Trainers in Germany

Lead an Full-cycle Account Executive search across DACH as a freelance partner.

• Direct Search
• Interviews
• Recruiting process
• Hiring Manager Sparring
• Training for Team members

Task: Operator development and observability

Technologies and skills: Kubernetes, Valkey-Operator, Crossplane, Backstage, OpenPortal, OTEL, Grafana Cloud, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, Flux, Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OCF, Copilot

What I did:

• Evaluated/developed Valkey-Operator
• Set up OpenTelemetry
• Integrated it with OpenPortal/Backstage/CrossPlane

TiDB, distributed open-source SQL database; sole sales responsibility, first salesperson for Southern Europe and Benelux; fixed-term contract, like the rest of the EMEA team

• Achieved 153% of a $1.2M ARR target in the first year; the only one of five EMEA AEs above 100%; built a $10M pipeline independently; won Fortune 100 customers within three months—the fastest new customer win by a new hire in PingCAP history
• Won new customers through direct outreach: global French investment bank ($800,000 ARR, five-year contract, 14-month sales cycle with business teams, IT and procurement), Orange, Veepee, Merck Group and OVHcloud; expanded existing Engie account
• Coached SDR, pre-sales and AE colleagues without formal people-management responsibility, especially on complex deals; developed an account and opportunity radar with pre-sales that was adopted company-wide

Extension of the company website

• Developed new software components as part of a Scrum team
• Took turns with other members of the development team to perform smoke tests after releases

Achievements:

• Enhanced the website with new features
• Conducted code reviews and pair programming
• Advised the customer and trained the editors
• Implemented continuous delivery

Supporting agile scaling according to SAFe and stabilizing delivery capability in an international multi-project environment.

• Stabilization of Feature and Integration Teams in the SAFe context
• Preparation and facilitation of complex, cross-functional PI Plannings
• Promoting collaboration with international teams in India
• Process optimization and strengthening of agile team ownership

My work at Liebherr Electronics and Drives GmbH was highly rewarding, both professionally and personally. During this time, I was responsible for designing, developing and delivering training measures in the areas of high-voltage technology, energy storage systems and high-voltage battery repair. My responsibilities also included digitizing and optimizing training materials, teaching current safety and quality standards, and providing practical training for specialist staff.

Due to the permanently long commuting distance between my home in Karlstein and my place of work, I decided to focus my professional future on my home region again in the long term.

Activities & Skills:

• Technical training and legally compliant concept development in the following areas: teaching knowledge in electronics, high-voltage systems, high-voltage energy storage systems, high-voltage battery repair
• Structured analysis of technical relationships and troubleshooting
• Creation, digitization and optimization of technical training and work documents
• Reviewing and improving quality standards.

My assignment:

• Recruiting
• Onboarding new sales employees
• Process and sales coaching
• Building a new sales team

1000 Satellites (Coworking Space, Scale-up, 50–250 employees)

Support for a scale-up with up to 30 open positions, from defining job profiles and preparing offers through to negotiations

• Teaching across the academy's systemic and individual psychology coaching programs.

• Since October 2025, we have been working successfully with omaria GmbH in the area of digital continuing education and artificial intelligence.
• What initially began with the design and production of learning and training videos developed into a broader collaboration: Since February 2026, omaria GmbH has also been supporting us in delivering our continuing education program “Digital Manager - für KI, Tools, Online-Marketing und Vertrieb”.
• Mr. Stefan Thomann, Managing Director of omaria GmbH, personally managed the services and was responsible for both the technical and didactic design as well as the delivery of the live online training sessions.
• So far, around 21 hours of video-based learning material have been created as part of the collaboration.
• In addition, Mr. Thomann conducted around 60 teaching units of live online training for two cohorts.
• The learning videos he created continue to be part of our online course.
• In terms of content, Mr. Thomann covered a broad range of current and practically relevant topics. These included the professional use of ChatGPT and generative AI in everyday business, prompting and AI-supported text creation, deep research and AI agents, the design of custom AI assistants and Custom GPTs, as well as AI-supported image and video generation.
• These topics were complemented by digital productivity and administrative tools and numerous specific application scenarios from different business areas.
• It is particularly worth highlighting that Mr. Thomann takes on responsibility far beyond his role as a trainer.
• He was fully responsible for the technical and didactic design of the sessions, the development of training materials and exercises, as well as the selection and preparation of suitable practical examples.
• He was very successful in translating current technological developments into clear, application-oriented learning content.
• As a trainer, Mr. Thomann stands out in particular for his ability to explain complex AI topics clearly and vividly and consistently connect them with specific use cases from everyday professional life.
• His live online training sessions are interactive, practical and designed to support sustainable knowledge transfer.
• He handles participants with different levels of prior knowledge and professional backgrounds in a confident and assured manner.
• On both an organizational and personal level, we also experience Mr. Thomann as a competent, reliable and professional contact.
• His high level of flexibility and proactive approach, including bringing his own ideas and suggestions to the collaboration, are also particularly noteworthy.

ZPP-certified course instructor for multimodal stress management Certification within the framework of the Central Prevention Testing Center in accordance with § 20 SGB V Conducting seminars and short presentations on stress management and time management Teaching practical methods for stress reduction, relaxation and self-organization Strategies for dealing with professional and everyday pressures in a healthy way Focus on relief, strengthening resources and sustainable implementation in everyday life

People and organizations face particular challenges in today's world: Technological changes have a massive impact on the way we live and work, while the fast pace and amount of change around us require ever faster adaptability and ability to absorb information, resilience and confidence in our own identity. While change projects in companies were characterized by a clear start and end date until a few years ago, we are now faced with permanent change. I support people and organizations in accepting and living with this permanent change.

• Rise & Fall of 1. FC Kaiserslautern: ARD documentary, 3 x 30 min.

Workshops & group formats

• Healthy stress management in global restructuring – 3 team leaders, full day + individual sessions + review meeting
• Decisions under pressure – 7 leaders, full-day workshop
• Stress resilience workshop series (4 parts) – 8 participants, including nutrition under stress
• Stress resilience workshop series (3 parts) – 10 participants, 3 full days

Individual coaching

• 12 clients (specialists and managers), 96 sessions of 90 min. = 144 hours
• Focus areas: stress resilience, burnout prevention, leadership and decisions under pressure