Curriculum Vitae

Experience

1/2010 - present
ART+COM AG - Pioneer in New Media, developer and designer of digital and interactive media environments, Berlin

Head of Customer Relations

Organization and management or the Customer Support department, improvement of quality and productivity standards, project management.
2/2008 - 1/2010
Independent, Berlin

Consultant

DirectFB - Product strategy and business development

COMMUNIA - EU project: Contributions on the subject of the Digital Public Domain

Carl-von Ossietzky Comprehensive School - supply teacher (ethics, physics).
9/2007 - 2/2008
Telio AG, Berlin

Head of Development

Project Management for the development of an IPTV platform consisting of IPTV set-top boxes, Media Server and subscriber management system.
7/2005 - 8/2007
Independent, Ludwigshafen

Senior Consultant

Strategic consultancy services for a company in the HDTV sector. Consultancy services in the field of strategical brand developement and technical protection of branded products for Schindler Parent Identity. Contributions to EU Projects for the Austrian Cooperative osAlliance.
3/2005 - 6/2005
FTA Communication Technologies, Betzdorf, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Product Manager

Authoring marketing requirements documents for receivers, LNBs and electronic programme guides (EPG).
10/2003 - 3/2005
Digital Media Project, Geneva, Switzerland

Contributor

DMP has been initiated by MPEG founder Leonardo Chiariglione with the objective of developing an open standard for an interoperable Digital Rights Management (DRM).

In the course of this project I evaluated DRM systems from the perspective of different stakeholders and investigated the functional and legal requirements of DRM systems. I participated in numerous conferences, working-group meetings and general assemblies where the DMP specifications were drafted.
5/2002 - 2/2005
Galaxis Technology AG, Lübeck

Head of Product Design

Formulating technical concepts and product strategy as well as the supervision and coordination of product development. I conducted the design of a new product line from the analysis of customer requirements up to the final roll-out of the products. For the construction and tooling I managed a team of internal hardware developers and external industrial designers and tool makers. Managing a team of user interface designers and software developers I took account for the ongoing process of usability testing and improvement of the products. I supervised marketing activities like the design of product leaflets, product wrapping and the corporate website
1/1998 - 3/2002
Convergence Integrated Media GmbH, Berlin

VP of Product Design and founder

Initial planning, the drafting of the business plan and the design of the company websites. I managed a team of software designers developing the user interface of the middleware for digital television receivers, including personal video recorder (PVR) functionalities. I represented the company in the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) project and national industry associations.

These days the LinuxTV and DirectFB software developped by Convergence is part of the official Linux kernel, being deployed in CE devices for the reception of digital television throughout the world.
1/1997 - 12/1997
Independent, Berlin

Digital Media Consultant

Designing an interactive service for a digital television trial of Deutsche Telekom, advising the cable television provider Tele Columbus with their internet strategy, developing online-marketing campaigns for the advertising agency Melle-Pufe.
12/1993 - 12/1996
Pixelpark Multimedia GmbH, Berlin

Concept Developer

Contributions to the design of a multimedia kiosk system and creation of storyboards for interactive CD-ROMs. With the advent of the world wide web I was in charge of the concept development for a number of corporate web sites of major German companies.

Education

4/1987 - 2/1993
Universität Heidelberg

Graduate Physicist

Major subject Physics, minor subject Philosophy. Visiting scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
6/1985
Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Ludwigshafen

Abitur

Skills

Interests
I have always been fascinated by the impact of media on the mutual relationships between society, economy and governments, at the latest when the first German private television operator took up broadcasting in my home town Ludwigshafen.

My work experience ranges from the system specification of PCBs, chipsets, operating systems, middleware, applications and services to the conceptualization of user interfaces and housings. I have managed the development of products from the definition of the initial requirements up to the final release of the product.

Thanks to my studies of natural science I can rapidly comprehend complex technical contexts and describe them appropriate to the imagination of different target groups. I am a creative thinker, capable of motivating and managing multidisciplinary teams and formulating intellegible concepts to implement new products according to customer requirements.
Languages
My English is business fluent and I understand French