
I am a consultant for wireless, messaging and mobile services with over
14 years of experience in computer sciences
and information systems. I
have been working with software development, product support, system
administration, and training delivery. In addition, I am a
PhD
candidate in the Institute of Computer Sciences, Utrecht
University,
The Netherlands. I hold the MSc (1997) and Bachelor (1993) degrees in
Computer Sciences. My contact email is fkoch AT acm DOT org.
Industry Experience
Academic Experience
Publications
My
wiki is
here.
Industry Experience
Openwave Systems
Principal System Engineer
Jan-2008/current, Melbourne, Australia
- define and communicate product strategy and vision to client’s senior level
technical and management;
- drive, own, and give technical presentations and product demonstration on all
aspects of technical products;
- build strong relationships with Openwave product managers and engineering
teams;
- take accountability and lead creation of technical sections of large proposals.
Principal Technical Product Support
Jan-2000/Dec-2005
Americas Division (2005), APAC Division (2003-2004), EMEA
Division (2000-2003)
- Second-level support of Openwave applications for worldwide
customer
base;
- Extensive experience of operations and maintenance of large
system deployments with Email Mx and MMSC solutions;
- Specialized in the Web service applications – WebEdge, Java
Servlets,
JSP, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS;
- Developed several support processes, knowledge base
articles and
scripts in OS shell, Java, PERL and C++;
- UNIX system administration and configuration (Sun, AIX and
HP-UX)
including system installation, kernel tuning and administration
tasks;
- Operation of Oracle 8i and 9i databases.
FK Consultoria em Informatica S.S.
Consultant/Owner
Training delivery in Openwave's Email Mx, MMSC, Edge Gx and EMS:
- MMSC 3.x Operations: Telus, CA, Nov/2007;
- Email Mx 5.3 to Mx7.5 Differences: CTE, USA, Apr/2007;
- Email Mx Bootcamp: Opwv Internal, USA, Jan/2007;
- Email Mx Basics and Adv: Time Warner Channel, USA,
Jan/2007;
- Edge Gx: Opwv Internal, USA, Sep/2006;
- EMS: Opwv Internal, USA, Sep/2006;
- Email Mx Basic and Adv: Opwv Internal, USA, Sep/2006;
- Email Mx Basic: Cox Communications, USA, Aug/2006;
- Edge Gx: Telstra, Australia, Jul/2006;
- Email Mx Adv: Several, UK, Mar/2006;
- Email Mx Basic and Adv: Telstra, Australia, Jul-Aug/2004;
- Email Mx Basic and Adv: TNZ, New Zealand, Jul/2004;
- Email Mx Ops Workshop: Vivo, Brasil, Dec/2003;
- Email Mx Ops Workshop: Vodafone, Italy, Nov/2003.
Professional services for Openwave's products:
- WebEdge customization, Vivo (through Openwave), Brasil,
May-Jun/2006;
- Principal TPS for Messaging: USA, May-Nov/2005;
- On-site support for Email Mx: Telstra, Australia,
Dec/2004-Jan/2005.
Humana Inc
Software Engineer
May-1998/Jan-2000
Louisville/KY and Jacksonville/FL, USA
(Contractor through Mastech Corp.)
- Design and development of WEB-based application for imaging
system;
- Development using HTML, PERL, CGI and SQL;
- Operation of Sybase database;
- IBM AIX and Windows NT 4.0 system administration.
Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de Santa Catarina
System Analyst and Network Administrator – Mar-1996/May-1998
Florianópolis/SC – Brazil
- UNIX HP-UX and Network administration;
- Design and development of integrated solution using HTML, PERL, CGI, C++
and SQL in Web-based application.
Tribunal Regional do Trabalho de Santa Catarina
System Analyst and Application Development – Sep-1992/Mar-1996
Florianópolis/SC – Brazil
- system design of HR Corporative Solution;
- administration and deployment of the local area network system.
Academic
Experience
University of Utrecht
PhD Candidate Computer Sciences --
Jan-2001/present --
Utrecht, The Netherlands
University of Melbourne
Research and Development --
Jan-2004/ Apr-2005 --
Melbourne, Australia
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Master's Degree Computer Sciences --
Mar-1996/Sep-1997
Bachelor's Degree Computer Sciences --
Mar-1989/Dec-1993
Researcher --
Jan-1992/Oct-1992
Florianópolis/SC, Brazil
- Research on infrastructure for network management using
agents;
- Agent-oriented software development and analysis;
development with in C/C++ and Intel microprocessor's assembler
language;
- Development of reduced Unix and DOS operating systems.
Publications
Journal Papers
- F. Koch. Towards a
Framework for Intelligent Mobile Service Applications.
INFOCOMP - Journal of Computer Science. v.
4. no. 35. pp.
1-10. Sep/2005.
- M. Assuncao, F.
Koch and C. B. Westphal. Grids of Agents for Computer and Telecommunication Network Management.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. v. 16. no. 5. pp. 413-424. John
Wiley & Sons, Ltd. USA. Apr/2004.
- F. Koch and C. B.
Westphal. Decentralized Network Management Using Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
Journal of Network and System Management. vol. 9. no. 4. Plenum Press. USA.
Dec/2001.
Papers in Workshops and Conferences (Artificial Intelligence)
- A. Kostner, F. Koch, L. Sonenberg, F. Dignum
Augmenting BDI with relevance: Supporting agent-based, pervasive applications,
Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2008), Workshop at Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia. May/2008.
- F. Koch, J-J. Meyer, F. Dignum, I. Rahwan. Programming
Deliberative Agents for Mobile Services: the 3APL-M Platform.
AAMAS'05
Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'2005). pp. 179-192.
Utrecht, NL. Jul/2005.
- I. Rahwan, F. Koch, C. Graham, A. Kattan, L. Sonenberg.
Goal-directed
Automated Negotiation for Supporting Mobile User
Coordination. Fifth International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on
Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'05). Paris, FR. Jul/2005.
- F. Koch and I. Rahwan. The
Role of Agents in Mobile
Services. Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th
Pacific Rim
International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2004, Auckland, New
Zealand, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
3371. Mar/2005.
- F. Koch and L. Sonenberg. Using Multimedia Content in
Intelligent Mobile Services. WebMedia & LA-Web
2004 Joint
Conference 10th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web 2nd Latin
American Web Congress (LA-Webmedia’04). Proceedings. pp. 41-43.
Ribeirao Preto, BR. Oct/2004.
- F. Koch and I. Rahwan. The
Role of Agents in Mobile
Services. Seventh Pacific Rim International Workshop on
Multi-Agents
(PRIMA2004). pp. 198-205. Auckland, NZ. Aug/2004.
- F. Koch, C. B. Westphall, M. Assuncao, E. Xavier.
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence for Network Management Systems -
New Approaches. The First International Workshop on
Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources (SAPIR 2004) held with ICT2004.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3126. pp. 135-145, ISSN 0302-9743.
Fortaleza, BR. Aug/2004.
- F. Koch and I. Rahwan. Classification
of Agents-based Mobile Assistants. AAMAS Workshop on Agents for Ubiquitous
Computing (UbiAgents). New York, USA. Jul/2004.
- F. Koch. Platform
for Intelligent Agents on Embedded
Devices: Project AgentLight. The 15th Belgian-Dutch
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC). pp. 457-458. Nijmegen, NL. Oct/2003.
- F. Koch and J-J. C. Meyer. Knowledge Based Autonomous
Agents for Pervasive Computing using AgentLight.
ACM/IFIP/USENIX
International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2003 Work-in-progress.
IEEE Distributed Systems Online. June 2003. vol. 4. no. 6. Rio de
Janeiro, BR. Jun/2003.
- F. Koch and J-J. C. Meyer. Project AgentLight: Developing
Logic-based Autonomous Agents for Small Devices. I
Workshop de Teses e Dissertacao em Inteligencia Artificial (WTDIA). Recife, BR. Nov/2002.
- F. Koch. Autonomous
Agents for Computer Network Management.
The Practical Applications Of Intelligent Agents And Multi-Agent
Technology (PAAM). vol. 1. pp. 627-628. Lancashire, UK. Mar/1998.
Papers in Workshops and Conferences (Distribute Computing)
- H. Franke, F. Koch, C. O. Rolim, C. B. Westphall, D. Balen
Grid-M: Middleware
to Integrate Mobile Devices, Sensors and Grid
Computing Proc. 3rd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile
Communications, ICWMC '07, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean. Mar/2007.
- C. O. Rolim, C. B. Westphall, F. Koch, M. Assuncao. Towards
a Grid of Sensors for Telemedicine. 19th IEEE
International Symposium
on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS06). Salt Lake City, USA.
June/2006.
- A. Schulter, J. A. Reis, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall. A
Grid-Based Intrusion Detection System. International
Conference on
Systems (ICONS06). IEEE Press. Maurice Islands. April/2006.
- F. Navarro, A. Schulter, F. Koch, M. Assuncao, C. B.
Westphall. Grid
Middleware for Mobile Decision Support Systems. 5Th
Intenational Conference on Networks (ICNS06). IEEE Press. Maurice
Islands. Apr/2006.
- F. Navarro, A. Schulter, F. Koch, M. Assuncao, C. B.
Westphall. Towards a
Middleware for Mobile Grids. 10th IEEE/IFIP
Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS06). Vancouver,
Canada. Apr/2006.
- A. Schulter, F. Navarro, F. Koch, M. Assuncao, C. B.
Westphall. Towards
Grid-based Intrusion Detection. 10th IEEE/IFIP
Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS06). Vancouver,
Canada. Apr/2006.
- M. Assuncao, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall, E. Xavier, T.
Spindola. Innovative
Technologies for the Management of Large-Scale
Computer Networks. 23rd Brazilian Symposium of Computer
Networks
(SBRC). Fortaleza, BR. May/2005.
- M. Assuncao, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall. Platform for
building Grids of Agents for Management Systems (in
Portuguese). IV
Brazilian Congress on Computer Science. ISSN 1677-2822. pp. 324-329.
Itajai, BR. Oct/2004.
- F. Koch, C. B. Westphall, M. Assuncao, E. Xavier.
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence for Network Management Systems -
New Approaches. The First International Workshop on
Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources (SAPIR 2004) held with ICT2004.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3126. pp. 135-145, ISSN 0302-9743.
Fortaleza, BR. Aug/2004.
- T. Spindola, M. Assuncao, C. B. Westphall, F. Koch .
Load Balance in Grids of Agents
for Computer Network Management. (in
Portuguese). SBRC-WGRS 2004 - Workshop of Management and Operations of
Networks and Services in the 22nd Brazilian Symposium of Computer
Networks. Gramado, BR. May/2004.
- E. Xavier, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall. Automations in
Computer Network Management Utilizing Computational Intelligence.
Third
IEEE Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium
(LANOMS). Foz do Iguacu, BR. Sep/2003.
- E. Xavier, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall. Using Computational
Intelligence in Choosing the Best Mobile Agents Configuration for
Computer Network Management (in Portuguese). IV Encontro
Nacional de
Inteligencia Artificial, XXIII Congresso da SBC (ENIA). Campinas, BR.
Aug/2003.
- M. Assuncao, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall. Advantages of the
use of Grids of Agents on Network Management Systems (in
Portuguese).
III Brazilian Congress on Computer Science, Agents Days. pp. 1385-1369.
Itajai, BR. Jul/2003.
- M. Assuncao, C. B. Westphal, F. Koch. Grids of Agents for
Computer and Telecommunication Network Management.
ACM/IFIP/USENIX
International Middleware Conference - 1st International Workshop on
Middleware for Grid Computing. pp.186-193. Rio de Janeiro, BR. Jun/2003.
- M. Assuncao, C. B. Westphall, F. Koch. Architecture of
Grids of Agents System Applied to Computer And Telecommunications
Networks Management (in Portuguese). 21st Brazilian
Symposium of Computer Networks (SBRC). pp. 789-804. Natal, BR. May/2003.
- E. Xavier, F. Koch, C. B. Westphall. Evaluation of Mobile
Agents System Configurations for Computer Network Management
(in Portuguese). I2TS International Information Technology Symposium.
Florianopolis, BR. Oct/2002.
- F. Koch and C. B. Westphall. Distributed Artificial
Intelligence for Computer Network Management - a practical approach
(in Portuguese). 20th Brazilian Symposium of Computer Networks (SBRC). Rio
de Janeiro, BR. Oct/1998.
Dissertations
- F. Koch. Autonomous Agents for Computer Network Management
(in Portuguese). M. Sc. in Computer Sciences thesis. Federal University
of Santa Catarina. 110 pages. Florianopolis, BR. Oct/1997.
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