Gerald Pfeifer
	Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. [Khalil Gibran] The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. [Aurelius Augustinus]

In my day job, I am the Director of Product Management at SUSE, an Attachmate company, responsible for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (incl. High Availability, Real Time, Point of Service,...), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and LibreOffice, systems management products (SUSE Manager, Subscription Management Tool,...), Appliances around SUSE Studio, and openSUSE, with 150+ million of revenue annually, leading a team of a dozen product managers spread across eight sites and timezones and working with an engineering staff of some 300.

Before that I worked in basically the same role at Novell, where I came from the engineering side, serving as project lead for Enterprise Linux, coordinating dozens of teams in various engineering departments all over the world and working with product management/marketing as well as partners (hardware, software, and component vendors). In addition I was responsible for specific aspects of the SUSE Linux platform such as the Itanium version, RAS and scalability, created the SDK product, and served as release manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Most of 2003, I was on a research contract at C.I.E.S./University of Calabria, working on the DLV project. Before that, I spent several years in academia, mostly as assistant professor at the Database and Artificial Intelligence Group at Vienna University of Technology. Apart from research in databases and artificial intelligence (deductive databases, non-monotonic reasoning, knowledge representation & reasoning) and teaching, I supervised student projects and theses and managed the sysadmin team.

Outside of work I contribute to GCC, where I maintain the web presence and documentation, do the occasional hack and serve on the Steering Committee, FreeBSD, where I am a ports committer, and openSUSE, where I am a member. As time permits I also enjoy scuba diving as a certified rescue diver and seeing places.

I studied computer science (Informatik) at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and also took various courses at Universität Wien. In the fall of 1996 I completed my computer science studies with a Masters (Dipl.-Ing.); in 2000 I then obtained my doctorate (Dr.techn.).

Further Projects and Affiliations

• In addition to GCC, I have been contributing to Wine, grepmail, checkbot, rblcheck, umtsmon, and various other free software packages and maintain several FreeBSD ports such as the one for bibtex2html.
• Austrian Volunteer Votetaker for the Usenet hierarchy at.* and moderator of the Newsgroup at.usenet.cancel-reports.
• Member of DAN.