Grew up in Germany, studied English, Geography and Education in Dusseldorf. Migrated permanently to Australia in 1992, worked in print in Sydney for the last 31 years, now living in Currumbin Valley with family.
Business
- General management of a small / midsize company in Sydney
(120 FTE; up to A$29 million turnover) - Leading a management team (7 direct reports, up to 120 indirect)
- Leading a sales team of 15
- New business acquisition, pitch development and presentations
- Acquisitions and integrations into the business (Snap Corporate; Bridge Print)
- Merger and physical migration of production facilities and warehouses
- Supplier management and contract negotiations
- Key customer management and contract negotiations
- Onboarding of new customers
- P&L responsibility
Print Production, Logistics & Distribution:
- Prepress (Creative Suite; Freeflow Core; PDF based workflows)
- IT (workflow integrations)
- Digital Print / Print on Demand (Toner; Inkjet)
- Offset Print
- PRISM; Tharstern; Middleware
Solution Development and Execution:
- Distribute and Print
- Australia wide network for training (Digital Print) and for FMCG (POS)
- Australia, North America and Europe for an Australian company from the health sector (Digital Print; Packaging)
- Global for clients from the financial sector (Offset and Digital Print)
- Inventory Management
- Printed matter
- Merchandise
- Combining physical and virtual inventory
- Solutions for Publishers and Corporates
- Publishing (trade books)
- Publishing (legal)
- Publishing (educational)
- Publishing (greeting cards)
- Technical documentation servers & specification databases
- Content Management Systems
- Pricing calculators and grids
- EDI workflows and integrations (Oracle, Peoplesoft)
- Design of B2B and B2C portals
Teaching and Training:
- Teaching at high school level and at private colleges
- Guest lecturer at Macquarie and Sydney Universities
- Speaker at conferences and events
- Developing seminars and workshops on various technical topics (prepress; asset management; digital print; AI)
Passion:
- Artificial Intelligence / Gen AI
- Staff Development / Training / Mentoring