Professional Career |
| Since 2006 |
Assistant Professor in Business Education at the University of St.Gallen |
| Since 2003 |
Executive Director of the Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), supported by the Gebert Rüf Foundation, at the Institute of Business Education and Education Management, Chair Prof. Dr. Dieter Euler at the University of St.Gallen |
| 09-12 2000 |
Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Learning Lab, Prof. Dr. Larry Friedlander and Prof. Dr. Larry Leifer at the Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA |
| 1999–2003 |
Programme Director of the Executive MBA in New Media and Communication at the Institute for Media and Communication Management, chair Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland |
| 1997-2006 |
Elected to full-time senior lecturer for Media and Communication Management, since 2003 for Education Management at the University of St.Gallen |
| 1997–1999 |
Fellow Founder and Project Manager of the Learning Center at the Institute for Information Management, chair Prof. Dr. Andrea Back at the University of St.Gallen |
| 1995–1997 |
Teaching post as a Probationary Teacher at the Bavarian vocational schools of Erlangen and Schweinfurt |
| 1994–1995 |
Human Resource Manager at the Tax and Audit Office Dresden. Fürst & Partner GmbH in Nuremberg |
| 1992–1994 |
Lecturer for Microsoft products (Windows, Winword, PowerPoint), CBT Software Developer for the Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (Federal Employment Service) in Nuremberg |
| 1989–1992 |
MIS Consultant for Dr. Alfons Madeja Consultants, Nuremberg. Lecturer in Business Management and Organisation at the Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (Acadamy for Administration and Business) (VWA) in Nuremberg |
Education |
| 2006 |
Habilitation venia legendi in Business Education |
| 1997 |
2nd State Examination including completion of preparatory service at business vocational schools in Bavaria, Germany |
| 1994–1996 |
Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in information management at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Dissertation entitled: “Computer Assisted Learning – Basis, Variants, Development” |
| 1988–1993 |
University degree (Dipl. Hdl.) in Business Education with focal point on business computer sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg |
| 1986–1988 |
Business apprenticeship at Tandem Textil GmbH & Co. KG, a textile company in Bühl |