| professional experience |
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2000-now |
Independent Consultant and Software Developer |
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1997-99 |
Business Engineer at STILL GmbH in Hamburg, Germany |
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1996-97 |
Regional Sales Management for Western Sales Region in the US
with Linde Lift Truck in Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
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1994-96 |
Internship in Sales and Marketing at Linde Lift Truck in
Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
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1988-92 |
Internships at Daimler-Chrysler in Hamburg, Germany and
debis Systemhaus AG in Karlsruhe, Germany |
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1986-88 |
Trainee as Industrial Salesman at Daimler-Chrysler in
Hamburg, Germany |
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1985 |
Internship at Siemens-Nixdorf in Hamburg, Germany |
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1984-85 |
Military Service in Boostedt, Germany |
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| recent assignments
(1997-2008) |
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SAP R/3 |
SAP support, customizing, user authorizations consulting and custom report development at Rotorion North America (formerly MTU Driveshafts) |
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SAP R/3 |
SAP support, customizing, custom report development, form development, data migration, systems integration at Asahi Kasei North America (formerly Dorlastan Fibers) |
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SAP R/3 |
SAP support, customizing, custom report development, forms development, data migration, systems integration, development of other business applications and project management for e-Commerce system implementation with full SAP integration at Linde Material Handling |
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SAP R/3 |
Joined complete implementation project at Linde
Material Handling North America as SAP SD Configurator in core project team. Assisted and drove
requirements gathering, analysis, configuration, business process
documentation and user training. Project team interface to Linde Sales
Project Managers. |
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Software Development |
Designed and developed Client Tracking System for Tax and Accounting Businesses
for BusinessWorks. |
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Designed and developed Reporting Tool for Data Extraction and Analysis in Microsoft
Excel for HyperSoft GmbH |
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Designed and developed Procurement Module for Inventory Management System
for HyperSoft GmbH |
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Designed and developed a Customer Help Desk System for HyperSoft GmbH.
The system is successfully in use to support HyperSoft Customer Service
since 1997. |
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Localization |
Localized Point of Sales and Inventory Management System
software and documentation for
HyperSoft GmbH
from German to English.
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Software Project Management |
Lead and managed project to stabilize and
improve an existing Sales Force
Automation System at STILL GmbH. Achieved a substantial increase in
acceptance and satisfaction with the mobile sales force. Major
accomplishments were the development of a technical datasheet comparison program for
lift trucks in
cooperation with Iltis GmbH, Germany
and the development of a new quoting system in cooperation
with CAS Software AG, Germany. A
new organization and new personnel to support the sales force were
installed, who successfully maintain the level of service reached during the project.
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Qualification projects |
Developed employee qualification programs for
corporate mailing system and corporate network at STILL GmbH. Created training
materials, information brochures, organized classroom trainings, performed
trainings, planned and organized corporate network structure for remote STILL Branches in Germany.
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Organizational projects |
Documented and analyzed of cost and time saving
potentials of customer order processing workflow at STILL GmbH and STILL
Wagner GmbH |
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