He joined the laboratory in 1988 and has worked at the Resource Measurement Facility for z/OS, MQSeries Workflow, and WebSphere Process Choreographer. Dieter is a member of the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee, which is working toward an industry standard for Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL). He holds a master's degree (Diploma in Informatics) in computer science from the University of Bonn, Germany.