Vita

03 Founder and Managing Director, Inventivio GmbH
02 Chair of Information Systems, School of Law and Business Administration, University of Bayreuth
00 Habilitation (University of the Saarland), Title: Infrastructures for the management of scientific knowledge - An investigation into the impact of information technology on the creation, synthesis and dissemination of scientific knowledge.
94 1st prize, dissertation award University of the Saarland Institute for Empirical Economics Research
94 Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
93 Dissertation Thesis topic: Reference models - structure and application of libraries for semantic data models (in German)
88-93 Researcher at Institute of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. A-W. Scheer)
83-88 Business Administration at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken. Emphasis in Information Systems (Prof. Scheer) and Banking (Prof. Bieg)

Military Service

81-83 Artillery, Lieutenant of the Reserves

School

78-81 High School, German School Den Haag (Netherlands)
77-78 High School, Christianeum, Hamburg
72-77 High School, Ulm
67-72 Primary School, Bremerhaven

Prizes and Awards

94 1st prize, dissertation award University of the Saarland Institute for Empirical Economics Research

Research Interests

  • Knowledge Management
  • Software Engineering & Reference Models
  • Open Source Software
  • Applied Natural Language Processing

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    Teaching

    University of Bayreuth

  • Planning, Analysis and Implementation of Information Systems (Spring 2003)
  • Planning and Decison-Taking
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java
  • Introduction to Information Systems (Fall 2002)
  • Electronic Commerce (Fall 2002)
  • Management of Information Technology (Fall 2002)

    • University of Southern California, Gordon S. Marshall School of Business, 1994-2002

  • Information systems analysis and design (graduate and undergraduate)
  • Database management (graduate)
  • PhD seminar in information systems

    • University of Cottbus, Germany

  • Information management, spring 1992
  • Business applications, fall 1992

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