CompTIA Project+

• Consulting and interim management at the intersection of IT operations and regulation
• Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
• Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
• Teaching assignments in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at Hochschule Burgenland, since 2023
• Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
• Expert presentations in business and educational institutions
• Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
• Privacy-first architectures and Zero-Knowledge Encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
• Connection to bank account systems via SEPA direct debit mandates and message formats according to ISO 20022 (pain.008, camt.053)
• MLOps and AIOps in ongoing operations
• Own applications under own brand: shared code base, separate delivery for each target device
• AI-assisted software development (vibe-coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
• Publications on EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
• Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
• AI Governance / Compliance: Data Quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act Readiness, Risk Classification, AI Ethics

Swiss University of Applied Sciences institute (HEdA/AAQ accredited); ranked #5 globally for Executive MBA (CEO Magazine 2025)

• Led the research function and chaired the Research Advisory Board.
• Editor of the Journal of Applied Business Research.
• Member of the Thesis and Dissertation Committee.
• Contributed to the AAQ and ACBSP accreditation processes.

Project content / Description of services:

• Management and coordination of all new-build areas in the assigned region to ensure completion on time

• Responsibility for network planning, budget calculation, and budget approval for optimal resource planning in the construction process

• Cross-project management of service providers for the efficient implementation of joint construction or connection of new-build areas

• Preparation, tendering, and awarding of contracts within budget limits

• Ensuring material supply for smooth joint construction

• Management of fiber-optic expansion and provision of data lines; densification

• Stakeholder management

• Introduction and setup of Kanban board, including maintenance

• End-to-end rollout management

• Escalation management

• Service provider management

• Construction monitoring and management of construction schedules

• Preparation and tracking of project plans and Gantt charts

• Risk management

• Claim management and project recalculations

• Problem and incident management

• Change management

• Capex and Opex control and monitoring

• Contract management and change order management

• Conclusion of lease, purchase, or rental agreements for the development of required properties or lines

• Technical collaboration with construction managers and service providers within the construction projects to ensure the timely completion of new-build areas

• Definition of requirements, categorization, and prioritization, including monitoring and follow-up in accordance with the project plan

• Preparation and delivery of presentations for various management levels

• Preparation and creation of decision papers

• Forecast

• Establishment of project “back to green” post-installation and densification

Environment: MS Office, MS Teams, SAP; SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Bizagi. GBGS, PowerBI, TKI, Flash Kanban

TAF-P

Strategic IT transformation partnership covering infrastructure transformation, hybrid-cloud migration, data-centre consolidation and transformation of IT operating models.

• Managed integration of services from transition through transformation.
• Acted as customer-facing Single Point of Contact between Mercedes-Benz, Infosys and third-party providers.
• Managed stakeholder relationships, demand, escalations and service delivery.
• Established structured communication and governance with IT management and executives.
• Coordinated transition and transformation activities across multiple parties.
• Managed SLA-related activities and service governance.
• Coordinated third-party suppliers and delivery teams.
• Managed procurement activities from demand/forecast through delivery and invoicing.
• Supported transition activities and customer sign-off.
• Coordinated knowledge-transfer and documentation activities.

Environment: Enterprise infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Data Centres, Service Transition, IT Governance, Vendor Management

• Project management, Hustler (identifying the complete financial operations, including Sales, Pitching, Financial Analysis, & Business Models) and Hound (identifying real customer needs, including Research, & Analysis) to build an online project KPI system.
• The system enables users to make well-founded decisions to keep projects on track according to their key parameters or bring them back on track when there are negative deviations from the plan.
• Provision of a forecast in addition to the current status.
• Automatic calculation and display of KPIs based on project key parameters entered by the user.
• Skills: Project Management, Project KPIs.
• Problem Space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), Corporate Innovation Team Set Up, Team Profile/ Team Canvas, Design Thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, researching the market, defining the problem.
• Solution Space: Narrowing down the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, prototyping, fine-tuning the prototype and Business Model Canvas, final pitch.

CXO AI OS is an agent system made up of six building blocks. Instead of using AI as a chat window, it creates a system that knows a company's context, makes decisions according to its rules and acts on its behalf.

• For mid-sized companies: guided sprint followed by operation for a team, department or prioritized cluster, based on an AI assessment
• For self-employed people: program in which participants build their own agent system
• Sequence in the company: assessment, prioritization, sprint, operation
• Implementation in Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work, without programming
• Architecture: Chief of Staff, Goals, Advisors, Agents, Context, Catalog

• NIS2/IT-OT infrastructure project for network and firewall: PoC, roll-out, and blueprint
• Coordination of IT, OT/operations, information security, business units, and external suppliers
• Risk and escalation management
• Direct evidence of security, multi-vendor delivery, and operational context.

• Design and delivery of the university module “Software Management” in the Bachelor’s degree program in Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering
• Teaching software project management, project organization, stakeholder management, risk and quality management, and agile and hybrid project management
• Coverage of release planning, cut-over, go-live, handover to operations, and the operational impact of technical decisions
• Combining methodological foundations with experience from software development, customer projects, delivery, release management, testing, and IT operations
• Use of AI in software and project management

Methods and tools: Software project management, HERMES, PRINCE2, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid approaches, requirements engineering, risk and quality management, release management, test management, Moodle

• Engaged within the Information and Security Management division for a Proof of Concept (PoC) project focused on developing a Client Security Portal.
• Managed project resources across the UK, India, and Germany.
• Architected and deployed the PoC solution leveraging a modern Java stack, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Kubernetes, and Active Directory (Entra ID) for authentication.
• Implemented OAuth 2.0 for authorization.
• Ensured DORA alignment according to Deutsche Bank security rules and regulatory preparation.

Project management and process harmonization between the French parent company (Equans Group, Axima Marine) and the German production company (Noske Kaeser) for maritime cooling and air conditioning systems.

• UX research, UX concept development, and UX design for an AI dialogue system with information on events, locations, public transport timetables, and special trips. Observations, remote user tests, session recordings, analytics evaluations, RapidUserTests, prototyping, etc., using Figma/Figma Make, Claude Design, and OpenAI Codex (Design)

Developed the product vision and outcome strategy for a new registry platform, designed a management workshop for strategic alignment, conducted BPMN process mapping across systems and roles, analyzed user story practices and further developed them on an outcome basis, and brought together stakeholders from business departments, management and the external development partner.

Skills: Product Strategy, Outcome Roadmapping, Stakeholder Workshops, BPMN/Process Analysis, Miro, Linear

• Migrating from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization, 40+ workstreams / projects in parallel (Small- to Medium Sized VM Operators / Critical Factory Workload Owners / Large-Scale Data Center Operators)

• Strategic consulting: End-to-end optimization of SCM, processes, and structures based on 30 years of industry experience.
• Interim management: Leadership responsibility to bridge vacancies and stabilize teams during transformations.
• Transformation & Assets: Support for restructurings, asset utilization & brokerage (surplus assets), and digitalization (SAP S/4HANA).