For several years he worked as a management consultant in Germany and Asia. In 2008 he founded the Crypto Stick Project with the objective to make encryption secure and easy even for inexperienced computer users, The Crypto Stick is a USB stick that facilitates e-mail and data encryption, and secure user registration with network services and popular websites. The device was developed as an open source community project and, to date, boasts a four-digit number of users.