Where I have lived and worked so far
My life so far...
I was born December 1962 in a small town in eastern Bavaria, called Mühldorf (map). Mühldorf is approximately 80 km east of Munich/Germany. With the age of 2, I moved to Töging/Inn, which is near by (map). There I grew up. I went to the Realschule (map), which is a junior high school, and Fachoberschule (map), a technical secondary school, in Altötting (famous bavarian place of pilgrimage).
With the age of 18 I started studying telecommunication engineering in Regensburg (map) at the Fachhochschule Regensburg (map).
In August 1985 I moved to a small village called Griesstädt (map). There I started my first job as a Test-Engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor (map). During that time (September 1985 - March 1988), I had the chance to spend almost 6 month in the USA (South Portland/Maine) for a technical training. Fairchild (map) owned a town house in Scarborough, where I lived (map). That was a GREAT time!
Then I started working at Digital Equipment Corporation in Munich (map). I enjoyed working there for more than 10 years (April 1988 - June 1998). I started as a programmer and became a project manager the last years there. From March 1988 to May 1993, I lived in a small apartment house (map) in the West of Munich. In June 1993, I moved together with my family to Kirchseeon, a town 25 km south-east of Munich (map). July 1995 we moved to Ampfing, a small but very nice village 70 km east of Munich. I lived there in a semidetached house (map) until end of 2008.
January 26th 1998, Compaq (2001 merged with Hewlett Packard) announced to take over Digital Equipment for ~9.600.000.000 US$. Too sad! The end of a real great company! Friday, May 29th, I quit at Digital and in July 1998 I started working for Cybernet (map), a German internet and e-commerce service provider. Life went on, and from November 2nd, 1999 on, I worked for the Linux Information Systems AG (map), a Linux consulting company.
As you all probably know (at least the computer-freaks), did Linux not have the success as we all hoped when we started at that time. We had to downsize the Linux AG, and that meant I was too expensive for them :-\
Starting Monday, 11th March 2002, I began working for a small company near my hometown. The name was b.e.s.t. AG (map). This saved me 2,5-3 hours with the train to Munich each day! It's was a new chance and a new opportunity! But that would have been too nice to be true. The expectations on both sides where much too different. So I was looking again for a new job! Search was soon over. Since June 2002, I'm working for intersoft AG (map), which is doing a huge software project for a German insurance company called WWK (map). I'm doing senior project-management there. It's a nearly perfect job. I'm still very happy with it! The intersoft office ist nearby (map).
End of 2008, Selena and myself decided to separate and I moved to small apartment (map), still in Ampfing to be able to see the kids as often as possible. After a while being alone, I got together with my new love. That meant moving again. In July 2008, Barbara and myself moved into a great large apartment, again in Ampfing (map).
And, I have two great sons , Daniel , (check his website at www.Daniel-Drechsel.de :-) born 1993, and Tobias , born 1992 (yes I know, quite old pictures...)
