Dr.Ing. Christoph Baumgarten

Area of Expertise

Thematic focuses:
- Digitalization of collaboration
- IT governance, IT strategies, agile system development processes, citizen development, IT service management, information security, IT outsourcing / cloud, system architectures
- Project management, process management, change management
- Information life cycle management, database systems, web content management, information retrieval
- Software development (C, C++, js, node.js, angular, perl, ..., webkit, gtk, gstreamer, ...), low code platforms

Education

• 1995 – 1999: Doctoral studies in the graduate college 'Tools for the effective use of parallel and distributed computer systems' at the Dresden University of Technology
• 1996, 1998: Academic guest at the ETH Zurich
• 1988 – 1995: Studies of Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
• 1994 – 1995: Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.
• 1992: Studies of Computer Science at the Université de Picardie, Amiens, France

Professional Experience

• Since 2017: Lecturer for Business Informatics at the Institute for Information and Process Management at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST).
• 2009 – 2017: CIO and Head of Department of Information Technology at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
• 2003 – 2009: Head Capability Development AIM (Aeronautical Information Management) at Skyguide
• 1998 – 2003: System Development Director / Project Manager / Software Engineer at Eurospider Information Technology AG, a spin-off from ETH Zurich

Teaching Experience

• Information Management
• Process Management
• Data Modeling
• Databases & Information Systems
• Software Lab
• Collaboration in the digital age (Context Studies OST)
• Professional Development of Web Applications (Context Studies UniSG)

Projects

St.Galler IT Bildungsoffensive: Innovative teaching and learning (digital campus, learning factory & learning labs)

Memberships

Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

• STÖCKLER, S., HÄNGGI, R., BERNHARDSGRÜTTER, R., BAUMGARTEN, C. (2021). Industrie 4.0 begreifbar machen – Die SmartFactory@OST. In Lennart Brand, Karin Gräslund, Dietmar Kilian, Helmut Krcmar, Klaus Turowski, Holger Wittges (Eds.), Proceedings of the SAP Academic Community Conference 2021 DACH (pp. 208-224). https://doi.org/10.14459/2021md1622154
• BAUMGARTEN, C., SIMEON, A., WILHELM, M. (2020). Citizen Developers Driving the Digital Campus. European Journal of Higher Education IT, 2020 (1), pp. 1-12.

Professional Journals and Newspaper

• BAUMGARTEN, C., BRENNER, A., ENGELKE, D., STÖCKLER, S., THIEL, C., THOMA, A., ZIMMERMANN, H.-D. (2022). Perspektiven auf das Konzept der digitalgestützten Zusammenarbeit. Springer Gabler, pp. 143-177. Wiesbaden.
• BAUMGARTEN, C., MÜLLER, A. (2020). "Einen Mercedes in der Garage, aber der Führerschein fehlt?" Über die Herausforderungen von Zusammenarbeit.. Springer Fachmedien , pp. 239-253. Wiesbaden.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2017). Erfolgreiche Universitätsverwaltung. Springer Gabler, pp. 153-172. Wiesbaden. 10.1007/978-3-658-16125-5

Presentations

• BAUMGARTEN, C., ENDL, R., LAMPERT, R. (2023). Business Development Opportunities for Software Manufacturers using Low-Code. Workshop 'Democratization of IT through Low Code Development Platforms - A Dream Coming True or Same Same but Different?', European Conference on Information Systems ECIS.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2023). Die Demokratisierung der Softwareentwicklung: Low-Code in der Praxis. Zühlke: Low-Code for Commerce, aber wie und wozu?.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2023). Digitalisierung: Chance & Herausforderung. WAS - Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Soziales.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2023). Programmieren (fast) ohne Programmierkenntnisse? (Wie) Geht das?. Zühlke Inhouse.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2022). Die digitalen Möglichkeiten nutzen: Ansätze und ihre Wirkung (IGAKIS Thementagung 2022). IGAKIS.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2021). Die digitale Transformation beschleunigen: Der Low-Code-Ansatz mit seinen Chancen und Herausforderungen. adesso / Impuls Breakfast Hybrid Business.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2021). Low-Code Aktivitäten an der OST - LowCodeLab@OST. Professionelle Software (fast) ohne Programmierung: Low-Code in der Praxis.
• BAUMGARTEN, C., SIMEON, A., WILHELM, M. (2020). Citizen Developers Driving the Digital Campus. EUNIS 2020.
• BAUMGARTEN, C., MÜLLER, A. (2019). "Einen Mercedes in der Garage, aber der Führerschein fehlt?" Über die Herausforderungen von Zusammenarbeit. 2. St.Galler New Work Forum, St.Gallen (09.01.2019).
• BAUMGARTEN, C., BUTTAZONI, C., MAYER, A. (2018). 8 Years of Experience in SCRUM- and KANBAN-driven Development of Campus-supporting Software Systems. EUNIS 2018 Congress Proceedings.
• BAUMGARTEN, C. (2018). 8 Years of Experience in SCRUM- and KANBAN-driven Development of Campus-supporting Software Systems. EUNIS 2018.