Personal Background

After seeing the world and almost three decades of experience abroad—having lived in the USA, studied a semester in Japan, and worked for nearly two decades as an IT manager for an American corporation in Luxembourg—I now wish to focus more on my (adopted) homeland. In my previous role, I led international IT projects in the USA, Asia, and Europe, and had the opportunity to engage with many exciting topics such as cloud migration, digitalization and automation of business processes, as well as various system decisions and software implementations.

I would like to contribute these experiences here in our region and help small and medium-sized enterprises better master upcoming challenges related to digitalization, technological acceleration, complexity challenges, climate change, aging populations/labor shortages, etc.

During my time as an IT manager, I helped shape fascinating developments that completely transformed our working world: toward an increasingly complex and resource-intensive IT landscape. But the past is not a reliable indicator of the future: the changes of the coming decades will not necessarily follow the same pattern as those of the past few decades. A critical perspective is needed here: topics such as data sovereignty, crisis- and weather-resilient technology, IT and data security, resilience and self-sufficiency, resource-saving solutions, and complexity reduction may gain greater importance in the future. Under the “Portfolio” and “Values” sections of this website, you can find some concrete ideas of mine on this—perhaps some align with your own thoughts & concerns.

The common thread is constant change and a passion for learning new things, but also the understanding that such changes are profound. One must grasp interconnections beyond one’s immediate field, bring the people along, and decide which of the many directions to pursue and for what purpose.