Personal Details

Name

Dr.-Ing.Markus Lauff

Date and Place of Birth

5th August 1968, Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany

Address

Mozartstraße 23, 68723 Oftersheim, Germany

Contact

Phone: +49 (6202) 592034
Email: markus@lauff.name

Nationality 

German

Work Experience

SAP AG – TIP BAT EPM Shared Business Components (former SAP Business Objects POA / PTU Emerging Solutions / PTU Business User - CTO & Framework, Performance Optimization Application Framework, Head of Product Management)

Aug. 2006 – to date

Program Product Owner

• Executed QCD responsibility for full development lifecycle from planning, development to productization for BUI, CLM, MOAM, OCA
• Changed global SBC product management structure and processes from project oriented development into agile SCRUM-based development
• Set-up global product management team in Bangalore, Dublin, Levallois, Palo Alto, and Walldorf
• Managed a global team of product owners / team assistant / students

SAP AG – SAP Research (former Corporate Research, CEC Karlsruhe)

Mar. 2005 – Jul. 2006

Director Research Portfolio Office

• Managed global SAP Research research portfolio
• Presented research strategies and results to the SAP executive team
• Supported the alignment of the SAP Research portfolio with the SAP Board

Jan. 2004 – Mar. 2005

Director Research Business Development

• Coordinated SAP Research project applications with European Commission and national funding boards (e.g. BMBF)
• Represented SAP in international industrial research projects (e.g. with NOKIA, Siemens, W3C)
• Introduced SAP-wide research transfer value assessment

2002 – Dec. 2003

Program Manager

• Coordinated research activities
  in the area of “Device Independent Application Engineering”
• Acquired research 3^rd-party project funding (e.g. from European Commission)
• Set up research activities in Palo Alto, Sophia Antipolis, and Karlsruhe

2000  – 2002

Project Manager, Senior Researcher, Consultant and IT Architect

• Led international industrial research project CONSENSUS
• Led Pervasive Computing research group
• Research on new key technologies pertaining to B2B,B2E business
• Designed and realized ubiquitous office infrastructure
• Evaluated of mobile/e-commerce projects and strategies

University of Karlsruhe, Telecooperation Office (TecO)

1995 – 2000

Research Assistant

• Designed IT architectures for ubiquitous systems
• Presented scientific papers/results at international conferences
• Supervised student/research work within industrial projects (e.g. with Digital Equipment Corporation, SAP AG, Daimler Benz AG)
• Led student practical courses and seminars / Prepared lectures
• Acquisition of research projects/funding (e.g. from European Commission)
• Designed and implemented integration of mobile appliances into a multimedia information system
• Managed and administered department's IT infrastructure

Columbus Consulting, IT-Consulting, Oftersheim

1992  – to date

Chairman, Consultant

• IT consultancy for SME and public institutions
• Design and development of communal web sites

Patents

Flat-Navigation (04024519.3 / 10/685,285)

Device Independent Authoring Tools (03029190.0 10/583,184)

Complexity Indicator (03029167.8 10/582,937)

Education

Executive MBA
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

2005

SAP AHEAD 2005 Advanced Management Program
University of St. Gallen - Executive MBA in Media and Communication

• International and Global Economics
• International HR Management
• Digital Business
• Process Management
• Logistics and Operations Management
• Innovation, Intrapreneurship and Market Entry Strategy
• Finance and Accounting
• Sales and Marketing

Dr.-Ing.
University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Nov. 2001

Received Dr.-Ing. from University of Karlsruhe
(PhD Computer Science)

Thesis: “System-support for Ubiquitous Applications”

Diplom Informatiker
University of Karlsruhe, Germany

30.11.1994

Graduated “Diplom-Informatiker” from University of Karlsruhe
(MSc Computer Science)

Master Thesis: “Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 networks”

1989 – 1994 

Computer Science studies at University of Karlsruhe

3.5.1988

Graduated "Abitur" from "Technisches Gymnasium" Mannheim

1985 – 1988 

Secondary education "Technisches Gymnasium" in Mannheim

1979 – 1985 

Secondary education "Hebel-Gymnasium" in Schwetzingen

1975 – 1979 

Primary education in Untereisesheim and Oftersheim

Scientific Research

Nov. 2002 – 2007

Applied Research in the area of Web Engineering, Device Independent Application Engineering

Oct. 2001 – Nov. 2002

Applied Research in the area of pervasive/mobile computing and advanced customer interfaces

Oct. 1995 – Oct. 2000

Research at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute for Telematics, Telecooperation Office (TecO)

University Teaching

2002 – 2008

Lecture University Main Course: "TK2 Web Engineering, Web Cooperation and eLearning", University of Darmstadt, Faculty of Computer Science

Committees

2003

Track Chair "Web Engineering - SAP Innovation Congress 2003"

Program Committee: WWW 2003 – Web Engineering Track

Program Committee: 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC)

2002

Co-Chair W3C Workshop on Device Independent Authoring Techniques (DIAT)

2002 – 2005

Member of the W3C Device Independent Working Group

1998 – to date

Computer Society Memberships: ACM, IEEE, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)

Expert IT Skills (exemplary list)

Operating Systems

installation/administration/programming / LAN administration
(e.g. MS Windows, Linux, EPOC, Palm OS, Mac OS, Digital Unix)

Application Servers

HTML Server installation/administration (MS IIS, Apache), WAP Server

Programming

Since 1981, e.g. ABAP, Java, C++/C, Visual Basic, SQL, Pascal, Assembler

Database programming (MySQL, MS SQL, MS Access)

Mobile-Development

Since 2001, e.g. BlackBerry, Android, EPOC, Palm

Web-Development

Since 2002, Standalone and CMS
(e.g. Flex, HTML, WML, ASP, PHP, Java Script, Active X, JSP)

Military Service

1988 – 1989

Telecommunication Unit

21.8.1989 

Honorary-Medal of the German Federal Armed Forces

Social Engagements

2010 – to date

Coach of the sport climbing group / TSV Oftersheim

1996 – 2007

Coach of the Judo Club Oftersheim (License C)

1997 – 2000

Chairman of the Judo Club Oftersheim

Extra-curricular Information

Language Skills 

German (native), English (fluent), French (some reading)

Driving License 

Car

Hobbies 

Sport Climbing, Golf, Skiing, Diving