Rainer Kürvers
Data Bases (Lecture and Case Studies)
Module 2: Tuesday, July 9 th through Wednesday, July 10 th 2002
Curriculum Vitae
Rainer Kürvers (yes, with u umlaut) is male, married, has one daughter.
- around since 1960;
- from 1980 to 1990: academic round trip through business administration,
musicology, philosophy, architecture and others.
- from 1982 to 1999: musician in a German pop band (Haindling).
- from 1987 to 1992: first encounter with an Apple Macintosh, and such, with
information design and information management. Various occupations in graphic
design and database development.
- since 1992: working as a free-lance consultant for information management.
since 1995: own company with a partner.
- since 2001: manager at softworks responsible for information design and
information management.
References
Johnson & Johnson, Bosch-Siemens-Haushaltsgeräte GmbH, Siemens AG, DirektAnlageBank,
die argonauten, Grey
obsessions:
philosophy, language, systems, books, music, food and culture, skiing, being a
pedestrian.
favourites:
cash instead of plastic, personal contact, a challenge and the appropriate team
(this one goes to my project team).
dislikes:
tracing tools like credit cards, cookies or selling my email address to spammers,
thoughtless mixing of languages, the dictate of good taste.
web sites (I look at frequently):