After a few years back in Germany, I was asked to drive the development of a new digital product. I cannot say too much about it, as the work is still ongoing. We are looking for angel funding right now. 

In May 2004, I designed and sponsored the First Digital Home Leadership Conference. This was a vehicle for us to manifest Whirlpool's leadership position in the Digital Home space. This was a "strike the iron while it is hot" move after the sucess of MEALTIME.

After the restructuring of IHS, I was asked to take the remaining team and stay engaged in the Connected Home space. Whirlpool was hedging its bets, after the huge writeoff they took with IHS. I had to get my people motivated again, find objectives that made sense and worked, and get the processes around them established so we could deliver.

When I became a member of his staff, David Butler, CIO, asked me to create and position the Global Security and Audit Compliance department, short ISAAC. The main deliverable for this position was the formulation of a global security strategy and architecture. This was in 1st half 1999.

Based on the success of the internet in reducing cost, I developed a strategy paper called "Whirlpool Web World Interactive Network", in short "W³IN". It took me the better part of a month to develop a vision of how the internet could enrich all communication avenues that Whirlpool had. I included consumers, customers (trade partners), supplier and employees in this concept. Based on the vision, I then developed strategies to implement the vision, both for the USA and globally.

When I was taking my turn of defending the country in 1985, the German state was eager to sign recruits for the reserve officer career within the infantry. I was awared the officer's patent a few years later.