| 06/1968 (Chinese Year of the Monkey ;-) | Born in Friedberg, capital of the district of Wetterau in the state of Hessen in the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 08/1974-07/1978 | Elementary School - Frauenwaldschule in Bad Nauheim |
| 08/1978-06/1987 | Highschool - St. Lioba-Gymnasium in Bad Nauheim |
| 10/1987-12/1988 | Military Service in the German Army (anti-aircraft unit) in Hannover / Langenhagen |
| 10/1988-02/1994 | Darmstadt University of Technology - Studied Electrical Engineering |
| 02/1994 | Received the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Communications Engineering |
| 06/1994-12/2006 | Alcatel
SEL AG,
Stuttgart, Development Engineer for Software Design, Implementation, Integration |
| - 06/1994-12/2002 | - Mobile Networks Division (MND), Mobile Core R&D |
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| - 01/2003-12/2006 | - Transport Solutions Division (TSD), Development Engineer Railway Supervision and Control |
| 01/2007-today | Thales
Rail Signalling Solutions GmbH,
Stuttgart, Senior Development Engineer Railway Network Management Automatic Route Setting and Train Tracking |
| System Programming Languages | C/C++, CHILL, Assembler, Pascal |
| Scripting Languages | Unix shell scripts, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Html |
| Operating Systems / Platforms | Unix (Sun Solaris and Compaq Tru64), DEC-VMS, IBM-MVS, MS-Windows |
| CASE Tools | Rational ROSE and ClearCase, MS Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder |
| Office Applications | MS Office, Netscape Communicator, Lotus Notes |
| Foreign Languages | English (fluently), French (basic) |