Curriculum Vitae - Kai-Dietrich Scheppe

Additional Experience and Abilities

Foreign languages

• German - native speaker
• English - as native speaker
• Italian - basic knowledge

Professional training

• VDeutsche Telekom AG - Leadership Excellence Program
• Deutsche Telekom AG - Leadership Development Program
• Various seminars on leadership, employee development, change management, team development, project management, self and time management, search engine optimization measures

Web standards development – Participation in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• HTML5 Working Group
• Best Practices Working Group (BPWG) of the Mobile Web Initiative
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group
• Web Content Labeling (WCL) Incubator Group
• ICRA/W3C - International Content Rating Association (ICRA) for development of a new, RDF-based content rating mechanism

Honors and medals

• Quality Management Award from Deutsche Telekom AG
• University degree with distinction
• Antarctic Service Medal, US Navy / National Science Foundation

Volunteer work

• 2002 - 2004, European director of martial arts for a non-profit organization based in the US
• 2010 and ongoing, volunteer work for the city of Dieburg, Germany

Publications and Contributions

Web technology publications and contributions

• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Primer (http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-primer/)
• Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/mwbp-guidelines/)
• Contribution to XForms 1.0: Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xforms-20071029/)

Scientific publications

• Scheppe, K.-D. 1997. Light dependent respiration in estuarine phytoplankton. M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland. (Application of 18O tracer.)
• Prezelin, B. B., N. P. Boucher, M. A. Moline, E. Stephens, K. Seydel and K. Scheppe 1992. Palmer LTER: Spatial variability in phytoplankton distribution and surface photosynthetic potential within the farfield grid, November 1991. Antarctic Journal of the United States 27(5):242-245.
• Prezelin, B. B., M. A. Moline, K. Seydel and K. Scheppe 1992. Palmer LTER: Temporal variability in HPLC pigmentation and inorganic nutrient distribution in surface waters adjacent to Palmer Station, December 1991-February 1992. Antarctic Journal of the United States 27(5):245-248.

Personal interests

• Martial arts, martial philosophy, history, skiing, rowing, leather working, metalwork, wood working, barbeque, cooking

Latest update: November 2009