SAP PLM Expert in Germany

• Review and assessment of the existing situation
• Identification and definition of implementation measures to close existing gaps

• Team leadership: Prioritization and coordination of four cross-functional teams.
• Platform strategy: Development and implementation of strategies to optimize existing IT platforms.
• Stakeholder management: Active management of expectations and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Program and innovation management: Prioritization and coordination of cross-department projects as well as innovation initiatives.
• Product Owner consulting: Advising Product Owners with a focus on product development and continuous product improvement.
• Organizational development: Improving communication and decision-making structures across all organizational levels.
• Change management: Implementing best-practice change management methods to ensure continuous optimization and innovation.
• Quality assurance: Ensuring high quality standards in processes, services, and deliverables.

UEF 3.0 · Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) · Autonomous Systems (UAS / dual use)

• Designed: Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) – AI-guided administration without replacing existing specialist procedures. Read-only semantic layer over registers and specialist processes based on the Federal Information Management (FIM). Decision authority remains with the case worker (architecture principle).
• Developed: Reference architecture with source-backed, derived statements (Executable Ontologies OWL/RDF/SHACL). Technically guaranteed purpose limitation and no-write-path principle in specialist data – auditable, without a central data pool.
• Anchored: Regulation as a design principle: EU AI Act (high-risk obligations for public-sector AI, fundamental rights impact assessment under Art. 27), GDPR, NIS2, and administrative automation limits (§ 35a VwVfG, § 31a SGB X) as technical control points in the architecture.
• Created: Methodical tool for pilot organizations: data pipeline assessment (phase 0), compliance blueprint, and management summary as a decision-ready package for public administration.
• Specified: UEF 3.0 as a successor architecture to TOGAF – decision paper, canonical ontology, six-layer architecture, read/actuate boundary, federation registry, terminology concordance, and release delta as a closed specification status.
• Architected: AI-native mission OS for autonomous UAS and ground robotics as a tactical layer on top of a separately approved autopilot. Run-time assurance according to ASTM F3269-21 (Simplex pattern): the verified safety controller keeps authority, the AI function provides suggestions.
• Designed: Three-tier architecture – Tier 0 autopilot with 650 Hz flight control on RTOS, Tier 1 AI OS with semantic world model and multi-agent cluster, Tier 2 swarm and ground mesh. Zenoh as the primary fabric, MAVLink as the only authenticated command path (single writer). Result: graceful degradation – loss of the mission, not of the aircraft.
• Secured: Two-gate chain on the read/actuate boundary – governance gate (can-question: AI Act risk class per actuation, enforced human oversight under Art. 14, immutable log) before the RTA safety monitor (is-it-correct question: flight envelope, geofence, energy reserve) with revert to the baseline controller.
• Anchored: Dual-use architecture with common core and build-time fork instead of runtime switch. Three separate legal levels: civil variant – UAS under the EASA Basic Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 with the limited applicability under Art. 2(2) of the AI Act, ground robotics under the Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 with the full high-risk obligation chain, Cyber Resilience Act for both; unarmed carrier variant as defense material under AWG/AWV and Dual-Use Regulation 2021/821 (BAFA approval); armed variant under KrWaffKontrG. Each variant lives under exactly one dominant legal regime. Evidence base: AI BOM, SBOM, and complete data lineage.
• Analyzed: System analysis and realignment of grown engineering system landscapes. Approach concept for consolidation without migration – semantic layer over the existing sources instead of data transfer. Result: decision-ready implementation concept including an evaluation model for the target architecture.

• Disciplinary and professional leadership of the IT and service team
• Definition and documentation of the Current Mode of Operation (CMO) in Confluence: application landscape, infrastructure, networks, backup & storage
• Development of the Future Mode of Operation (FMO) including process analysis & stakeholder interviews with all departments using BPMN and flowcharts
• Optimization of license management: reduction of ongoing software costs by approx. 17% p.a.
• Introduction and establishment of Jira as the central tool for project and service management
• Introduction and rollout of the HR software MindKey to digitize HR processes
• Introduction of a VoIP solution with Microsoft Teams incl. PSTN connection to replace classic telephony
• Introduction of the production and planning software OptiControl to digitize operational processes
• Rollout of Intune as a Mobile Device Management solution for Windows, iOS and Android
• Build-up of Power BI dashboards for machine park monitoring and financial reporting
• Planning and execution of the IT consolidation of two locations for 170 users
• Introduction of automated penetration testing with Pentera
• Coaching and mentoring the team in agile methods & project management
• Operational support in day-to-day business: administration, incident & change management
• Management of external service providers and assurance of the quality of outsourced IT services
• Responsibility for the IT budget incl. planning and controlling
• Direct reporting line to management with regular management reports on IT KPIs, budget and project status

• Senior program director and enterprise architect with nearly 30 years of operational experience in HR, ERP, security, risk management, finance, PLM and SLM.
• Expertise in IT program and project management, engineering, process management and organizational development.
• Experience working for the world leader in service management software, rail transportation and a leading tier 1 automotive supplier.
• Subject matter expertise in finance, automation processes, logistics, ERP and PLM and integration, including related end-to-end lifecycle data management and enterprise architecture.
• Specializes in managing large and complex engagements, programs and projects from demand, idea and strategy to operation, including stakeholder and change management.
• Expertise areas: HR, ERP, SecOps, integrated risk management, supply chain and operations, finance, SLM, product strategy, lifecycle management, shared services, IT and PLM.
• Industry experience in technology, tier 1 automotive, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, high technology and software industries, banking and insurance, and railway.
• Experience with SecOps (security incident response and vulnerability management), digital portfolio management, integrated risk management, service portfolio management and business continuity planning.
• Experience defining and designing integrated risk management including security and operations (response plans), CMDB initiatives and shared service implementations.
• Implemented integrated risk management including digital business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, digital maturity assessments and security risk registers.
• Technology skills include SAP, HR, time and attendance, ERP, PLM, ALM, ITSM and CAD systems.
• Experience with cloud-based services and master data management.
• Familiar with TOGAF, IT4IT, SAFe and PPM.
• Project client exposure to companies such as Siemens, BMW, Daimler, BASF, Bayer, Bosch, DHL, DB Schenker, ServiceNow, Bombardier, KION, Johnson Controls, Schaeffler, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, FEMSA, CEMEX, Nestlé, Heineken, Air France/KLM, Airbus, Vodafone, Majorel, Virgin Trains, Equinor, ASML and Volvo.
• Holds a master’s degree in informatics and a bachelor’s degree in applied economics.

• Transformation of the program organization from six subprojects into a scaled agile setup as RTE to stabilize the go-live date

• Organizational development by building virtual, agile, cross-functional teams and establishing metrics and performance indicators

• Coaching agile development and rollout principles for an SAP migration

• Training internal staff for new roles and toughening up effort estimates towards the steering board

• Switching to agile governance and reporting structures with a focus on end-to-end business processes

• Establishing the product owner role and promoting agile principles in the SAP development team

• Reduced delivery times through domain-based scoping and smaller cycle times

• More reliable delivery forecasts and increased delivery rates

• Earlier and more frequent feedback from business units, increased trust, and cost savings by eliminating duplicate structures

• Analysis of the current process
• Development of the target processes
• Support for the implementation of improvements in an SAP-enabled program
• Simplification of customer contact initiation
• Streamlining internal processes through automated real-time verification of claim relevance
• Creation of use cases

• Introduction of giro card with Visa Debit card payment function (Combocard) for Commerzbank
• Support for the Card Processing Team (card processing; Clearing & Settlement incl. Dispute Management teams) in project work
• Creation of requirements for the Clearing & Settlement team, Authorization team (AZ) and Card Production team (KP) as part of a requirements catalog
• Requirements engineering (requirements management) with business contact person
• Participation in workstream meetings between VISA Inc., SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, Commerzbank AG and consulting firms (PwC and Senacor Technologies AG)
• Sprint planning with Jira tickets of type Task and use of Confluence
• Creation and presentation of weekly status reports for the Clearing & Settlement, Dispute Management and Reporting & GUI workstreams
• Coordination with network and file transfer teams for connection tests of new interfaces, e.g. setup of host keys, use of VPN or sipnet connections
• Coordination of the delivery of test files, e.g. exchange rates (FX rates; TC 56 of VISA rates), VISA Debit and Credit transactions (format Base II) and EANSS/ISS Base II clearing files to the Debit Clearing System (DCS)
• Conducting coordination meetings on the use of Visanet Settlement Service (VSS) and PSD2 reports and payment traffic statistics (ZVS)
• Organizing workshops with FiServ (First Data) on Dispute Management and complaint handling
• Setup and maintenance of Open Point List (OPL) in Confluence
• Technologies/methods: Jira, Confluence, giro card, VISA Debit card, payments, Kanban board, BIN, routing, CIQ, VPAY, ScalaTest, Dispute Management

• Focus on aircraft conversion, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & production processes.
• Development of a PEO prototype (architecture, customizing) with a focus on Change Record and Manufacturing.

• CRM process and feature consulting
• AI infusion workshops to introduce AI apps for critical business processes
• Prototyping – Vibe coding with Lovable
• Development of several apps for global bid management in the CPQ, Salesforce, and SAP S/4HANA environment
• Requirements and process management
• Introduction of a new data governance model
• AI infusion – supporting apps and business processes with AI applications
• Portfolio management of AI ideas: identifying and selecting AI projects in bid management
• Prototyping AI projects with Lovable.dev
• Building an AI data foundation in Snowflake
• Blueprint for different business units and global rollout
• An agile prototype-first approach with design thinking and vibe coding to prototype all applications
• Presentation at a global conference on using AI in business and validating ideas with design thinking & vibe coding
• AI infusion workshops at global conferences for prototyping ideas with business stakeholders

• Part-time 2-3 days/week
• Developments in the SD module and CRM Interaction Center
• Consulting, customizing in SD module
• Adapting Fiori applications in the SD module
• Approval workflow for credit memos: design, concept, implementation, customizing
• Credit memo request: object type BUS 2094
• If the credit memo request value is below a certain threshold -> automatic release and removal of billing block
• If the credit memo request value is above a certain threshold -> automatic determination of the responsible employee
• The employee receives a work item in their integrated inbox or in My Inbox (Fiori) -> the employee can reject, approve, or edit the credit memo request
• UML modeling in technical documentation
• Creating a Z-table for customer sample line items
• Merging COA1 (delivery) + COA2 (CAQ) forms and adding to the spool request as a single PDF
• Correcting workflow title according to NACE, fixing message "ZBMA title is displayed incorrectly in SBWP (Workplace)"
• Receiving PLM documents from an external PLM system, creating an RFC function module, storing PLM documents in the material master as GOS objects
• On releasing a production order, reading PLM documents from MM and saving them in a shared folder for the MES system
• Displaying the number of inspection methods in a popup when creating an order -> VA01/VA02
• Automatic stock reconciliation LVS IDOC INVCON
• Performing AQUA tests
• IDOC archiving for old IDOCs
• NL_PM_drawings and storing print output, informing MES via ZPPORDER IDOC, writing technical documents
• Using SD user exits, BADIs for various requirements
• Extending screens for customer requests via screen exits
• Creating message types for sales orders, purchase orders, and invoices
• Extending CRM Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> Contract with customer-specific requirements
• New Fiori application departure control with data from Z-table and standard equipment tables, displaying a pie chart, calculating "vehicles in operation"
• Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for performance feedback, attachments from GOS objects
• Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for PM quality notifications, attachments from GOS objects
• Implementing BADIs in CRM
• File storage on SAP server/UNIX server
• Using BOL/GENIL architecture in CRM development
• Project language: German

• Side-by-side refrigerator, fire truck, LEICA camera
• Setup and documentation of product data structures, master data, characteristics and evaluation rules
• SAP user training: LO-VC basics, classification, material master data creation (KMAT), configuration models (PMEVC)
• Spatial visualization of object environments for spatial configurators
• Capturing customer environments with 3D scans
• Definition of a workflow for data capture
• S/4 HANA - AVC: creation of AVC demo configurators, interface definition to web and app-based 4DE configurators, harmonization of features for interface description, alignment of JSON formats, documentation and testing
• SAP-ERP (ECC, S/4), CA-CL, LO-VC, AVC, MM, SD, Confluence, JIRA, Polycam, Magicplan

• Consulting in the SAP EAM module as part of the migration to EON's oneERP S/4HANA system

• Reviewing and cost estimation of customer-developed solutions (e.g., cockpit for EAM orders, document flow visualization)

• Preparing EAM classification data for technical objects (technical locations, equipment) for migration to new classes

• Product Owner for stakeholder management, backlog prioritization and sprint organization (refinements, planning, testing, release) in agile team (8 developers, 2 testers)
• Scaled according to SAFe by introducing sub-teams and leading retrospectives for team development
• Developed central DVAG commission system from batch to near-real-time processing (Kafka) including data migration and structure hierarchy
• Specified functional, technical and quality requirements in close coordination with lead developers
• Modeled complex business processes (BPMN) and interfaces (Kafka, REST, GraphQL)
• Supported authentication (Keycloak), frontend development (Angular) and test automation (CI/CD, CDCT)
• Accompanied cloud migration of microservices to Azure; created workbooks, dashboards and KQL queries for system monitoring
• Analyzed and optimized database systems (CosmosDB, MongoDB, SQL) and reported via Power BI to manage commission competitions
• Applied industry expertise in sales and structured sales model including overseeing financial products to market release