Curriculum Vitae (academic): Dr. Stefan Smolnik

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Personal	.
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Address:	Muehlgasse 8-12 D-60486 Frankfurt Germany
Phone:	+49-5251-60 33 68 (office) +49-5251-60 33 99 (fax)
Email:	Stefan.Smolnik@notes.upb.de
Web:	http://gcc.upb.de/StefanSmolnik
Date of birth:	September 23, 1970
Place of birth:	Bielefeld, Germany
Nationality:	German

Research interests

Knowledge Management, Knowledge Discovery and Representation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware, Collaborative Computing, Organizational Memories, Information Visualization, Workflow and Process Management, Office Systems

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Academic positions	.
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February 2005 - present	Research and Teaching University Assistant at the Department of Information Systems 2, European Business School, International University Schloss Reichartshausen, Germany
December 1998 - February 2004	Research and Teaching University Assistant (full-time and fully paid up to 6-years contract scheme) at the Department of Business Computing 2, School of Business Computing, Faculty of Business Administration, Economics, and Business Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany
March 2003	Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
May 2000	Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey

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Education	.
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July 2005	Ph.D. in Business Computing at the University of Paderborn ("summa cum laude")
December 1998 - July 2005	Ph.D. study at the School of Business Computing, University of Paderborn
December 1998	Master’s in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) at the University of Paderborn, Germany
October 1990 - December 1998	Study of Computer Science, specialization in: Business Computing, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Information Theory, and Formal Languages at the University of Paderborn, Germany
June - December 1998	Master’s thesis: "Strategic Use of Groupware and I*Net Technologies in a leading international financial institution’s IT environment – Evaluation of Technologies, Documentation and Development of a Best Practice Guide for I*Net Programming", in cooperation with the IT headquarters of Deutsche Bank AG, Eschborn/Frankfurt, Germany
January - April 1998	Internship at Deutsche Bank AG, Eschborn/Frankfurt, Germany
June 1990	Allgemeine Hochschulreife – general German school qualification required for university entrance

Publications

Publications by type and date (http://gcc.upb.de/k-pool/StefanSmolnik-PublicationsByType)


Conference and invited presentations

Conference and invited presentations (http://gcc.upb.de/k-pool/StefanSmolnik-Conferences)


Conference and journal services

Chair of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39) Minitrack "Knowledge Management / Organizational Memory Implementation and other Issues", Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 2006
Chair of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38) Minitrack "KM/OM Implementation and Other Issues", Big Island, Hawaii, USA, 2005
Chair of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37) Minitrack "KM/OM/OL Foundations – KM/OM Discovery to Representation", Big Island, Hawaii, USA, 2004
Member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations, 2006
Reviewer for the Baltic Journal of Management, 2005
Reviewer for the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal, 2005
Reviewer for the conference Extreme Markup Languages 2005, Hotel Europa, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2005
Reviewer for the 7th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2004), Department of Management Information Systems, The Poznań University of Economics, Poznań, Poland, 2004
Reviewer for the 9th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV05), School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Old Royal Naval College, University of Greenwich, Greenwich, London, England, 2005
Reviewer for the 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV04), The Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University, London, England, 2004
Reviewer for the 7th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV03), The Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University, London, England, 2003


Awards

Best Paper Award Nomination: ‘Towards Knowledge Discovery through Context Explication’ (with S. Kremer and L. Kolbe), 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Big Island, Hawaii, USA, 2004


Teaching experience (Master's level - graduate courses, postgraduate courses)

- Office Systems
- Knowledge Management in eBusiness
- Multimedia in the Internet and in Intranets
- Foundations of Information Management at the Workplace
- International Management: Computer-based Information Management: Current Topics
- Information Management: eSpace Concepts
- Business Computing Seminars
- Research Colloquia on Ph.D. Projects


Teaching experience (undergraduate courses)

- Introduction to Business Computing
- Business Computing
- Workgroup Computing (foundations and advanced lab workshops)


Supervision of Master's theses

Supervision of Master's theses (http://gcc.upb.de/k-pool/StefanSmolnik-SupervisedMasterTheses)

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Department/faculty administration and volunteer activities
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July 2004	Independent evaluator for the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) in respect of a Resource Enhancement Award (GBP 300,000)
June 2003 - present	Member of the jury of the Master Theses Contest of the German Notes User Group (DNUG)
January 2003 - present	Chair of the Working Committee for Knowledge Management of the German Notes User Group (DNUG)
October 2000 - November 2002	Representative of the research assistants and assistant professors of the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics, and Business Computing at the University of Paderborn
August 2002 - May 2003	Member of the search committee "Media Economics" at the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics, and Business Computing at the University of Paderborn
November 2001 - December 2001	Member of the search committee "Business Computing" (Graduate School) at the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics, and Business Computing at the University of Paderborn
April 2000 - February 2004	Recruitment, allocation, coordination, and support of approximately ten student assistants of the Department of Business Computing 2

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Industry projects	.
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2001 - 2003	Project manager of the joint project "Groupware Competence Center – Professional Service" with IBM Software Services for Lotus, Ismaning, Germany - IT-focused consulting - Redesign of the messaging infrastructure of Deutsche Bank AG - Technology evaluations and development of demonstration cases
1998 - 2001	Project manager of the joint project "Groupware Competence Center Bank" with Deutsche Bank AG, Eschborn/Frankfurt, Germany - Contract negotiation - Management of events (meetings, workshops, seminars) - Documentation and publication - Overall project coordination - Support and assignment of students - Transfer of technology and knowledge - Job placement

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Professional seminars	.
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June 2005	Speaker - Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV): "Semantic Web and Knowledge Technologies"
April 2003	Speaker - Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV): "XML Topic Maps", Darmstadt, Germany
June 2002	Speaker - Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV): "XML and Information Systems", Darmstadt, Germany
March 2002	Speaker/Instructor - ManagementCircle: "Enhanced Applications with Lotus Notes", Düsseldorf, Germany
February 2002	Speaker/Instructor - ManagementCircle: "Enhanced Applications with Lotus Notes", Munich, Germany
October 2001	Speaker/Instructor - ManagementCircle: "Communication and Knowledge Transfer with Lotus Notes", Munich, Germany
August 2001	Speaker/Instructor - ManagementCircle: "Communication and Knowledge Transfer with Lotus Notes", Frankfurt, Germany

Memberships

- Association for Information Systems (AIS)
- Gesellschaft für Informatik - German Informatics Society (GI)
- Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management (SIG KM) of the German Informatics Society (GI)
- German Notes User Group (DNUG)
- Paderborner Hochschulkreis e.V. (PHK) - Association of Economists of the University of Paderborn (Alumni Association)

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Skills, interests, and experiences	.
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Languages	German (first language), English (fluent)
IT certifications	Certified Lotus Professional R5 Application Developer, CLP IBM Lotus Domino 6 Application Developer
Software applications (among others)	IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 5 and 6, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime), Oracle9i Database, Apache Tomcat, Groove Workspace, MS Office, MS Windows 2000/XP, PAVONE Enterprise Office
Hobbies	Tennis, basketball, volleyball, golf, reading
Travel	USA, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Switzerland, France, and several other European countries

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References	.
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Prof. Dr. Ludwig Nastansky Professor of Information Management Groupware Competence Center - Business Computing 2 Faculty of Business Administration, Business Computing, International Business Studies and Economics University of Paderborn Warburger Str. 100 D-33098 Paderborn, Germany	Prof. Dr. Gerold Riempp Professor of Information Systems European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen Rheingaustr. 1 D-65375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
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Dave Croasdell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Accounting and Information Systems College of Business Administration University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0016, USA	Richard Orwig, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems The Department of Accounting and Information Systems Sigmund Weis School of Business Susqehanna University Selinsgrove, PA 17870-0101, USA
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Prof. Dr. Edda Pulst Faculty of Business Branch Bocholt Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences Münsterstr. 265 D-46397 Bocholt, Germany	Dr. Lutz Kolbe Lecturer and Project Manager Competence Center Customer Knowledge Performance Institute of Information Management University of St. Gallen Müller-Friedberg-Str. 8 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland

Paderborn, August 26, 2005