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Kişisel Bilgilerim

İş Deneyimlerim (12 yıl, 9 ay)

01/2009 - bugün
(3 yıl, 5 ay)

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02/2004 - 12/2008
(4 yıl, 11 ay)

Internet Solutions / ITConsultant

Sarah Arnold

Sektör: Bilişim teknolojisi ve hizmetleri
01/2002 - 11/2003
(1 yıl, 11 ay)

Senior Developer

Red Hat (RH Interchange)

Sektör: Bilişim teknolojisi ve hizmetleri
01/2001 - 12/2001
(1 yıl)

Project leader

BMW (BMW Financial Services)

Sektör: Bilişim teknolojisi ve hizmetleri
01/2000 - 12/2000
(1 yıl)

Programmer

ArsDigita

Sektör: Bilişim teknolojisi ve hizmetleri
07/1999 - 12/1999
(6 ay)

Programmer

C Consulting

Sektör: Bilişim teknolojisi ve hizmetleri

İşyerindeki statü

Girişimci (Bayan)

Eğitim Bilgilerim

03/1993 - 07/1996

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Germanistik
03/1990 - 03/1993

University of Washington Seattle
Physics

Diller

İngilizce (Ana dili), Almanca (Akıcı)

Hakkımda

demnächst auf deutsch

why bumbaumel
I am the founder of

http://www.bumbaumel.eu, a manufacturer of organic cotton baby accessories based in Erfurt, Germany. Our focus for our first collection is on slings and mei tais, both baby carriers made popluar in the US, where I am from originally. Our products are made in India. My husband and my daughter and I visited the factories where are slings are made this past winter and spent a total of 3 months there.
This trip was a crash course in organic textile manufacturing. Like so many people, I had assumed before that buying textiles labeled "organic" must be enough. It turns out that this term is not regulated internationally so many manufacturers use this term without any external certification whatsoever. And there are many problems with garments that actually are made of 100% certified organically grown cotton. It is not just the cotton that is spun and woven or knit that has to be organic. The entire chain from plant to the mill to the dyer to cut&sew has to be clean. This is why we have made the decision to manufacture only Control Union certified organic cotton products that follow the GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard). This is, as of writing, the most comprehensive international standard for organic textiles worldwide.

my background
How I got to where I am today? I am a software developer and project manager with over 10 years experience in internet applications and data warehousing. I worked several years for well known international corporations in Germany (BMW, ArsDigita.com and Red Hat) before starting my own freelancing business. I managed projects for leading German organizations such as the trade union IG Metall as well as Best Western hotels. As a freelancer I concentrated on consulting services in the area of open source product development, particularly the ubiquitous Typo-3 content management system.

becoming a mom helped start my business
Becoming a mother changed me in more ways then I ever thought possible. My first child, Nelly, was born in 2007. She made me realize how much more there can be to life then just staring into a monitor. Although lucrative, the idea of working in the IT sector just didn't do it for me anymore. I wanted something that could be more meaningful to me and started getting interested in organic textiles.

why India?
This led us to India and there my real motivation for starting this business became clear. This magnificently beautiful, ancient country is the midst of an environmental crisis the likes of which most Europeans or Americans can not even begin to imagine. The air in the cities is so polluted with noxious gases that it makes you sick when directly exposed to it. The plastic waste is spread around like a layer of snow everywhere you look. And the holy rivers, remember, Hinduism is a religion actually founded on the idea of bathing in holy rivers, reek a sickly sweet chemical odor out of the soupy gray, algae infested waters.

why organic?
And why? The first reason is the conditions in the cotton growing areas, where dangerous pesticides are ruining entire regions and causing serious health problems for the farmers. But this isn't the whole story. It is not enough to produce garments that are only made out of organic cotton and then maufactured conventionally.
The reason is the chemical industry, which dumps everything they have directly into the rivers in countries like India. There are hundreds of known carcinogens used to dye and treat fabric. The very worst are in the darker colors like blue and black. I heard from an insider in the industry in India that the workers that actually handle these kind of dyes directly have a life expectancy of only a few years.
And the textile and chemical industries there are manufacturing for whom? In what country were the clothes that you are wearing manufactured? The chances are it was somewhere in Asia, maybe India, maybe somewhere even worse in terms of pollution. The residues of toxic substances used in our clothing can be absorbed into our body through the pores of our skin. The thing is, we can wash our new clothes a few times and hope the worst is out of it..... maybe , maybe not. But the villagers who live downstream from the dyeing and processing plants can't just wash the poison out of their water. They have no choice but to wash in it, cook with it and give it to their children to drink.
I am proud to have the opportunity to invest in partners in India who are taking an active role in stopping the pollution by producing 100% GOTS approved garments The factories we visited there are model examples of what manufacturing in Asia could be like, where standards of social and environmental accountability are monitored by international agencies such as Control Union and Tüv Süd. My company is committed to improving the conditions in India at the same time we create great baby products for export to the US and the EU..

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