Artificial Intelligence Experts in Hamburg

• Designed and moderated a NIS2 preparation workshop for RAS Reinhardt Maschinenbau GmbH and its IT service provider Catuno GmbH. Together with executive management and IT leadership, the current status was assessed, an initial GAP analysis was conducted and areas for action were prioritized based on ISO 27001.
• Developed an ISO-27001-based regulatory framework (ISMS) for NIS2 compliance, including a structured current/target GAP analysis, targeted improvement of the security maturity level and preparation of the organization for NIS2 audit readiness.

VALUE ADDED:

The structured analysis and further development of business requirements and processes is driving the modernization of contract administration in a focused manner. Complex business matters and dependencies are made transparent, optimization potential is identified, and transferred into scalable solution approaches that enable as much straight-through processing as possible. This creates clearer and more efficient processes as well as reliable decision-making and implementation foundations for business departments, architecture, and development.

• Development of business requirements and processes for the further development and modernization of contract administration
• Creation and further development of business concepts, process descriptions, and decision-making documents for implementing new and optimized processes
• Analysis of existing processes and identification of optimization potential to simplify and scale processes
• Structuring of complex business matters in a dynamic project environment to ensure transparency and traceability for all involved
• Identification and clarification of business dependencies and interfaces, especially in interaction with adjacent systems and departments
• Contribution to business target models and development of solution approaches for new, scalable processes that also enable straight-through processing
• Leadership and moderation of business workshops to coordinate and further develop requirements with internal stakeholders from business departments, architecture, and development
• Prioritization of business topics and requirements for targeted implementation
• Support with testing, reviews, and quality assurance, including the creation and coordination of business test cases to verify the implemented solutions
• Use of SharePoint and Kanban to document and manage tasks

• End-to-end analysis and optimization of existing processes in campaign management, contract management and district heating construction/construction coordination
• Development of automated contract management and transformation scenarios, including software selection and integration
• Analysis of ERP, chat, RCS messaging, consent management and tracking
• Preparation of recommendations, decision proposals and presentations for the executive board
• Use of AI for process optimization
• Tools: Apple Office, Microsoft 365, Teams, Claude, ChatGPT

• Transition strategic business development: product before customer in <4 months instead of 10
• Transition strategic business development: development cost reduction to plan: 40% (-250 k EUR)
• Executive mentor & coach for CEO & CPO: CEO too busy to improve - portfolio, company structure and strategy
• Executive mentor & coach for CEO & CPO: PO→CPO transition to take over full product responsibility for Lohnpulse
• Interim CIO: scouting / onboarding / handover of general contractor service providers to CPO
• Interim CIO: transition from MVP to a fully operable product by the CPO

• Identified operational improvement opportunities together with production, engineering and management teams.
• Prioritized use cases according to measurable operational value rather than technology availability.
• Developed solutions around production performance, OEE, quality, traceability, reporting and process transparency.
• Translated operational requirements into required machine data, interfaces, information models and application requirements.
• Defined target architectures and integration approaches for heterogeneous brownfield production environments.
• Moved prioritized use cases from workshop and concept stages into concrete implementation projects.
• Coordinated manufacturing, OT, IT and technology stakeholders during implementation.
• Established reusable approaches to scale successful solutions beyond individual machines or pilot areas.

• Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
• Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
• Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
• Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
• Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
• Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.

• Founded the company as a full-service consulting firm focused on purchasing and supply chain
• Commercial management of the company
• Digitalization and automation of work steps to reduce process costs
• Project management for optimization projects
• Connecting German companies with manufacturers abroad to achieve shorter delivery times and lower procurement costs at the same time
• Organizing B2B meetings between international companies
• Research on procurement markets (BestCostCountry) for the production of complex welded assemblies
• Taking on interim management assignments

• Defined and established the areas of responsibility
• Built a governance model for the department and its areas of responsibility
• IT strategy, project management, process management, and quality and sustainability management
• Developed a communications strategy for the group
• Created the IT strategy
• Designed templates, guidelines, and processes for consistent ways of working
• Recorded strategic guidelines and grouped ongoing projects – derived a roadmap for strategic planning
• Reviewed ongoing projects
• Prepared staffing calculations and capacity planning
• Defined job profiles

Due to founding another company during COVID, the managing director stepped back from day-to-day operations, which left the team without leadership for around 3 years.

My task was to train a new Product Owner, shape the developers and the Product Owner into a cohesive team, and coach this newly formed team into a state where self-organized value delivery for the customer would be possible again.

Because of the political situation in the US, the main customer of my client saw a drop in revenue, which made a change in the business model necessary for my client. I was allowed to support the transition from a service provider to an AI-first company with a broad customer base in a strategic advisory role, hire staff, and facilitate several C-level negotiations between my client and its new customers.

TASKS

• Training team and management in Scrum and agile ways of working
• Coaching a junior Product Owner up to PSPO II level
• Mediating conflicts in change processes
• C-level consulting and negotiation facilitation
• Developing and evaluating business models
• Leading the hiring process for 4 new employees

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Successfully coached Product Owner to PSPO II level
• Formed a cohesive Scrum team from a team without leadership
• Restored self-organized value delivery for the customer
• Successfully transitioned to AI-native development (Claude)
• Successfully changed the customer's business model

TOOLS & METHODS

• Team building
• NVC according to Rosenberg
• Conflict management
• Workshop facilitation
• Negotiation facilitation
• Leadership coaching
• Personio hiring

• I help SMEs get VSME/VS-ready before their biggest customers come asking.
• Tailored SME Readiness Assessment and Implementation Road Map

• Independent HR consulting with a focus on remote and project-based collaboration
• Support across HR Business Partnering, HR Operations and Recruiting
• Advice and support on operational HR topics throughout the employee lifecycle
• Support for managers with people-related and HR matters
• Flexible, pragmatic support for companies and HR teams requiring additional capacity
• Conceptualisation and implementation of digital brand presences, including the development and launch of two websites within a short timeframe using AI-supported tools – from structure and content to implementation and publication

With Brandancy, I take on marketing leadership for companies that want to move forward strategically but cannot or do not want to fill a permanent CMO position. Two models: embedded as a Fractional CMO for several months or project-based as a specialist for performance marketing and SEA.

Responsibilities

• Development of marketing strategy and positioning, from analysis to a concrete action plan
• Building and managing funnels, campaign structures, and conversion optimization
• Responsibility for paid media budgets in Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, and LinkedIn
• Technical foundation: tracking setup, GA4, GTM, Search Console, reporting structures that are understood outside of marketing as well
• SEO and GEO, meaning visibility in classic search and in AI-supported answer systems
• Integration of AI into existing marketing processes: content production, research, reporting, lead qualification
• Building and leading internal marketing teams, managing agencies and service providers Onboarding successors and documenting everything so structures continue after the mandate

Results

• Built a complete digital setup for a real estate company in six weeks, from tracking to campaigns to content
• As Fractional CMO, on site monthly in Madrid, built a digital team and took responsibility for funnel and UI/UX strategy
• Consolidated the LinkedIn presence of a B2B FinTech holding with seven subsidiaries and established a content strategy
• Handed over marketing onboarding and documentation for a new Head of Marketing, and operations continued without interruption

Focus areas

• Fractional CMO for mid-sized companies, growing businesses, and startups
• Performance marketing and SEA with more than 14 years of hands-on experience
• AI in marketing processes, as a way of working rather than a tool demo

• CIO at nutrition R&D and producer (family owned)

Strengthened IT Team, recovered IT service, reviewed and streamlined complex SAP landscape, reviewed IT security set-up, reviewed laboratory IT

Energy, transmission system operator · Desktop, web application

• Products Digitalisation of the grid connection process; master data and processes of market locations; balancing of virtual MaBiS aggregate time series; the group's first searchable catalogue and visual UI pattern library

• Planning, running and analysing qualitative in-depth interviews: more than 100 interviews with external market partners and internal departments

• Designing qualitative interviews including interview guides and evaluation logics; recruiting and scheduling participants

• Analysing, preparing and presenting research findings as usability reports and result reports

• Translating research findings into UX and design requirements and deriving prioritised recommendations for improvement

• Presenting analysis and research results to departments, product owners and decision makers in a form suited to each audience

• UX research for internal enterprise and line-of-business applications along regulated market processes

• Quantitative methods: online surveys for roadmap prioritisation, questionnaire studies, definition and measurement of UX KPIs

• Facilitating requirements workshops; gathering, analysing, describing, agreeing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements

• Developing user flows and customer journeys; building and providing UX standards, methods and capabilities (UI pattern library)

• Working in product and project teams under Scrum, taking part in all subject-matter meetings and Scrum events

Impact Took three software products to launch

Tools Condens, Miro, FigJam, Figma, Whimsical, Microsoft Teams, Typeform