Go Experts in Vienna

• Consulting and interim management at the interface between IT operations and regulation
• Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
• Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
• Lectures in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, since 2023
• Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
• Presentations for business and educational institutions
• Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
• Privacy-first architectures and zero-knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
• MLOps and AIOps in live operations
• Own applications under own brand: shared codebase, separate delivery for each target device
• AI-assisted software development (vibe coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
• Publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
• Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
• AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics

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.

Datacenter audit and subsequent transformation program

• Initial situation: After a critical outage, the datacenter was seen as the cause. A classic audit was to be put out to tender.
• My diagnosis: The technical architecture was not the core problem. What really mattered were the incident, diagnosis, and restart processes, as well as missing transparency around costs and dependencies.
• Impact: The audit was handled pragmatically in-house. The results and budget basis became the foundation for a multi-year international transformation program. After that, I continued as the preferred candidate for a central transformation stream.

• 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.

Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.

• Designed and built a next-generation NLP platform to accelerate sales-driven customer service through intelligent request analysis and routing, reducing average customer query response time by 30%.
• Architected a hybrid NLP system combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with traditional NLP pipelines for robust, explainable results.
• Developed request classification and routing mechanisms to accelerate customer support teams in handling customer queries faster and more accurately.
• Optimized LLM based data extraction and classification with context engineering.
• Integrated the platform into customer service processes, reducing response times and enhancing workforce efficiency.

SAP Business Data Cloud / Datasphere rollout

Technologies: SAP Datasphere | SAP BTP | SAP Analytics Cloud | ETL / ELT | Security & Governance

Tasks / Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing data architectures in SAP Business Data Cloud / Datasphere
• Designing spaces, data products, and data flows for integrated data models
• Connecting SAP and non-SAP systems via SDI, ODP, APIs
• Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud for self-service analytics
• Building governance, security, and authorization concepts
• Creating architecture guidelines & performance optimization

Results / Achievements:

• Introduced a central data catalog & authorization concept
• Laid the foundation for self-service analytics

• Interim management: Temporary leadership in supply chain, logistics, and operations - including budget, investment, and personnel responsibility.
• Project management: Steering infrastructure, construction, and automation projects as well as transformation and digitalization programs.
• Supply chain consulting: End-to-end strategies, network and site planning, intralogistics, and automation - from international corporations to regional SMEs.
• Process and organizational development: Optimization of workflows, systems, and control logic; building KPIs and reporting structures.
• Executive mentoring: Supporting leaders in growth, change, and crisis situations.

Helping companies to streamline their CLM p ocesses and Transparency

• Design and implementation of new functionalities in the areas of Lifecycle Management (LCM), Role Management (RLM) and Access Governance

• Adjustment of the company-wide Segregation of Duties (SoD) matrix to ensure regulatory and internal compliance requirements

• Further development and configuration of recertification processes

• Creation and adaptation of custom workflows, rules and tasks in SailPoint IdentityIQ (BeanShell, XML, Java)

• Use of static code analysis with SonarQube to ensure code quality and compliance with defined development standards

• Regular code reviews within the development team to ensure quality, share knowledge and follow clean code principles

• Work in an agile Scrum team with daily communication, sprint planning and reviews

• Coordination with testers, test managers and business departments to ensure quality and smooth production rollout

• Active involvement in release planning and deployment coordination, including test preparation, cutover activities and rollback strategies

• Analysis and sustainable resolution of issues in the IAM production environment (2nd- and 3rd-level support)

• Reproduction of complex errors, identification of root causes and implementation of lasting fixes

• Creation of technical analyses and recommendations for operations and further development

Tech: AWS (Glue, Lambda, Redshift), Airflow, PostgreSQL, Python, PySpark, Metabase, Power BI

Delivered: Analytics-Ready Data Models • Legacy SQL to Cloud ETL Migration • Dynamic Pricing Engine

• Owned and evolved the company data warehouse end-to-end — from ingestion to transformation to analytics-ready dimensional data models on AWS Redshift.
• Collaborated with Analysts, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable dimensional data models that enable self-serve analytics and streamline dashboarding in Metabase and Power BI.
• Architected end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS (Glue, Lambda, Redshift) using Python and PySpark, orchestrated with Apache Airflow (MWAA) for reliability and observability.
• Defined and enforced data quality standards and governance practices across pipelines and the core data layer.
• Led migration of legacy SQL infrastructure into scalable AWS Glue pipelines with distributed PySpark processing, eliminating bottlenecks and reducing downtime.
• Developed a dynamic pricing engine applying automated promotional discounts based on occupancy rates, competitor pricing, and location performance tiers.
• Designed schema mappings to ingest MongoDB data into structured relational systems (Redshift/PostgreSQL).

• Main tasks and responsibilities: development, acquisition, sales, consulting, and controlling
• Area of work or industry: Software as a Service in AI compliance and consulting

Selection of client projects:

• Creation and operation of an AI governance platform, including training content on the use of AI in companies
• Design, setup, and operation of the ISO 42001 management system at PaiperOne with certification by TÜV
• Auditor according to ISO 17024 at Austrian Standards for the "AI Manager"
• AI training for staff of two Austrian publishing groups
• AI training for the management level at the State of Lower Austria
• AI strategy workshop for a municipality in Styria and a municipality in Salzburg
• AI workshops for the House of Digitalization in Tulln
• AI training for municipalities at KDZ
• Delivery of training on "Certified AI Compliance Officer" at the Academy for Internal Audit
• Organizational consulting on AI governance at ÖGK
• Project support for the "homepage chatbot" at öbv
• Certification exams at Austrian Standards

• 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