Dietmar holds an MS from Oregon State University, US, and a
PhD from Stuttgart University, both in physics.
He joined Siemens AG in Munich in 1984 as a software developer.
During a 10 months stay with the Open Software Foundation (OSF)
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he contributed to OSF’s effort
of defining the architecture of its Distributed Computing Environment.
Back in Germany he worked in various projects, first as a Senior
Consultant in the area of application management, later as Senior
Manager in Identity Management customer projects. In 2000 Dietmar
switched to the corporate information research department where
he was in charge of providing and marketing information products
as a manager of the technical information department. Since October
2005 his responsibilities include both technical and business
information mainly in the area of IT and communications.