Perhaps you have read in the introduction that I earn my living with developing software. To give you a short impression about my work I will give here a short list of the projects I have worked.

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• My first project when I started my emloyment with the ISO GmbH was a POS system which controls the whole flow of wares from the delivery to the shop up to the point it was sold at the cash-box. It runs on a UNIX machine and was written in C/Motif and used a Oracle Database heavily. Mostly I worked on the DB, the printouts and the communication between the center and the subsidiaries.
• Thereafter I developed the first Visual C++ / MFC program for the company where I am employed. The customer was Sabre. This is the ordering system of American Airlines. At that time Sabre wanted to expand to the german market but they had a problem. Nearly every touristic bureau in Germany did their financial book keeping via Derdata (a big touristic computer service provider). So to sell their systems they needed a way to bring their order data to this computer center. The ISO had a long history in the tourism area and had a DOS program which could be used for billing. So we took this program and I developed some software to feed the Sabre data into our software and then to bring out output to Derdata. In that time was quite often journeying to many cities in Germany (and sometimes beyond) to install the software or to teach the users.
• Then I again changed the topic and worked on a system for air traffic management. It was originaly designed for Kanada but it is now in use in several countries. This software was also done with an Oracle Database (Unix Server) and Visual C++ (Windows Clients).
• After that came the biggest change. It was 1995 and Windows 95 stood before the door. Then an other big customer of the ISO GmbH had a problem. The Automation Branch of the Siemens AG wanted to port their Software to Win95. But they were in dire need of software developers which knew MFC and Win95. So the ISO decided to take me out of the air traffic software and send me for half a year to help the Siemens team to design and architect thir new software. Well they seemd to be quite pleased with my work as I still do work for this department.
• The Automation Software brach of Siemens develops software to program special computers which control machines or even whole plants. Most of the time I worked on the KFA Editor some kind of Visual C Development System. Again it was written in C++ and MFC. I learn a lot about automation logic and the whole system.
• Becaus the system grew enormisly with the time Siemens dicided to develop a small, handy and easy to use software for the programming of small devices. They wanted to place a lot of attention to the user interface and they even hired one of the US user interface gurus: Larry Constantin. Then a core team of thre people: Larry, Helmut Windl and me designed the user interface of this piece of software. Thereafter I took also part in the implementation. We must have done something right because the user interface arose much attention. It even won a price in the US! The software relied heavyly on COM and was written in C++ and VB.
• When I first got into touch with Microsofts .NET I was realy impressed of the possibilites. Ever since I develop with C# but got a little bit frustrated latly because it still doesn't seem to be able to develop more than simple applications. Still to much bugs in it.

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So what do I have to offer you here? See for yourself:

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	Babylon 5 Starfury Simulator This program I have done to learn programming DirectX. It is way back from 1998 and therefore uses only DirectX 5. I have stopped working on it because at that time Sierra anounced exactly the same. A 3D space simulator in the B5 universe. But they canceled the project. So simply try mine!
	Corps Command Army Builder Corps Command is a tabletop game in the napoleonic era which is played with little tin soldiers. When the battalions take losses during the fight you don't remove figures but cross of boxes of a rooster sheet. I have developed this program to build order of battles and print out these rooster sheets. This program was written in 2000 to learn something about XML.
	Harnmaster Manager Many, many years ago, when I started to gamemaster fantasy role playing games, I stumbled about Harn and Harnmaster. I fell in love with this wonderfully detailed world at once. But it had one drawback: You need a lot of bookkeeping, calculating and looking after in tables. All of it are tasks which are the classical use for a computer! I will release a first version as soon as possible but I will not include modules which contain the core of the rules (as Columbia Games Inc. has of course all the rights and shurly wouldn't be happy with that). Nevertheless it will still be a help to you because you can apply needed data yourself if you have the printed rules.