"Just the facts, ma'm"

Born in West-Berlin I grew up with the Cold War and the Berlin Wall.

This was a nice time. I was the drummer of our school band. I was "Husband No.2" in our school's Christmas play. I am a KISS fan since I was 6 years old. I'm still feeling bound to my school: http://www.grundschule-am-dielingsgrund.de/NeueStartseite.htm

This was an amazing machine!

I loved this one! I learned to code Basic and Assembler on this box. I skipped the Commodore Amiga.

Well... this wasn't my best time... But I like it though. http://xn--albrecht-drer-schule-yec.de/

I witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. A historic event and never forgotten.

At Siemens I learned my profession as an electronic technician (until 1996). I worked for that company until 2000. Today you better won't let me handle high voltage though...

I am a "Digital Native" and a "Millenium child".

First training done @ Siemens AG for co-workers. Internet, Web Programming and MS Frontpage. So much fun! Decision made: this is what I want to do on a regular basis!

First job done for a company in my spare time. A company website.

In 2000 I changed to my new profession to an IT solution specialist. This was my first contact with IBM Notes and Domino (formerly known as Lotus). I learned 4.5 from the beginning over to R5 where I got my first certification (CLP). One year later I achived the IBM Certified Lotus Instructor entitlement to teach others this software (development). After another 3 years of training, consulting and development I changed the company.

Yes, I made this at Lotus @ Neu-Isenburg, Germany - good old times!

My new job brought me to the wonderful city of Dresden, Saxony. This is an ancient (but modern) and cute town at the river Elbe and a nice place to live. Over the years I did a lot of project management and developed a lot of very interesting applications with all kinds of techniques you can use in IBM Domino.

I love doing trainings and speaking at conferences as I enjoy the direct feedback of the audience. I am a networker. Buy me a beer and we'll become friends 

Over the years I earned all certificates for Lotus Notes & Domino R5,6,7,8,8.5 and 9.

"New Features in Domino Designer 9"

Despite suffering from a cold I enjoyed showing our customers the great features of Domino Designer 9 (beta)

1 session at the 38. DNUG in Berlin

http://dnug.de/DNUG/cms.nsf/id/38Konferenz_ReferentenS.htm

I was one of the five winners of the OpenNTF XPages Contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKauWn_XogM

As a IBM Business Partner we were invited to attend the STEW for ICS @ Dublin, where the ICS team is working hard on IBM Connections and XPages. I met a lot of great people there from all over the globe and the developers from IBM Ireland, too (Martin Donnelly, Padraic Edwards and Mark Wallace). 

"Don't Reinvent the Wheel - Use Software from OpenNTF"

Spreading the spirit of OpenSource and the ICS community.

Slide deck: http://de.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/ulc-connect-2014-nachlese

"Web Enablement for Legacy Applications"

Great feedback and lots of conversations after the show!

Slide deck: http://de.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/osa-anwendertreffen-2014-clients-ausgednnt

I'm "doing Notes" for over 14 years now - a long time but it passed very fast.

From July 1st ULC was assimilated by GABO but my life and work was the same as it was for the last 10 years. Customers didn't face any change in the interaction with us and me at all as we and my team still continued to work with IBM solutions. 

I am honored to be elected as this is a community driven entitlement.

I showed how to transform common patterns in legacy apps to XPages applications using managed beans.

Slide deck: http://de.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/fix-fertig

I also provided informations on how the workflow for a developer can be when developing apps on IBM Bluemix. The latter wasn't about coding but utiliziation of tools and showing step-by-step how-tos. Images courtesy Oli Heinz

Slide deck: http://de.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/out-of-the-blue-getting-started-with-ibm-bluemix-development

I also did one session at the famous and marvellous Engage.UG event in Ghent this year. Image courtesy: Oliver Heinz

Slide deck: http://de.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/transformations-46514728

In April 2015 I started to work for We4IT GmbH. I am looking forward to work with a new team, new customers and new and cool technologies! Yay!

I was humbled and proud of being a panelist in the webinar from TLCC & Teamstudio about my session in Bremen and Ghent in March 2015. It was a pleasure to work with all of you!

Slide deck: http://de.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/transformations-a-tlcc-teamstudio-webinar

I had the pleasure to do a show and tell session at ICON.UK in London on September 21st about IBM Bluemix development workflow, which tools to use and how. Of course I showed the latest stuff related to XPages on Bluemix, too.

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I introduced the audience to the power the OpenNTF Domino API provides including some new features like Transactions and GraphDB capabilities

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I am flattered and honored to be re-elected as an IBM Champion for ICS in 2016 

Once again I was happy to deliver 2 session at this very important conference and get-together event powered by We4IT at the IBM Forum in Hamburg, Germany:

• XPages on IBM Bluemix - The Do's & Don'ts
• Find your data - using GraphDB capabilities in XPages applications

I was invited by the generous guys from WebGate Consulting AG to celebrate their 15th anniversary. I talked about the OpenNTF Domino API and the GraphDB implementation. This were 3 great days together with friends and a super party overall. Of course it was business though 

My session "XPages on Bluemix - the Do's and Dont's" was about the things existing blog post and video tutorials won't show you when trying the XPages runtime on IBM Bluemix.

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Image courtesy: Michael Ruhnau

I delivered 2 sessions about the OpenNTF Domino API:

• "Boost your Java code with the ODA"
• "GraphDB capablities in XPages Apps"

I was honored to be invited to talk about XPages development for and on IBM Bluemix at the Norwegian User Group event in Oslo, Norway

I was happy to be invited to speak at the Czech Lotus User Group conference in Prague for the 2nd time. It was somehow the second part of the session I did last year about GraphNSF which is also part of the ODA. Again it was a great time meeting friends from around the globe and enjoy great beer and food 

Session slides available on Slideshare and the demo application here.

Yes, I made the hat-trick! I was elected the 3rd time in a row as an IBM Champion for 2017.

Again I had the pleasure of presenting 2 session at this fabulous event, this time about IBM Watson integration

• Integrate IBM Watson's Cognitive Capabilities in your Apps
• Using IBM Watson Workspace in your Apps

For the second time I had the pleasure to present at this event, telling the audience about the latest OpenNTF development, strategies and upcoming projects.

https://www.slideshare.net/OliverBusse/paradiesisch-openntf

For the third time I had the pleasure to present at this fabulous conference which is the biggest user group event in Europe. Theo and his team again did a wonderful job herding the nerds and offering great hospitality. My session was about how to embrace IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding services, how to deploy them, train them and implement them into your on-premises apps.

Again I had the pleasure to join my friends in the Czech Republic. This time I had the chance to present our product aveedo. This included a live demo, too. I shared the session time with my friend Martin Jinoch who showed the latest from OpenNTF called SmartNSF. Thank you so much for your hospitality!

After 3 years I was happy to join the German user group again as a speaker. I lined up to other sessions about IBM Watson, in my case Watson Workspace. I showed how to integrate the Watson Work Services to XPages apps and to interact over a chatbot with custom data on-premises.

Image courtesy DNUG https://www.flickr.com/photos/143634409@N02/albums/72157684692193486

For the second time I had the chance to present at ISBG, the Norwegian User Group event in Oslo. My session was about how to embrace IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding services, how to deploy them, train them and implement them into your on-premises apps.

Humbled to be re-newed as an IBM Champion for the year 2018 

I am humbled to be named an HCL Ambassador in 2020

Together with Mark Leusink I presented at Engage 2020 in Arnhem, Netherlands, about DQL and web components.

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Together with my colleague Mika I presented our versatile Outlook add-in called Mailissa at the virtual CollabSphere this year.

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I am honored to be re-nominated for 2021 

I am honored again to be recognized for 2022 

Together with my team mates from "Managed Services", we started in We4IT's subsidiary Nintera to concentrate on offering services around platforms, SaaS and IaC.

I am honored again to be recognized for 2023