E-Mobility Experts in Germany

In-house consulting provider and driver of transformation within the group, multi-stakeholder environment and C-level.

Realignment and stabilization of a cross-functional transformation and scaling program within the group. Sharpening the target picture, priorities, and set of measures, as well as building reliable governance, planning, and steering structures. Structuring roles, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives while including AI and IT automation ideas.

• Designed program realignment and project portfolio management

• Developed strategy model and target picture for IT projects

• Structured portfolio, roadmap, and priorities

• Established governance and regular meetings

• Worked out operating model for flagship projects

• Assessed AI and automation ideas

• Clarified roles and responsibilities

• Implemented change measures

• Developed, moderated, and evaluated workshops

• Transformed 17 initiatives into a steering model

• Increased transparency and decision-making ability

• Strengthened commitment in steering

• Sharpened the operating model structurally

• Integrated three top-5 institutes

• Involved over 80% of stakeholders

• Governance

• Portfolio steering (PPM)

• Change management

• Artificial intelligence

• Workflow automation

• AI use case assessment

• Confluence

• Jira

• Stakeholder management

• WiNOWiG enhancements (digitalization & organization)
• Project management for the WiNOWiG project (regulatory offenses)
• Process optimization and coordination

• Relaunched a self-developed semantic name recommendation product by combining semantic search, graph-based similarity analysis, LLM-/RAG-supported content, and AI-assisted development processes.
• End-to-end responsibility across the product lifecycle—from use case definition and solution design through prototyping and evaluation to the iterative development of the roadmap.
• Evaluated AI use cases in terms of user value, technical feasibility, data quality, governance, and operating costs to guide MVP scope, roadmap decisions, and continuous product improvement.

Planning, execution & moderation of crisis communication and reputation management

AQIM is a non-profit organization based in Austria. An association of interim managers from Germany and Austria. Founded in December 2024. Multi-part training with workshops and consulting for preventive crisis communication, in cooperation with the founding members and those responsible for communication. To assess crisis potential for the market entry strategy and ahead of a digital campaign.

The project in a nutshell:

Consulting and training for the purpose of:

• Analysis of crisis potential as a new market entrant and its internet-based communication activities
• Planning and developing crisis communication with targeted measures
• Developing a crisis plan to minimize reputation risks in an emergency
• Conducting training and information sessions

Success:

• What started as a one-time consulting event for preparing an information campaign became a multi-part workshop on preventive crisis communication. This not only gave the organization expertise and confidence in the event of acute challenges, but also gave the participating interim managers new skills for their day-to-day work on assignments
• The workshop enabled those responsible to launch the information campaign that was being prepared at the time and planned for six months, as scheduled at the end of January 2026 on social media
• Careful scheduling and defining how to handle critical voices in terms of terminology and tone, as well as compliance rules, ensured a smooth start and run of a 3-month information campaign

Automotive | Manufacturing | Commercial Excellence

• Analyzed sales strategy, product/market positioning, customer portfolio, acquisition approach, sales funnel, opportunity quality, and conversion.
• Developed a prioritized sales roadmap with quick wins and structural measures for target customers, pipeline, roles, routines, and management reviews.

• Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low voltage assets for contextual analysis of time series with master data from the SCADA control system (IEC 60870 104), INIS, and SAP.
• Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the solution, as well as sparring partner for the Product Owner.
• Use of Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, jupyter, and various API gateways.

• Development and operational implementation of effective pre-sales activities for new customer acquisition
• Operational development and implementation of best-practice conversation strategies
• Process development and process optimization
• KPI measurement, regular communication
• Coaching of the sales employees and managers involved
• On-the-job telephone training with "demonstrating" in customer conversations
• On-the-job sales coaching for sales with "demonstrating" in customer conversations
• Change management of pre-sales activities

• Analysis of the existing water price calculation for formal errors and gaps in the factual arguments with regard to the legal and regulatory framework (including AVBWasserV, KAG RP, statutes, NEV pursuant to BGH) and best practices in the water industry
• Operational assurance of controlling for the water division
• Regulatory optimization of the existing pricing strategy
• Factual assessment of existing legal proceedings in the water sector
• Professional support for all stakeholders in the water division
• Implementation and roll-out of a new water price calculation tool
• Knowledge transfer to the controlling department and professional training of new employees
• Bridging a vacancy by carrying out the water price calculation
• Review of the pricing strategy from a regulatory perspective
• Establishment of a PMO and assumption of PMO tasks
• Professional advice on preparing the annual financial statements
• Professional sparring for the Executive Board, Legal and Finance/Controlling in the water sector
• Optimization, adjustment and redesign of business processes in the Finance/Controlling environment
• Regulatory adjustments to the existing controlling system
• Advising the Executive Board of the holding company and working with subsidiaries
• Support with impairments together with the auditor
• Opportunity and risk analyses for existing legal proceedings and negotiations
• Drafting of price adjustment clauses and participation in arbitration proceedings
• Reorganization of investment structures
• Reporting to the Head of Legal, Head of Corporate Development, as well as CEO and CSO

• Establishing and leading the SMATRA Trading Group & Consultancy with a focus on market entry and development projects between Europe and Asia-Pacific.
• Consulting and trading in premium consumer goods (coffee & tea), including building supply chains, brand partnerships, and sales channels (e.g. Hong Kong).
• Developing an expert network for market analysis, market entry, digital transformation, and sustainable business models.
• Supporting and coaching founders and medium-sized companies in building scalable, self-managed teams beyond traditional hierarchy structures.

Testing and verification of high-voltage systems

• Performed integration and system tests for control units in PHEV/EV vehicles using ECU-TEST (TraceTronic), Vector CANoe, CANalyzer, ETAS INCA, Tornado, E-Sys, and EDIABAS.
• Analyzed the interaction of high-voltage control units (including CCU, BMU, inverter, IPB, and IPF) and carried out software updates and flash processes to verify new software versions.
• Worked closely with software, system, and integration teams in an agile development environment to analyze issues and verify new software versions.

• Complete greenfield rebuild across the whole stack — built AI-native: backend in Go and NestJS, PostgreSQL (CNPG) on K3s with GitOps/Terraform; frontend on Angular 22, zoneless.
• Orchestrated coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) across the entire lifecycle — architecture, implementation, testing, reviews, documentation — driven by Specification-Driven Development (SDD).
• “Bruno” — LLM commentator persona backed by RAG and MCP for a personality that stays consistent across all generations (match previews, post-match reports, his own virtual bets).

Angular 22 (zoneless, without Zone.js), Claude Code, Claude Code Skills, CNPG, Cursor, Design Tokens (Spec for Code), Docker, Gherkin, Git, GitLab, GitOps, Go, Google Gemini, Grafana, Hetzner Cloud, K3s, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Lighthouse, LLM Integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), NestJS, Node.js, NPM, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, RAG, REST, Specification-Driven Development (SDD), Structured Outputs, Terraform, TypeScript, Vitest

Manages complex sourcing and supplier projects in a high-tech / semiconductor environment with a focus on delivery capability, critical assemblies, QLTCS, escalation management, and sustainable supply chain stabilization. Leads international stakeholders, internal departments, and suppliers through demanding decision-making, qualification, and implementation phases.

Mandate relevance: Stabilization of critical supply chains, securing technologically demanding assemblies, and structured management of supplier and escalation topics in a highly dynamic high-tech environment.

• Responsible for the overall planning, concept development, and operational implementation of content production for Queisser Pharma and Doppelherz International, including the coordination of video and photo productions for international content.
• Strategic planning, management, and implementation of the D2C content strategy for Doppelherz Germany, especially for platforms such as Amazon, to increase reach, engagement, and conversion.
• Independently developed and implemented the collagen beauty campaign and organized and managed the Doppelherz brand film project, including close coordination with internal departments, external agencies, and production service providers.
• Ensured deadlines, budgets, and quality standards while consistently following the Doppelherz guidelines.