He began developing Rsyslog in 2004, to forward log messages in an Internet Protocol Network from UNIX and Unix-like computer systems.
He was appointed as the head of data center of Dörries GmbH (member of Voith group) where he introduced a company-wide PC network and was among the first in Germany to utilize Windows in larger-scale environments.
[3] In 1996, he started work on Computer data logging, and developing network and protocol software based on it.
As a board member of Mitre's CEE effort, he worked on standardizing event expression formats and providing interoperability between different logging systems.
In 1997 he wrote the first ever Windows Event Log to syslog forwarding tool [9] and invented this class of software.