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Fire and flames for LFS.
Three months in Paris. A dream for
every France lover. For Thomas Hen-
necke this was the kick-off to his career
in logistics. Shortly after completing his
training as an Application Development
IT Specialist at E+P, he took responsi-
bility for his own projects. His first own
project involved the automation of a
new warehouse in the French capital.
“In 2005 this was a complex project for
me. With the knowledge I have today,
I would have been an absolute expert
back then,” recalls Thomas Hennecke.
“Both my personal skills and also the
functional scope of LFS have grown
hugely over the years, so that today I
have totally different options when ad-
vising our customers.”
As an Expert Software Developer
Thomas Hennecke primarily operates
in the background and in his team he
is responsible for supporting and men-
toring the programmers. Depending
on the complexity of the project he
also participates in functional specifi-
cation discussions. Major projects are
his specialism and up to 500 days of
programming work are not uncom-
mon. His main priority is to transfer his
knowledge and experience to his young
colleagues. Whereas during his leisure
time he likes to juggle with fire torch-
es, in his professional life he prefers to
play it safe: “I convince our customers
with arguments. A half-baked solution
makes no sense. It is no use to anyone if
only 99 of 100 pallets arrive at the des-
tination.”
The hobby juggler has many anecdotes
to tell. “In the early days we often had
birthday cakes for all our colleagues,”
he recalls. “But in a team of 500 people,
distributed across the entire world, that
is inconceivable today.”
Good ideas burn for longer.
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