Vice President Engineering for Komatsu Mining Technology Solutions
07/2019 10/2020
Director – Data, Analytics & Optimization for Modular Mining Systems
04/2016 06/2019
General Manager for Modular Mining Systems in Chile and Perú
03/2016 11/2011
General Manager for Modular Mining Systems in Chile
10/2011 04/2011
Manager Operational Excellence in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
03/2011 03/2006
Product Manager for Machine Guidance Systems in Recife and Belo Horizonte, Brazil
02/2006 01/2003
Consultant exclusively for Modular Mining Systems Inc., special installation projects mostly in Brazil and Colombia, training of Modular’s staff in South Africa, software development and domain expert for machine guidance systems
12/2002 05/2002
Not really work. I just moved back to Germany and started to learn Italian, travelled through Italy and tried to get a job at FAO in Rome. It didn’t work out.
04/2002 11/1998
Project Engineer for Modular Mining Systems in Santiago,Chile. I spent as well 6 month in Australia for the same company and in the same job.
10/1998 01/1998
Not really work. But I moved to Santiago, learnt Spanish and looked for a job in Chile to stay some prolonged time to really learn Spanish. And I did some projects for a company I had with friends terra eXa – back then a novelty: process airborne laser scanning data.
12/1997 04/1994
Research in geostatistics within the Leibniz program of the German government. It was the continuation of the previous work as research student at the University Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony, Germany. I finished it with the PhD thesis on the topic of gradient enhanced kriging.
Education
03/1994 03/1991
Research Scholarship from the Free State of Saxony at the “Institute of Mine Surveying and Geodesy” in Freiberg, Germany.
02/1991 11/1986
Studies at the Technical University “TU – Bergakademie Freiberg”, specialising in mine surveying
10/1986 09/1983
Military Service – not sure if you can call that education.
06/1983 09/1979
Seconday School, Erweiterte Oberschule “Geschwister Scholl” in Löbau, Germany.
06/1979 09/1971
Primary School, Polytechnische Oberschule in Spitzkunnersdorf and Herrnhut
Languages
German
I learnt it from my parents to become a native speaker .. yes, I was born in Germany.
Spanish
I learnt it very well, much better than most foreigners.
English
I learnt it pretty well, but my accent is definitely German.
Portuguese
I learnt it to fluency, but I haven’t practiced it for a long time. Easy to get it back again in one or two month being in Brazil.
Russian
I learnt a lot of words at school, but was never fluent