Project Manager

• Led the SAP S/4HANA migration (budget approx. €2 million) and coordinated business units, IT and external partners
• Optimized the SAP landscape, reducing batch run times by approx. 40% and cutting unplanned downtime
• Took overall responsibility for annual SAP LCP updates and managed hybrid project approaches

• Program Manager for the Smart Prison solution for two prisons in Graubünden, Switzerland
• Managed software development by the in-house development team and third parties
• Selected, onboarded, and managed suppliers
• Managed customer and subcontractor contracts (SOW, SaaS)
• Business analysis, training, and onboarding for Graubünden

• Overall responsibility for managing and delivering fiber optic projects from planning through construction.
• Coordinating and monitoring construction work, taking schedules, costs, and quality into account.
• Acting as the link between clients, subcontractors, authorities, and internal teams; planning budgets and resources and improving project workflows.
• Using and monitoring GIS systems for documentation and planning, and identifying and resolving construction-related challenges.

• 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)

• Intelligent Document Processing Engine with OCR & Computer Vision: Architected the end-to-end AI pipeline at the core of the SQPS GenAI document-processing product, which turns scanned paper and PDF batches into organised, searchable documents, combining image pre-processing, OCR and layout analysis for mixed-quality scans. Technologies: Python, OpenCV, Tesseract / PaddleOCR, PyTorch, FastAPI
• Automatic Document Splitting & Classification: Developed models that detect where one document ends and the next begins inside a single multi-document scan, and classify each one by type (invoices, contracts, letters, reports) to enable fully automated filing. Technologies: Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers
• Information Extraction & Intelligent File Naming with LLMs: Implemented an LLM-based GenAI extraction system that reads dates, names and reference numbers from unstructured documents and uses them to generate consistent, rule-based file names, with configurable naming conventions per organisation. Technologies: Python, LangChain, OpenAI, SentenceTransformers, SQL

Interim leadership of a department within Sales IT with around 80 internal and external FTE, including 32 internal employees. Responsible for IT and financial portfolio management, project management, requirements engineering and agile coaching.

• Led four team leaders and two portfolio managers, supporting their development through professional and methodological guidance and coaching; also covered the Agile Coaching team lead role
• Further developed the methodology for prioritizing the IT portfolio and introduced mechanisms to align priorities with available budgets and capacity
• Set up a project to transition projects and development teams to a nearshore location: clarified goals and scope, defined the governance structure and responsibilities, and led the first team transition with 15 employees through to live operations
• Developed and aligned a concept to standardize and support budget planning, forecasting, reporting and ordering processes with tools
• Coordinated the introduction of Spec-Driven Development for requirements engineering in the context of Agentic AI; clarified roles across requirements engineering, business and development, and launched a pilot project
• Developed and aligned an AI maturity model and coordinated its organization-wide assessment

• 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.

Ativa is the management company of Sammelstiftung Vita (Zurich Insurance’s occupational pension fund) and is responsible for around CHF 22 billion in assets.

• Created interactive Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions for senior management
• Implemented an underwriting tool based on Power BI (DAX)
• Built a cloud-based MS Azure SQL database and documented it
• Underwrote pension risks, including making decisions on acceptance, rejection and terms

• Project management in the energy sector – planning and coordinating the Blue Milestone Celebration in Berlin and preparing for the PRM Conference in Dresden.
• Stakeholder & vendor management – coordinating tasks, schedules, and processes with internal teams, external vendors, and venue teams.
• Process coordination, event communications & attendee management – coordinating invitation and registration processes and maintaining and reconciling attendee lists.

• Shape strategies, transformation and organizational effectiveness initiatives by turning leadership and execution challenges into clear decision paths, governance structures and actionable workstreams.
• Develop executive-oriented approaches to strengthen alignment, decision ownership and transformation readiness.
• Align stakeholders, clarify priorities and strengthen execution across organizational boundaries in project contexts.

• 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)

• Consulting and interim management at the intersection of IT operations and regulation
• Impact assessment and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the 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 on examination boards
• Industry talks for businesses 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
• Integration with bank account systems using SEPA direct debit mandates and message formats under ISO 20022 (pain.008, camt.053)
• MLOps and AIOps in live operations
• Own applications under my own brand: shared codebase, separate deployment for each target device
• AI-assisted software development (vibe-coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
• Professional publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
• Professional 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

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