Study of physics in Dortmund and Aachen (high-energy physics).
Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Siegen (Knowledge-Based Systems and Knowledge Management)
With Elmos since 1990. - Started working for Elmos as a developer of test programs for the automatic electrical test of products.
From the middle of the 90s development of the IT at Elmos. (There was nothing like that before - you can hardly imagine it today ...)
Besides the office IT from the beginning, the integration of the manufacturing processes into the IT structures was a focus.
After many years of responsibility for IT: Establishing a new organizational structure taking care of test program development, product engineering, and assembly