From the start of my professional life ...

In 2004, I graduated in chemistry with a focus on computer science and bio-sensor technology. I then started working as an innovation manager in a patent agency. In the same year, these things happened:

• Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.
• George W. Bush won the presidential election again.
• The Messenger space probe was sent into space.
• The developers of the TCP/IP protocol were awarded the Turing Prize.

At the same time, I founded a start-up for knowledge management. I developed a modern PC application that was ten years more advanced than other applications at the time. The app was very successful and I used it myself for many years. However, at the time I lacked the experience to develop a new market for the app. I gave the software the nickname “Digital Thought Amplifier”. I was able to use it to write down my thoughts and ideas as they appeared in their network.

... about some waypoints ...

I started at Testo AG in 2006. I set up a department for patents and brands there. I also expanded structures for the further development of technologies and ideas. As “Hans Dampf”, I was able to contribute to various structural developments, e.g. product development process, project management office, patent office and transformations in the development environment. As a result, I headed a technology-strategic staff department for patent, technology, process and project management.

The multidimensional work brought me to my limits in terms of content and capacity, which is why I switched to a part-time model in 2014 and, with deep conviction, found a balance in modern monasticism in the Freiburg House of Prayer, an interdenominational Christian movement. So I lived part-time “Ora et Labora” in the prayer house and senior consulting in project and requirements management.

I got to know the founders of JobRad through a room search of the growing prayer house and found my way to JobRad to build up a PMO part-time and work as an organizational developer. My passion for digital structures and software development, paired with experience in organizational development, led to my appointment to the management of JobRad GmbH in 2020.

.. to the personal

I am an open-minded and adventurous person. I like to think in a networked way and am not afraid of complexity, but rather find it fascinating and worthy of consideration. We are a fun family made up of passionate parents, three growing children, a female dog and a male cat.

Every day is a new beginning for me and I can't remember being bored. I have a basic trust in a prepared future, whose image we cannot grasp and penetrate in the present, but can nevertheless make progress towards this very future every day.