How I ended up here - and why I stayed Featured

Hello everyone, glad to meet you here. I'm based in Munich, and in the Simplebim team I'm the contact point for partners, educators, and new users.

I started my professional career as a civil structural engineer - and software user - in Italy before moving to Germany: I worked with structural analysis tools (often quite spartan), GIS, CAD, BIM, Excel - learning each one because projects needed it, and making them work together because reality demanded it. Like many of us, I spent many years among drawings, models, schedules, people, expectations and results. BIM was already there full of promise, but often 'abandoned' because of inconsistent model data, unclear responsibilities, and tools that struggled to speak the same language.

At that time (end of 1990s - early 2000s), what ‘really’ kept projects moving were not workflows, but people: curious minds, shared problem-solving, and those familiar moments when someone simply said, “Let’s figure this out together.” It’s striking that in many so-called highly-developed places, this is still a reality today.

Years later, while consulting European companies to help them find the right partners across borders, I came across Datacubist. My role was clear and limited: expanding the Simplebim partner network in Germany and Austria. To do that properly, I obviously needed to understand Simplebim - and that’s when something unexpected happened.

To caught my attention was the very clear, almost disarmingly simple idea: treat BIM models as data first - independent, clean, and free from tool-specific constraints. Collect it and structure it - before even trying to use it.

It was a mental shift: the moment you stop asking “Which tool created this model?” and start asking “What is actually in this data, and how can it be made usable? even scalable?” This idea wasn’t adding another layer of complexity; it was removing complexity!

Quickly, what started as a professional task turned into genuine excitement: when my consulting work for Datacubist was finished, I realized I didn’t want to walk away, but stay close to this approach and see how far it could go. Luckily, my colleagues at Datacubist felt the same about working together - and that’s how this journey began.

Today, what I love most about my role is to be in constant exchange with different worlds: I work closely with partners around the globe, who have to balance business realities and technical competence while bringing the data-driven idea into their local contexts; I support BIM users to make their work easier, by helping them find the right solution; and I collaborate with innovative teachers who invest their energy in shaping future construction professionals, as well as students who will turn the digital transition of our industry into everyday practice.

This Community brings all of that together. I’m part of the Community Team, and this space is very close to my heart. My mission is to make experience meet curiosity, practice meet research, and different perspectives strengthen each other. If I can help connect people, ideas, or solutions, then I’m doing the work I love.

That's why: whenever during your projects you have a thought, a question, a doubt, or even a half-formed idea you’d like to explore, feel free to bring it to the Community, or reach out to me directly.

Looking forward to learning and exchanging together.