Michael Willinger Michael Willinger was born in 1971 in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied business administration at the University of Mannheim from 1990 to 1996, focusing on bank management, financing, auditing, fiduciary structures, and statistics. Since he first encountered SAP R/3 during his graduate studies in business data processing, it has had a major impact on his career. From 1998 to 2001, Michael worked as an SAP consultant (focusing on Financial Accounting) at Bilfinger & Berger AG, a construction firm, before he moved to Tarkett, an internationally active manufacturer of flooring. At Tartkett, he was the project manager for the global implementation of the SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling modules. Currently, Michael works at SAP in the area of Data Migration Landscape Transformation (DMLT), where he focuses on migration projects, like currency conversions, company code merges, controlling area splits etc.