Biography

Michael Friess is a Senior Software Engineer and works as an architect in IBM Business Process Management (BPM) at the IBM Deutschland Research and Development Lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He is responsible for BPM user interface clients and technologies.

His focus areas are on the user experience, user interaction patterns and user interfaces for traditional, as well as social, BPM and related programming aspects and interfaces. Michael has worked for nine years on various aspects of BPM research, architecture and design. This includes workflow graphs, region analysis, model-driven architecture, model transformations, visualizations and business event processing.

In his 25 years with IBM he has been based in various places in Germany and on assignment in Hursley, UK. His continuous customer focus is strongly influenced by his past positions in technical sales for central Europe, consultant for independent software developers in Europe and in a partnership with SAP® around Java® and WebSphere with engagements in Europe and America. He has held talks and workshops at various conferences and written books and articles about IT development topics including BPM, BPEL, MDD, WebSphere, Java, SAP, VisualAge® and programming.

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Diplom-Ingenieur (BA), Technische Informatik (B.Sc. in Computer Science)
Berufsakademie Stuttgart
September 1989

Languages
German (First language), English (Fluent), French (Good knowledge)