{"id":1355,"date":"2025-02-14T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8081\/about"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:11:47","slug":"aboutme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalwerkstatt-suedeifel.de\/en\/aboutme\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Personal Background<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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More than just the technical & buzzword marketing<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Many paths lead into the IT profession. What particularly captivated me were the many intricate problems I get to solve every day.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Even though I have earned my livelihood through IT for many years, I am not “technologically blinded.” Technology must serve the people and operate within the boundaries set by our environment and our planet. In my free time, I spend many hours in nature, and it is important to me to act in resource-conscious and responsibly. Artists know that solutions and creativity often emerge through limitations and at the intersection of diverse fields, in the liminal spaces of edges and boundaries. Anyone can launch new “toys” on the market and learn their operation, but their consequences are often not considered. Thinking one step further and distinguishing sense from nonsense requires to constantly raise the gaze towards a broader horizon.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Technology in service of the people, homeland, and a longer-term future<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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After seeing the world and almost three decades of experience abroad\u2014having 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\u2014I 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.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

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\u2014perhaps some align with your own thoughts & concerns.<\/p>

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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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