Christian Milaster

Born, raised, and educated as an Engineer in Hamburg, Germany, married to a Vietnamese living in the US Midwest. I label my daughters Germasian and have vowed to raise them as citizens of this flat world.

Third time's a charm. I'm on my 3rd revenue-generating entrepreneurial venture and 3rd long-term relationship in 25 years and both are the most promising of their kind to date. On the entrpreneurial front I'm partly excited and partly frustrated that my ideas always take me to the frontier of undeveloped markets, ahead of everyone else.

I've been labeled a renaissance man and it reflects the multiple interests and passions I bring to my personal and business relationships. I enjoy ballroom dancing (especially with my wife) and cooking Italian, American, and Asian cuisine. I can still solve the Rubik's cube and operate a Linux shell. I speak two languages very well and have sufficient knowledge of two more and am embarking on learning my first Asian language. I can drive a stick shift, play a prelude by Bach, and have designed my own ties. I can troubleshoot an engine, fell a tree, and run my own electrical wiring and plumbing. I've designed three beautiful and extremely energy-efficient homes with 21st century comfort and 18th century utility bills.

I am kind yet fair to my children, raising them as confident, creative and caring human beings.

I am fascinated and energized by many things, and since people do what they like and tend to get good at what they do often, I've become highly proficient in a multitude of professional skills, including project management, requirements analysis, coaching, mentoring, software development, product development, systems thinking, systems engineering, continuos improvement, engineering for quality, agile project management, servant leadership, facilitation, IT architecture, workflow process improvement, training, teaching, public speaking, and many related things more.

I always like to meet new people, so if I sound interesting, drop me a note. Kudos are nice, too ;-)