Rioki’s Corner

Behind the pseudonym rioki, is Sean Farrell.

Bio

Sean Farrell

I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, USA on the 17th of October 1982. My mother is German and my Father is US-American. This makes me German-American, American-German or whatever.

My parents decided to move to Toulouse, France as I was 1 year old. I grew up mostly in France. My parents divorced, as I was about 10 and my Father moved to Austin, Texas, USA. This had the result that I spent most of my summer vacations in Austin.

In the last years in Toulouse I started my first company. I was specialized in web-applications developement. It was work along side school and so was not so much, but definitely a healthy pocket money.

I went to the German School of Toulouse and graduated there in 2003. With my “Abitur” in the pocket I looked for a place in a “Berufsakademie” (University of Cooperative Education) in Germany. This decision was made, because the BA is a very practical oriented and I definitely did not want to waste my time with theoretical studies.

I ended up making my studies in Karlsruhe at the BA-Karlsruhe and with the “Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau” (Federal Waterway Engineering and Research Institute). There I worked on different projects. I stated administrating a high performance cluster, that was used for Fluid Computational Dynamics (CFD). I finally worked on a chain of tools based abound the extension of NaSt3DGPF, a CFD solver. For my Diploma Thesis I wrote a fully fledged graphical editor, that was used to create CFD models for NaSt3DGPF.

The German government has the policy that every government agency has to reduce their manpower of 3% every year, if it makes sense or not. But on the other hand they have to have at least 5% of the jobs must be apprenticeships. So in the interview I was told: “We can’t employ you when you are done.” That was fine with me. But it meant that I had to look for an other job. I ended up being employed by Ferchau, a temp agency that specialized in engineering. I stated working for Siemens on the software SIMATIC PDM and am still there.

Origin of the Name Rioki

Ryo-Oh-Ki

I used to be a extreme Anime fan. I gobbled up everything that resembled Anime. Now it is not as bad as it was then, but I am still a fan.

Well I needed a user name at some point. I liked Rio-Oh-Ki from Tenchi Muyo and though up Rioki as a similar sounding user name.

Ryo-Oh-Ki is actually a space ship. But in its idle shape (most of the time) it is a bunny / cat creature that likes carrots. It can convert to the space ship form on demand; when ever need arises…