Teradata Experts in Germany

• Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
• Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
• Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.

• 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

Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.

• Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
• Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
• Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
• Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
• BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.

Senior IT Integration Manager for an international transformation program, focusing on IT integration, data migration, stakeholder management, dependency steering, governance and management reporting.

Bullet points

• Steering IT integration and transformation activities in an international enterprise environment
• Coordination between business, IT, specialist departments and external service providers
• Planning and tracking roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and risks
• Preparing status reports, decision papers and management updates

• Define EMEA ISV Go-to-Market strategy to push indirect SaaS sales
• Solve customer problems with AI embedding into new use cases and solutions
• Build partner ecosystem and sell partner solutions to drive platform consumption
• Enable cross-functional teams on AI use cases implementation
• Manage a cross-functional team of 7 FTE
• Built EMEA partner originated pipeline from scratch with 70 mn€ TCV and 20 mn€ ARR growth sales with cloud-based and hybrid solutions
• Increased co-sell rate from 20% to 40% and co-delivery rate from 25% to over 50%

• Designed and implemented scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, dbt, AWS and Informatica to ingest data from sources such as APIs, relational databases, and flat files into Snowflake, reducing pipeline runtime by ~30%.
• Migrated high-volume datasets from on-premises Teradata to Snowflake using AWS services (S3, Glue, Step Functions, IAM), ensuring data consistency and integrity.
• Applied Kimball methodology to design star and snowflake schemas, improving query performance and reducing Snowflake compute costs.
• Implemented automated data quality checks using SQL-based dbt tests and the Great Expectations framework to detect anomalies and enforce data correctness before production loads.
• Orchestrated ETL workflows in Airflow using Python and managed code deployments via Git with CI/CD best practices to increase deployment reliability and maintain pipeline uptime.
• Built interactive Power BI dashboards and curated datasets to enable data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
• Maintained technical documentation in Confluence for ETL workflows, and led knowledge-sharing sessions for new joiners.

• Led design, development, and deployment of data solutions supporting a major pharma acquisition for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, delivering transparency reporting systems across Azure,Databricks (Python and Shell Scripting) platforms.
• Owned,Designed and developed scalable ELT pipelines to process Customer and Product data using Azure, complex SQL, Databricks, and shell scripting, enabling efficient data integration and processing across multiple sources including job orchestration and workflow automation.
• Implemented performance optimization techniques (query tuning, parallelism, workload optimization), improving system efficiency and processing time.
• Applied strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess technical solutions and support business requirements for compliance and transparency reporting.
• Designed scalable data foundations suitable for downstream analytics and AI workloads.
• Led data quality initiatives by assessing multiple source data, defining quality metrics, and establishing processes for monitoring and continuous improvement.

• It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
• GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
• Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
• CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment

• Supported the International Web Presence project of the Federal Employment Agency (IntWeb) in quality management, taking on responsibility for the quality of processes and project deliverables while adhering to BA standards. The project's main goals are to give professionals abroad a quick overview of their chances to move to Germany and to enable them to take the necessary steps in a consistently digital way.

• Set the fundamental guidelines using the QA handbook

• Summarized test results in QA reports for PLA

• Analyzed project outcomes for improvement opportunities

• Quality management of requirements analysis (especially processes, methods and tools)

• Ensured compliance with SERA guidelines

• Created a cross-project test concept

• Agreed on sprint completion reports

• Conducted formal reviews of deliverables according to guidelines and/or project plan

• Acted as contact person for internal audit and external audits by auditors or the Federal Audit Office (BRH)

• Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, GitLab, Kubernetes

• Highly successful role as lead data analytics expert at a US consulting startup.
• Managed stakeholder expectations by ensuring team delivery velocity using Agile and Lean practices.
• Trained and assembled international offshore data science teams of DevOps engineers, BI developers, and technical support specialists.
• As Sparecodes' data analytics experts, we improved our clients’ business outcomes through requirements management, dashboard and report development, migration, automation, and production support using IBM Cognos, AWS, SAP, Oracle, Teradata, CRM, ERP, Confluence, and Microsoft.
• Provided effective coaching and mentoring for international, multicultural teams in a remote environment, covering new tools and techniques, Agile best practices, internal and external communication, and presentation skills.
• Coordinated technical processes efficiently, including managing and implementing project changes and control processes.
• Promoted strong team engagement and supported employees’ career development, including business change management through coaching.
• Enhanced project status reports by providing insights into team productivity, predictability, and backlog burn-down, leading to improved project outcomes.
• Successfully led the coordination and implementation of software solutions for clients in mechanical engineering, including automation system integration and customization to meet client needs.

• Developed a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application using LangChain and LangGraph for corporate document parsing, delivered as an installable Electron desktop application with local AI models via Ollama.
• Currently providing ongoing AI feature support for the Loan Pricing Tool at Hamburg Commercial Bank, with a commitment of three days per month.
• Architected Kubernetes-native solutions, including Helm chart configuration and Azure DevOps pipeline integration.

• Developed a comprehensive business concept for a medical fall detection device based on a patented process registered in Germany
• Identified and collected use cases for medical device deployment in residential buildings and healthcare provider facilities
• Expanded the product scope to industry standards such as HL7/FHIR and designed a product based on modern communication protocols for IIoT
• Supported offshoring activities, defined SLA and scope-of-work documents for development teams after selecting various vendors
• Identified and selected hardware components (Terrabee, E-Con Systems) for LIDAR/TDOA functions
• Defined integrated AI features and LLM models for patient fall detection as well as AI-based audio triggers
• Oversaw the implementation of algorithms for object detection, fall detection, and false alarm identification

• Design and implementation of DevOps and CI/CD practices for data and analytics teams
• Introduction of infrastructure as code with Terraform (IaC)
• Setup and maintenance of GCP user and permission management with Terraform in multi-project environment
• Design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines with GitHub
• Leading and training developer team for the introduction of IaC and CI/CD practices
• Building and optimising database connectors with Apache Arrow for terabyte scale data extraction (Oracle, SAP)
• Optimising data lake storage and warehouse ingest