ITIL Foundation

• Project Lead, Sr. BI Expert, Data Scientist, Automation Engineer for Marketing Analytics | Customer Insights (retail, e-commerce)
• Product Manager: Asset Metadata Ingest & Provide
• Product Owner Business Intelligence – responsible for 2 teams: cloud data engineering, data warehouse (logistics)
• Product Owner for setting up a reporting platform on Azure & Power BI (finance)

• Defined and launched a major European digital transformation program, leading a six-bidder RFP, overseeing solution blueprint development and co-developing the business case, roadmap and multimillion budget. Secured board approval within five months.
• Built and led a multidisciplinary delivery organization of nearly 50 people at peak, spanning internal teams and three external partners. Defined responsibilities, allocated resources, set priorities and oversaw vendor performance, coordinating 200+ stakeholders.
• Led the two-year delivery of a common Salesforce CRM and digital sales portals across four EU subsidiaries, integrating local systems through MuleSoft Anypoint. Connected to Databricks for reporting, and embedded Databricks-based pricing and credit checks into the sales processes. Applied an Agile, business-first approach to evolving business needs, achieving adoption in France, Italy and Spain and business-validated technical go-live in Germany, within budget.
• Established a sustainable post-program ownership and support model: appointed a Business Analyst as Product Owner and coached him over two years to take full ownership of the solution and the digitalization strategy. Built the functional delivery team, brought one of its Functional Analysts in-house as the business-side Application Manager to oversee functional management and future enhancements, and recruited two Salesforce Admins into Group IT for country-level user support and day-to-day technical operations.
• Enabled further group-wide expansion through a reusable, scalable platform, securing board approval for a rollout to Czechia & Poland. Initiated both rollouts before completing the assignment.

Data Center Migration

Public Sector, Berlin

Technical project manager for data center migration

• Led the six-member project group
• Project planning, schedule coordination, and resource management
• Coordination with departments and analysts
• Planned and managed migrations
• Reviewed and adapted migration processes
• Managed and developed change management processes
• Directed activities for internal and external clients toward defined goals
• Considered and implemented all quality assurance requirements
• Ensured project and results documentation
• Integrated the project into the company context
• Prepared status reports and coordinated with project portfolio management

Citrix, VMware, network technology and security (including firewalls, DMZ, IDS, IPS)

Datacenter audit and subsequent transformation program

• Initial situation: Following a critical outage, the datacenter was considered the cause. A traditional audit was to be put out to tender.
• My diagnosis: The technical architecture was not the core problem. The key issues were the incident, diagnosis, and recovery processes, as well as a lack of transparency regarding costs and dependencies.
• Impact: The audit was implemented pragmatically in-house. The results and budget foundations became the basis for a multi-year international transformation program. I was then retained as the preferred candidate for a central transformation stream.

Greenfield – S/4HANA (since January 2026 Post Merger)

Functional responsibility at the interface between Finance, Controlling and Real Estate Management in an S/4HANA transformation in the context of an announced merger

Key areas:

• Introduction of Lease Accounting according to IFRS 16 as the initial focus
• Design of integrated processes in leasing, real estate and Finance integration
• Cost Allocation and cost accounting in Controlling
• Expansion of the role to serve as the functional link between Finance, Controlling and RE-FX in the merger context

• Currently working as an Interim Manager in a dual role: as Head of IT/VP IT (approx. 75 internal employees and 20 external staff) and ERP Program Manager (approx. 90 employees and an annual program budget of 10 Mio. EUR) at a leading DIY and building materials retailer in DACH (B2B and B2C).

• Setup of server and application infrastructures
• 3rd-level support for issues
• Consulting for application software and hardware
• Website design
• Network setup and conclusion of maintenance contracts

• Led a migration team of several squads for a Public Sector client (on-prem to AWS & Azure), incl. lift-and-shift and database modernisation to PostgreSQL.
• Led AWS/Azure discovery & assessment of 80+ applications and 400+ environments, delivering the wave plan.

• Audit, advisory and interim management in the areas of corporate governance, compliance, risk management (GRC), Internal Control Systems and Internal Audit.
• Design, implementation and optimization of control and compliance structures in international corporations and mid-sized companies.
• Support with transformation projects, organizational development, audit management, process optimization and executive coaching.

Build the business value case for a global Talent Acquisition transformation covering talent attraction, shared specialist capabilities, process standardization, AI-enabled automation and the future HR operating model.

• Led the value-case workstream and aligned Finance, HR, Digital and workstream leaders on scope, assumptions, investment requirements and decision criteria.
• Built low, base and high scenarios linking adoption, productivity, workforce capacity, cost and service outcomes; identified double-digit FTE-equivalent capacity and multi-million-euro modeled value potential.
• Assessed AI and automation across scheduling, sourcing and candidate qualification, separating released capacity, avoided cost, qualitative benefits and standalone investment needs.
• Produced executive dashboards, a value-driver tree and a traceable calculation guide; reconciled cross-workstream inputs into the storyline used for the investment decision.

• Established and lead STOEV Enterprises as an independent management and strategic advisory firm
• Advisory focus on transformation, governance, organizational development, program management and interim management
• Structuring complex situations and developing clear decision-making foundations for management and leadership bodies
• Developing and further enhancing governance, organizational and operating models
• Executive sparring and management advisory on strategic, organizational and operational issues
• Managing and supporting complex transformation, change and implementation initiatives
• Supporting program and portfolio management, prioritization, roadmaps, risks, dependencies and management reporting
• Taking on interim management and leadership responsibilities to stabilize and further develop organizations and initiatives
• Combining a strategic management perspective with a pragmatic, execution-focused approach
• Focus on customer orientation, service excellence and alignment between management, business units, IT, customers and external partners
• Advisory services in IT transformation, IT governance, service & operations management, infrastructure and platform services, as well as sourcing and supplier governance
• Experience in complex, technology-driven and regulated organizations, as well as in the Swiss federal environment

Business development and professional exchange

• Developed a consulting offer for digital transformation, AI adoption, and Operating Models; built industry and partner relationships.

• Provided targeted consulting and support on IT delivery and integration topics.
• Designed, implemented and operated own software products (Rendita, vailuate) independently: requirements, architecture, testing, releases and ongoing development, implemented with AI support.
• Ongoing learning in AI, mainly through hands-on work with LLMs: API integration, agentic workflows with automated evaluation, Model Context Protocol; supported academically through the MSc study program in AI Transformation.

Consulting on Cyber Security, Governance, Risk Management, audits, Cloud Security, and compliance in regulated environments.