Born
Munich, Germany in 1956 (just after the last woman was executed in the UK, just around the time the first high-level computer language FORTRAN was invented)
Education (Age 8-21)
| 1962-64 | Volksschule, München | see my first school report |
| 9/64-7/69 | Boarzell School, Sussex, England | my prep school report |
| 9/69-12/73 | King’s School, Canterbury, England A/S-Level (Abitur/Baccalaureat) Grade AAAA1. | (then £166/13/4 per term, now charging £9725 per term – for my son …) This is what the school and we looked like |
| 1974 | Trainee at Liedl, Munich | (destroyed a few weaving machines there) |
| 1974 | Working student at Industrieanlagenbetriebsgesellschaft mbH | (didn’t understand satellite pics there) |
| 10/74-6/77 | Cambridge University, Peterhouse, England Matriculated 10/1974, Graduated to B.A. in 6/1977, M.A. in 6/1983 | (where a formal hall dinner cost 51p. Now admitting girls. Has produced some famous people). My daughter is sadly only going to Oxford … |
| 9/76 | Management Course, Downing College Cambridge | |
| 1986 | Technical University of Vienna, Austria | (went there but did nothing) |
| 1989 | Lancaster University, England | (never been there) |
Completed education with Ph.D. in Computer Science/Telecommunications
Thesis Title: “On OSI-based Transport Systems for Future Applications over High-speed Networks”
12/89 Doctor of Philosophy
5/90 Doktor der Naturwissenschaften Dr. rer. nat.
Work (Age 21-?)
| 6.8.1977 | IBM Germany, Stuttgart, Germany | (seen the bad times, seen the good times, …) |
| 1982 | IBM Science Center, Heidelberg, Germany | (got blown up by RAF) |
| 1996 | IBM Research, Zurich/Rüschlikon, Switzerland | (this is where the action is) |
| 1.10.1997 | DG BANK AG, Frankfurt | (later to be merged) |
| 2001 | Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt, Germany | (what I know about banking) |
| 2003 | TAI AG with the truly international name of “TAI Transaktionsinstitut für Zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen AG” | (e/m Payments – at last something I know about !) |
| 2006 | Equens SE (merger of TAI and Interpay) | (a merger of equals, yes, really) |
| 2016 | equensWorldline SE (merger of Equens and Worldline Financial Processing & Software Licensing) | (getting bigger all the time …) |
