o 1986 graduated as Dipl. Inform. from University of Karlsruhe o 1986-91 Full time researcher at the institute of process control and robotics Uni. Karlsruhe + Research in european gov. sponsored ESPRIT projects and contributions to the STEP standard o 1991-1994 Development manager and lead at GOPAS Software GmbH o 1994-today: Chief Technologist Sun ISV Engineering + Collaboration with SAP Linuxlab + Collaboration with Sun Open Source Engineering