Actual position
Since 07.2011
B2B Social Media Manager at the Bayer MaterialScience AG – Communications, global responsibility in strategy and tactics.
Vocational career / development
10-2006 – 07.2011
Innovation manager (design network) at the Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS) – Corporate Development – New Business – Creative Center
Mission: Discover, design and test B2B processes to create strategic measureable value in the relation between BMS, the design sector and customers in the global value chain for today and future markets.
Activities: Business process development which linked design driven innovation with BMS own business infrastructure. Development of innovation interpretation tools: e.g. design driven ideation projects (VisionWorks Award – people in motion); creation of customer centered material services for fragmented influencer groups (e.g. BMS-SampleBox); daily material, technology, value-chain & design consulting (cosumer goods, furniture, transportation); leading own developments from first feasibility study to license out (Moss-Carpet); cultivating an active external industrial designer community and the internal ‘Design Network’ team driven by stratgy, goals, budget and milestones monitoring; initiating and supporting diploma theses and trainees as well as student group projects; lecture activity with changing contents on fairs and international congresses.
Results received Awards (if communication award 2010, nominee of the german design award 2012) and are mentioned in books e.g. Roberto Verganti’s “Design Driven Innovation”
For further details feel free and have a look into the projects section on this blog.
02.2006 – 10.2006
Innovation manager at the Bayer MaterialScience AG – Corporate Development – New Business – Creative Center, responsible for the flagship program “Light & Optic”.
Activities: project management, production cost oriented re-engineering of EXTRACT – LED-tweezers, production of 10k sets followed by an out-licensing to “moree” and were honored by a prmotional gift Award in 2008.
10.2004 – 02.2005
Design and build a visionary headlamp prototype for Philips Automotive Lighting.
11.2003 – 09.2004
Intern at the Henkel KGaA, department of technological development in Düsseldorf
Activities: CAD reverse engineering of packing lines
12.1999 – 07.2003
Student research assistant at the faculty of engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen;
Design and engineering of steel structures, followed by FEM analysis; CAD lectures
11.08.1998 – 25.01.1999
Project engineer for Mannesmann DEMAG Energy and Environmental Technologies in Hong Kong, renovation of an ash handling system in a coal power plant owned by “Hong Kong Electric” (HEC).
23.06.1998 – 28.02.1999
Technical draftsman at Mannesmann DEMAG Department of Power Plant Components and Systems Ash-Handling
Education / Training
21.12.2010
Graduated in Design at the Köln International School of Design (KISD)
Main-Topic: Marine Litter Extraction (start-off: Mass-Consumption in a Low Carbon Society 2030)
Sub-Topics: Holography; Design Service Platform
11.01.2006
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering (Construction Technology) with a University degree
05.2005 – 12.2005
Diploma at Bayer MaterialScience AG – New Business – Creative Center
Task: Project Management – development of illuminated plastic tweezers (EXTRACT LED-tweezers) from the idea to the small series (1000 pieces), supported by marktunddesign.
Activities: Establishing an internal and external development and manufacturing network; plan, support and coordinate all development and manufacturing steps; detail constructions and FEM simulation; patent application; first business model evaluations
10.2001 – 12.2010
Studying at the Köln International School of Design (KISD),
Focus areas: Product Design, Service Design and Design Management.
08.1998 – 01.2006
Studying at the faculty of engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
01.08.1996 – 22.06.1998
Trainee as a technical draftsman at Mannesmann DEMAG Energy and Environmental Technologies
01.08.1995 – 31.08.1996
Civil service in the youth hostel Bad Honnef
26.06.1995
Achieved the general qualification for university-entrance at the Otto-Hahn Secondary School Monheim
Further / Recreational interests
Strange movies, watching media art, riding on my mountain-bike, hiking, old-cars, dancing in a loud club, fiction books about distant or imagined countries, a good long talk and a good exploratory meal