Perplexity Experts in Germany

• Repaired a broken “ScrumBan” process, then established a pure Kanban system; increased output in the Kanban flow by 22% within four weeks

• Increased team autonomy and decision-making ability by implementing new decision strategies; resulting in up to 25% better outcomes

• Redesigned retrospectives (including one-to-one coaching and workshops), which led to consistent implementation of the resulting action items

• Intensive coaching of Product Owners (POs) to develop and support “Empowered Teams”, alongside leadership development to place agile frameworks and methods in a realistic context (“de-illusioning”)

• Supported change management processes to promote an agile company culture among management and teams, improving internal communication to increase transparency and effectiveness in agile processes

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

• Available for interim assignments as Interim HR Director, Interim Head of HR, Interim CHRO, as well as HR transformation and project assignments; nationwide and pan-European, open to all industries.
• Focus: HR Strategy, organizational development, post-merger integration from Day 1, HR digitalization, performance management, building and scaling HR organizations.

• Own full-stack development of an AI-native enterprise platform built on TypeScript, React, Vite, tRPC, Hono, and PostgreSQL, delivering AI-powered consulting workflows to B2B clients.
• Designed and shipped a multi-agent AI system using ReAct framework and Claude skills-style workflow patterns, including an intelligent PM assistant with rich system prompts, slash commands, tool integrations, and streaming chat UI.
• Architected an LLM evaluation framework: rubric-based LLM-as-judge, golden datasets, regression testing, and automated quality gating — ensuring consistent AI output quality at scale.
• Integrated LangFuse for end-to-end LLM tracing, conversation replays, and evaluation pipelines, enabling data-driven prompt optimisation that reduced token costs and response variance.
• Built with Drizzle ORM, pgvector, and knowledge graphs for structured data access, semantic search, and relationship-aware AI reasoning across the platform.
• Led TanStack React Query migration across the application — replacing manual state management with centralised caching and automatic refetching, reducing data-fetching boilerplate significantly.
• Practiced AI-native development throughout: Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity SDK, and LLM-assisted testing across the full development lifecycle. Deployed on Vercel + Azure ACA with Biome for linting/formatting.

• Independently managed the POS tender process for food service operations in department stores.

• Structured requirements gathering, both functional and technical.

• Created a management-ready specification as a basis for decision-making by management and IT.

• Market overview of relevant POS providers.

• Close coordination with Galeria's IT and business departments.

Evaluation and selection of a new endpoint management platform for an environment with around 50,000 clients. Support for a manufacturing company in evaluating a future endpoint management platform as a possible replacement for the existing client management solution. Conducting a structured software selection process including proof of concept as well as preparing the decision basis for the Enterprise Architecture Board (EAM). Defining the technical requirements and evaluation criteria and creating a short list of possible solutions (Tanium, Baramundi, Microsoft Intune / MECM). Planning and supporting the technical proof of concept as well as evaluating the architecture and operations aspects of the different platforms. In addition, evaluating tools for migrating existing software packages from the Ivanti DSM environment. Comparing and testing IDERI Move and PACE for the automated transfer of the existing package structure to the new platform, with the goal of significantly reducing migration effort. Support in selecting the required Tanium modules as well as preparing the decision documents for the Enterprise Architecture Board.

Tools: Tanium, Baramundi, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft MECM, Ivanti DSM, IDERI Move, Pace, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server. VDI

Development of an AI console for integration into different open source solutions (ERP, CRM..)

Development of the target architecture Integration of different AI platforms (ChatGPT, Anthropic, Perplexity) Workflow with cross-platform use of the AI platforms Voice input and voice output History Console-based project management Generation of custom agents (Crewai..) Integration of the agents into the AI workflow

• Created marketing content including videos, graphics for marketing and sales activities
• Developed content strategies using Adobe Creative Cloud tools for course promotion
• Additionally worked on content as director, producer and script writer
• Set up KPIs for online marketing, then analyzed analytics and engagement

• Analysis of the existing reporting platform including processes and governance topics with stakeholders from sales and marketing.

• Detailed analysis and evaluation of client-defined requirements for existing reporting and new dashboards.

• Supporting stakeholders in managing sales processes and early detection of KPI trends.

• Use of Microsoft Power BI as central analysis and reporting platform.

• Developing a proposal for the necessary evolution of processes and the Power BI platform.

• Gathering current business processes and defining company-wide KPIs in coordination with stakeholders.

• Analysis and inventory of the client's Power BI platform.

• Analysis of processes and data governance.

• Recording and documenting current business processes.

• Developing recommendations for process and reporting platform improvements.

• Designing and implementing dashboards in Power BI.

• Defining company-wide KPIs and aligning them with stakeholders.

• Microsoft Power BI.

• Data analytics.

• KPI definition and reporting.

• Dashboard design and data visualization.

• Stakeholder management and requirements management.

AI • Enterprise SaaS • Product Strategy • Product Discovery

Led product design for enterprise SaaS, AI-powered and customer-facing products.

• Defined product strategy from discovery to delivery
• Designed complex workflows, design systems and scalable UX
• Led UX research, product discovery and stakeholder workshops

• Developing a product vision and strategy

• Creating a roadmap

• Improving stakeholder communication

• Introducing an outcome-oriented roadmap

• Aligning with stakeholders and creating transparency

• Defining relevant product metrics as a KPI tree

• Initiating measures to improve product quality and measurability

• Supporting the introduction and migration of the new Identity Provider (IDP)

• Act as a senior People & Transformation advisor to startups and mid-sized companies, leading restructuring, HR operating model redesign, and digital HR initiatives end-to-end.
• Drive HRIS/ATS selection and implementation (incl. Personio, Greenhouse, etc.), process design, stakeholder alignment, and internal communication to ensure adoption and measurable operational impact.
• Advise executives on workforce planning, labour law considerations, organisational structure, and decision-making mechanisms during change and growth phases.
• Build pragmatic recruiting strategies for critical roles (incl. AI/Tech), improving sourcing approach, funnel quality, and hiring velocity.
• Selected projects:
• Marley Spoon SE: Supported a major restructuring process, advising on labor law and workforce planning.
• Promedio GmbH/Osteopro: HR digitalisation, HRIS implementation, and launch of a modern corporate website (cross-functional transformation).
• Journee GmbH: Advised on tech recruiting and talent strategy for senior AI profiles.
• PTW Europa GmbH: First HRIS implementation, process design, and internal comms.
• Focus areas: HR Strategy, Digital HR Transformation, HRIS/ATS implementation, Change Management, Restructuring, Recruiting, and Future Skills (AI in HR).

• HR interim role as HR Business Partner for the Sales business unit with approx. 130 employees and 25 managers
• Collaboration with the works council
• Co-development of concepts for management onboarding and performance management

• Developing a monitoring concept for a toll collection service within a public infrastructure project – requirements analysis, technical test scenarios, customer workshops (Discovery, Scoping, KPI definition)
• Test management and QA coordination across a large-scale public infrastructure project in the transport & mobility sector (Jira Xray, unit / integration / E2E)
• Business cases, cost-benefit models, solution architectures and strategic recommendations for complex technical systems