Project Managers in Essen

• Transition of Microsoft Azure operations to BTC AG
• Responsibility: budget of €60k
• Staff: leadership of 5 people
• Tools: Office 365, JIRA, Confluence

• Interim · Transformation & Project Leadership*

• Overall project leadership for transformation and AI initiatives: project setup, management of internal subprojects and external work packages, governance, and handover into regular operations.

• Hands-on with Microsoft 365, Copilot, and agentic AI; productive use of M365 for AI, automation, and digital processes.

Conventional Paradigm Test (CPT) – AI Evaluation & LLM Research

Development of an experimental evaluation approach to examine “paradigmatic closure” in Large Language Models — that is, the question of how far LLMs can recognize the basic assumptions, values, and limits of the paradigms within which they generate answers.

Design and testing of an additional approach to classic AI benchmarks that does not primarily measure factual correctness or task performance, but instead examines a model’s ability to recognize alternative perspectives, make implicit assumptions visible, and reflect on the limits of its own answer or interpretation framework.

Focus areas: development of evaluation criteria and test questions · LLM evaluation and comparative model analysis · prompt and response analysis · qualitative classification of model answers · study of epistemic compression and value leakage · benchmark and literature research · development of structured assessment and analysis methods

As part of CPT, existing AI evaluation approaches and benchmarks were analyzed, and a minimalist test protocol was developed that classifies model answers by response patterns such as DIRECT, CLARIFY, PLURALIST, REFUSE, and META-AWARE. TruthfulQA was used as the basis for experimental application and comparison with existing reference answers.

Technologies & Methods: Large Language Models (LLMs) · Generative AI · Prompt Engineering · AI Evaluation · TruthfulQA · Benchmark Analysis · Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation · Qualitative Content Analysis · Research & Literature Review

• Founding and building a startup for generative artificial intelligence with 80 employees and 5 shareholders
• From 2018: building the AI team and the development organization as Chief Technical Officer
• In 2020: conversion into a stock corporation, capitalization, and appointment of an operational board member
• Since 2020: advising the supervisory board on AI strategy, AI governance, and AI products

• Planning and executing integrated 360° marketing campaigns for mid-sized B2B clients
• Stakeholder management with internal teams, industry partners, and external agencies
• KPI-based performance reporting and deriving optimization measures
• Managing SEA budgets; keyword research and competitor analysis (ahrefs, Google Search Console)
• Scheduling and deadline management across multiple parallel client projects
• Tools: Google Ads, Google Search Console, ahrefs, WordPress, Trello, Canva, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

• CHG Meridian AG is a financial company focused on leasing in the areas of IT technology, logistics and medical technology and is regulated by BaFin. One part of the company is Return to Remarketing, where devices delivered to the technology center (notebooks, smartphones, tablets, etc.) are prepared for resale. The project I supported was responsible for enabling damage assessment of returned lease devices, documenting them visually in the form of pictures, enabling invoicing for the customer, and making the pictures available via the in-house customer platform. This was achieved through a combination of in-house development within the internal development department and the use of SaaS products. The second project was the transition of SaaS tendering software, purchased by the business unit, into the operations of the CHG IT department. Evaluation of security questions in relation to BaFin requirements, development of an authorization concept, implementation of single sign-on, documentation of the application in the CHG systems (CMDB, iKnow, etc.) and handover into operations.

Used technologies and methods: NIS2, DORA, agile software development, Scrum, Kanban, ServiceNow, SaaS, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Active Directory, Entra ID, CMDB, incident management, change management, request management, service level agreement

• Led the 12-week training program to become an AI and automation specialist
• Created training materials & video courses on "AI Fundamentals", "Working with ChatGPT", "Prompt Engineering", "AI Agents with N8N", "Automations with Make.com" & AI-generated marketing content (images, videos, blog posts & social media posts)
• Conducted workshops on the above topics
• Tools: Loom, N8N, Make.com, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Gamma.app, Canva, Kling AI, Magnific AI
• Result: Participants learn the technical and business know-how to successfully build a business as AI and automation specialists

• Operational and financial support for the start-up build of a medical care center brand in Germany with 11–25 planned locations
• Designing a scalable site rollout model including a standardized ramp-up (go-live, capacity, FTE plan, revenue/cost projections)
• Developing an operating model and making TCO/make-or-buy decisions
• Building site business cases (revenue mix, cost structure, break-even, sensitivities) to prioritize the expansion pipeline
• Setting up liquidity and financing planning, including deriving funding requirements
• Establishing a reporting structure for transparency on performance and scaling progress
• Implementing budgeting and forecasting (rolling forecast, scenario analyses) for operational control of the medical care center build
• Standardizing employment contract templates and supporting the hiring setup

• Led workstream for analysis and optimisation of the solution development and release process within the newly established organizational structure
• Analyzed and adopted existing processes after transition of technical responsibility to E.ON Digital Services
• Supported the agile development approach within engineering teams
• Established a unified workflow for business requirements and clear communication interfaces, documented using Atlassian Jira on both the business and engineering sides
• Created dashboards with Rich Filters for Jira Dashboards to provide an overview of feature releases and their connection to technical releases
• Designed new burnup charts and statistics per release to improve transparency of overall technical progress at the product level

• Responsible for service management and change management within the ITZ-Bund network.
• Creating, tracking, and modifying change requests for applications and infrastructure at ITZ-Bund.
• Adapting and extending change management processes.
• Ensuring required technical functionality of specific applications (beBPo Web, Governikus Multi Messenger GMM).
• Project management activities for individual projects within the ITZ-Bund network.
• Managing and ensuring availability of external service providers (Governikus, Materna).
• Participation in an FMS audit (documentation description, processes, quality) for individual agencies of ITZ-Bund.
• Monitoring deadlines and milestones, reporting project progress to various stakeholders.
• Single point of contact (SPOC) for various departments, weekly fixed meetings with clients and status meetings.
• Creating and planning infrastructure G2X maps, monitoring, and status reporting to clients and external service providers.
• Participation in certificate requests and certificate exchange for customer-specific infrastructure and applications.
• Planning, coordinating, and executing communication for announcing, carrying out, and following up on planned activities.
• Monitoring effort and developing improvement suggestions.
• Skills/Tools: ITIL, Prince 2, Windows 10, Microsoft Office, Governikus products, Materna products, Confluence, Jira, BMC Remedy, Smart IT

• Project planning and project management of packaging lines
• Support of the entire project process and optimization through claim management, open points list, regular project meetings, stakeholder management
• Feasibility analysis, packaging development and tendering of a packaging line for frozen baked goods for a large bakery
• Technical consulting on the process and production of a circular packaging solution
• Support for startups (design office, food producer, consulting company, ...)
• Project manager on the customer side for a heating equipment manufacturer, packaging technology/central palletizing
• Technical sales in packaging technology in northern and western Germany

• Carve-out of Wärme+ customers from EWE to the new company WCG with around 24,000 metering points.
• Development of a migration approach, data migration, process redesign and migration.
• Management of service providers, reporting to the steering committee and executive management.
• Tools: Jira, SharePoint, Draw.io, SAP S/4, SAP PM, WILKEN (ENER:GY, P5), carve-out.

• SAP Basis operations for complex SAP system landscapes (ABAP and Java stacks)
• Administration, monitoring, and optimization of SAP systems with regard to availability, performance, and stability
• Planning and execution of data center moves as well as migrations of SAP systems and databases
• Handling of incidents, changes, and problems according to ITIL processes, including root cause analyses
• Creation of technical concepts, operations documentation, and implementation plans

Technologies: SAP NetWeaver, ITIL processes, technical migrations

• Contract negotiations with Infor
• Implementation of Infor LN Cloud "Finance" in 10 countries in Europe within 6 months
• Implementation (ongoing) of materials management, purchasing and sales in 16 countries worldwide