Through my background in community planning and web development, I've become an information and interaction architect for public involvement processes. My main interest lies in improving decision-making processes by exploring new ways to combine traditional and electronic ways of communication.

Currently I work as a freelancer, developing interactive web and mobile applications like RE-Text.Info or mPolls.org and eParticipation websites based on the content management platform Drupal. Drop me a line if you want to hire me for your eParticipation project or have an open position on your Public Relations / Public Involvement team. For a list of recent projects, view my portfolio >>.

Until March 2008 I worked as Director of eParticipation at PlaceMatters, initially in collaboration with CU Denver. In this position I organized a variety of visioning and public participation projects. These often included eMeetings, with keypad polling and groupware to capture and prioritize outcomes of round table discussions and online platforms to support the decision-making process.

In 2006 I joined Zebralog, a Berlin-based non-profit organization, focusing on online dialogues, where I organized, facilitated, and evaluated online dialogues. Until the end of 2005, I was Civic Engagement and Technology Advisor for PlaceMatters, then a program of the Orton Family Foundation, working to promote high performance approaches to citizen collaboration, community design and development. I joined PlaceMatters in 2004, after moving to Denver from Berlin, Germany. In my daily work with PlaceMatters, I consulted communities about and developed a broad range of technical and non-technical solutions for community design and decision-making.
During my time at university, I worked as a freelancer in the field of online planning support tools. From 2001 to 2003 I was an assistant at Planungsgruppe4, a private urban planning company, working on urban planning and design projects, and at Weeber+Partner, a social research institution.
I was awarded the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in Urban and Regional Planning from Technical University Berlin (the equivalent to a Master of Science).