1963 - 1971 Gymnasium Schwertstraße, Solingen, final secondary-school examinations (Abitur)
1971 - 1976 Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, 1st State Exam, Physics subsidiary subject: Geography, Philosophy, Sc. of Education
Professional Career
Apr 2007 - today Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co.KG, München
since Okt 2009 Internal Outplacement Unit
Voluntary entry into NSN's outplacement unit for professional reorientation.
2008 Head of System Verification Responsible for the overall SW quality after final system testing as well as successful acceptance of the system by pilot customers. Execution of a cost saving program with focus on test automation and test lab consolidation.
2007 Head of Business Excellence Successful implementation of a widely accepted operative Business Excel-lence organization within the Radio Access Business Unit, Introduction of a Balanced Scorecard including the definition of improvements measures for the unit's Mode of Operation derived from metrics.
Jul 1986 - Mar 2007 Siemens AG, München
2006 Nokia Siemens Networks Integration Team
Team leader of the COO Mode of Operation Teams (in collaboration with a Finnish colleague).
Definition of the Mode of Operation (organizational struc-ture, processes, governance model) for Nokia Siemens Networks Communications Technology & Operations Organization.
2003 Head of Business Excellence
Responsible for Quality and Process Management of the business line, including the metrics system, operational risk management and achievement of CMMI maturity level 3.
Contract negotiations with cooperation partners in Asia, representing Sie-mens' interests in the area of development processes and quality management.
2001 Head of Systems Engineering & System Test
Responsible for technical product strategies in cooperation with key custom-ers and product line management. Specification of product requirements for the development organizations.
Responsible for the product release to customers after successful completion of system testing. Execution of acceptance tests together with pilot customers. Representing the development organization in key customer status meetings.
2000 Business Segment Head, Network Management Solutions
Business responsibility for the Siemens Radio Operations & Management System.
Responsible for the definition and development of future Radio Network man-agement system solutions. Definition of marketing strategies including new pricing models for network management systems.
1991 Head of Projekt Management & System Test
Responsible for the definition and implementation of a new development pro-ject leader system including the setup of an appropriate organization of project leaders together with the required controlling methods and structures.
Responsibility for all Radio Development project leaders, assuring the system releases in time and in quality.
1990 Head of System Test
Responsible for the integration and test of GSM base stations in a network environment with a partner (PKI).
1986 Technical Project Leader
Responsible for systems engineering and test of the Siemens office automa-tion system Mail X.400.
Apr 1984 - Jun 1986 Insotec GmbH, München
Executive IT Systems Engineer
Consulting and technical project lead of projects in the areas of data commu-nication, computer networks and office automation.
Nov 1981 - Mar 1984 Computer Sciences International Deutschland GmbH, München
Senior IT Specialist
Conceptual and architectural consulting in civil and military data communica-tion projects in Germany and abroad.
Jul 1979 - Okt 1981 European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
Systems Analyst
Project leader for the development of the remote terminals at the 17 national weather centers.
Responsible for the weather data network evolution considering state of the art communication protocols.
Nov 1976 - Jun 1979 Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Research Staff Member
Definition and implementation of data communication protocols (OSI layers 3 and 4) in government sponsored research projects in cooperation with Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) and the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI);
Lecturing data communication classes at the university.
Management Trainings/Qualifications
Advanced business management training
Business management for engineers
Efficiency in management
Leadership trainings
Personnel management
Professional Memberships
Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Arbeitskreis Softwarequalität und Fortbildung e.V. (ASQF)