Neubiberg, Bavaria, Germany
Senior IT leader with strong technical background. Fanatic about products, business value and impact. Passionate about growing and coaching individuals and managers inside and outside his organization. Track record of excellent feedback from managers, team members and peers. Pushing teams forward based on agile principles and real-world experience. Measures own success by ability of managers and teams to be successful without him. Constantly learning and adapting based on new insights and experience. Used to work in international companies with highly diverse teams. Originally studied computer sciences (diploma and PhD); still doing tech pet projects from time-to-time.
Leads and grows the IT divisions for "Revenue Management" and "Sales" with several international engineering teams in five sites (total of 50+ team members). Temporarily led a new division for "Martech". Focuses on direction, vision and strategy. Provides the environment for the teams to deliver at their best. Loves to see people grow and excel. Recognized as a thought leader within the company. Reports into C-level. Drives his organizations through big changes (size, scope, methology). Advocates use of AI as tool for business and for software engineering. Designed and delivered a company-wide leadership development program for all IT managers. Fosters a culture of growth and high performance. Regularly approached as a coach.
Led the IT division for "Revenue Management" with several international engineering teams in three sites. Temporarily led the IT division for "Customer Experience" with several team in several sites. Temporarily acted as the leader for the "Data Science" vertical for Sixt overall. Focused on direction, vision and strategy. Provided the environment for the teams to deliver at their best. Loved to see people grow and excel. Reported into C-level. Scope of divisions: internally used and externally facing software (web site, apps), on premise and in cloud (AWS), different tech stacks and programming languages.
Line manager. 10 team members. Responsible for global e2e solutions in the field of Business Intelligence. More than 1,000 users. Portfolio of team: Hadoop, Data Science and Machine Learning, data warehousing (Oracle and SQL Server) and reporting/ analytics (QlikView, SSBI). Consults business teams, defines architecture and design, implements and operates solutions. Vision: Create solutions that lead to actionable insights, and help the organization to become better in terms of quality, cost, features and time.
Responsible as IT product owner for different applications in a global toolchain for internal product development. Owned products range from project management software over requirements engineering software to project lifecycle software. Full e2e responsibility for the products, starting with requirements from the departments, design, implementation, test, deployment, user acceptance, later maintenance and operations. Heavy collaboration with external suppliers in Germany, India and other countries. Ran projects as project manager. Took architectural decisions. Contributed reference implementations. More than 5,000 users.
Worked in central IT division, in a group providing applications to support the R&D activities of the company. Focused on a highly customized IBM Rational ClearQuest, a solution for change management. Performed root cause analysis of performance issues (e.g. in the network), made recommendations for improvements. Reviewed existing processes in alignment with business groups.
Implemented solutions for German automotive customers. Responsible for all phases from technical definition, design and architecture, implementation (server and client side), testing, documentation and packaging. Created documents and PoC to participate in biddings. Technologies used: Java, JSF, Hibernate, SQL. Web servers: WebSphere, Tomcat, Glassfish.
Worked in Institute for Software Technology. Focus on applied computer sciences, programming, software engineering, algorithms, data bases, graph transformation. Independent research with goal of PhD (succeeded) in the field of visual languages and their interpretation. Prepared and held lab courses and lectures to CS students. Supervised student’s theses. Participated in and one-time organized international research conferences (IEEE, ACM).