Project Managers in Austria

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

Completed project assignment · 12/2025 – 06/2026

• Current state & interviews: Analysis of team structure, roles, responsibilities, dependencies, knowledge distribution, seniority, and agile maturity through one-on-one, team, and stakeholder interviews.
• Team diagnosis & risks: Structured assessment of skill level, ownership, willingness to learn, collaboration, communication, and team fit; analysis of knowledge concentration, risks for operations, team, and product, as well as external perception with root causes and improvement suggestions.
• Target-state options & impact analysis: Development of structural options and assessment of their effects on collaboration, delivery speed, responsibilities, quality, and knowledge distribution.
• Organizational design & alignment: Introduction of measures to distribute knowledge and responsibility, improve collaboration with departments and external teams, define the stakeholder communication framework, and provide recommendations for involvement in the technology relaunch.
• Management decision basis: Documentation of implemented measures and their effects; option catalog with risks, consequences, and scenarios for team and product, plus a final overall recommendation. The scoped analysis and optimization assignment was successfully completed at the end of June 2026.

Current tasks

• Scrum Master / Agile Coach for two complex teams: Further development of agile collaboration and self-organization, facilitation of Scrum events, and impediment management.
• Delivery & team development: Improvement of requirements and refinement processes, clarification of roles, responsibilities, and workflows, as well as further development of the team and knowledge distribution.
• Cross-functional alignment: Coordination between development, Product Owner, Requirements Engineering, UX/UI, architecture, and stakeholders.
• Cross-area analysis: Examination of communication paths, process deviations, dependencies, processing times, and status transparency, with derivation of concrete improvement measures.

• Interim Management: Temporary leadership in supply chain, logistics and operations – including responsibility for budgets, investments and staff.
• Project Management: Managing infrastructure, construction and automation projects, as well as transformation and digitalization programs.
• Supply Chain Consulting: End-to-end strategies, network and location planning, intralogistics and automation – for clients ranging from international corporations to regional SMEs.
• Process and Organization Development: Optimizing workflows, systems and performance management; setting up KPIs and reporting structures.
• Executive Mentoring: Supporting leaders during growth, change and crisis.

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.

• Leading distributed, international team in complex delivery environment (EN/DE)
• Managing multi-stakeholder setup across business and tech
• Driving end-to-end product delivery from backlog to release and operations
• Coordinating releases and ensuring stable product operation (incl. 2nd level support)
• Leading migration of legacy systems into scalable target architectures
• Owning and developing core systems for digital and print production
• Establishing and optimising product management processes (Kanban, refinement, backlog management)

• Project management in the PMO
• Further development of PMO and operational processes
• Development of templates and project documentation
• Management of a DACH/SOE-wide rollout project

• Implementation and optimization of corporate structures
• S4 transformation in manufacturing companies
• Optimization of financial structures
• Establishment of IFRS, USGAAP reporting structures
• Restructuring and change/integration management

• Acting as the sole program owner for BizMax and SaaS Monitoring products, integrating enterprise business insights with platform reliability and health monitoring to drive revenue growth and operational confidence.
• Own delivery of complex B2B technical initiatives at LastPass, driving implementation of innovative security and platform features across the broader zero-knowledge ecosystem.
• Work with backend, frontend and DevOps teams; manage stakeholders from Product, Marketing, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Platform, UX, and Quality to define scope, priorities, success metrics, and delivery plans while driving technical decision processes.
• Lead program planning and execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives; mentor cross-functional teams and act as the primary escalation point to remove blockers and maintain delivery momentum.
• Drive annual strategic planning and budgeting, working with senior leadership and directors to align priorities, secure funding, and optimize resource allocation; proactively identify, manage, and mitigate technical, delivery, and dependency risks throughout the full program lifecycle, escalating issues early to minimize impact.
• Lead internal dogfooding initiatives and external beta programs, collaborating directly with customers to validate functionality, usability, and performance.
• Support go-to-market activities by contributing to customer-facing content, including blogs, talks, and product communications; own go-live readiness, hypercare coordination, and program closure, ensuring lessons learned are captured and applied for continuous improvement.
• Successfully led a large-scale greenfield program, designing and implementing end-to-end delivery and governance processes from scratch to deliver SaaS Monitoring and BizMax features, generating a multimillion-dollar increase in ARR and becoming a major revenue stream for the company.
• Designed repeatable AI-assisted workflows that improve planning accuracy and reporting efficiency.
• Founded and implemented standardized cross-team PMO processes and templates, including project overview, project brief, T-shirt sizing, risk register, ADR/RFC, release rollout plan, CAB, program closure, lessons learned, internal and external beta programs, and dogfooding, establishing a company-wide framework supporting delivery of the largest-scale programs.
• Mentored junior team members, new hires, and employees undergoing transformation initiatives, supporting skills development and adoption of modern delivery practices.

• Focus on digital transformation in the energy and mobility sector, including SAP R3 transition to S/4HANA
• Project management and requirements engineering in the energy sector (workshops, requirement specification creation, process development)
• Advice on the mobility strategy for public transport/transport of Stadtwerke Wien
• Development of digital strategies for after-sales program at Daimler-Benz

• Supports CANCOM customers in migrating legacy on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry
• Takes over and stabilizes existing solutions after a short handover
• Business analysis and requirements engineering for migration to a new cloud environment
• Optimization of machine learning models for feature extraction and customer profiling
• Ensures data protection and compliance
• Leads the migration of on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric
• Designs new AI platforms for clients
• Tests the integration of chatbots for document intelligence with Microsoft Foundry, including requirements analysis, implementation, validation, and client communication

• Overall responsibility for international digital & IT projects in over 50 markets
• Introduction and further development of structured project management and requirements processes (Scrum)
• Gathering, prioritizing and specifying business requirements in close coordination with management and specialist departments
• Translating business requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria (Jira, Confluence)
• Managing international rollouts, including coordination of Development, Marketing and local markets
• Quality assurance, support during testing and ensuring requirements are implemented
• Analysis and optimization of existing tool landscapes
• Professional and disciplinary management of over 50 employees in interdisciplinary teams (Product, Project, International Rollout Management, Marketing, Service)
• Clear communication between Business, IT and international stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation
• Moderation of requirements workshops, coordination meetings and decision-making processes at management level