EDI Expert

Design and implementation of a “unified-commerce” platform for SMEs to sell and deliver multi-product bundles

Achievements: Designed and delivered a fully functional, CPQ-based “buy flow” process for configuring and selling multi-product bundles on time, and secured customer approval within the specified 90-day timeframe. Successfully tested the integration of various interface services for customer search, customer data enrichment, address validation, service qualification, phone number validation, credit checks, appointment selection and quote-to-order transition.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic goal delivery: Translating strategic customer goals into action and delivering them (e.g. release content, business value).
• Backlog management: Creating and refining backlog items (Initiatives, Epics, User Stories, Defects) in close coordination with the project team and client.
• Prioritization & releases: Owning Product Backlog prioritization and delivery of defined release goals.
• Deliverable tracking: Tracking work completed by suppliers and the client.
• Roadmap & release planning: Developing and delivering roadmaps and release plans together with the client.
• Scope ownership: Owning the contractually agreed scope of work.
• Claim management: Proactive claim and change management with the client.
• Team coordination: Managing and coordinating the development team.
• Leveraging synergies: Using synergies between client projects and product development.
• Proposal preparation: Preparing proposals (with supervision) and presenting them in person to clients and partners.

Skills: Developing, communicating and delivering product visions; Product Backlog Management; Stakeholder Management; Regular reporting to management and steering committees; Requirements analysis & engineering; Planning and documenting workshops; Functional leadership and coordination of (distributed) project teams and external service providers; Epic Management; User Story specifications; Creating use cases, supporting software testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT); Release Management and sprint planning; TO-BE process design; Process optimization; Planning, designing and specifying interfaces to existing and new systems; Identifying, assessing and managing project risks; Proactive claim and change management; Facilitating sprint planning and reviews; Data migration; Scrum; Kanban; REST API; JSON; XML; BPMN; UML; Jira; Confluence

• Advising on and selecting voice systems based on requirements, integration, data protection and cost
• Designing call guides, knowledge bases and handover to employees
• Test planning, call analysis and optimization of existing solutions

Project: Introduction of statutory-compliant electronic invoicing (outbound, Germany) in SAP for an international technology group.

• Project management: Planning, steering and reporting of the E-Invoicing outbound rollout across all affected business areas, including budget and resource coordination.
• UAT: Structured user acceptance test with key users per business area, test cases per invoice scenario, and consolidated test results for decision making.
• Defect management: Handover and tracking of defects in Jira, including validation of the generated invoices against the statutory schemas.
• Cutover, go-live and hypercare: Readiness checks and cutover planning aligned with the statutory deadlines, coordination of go-live and stabilization during hypercare.
• Stakeholder management and reporting: Alignment with Finance, Tax, business departments and IT, preparation of status reports and decision papers, and consistent follow-up of open items.
• Change management and documentation: Communicated process changes to the business departments, enabled key users, and created process and compliance documentation to ensure traceability and audit readiness.

Available for interim and contract mandates

Selected Mandate - PE-Owned Portfolio Company

CFO Office execution mandate with Transformation CFO scope after CFO transition. Reporting directly to the combined CEO/CFO role, with one individual holding both CEO and statutory CFO responsibility.

• Managing liquidity forecasting, cash management and short-term cash visibility; preparing investor and lender reporting.
• Stabilizing finance operations, reporting cadence and finance interfaces across HQ and subsidiaries.
• Providing extended finance leadership, people leadership and hiring support for the finance function.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting, FP&A cadence and management reporting.
• Restoring finance cadence across liquidity, reporting, stakeholder communication and management decision support.
• Leading performance recovery support for a US subsidiary.

• Project management, new business implementation, analysis of organisations and processes, RFQ support, logistics planning, automation.
• 03.2025: Follow-up with end customer (automation).
• 02.2023 - 02.2025: Interim manager Engineering & Automation for a global LSP.
• 01.2022 - 11.2022: Project management for the implementation of a new site for a logistics service provider (30 000 sqm), including robots/automation.
• 09.2021 - 01.2022: Consulting, analysis of processes and organisational structure, recommendations for workflow optimisation across all functional areas.
• 01.2021 - 09.2021: Support for engineering and sales at a global logistics service provider in preparing RFQ responses for German OEMs.

• Worked for several M&A projects (Eire, Sunshine C, Coral) in the role of IT project manager and cross-functional technical manager / integration manager.
• Preparation and maintenance of project charters, project change requests and project plans.
• Weekly project status report.
• Preparation of decision papers and steering committee slidedecks.
• Risk & issue management.
• Tracking and managing activities, dependencies and deliverables across all functional IT domains.
• Data migration (planning and execution).

• Fully on-premises LLM document-examination platform for a compliance-critical banking domain: agentic LangGraph pipeline with deterministic verification, every AI judgment structured and source-anchored; ~960 automated tests, zero data egress
• GPU throughput engineering (quantized serving, speculative decoding, prefix caching): 9.5x extraction speed-up, 500+ multi-document case files per day on a single A100
• AI-native EDI/EDIFACT integration platform (~116k LOC Java 25 / Spring Boot 4, 1,900+ tests): LLM-drafted partner mappings machine-verified before go-live (DFDL conformance, field-coverage checks, dry runs), ~99.5% byte match on real customer files — replacing weeks of manual mapping per partner

• Process management, project management
• Business process modeling for market-to-order and order-to-cash
• Replacement of an existing CRM system
• Salesforce energy & utilities cloud, Aurea CRM, SAP-Signavio, iGrafx

• Automated Kubernetes deployments to over 400 customer target environments (Rancher/RKE2) using versioned Helm charts and Argo CD ApplicationSets for daily releases.
• Created self-service customer onboarding based on versioned runbooks, reducing the process from days to hours; coordinated with customer IT teams (AD/LDAP, SMB/DFS, network).
• Migrated selected services to AWS alongside the Open Telekom Cloud platform: provisioned VPC, EC2, and IAM roles with least-privilege policies using Terraform; operated workloads on EC2.
• Set up Keycloak realms and OIDC/SAML clients for product SSO, federated with customers’ Active Directory.
• Set up tenant-specific strongSwan IPsec sidecars on Kubernetes instead of a central transit VM, with keys in HashiCorp Vault: reduced connectivity costs by approximately 80%, with DFS indexing over the tunnel.
• Designed the high-availability migration of the Redis environment to managed OTC DCS; set up alerting and on-call rotations with incident.io by severity, and improved Grafana queries and indexing.

• Management of IT with 10 employees, including budget and personnel responsibility.
• Harmonization of the Navision systems in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
• Connection of the ERP systems in Switzerland, Austria and Italy to the central Microsoft Power BI systems in Germany.
• Rollout of a new firewall at 10 locations in D, CH and A.
• Evaluation of a new DMS.
• Migration to Windows 10 / 11.
• Transformation of 9 countries into ONE Europe.
• Start of NIS2 implementation in 5 European countries.

• ERP and process consulting/implementation (Navision / Business Central)
• (Ongoing) accounting, controlling, turnaround and consolidation
• Support with the preparation of all types of financial statements
• Process optimization for a furniture store chain during the implementation of Navision
• Investments and acquisitions including due diligence and subsequent ERP integrations (centralization or decentralization)

• Responsible for capacity planning and ensuring delivery capability in series production and new product launch projects

• Managed and coordinated suppliers, plants, and internal departments to ensure production supply

• Conducted more than 15 supplier evaluations, audits, and on-site visits in cooperation with Quality, Engineering, and Purchasing

• Led 6 logistics audits as Audit Lead, including providing professional guidance and developing team members

• Led cross-functional vehicle projects, including risk, escalation, and stakeholder management at management level

• on parental leave 02.2024 - 05.2025

• 4. • 10.2022 through Venitec GmbH

• Led IT with 12 employees during a period of group integration, filling 3 new positions
• Analyzed IT maturity and created transparency around risks, resources and project status
• Structured and prioritized the project portfolio (group integration, ERP, NIS2, IT security)
• Engaged external service providers to close capacity gaps and initiated additional projects
• Supported the implementation of Business Central and represented IT on steering committees