and information systems.

• Expert on HR and payroll integration with profound knowledge of different solutions (in-house, services, outsourcing) of different vendors (ADP, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle,…).
• Cofounder and Managing Director of Ashvata, a consultancy in HR, payroll, information systems, and outsourcing.
• Adjunct professor at the Paris Business School ESCP-EAP.
• Managed global product development to interface ADP's outsourced payroll services world-wide with ERP systems from SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle.
• Served as Director Europe Global Payroll Development on a joint strategic development program with PeopleSoft, for a multi-country European payroll product.
• As General Manager and Vice President Europe, built the European operations for the US company Rational.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University in Munich after completing graduate studies of both Physics and Computer Science in Germany and the US.
• Lectured widely and published on software engineering
• Fluent in English, German, and French; knowledge of Russian.

• Ceridian Multinational Services:  Developed SAP HCM / payroll system integration for payroll systems in France, Germany, Spain and UK.
• HR Access Solutions:  Designed solution and managed quality assurance for new payroll outsourcing services in Europe.
• ILOG:  Consulting on the introduction of a new global HR system.
• Google Inc.:  Consulting concerning the functional product requirements of a global HR system.
• Fidelity Employer Services:  Business case and functional studies on Human Resource Management Outsourcing.
• Multidata A/S :  Consulting on SAP HCM / payroll system integration.
• Convergys :  Training of shared HR service center personnel using SAP HCM and PeopleSoft HCM (UK).
• ESCP-Europe :  Part-time professor for Computer Skills and Advanced Excel for Managers at the School of Management.

Strategic HRIT Strategy and Roadmap Vision/Value Definition Business Case Development Business Process Optimization Program/Project Management Change Management Quality Assurance Management Data exchange Strategy Training Management

Functional Human Capital Management Payroll Management Master Data Management Data Alignment between HR and Payroll Systems European Payrolls Global HCM Data Requirements Global Payroll Data Requirements

Technical HRIS Systems (PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, ADP, HR Access) Data Modeling Data Conversion Database Design Relational Databases System Integration Configuration Management and Version Control Issue Management Web Services XML/XSLT MS/Excel / MS/Project / MS/Access Programming languages (Ada, Java, Php, JavaScript, ...)

• The Need and Purpose of a Generic Representation for HR and Payroll Data | December 2009
  
  The Need and Purpose of a Generic Representation for HR and Payroll Data | December 2009 |

  HR Technology, Payroll

• Characteristic Business Models of the HR and Payroll Outsourcing Landscape | September 2007
  
  Characteristic Business Models of the HR and Payroll Outsourcing Landscape | September 2007 |

  Articles, Business Strategy, Outsourcing

• Managing the Customer/Vendor Relationship | January 2006
  
  Managing the Customer/Vendor Relationship | January 2006 |

  HR Technology, Outsourcing

• Fluent in English, French and German; notions of Russian, Italian and Spanish
• Member of ACM, IEEE Computer, and Gesellschaft für Informatik
• Dr.rer.nat in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (1977)
• M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kansas (1972)
• B.S. in Physics from the University of Hamburg (1971)