AWE Management

Gerd Woelfle

Gerd is responsible for

• the WinProp software suite including ProMan, WallMan and AMan.
• all development activities and the evolution of the WinProp software package
• the integration of customer-specific extensions into the Winprop suite

Since 1993 Gerd has been engaged in wireless communications and he has developed software (propagation models, network planning tools) and hardware (measurement equipment, basestation transceivers) for the wireless industry.
Gerd has authored and co-authored more than 70 scientific papers, got two best paper awards at international conferences and holds international patents in USA, Japan, and Europe.

Reiner Hoppe

Reiner is responsible for the

• MIMOWA project
  
• SIMPLON project
  
• satellite activities within AWE Communications
  
• evolution of the deterministic (ray-optical) propagation models for urban and indoor scenarios
  
• Atoll/A9155 Propagation Plug-In
  

In his PhD thesis Reiner developed the IRT (Intelligent Ray Tracing), a new ray tracing algorithm with extremely short computation time and high accuracy.
Reiner is involved in the development of propagation models since 1995 and has published more than 45 scientific papers, several journal papers and a chapter in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications.

Rene Wahl

Rene is responsible for the

• evolution of the Dominant Path Model (DPM)
  
• PLATON project
  
• development of propagation models for time-variant scenarios.
  
• integration of the indoor propagation models into other software tools (Indoor Plug-Ins)
• integration of the rural and urban propagation models into Aircom Enterprise/NSN NetAct

Many scientific papers and the PhD thesis of Rene are related to the Dominant Path Model and to the propagation models for time-variant scenarios.

Angelika Woelfle

Angelika is responsible for the

• administration and finances
  
• accounting department
• tax related issues
• human resources
  

Besides the above listed activities, Angelika is also responsible for the negotiation of research and development contracts with the  partners of AWE Communications.
Before joining AWE Communications, Angelika was working in the financial departments of two banks. So she is familiar in organizing financial processes. This experience was very valuable for the growth of the company during the last years.

Oliver Staebler

Oliver is responsible for the

• MIMO extension of WinProp
  
• 2.5G, 3G, and WiMAX network planning modules.
• all input data converters (topography & clutter, urban, and indoor) and data export filters

Several scientific papers and the PhD thesis of Oliver are related to MIMO.

Thomas Hager

Thomas is responsible for

• all sales activities (including the WinProp software suite as well as the propagation plug-ins).
• all marketing activities
• the support and validation teams
  

For most customers, Thomas and his team are the initial point of contact inside AWE Communications. They are accompanying the customer from the first contact via the whole purchase process. And of course also during the installation and during the support phase of the software.