Education, Work Experience
Design and development of military information systems
at Dornier/DASA/EADS (1985-2004)
  • Project Manager of a "Mission Planning and Briefing" system for a fighter plane.
  • Implementation of C2 functions for an airforce Control and Reporting Center using Oracle Forms
  • Responsible for company-internal R&D projects, as
    • "Content-based Image Retrieval"
    • "Hybrid Information Systems"
    • "Information Warfare"
  • Responsible for Dornier's contribution to multi-national NATO program "Data Fusion Demonstrator" (DFD)
  • Study "Coherency of Databases in Command Information Systems", together with Matra Cap Systemes (as main contractor)
  • Responsible for database design aspects (DB-schema and DB-operations) and performance issues as part of a feasibility and design study for a German military intelligence system
  • Leader of database design for a distributed German Airforce C3I system
  • Contributions to bids for various national and NATO C3I systems

DOR-publications, DOR-presentations


Design and development of
nuclear materials information systems
at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (1975-1985)
  • Design and functional specification of an on-line information system for a KFK nuclear waste processing plant, employing state-of-the-art specification techniques: entity-relationship model, high-level specification language
  • Doctoral dissertation:
    "Generierbare Datenbanksysteme" ("Generable Database Systems")
    [Abstract]
  • Research aiming at and development of techniques supporting generation of "partial systems" of the FADABS DBMS
  • 2nd Symposium on Small Systems, Dallas, TX, Oct 1-3, 1979 (ACM Special Interest Group on Small Computing Systems and Applications):
    • member of program committee
    • co-chairman of panel session "Database and Information Systems"
  • Porting FADABS DBMS to DEC PDP-11 minicomputers as part of technology transfer efforts at KFK
  • Design and implementation of a nuclear materials information system as part of the national Project "Spaltstoffflußkontrolle" (Nuclear Materials Control):
    • Selection and procurement of computer hardware
    • Software system analysis and design
    • Responsible for data management and reporting subsystems: Development and implementation of FADABS DBMS on SIEMENS process control computers (S330 and R computer models).

KfK-publications, KfK-presentations


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