Microsoft Project Experts

• Launch of a new digital product in the Chinese market as part of a global growth strategy.

• Contact point and coordinating interface between central product management, local Chinese teams, and international stakeholders.

• Managing the full program management for coordinating complex digital projects.

• Successful launch of a digital product in China (including successful certification for the Chinese market).

• Balancing local requirements with global priorities while taking tax and regulatory conditions into account.

• Introducing a new way of working to improve collaboration and governance across locations.

• Developing and implementing a scaling strategy for the digital business model in China.

• Use of Jira, Confluence, Miro, Scrum, agile ways of working, SAFe.

• Project language: English.

• Expert in the company's architecture management area

• Support for standardizing the company's IT landscape

• Further development of architecture management

• Shaping the company's business architecture

• Restructuring, administration and maintenance of all IT assets

• Support in creating a unified software asset management and CMDB

• Creation of unified document management (e-file)

• Transition of documents into a central DMS structure

• Link between architecture management and the department's internal business process management

• Support in developing strategic and tactical development plans

• Organizing communication with key stakeholders

• Support in the conception, organization and coordination of the architecture office to be built up

• Accompanying and advising the entire architecture management process

• Advising the company's business units on architectural topics and their framework conditions

• MS Office, Windows 10, VBA

• ITIL, TOGAF, PowerBi, Kanban, Scrum

• Internal agency tools

• Open Touch Conversation, Webex, wire, bdbos

• MS Sharepoint, JIRA, Confluence

• ARIS, Archimate, BPMN

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

• Analysis, documentation, and alignment of requirements. Conducting stakeholder analyses, interviews, and workshops for requirements gathering and validation. Carrying out requirements reviews and working closely with business units and development teams.

Techniques & tools: requirements engineering, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, system context modeling, requirements reviews, quality scenarios, Miro, Jira, Confluence

• Planning and concept development for building a new business model, including structuring and implementing business processes.
• Coordination and management of external service providers as well as interface management.
• Introduction and implementation of new digital tools and processes to optimize operational workflows.

Due to the steady growth of the customer organization and the associated increase in the number of projects in a wide range of areas, including IT/digitalization, sales and organizational development, and controlling, the demands on the projects are increasing. Projects are often started but not implemented within the planned time frame, resources are not clearly assigned, and the business value is not clearly demonstrated. The goal of the assignment as Interim Head of PMO is to further develop and embed an existing project organization from the CDO area at management level. It is important that the governance is pragmatic, easy to understand, and simple to apply in daily project work. The tasks and roles are to be defined, embedded in the organization, and this strategic PMO is also to be supported by an IT solution. This solution is to be selected and introduced. In addition, all ongoing projects are to be gradually transferred into PMO governance and project control is to be centralized.

Nationwide service provider for occupational medicine, occupational safety, and health management with a focus on prevention, health, and digital transformation.

• Role: Responsible for building and further developing professional project portfolio management in the area of Digital Transformation & Data. Steering and supporting strategic IT and transformation projects as well as supporting the introduction and establishment of project management standards, methods, and governance structures.

Focus areas:

• Build-up and further development of IT project portfolio management
• Analysis and structuring of business and technical requirements
• Steering and coordination of cross-functional IT initiatives
• Stakeholder management at business, management, and service provider level
• Introduction and further development of project management methods and tools (including Jira, Confluence, MS Planner)
• Preparation of decision bases, target visions, and implementation concepts in the context of digital transformation
• Steering and coordination of transformation, digitalization, and organizational projects
• Preparation of decision papers and management documents for steering committees
• Running workshops and stakeholder management with business units and IT teams
• Definition of requirements for dashboards, reporting, and KPI steering
• Support in the project Wissenskompass (requirements analysis and MVP concept)
• Analysis and evaluation of AI support options in knowledge management
• Investigation of AI use cases to improve knowledge provision and use
• Consideration of AI requirements as part of the Wissenskompass concept
• Coordination with strategic business units on the further development of project management standards
• Introduction, configuration, and training of Microsoft Planner to support project and task management
• Conducting user training and supporting employees in the introduction of new ways of working and tools

• Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.

• Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.

• Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.

• Firewall vulnerability analysis.

• Firewall rule approvals.

• Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.

• Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.

• Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5

• Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI

• Led the hardware development and validation of a safety-critical 400 V battery management system (BMS) for the TOGG SUV program; performed system architecture reviews, schematic validations, EMC and reliability tests, and root cause analyses in line with relevant automotive standards (ECE-R10, CISPR25, ISO-26262). Coordinated cross-border EU engineering teams, customer reviews, and technical documentation to deliver a production-ready, validated system.

• Architected and integrated 22 state-of-the-art ADAS validation vehicles for BMW ADCAM and LIDAR programs at Magna Electronics; synchronized up to 26 heterogeneous sensors (LIDAR, RADAR, cameras, GNSS/INS) using PTP-based timing architectures. Defined the system architecture, HW/SW interfaces for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) reprocessing, sensor integration strategies, and data acquisition frameworks. This enabled scalable vehicle-level validation, improved validation efficiency by 25%, and reduced project costs by €1.45 million.

• End-to-end validation and integration of automotive radar platforms for a Daimler project at Continental. Developed automated open-loop hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments to accurately test target tracking KPIs, field of view limits, and thermal and voltage-related ECU state machines. Used a highly complex toolchain consisting of CANoe, Lauterbach Trace32, RADAR target simulators, and EMC shielding chambers for RF and system validation. Synchronized global, interdisciplinary teams to speed up troubleshooting and close critical technical gaps.

• Reconstructed and validated the product architecture of an electromechanical e-bike by integrating and troubleshooting critical subsystems (BMS, motor control, sensors, HMI, electronic locking systems). Built a comprehensive system-level test bench for functional testing, fault reproduction, and performance analysis; coordinated suppliers and implemented corrective actions to improve reliability and traceability.

• Defined the system architecture and validation strategy for a LIDAR platform developed in cooperation with Elmos Semiconductor; evaluated optical measurement concepts, SPAD detector integration, and system requirements, and created technical recommendations for product development and verification.

• Developed LabVIEW-based automation and verification software for a high-precision hydraulic and electromechanical test system for FTE Automotive; integrated NI DAQ hardware for high-frequency real-time capture of physical measurement data. Developed automated test sequences, programmable endurance tests, troubleshooting routines, data logging, and analysis tools to improve test efficiency and traceability.

• Successfully managed complete engineering life cycles for well-known industrial customers (Magna, Continental, Farasis, FTE Automotive, BMW, Daimler, TOGG) – from requirements engineering and proof of concept through system integration and validation to technical documentation, supplier coordination, and user training.

• Gathering information
• Creating wave concepts for the rollout
• Coordinating employees
• Monitoring and steering measures
• Project management including analyses & reporting to the board
• Creating instructions and requirement specifications
• Training floorwalkers
• On-site rollout support
• VIP support
• Introducing SharePoint

• Migration of the existing Brainloop application to a new infrastructure
• Managing project activities and stakeholder communication
• Managing complex relationships with clients, internal departments, IT partners and external contacts
• Planning and managing project finances, including cost estimates and financial control
• Initiating and managing projects with third-party solutions, working with procurement
• Ensuring compliance with project management methods and quality standards
• Supporting portfolio project delivery processes and regular project status reporting
• Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management, MS Exchange, MS Outlook
• Team size: 15 people

• IT systems: Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Opal/Repost, JustinMind, Monday, SAP

• Analysis of requirements for branch software

• Coordination of intercultural teams

• Partly agile project organization

• Master data management / DMS

• UI/UX design and mockup creation

• Requirements documentation

• Digitalization of signatures

• Stakeholder management and workshop facilitation

• Billing/bank transfer

• Business analysis / requirements engineering

Workflow-automation SaaS for operations teams (Berlin, 120 people); full-time freelance engagement reporting to the CEO: an initial 12-month interim mandate, extended twice through the AI build-out; owned product for one squad and coached the other product managers on process.

• Led generative AI (LLM) integration into the core product: from LLM-powered steps to natural-language workflow authoring and step-level automation suggestions, plus AI-managed dynamic workflows, shipped behind eval gates with human-in-the-loop fallbacks: AI-drafted workflows grew to 31% of all new workflows, and median time-to-first-workflow fell from 3 days to 4 hours.
• Packaged the AI capabilities as a usage-based add-on priced on executed automation steps, working with sales and marketing on positioning: ~€800K added ARR in the first year, and adopting accounts churned 1.8 pp less.
• Owned the roadmap end to end: replaced feature-request-driven quarterly planning with an outcome-based rolling roadmap built on quarterly bets and explicit kill criteria, presented monthly to the executive team and quarterly to the board.
• Rebuilt the product-management operating system: weekly customer-discovery cadence incl. workshop facilitation, RFC/decision-doc reviews and a single quarterly metrics narrative; coached four product managers, one promoted to senior during the engagement.
• Closed the engagement as scoped: hired and onboarded the permanent VP Product, handed over the process playbook and roadmap, and exited on schedule in June 2026.