ANT+ Experts in Zurich

• Established the Enterprise Architecture function from the ground up for Sulzer Group (~13,500 employees, CHF 3.6B revenue)
• Defined the Technical Governance framework, Target Operating Model, and IT PMO foundation now governing architecture decisions and portfolio demand across all divisions.
• Deployed SAP LeanIX as the authoritative application portfolio system of record - catalogued 500 applications group-wide (140 for Chemtech), onboarded business and IT stakeholders, and initiated integration with ServiceNow to embed architecture data into operational workflows.
• Led the divisional & group wide Application Rationalization initiative
• Decommissioned 15% of the 140 applications Chemtech portfolio, delivering CHF 627k in run-rate savings over two years and materially reducing licensing and support exposure.
• Defined and executed the divisional AI Roadmap in partnership with Sales, Legal, and R&D leadership
• Delivered 4 AI solutions into production (including Sales process harmonization and LLM-based IP conflict detection) from a portfolio of 7 prioritized initiatives.
• Built and owned the 3-year IT Strategic Roadmap for Chemtech
• Aligned cloud and technology architecture with divisional business priorities and a CHF 1.5M annual investment envelope.
• Delivered CHF 500k in cost avoidance by challenging and discontinuing funded but low-value initiatives, demonstrated governance discipline and executive influence, with zero implementation spend.

• Built and explored applied GenAI, RAG, GraphRAG, local LLM, agentic AI and document-intelligence prototypes for structured analysis, evidence extraction, semantic search, technical reasoning and decision-useful reporting
• Developed private local-LLM workflows and AI system patterns focused on privacy, reproducibility, reviewability, low-cost inference and practical user control
• Built reproducible Python/R workflows for data analysis, automation, API-driven tooling, validation logic, technical documentation and AI-assisted software development
• Designed workflows around explicit assumptions, traceable inputs, reviewable outputs and failure-mode awareness rather than black-box “looks good” demonstrations
• Supported RAHN AG in a chemical/regulatory environment with data extraction and processing around WERCS, a regulatory application for chemical product and compliance data
• Explored complex application/database schemas and wrote nested SQL queries to extract information for mixture calculations, component relationships, regulatory rules and reporting logic
• Continued hands-on development in Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Docker/Linux deployment patterns, REST/API workflows, error handling, technical writing and fast AI-assisted prototyping
• Built technical writing and documentation workflows that turn complex systems into clear runbooks, checklists, decision notes and user-facing explanations

Led implementation of an Azure cloud-based, event-driven enterprise integration platform connecting Salesforce, Momentus(event) and ERP applications. Reduced overall costs by 60%, lowered operational errors to under 1%, and delivered on time.

• Led the full project lifecycle from initiation to delivery using agile and hybrid methods - platform vision, feasibility, technical blueprint, architecture, implementation, integration, testing, rollout and business adoption.
• Built the engineering team from the ground up, leading teams across Switzerland, Bulgaria and India using Scrum and Kanban; established Jira, Confluence, Asana and SharePoint for delivery and reporting.
• Established and managed frequent steering meetings, reporting that gave stakeholders transparency and drove key decision-making.

Retail AI Transformation: Led the transition of bespoke AI conversational models into a scalable, luxury-tier chatbot platform for Florentia Village (China), reducing operational costs to 20% while providing a multi-tenant solution for retail stakeholders, increasing revenue through AI-driven sales recommendations.

Consumer Tech Innovation: Developed an AI real-time automation engine for Philips live-streaming, enabling automated Q&A and sentiment analysis to enhance high-pressure sales performance

Pharma Digital Strategy: Engagement lead, consultant and orchestration of Omnichannel transformation for Grünenthal across 14 countries, leading SteerCo meetings, managing financials + RAIDs + QRBs across 192 projects, liaising between C-Level (EU/US), Global Omnichannel head, Global Customer Excellence, Global Marketing Heads and Outsourcing hub (India), driving revenue to 160%.

Governance & RAID: Implemented rigorous project governance, plans, and RAID logs for high-pressure digital transformations, ensuring SteerCo visibility and cross-functional alignment across various engagements.

Product Manager (Conversational Analytics Platform): Led the end-to-end development of a state-of-the-art NLP-based analytics platform. Defined the product roadmap and user stories, and managed the engineering team from MVP to launch.

US-to-EU market entry: Directed the digital infrastructure for a major US-to-EU market entry, aligning global dev teams with European regulatory standards.

• Interface role with the SOC team; improved incident response time by 45% through structured escalation processes and proactive security monitoring.
• Defined technical standards for a multi-tenant enterprise platform (10+ services), resulting in 30% shorter onboarding time for new clients in the public sector.
• Active knowledge transfer and mentoring of a 6-person team; increased team autonomy and established a sustainable engineering culture.
• Reduced time-to-market by 50% through CI/CD pipeline optimization and the introduction of self-service deployments.
• Stack: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, Python, PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot, Flyway, Quarkus, JBoss, Loki, Go, Kafka, Kustomize, MongoDB

Independent Senior HR Professional supporting organisations across HR strategy, people operations, employee relationships, and organisational effectiveness. Most recently, I worked with an investment firm as a functional People Partner, supporting the business and leadership with practical, business-aligned solutions.

Self-employed Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

• Support services for SAP transformations
• Support services for SAP FI projects (based on ECC and S/4)

(Project Assignment via consulting company HighPerfPeople)

• Lead the Workday Optimization Board, defining and presenting the Workday enhancement roadmap; drive prioritization based on stakeholder input, system analysis, and identified capability gaps.
• Challenge business requirements and proposed solutions to ensure alignment with long-term architecture principles, platform strategy and operational sustainability.
• Own the complete lifecycle of Workday enhancements from business discovery and solution design through implementation governance, testing strategy, deployment and stabilization.
• Act as functional/technical lead for key product areas including Peakon, Workday Learning, and Talent/Performance processes (e.g., year-end cycle, goal setting).
• Define and implement Workday branding and communication standards (templates, notification design, messaging structure) to improve consistency and employee experience.
• Build and enhance manager- and HR-facing tools (reports, dashboards, guidance/Journeys, process support assets) to reduce manual effort and improve decision-making.
• Translate complex system behavior, security/privacy constraints, and process implications into clear options for business stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with HR process owners, IT/security, and vendors to resolve issues and enable scalable solutions.
• Strong focus on adoption: ensure changes are usable, understandable, and actionable for employees, managers, and HR teams.

• Design complex finance prompts and evaluation rubrics for frontier AI models across corporate finance, valuation, financial statement analysis, leverage, treasury, and cross-border finance topics.
• Create expert-level test cases to assess genuine multi-step financial reasoning rather than simple lookup or pattern matching.
• Review model outputs for numerical accuracy, logical consistency, assumption quality, source traceability, and compliance with prompt requirements.
• Stress-test AI responses on accounting, covenant logic, scenario analysis, returns analysis, and decision-useful written synthesis.

• Technical product ownership for a global customer portal in the indoor climate sector, including API integrations, backend connectivity, and expansion of digital customer services
• Developed the solution architecture and AI use cases for a claims management platform, integrating it into the enterprise architecture for a leading insurance company
• Developed the target operating model and led the implementation of the global investment platform for an investment bank
• Developed the target operating model and platform strategy for a new digital health platform for a health insurance company
• Developed the platform strategy, defined use cases, and built the data architecture for a digital health platform of a health insurance company

• Operational responsibility in tax relief at source
• Took over and stabilized a complex department during a project phase
• Analysis, review, and optimization of existing processes and workflows
• Updating and further development of the specialist manual
• Analysis and resolution of individual cases in an international tax environment

• Advise global organizations on enterprise transformation, digital operating models, and portfolio governance across safety-critical and highly regulated environments.
• Guided enterprise transformation of engineering and lifecycle governance at Alstom, Bombardier, and Thales, aligning enterprise-scale digital engineering practices across global development programs.
• Supported software-defined vehicle transformation at CARIAD (Volkswagen Group) by designing governance structures and lifecycle alignment for complex digital vehicle platforms.
• Translated Industry 4.0 digitalization strategy into capability-driven transformation portfolio at FLSmidth, enabling development of IoT-based industrial platforms.
• Applied AI-supported methods for large-scale engineering data analysis and validation, significantly reducing reporting and compliance cycle times.

• Designed the growth and digital strategy for an EU distributor
• Established a differentiation strategy focusing on horizontal portfolio expansion, ESG and SG&A cost reduction using new digital sales and service channels
• Offered same-day logistic delivery for key customers, increasing customer satisfaction by 25%