CEO & Visionary at Four Flames
Ibbenbüren, Germany
“Visions that need to become reality…”
- Tech Leader: Byte tamer at 4 Bytes, shaping enterprise software and IT solutions since 2019.
- Entrepreneur: Founder and driving force behind Supreme Chaos Records, Cold Knife Records, and Four Flames with all its business fields.
- Dream Builder: Making dreams come true at Red Flame and leading diverse ventures — from record labels to logistics, e-commerce, and promotion services.
- Started with 64k cassette storage computers: ATARI 800 XL + Datasette.
- Was always dreaming of a Mega ST Setup with hard drive (!). Bought this later, yet had it only to test a few weeks.
- First PC 286, developing with Turbo Pascal TP.
- Eventually switched to Borland Pascal with Protected Mode Support with 386 platform, combined with TASM.
- Started to build my own OS before Windows including graphics driver stack. Anyone remember smooth scrolling with sprite hacks?
- Was super interested in the demo scene.
- Developed super fast FLI and MOD player.
- Fun but necessary: memory resident DOS CD player (must be around as 7+ archive in the amateur radio boxes).
- Hacking dos games to prevent copy protection popping up - but only for myself of course.
- Developed amateur TV relais control software, deployed it with a group on a huge radio tower with rain coming bottom up.
- Had super interesting projects throughout my time finishing school.
- Developed leading (TÜV) software for non-destructive testing of wire ropes.
- Multi scoped, universal, skills bottom up.
- Fields: Dcoument management, web, interfacing, multi channel commerce, logistics, shipping, financing.
- Languages: PHP, Python, JS, C#, Visual Basic, frontend languages ... everything is possible..
- Databases: MS SQL Server, MySql, MongoDB, Postgres, SqLite, DB/2, ... all data will be processed.
- Frameworks: Symfony, Vue.js, .NET, ... build on everything.
- Modern Platforms: Shopware, Shopify, Algolia, ... performance matters.
- Enterprise Platforms: MS Dynamics/Navision, Salesforce, Sharepoint, ... complexity is not an obstacle.
- Commerce Platforms: eBay, Amazon, music dedicated platforms, ... channel it all.
- Architect: Multi node, performance, scalability, monitoring, ... modern approach-driven .
- Record Labels: Supreme Chaos Records | Cold Knife Records | Prevision Music
- Promotion, Distribution, Shops: Red Flame Promotion, Distribution, Shops
- Concerts: Founder & Booker of Metal Nights (Stuttgart, now Northern Germany)
- Bands: Karkadan, The Exorial, Cerecloth (all ceased)
“We need more energy... Nr. 1 - Warp 9 bitte!”
“Ich hasse Leute, die sich nicht an ihr Wort halten (und schließe dabei mich selbst nicht aus, im Gegenteil)”
“Ich lebe, um Musik zu erleben und sie zu umschlingen wie eine Geliebte, sie nie mehr loszulassen...”
“Hast Du den Faden verloren?” ... “Nein, darauf wollte ich gerade zurückkommen...”
“Nichtstun macht nur dann Spaß, wenn man eigentlich viel zu tun hätte.” (frei nach Noël Coward)
“Wer nicht den Mut hat, sich selbst zu verändern, der hat auch nicht den Mut, die Welt zu verändern.”