BPMN Experts in Munich

AI telephone assistant platform

Claude Code, Google AI Studio, Python, LLM / Voice-AI, PostgreSQL

• Conception and hands-on development of an AI-supported telephone assistant platform (voice AI / LLM) – from idea and architecture to MVP/product.
• Built agentic workflows and full automations with Claude Code and Google AI Studio.
• Also delivered AI-supported work in client engagements: used Claude Code for governance documentation, requirement drafts, and automations.

Subproject management in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

• Leading a software development team with 10 employees
• Budget responsibility approx. 3 million Euros per year
• Conducting employee and job interviews
• Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
• Digitalization of a web interface
• Regular reporting to clients and stakeholders (C-level)
• Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to steer product development
• Designing product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
• Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
• Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector including knowledge of regulatory processes
• Formulating the subproject charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
• Steering performance delivery according to the project charter
• Planning and steering human resources including budget planning for the subproject
• Ensuring the working capacity of subproject participants, e.g., by requesting access rights and documents for the subproject team
• Planning and steering for the respective subproject (Time, Scope, Budget) including the creation of necessary documents
• Coordinating with the department and Product Owners to plan the subproject scope and the corresponding implications
• Conducting milestone planning according to the agreed process model
• Effort estimation and support of subproject controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
• Reporting subproject status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
• Analyzing, preparing, and addressing needs for action and decisions
• Escalating subproject issues to project management
• Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
• Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (Time, Scope, and Budget)
• Steering the implementation of cross-cutting specifications and requirements in the subproject, supported by cross-functional roles on the business and technical side.
• Identifying, steering, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across subprojects
• Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
• Preparing and steering commissioning including required documents and protection requirements assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the fullstack area (7 people)

• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Introducing the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Charts), metrics, and conducting required training in an agile IT environment
• Preparing Scrum events such as Daily, Retrospectives, Review, Sprint Planning, Estimation, and Refinement (agile way of working)
• Facilitating retrospectives and removing impediments to drive the team and product forward
• Preparing action points and retros via Whiteboard and Figma
• Applying and improving agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
• Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
• Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
• Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creating filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up Cycle Time
• Using Jira & Confluence
• Setting up progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual effort for user stories
• Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "Velocity", "Burn-Down Chart", "Throughput", "Costs", "Quality", "Scope"
• Evaluating agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
• Communication and moderation know-how
• Proven methodological competence in conflict resolution discussions

• Analysis of affected business processes taking numerous stakeholders into account
• Interface analysis, architecture and system design
• Communicating and coordinating various subprojects and interface partners
• Creating epics and user stories, maintaining the backlog, workshops and review presentations
• Support during implementation between business departments and development
• Test management including strategy and approach definition
• Test case definition, execution and approval
• Cross-team organization of integration and acceptance tests
• Support of test environments
• Technologies and tools: Java, Angular, Kubectl, REST, AWS SNS/SQS, Kafka, S4/HANA, Bruno

• Entrepreneur: Development of concept and 3D-print optimized design for a trigger point massage device "TriggaBuddy", German utility model certificate
• Consulting services in the fields of business analysis, transformation, innovative business and work structures, business development
• Reference projects as Business Analyst:
• E.ON – Introduction of a new product management IT system
• E.ON – End-to-end process management for product introduction (idea-to-market, in an agile environment)
• korero GmbH – Creation of a non-functional requirements specification
• Findos – Market analysis for investor acquisition
• Co.met GmbH – Business model, organizational structure, processes
• Transformation toward sustainability based on BMW experience
• Introduction and optimization of agile ways of working at E.ON and Co.met GmbH
• Business development: Head of Finance at Olao Health in the field of workplace health management; project lead for Stromnetz Hamburg "product for third-party customer business"
• Trainer for introductory JIRA/Confluence training (E.ON) and "Introduction to Purchasing" (BMW)

• Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
• Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
• Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
• Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
• Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
• Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.

Refinement of epics and user stories to achieve a higher degree of automation in CRM usage. Testing of new Discountsystem

• Program governance support: assisted in maintaining planning and resource utilization, ensuring alignment with scope, quality, and timeline constraints
• Meeting and communication strategy: facilitated organization of steering committees, working groups, and all-hands meetings; prepared materials, created meeting minutes, and coordinated logistics
• Project reporting and coordination: collaborated with project managers on comprehensive project deliverable reports and ensured effective communication across all levels
• Deliverables oversight: monitored and controlled project deliverables to meet program requirements
• Change initiative coordination: supported assessment of change impacts on the integrated program management plan
• Project management certifications: trained in Prince2, IPMA, certified Scrum Master, and Product Owner
• Problem-solving: proactively identified and resolved issues efficiently
• Analytical and organizational skills: exhibited strong analytical abilities and exceptional organizational skills in structured and unstructured environments

• Acting as sparring partner for facility and cluster managers on team coordination, prioritization, and customer communication

• Developing key metrics and deriving actions

• Comparing sites and transferring best-practice processes

• Coordinating a cross-site energy performance management program aimed at sustainable savings in electricity, water, and heating energy consumption

• Sustainable stabilization of operational team performance and increased customer satisfaction, measured by a reduction in fault reports and escalations

• More focused management of suppliers and subcontractors with high transparency in scheduling and delivery fulfillment

• Identifying buildings with the highest energy consumption per net area and deriving cross-site measures

Tasks & results:

• Worked out measures to improve management control during a restructuring program (approx. 80 people involved)
• Set up PMO to enforce transparency, reporting, and data-driven decisions
• Built an integration template to move team silos (software, field installation, supply chain) into an overarching project structure with lean tracking systems for timeline, progress, and KPIs
• Technologies / methods: PMO setup, KPI tracking, project organization, Jira, Confluence

• Analyzing, aligning and modeling business processes (BPMN 2.0) for the 'The New Retail' program in the areas of invoicing, tax, customs and accounting
• Tracking user stories and their impact on processes
• Point of contact for preparing the tool migration from Symbio to Signavio for the mentioned areas
• Power user after the introduction of Signavio, point of contact and coach for other process modelers

End Customer: Openry GmbH

E-commerce platform to globally commercialize high-quality Italian artistic productions. Several European shops are already operational and Asian markets soon coming up. My role as Agile Project Manager is to lead the complete team on both the customer and technical side (offshore) including strong strategic consulting, in a continuous delivery approach. As project in a small enterprise, the budget management aspects are particularly challenging, in a quest to deliver the maximum business value with minimal overheads. Technologies: Magento 2, M2E Pro, Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP (LAMP), Stripe

• Support for implementing the Pimcore CMS, support assistance, and partner management for the existing application landscape.
• Know-how transfer to the existing application landscape.
• Advising stakeholders on the new implementation.
• Support in data modeling for Pimcore.
• Designing and overseeing data migrations from Salesforce to Pimcore using ESB.
• Creating user stories.
• 3rd level support for business-critical processes.
• Technologies: Salesforce Marketing, Sales, and Service Cloud; Talend ESB; Pimcore; Shopware; ERP system Move; DB2; MySQL; MS Office; MS Visio; Jira; Confluence.

Project content: The use of “Generative Pretrained Transformer” technologies (GPT) will massively change the world of work in the coming years. ITZBund is developing a base service for this, which can be used by its 200 customers. This base service is offered as an on-prem and a cloud variant. Started in 12/23, from 05/24 productive systems (based on MVP) could already be rolled out and operated successfully for several agencies and federal ministries.

Project metrics:

• Budget in 2024 approx. €20M
• approx. 70 people in the core project context
• regular (indirect) contact with approx. 80 people in the wider project environment

My main tasks:

• Overall responsible external project manager
• Project definition phase/project setup and establishment of the project organization
• Strategic and operational project planning, as well as shaping and ongoing adjustments of the project
• Ongoing coordination with project owners and stakeholders in ITZBund
• Ongoing coordination with subproject managers, agile roles and other project staff
• Responsibility for project controlling, quality management, risk management and change management
• Responsibility for providing the base service on on-prem and cloud environments and its continuous development
• Planning and leading several hypercare phases
• Collaboration and ongoing coordination with a partner project of a federal ministry and provision of an MVP
• Coordination with agile teams
• Coordination with operations, release and deployment
• Responsibility for the implementation of the first customer projects
• Responsibility for creating an AI governance
• Ensuring accessibility (BITV)
• Responsibility for setting up a subproject for marketing activities
• Support in building an efficient proposal process
• Stakeholder management

Methodology:

• V-Model XT ITZBund
• Scrum

Tools used:

• Microsoft Office, Skype, MS Project, Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, Miro

As the Solution Architect for Agentic AI in auto claims processing, I led global customer delivery implementations, encompassing solution design and detailing, multi-tenancy, process flows, integration with third-party solutions, and localization requirements.

• Architectural Analysis: Conducted in-depth analysis of business requirements, managing requirements and creating detailed specifications.
• Service Definition: Developed comprehensive technical definitions for services and integration contracts.
• AI Process Management: Automated AI process management, focusing on analysis, optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Requirements Gathering: Facilitated requirement-gathering sessions and analyzed business processes to identify optimization opportunities.
• Agile Collaboration: Employed agile methodologies, working closely with stakeholders to ensure alignment and responsiveness.
• Technical Support: Assisted senior management with technical analyses and deliverability assessments.