About me

I live in Kempen (NRW near the Ruhr area, Düsseldorf and the Dutch border, more precisely in the small village of St. Hubert). I was born on 18.08.1967 in Cologne. We moved to Kempen when I was one year old. I spent most of my school years in Kempen. A not insignificant part of my school time was spent at the Gymnasium Thomaeum . Further details can be found on Stayfriends.

The short summary of my professional life is always: after a short orientation phase, IT - emergency medicine - IT.

After initially training as a phys. techn. assistant and learning a different profession (wholesale merchant), my path took me past the German Armed Forces and I did alternative service in disaster control with the German Red Cross instead. There I trained as a paramedic and worked regularly at the Kempen rescue station. This is how I ended up in the rescue service, my “interim” profession. Via a private rescue service and the JUH, I continued with the Malteser via RA/LRA to become a lecturer in the rescue service and organizational head of the rescue service. After 2000, his voluntary work led to a medal and, as part of a leadership assignment at the Love Parade, to praise from the Federal President. It all fit quite harmoniously into the handshake of the Federal Minister of the Interior as part of an award for the "helping hand".

First as a side business, partly together with a friend (Joachim von Stieglitz) as oHG and later independently with freelancers and employees as e.K., I have been doing business in the field of EDP and communication for several years. I taught ( left2right: Sergej Klimow, Ralf Hülsmann, Ralf Bischoni, Norbert Klöcker)for over 12 years in the field of rescue services and emergency medicine. At the end of 1998, I started a project for a computer school for social organizations, which I helped to plan and implement. At about the same time, I qualified as a lecturer in emergency services and co-published a multimedia CD and a book. I probably just had too much time on my hands. For many years, I took exams and state exams for RH/RS/RA/LRA and was able to gain deep insights into knowledge, pedagogy and learning behavior.

In 1999, I took the step away from medicine and have been working full-time in the IT sector ever since. Here, too, I was a trainer and have been working as an examiner for the Chamber of Industry and Commerce since 2000. I gave up my self-employment in favor of larger customer scenarios and became head of technology at the Düsseldorf site of ITZ, today a part of Bechtle group. From February 2006, I worked at IT service & solution as Head of Consulting. Consulting here is primarily concerned with advising on and implementing infrastructure solutions for SMEs, vendor-neutral and covering all the usual topics. Since the end of 2006, topics such as ITIL, ISO 20 000 and ISO 27 001 have led me into areas that I was able to get to know through early ISO 9000 projects. My professional orientation has accordingly focused on the analysis and consulting of IT infrastructure, security and strategy (ITSM, ITIL, ISMS, QM) and benchmarks. At the beginning of 2008, I switched to consulting, processes and applications as a business solutions consultant. The path leads to BCM, Enterprise Architecture and Process Management. From 2008 to 2010, I became interested in cloud computing and my first projects - the appeal is clearly the all-encompassing approach, which makes it necessary to dispense with “silo thinking”.

In July 2010, I moved to T-Systems as an Enterprise Architect to expand my expertise in the large enterprise environment. From the end of 2011, I had the opportunity to help build a global competence center for cloud computing, where I was responsible for driving the architecture & portfolio topics of system integration for cloud. With the change to Sales in 2013, I took over business development and sales tasks, still loyal to the development of new topics in Cloud. There, I was responsible for selling our cloud platforms to software manufacturers (ISV) and reselling partnerships with ISVs, provided they were not on the scale of Salesforce. 🙂 In general, my professional background, which ranges from code to infrastructure and sales support and ultimately ends up in consulting, leads to slight confusion among some of my corporate colleagues - here you are usually a bit more “busy”. Since 2016 from the Strategy department within the Cloud of the Digital Division - where we take care of partner program development, as well as partner & portfolio governance and - funnily enough - strategic issues. Finally, in the CTO & Strategy Office with tasks such as setting up and operating an innovation management system.

Apart from my still existing interest in IT & innovation, I like to go diving in warm water (PADI Divemaster, DAN Oxygen Instructor, ...). Of course, this also means that I enjoy traveling. I definitely like good food and the occasional night out. Pubs and bars add to the sociability. When I have too much time on my hands, I go motorcycling again. As I got older, after-work parties, saunas and chill-outs became more of an option. These examples don't rule out meeting up elsewhere. The fact that I was exposed to everything from Abba to NDW to Zappa in my youth and house and RNB as a young adult may explain my musical range. This is probably still evident today in my visits to my favorite festivals: Donauinselfest, Lollapaloza and Montreux Jazz Festival.art ? Yes, also with pleasure. I find architecture (e.g. Bauhaus) and modern art interesting and nice to look at. Forgive me if I can do more with pop art than with apples and pears painted on a plate in oil ; I think that's enough to get an impression of me.