Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Technology Manager Digital at Oerlikon Textiles. IT leader with 25+ years of experience in Industry 4.0, Cloud Computing, MES, Advanced Analytics, IIoT, and AI. Proven track record in managing software product lifecycle, driving strategic initiatives and go to market approach, and leading cross-functional teams in high-growth environments. Expertise in product development, strategy, business development, and customer engagement. TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) and Professional Scrum Master (scrum.org) certified. Certifications: Professional Scrum Master certified (scrum.org) TOGAF certification Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) from Cambridge C2 Goethe-Zertifikat B2 Technical Expertise Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Workday Methodologies: Scrum (Professional SCRUM Master I certified), SAFe, Agile, DevOps, Lean, Six Sigma Frameworks: TOGAF (certificated), ISA95/Purdue Model, ITIL Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, .Net, Perl, Python, Matlab, SQL Tools: MS Office, O365, Gitlab, Jira, Trello, Docker, Kubernetes
Driving the company's digital initiatives in the area of customer products and facilitating organizational change to adopt Industry 4.0 practices. Implementation of IIoT, MES, AI solutions for the textile industry. Customer engagement and business case creation
Main task is to apply in depth knowledge in one or more technology areas to solve complex problems, by creating state of the art technology architectures for large and complex projects. I am responsible to create solution architectures (define solution components, external and internal interfaces, responsibilities of the components, network protocols to be used, component flow charts, hardware and physical views) for hosting solutions and provide technical leadership for other Solution Architects. In the sales phase I am responsible for accurate effort estimates, supported by other functions, and responsible to review effort estimates. Main technological areas of application are: - Design and implementation of Integration Layer (based on SOA principles) for all Network Elements in various Value Added Services (VAS) area - Messaging platforms (MMS, VMS, SMS) - BSS/OSS implementation - Device management - CRM
Role: Solution Architect for TACIT (Technical and Competitive IT) global team. As Solution Architect I have been the design authority and my engagement started from the investment proposal till the handover to support with technical management of project worth 1M-50M. Main activities: - Smart Solution Platform. Foundation platform for the Shell IoT and Advanced Analytics strategy. Software suite that allows sharing of all the production (upstream and downstream) real time sensor data (creation of a SOA based data abstraction layer) and usage of analytic software (R, SAS, Matlab) for engineering modelling, event management and surveillance. - Consolidation of the operational data historian (OSI soft products) architecture across the overall Shell landscape. My mandate is to create and enforce a unique architecture for the adoption and usage of the OSI soft suite. In such role I am engaged in all projects that have a PI component (PI server, PI AF, Process Book, etc), and provide design guidance in order to let them adhere to the common standard. - Definition of the Enterprise Data Warehouse (MS-SQL and SAP HANA based) design standard. - Well and Reservoir Facility Management. Management information, production surveillance and reporting for Wells. Software base don SAP HANA. - Salesforce usage in various areas: HR case management, customer infosharing, review approvals, etc. - HR transformation programme with adoption of market standard technologies (Workday). In all projects Methodology used: Scrum and DevOps.
Role: Solution Architect for West South Europe region Architecture Team. Technologies: BSS, OSS, IMS, SDF/SDP, M2M, MMS, SMS, Browsing solutions, VMS, IVR, Video teleconferencing, Rich communication
Solution Consultant for the Communication and Entertainment Solutions: Messaging Solutions - MMS, SMS, Voice Mail, IVR, Video Teleconference, SDF. Integration with Core network (PS and CS) and BSS/OSS systems
Senior Manager in the Digital Operation Impact Center EMEA at PwC taking care of key transformational projects in the IoT, advanced analytics, Industry 4.0 areas for strategic customers. Focus on Smart Factory and Connected Supply Chain.