ANT+ Experts in Essen

• AI product development: Design of an AI-supported GRC platform to automate compliance processes.
• AI expertise: Strategic deepening in Agentic AI and GenAI as a core asset for modern IT governance
• IT interim management and strategic consulting

• Industry: mechanical engineering, vehicle manufacturing
• Regulations: Data Act
• Project focus: data governance, legally compliant use of machine data, data platforms
• Assigned by: CFO, platform product owner

Successes/Results (early phase):

• Compliance support for the setup of an internal standardized data usage platform based on Databricks.
• Created the basis for the legally compliant and effective use of machine data, including:
• Technical: gap analysis and closing of gaps in the segmentation and maintenance of collected machine data.
• Technical: consideration of data flows from the platform to users and third parties.
• Organizational: drafting and finalizing the required data usage agreements.

• Development of a production-ready Enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
• Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing business processes
• Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
• Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a base for analytics and machine learning models
• Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
• Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production use
• Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes

Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation

• Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.

• Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.

• Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.

• Firewall vulnerability analysis.

• Firewall rule approvals.

• Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.

• Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.

• Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5

• Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI

• Training the AI models, evaluating images and texts for UI/UX, turning the provided data into insights via OpenAI Feather as part of the machine learning workflow

Technologies: OpenAI Feather

Focus areas:

• Strategy & Business Development
• CRM & Retention
• Customer Experience & Journey Management
• Customer Value/CLV
• Growth & Go-to-Market, as well as Business/IT Transformation
• Strategic analysis, target operating models, assessments, business cases, and concept development and implementation management

• Development and operational implementation of effective pre-sales activities for new customer acquisition
• Operational development and implementation of best-practice conversation strategies
• Process development and process optimization
• KPI measurement, regular communication
• Coaching of the sales employees and managers involved
• On-the-job telephone training with "demonstrating" in customer conversations
• On-the-job sales coaching for sales with "demonstrating" in customer conversations
• Change management of pre-sales activities

• Essity Operations, sparring partner for all sites.
• Support with digitalization and implementation of a new billing system
• New concept for the company catering
• New construction of a conference and cafeteria building

• Acquires new B2B customers for an AI SaaS startup in the public tendering space and books product demos with IT decision-makers.
• Qualifies target customers based on a defined ideal customer profile, including discovery, needs analysis, and objection handling.
• Builds domain knowledge in public procurement (EVB-IT, German and EU tender portals) for technical discussions at eye level.

• Led the subproject for implementing Vulnerability Response as part of DORA
• Documented the current processes in compliance, risk & security
• Created the functional design for introducing application, infrastructure, and cloud vulnerabilities
• Agile management of the integration service provider, the technical department, and the company's cross-functional teams
• Integrated the V scanners Tenable, Qualys and Defender, as well as NVD and CISA/KEV
• Integrated GitLab Ultimate for importing and processing SBOMs
• Developed automation rules to match scan results with CIs in the CMDB, assign vulnerabilities and remediation tasks, handle approvals (false positives, exceptions) and closures
• Calculated multiple risk scores and priorities
• Defined dashboards and reports (Workspaces, Performance Analytics)
• Aligned the new processes, especially to improve the CMDB data quality (according to CSDM)

• Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
• Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.

• 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.