Experience
Ceo (Angel Investor / Business Angel)
Prismatoid GmbH · Darmstadt Area, Germany
Present
Investment Holding for Investments into new Companies (Angel Investment): Area of Expertise/Interest: Computer graphics, Realtime Rendering, Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality (XR), CAD, CAS, Automotive, B2B
Angel Investor / Business Angel
me, myself and i · Darmstadt, Germany
Area of Expertise: computer graphics, realtime rendering, visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality (XR), CAD, CAS, automotive, B2B
Sabbatical
me, myself and I · Germany
Software Development Manager
Autodesk · Darmstadt, Germany
Aftermath of the sale to Autodesk: - Bringing over/Adapting to meet Autodesk Release/Sale/Support Procedures/Systems - cleaning up/closing old company (PI-VR GmbH) Responsible for VRED Visualisation Productline - Joined Development with Gothenborg Team (ex Showcase/Opticore)
Founder / Ceo
PI-VR GmbH · Darmstadt / Berlin, Germany
Together with Andreas Zieringer and Osman Dumbuya started Phase III of VRED Development and Sales: Company bootstrapped (no external capital) - multiple offices (Darmstadt/Berlin) - growth to ~20 employees - extended customer base from engineering to design and marketing, photography - customers: automotive OEMs (1st and 2nd tier), photographers, CGI agencies, whitegood industry, tool industry, research institutes (commercial and non-commercial) - customers in germany, europe, south east asia, japan - domestic and foreign resellers - own exhibitions (2011/2012) and own booth at SIGGRAPH (2012) Ultimately culminated in the sale of the company to marketleader Autodesk in 2012/2013 - in the aftermath Autodesk replaced two of its own solutions (Showcase and Opticore) and Autodesk VRED gained defacto industry standard. 12 years later still going strong and still very proud of the team.
Founder / Ceo
VREC GmbH · Darmstadt, Germany
Together with Andreas Zieringer started Phase II of VRED Development and Sales Company bootstrapped (no external capital) - VRED is now a fully fledged realtime VR system, growing customer base - growth to 6 employees - customers: automotive OEMs (1st and 2nd tier), CGI agencies, research institutes (commercial and non-commercial) - customers in germany, europe - custom software development for various automotive OEMs (VW, BMW, Bosch) - licensing our renderengine to augmented reality software partner metaio (later acquired by Apple)
Independent Softwaredeveloper
me, myself and I · Dieburg, Germany
Initial Cooperation with Andreas Zieringer - started phase I of VRED software development, a new approach to a multiplatform (SGI/Linux/Windows) realtime rendering and VR Software. - custom software development for various automotive OEMs (VW, BMW) - porting (from SGI to Windows), bugfixing and further development of an inhouse data preparation software (Opera) - development of a custom viewer on Windows for a proprietary file format from a IRIX/Linux VR System (VR-Viewer) - demonstrator of connection between a hardware MMI system (iDrive) and a VR system
Software Developer
PROSTEP AG · Darmstadt, Germany
Software Developer
vrcom GmbH · Darmstadt, Germany
Developed a Datapreparation Tool in cooperation with Fraunhofer IGD for a german automotive OEM with direct connection to their PDM system. Various Developments around the main VR System VD2, which has been used by several german automotive OEMs (VW, BMW, etc.)
Zivildienstleistender
Education
FH Darmstadt, Germany
Diplom Informatiker (FH)
Fraunhofer IGD Darmstadt
Studentische Hilfskraft
Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (ZGDV), Darmstadt
Studentische Hilfskraft
Martin-Behaim-Schule Darmstadt
Fachhochschulreife, Wirtschaftsinformatik
Martin-Behaim-Schule Darmstadt
Industriekaufmann
Realschule Auf der Aue, Münster
Realschulabschluss
Förderstufe Auf der Aue, Münster
Grundschule Auf der Aue, Münster
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