CoreMedia Expert in Germany

Responsibility for strategy, team leadership, and performance of the content area with a focus on organic conversions and internationalization. ● Responsibility for multilingual website rollouts as part of internationalization. ● Responsibility for multilingual website rollouts as part of internationalization. ● Building and managing influencer and media partnerships.

Industry: digital sovereignty, public sector

Responsibilities:

• Project coordination (teams: consulting, development, testing, deployment/operations)

Products and standards:

• Jira, Confluence, Asana, Miro, Mural
• Open Source, Keycloak, Open Xchange, ownCloud

• Introducing 5 different process applications for various teams

• Release planning: scope and time management

• Resource/capacity planning

• Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives

• Increment planning (multiple sprints)

• Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the executive board

• Coordinating / aligning with external suppliers / deliveries

• Multi-project resource planning

• Aligning with the business unit and development team

• Identifying best practices with IBM BAW

• Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers

• Collecting KPIs using LogScale

• Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries

• Defining user stories / aligning requirements with the business unit and development team

• Testing and defect tracking

• UI/UX design of the application

• Preparing and facilitating brown-paper workshop

• Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution

• Recording team velocity / metrics

• Executing tests

• Scripts for automated testing

• Organizing tests with the business unit and IT

• Recording and prioritizing defects

• Setting up and operating the application

• Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards

• Checking health endpoints with PowerShell

• Post mortem analysis

• Setting up incident management

• Setting up problem management

• Analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard

• Pre-processing data for AI

• Conducting evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG

• Installing runtime environments for LLMs (large language model)

• Evaluating various LLMs

• Installing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and integrating with LLM

• Extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG

• Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), WebSphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber

• Integrated LangChain middleware between AEM and SAP PIM system
• Developed a FastAPI interface for system communication
• Implemented vector embeddings for semantic product search
• Evaluated LLM models (Vertex AI/Gemini, LM Studio, Hugging Face, OpenAI) for product analysis
• Developed an AEM component to display product recommendations and integrated the recommendation API into the AEM authoring process
• Designed and implemented Pinecone vector database for product embeddings
• Optimized response times and caching strategies
• Evaluated Vertex AI Studio for LLM testing and prompt workflows
• Implemented secure API routing and access control for AI components via FastAPI and gateway validation

• Database design with Oracle DB, JPA and Flyway considering high performance requirements
• Analysis of multiple architecture drafts and identification of technical risks
• Design and implementation of various interfaces and integrations, especially REST APIs and Kafka topics
• Setup of Elasticsearch for monitoring and analyzing log data
• Establishment of an iterative work approach in the project team facing complex business requirements

• Testing the SekIDP and related components
• Test design, execution and automation, microservices, GitHub Enterprise, Eclipse, Katalon Test Platform, API Testing, Confluence 8, JIRA/Xray, Draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PuTTY, E-Health, Telematik, Gematik standards, EPA, E-Rezept, sektoraler IDP, encryption, XaDES, PaDES, DICOM, HL7, FHIR, IHE, ICD, SSO, SAML/Shibboleth, OAuth, smartcards, JWT, two factor authentication Android and iOS, Wireshark, BrowserStack, Cypress, gRPC, REST, SOAP, WS-Security, Linux Shell, PowerShell, SSH/SSL, Java, Kotlin, Cordova, Gradle, Groovy, Python, TypeScript

• Leading 20+ staff in development, site reliability engineering, and architecture.
• Leading the group-wide agentic AI initiative (Norway, Poland, Germany).
• Hands-on solution architect and AI consultant for over 50% of my working time on client projects in the publishing sector – from local publishers to international corporations.
• Strategic consulting and technical implementation of AI workflow platforms (n8n, Workato).
• Developing prototypes for traditional, AI-based, and agentic AI workflows.

• Airbus: Forum - feature writing on technology for internal employee magazines
• Bosch: Security and Safety Systems - feature writing and copy writing for industry magazines and social media
• Dassault Systemes: 3DExcite - screenwriting for corporate vision videos on digital transformation
• Deutsche Telekom: Brand & Design - copywriting and translating guidelines and books on design thinking
• GoTo: LogMeIn Rescue & GoTo Admin - UX writing and AI prompt engineering for IT support software
• MTU Aero Engines: Aeroreport - judging and ranking the editorial quality of B2B and B2C translations
• Siemens: Financial Services - copywriting and editing for internal finance sites and newsletters
• Zeiss: Beyond Design System - UX writing for voice & tone guidelines to help improve conversational AI

• Penny App loyalty program: go-live preparation
• Training
• Operations structuring

In 2024, I started my own wedding and event planning business, designing exclusive premium-segment weddings. In addition to training as a wedding and event manager, I began training as a wedding planner at the Avantgarde Academy.

• Java 11/21

• Springboot

• Swagger/OpenApi

• Azure Pipelines

• Trivy Integration

• Apache Sling

• OSGI

• Java Content Repository (JCR)

• Apache Jackrabbit Oak

• Adobe HTL

• GraphQL

• Maven

• GitLab

• IntelliJ

• Azure Cloud

• Azure DevOps

• Terraform

• AEM specialist in the Scrum team

• Development and deployment of microservices via Open API interfaces

• Operation of microservices in the Azure Cloud

• Implementation of AEM modules and integration with microservices

• Member of the knowledge transfer team and a backend coordination team

• Independent email and calendar management for executive accounts

• Creating agendas, presentations, and decision papers for board meetings (management, supervisory board, ...)

• Taking minutes and maintaining task lists, including proactive tracking

• Support in recruiting, handling the applications inbox, pre-screening, scheduling interviews, including onboarding

• Booking agencies and service providers, including preparing offers and invoicing

• Working with CRM systems – complete workflow from data entry, customer outreach, appointment scheduling, to closing

• Content and administrative updates of website content and company profiles

• Handling and billing of insurance matters / interface with brokers and insurers

• Preparing expense reports and internal recharges, checking timesheets

• Granting access rights for IT tools, booking new licenses

• Advising on and setting up or standardizing internal processes (office routines, on- and offboarding, ...)

• Database maintenance across various platforms

• Preparatory bookkeeping, support in accounting (Datev Unternehmen Online)

• Invoicing including dunning

• Fleet management

• Setting up a well-functioning office management system

• Real estate photography – assistant to the management

• Management coaching agency – assistant to the management

• AI software developer – assistant to the management

• Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy and Mobility – assistant to the project management for digitalization/IT

• IT consulting company – assistant to the management

• Executive search – assistant to the management

• Mid-sized law firm, commercial law department – assistant to the management

• Agency for software developers – assistant to the management

• Designer lamp manufacturer – assistant to the management

• Strategy and corporate finance consulting – executive assistant

• Deutsche Bahn subsidiary – assistant to the management

• Executive search company – assistant to the management

• Maintenance and further development of the Java/Swing-based @rtus FormsEditor
• Design and development of a graphical formula editor based on Google Blockly to map a project-specific DSL, including parsing and code generation
• Implementation of pixel-perfect synchronization between editor and print preview to improve user experience
• Technologies: Java 17/21, Swing, JavaFX, JBoss/Wildfly, JUnit, Mockito, Blockly, JPedal, ICEPDF, Eclipse

• Project management, project controlling, client communication, stakeholder management, resource planning and procurement, proposal planning (change requests)
• Setup of a central data exchange platform (Nextcloud) for storing high-resolution terrain model data
• Consulting, implementation and standardization of laboratory equipment network clusters across multiple locations with connection to a central data exchange platform
• Requirements gathering and gap analysis for providing an internet-based data exchange platform, including end-to-end encryption and malware scanning
• Migration of a library management system to a new 3-tier architecture
• Expansion of a development and test environment to include acceptance test and production environments for a specialist application (electronic information system), including interfaces based on a 3-tier web application and development of a technical security concept
• Consulting project to replace various legacy systems with a 3-tier web architecture, including data migration
• Consulting project for a software simulation application considering IT security measures and BSI standards, as well as requirements gathering for a future IT infrastructure
• Upgrading the networks of a telecommunication system for building a WebRTC solution, as well as implementing network transitions via an SBC cluster and unifying the telecommunication system for cross-site collaboration
• Setup of a 3-tier production and testing environment to replace an existing specialist application and development of an information security concept