reto ambühler curriculum vitae

born 18-mar-1958 at 9:29 in zürich (i don't like to get up early !)
raised in rümlang, a small village next to zürich's airport, where i also went to elementary school.
1974..1978 apprenticeship as a mechanic
1978..1981 study in electrotechnics - specialized on communications and digital technology - at the technikum in winterthur (now known as the "Zürcher Fachhochschule Winterthur")
1982 founding member of TRAMsoft Ambühler & Müller
1982..1983 software support representative at IBM's support center in zürich
1983..1984 software engineer at integra signum AG, developing a standalone application on PDP-11 using MACRO-11
1984..1989 software support representative at DEC's support center in zürich
1989..1990 "honeyyear": trip through the USA and canada
1991..1994 system manager at DEC's education service center in zürich
since 1-mar-1994 system manager at the ETH zürich
1-oct-1997: appointed first full time webmaster of the ETH zürich
31-jan-2002: TRAMsoft Ambühler & Müller changed to TRAMsoft GmbH
summer 2002: sabbatical leave at UCSD