Ausbildereignungsprüfung (AEVO)

Digital Transformation - Data Center Closing HG & HGS

Industry: Insurance (>20.000 employees global)

• Led, created, and coordinated change management and communication activities end to end
• Ensured transparent, targeted, and continuous communication across digital and in-person channels
• Designed and delivered sustainable engagement and enablement analysis and target-group-specific formats
• Built and maintained global change networks, key-user communities, and multiplier structures
• Measured change impact through KPIs and continuously optimized adoption activities
• Collaborated closely with internal and external stakeholders and adjacent project teams
• Maintained documentation and tracked change activities
• Created and implemented communication materials
• Coached leaders and key stakeholders to strengthen a resilient and future-ready change culture

• Development and delivery of practical training sessions and workshops on digital content production, video formats, and the use of AI in media design
• Teaching current tools and strategies for creative professions in the digital transformation

Identifying, approaching, and assessing potential acquisition targets for a PE fund specializing in buy-and-build strategies, with a focus on building-related services.

Supporting

• deal origination and
• valuation and
• transaction development

My core strengths are therefore in:

• Interpersonal and intercultural communication
• Analytical skills and
• M&A know-how

Interim management and operational project support in production logistics and operations.

Key areas:

• Stabilization of operational production and logistics processes
• Analysis and optimization of material flows and interfaces
• Improvement of machine and production utilization
• Identification and elimination of operational bottlenecks
• Development of pragmatic control and escalation solutions
• Optimization of warehouse, intralogistics, and supply processes
• Digitalization and automation of operational processes
• Development of transparent reporting and control solutions
• Collaboration with production, logistics, work preparation, and management
• Hands-on implementation of improvement measures during ongoing operations

• Advising and providing individual support to managers, HR partners, and employees in development, career, and change processes, including clarification of assignments and potential analysis
• Carrying out structured needs analyses and deriving suitable development and consulting measures for career orientation and professional growth
• Further developing development formats conceptually through quality assurance, networking stakeholders, and implementing practical HR and consulting tools
• Planning and running seminars, workshops, and learning formats in the training and professional development context
• Developing didactic concepts to support individual learning and development processes
• Advising, training, and supporting different target groups (trainees, students, employees, and managers) in their personal and professional development
• Designing and carrying out training and development measures with a focus on skills, career development, and professional prospects
• Developing innovative learning approaches in Learning & Development with a focus on sustainable skills development
• Supporting groups and individuals in development programs to encourage self-reflection, clarity of goals, and transfer into everyday work

• Further development of the existing e-commerce platform based on SAP Commerce (Hybris) to meet the growing demands of digital commerce.
• Ensuring the scalability and performance of the backend, so the platform remained stable and efficient even under heavy user load.
• Development and integration of new OCC REST APIs and services for modular extensions and flexible adjustments, to implement new features quickly.
• Optimization of data flows and interfaces, which significantly improved platform efficiency and system performance.
• Ensuring a maintainable and scalable code base by using Clean Code principles, proven design patterns, and a future-proof architecture.
• Reduction of errors through extensive testing with JUnit, Mockito, and load tests with Gatling, supported by the introduction of automated test processes.
• Improved system performance through targeted refactoring measures and efficient database queries, especially to handle peak loads.
• Use of modern cloud and monitoring tools such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Grafana to ensure a stable and monitored infrastructure.
• Clear improvement in efficiency, scalability, and reliability of the platform, which now meets the demands of a dynamic and growing e-commerce market.

Together with Pflegekolleg Winterberg and a colleague from Hochschule für Exzellenz (HEX), I developed and launched a tailored university program in Health Care Management [link] within about 4 months. With this, we successfully started the first project in Germany to qualify local and international specialists through this offer. The press reported very positively about this project.

#Business Development #Concept Development #Skill Management #Leadership #Organization #Marketing #Sales #

• Process optimization
• Productivity increase in production
• Lean management
• Shopfloor management
• Production management
• Production control and planning
• Outsourcing
• Leadership training
• Private coaching
• Career coaching
• Self-management training
• Heidenhain, Siemens, Millplus
• CAD design with Fusion 360, SolidWorks
• FDM
• SLA
• Product design
• Prototyping
• Series production

• providing technical assistance to the sales force during sales calls
• providing pre-sales technical support
• providing technical support during first time installation of new AudioCodes products together with partner/ end-customer
• pre-sales technical interface to the channel/partner and managing of technical knowledge transfer to the partners
• giving customer presentations and hands-on product demonstrations (e.g., AudioCodes Live Cloud, Express, OVOC)
• providing product training to customers, prospects and sales during the pre-sales phase mainly AudioCodes endpoints like e.g., IP Phones, MTRs
• leading RFPs/RFI technical responses
• providing technical assistance to marketing for regional events (e.g., seminars, roadshows)
• mainly focused on AudioCodes IP Phones (Generic SIP/Native Teams), AudioCodes MTRs, AudioCodes Collaboration Bars, Jabra endpoints, Sennheiser/Epos endpoints
• management of endpoints like above via AudioCodes One Voice Operation Center and maintaining of this environment for customer workshops/ calls
• management of AudioCodes IP Phones via Microsoft Endpoint Manager/ Intune and maintaining of this environment for customer workshops/ calls
• building of automated cloud workflows (Power Automate) for internal AudioCodes DACH processes
• trusted advisor for Microsoft products which interfere with AudioCodes products for DACH region

• Sponsor of two spin-off products based on the AI and BPM tool BPMaaS, called “kionera” and “myATHENA”
• Defined project goals and developed product strategy
• Designed and built the kionera platform on shared or dedicated GPU servers using Docker and open-source LLMs
• Provided the API for custom applications
• Developed and designed managed services based on the BOC Group’s ADONIS BPM system
• Supported feature definition and planning of ADONIS/BPMN training
• Created a WordPress website with a subscription payment gateway

• Change management, training and coaching for digitalization and IT transformations, agile and needs-based for employees at all levels, local to global.
• Hands-on AI training with needs assessment and project support including LLM basics, data protection, legal, marketing, sales, business development, project management and people management.
• Specialized intercultural and broader diversity management training and coaching.
• Professional and personal training and coaching in neuro-resilience as well as integrated stress and health management.

• Teaching activities
• Management of the test library
• Supervision of theses
• Contributing to the online marketing department

• Conceptualization and project management of Lobster's first customer conference "Lobster Data Hero Summit".
• Leading into a unique event experience with +1,000 attendees, +45 speakers and 4 stages in only 14 weeks.