Microsoft Excel Experts in Austria

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.

• From 02/2023 to 05/2024: IT interim manager within an international construction chemicals group headquartered in Germany as Global TSA Manager in a carve-out project responsible for the IT workstream.

• End-to-end management of an international IT carve-out and TSA program, including transition of five service providers, governance and operating structures, service continuity, provider performance, SLA/KPI and cost management, SIAM and supplier management, security services, operational readiness, and transition into stable operations.

• From 06/2024: IT consulting in project management and IT service management areas, providing PM/PMO coaching and support.

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.

• 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.

• Extraction, transformation, and cleansing of data from Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Creation of sales reports in Power BI
• Training employees in business intelligence
• Technologies: Power BI, SQL, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

• Driver on film productions for two parts of the Steirerkrimi series

• Picking up and bringing actors

• Driving for the crew and catering

• Errands and shuttle service

• Sometimes also a jack-of-all-trades

• Leading distributed, international team in complex delivery environment (EN/DE)
• Managing multi-stakeholder setup across business and tech
• Driving end-to-end product delivery from backlog to release and operations
• Coordinating releases and ensuring stable product operation (incl. 2nd level support)
• Leading migration of legacy systems into scalable target architectures
• Owning and developing core systems for digital and print production
• Establishing and optimising product management processes (Kanban, refinement, backlog management)

• Accurate handling of customer transactions under time pressure, including cash and register processing with high care
• Reliable, consistent performance in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment; strengthened organization and multitasking skills

Project Tech Stack: Python, AWS, Azure, FastAPI, openai, pandas, unittest/pymock

Achievements:

• Engineered automated data extraction pipelines to transform complex Excel datasets into structured formats via LLM-driven workflows.
• Architected a generative slide-deck engine that translates natural language prompts into formatted presentation assets.
• Integrated advanced LLM capabilities with the OpenAI Response API, implementing sophisticated tool-calling and structured output logic.
• Developed and containerized scalable backend microservice using FastAPI, Docker, and OpenShift to host and serve agentic skills.

Further development of the data analytics system landscape based on MS Power BI

• Concept and development of ETL processes, primary data source SAP IS/U incl. extraction via Theobald extractors to Azure Synapse, support with SAP S/4 conversion
• Support in the concept and development of data models in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Gathering and implementation of requirements in the data analytics area from internal business units
• Identification, documentation and analysis of existing as well as cross-functional processes
• Data definition, data modeling & preparation as well as source selection for merging data from differently structured data sources
• Design of reports and dashboards based on MS Power BI
• Transfer of reporting processes from existing structures to MS Power BI Premium (PPU)
• Hands-on development and implementation of analyses, reports and dashboards based on Microsoft Power BI
• Power Apps for write-back processes from Power BI Premium to Azure SQL DB
• Power BI support as part of the SAP S/4 conversion
• Cooperation with internal business units and external development partners
• Coaching/training, documentation, development processes

• Consulting in national and international projects in various roles and sectors (banking and finance, public sector, telecommunications, data management, software development)
• Engaging in project management, requirements management, business analysis, process management, IT consulting and coaching
• Delivering sustainable value quickly and efficiently due to high complexity and diversity of projects and expertise
• Emphasizing collegiality and integrity and fostering a positive team atmosphere

• Project and test management for the accounting migration
• Coordination of resources
• Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
• Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
• System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence

• Analysis of extended requirements related to existing controllers in an industrial plant
• Creating concepts for storing and visualizing sensor data
• Communication with PLCs
• Microservice architecture
• Unified architecture
• AI-based evaluations of sensor data
• Technologies used: .NET 8, Minimal API, Postgres, MQTT, RabbitMQ