CSS Experts in Vienna

I build. I advise. I think in systems. After years leading digital transformation at scale — Accenture, BP, Lidl — I made a deliberate choice: trade platform dependency for structural independence. My focus is at the intersection of AI systems, product strategy, and venture thinking. I work with operators and founders who want to move fast without losing control — of their data, their stack, their direction.

Technologies: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Office 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Copilot, Excel, SharePoint, Forms, OneNote, PowerAutomate, Word), DataDog, Conceptboard, Python, AWS, Claude, Perplexity Methodology: Scrum

• Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a SAFe-inspired quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning at program level.
• Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value creation for internal and external customers.
• Designing and building efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and central stakeholders in the organization.
• Moderating and facilitating cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
• Coaching leaders, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
• Removing structural obstacles at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
• Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
• Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their impact in the transformation program.
• Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
• Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, business value prioritization, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
• Introducing, governing, and scaling Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization on usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.

Achievements:

• Clear increase in visibility, transparency, and perceived value creation of the development teams within the overall organization.
• Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
• Optimization of work processes, workflow, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.

• Organizational Change Management as part of a group-wide, supranational sales transformation, serving as the core of a broad restructuring of business-critical areas, with end-to-end control of the change process and long-term embedding and securing the future readiness of sales.
• Initiation and end-to-end steering of the sales transformation program, including in-depth analysis to identify, assess, and strategically involve all relevant stakeholders, making tactical use of their specific business interests and influence.
• Conducting advanced, detailed change impact analyses to predict the organizational effects of the transformation, deriving a tailored change strategy, and developing a change roadmap and a change story as the core narrative of the campaign.
• Designing and implementing an integrated communication and action plan to ensure maximum transparency, effectively manage unspoken expectations, and actively guide a change process that is clear and understandable for all stakeholders.
• Active management of all transformation phases, including the setup of robust monitoring mechanisms for continuous progress analysis and forecasting based on recommended and jointly defined KPIs.
• Establishing an agile analysis and adjustment cycle to continuously assess the effectiveness of implemented measures, identify challenges early, and fine-tune the change strategy in time.
• Conducting precise gap analyses to identify skill gaps in the sales team in the context of the new strategic direction, and deriving and developing targeted qualification measures (e.g. coaching, training).
• Comprehensive reduction of resistance to change by turning opposing stakeholder mindsets into proactive change-driving change ambassadors.
• Deep and sustainable realignment of sales structures and processes in full alignment with the company’s overall goals.
• Qualitative and quantitative improvement of sales efficiency and performance as a direct result of the implemented transformation initiatives and capability-building programs.

• Consulting in national and international projects in various roles and sectors (banking and finance, public sector, telecommunications, data management, software development)
• Engaging in project management, requirements management, business analysis, process management, IT consulting and coaching
• Delivering sustainable value quickly and efficiently due to high complexity and diversity of projects and expertise
• Emphasizing collegiality and integrity and fostering a positive team atmosphere

• Develop a concept for the analysis of sensor data.
• Assess implementation options, products, and pricing in Azure.
• Present and advocate the solution concept to the client.
• Implement an ETL pipeline for processing sensor data.
• Integrate BI solutions with the data repository.
• Provide documentation and support for end users.

• Java EE 8 development
• Java 21 and Spring Boot 3 microservices development
• Release management
• Onboarding of new team members
• Owner of an team-internal "Best Code Engineering Award"

• Designed and implemented simulation software for electrical power systems, focusing on dynamic element interaction and user interface optimization using C++, wxWidgets, Windows, and Visual Studio.

• Conducting a feasibility study on introducing an in-house DWH as a central data source
• Conducting workshops for current state analysis (processes, reports, KPIs) together with the clients
• Gathering and detailing business requirements including a target concept for an in-house DWH
• Coordinating and clarifying data deliveries and interfaces in meetings with stakeholders and data providers
• Developing initial data models as a basis for data quality and later implementation
• Drafting solution variants including architecture and operation options and decision basis
• Creating the business case including effort estimates, cost-benefit analysis, and decision report

• Business analysis
• Requirements engineering
• System design
• Various insurance projects
• Technology stack: msg.Billing (in-/ex-collection)
• Product: Pay-per-use car insurance based on blockchain and OBD-II real-time telemetry with AI

• Creating test scenarios, manual test cases and test data using boundary value analysis and equivalence classes
• Executing functional and non-functional tests (manually with Postman and web application, automated with WebDriver, JUnit and NUnit)
• Setting up, automating and maintaining the test automation framework with Java, Spring Boot, Selenium and Cucumber in IntelliJ (system, regression, smoke, UI and integration tests for web front-end and SOAP API backend interfaces)
• Automating backend NUnit test cases in Visual Studio
• Test management: developing and implementing test strategy and test plans, controlling tests, quality ownership and prioritizing risk-based tests, as well as maintaining documentation in Confluence
• Detailed analysis and quality assurance of requirements
• Creating and maintaining Jenkins pipelines, ensuring quality in build & deployment
• Close collaboration with business analysts, developers, testers and test management
• Identifying, creating and tracking defects/bugs, with thorough test documentation
• Reporting test results and defect reports
• Monitoring test processes and continuous improvements
• Reviewing test data and test results in PostgreSQL database via pgAdmin
• Supporting effort estimation and backlog prioritization
• Analyzing and debugging development code System environment: Java, JUnit, Spring Boot, Selenium, Cucumber, JavaScript, Jenkins, C#, NUnit, Postman, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, xRay, pgAdmin, PostgreSQL, SonarQube, Maven, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, CI/CD, SOAP API interfaces

ux-ui design

• provide dev teams with designs in an agile setup
• minor design ops tasks
• design system governance
• maintain ui-kit and component library
• make use of extended atomic approach
• documentation
• building ready-made responsive components using industry standards (e.g auto layout, design tokens)
• enhance pitch slides
• minor design tasks for CRM and marketing

• Privacy-first, stateless e-invoice API providing AI-powered extraction, bidirectional format conversion (UBL/CII/ZUGFeRD), batch processing, and validation for German/Austrian e-invoice compliance
• Technologies: Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Nitro, TypeScript, Cloudflare (D1, R2), Stripe, OAuth, AI/LLM integration

• Design appropriate test cases to verify the GUI in Azure Test Plans
• Creation and execution of manual test cases
• Test design for user stories to be implemented in the current sprint
• Analysis of deviations/bugs based on log files and Kibana dashboards
• Creation of bug tickets with error description, screenshots, and short videos
• Prioritization of open bug tickets together with the PO
• Retest of bugs and hotfixes
• Execution of manual tests to ensure a 100% fulfillment rate of all functional requirements
• Selection, installation, and maintenance of a test automation tool (Selenium)
• Implementation of automated regression tests
• Continuous expansion of the object repository and adaptation of automated test cases (acceptance, integration, and system tests)
• Creation of test logs before each sprint change

• I offer project-based short and long-term freelance services for Linux and open source projects
• DevOps/SecOps/Sysadmin for Linux operating systems with a strong focus on idempotent automation and high availability
• Migration projects: on-site to cloud (and vice versa) and cloud-to-cloud migrations between providers
• Development environments: standardizing customers' development and sysadmin workstations/clients
• Digital sovereignty solutions (independent of hyperscalers): Linux desktop (Ubuntu/SUSE), mail and communications (groupware mail/calendar/contacts), file sharing and collaboration (Nextcloud)