Microsoft Azure Experts in Munich

AI telephone assistant platform

Claude Code, Google AI Studio, Python, LLM / Voice-AI, PostgreSQL

• Conception and hands-on development of an AI-supported telephone assistant platform (voice AI / LLM) – from idea and architecture to MVP/product.
• Built agentic workflows and full automations with Claude Code and Google AI Studio.
• Also delivered AI-supported work in client engagements: used Claude Code for governance documentation, requirement drafts, and automations.

• Rework demand, development and operational organizational set up for the Solution Train
• Rework requirement refinement process flow from strategic theme to user story
• Introduction of visualization tools (Canvas) of work dependencies over different requirement levels and Solution Train leadership coaching

Subproject management in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

• Leading a software development team with 10 employees
• Budget responsibility approx. 3 million Euros per year
• Conducting employee and job interviews
• Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
• Digitalization of a web interface
• Regular reporting to clients and stakeholders (C-level)
• Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to steer product development
• Designing product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
• Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
• Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector including knowledge of regulatory processes
• Formulating the subproject charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
• Steering performance delivery according to the project charter
• Planning and steering human resources including budget planning for the subproject
• Ensuring the working capacity of subproject participants, e.g., by requesting access rights and documents for the subproject team
• Planning and steering for the respective subproject (Time, Scope, Budget) including the creation of necessary documents
• Coordinating with the department and Product Owners to plan the subproject scope and the corresponding implications
• Conducting milestone planning according to the agreed process model
• Effort estimation and support of subproject controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
• Reporting subproject status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
• Analyzing, preparing, and addressing needs for action and decisions
• Escalating subproject issues to project management
• Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
• Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (Time, Scope, and Budget)
• Steering the implementation of cross-cutting specifications and requirements in the subproject, supported by cross-functional roles on the business and technical side.
• Identifying, steering, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across subprojects
• Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
• Preparing and steering commissioning including required documents and protection requirements assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the fullstack area (7 people)

• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Introducing the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Charts), metrics, and conducting required training in an agile IT environment
• Preparing Scrum events such as Daily, Retrospectives, Review, Sprint Planning, Estimation, and Refinement (agile way of working)
• Facilitating retrospectives and removing impediments to drive the team and product forward
• Preparing action points and retros via Whiteboard and Figma
• Applying and improving agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
• Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
• Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
• Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creating filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up Cycle Time
• Using Jira & Confluence
• Setting up progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual effort for user stories
• Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "Velocity", "Burn-Down Chart", "Throughput", "Costs", "Quality", "Scope"
• Evaluating agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
• Communication and moderation know-how
• Proven methodological competence in conflict resolution discussions

• Deployment and scaling of existing ML initiatives, including demand and cash flow forecasts.
• Building robust monitoring with mlflow for data stability, model performance, and drift detection, as well as implementing additional ML use cases.
• Further development of an Agentic AI chatbot for transparent and easy-to-understand model explanations.

• Designed role-based delivery assignment workflows, switchable between own fleet and partner carriers, with traceable status chains from „pending“ to „in delivery.“
• Designed AI-assisted route optimization, where dispatchers review drive-time-optimized route suggestions as drafts and apply them in one click.
• Designed a central planning interface for delivery and route management, bringing table view, map view, and route composition into a single workflow.
• Built interactive prototypes to align new product features early with stakeholders and engineering.

Key methods: AI-assisted Product Design, Workflow Design, Role-Based Workflows, Dashboard Design, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Logistics/Operations UX, Stakeholder Collaboration

• 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.

Unified ITSM framework

• Definition of a company-wide ITSM target picture
• Introduction of a uniform service structure across all business units

SLA and OLA management

• Building a standardized SLA framework
• Definition of service classes (Business Critical, Standard, Low Priority)
• Introduction of OLAs between internal teams
• Building meaningful SLA reporting
• Definition of KPI and service dashboards for business units

Service portfolio management

• Definition of service descriptions
• If needed, preparing possible cost and service billing

Ticketing & processes

• Incident management
• Uniform ticket categories
• Standardized prioritization
• Escalation matrix
• Automations
• Self-service optimization

Request fulfillment

• Service catalog across all business units
• Approval workflows

Problem management

• Introduction of root cause analysis
• Known error database
• Problem review process

Complete asset management concept

• Hardware lifecycle management
• Software lifecycle management
• Leasing lifecycle
• Mobile device lifecycle
• Monitor lifecycle
• Phone lifecycle

Processes

• Procurement
• Goods receipt
• Inventory
• Assignment
• Return
• Disposal
• Leasing return Goal: single source of truth for all assets

CMDB design

• Definition of all configuration items:
• Workplace
• Notebooks
• Monitors
• Mobile phones
• Printers

Infrastructure

• Servers
• Firewalls
• Switches
• WLAN
• Storage
• Backup systems

Cloud

• Azure resources
• Microsoft 365
• SaaS services

Relationships

• User ↔ Asset
• Asset ↔ Service
• Service ↔ Infrastructure
• Location ↔ Asset
• Goal: make all service dependencies visible

Software asset & license management

• License management concept
• License balancing
• Compliance reporting
• Microsoft license management
• Adobe license management
• SaaS management
• Contract management
• Renewal management

Interfaces & automation Existing systems

• Workday
• Joiner
• Mover
• Leaver

TESMA

• Leasing data
• Contract data

Matrix42

• Asset synchronization
• User synchronization

Active Directory / Entra ID

• User management

Microsoft 365

• License assignment
• Group management

Dormakaba

• Access processes

• Lifecycle services

Monitoring platforms

• PRTG
• Palo Alto
• Cisco

Reporting & KPI framework

• Definition of a management dashboard
• KPIs
• Ticket volume
• SLA fulfillment
• MTTR
• First resolution rate
• Asset accuracy
• License compliance
• Change success rate
• Service availability
• Degree of automation

Network redesign support

• Governance
• Support of the network redesign from an ITSM point of view
• Definition of affected services
• Change management structure
• Communication concept

CMDB integration

• Recording of all network components
• Service mapping
• Dependency analysis

Validation of documentation and knowledge base articles

• Network documentation
• Operations documentation
• Standard changes

Monitoring & event management

• Target picture
• Central monitoring concept
• Event management process
• Alerting strategy
• Escalation model

Systems

• Cisco

• Palo Alto

• Fortinet

• Rubrik

• Veeam

• Matrix42

• Azure

• Microsoft 365 Automation

• Ticket creation from monitoring

• Escalations

• Standard actions

Audit, compliance & information security

• ISO 27001 consulting
• TISAX consulting
• NIS2 preparation - consulting
• Audit-ready processes
• Documentation structure
• Evidence tracking in Matrix42

Roadmap

• 12-month roadmap
• Prioritization of all measures
• Quick wins
• Medium-term projects
• Long-term target picture
• Documentation

• Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
• Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
• Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
• Removing impediments
• Increasing sprint performance

• Designing the audit logging framework
• Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
• Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
• Improving stability and reliability of the backend system

• 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

• Configured Topics, Microsites into rich content portal widgets, Content Library, landing pages and automated client portal data sync, reducing manual effort by 80% and elevating self-service engagement.
• Architected optimal display across devices and varying resolutions to enhance user accessibility and experience.
• Set up and customized Azure VM integration by utilizing Catalog Items, PowerShell scripting and workflow orchestration.
• Analyzed and translated business requirements into scalable solutions, leveraging ServiceNow scripting to enhance platform functionality and elevate user experience.

Key ServiceNow Skills: Service Portal, Widget Development, Catalog Items, PowerShell Scripting, Workflow Orchestration, Content Management.

• Processing and coordination of IT tickets (Helix, Omnitracker) incl. VIP support and remote support (Microsoft Teams, RDP, FastViewer)
• Onsite support at the main location as well as support for modern conference and meeting room technology (e.g. MeetingBoard 75 Pro)
• User and rights management in Active Directory (Active Roles), Azure AD, Exchange and MDM
• VDI support and monitoring with Citrix Director and Aruba Networking
• Endpoint management and policy administration via Ivanti
• Deployment, configuration and lifecycle management of clients (Dell notebooks, iPhones, iPads)
• Hardware rollouts for new employees incl. shipping across Germany
• Asset and license management as well as organization of site migrations

• AI Integration (LLM & RAG): Design and build of an internal intelligent RAG system (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) based on LLMs, n8n, and vector data for the automated analysis of technical documents and error logs.
• Design & Implementation: Design of a robust RS-232/UART communication interface for an SBC-based embedded device to control medical shaker systems.
• Architecture & Protocol Design: Implementation of a highly maintainable software structure (OOP, SOLID) and definition of hardware-close, resilient communication protocols including multithreading and advanced error handling.
• Quality Assurance & DevOps: Test automation using xUnit, integration tests directly on the hardware target, and maintenance of technical documentation according to strict medical technology standards via Azure DevOps.

Label: C#, .NET, LLMs, RAG, n8n, RS-232, UART, Multithreading, async/await, xUnit, gRPC/protobuf, Blazor, MudBlazor, EF Core, Visual Studio 2026, Azure DevOps

• Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
• Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
• Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
• Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
• Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
• Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
• Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions