| Date and place of birth | 1966 in Brilon |
| School | 1972 – 1976 Primary school Gudenhagen 1976 – 1985 Gymnasium Petrinum Brilon, finished with graduation from High School (“Abitur”) |
| Occupational training | 1986 – 1989 Mathematisch-technischer Assistent at Bayer AG in Leverkusen |
| Work experience | 1989 – 1990 System Developer at Bayer AG in Leverkusen 1991 – today Software Developer and Chief Architect at Delta Software Technology GmbH in Schmallenberg |
| Organisations | Gesellschaft für Informatik openHAB Foundation e.V. Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. |
| Languages | German, English, French (basic knowledge) |
| Programming languages | Java, C#, C/C++, COBOL, PL/1, Go, Visual Basic, PHP and other scripting languages |
| Operating systems | Microsoft Windows from NT to 10, Windows Server 2003-2016 R2, Android, Several Unix variants, Linux, IBM z/OS, … |
| Development environments | Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (from Version 6 to 2017), Eclipse since Helios, IBM ISPF on IBM z/OS, Microsoft Visual Studio Code |
| Database systems | Oracle, MySQL resp. MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, IBM IMS, … |
| Web development | HTML, CSS, Koken, XML-Technologies, Vaadin, Tomcat, NGINX |
| Other IT-knowledge | Microsoft Office, Development of Mobile Apps, JavaFX, openHAB and Eclipse Smarthome |
| Hobbies, Interests | Music, reading, computer und internet, travelling, photography, working on Wikipedia, home automation with openHAB |