After studying electrical engineering, Guido Van Husen worked for 10 years at Danet GmbH in various roles with a focus on large database projects in the telecommunications environment. Since 2007, he has been employed at DB Systel GmbH as a lead architect in the field of business intelligence projects. In the last years with a strong focus on Big Data projects. He was very involved in the development of a data lake at DB Systel and is currently working in the ZERO.ONE.DATA area.

The Pop in Your Job - What inspires me is...
Even at the beginning of my professional life, I was fascinated by big data. Through my work in the telecommunications environment, I already had the opportunity to deal with large amounts of data at the end of the 90s. Currently, I can live out my passion through the rapid development in the environment of Big Data.

Systematic digitalisation is of crucial importance to creating a strong rail system. In a joint undertaking with all of DB’s business units, we are working on the digitalisation of countless rail-related business processes and holistic digital solutions to create high-performance user features that deliver maximum customer value. We have established a comprehensive range of services that meet the highest IT standards and requirements for this purpose. We implement effective and efficient solutions that are based on platform and service technologies and innovations such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. As a partner for long-term undertakings, we contribute extensive rail and IT expertise and operate in a vendor-neutral way so that we can all reach our common goal. Around 6,000 people are currently employed at our main locations in Frankfurt, Berlin and Erfurt. Going further, we want to anticipate common customer wishes and individual Group requirements while maintaining flexibility, so we carefully select first-class business partners who can support us. These strategic partnerships are crucial to our collective success.