Hello and welcome!

Born 1965, I doctorated 1990 in economics and work now since 30+ years as a developer, IT-consultant and programme manager in IT organizations of companies, administrations and governments.

I consider myself an all-rounder with a broad and profound set of skills ranging from programme & project management, ITSM, organizational & structure development, web- and application architecture, blockchain&Crypto to VDI/DaaS. More about my skills and project history along with testimonials and reference letters is available on Xing and LinkedIn.

I play poker since 1992. I made 3 World Series Of Poker final tables and have several more cashes to my name. The poker community knew me as '50outs' and I was one of the first blogging players back in the years. In 2006 I created the German Pokerstars Blog for PokerStars.

A cool million people know me as the builder and force behind IntelliPoker, the PokerStars player education project (read: conversion and retention tool) which I created and ran from 2006 until 2009 (with over 1m worldwide members and an international staff of 50+ when I left).

I am very lucky to be together with the love of my life, former professional poker player Katja Thater and being father of Patricia and Alexander.