Not so much to say. Spend the first 40 years of my life in Germany. Born in Bremen in the north of Germany I spend the first 10 years there. I was then educated in two boarding schools, finished my national service and finally studied in Karlruhe a combined subject of Computer Science and Operation Research. Became very soon a free lance developer for Cobol and DataBase applications what stretched a bit the time I stayed at University. Finally I made my master degree and started with Oracle in Nuernberg in 1994. In 1995 I moved to Munich to take on a new role as practise manager and in 1996 I moved to Dresden to establish the first services practise in East Germany for Oracle in Dresden. In 1997, I was send by Oracle to Singapore to take over the BI practice there and since then I'm searching for my return ticket and can not find it anymore. In 2000 I left Oracle and joint a small bank, only to get hired by RHB (bank) in Malaysia the next year. 2003 - 2004 I set up the services practise fo SAS in Bangkok and in 2004 I joint IBM. Since 2005 I'm the Software Group Services Exec, taking care of the Consulting, Education and Support business for the Information Management brand in Asia Pacific.