He is responsible for defining next-generation process engineering tools, and he represents IBM at the OMG in the SPEM 2.0 initiative. Before joining the Rational Unified Process team, he worked as a senior professional services consultant for the IBM Rational brand. He performed on-site consulting and training, and he assisted and coached customers to be successful with the Rational Unified Process and other Rational tools. His areas of interest include requirements management, object-oriented analysis and design for enterprise application architectures, and software process implementation. Before joining Rational, he worked in basic research in the areas of requirements engineering and flexible process-integrated CASE tool architectures. Peter received his doctorate in computer science from the Technical University Aachen, Germany.