During the last 15 years transformed slowly from a business consultant and senior line manager into a software engineering geek :)

Special interests: All facets of managing Product Data in commercial environments (mostly supply side), both technical and organisational related. In depth knowledge of and experience with:

• Product Information Management (PIM). Heiler (now Informatica), Stibo, Hybris (now SAP), Riversand and many other mid market products
• (Product) Data Quality, including "smart" data cleansing and data enrichment
• (Product) Classification systems (like ETIM, eClass)
• (Product) Search, especially faceted search (primarily Lucene, but also Elastic Search and SOLR)
• Semantic Web (SPARQL)
• Data Integration/Migration. ESB's (Specialized in Apache Camel), EDIINT

Base technology:

• Java
• XML, XSLT, XSL:FO (XEP, Apache FOP), XML Schema, JAXB
• Web Services, REST, HATEOAS (dislike: BIG Web Services / SOAP)
• Vaadin (The best WebUI framework I know)
• Databases. Favorites: PostgreSQL (traditional), H2Database (embedded), NoSQL (Neo4J), MapDB (low level)
• Ansible
• Linux (favorite: Debian)