well as exams planning.
    IT-sided support of the implementation of new programs of studies.

Tools/Technologies:
  • PowerBuilder V7 - V 2017.3
  • Oracle / PL/SQL
  • TOAD
Schoolings:

January 2004 : SUN Certification "SUN certified Java Programmer"

January 2001 - End of 2003 : at Opus5 Interaktive Medien GmbH, Dreieich

Focusses:
Development of web applications in JAVA,
Oracle database administration

Technologies:
  • JDK 1.2 - 1.4, JSP, Apache, Jakarta-Tomcat, XML, Linux-Shellscripting, OpenJMS
  • Oracle(Tools: Toad, DBAStudio), PL/SQL, Interbase, MySQL
  • Caché, CachéScript, Caché Server Pages

Projects/Functions:
  • 2 months development of a B2B web application with
    the object oriented database Caché:
    Caché Server Pages, CachéScript
  • 1/2 year development of a JAVA backend application for the forwarding of newsletters
    via SMS, MMS and Email:
    DB data modelling,
    JAVA-Objectmodelling and implementation,
    connectivity using JDBC
  • 3/4 year development of a web application for the banking business:
    Visualisation of stock- and assetdata in div. charts,
    XML-Interface for dataimport
  • 3/4 year Oracle database administration in the same project:
    Design of datamodels,
    Administration of distributed datenbases,
    PL-SQL-Programming
Schoolings:



January 1999 - December 2000 : at Sybase Professional Services

Focusses:
Consulting and application development using PowerBuilder and PowerJ in a
Client/Server environment

Operating Systems:
Windows95, WindowsNT, Linux

Programming Languages:
PowerScript, Java, JavaScript, C / C++, HTML, SQL, Fortran

Projects/Functions:

1-3/4 years application development in the telecomunication branch in the area of
riskmanagement, workflow and customercare.
  • Good knowledge of the Powerbuilder Foundation Classes (PFC).
  • OO-analysis, -design and programming.
  • Usage of the Model-View-Controller objectmodel.
  • Experience in using and programming of Stored Procedures and Triggers in relational databases (Sybase ASE 11.9.2 and Oracle 8.1.4).
  • Datamodelling using PowerDesigner and the Entity-Relationship model.
  • Usage of PowerBuilder V6.5 and V7.0 .
Schoolings:
Beyond:
  • Assignments as a trainer for PowerBuilder courses at Sybase
  • Short-term project in the banking business using PowerJ/JaguarCTS