Employment History (Recent Roles)
Head of IT department
Since 2018/02 | Student Services Organization Ulm (Studierendenwerk Ulm)
Leadership experience, heading a team of 6; strategic organizational development of infrastructure, application, user, and politics layers; member of board of department heads.
IT Project Management and Organizational Development
Since 2015/05 | Student Services Organization Ulm
IT Specialist supporting Educational Programs
2014/03 – 2011/02 | Scientific Student Assistant at Center for General Scientific Continuing Education, Ulm University
Web administration of learning, discussion, and engagement platforms; consulting on digitization topics; cooperation in social science and educational fields.
Industrial R&D Intern — Virtual Commissioning of Production Facilities
2009/02 – 2008/09 | Daimler AG
Development of a virtual model for commissioning the plant and robot control of a production cell; Department of Integrated Production Modeling (R&D).
Education
University Diploma in Electrical Engineering
2016/12 – 2005/10 | Ulm University
Overall grade: Good (1.8); Diploma thesis “Implementation and Simulation of Boolean Models for Gene Regulation on a Hybrid x86/FPGA System”, grade: Very good (1.0).
Teaching and Training Experience
Supervision of Practical Training Phases, B. Sc. Business Informatics
2018 – 2020 | Student Services Organization Ulm / DHBW Baden-Württemberg, Heidenheim
Supervision of practical training phases, student projects, and bachelor theses, including topics such as: privacy-friendly open loop payment schemes; digital invoice workflows and document management.
Lecturer: “Visions for Digitalization — Theory and Practice in the Form of an (Ulm) Think Tank”
Winter semester 2018 | Center for General Scientific Continuing Education, Ulm University
Interdisciplinary and intergenerational seminar (block course), application of scenario methods and critical reflection on digital future visions (utopias/dystopias).
Lecturer: “Sensors for a Smart City — Product Development Based on LPWAN”
2018/03 – 2017/10 | DHBW Heidenheim
Project course “Ubiquitous Computing” (5th and 6th Bachelor semesters, module lead).
WissenSchaffer
2013/11 – 2010/10 | Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology, Ulm University
Conceptualization and establishment of WissenSchaffer, a university career counseling program with focus on STEM disciplines; continued collaboration with the established counseling service. Recipient of the Ulm University Award for Outstanding Student Engagement for the establishment of WissenSchaffer.
Digital Civil Society Projects and Civic Tech
temporärhaus
Since 2016 | Ulm/Neu-Ulm (operating as “Verschwörhaus” until 2022)
Civic tech software and hardware projects; outreach and educational activities, including workshops and talks; community building and organization; core member of the regional LoRaWAN/TheThingsNetwork community; founding member.
datalove / ulm api
2016 – 2012 | Student Open Data Group
Work on student and municipal open data initiatives, including the Open City Camp 2012 and 2013 organized at Ulm University.
Continuing Education, Languages, and Additional Skills
ITSM: FitSM Foundation Level.
Systems: Linux, Windows, Cisco and HP Aruba networking, Docker.
Programming: C, C++, Python, R, HTML/CSS, SQL.
Administration: Various services and applications, primarily Linux, partially Windows; networking, from access to core and perimeter.
Group / Leadership: Group Leader Certificate of the Federation of German Catholic Youth, course totaling 12 days, 2002/2003.
English: Negotiation proficient. French: Basic school knowledge.