Slack Expert in Munich

• Active sourcing and recruiting for individual assignments (Finance, IT, Procurement)
• Training of recruiting departments
• Training of specialists and managers for job application situations and interview techniques
• Application coaching and CV consulting

• Worked as freelance Senior DevOps Consultant on-site for IBM at a European Union Agency, operating in a highly secure, air-gapped environment managing classified systems.
• Led automation and DevOps initiatives for a large-scale OpenShift platform (>400 nodes), driving deployment efficiency, GitOps adoption, and operational automation using Ansible, Python, and Bash while ensuring compliance with security requirements.
• Spearheaded automation of release and deployment workflows in a private cloud environment hosting 400+ OpenShift nodes, significantly improving deployment speed and reliability.
• Migrated existing playbooks, roles, and templates from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), ensuring full compliance with fully-qualified collection names (FQCN) and preparing custom Execution Environments (EE) for containerized automation.
• Implemented GitOps Agent for AAP Controller Configuration as Code, enabling automated synchronization (CRUD) of Ansible Controller objects based on repository-stored configuration definitions using GitHub webhooks.
• Designed and automated complex multi-step operational workflows including environment cleanup, Helix cluster component re-creation, Kafka topic management, and OpenShift object lifecycle management across ~100 environments.
• Achieved a reduction of multi-day manual operations to under a few hours through automation improvements spanning multiple AAP clusters and OpenShift environments.
• Integrated Ansible Automation Platform with Thycotic (Delinea) Secret Server via lookup plugin to enhance secure credential management in automated processes.
• Managed deployment tasks, platform troubleshooting, and Istio network configurations while adhering to stringent EU PSC security and compliance standards.
• Collaborated with infrastructure and application teams to refine deployment procedures, develop naming conventions, and continuously improve automation coverage in an air-gapped, classified environment.

• Concept, interaction and UX for XR experiences for the automotive industry
• Optimizing XR experiences
• Building experiences with AI

• Business analyst/ project manager/ trainer/ entrepreneur
• Consulting companies in the areas of business analysis, process management, agile project management and organizational development.
• Management of digitalization and transformation projects (LichtBlick SE, E.ON, Co.met, Stromnetz Hamburg)
• Introduction of agile ways of working and development of efficient process and PMO structures
• Successful implementation of a product launch (Idea-to-Market, > 100 Epics over 3 years)
• Creation of requirements specifications, process models and IT concepts
• Coaching and training of specialists and managers (Jira/Confluence, purchasing)
• Development of my own product “TriggaBuddy” – concept, CAD design, 3D printing, utility model
• Consulting assignments: E.ON, LichtBlick SE, Co.Met, Stromnetz Hamburg GmbH

Sub-project lead in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

• Leading a software development team with 10 employees
• Budget responsibility approx. 3 million euros per year
• Conducting employee and job interviews
• Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
• Digitalization of a web interface
• Regular reporting to customers and stakeholders (C-level)
• Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to guide product development
• Structuring product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
• Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
• Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector incl. knowledge of regulatory processes
• Formulating the sub-project charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
• Controlling service delivery according to the project charter
• Planning and controlling human resources including budget planning for the sub-project
• Ensuring the work capacity of the sub-project participants, e.g. by requesting access rights and documents for the sub-project team
• Planning and control for the respective sub-project (time, scope, budget) including the creation of necessary documents
• Alignment with the business department and Product Owners to plan the sub-project scope and the corresponding implications
• Executing milestone planning according to the agreed process model
• Effort estimation and support of sub-project controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
• Reporting sub-project status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
• Analyzing, preparing, and addressing action and decision requirements
• Escalating sub-project issues to the project management
• Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
• Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (time, scope, and budget)
• Implementation management of the overarching guidelines and requirements in the sub-project, supported by cross-functional roles on the functional and technical side.
• Identifying, managing, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across sub-projects
• Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
• Preparing and managing commissioning including the required documents and protection needs assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the full-stack area (7 people)

• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Implementation of the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown charts), metrics, as well as conducting required training in an agile IT environment
• Preparation of Scrum events such as Daily, retrospectives, Review, Sprint planning, estimation, and refinement (agile way of working)
• Moderation of retrospectives and elimination of obstacles to move the team and product forward
• Preparation of action items and retros via whiteboard and Figma
• Application and improvement of agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
• Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
• Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
• Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creation of filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up cycle time
• Use of Jira & Confluence
• Setting up a progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual efforts for user stories
• Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "velocity", "burn-down chart", "throughput", "costs", "quality", "scope"
• Evaluation of agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
• Communication and moderation know-how
• Methodological competence proven in conflict discussions

• Advise organizations on integrating AI into project and program management practices, delivering measurable productivity improvements
• Designed and implemented an AI agent to improve project communication, transparency, and reporting quality

• Built and managed the Retail Media sales team
• Built the Retail Media product portfolio Onsite / Offsite
• Set up contract documents, accounting processes, sales materials and trainings
• Built strong customer relationships to generate revenue (Key Accounts Industry / Agencies)
• Finalized the future product portfolio for marketing
• Developed and derived a product business case to manage communication and sales in 2025 / 2026
• Implemented a reorganization in the E-Commerce and Sales division

• Building strong awareness within the company around nearshoring
• Engagement Manager in the Nearshore Competence Center
• Responsible for nearshore consulting, partner screening and technical onboarding, designing and implementing cooperation scenarios, change management, stakeholder management, participation in steering committees, and collaboration with IT and business units
• Tools used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Azure Devops, Microsoft Sharepoint, Conceptboard
• Key results: Establishment of a nearshoring strategy, successful identification and implementation of outsourcing partnerships, delivery of change management and stakeholder management at the highest level

• Designed role-based delivery assignment workflows, switchable between own fleet and partner carriers, with traceable status chains from „pending“ to „in delivery.“
• Designed AI-assisted route optimization, where dispatchers review drive-time-optimized route suggestions as drafts and apply them in one click.
• Designed a central planning interface for delivery and route management, bringing table view, map view, and route composition into a single workflow.
• Built interactive prototypes to align new product features early with stakeholders and engineering.

Key methods: AI-assisted Product Design, Workflow Design, Role-Based Workflows, Dashboard Design, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Logistics/Operations UX, Stakeholder Collaboration

• Spearheaded efforts to enhance product consistency and achieve significantly better usability, ensuring a more intuitive experience
• Partnered with the founders to define a new go-to-market strategy through product discovery
• Directed the process of creating a new company website from concept and wireframes to design and final implementation in Webflow
• Responsive Webdesign
• WCAG
• Corporate Branding
• Product Discovery
• MVP
• Product Design
• User Experience
• Rapid Prototyping

• 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

• I help startups and scale-ups to build strong, people-focused organizations – with hands-on HR, project, and leadership support. I offer flexible interim HR management and project-based support, tailored to your needs and designed to work in fast-moving environments.

Internal systems with regulatory and security requirements could not be used directly by AI tools for incident triage, troubleshooting, and documentation search. The goal was to securely integrate these systems through MCP while preserving existing acce...

• Lead AI readiness and process assessments across HR and Finance, identify automation opportunities, develop ROI business cases and translate findings into prioritized recommendations for executive decision-making.
• Built CloudMcFly's internal AI operating system in self-hosted n8n, with a 22-strong digital workforce across seven business functions and an estimated delivery capacity equivalent to three to five people. A separate document-classification workflow reduced manual HR ticket routing by 60%.
• Translate EU AI Act requirements into practical governance roadmaps and deliver "AI Driving License" workshops, strengthening leadership understanding of AI adoption and governance responsibilities.