Ingo Barkow, M.A.

Curriculum vitae

Ingo Barkow works as a senior systems engineer and assistant IT coordinator in the Technology-Based Assessment (TBA) project at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt. In this project he is responsible for the planning, design and implementation of the network infrastructure and server farm. Furthermore he consults project partners in questions of testing infrastructure and resource planning. His special interests include virtualisation technologies, server farms and storage arrays for database servers.
For several years Ingo Barkow was the managing director of an IT training company in Wurzburg where he was responsible for the planning and organisation of courses and also worked as a trainer and senior consultant for the infrastructure and database management. He holds two Master degrees, in Computer Science in Economy as well as in Social History and English, in addition to several international IT-Trainer certifications.
His research interests include anonymizing technologies within data warehouses, quality management and evaluation in education, historical educational research, the influence of sociological components like further developing processes on education and didactic analyses of classical English Literature.