Biography

Name	Burkart Lingner
Date of birth	12/01/1981
Place of birth	Göttingen, Germany
Nationality	German

Education

09/2004 - 02/2010	Academic studies Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Aalen, Germany Qualification Diplom-Ingenieur (Fachhochschule) Elektrotechnik Grade final examination (Diplom) 1.9 (good) Grade intermediate examination (Vordiplom) 1.7 (good)
10/2001 - 09/2004	Academic studies Mechatronics at the University Magdeburg, Germany
09/1994 - 06/2001	7^th - 13^th grade at the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium (high school) Göttingen, Germany Grade Abitur 2.8 (satisfactory)

Experience

07/2009 - 01/2010	Degree dissertation "Analysis of a Sensor Platform for Inertial Navigation" Grade 1.0 (very good) Allan variance, analysis in frequency and time domain Sensor errors, noise Inertial and satellite navigation Kalman-Filter, Sensor fusion MATLAB
08/2008 - 10/2008	Research paper "Design of a Receiver Software for Digital Radio Mondiale" Grade 2.0 (good) Software Defined Radio Baseband processing OFDM demodulation Convolution codes, Viterbi decoder Programmed in C
10/2007 - 03/2008	Industrial placement in the field of microchip design Suggested, implemented und evaluated measures to increase the performance of an existing microcontroller CPU Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe, Langen, Germany CPU architecture: Pipeline, Bus connection, caching, jump prediction Benchmarking: EEMBC, Dhrystone, instruction level EDA tools on Unix Verilog, Unix make, Perl, tcl, C
10/2005 - 03/2006	Industrial placement in the field of device development Independently developed hardware and software for a customer Dikon Entwicklungs- und Produktions GmbH, Göttingen, Germany Circuit design: Microcontroller, sensor connection, galvanic isolation, power supply 230 V Schematic und PCB layout using Protel99SE Prototype assembly and test Microcontroller programming in C: Sensor data processing, actor control, closed-loop temperature control, graphic display control, user interface Regular consultations with the client
03/2004	Four-week internship in the field of metal working Sartorius AG, Göttingen, Germany Precision manufacturing using CNC Measurement of parts Quality assurance
09/2003 - 10/2003	Four-week internship in the field of electronics manufacturing Dikon Entwicklungs- und Produktions GmbH, Göttingen, Germany Circuit board assembly of conventional leaded and SMD parts Laboratory test and troublehooting Device assembly

Awards

02/2002 - 03/2002

Jugend forscht (youth researches): Group project "Mobile Internet Access for Graphing Calculators"
1^st place in the category engineering at the regional competition Braunschweig
2^nd place in the category engineering at the state competition Niedersachsen
Special prize of the Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung at the state competition

Design of the radio transmission protocols on all layers above the physical layer
Programming the calculators using Z80 assembly
Microcontroller programming using 8051 assembly
Cooperation with the 2 teammates
Participation in writing the project report
English project documentation on the Internet

03/2001

Jugend forscht (youth researches): Group project "Radio communication between personal computer and calculator"
1^st place in the category engineering at the regional competition Braunschweig

Design of an asynchronous transmission protocol
Calculator programming using Z80 assembly
Participation in writing the project report

Voluntary work

06/1998 - 06/2001	Leading position during construction and maintenance of my school's website Web design, graphic editing, CGI programming, content generation Coordinating a team of about 10 students Contact person towards the school administration Public relations, i.e. at school conferences and at the open day of the school HTML, CSS, Perl
11/2004 - 08/2005	Student member at the Studienkommission (committee of study affairs) at the University of Applied Sciences Aalen, department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Preparation the evaluation of the degree program Electrical Engineering and representation towards the evaluators Advisory function during the implementation of the Bachelor degree program

Qualifications

Languages

German	Native language
Englisch	Very good written and oral command
French	Basic knowledge

Programming languages

C	Very good, in use since 2001
Assembler (diverse)	Very good, in use since 1997
C++	Good, in use since 2001
MATLAB	Good, in use since 2009
Perl	Good, in use since 1998
JavaScript	Good, in use since 1998
Pascal	Good, in use since 1996
Basic	Good, in use since 1994
Java	Basic knowledge

Hardware description languages

Verilog	Good, in use since 2007
VHDL	Good, in use since 2007

Electronics

Circuit design, digital	Good, in use since 2000
Circuit design, analog	Basic knowledge, in use since 2002
PCB design	Good, in use since 2001
Chip design at RTL	Good, in use since 2007
Digital signal processing	Good, in use since 2007

Software

Windows	Very good, in use since 1995
Linux	Good, in use since 1999
Office Software	Very good, in use since 1995
LaTeX	Good, in use since 2009