Christian is an independent Consultant and Project Manager for Digital Publishing and IT, helping publishers and technology companies around the world to define and implement innovative products and processes. He has successfully completed large and small projects for STM, educational, newspaper, and special interest publishing companies as well as for software companies. Currently, his projects are focussed around IT strategy, digital content and e-commerce solutions, content management, and the application of methods from artificial intelligence to various stages of the publishing process. Christian has worked extensively with service providers all around the world, leading many RFP processes, system migrations, system implementations, and consolidations as well as defining and implementing the digital strategies for various publishing houses. Christian holds a masters degree in Computational Linguistics and has worked as project manager, software developer, server administrator, event manager, and researcher in previous lifes.