We live and breathe the innovative culture and spirit of sustainability in Sonoma County and TekTailor is dedicated to preserving our beautiful rolling hills and vineyards by preventing growing mountains of trash. At TekTailor we have a passion for old, used stuff - things that usually end up in the landfill. We live in a single use society where many materials that required a lot of resources to make in the first place get thrown away when they still have a lot of life left. We work with local Bay Area businesses and individuals to divert such used materials from the waste stream and give them a new life.Our product brand TekTailor REMADE is specialized in designing and creating unique and meaningful new products from materials like advertising banners, billboards, decommissioned fire hose, fabric & leather scraps etc. The products we create not only tell the story of the material’s history and previous purpose but also look stylish and are made to last for many years to come!

BPE-USA is one of the leading producers of highest quality protective gear in the U.S. with more than 25 years experience in designing & manufacturing highest quality protective gear across various industries & product categories with a strong focus on Defense & Law Enforcement and Industrial Work Safety. All our products are made in our factory in Santa Rosa, California.Main responsibilities:- Production & staff oversight for about 110 employees during peak contract phases- Material procurement and inventory oversight- US Government / Military 3-year contract implementation including quality control systems, RFID requirements, packaging & shipping requirements, document management & contract compliance

tripwolf - hungry for travel. Worldwide travel guide & travel community website and mobile app with more than 500,000 points of interest. Available in German, English, Spanish, French and Italian - with offline maps on your phone as well as downloadable PDF travel guides and customized trip itineraries. tripwolf was successfully sold to a German publishing company.Main responsibilities:- Product feature definition and implementation planning in close coordination with programmers.- UI/UX definition, testing for desktop and mobile.- Monetization strategy & implementation, premium listing partner acquisition & contract management- Contributed over 5,000 travel photos to worldwide guides from my own photo archives- tripwolf Ambassador model definition and recruiting of "trip gurus"- tripwolf Ambassador swag design and production- Community engagement and growth strategy and implementation

Specialist consultant for mobile data / telecommunication services and applications, international marketing and go to market strategy, product propositions and product management.Key clients involved T-Systems, T-Labs, T-Mobile, Yahoo! and Etisalat with projects across the US, Egypt and Germany.Main responsibilities:- Mobile Internet Product portfolio definition and content partner management- OEM parternships for pre-installation of mobile apps and services- Pricing strategy for phone tariffs and mobile data service offerings

- Mobile online satellite navigation product adaptation for market launch in UK and North America. Setting up and introducing Jentro Technologies in the UK.- Responsible for adaptation and translation of mobile navigation software, contents, user experience & user interface, packaging, manuals & user guides- Responsible for website and online shop content editing & provisioning, mobile carrier partnerships, consumer pricing, project management for UK & USA launch.

- Consumer data strategy, proposition development and delivery for t-zones (mobile portal) and web‘n‘walk (mobile Internet). - Responsible for data propositions including product & requirement definition technical feasibility & implementation, data pricing, consumer & market insights, benefits case, strategy compliance, go to market concepts, management board approval and launch across key European T-Mobile markets.

Backpacking through California, Mexico, Cuba, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Venezuela

Responsible for content and applications of T-Mobile’s mobile portal offering www.t-zones.at; providing services and contents for different mobile channels: WAP, PDA/MDA, SMS, MMS.Contractual & commercial negotiations of content deals and marketing co-operations; budget planning & responsibility; definition of product roadmap & product requirements; evaluation of new contents, services, partners & applications; leading a team of 3 content managers

Responsible for sourcing and defining content providers, applications and products mainly for the T-Mobile Germany WAP (mobile internet) portal offering; from October 2001 responsible for the T-Mobile Austria WAP portal offering; content management and contractual negotiations; introduction of T-Mobile styleguides; quality improvement and assurance; bug fixing; portal and release management

Responsible for the introduction of new post-paid tariffs and product features for the German T-D1 consumer mass market; planning and co-ordination of T-Mobile’s fair offering and product presentation at CeBIT 1999 (Hanover) & IFA 1999 (Internationale Funkausstellung, Berlin); responsible for the creation of product bundles, marketing brochures, raffles and seasonal marketing specials & events based on T-Mobile’s customer segmentation.

3 months Business Customer Unit - Sales & Distribution (Koblenz)3 months Network Infrastructure Unit - Process Interfaces (Koblenz)3 months Headquarters Bonn - International Product and Market Definition (Bonn)