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Thomas Lotterer Fasanenstr. 2a 85757 Karlsfeld GERMANY E-Mail: firstname @ lastname.NET |
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I was born 1970 in Germany and grew up in the north of Munich where I still live today close to my ex-wife and my two daughters. My first experience with information technology was the purchase of a home computer in 1981 which should have complemented my interest in hobby electronics and Citizens’ band radio. After a very short time this device became the central point of my life. After finishing secondary school I completed an apprenticeship as communications technician. Following I worked as an engineer to construct and build custom manufacturing machines where tasks included computer aided design and logic controller programming.
In 1991 I started to work as a field service engineer where I hit the Unix world. Two years later I entered the networking area as support engineer. It was the start of a decade of intensive work with Novell products. Integration with Microsoft products and Unix systems became my focus as consultant and instructor. With the advent of Directory Services in 1992 my vision of heterogeneous systems was established. In 1994 I moved to a Unix distributor where I initially worked in technical support and training. During the course of a six year period I became increasingly involved in system operations with a final position as the team leader. During a three year time frame from 2000 I was involved at a system integrator as an engineer to plan and implement network solutions.
In 2001 I took on the challenge as Unix Open Source Software Developer and was significantly involved in the OpenPKG project. My position as Lead Engineer Change Management and Version Control included major project management tasks when it came to release engineering. As a project believer I wanted to grow the community around the project and initiated the creation of the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. which was established in 2005. Since then I am volunteering as Director Engineering & Production and Vice President. To complement the business side of life I finally incorporated the OpenPKG GmbH in 2006.
Currently I am Managing Director of the OpenPKG GmbH being responsible for the Engineering & Production area.