
Position
02/2013
10/2010
Managing Director
CloudMade Deutschland GmbH
Co-founder, Shareholder, Leadership Team

Daimler-Benz AG
10/1990 – 10/1996
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Daimler-Chrysler AG
10/1996 – 04/1999
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Daimler-Chrysler AG
10/1996 – 04/1999
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OneStepAhead GmbH
01/2000 – 07/2001
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OneStepAhead AG (CTO)
08/2001 – 11/2002
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OneStepAhead AG (CEO)
09/2001 – 10/2010
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CloudMade Deutschland GmbH (Managing Director)
10/2010 – 04/2013
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DaimlerMobilityServices
05/2013 – 04/2014
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moovel GmbH
04/2014 – 10/2015
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moovel group
10/2015 – 04/2016
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Mercedes-Benz AG
05/2016- 09/2021
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Terranet
since 09/2021
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In December 2010, the intellectual property (IP) of my startup company OneStepAhead Aktiengesellschaft (www.onestepahead.de) was sold to CloudMade (www.cloudmade.com) – in return, I and my shareholders received minority shares in CloudMade (equity swap).
From December 2010 to April 2013 I ran the German CloudMade office where we designed and developed core technologies for location based services. In April the whole (ex-OneStepAhead) core team resigned to look for the next challenge.
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Mobilist
02/2013 – 06/2012
- Summary Software components for Intermodal Transportation and Indoor Navigation
Contractor
- Daimler Research & Development, Berlin, Germany
My Contribution
- Online and offline map rendering using OpenStreetMap street maps, public
transit maps, and indoor maps of the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden shopping
center - Intermodal trip planning / routing between the vehicle types pedestrian,
public transit and car


Medion GoPal Navigation Application
02/2013 – 02/2012
- Design and development of a full-featured turn-by-turn navigation software for Android smartphones and tablets featuring real-time traffic messages
Contractor
- Medion AG
My Contribution
- Design and development of a TBT navigation application for Android 2.3
and higher - Rendering both crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap vector map data and
commercial Navteq maps in 2D and 3D view - Search for point of interests at your location or on your route
Multi-language text-to-speech guidance and directions, Audio and visual
speed limit announcements - Routing for cars, bicycles, pedestrians, motorcycles and light turcks with
Product Launch
October 2012 (pre-installed on Samsung Android smartphones in ALDI discounter stores)


Airport Indoor Navigtion
02/2012 – 05/2011
Summary
- Indoor Navigation demonstrator for the International Airport of Hamburg, based on Android smartphones and Alcatel-Lucent’s Wi-Fi positioning technologies
- Demonstrator to be presented at the Hamburg Airport in February 201
Contractor
- Alcatel Lucent AG
My Contribution
- Generation of an indoor vector map of the Hamburg airport including all levels and buildings
- Introduction of extended OSM feature types and integration into OSM database
Compilation of Indoor MicroMap files - Design and development of a Android SDK supporting rendering indoor maps (floors, rooms, doors, elevators, stairs, escalators, furniture, etc.)
- Development of an open-space routing engine for indoor turn-by-turn guidance



Medion GoPal Navigation Application
02/2013 – 02/2011
Summary
- Full development of the MEDION GoPal S3857 Windows CE based navigation software, featuring a comprehensive feature set for cyclists, mountaineers,
geocachers and other outdoor fans. - Product Launch: GoPal S3857 was August 2011
Contractor
- Medion AG
My Contribution
- Design and development of Windows CE navigation application
- Rendering of both vector maps (OSM) and high-resolution topographic
raster maps (IGN, BKG, etc.) and DEM (Digital Elevation Models) - Street, bike, pedestrian and outdoor routing and navigation feature
- Features street addresses, house numbers, point of interests, mountain
peeks, elevations, hiding places, trip computer - Comprehensive geo caching features (tracks, waypoints, routes, caches)
- Backend map tile generation and geo-spatial projections



Motorola MotoActive
10/2011 – 06/2010
Summary
- MOTOACTV is a GPS fitness tracker and smart music player combined into a small, wearable device.
- OneStepAhead and CloudMade developed the offline map rendering engine Motorola (OSM maps) used in this device
- Product Launch: October 6th 2011Contractor Motorola Mobile Division
My Contribution
- Offline map rendering and object layer management
- Android SDK with sample apps and API documentation
- Development of a custom Motorola map skin
- Vector maps for the entire planet that fits in than 1GB local storage




Takwak Group Navigation
03/2011 – 02/2010
Summary
The TW700 device is a navigation device, smart phone, walky talky and group navigation device.
OneStepAhead and CloudMade developed an outdoor navigation Android C++ SDK used by their partner MagicMaps to develop the navigation part of the TW 700 software.
Takwak*s device named “tw700” was released in March 2012.
Contractor
takwak GmbH, Munich, Germany
My Contribution
- Technical consulting for TakWak for Android software development, vector maps technology, OpenStreetMap data, outdoor routing and navigation
- Design and development of an Android C++ Software Development Kit supporting geospatial & address search, onboard map tile rendering, outdoor routing, turn-by-turn guidance
- Web service for vector-based map downloads



TwoGo Ridesharing
12/2011 – 01/2010
Summary
- SAP piloted a mobile application for ride sharing/carpooling called “TwoGo”. More than 10,000 employees live in the larger area of the company’s headquarter Employees and commute on a daily basis.
- Once an employee registers with TwoGo and enters home address and building number of their office location, and whenever they want to share a ride, they indicate the time and location, if they want to ride as passenger or offer a ride as driver.
- The SAP TwoGo service was launched in August 2011
Contractor
SAP AG
My Contribution
- Development of a customized IS back end service including map tiles based on OSM and Navteq
- Fuzzy geo/address search including house numbers
- Alternative routes engine
- Map object overlays
- JavaScript and Flex web front end
