Data Governance Experts in Munich

• Led enterprise reporting modernization by migrating legacy SSRS reporting solutions to Power BI, supporting 500+ business users while ensuring full GDPR/DSGVO compliance.
• Designed and optimized Power BI and Microsoft Fabric semantic models using star schema, dimensional modeling, advanced DAX, and performance optimization techniques, reducing query latency by 25%.
• Delivered 20+ executive and operational dashboards featuring KPI scorecards, drill-through, bookmarks, and row-level security, improving reporting efficiency by 20%.
• Enabled self-service analytics through governed Power BI datasets, dataflows, and gateway architecture, increasing business-led reporting adoption by 35%.
• Configured an incremental refresh policy and query folding for a 50+ million row sales dataset, reducing daily report refresh times by 85%.
• Deployed automated ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake, reducing reporting delivery timelines by 40% through workflow automation.
• Spearheaded Microsoft Fabric analytics modernization initiatives including lakehouse architecture, OneLake integration, and centralized data platform development, reducing data latency from 2 hours to 20 minutes.
• Translated business requirements from 15+ stakeholders into scalable Power BI semantic models and dashboards, improving reporting consistency and reducing ad-hoc reporting requests by 25%.
• Applied Microsoft Copilot and generative AI tools to accelerate SQL development, DAX authoring, technical documentation, and testing activities, reducing development effort by approximately 15 hours per week.

• Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
• Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
• Development of LLM and NLP models
• Creation of interactive reports
• Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

• It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
• GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
• Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
• CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment

• Designed, developed, and configured scalable data applications aligned with business processes and technical requirements.
• Architected scalable, cost-effective data architectures leveraging Snowflake across AWS, Azure and GCP, integrating dbt for data transformation and modeling.
• Built and maintained robust ETL Data Pipelines, ensuring high data quality for seamless migration and cross-system integration.
• Demonstrated strong expertise in SQL & Python with extensive experience in data modeling, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and streaming data processing; proficient in Git-based version control, CI/CD practices, and testing frameworks, with solid knowledge of data quality, observability, cost optimization, security, and data governance principles.
• Led multiple data migration initiatives from SAP HANA to Snowflake using a modular dbt framework.
• Designed and maintained end-to-end data transformation workflows using dbt on Snowflake, implemented layered data models, optimized performance, and ensured high-quality data delivery for business intelligence and reporting.
• Managed development, QA, and production deployments through structured version control and release management using GitLab.
• Integrated and centralized data from multiple sources including relational databases, flat files, Excel, and large-scale systems into Snowflake.
• Applied strong expertise in Sales, Marketing, HR, and ERP data domains, developing and maintaining relevant KPIs and reporting solutions.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions on schedule through proactive issue resolution and effective coordination.
• Administered the Snowflake sandbox environment for Data Engineering division.
• Trained colleagues transitioning into data roles on Snowflake and provided technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

• 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

• Delivered both strategic guidance and hands-on operational support to early-stage start-ups focusing on building, implementing, and scaling business processes in operations, product development, e-commerce and management.
• Partnered directly with founders to design and execute customized, best-practice solutions, ensuring the optimization and automation of business processes to drive sustainable growth.
• Led end-to-end execution of process optimization and organizational development projects, combining strategic oversight with day-to-day involvement to establish efficient, scalable structures in fast-paced environments.

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

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.

• Architected and built a GenAI-based automated asset-generation tool for social media campaigns using Nano Banana and Python. It takes a campaign brief, target audience, and two products as input, generates optimized prompts for image and text creation, and uses functions for text positioning, visually appealing overlays, resizing, and structured uploads to AWS S3.
• Engineered and built a multi-agent news intelligence platform with specialized roles including retriever agents (Tavily web scraping), synthesizer agents, and Claude as curator/orchestrator, designing autonomous agent collaboration patterns using LangChain and RAG.
• Built an autonomous customer service agent using n8n and LLMs, delivering end-to-end support automation with transparent reasoning, governance controls, and scalable workflow orchestration using Python and vector databases.
• Developed a financial validation engine featuring ML-powered anomaly detection for invoice plausibility, compliance automation, and risk mitigation using TensorFlow and SQL.
• Created a cost optimization application using OCR, AI, Pandas, and NumPy for data analysis to identify cost optimization potential.

• Built and scaled a data-science price engine across 8 EU markets, lifting fleet margin by ~2% on a €1.5B+ base
• Launched a generative-AI insights platform in 29 countries, cutting manual analysis by ~40% and driving weekly actions
• Led a hybrid team and aligned 100+ stakeholders to refine pricing logic and accelerate rollout across regions
• Set up KPI governance with WBR/MBR rhythms, reducing decision latency by ~30% across European pricing teams

• Development of a test system
• Establishment of the architecture using Scala/Java for the backend and Swing for the frontend
• Setup of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins for continuous integration, including automated builds
• Participation in the Scrum team, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Technology environment: Scala, Swing, EJB, JPA, Scrum, PostgreSQL, Mercurial

• Co-founded an AI venture focused on building production-grade LLM applications and agentic systems
• Designed and implemented multi-agent AI workflows for financial and trading applications
• Developed LLM-powered copilot architectures for portfolio analysis, trade management, and personalized user coaching
• Built on-device and edge-deployed inference applications, optimizing models for low latency, privacy, and resource-constrained environments
• Led system architecture decisions across model selection, orchestration, state management, and deployment

• Business and technical consulting for master data provisioning and process management
• Support for transition management
• Process optimization
• Interface definition