For over 6 years I've been writing at Brobo Photo, mostly from (and about) my former home in Northern Germany. Brobo Photo contains a large collection of photographs and almost 400 articles about Photography, Image Composition and Traveling. At my current Weblog Potomac Adventures I write about arts, photography, travel destinations and events and all kinds of interesting stuff. I'm the creator and maintainer of gkrueger.com and javabuch.de.
For the most part of my life I've been working as a computer programmer, software architect and project manager. I've headed software development units in different organizations - some of them of pretty complex nature. I did software development in the health, telecommunications and insurance industry. I had the opportunity to work in the silicon valley software industry and I've been the head of the information technology department in a large hospital. Among my former employers are GBS Norderstedt, Krankenhaus Itzehoe, prompt! Hamburg, Talkline GmbH Elmshorn, Solution42 AG Quickborn, Portal Software Cupertino and IVI GmbH Itzehoe.
I've been teaching C and Java in several distance learning projects, for example at FH Flensburg, Germany (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael Kraetzschmar of the Institute For Applied Mathematics), and at the CALCampus Online Learning Center.
The books and articles I wrote are summarized here.
Information about my photography can be found here.
I studied at Fernuniversität Hagen, where I learned most of the basics in computer science and software development. I later moved on to the The American Institute For Computer Sciences (now fusioned into the American Sentinel University), where I completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Two years later I finished graduate studies at SUMMIT UNIVERSITY OF LOUSIANA, with a Master's Degree in Computer Science. My Thesis about communications in hospital information systems was titled "A structured approach to HL7 application development". It included an HL7 database, a hypertext document and a general JAVA-based application development framework for HL7 communication (here's an HTML version of the thesis). I've received a First Certificate in English from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and I'm a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography.
Note: AICS and Summit University were then correspondance colleges that offered non-traditional degree programs. At the time of my studies they were state-approved, but not officially accredited. In many respects, these small, private colleges didn't fulfill regular university standards. Their self-paced program structure and flexibility helped me to complete a degree while doing professional software development and authoring at the same time.
Guido Krüger
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