I originally grew up in Austria but decided to move to the US to get my undergraduate degree in International Business at SDSU. During this time my father, a journalist at Der Standard, a national daily newspaper in Austria, was able to connect me with an editor. He gave me a half-a-page editorial in the travel section, writing about how to go about studying in the US. After graduation, I worked in operations at an automotive company and decided to move back to Europe for professional reasons. Followed by a few short stints at a variety of enterprise software companies, I came back to the US for my graduate degree in economic policy at George Washington University. I continued to work in enterprise software for a few powerhouses of the industry in their respective spaces, such as IBM and Informatica. At IBM, I also had an opportunity to publish my first paper under the 2015 AMCIS proceedings. After getting a taste of what it means to be published in a national newspaper while at college, I decided to start blogging for my employers. Because of the great success, we saw in terms of generating leads for my company, my PR team at the time suggested I start writing for a bigger publication. They introduced me to Forbes in late 2018 and I have been writing on topics centered on how the treatment of data is a key portion of what makes organizations successful or not. A hundred articles or so later, I continue to pursue this passion.
