Thomas Lorenz

Passionate Senior Leader | Empowering people to grow and succeed.

Hersbruck, Bavaria, Germany

About

I enable and scale teams for more than seven years based on my professional experience in IT, Solution Engineering and Sales being a Trusted Advisor for customers and partners. Since 2010 I helped companies to introduce, customize and adapt SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Talking to hundreds of companies and learning within dozens of projects allowed me to become certified as Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, MCSE, MCSA and MCITP. Now focusing on AI means diversifying my technology interest and since 2026 I delve into Anthropic, Google, AWS and many more. My personal interest is Working out loud and collaborating in any communication loop efficiently. I am happy to share not only internally, but on LinkedIn, Twitter, during Webinars or by Public Speaking at conferences.

Experience

  • CTO at ZDF Sparks
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Responsibility for our tech organization, engineering processes and people development, enabling scalable delivery and long‑term technical excellence in a fast‑evolving, AI‑focused environment.

  • Career transition at Career Break
    Feb 2026 - Mar 2026 · 2 mos

    A period of meeting great people, interesting conversations and opportunities.

  • Rencore (Remote)
    • Head of Solution Engineering
      Apr 2025 - Jan 2026 · 10 mos

      Empowering enterprises to run their digital workplace confidently talking to potential customers about their governance needs and motivating amazing colleagues in technical pre-sales.

    • Head of Customer Success (interim)
      Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 7 mos

      Empowering enterprises to run their digital workplace confidently talking to customers about their governance needs and motivating amazing colleagues in customer success.

  • IU Internationale Hochschule (Full-time · 3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director Microsoft Platform
      Apr 2022 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs

      Enabling and motivating two teams of great Microsoft Engineers and Consultants to deliver high quality services and consulting for our internal organization. Responsible for Microsoft customer and partner relationship. #Microsoft365 #SharePointOnline #MicrosoftTeams #PowerPlatform #Azure and more.

    • Head of Cloud Productivity & Collaboration
      Jul 2021 - Mar 2022 · 9 mos

      Enabling and motivating a team of great Microsoft Engineers and Consultants to deliver high quality services and consulting for our internal organization. #Microsoft365 #SharePointOnline #MicrosoftTeams #PowerPlatform #Azure and more.

  • Pre-Sales-Manager DACH at Powell Software
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Technical Pre-Sales responsibility for the DACH region regarding Powell's solution portfolio. Still talking about the Digital Workplace, Microsoft Teams Governance and Adoption.