About me

• I studied Electric Engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ in Zurich.
• During my studies I was in Lausanne at the EPFL for an exchange semester.
• In 1993 I was technical organisator of the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen.
• Between 1992 and 1995 I constructed an electric zero emission car called ETHOS, the first zero emission vehicle operated by NiMH acculuators.
(and don't think that this is up to date!).
• I like the most famous Music Club Albani in Winterthur.
• I share my car with other people as a member of Mobility.
• After my studies my first job was at Ascom Infrasys and Ascom Hasler, where I developed Network Management Applications and where I did Unix system administration. I got familiar with TMN Platforms as HP's (formely by Digital Equipment Coproration DEC) TeMIP (most recommended) and HP Openview. During that time I was often in Greece to develop and setup the Integrator for Alarm Handling in the Attika Project for OTE. In Athens I worked together with nice people from Intrasoft.
• Since about 1993 I have been teaching "Electrical Engineering" basics and a little bit more as well as "Networks and Communication" at the Institute for Technical Education ITA, today Technikerschule HF Juventus Zürich.
• In summer 97 I was rafting with my friends on a wild river.
• Since 1997 I was working almost every day like crazy at the OSI-LAB, the Zurich embassy of Swisscom Innovations (formerly the Research and Development department of Swisscom). In 2004 OSI-LAB was smoothly integrated into Innovations and the usage of the name OSI-LAB was discontinued.
• In autumn 2001 I married the most wonderful wife on earth: Marion.
• Since March 31st 2003 I am the daddy of Nanina Sophie, the most pretty girl-child that ever was born.
• I cultivate my inner smile with Qi Gong.
• Since July 8th 2005 I am the daddy of Laurin Silvano, the most pretty boy-child that ever was born.
• In autumn 2005 while working for Swisscom Innovations I featured as main actor for a customer reference video for Siemens HiPath OpenScape (an early collaboration product that influenced heavily the development of Microsoft Teams).
  See the video in English or in German or download them as ZIP file ( ZIP-en or ZIP-de, ca. 39MB each).
• Since many years I go for Swisscom TV 1.0 and Swisscom TV 2.0 on the set-top box or in the air (Web and Mobile).
• In spring 2018 I started as part-time lecturer for 'Communication Technologies' and 'Communication Networks and Services' at the Institue of embedded Systems (InES) at the School of Engineering of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (zhaw).
• I am Swiss Cycling MTB Guide since June 18, 2024
and since 2025 I'm guiding for mountainbikereisen.ch.