* CNCF CloudEvents WG Member* OASIS AMQP TC Co-Chair* Co-Architect of the industrial OPC UA PubSub specification* Several IoT related security patents and patent applications* Prototyped and drove the initial architectural blueprint for the Microsoft IoT reference architecture and Microsoft Azure IoT Hub* Formulated the "Service Assisted Communication" concept for Connected Devices in the "Internet of Things" space* Invented and prototyped the Azure Notification Hubs used to drive personalized cross-platform Push Notifications to millions of devices. Examples: Bing News, official Sochi 2014 Olympics results apps.* Invented and prototyped a range of technologies leading to a range of key customer and background features in Azure and Azure Service Bus. Holding several patents.• Key contributions in driving a product incubation effort from a small staff of 4 to full grown team and a commercially available Microsoft Public Cloud PaaS offering in an individual contributor role with technical responsibility for the product’s protocol and API. • Key contributions shaping a hybrid software development process for online services mixing upfront design and agile principles with strong reliance on continuous integration and QA. Drivers are no-downtime upgradability and exceeding the availability SLA.• Defined the Azure Service Bus public API and class hierarchy and protocol surface including long-term versioning strategy.• Defined and helped implement the architecture/design for the product’s backend provisioning management to configure tenant resources across scale-units and datacenters. Defined the architecture for the product’s usage collection, aggregation and billing base infrastructure. 2007-2008, Senior Program Manager, Model-Driven Development Platform “Oslo”• Key contributions to Windows Communication Foundation 3.0, 3.5• Public speaking engagements at hundreds of international conferences

As a member of the "Digital Circle" of German professional football club Borussia Mönchengladbach, I help advise the club leadership on their digital strategy, concrete technology choices, and software architecture guidance.

• Oversaw the curriculum for the company’s developer and architect education courses. Regularly taught in workshops world-wide.• Provided architectural and development guidance to customers in financial institutions, insurance companies, engineering and other fields of business.• Broad engagement and positive recognition as public speaker at very many international software conferences in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and North America.• Author for German software development magazines, author of several books (see “Publications”), visible and recognized blogger.• Original author of the open-source “dasBlog” weblog software

(now acquired into Aryza)• Led team of senior developers/architects and graphics designer providing architectural and process guidance, technical “firefighting” capabilities, and user interface design to development teams across the organization.• Architect and project-lead for model-driven architecture framework with O/R mapping capabilities, XML-based abstract UI definition language, and SOAP messaging support• Architect and project-lead for financial collections Internet portal solution “e-lnkasso”, allowing customers to file collection cases, debtor tracing and address verification jobs electronically (interactive or web service requests) and match them up with collection providers.• Led technical due diligence on several U.S. companies that parent company was looking to acquire in the course of own corporate IPO.• Technical interviewer in 300+ recruiting interviews in staffing campaign tripling the size of corporate software development force in the course of corporate IPO.

(now acquired into Aryza)• Started Wall Street software development subsidiary of German parent company as responsible subsidiary business manager and project manager. Led team of 7 U.S. employees developing technologies and business modules for use in parent companies products.• Architect and project lead for WYSIWYG “smart typewriter replacement” for filling out and printing forms in savings banks.• Designed scripting enabled, custom PostScript injection mechanism into Windows print-output streams for high precision printer output.• Architect and project lead for event driven workflow engine for financial collections where workflows can be arbitrarily interrupted or changed and where work-streams are dependent on external business events.• Project-lead for creating cross-platform version of company’s internal business frameworks to support IBM OS/2 3.0 Warp as target platform alongside Win32.

(formerly ABIT AG)1993-1995 Software Design Engineer (Architect)• Member of team developing Windows and Windows NT based financial collections product for collection agencies and legal dept. of savings banks. Owned base class library alongside several business modules in developer role. Responsible for overall software design in architect role.1991-1993 Software Developer• Member of team developing DOS-based credit application processing product for credit unions and savings banks. Owned consumer credit, mortgage loan calculation, and workflow modules.