SAP Experts in Essen

• Introduction of a new digital product to the Chinese market as part of a global growth strategy.

• Point of contact and coordinating interface between central product management, local Chinese teams and international stakeholders.

• Management of the entire program to coordinate complex digital projects.

• Successful market 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 requirements into account.

• Introduction of a new way of working to improve collaboration and coordination across locations.

• Development and implementation of a scaling strategy for the digital business model in China.

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

• Project language: English.

• Industry: mechanical engineering, vehicle manufacturing
• Regulations: Data Act
• Project focus: data governance, legally compliant use of machine data, data platforms
• Assigned by: CFO, platform product owner

Successes/Results (early phase):

• Compliance support for the setup of an internal standardized data usage platform based on Databricks.
• Created the basis for the legally compliant and effective use of machine data, including:
• Technical: gap analysis and closing of gaps in the segmentation and maintenance of collected machine data.
• Technical: consideration of data flows from the platform to users and third parties.
• Organizational: drafting and finalizing the required data usage agreements.

• QA Lead for end-to-end quality assurance of the Sparkasse & Sparkasse Business banking apps (iOS/Android); design and implementation of the Test Strategy including functional testing, regression testing, and UAT for eID, Push Notifications, and white-label components
• Creation and maintenance of test concepts and test plans in TestRail; structured Defect Management and error analysis; stakeholder management and risk management for the early identification of critical quality risks
• Accessibility Testing according to WCAG 2.1 (iOS/Android); coordination of AI-supported test automation and optimization of test processes to shorten release cycles
• Release Management: planning, management, and coordination of all test activities; status reporting to management and stakeholders; quality assessment of releases and release recommendations in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Challenge: Highly complex build and release process across several Sparkasse institutions; close coordination with the DevOps team to stabilize the CI/CD pipeline and ensure reproducible test builds before every release.

Tools: Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Android Studio, Xcode, Firebase, Jenkins, GA4

• Success: Successful launch of the eID authentication process - quality assurance ensured for 50+ Sparkasse institutions

• Independent planning, coordination and operational counting of fixed asset inventories at SGS sites across Germany
• During the count, clarification of variances as well as posting of the new inventories in the fixed assets of the respective site and company

• Management of IT with 10 employees, including budget and personnel responsibility.
• Harmonization of the Navision systems in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
• Connection of the ERP systems in Switzerland, Austria and Italy to the central Microsoft Power BI systems in Germany.
• Rollout of a new firewall at 10 locations in D, CH and A.
• Evaluation of a new DMS.
• Migration to Windows 10 / 11.
• Transformation of 9 countries into ONE Europe.
• Start of NIS2 implementation in 5 European countries.

Tools: Fabric, AWS, dbt, Power BI, SQL, DWH, R, Python

• Supported customers in implementing an architecture design for extracting and preparing data
• Planned the design and implementation of the BI and DWH platform
• Ensured the scalability and performance of the data platform

• Management of participant, dealer, scheduling, and training processes in a high-volume automotive OEM environment
• Analyse learning-system and participant data to explain completion gaps, identify training needs and support project decisions
• Improve booking traceability and status workflows so colleagues can resolve customer queries and follow up on outstanding actions
• Functional support and onboarding of team members
• Work across high-volume training programs serving target groups in the thousands

• Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
• Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.

• Transition of Microsoft Azure operations to BTC AG
• Responsibility: budget of €60k
• Staff: leadership of 5 people
• Tools: Office 365, JIRA, Confluence

• Developed and optimised structured support workflows and evaluation procedures, applying consistent quality standards across high-volume operational tasks.
• Monitored performance metrics to identify systemic issues and drive targeted improvements — a skill directly transferable to LLM performance metric analysis.
• Managed escalations and maintained high accuracy and satisfaction standards in a fully asynchronous, remote-first environment.

• Project Manager steel works crane and material handling at ArcelorMittal in Eisenhüttenstadt for their decarburization project, December 2024 to March 2025
• Project Manager Cranes and Logistics for the new converter at Aurubis Hamburg via Hays AG, May to October 2024
• Specification for placing the orders and coordination of interfaces
• Erection of a powder production plant for an Indian customer in Bengaluru, 2024
• Leading the erection and assembly team of the customer Indo MIM
• Responsible for Health, Safety and Environment
• Technical and commercial project management at Belimed Life Science AG in Sulgen, Switzerland, with SAP, 2022
• Revamp of a slab rolling mill for copper for Siam Poongsan including engineering, construction and site and quality management, own order directly from the end customer, 2021 to 2023
• Site and quality management for a powder production plant (gas atomization system) in Penang, Malaysia, Oryx Advanced Materials, 2022
• Interim Head of Services at ALD Vacuum Technologies, Hanau/Bangkok, installation, service and construction management, 2019 to 2024
• Interim Head of Service Cold Rolling Mills and continuous casting at Danieli Thailand/Vietnam, 2016 to 2018
• Interim Manager Quality Assurance at SMS Concast for four months in 2018

• Independent work as a mechanical design engineer.
• Design work in SolidWorks 2022.
• Creation of drawings for assemblies and individual parts, taking surface finish, machining, and material into account.
• 3D design and new development of modules for manufacturing computer chips.
• 3D design and implementation of concepts in close coordination with the design team.
• Design of an extraction system for solvents (acids and alkalis), focusing on cost reduction and automatic retention.
• Use of 3D sketches to design hose routing.
• Reading pneumatic diagrams and implementing them in CAD.
• Development of a gas component plate for supplying four lines, including the integration of filters and design simplification.
• Prototype construction and new development.
• Import and further processing of STEP files.
• 3D design of E-cabinet equipment based on templates.
• Use of the SAP and ECTR PLM systems for storing, copying, linking, attaching data, changing statuses, and versioning.
• Creation of work lists, maintenance of material master data, and change numbers.
• Structure maintenance and BOM export.
• Work with transactions for changes, documents, and material masters.
• Creation of layouts for complete systems and individual modules for internal coordination.