This is my bio taken from the GSoC application:

**About Me**

My name is Michael Aram. I am currently enrolled in the master's program "Information Systems" at the "Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration" - I successfully finished the corresponding bachelor's program in 2007.
During my studies, I have been working half-time almost permanently. Most worth mentioning - especially for this application - is my job at the "Institute for Information Systems and New Media": Up to October 2008, I was working in the Learn@WU project team, which drives the dotLRN based e-learning platform of my university.
During this time, I wrote my bachelor's thesis about a new "Portal System for OpenACS", which was awarded by IBM in the context of a cross-university "Web 2.0 Student Contest".
I spent the last six months at SAP headquarters in Germany working on my master's thesis. I am leaving SAP by now, submit my finished master thesis and concentrate then on the doctorate program in Vienna.


**Coding Skills**

The fundamentals of my technical skills come from the relevant university courses on the one hand, and my personal passion for web technologies on the other hand.
My studies included a wide range of practical and theoretical seminars about software modeling and programming, with a focus on Java and XOTcl.
Through my personal interest for" the net", I have spent a lot of spare time with basic web technologies (like HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and "played around" with CMS like Typo3 and Drupal.

In my two years of work at the Learn@WU project, I had the chance to become familiar with the "common set of technologies" you need to run a dotLRN instance, i.e. in particular Tcl, PostgreSQL (PL/pgSQL), OpenACS, AOLserver, Linux. In addition to that, as my bachlor's thesis was a prototype of an AJAX application based on XOWiki, I delved deeper into XOTcl and JavaScript (using the YUI 2.* framework).

During the last six months at SAP, at the development center in Walldorf, Germany, I had the chance to participate in one of their software development projects. We implemented a prototype application for semantic data modeling based on the Java EE architecture.

I would classify myself as an emerging, highly motivated developer, who is greatly interested in object oriented programming.

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