Isaac Trefz
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Trefz received his BS in Engineering and a BA in German studies
at Swarthmore College. During his time at Swarthmore,
Trefz built an amateur radio station on the roof of the
engineering building and was active at Swarthmore's broadcast FM station WSRN. Later he learned Czech while teaching English at the
"Stredni Prumyslov Skola Stavebni" in Brno, Czech Republic and
working as a translator/ interpreter for "ABB Prvni Brnenska
Strojirna" in the turbine manufacturing division.Trefz
completed his graduate work at MIT, where he received a Master's
in EECS with thesis support from Daimler Chrysler. At MIT
he was active with the amateur radio club, W1MX, and a weekly
punk/hardcore/metal show on WMBR. BMW recruited Trefz from the
MIT-Germany program for an internship at BMW's FIZ
(Forschungs und Innovationszentrum) in Munich.
In January 2000, Trefz obtained a permanent position with BMW to
develop test Windows-compatible software for diagnosing various
communications busses in vehicles. Currently, Trefz is a
product development engineer with BMW of North America, a 100%
daughter of BMW AG. Interestingly, Trefz is on an
expatriate contract in the United States, even though it is his
home country!
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