Based on a University Degree in Engineering and Computer Science I started my career at Evonik (Degussa at that time) in 1988 in R&D establishing the early digitalization solutions in labs. Afterwards I spent more than 25 years in IT holding various global positions in project management, communication operation and client support. Approximately 10 of these years I worked in the US and in Singapore. The last 7 years I moved to Technology and Infrastructure developing, implementing and deploying Evonik’s data driven CAE solution with the strong focus on data integration.