Author Archives: Ina Baeumer

About Ina Baeumer

Hello and Guten Tag, as you might notice my roots are also from a different country. I have been with MICROS Systems for 7 years, started as an OPERA Sales & Catering Installer and later worked with the Central Systems team responsible for OPERA Sales Force Automation in our regional office in EAME. Before moving to Columbia, Maryland I was the Product Specialist for OPERA Sales & Catering, OPERA Sales Force Automation and all the other fun modules connecting to these products in EAME and am now for the North-American region. I have been all my life in the hospitality industry, grown up in the restaurant of my parents back home in Germany. After spending a year as an exchange student in Santa Fe, Texas, I have worked in various positions in Food & Beverage and Sales in different parts of Germany, in Denver, Colorado and the Dominican Republic. I have a dual degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management from the César Ritz College in Brig, Switzerland and Washington State University. Before joining MICROS Systems my experience with the technical side of software and hotel systems was rather limited. I won them over with my experience in the hospitality industry. I’d like to share a story with you about my MICROS interview: I was asked of how I imagined a database and my explanation was – think of a wall with lots of drawers and shelves. …If you take something out and put it back into the wrong box, you have a database crash. Not a technical explanation but that is what happens.