SAS Experts in Munich

• Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
• Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
• Development of LLM and NLP models
• Creation of interactive reports
• Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

Study Contract Manager (SCM) for the global CRO Thermo Fisher GmbH in cooperation with the global pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca in the department of Cell Therapy Clinical Operations

Following activities are included:

• Adapt global templates of agreements to local use in accordance with local requirements and SOPs.
• Develop and negotiate clinical site budgets based on Fair Market Value.
• Negotiate agreement language and budget with clinical study sites.
• Act as point of contact and interface with Legal if necessary to ensure integrity of contracts.
• For each agreement maintain the status of agreement, budgets, issues, payments, any amendments for the duration of the study, and communications with internal and external sources
• Ensure final contract documents are consistent with agreements reached at negotiations.
• Ensure all agreements are executed in a timely manner contributing to efficient site start-up timelines.
• Support internal and external audit activities.
• Ensure compliance with AstraZeneca's Code of Conduct and company policies and procedures relating to people, finance, technology and security.
• Ensure that all contracts are included in the TMF
• Support preparation and negotiation of a Local Master Service Agreement
• Contribute to process improvements, knowledge transfer and best practice sharing.

• Migration of existing data jobs from Cognos Data Manager to Tibco/IBI Datamigrator
• Migration data jobs parametrisation for dynamic runs
• Optimisation and cutting-back
• Regression tests
• Knowledge transfer and documentation

• Insourcing a system-critical IT application to meet regulatory requirements in payment transactions
• Preparing project plans, cost estimates, and schedules for project phases
• Capturing and documenting processes
• Identifying critical paths in processes
• Preparing management documents and committee materials
• Methodology: Waterfall project management, risk and control assessments
• Tech & Tools: Project management software

• Lead Architect to design and implement the data lake and ETL Pipeline using AWS Stack
• Performance Optimization of Data Ingestion of ETL Pipeline
• Development of Data Validation using Great Expectations
• Leading of the data migration for two sources exchanges
• Data Modeling in AWS Redshift

MLOps

• Model inference implementation by mlflow and AWS SageMaker
• Feature Engineering for the running ML Models ( Recommender Engineer, Clustering )
• Implementatino of Model Registry and artifactory using mlflow
• Historization an Profiling of the Input Data Using AWS Glue Crawler and AWS Data Catalog
• Feature importance using mlflow

Tech. Stack: Python 3, AWS Glue, AWS Step Fucntion, AWS Lambda, AWS EventBridge, AWS IAM Role, AWS SageMaker, AWS EC2, AWS Glue Crawler, AWS CloudWatch, MLFlow, ETL, Data lake, GitHub Action, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible playbooks (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD, GitLab, SQL, PySparkSCRUM, Agile, Jira, BigData, VSCode, DBeaver, MSSQL, MySQL, grafana, Docker, Linux, Bash, MapReduce, Data Modeling (ORM), Pandas, YAML, SQL-Alchemy

• Customer discovery and product-market fit validation for an AI tutoring platform
• MVP experiments: customer interviews, landing page tests
• Entrepreneurship training: product-market fit, go-to-market strategy

• Establishing platform querifai.ai to help non-programmers to easily test and compare third party AI services
• Building custom AI-based workflows for clients on querifai
• Conducting projects at the intersection of management consulting and data science

• Design, development, and maintenance of end-to-end ETL pipelines for scalable and reliable data integration
• Support in data quality checks, testing, and migrations
• Development and maintenance of dbt models for structured, modular, and reusable data transformations
• Use of AI-driven development to improve ETL job creation and code quality.
• Development of CI/CD for automated deployment.

• Digitalization
• Consulting

• Support and consulting for implementing ASF print components used to create PDF forms
• Technologies: DCF, ASF, DMS, SQL
• Development
• Documentation
• Program adjustments for ASF->FDVG migration

Focus areas: strategic and operational marketing; customer management / CRM maturity assessment; call center management; product management; business analysis; project management