* Develop and extend our businesses around Red Hat's "enterprise ready" open source solutions* Expand & build a powerful enterprise open source focused team of architects, consultants, engineers & DevOps experts* Be OPEN...

* Develop and extend our businesses around Red Hat's "enterprise ready" open source solutions* Be OPEN...

* Enabling GROUPLINK's members to provide & build enterprise ready open source solutions based upon Red Hat's technology stacks with focus on Hybrid Clouds and IT Automation* Develop and extend Red Hat solutions footprint at customer base of GROUPLINK's members plus generation of new business with targets/prospects/new clients * Orchestrate our strategic partnership with Red Hat on all organizational levels and functions by living & breathing the Open Source culture

Product Management for a software platform for end-to-end encryption of digital communication

Familiarization, adoption and execution of my parents' real estate management, plus intensive support of my family during my father's convalescence.

Self-financed phase of recreation/sabbatical (including several journeys within Europe).

* Recruitment and management of Red Hat ISV partners within central EMEA (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux)* Looking for ISVs who are willing to benefit from combining their solutions with RedHat's offering for Enterprise Linux, Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware by becoming a RedHat ISV partner* Typical business cases include: Migration from UNIX to Enterprise Linux, JEE middleware stacks, high-available Enterprise Linux based solution stacks

* Central point of contact for Linux & Open Source related topics within Computacenter Germany* Linux & Open Source related pre-sales consulting (architectures, enterprise solutions, profitability)* Training & Knowledge transfer (internally to colleagues & externally to customers and partners)* Business development (building & maintaining relationships with ISVs, IHVs, the Linux community)* Red Hat and Novell partnership management

* Linux & Open Source related consulting (architectures, enterprise solutions, profitability)* Training & Knowledge transfer (internally to colleagues & externally to customers and partners)* Business development (building & maintaining relationships with ISVs, IHVs, the Linux community)* Red Hat and Novell partnership management

As a part of Novell's EMEA organistion my main role was to support the local Novell subsidaries within Scandinavia and Benelux to indentify, qualifiy and acquire potential Novell Linux Business Partners like Valued Added Resellers, (Corporate) System Integrators and Software Vendors. These activities included to share general Linux & Open Source knowledge, to provide any pre-sales support (sales+technical), to conduct trainings and to present Novell's Linux strategy and offerings to partner and… Show more As a part of Novell's EMEA organistion my main role was to support the local Novell subsidaries within Scandinavia and Benelux to indentify, qualifiy and acquire potential Novell Linux Business Partners like Valued Added Resellers, (Corporate) System Integrators and Software Vendors. These activities included to share general Linux & Open Source knowledge, to provide any pre-sales support (sales+technical), to conduct trainings and to present Novell's Linux strategy and offerings to partner and end customer audiences. Show less

As a part of SUSE's partner sales organistion my main role was to indentify, qualifiy, acquire and educate potential SUSE Linux Business Partners like Valued Added Resellers, (Corporate) System Integrators and Software Vendors. These activities included to share general Linux & Open Source knowledge, to provide any pre-sales support (sales+technical), to conduct trainings and to present SUSE's Linux strategy and offerings to partner and end customer audiences.

Indentification, qualification and acquisition of potential Valued Added Resellers, System Integrators and Software Vendors within Germany for becoming a SUSE Linux partner.

Senior Product (Marketing) Manager for 3rd Party Enterprise Software that SUSE Linux GmbH was reselling and distributing at that time (e.g. VMware, Arkeia, Oracle, Borland).

General Manager at a software company specialized in development of individual and customized e-business solutions (B2B). Main focus on industry and retail customers.

General Manager of a small software company specialized in development of individual and customized CAE/CAS solutions for industry customers. Main focus on product configurators.