Facilitate communication and exchange requirements of partners, customers and sales. Coordination and support of the respective business product units to offer and launch their products to the DACH market

Provided trainings to product managers from different industry branches and companies to make their products more successful by using the Open Product Management Workflow methodology

- Responsible product and project manager of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 4 (x64, POWER, Z, arm64), after a series of Service Packs (SP) for SLES 10 / 11 / 12. SPs enable our customers to dependently introduce innovation to their infrastructure.- Customer, partner and internal interviews to gather and assess product requirements- Presentation of product planning and project progress to management committees- Life cycle planning, implementation, and evaluation of the market success of the respective products (quality, sales analysis and forecast). Creation and execution of time-limited offers (promotions)- Market and competitor analysis for product positioning, market approach and pricing- Design and negotiation of cooperation agreements with SUSE strategic partners- Responsible PM for changes and releases for SUSE Terms & Conditions of all products, which are key to SUSE solution offering and revenue generation, and customer compliance safety- Definition and tracking of localization of SUSE product portfolio for many years, to fulfill market and partner requirements for different countries- Evangelist for SLES on Z at customer briefings and events, delivering hands-on workshops at GSE and SHARE conferences, and conducting internal sales training and sales support- Project management of USGv6 / IPv6 compliance testing by UNH-IOL of SLES versions 11 / 12 including SPs, to fulfill market and governmental requirements and allow sales to governmental organizations

Product Manager- Lead introductions of SLES virtualization technologies (VT) for x86, x64 Xen and KVM for SLES 10 / 11, later followed by LXC, POWER VM and pKVM, IBM z z/VM and z/KVM- Market introduction of the first enterprise grade open source based virtualization technology. Pilot program responsibility to drive early adoption and generate customer references (4 references out of15 participants). Innovation of „Virtual Machine Driver Pack“ for Xen cerfified by Microsoft WHQL- Market analysis and recommendations of system management solutions to complement the SUSEvirtualization product offerings. Project management for the Novell Virtualization Platform (NVP) together with IBM xSeries Group- Definition of the Novell YES certification program for virtualization technologies to create an eco-system of ISVs and IHVs equivalent to bare metal offerings• Product management for SLES HA (High Availability) in SLES 9 / 10, SLES 11 HASI (High Availability Storage Infrastructure) including Oracle Cluster FS

Technical Product Manager SUSE Linux Enterprise Server- Built ISVs and IHVs ecosystems to ensure broad industry support for product portfolio- Beta program definition and coordination of test plans of SUSE / Novell and partners- Counter part to product development and operations for product releases- Initiated, defined and applied tool set for product requirements and project status tracking

Technical Project Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM S/390 and zSeries- Project management including effort and task scheduling, released 6 products (x86, x64, POWER, S/390, Z, iA64) in sync and on schedule- Long term roadmap planning with strategic partners like IBM, HP, Intel, AMD, (and more)- Defined a new business model and support processes (internally and externally with partners)- Initiated proof of concept for SUSE Linux on S/390 of SUSE and IBM

Technical project managment of SLES for IBM System z (aka mainframe): - co-development of business model for SLES (maintenance and support for an enterprise class distribution) and early adaptor program ('install fest')- roadmap planning and project tracking to deliver SLES for IBM mainframe synchronized with SuSE's SLES code base and IBM zLinux enhancements (SLES 7 S/390, SLES 8 S/390 and zSeries, SLES 9 S/390 and zSeries)

Technical Engineer: mainframe system operation services (SOS) development & testing & coordination- Coordination of SOS subsystem integration for IBM S/390 mainframe G6 model 9672- Worked in virtual global team, relocated several times & weeks to IBM Poughkeepsie, NY- Developed distributed real time OS for system controllers integrated in S/390 G5 and G6- Enhanced FEDC dump analysis tool to reduce development cycle time for the team