Welcome: This is the official website of Michaela Merz and the home of what is now called Web 2.0 [Read more ...]. You seem to be located in the vicinity of Washington, DC. Feel free to poke around or click contact to get in touch me with right now. Please notice: In order to respect your privacy, you may now access my website without any logs being created. In 'privacy mode', I will neither save your ip-address nor any other personal data related to your visit. Click to activate privacy mode. Hello everybody, my name is Michaela Merz. I am an entrepreneur and a senior IT engineer with an extensive background in management, software development, security and networking enviroments. As I am currently in Europe, I might be available for new projects and interesting challenges in the 'old world'. Use the “contact” link to the right to get in touch with me or contact Steyla Technologies Deutschland GmbH.

This is 'Safti' - my all-electric, battery powered truck. It has a range of approx. 50 Miles and a top speed of 70 Mph. It is reliable, safe and environmentally sound. No fumes, no gasoline - all it needs is a regular power outlet to recharge. We use it quite extensively on our ranch. Though I have recently sold my truck, I do believe in the future of electrical vehicles [Read More..].

I am currenty donating some time to the SigMe-Projekt. SigMe is a new and open Internet users directory that allows people to safely store public and private profiles, to offer private or semi-professional services, to find old and new friends, to measure and to verify social competencies .. you name it.

SigMe is also featuring a new 'OpenProfileExchange' protocol that safely and easily allows acces to one's profile details via simple web-protocols. SigMe is currently ALPHA, but stay tuned for more. SigMe's 'OpenSigMe' allows you to request, modify or update any of your data. My image-gallery contains images from my security cameras in Germany and in the US. These images are automatically updated via OpenSigme (Sorry, English texts are not translated yet).