Michael Claßen holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was until recently working for WebSentric AG, an Internet Startup located in Munich, Germany and San Mateo, California. Before that he worked (too much) and lived (not enough) in the Sunny South of France, employed by an IT consulting firm with projects all over Europe and in the US.

Michael has gained extensive experience in Internet and Web-related projects mostly in the telecommunications and financial industry, dealing mainly with the server-side of the equation, using Java, CORBA, C++, ASP/JSP, servlets and XML processing frameworks. He can be contacted at mclassen@internet.com.