Traceability Experts in Munich

• Ongoing independent executive practice for ERP/MES, digital manufacturing, IT/OT and program delivery in industrial and regulated environments.
  
  

• Lead transformation and recovery programs across Europe, the US and Asia across programs with total value exceeding EUR 180M. Focus areas include governance reset, multi-site execution, vendor control, ERP/MES target architecture, executive steering and transition to stable operations.
  
  

• Selected current and recent work:**
  
  

• PE-backed Industrial Carve-out, Europe | Transformation & Separation Advisor | February 2026 – Present Supporting carve-out preparation and execution with focus on separation logic, operating model, governance, TSA implications, IT/ERP dependencies and Day-1 readiness. Translating transaction perimeter into executable workstreams across business, IT, operations and finance, with clear decision cadence and risk transparency.
  
  

• Industrial Software & Automation, Europe | Industry Strategy & Value Proposition Advisory | Jul 2025 – Apr 2026 Shaped industry strategy, value proposition and executive positioning for focused industrial software and automation providers in adjacent but distinct markets, including warehouse automation, enterprise architecture, process intelligence and manufacturing transformation. Work included ICP clarity, use-case framing, GTM logic, customer value realization and the translation of ERP/MES, IT/OT and shopfloor reality into scalable, provider-specific market narratives.
  
  

• AI LegalTech Platform, Switzerland | Interim CTO | Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 Defined product, data and technology roadmap for an AI-enabled LegalTech platform under DACH regulatory constraints. Implemented RAG architecture and delivered MVP, pilot clients and partner setup for first revenues and investor readiness.
  
  

• Industrial Components, Switzerland | Manufacturing Transformation Program Lead | Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 Re-established governance and roadmap for an eight-year stalled MES replacement across multiple plants. Aligned ERP and Quality interfaces, restored delivery cadence and improved OEE by more than 15% in a CHF 550M business unit.
  
  

• Pharma & Chemicals, Ireland | GxP Manufacturing Systems Program Lead | May 2020 – Dec 2022 Took over a failing MES/DNC rollout in Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing under strict GxP constraints. Reset governance, validation and site support, restoring operational stability and Day-1 compliance.
  
  

• Premium Automotive, Italy | Paint Shop Digitalization Program Manager | Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 Stabilized a failed MES rollout that had reduced throughput to 8–9 cars per day versus 23 contracted. Increased output to 26–28 cars per day, securing continuity of a premium product line worth more than EUR 1B.
  
  

• Automotive Tier-1, Germany | Manufacturing Transformation Program Manager | Oct 2019 – Jun 2020 Modernized an unstable legacy MES blocking ERP integration and traceability. Defined target architecture, aligned vendors and plants, and enabled more than 20% OT operating cost reduction.

• Engaged in a structured career development program while strengthening German language proficiency (B1 level) and evaluating opportunities in ADAS/AD systems and requirements engineering.

• Mentoring startups about technology trends and solutions, business models, market and competition research.

• Developed and operationalized a digitalization strategy to ensure a seamless value chain across all business areas in coordination with executive management
• Implemented a process management standard and led the process organization
• Program management: directed the design, implementation and coordination of the rollout across all value-adding business units
• Reported on the program to stakeholders and executive management
• Supplier management: selected, contracted and managed suppliers within the digitalization program
• Redesigned the process organization, defined new process standards and developed training programs

• 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.

• Transformation project to S/4HANA
• Test management and coordination of functional tests for SAP
• Preparation and support of tests (SIT 1+2, MOCK 1+2, UAT) as part of the SAP S/4HANA rollout (SD, MM, FI/CO, MD)
• Creation of test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure system quality
• Monitoring and compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) as well as ensuring the timely delivery of agreed performance indicators
• Coordination of the approach with test managers from other regions (US, JP)
• Planning of European test activities in the SAP implementation project in cooperation with test managers from the supplier
• Coordination of interdisciplinary business and technical test teams in Europe
• Business collaboration with global implementation partners
• Use of Tricentis qTest and ValGenesis as test management tools (for validation-relevant processes)
• Training functional consultants in testing and test tools
• Creation and evaluation of change requests, including effort estimation, prioritization, and tracking
• Reporting on test progress

• Tested Body Control Module (BCM) software using dSPACE, Control Desk and EXAM in GHIL (Gesamt HIL).
• Led a team of 8 engineers and managed end-to-end software execution for each release, from requirement analysis to final validation and release.
• Coordinated with function specialists to analyse requirements and derive test cases.
• Developed test specifications and maintained bidirectional traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Automated test cases and built library functions using EXAM (Audi and VW customer-specific tool for test automation).
• Organised GHIL testing activities for both manual and automated test execution.
• Evaluated and analysed test reports generated from night runs in EXAM.
• Identified software and GHIL issues based on report analysis and created bug tickets for traceability.

• Hands-on ALM-solution configuration: process refinement (BPMN), workshops and stakeholder management

• Product development templates configuration and validation

• Full traceability and decomposition

• Tailored to fulfill 62304 internal SOP requirements and 29119

• Regular meetings, metrics and dashboards

• Work item workflows and link roles

• User roles and rights

• Prepared work instructions, training and rollout

• Tools: Polarion (Siemens ALM), MS Visio, MS PowerPoint

• Development of the vehicle communication stack in C using AUTOSAR tools for robust inter-module communication within the ECU
• Design, implementation and validation of functions for the electric powertrain, contributing to improved efficiency and reliability
• Definition and verification of system and software requirements, ensuring traceability and compliance with standards
• Collaboration with development partners in North Africa, coordinating architecture, interfaces and integration milestones
• Extension of the communication stack with enhanced security features, increasing resilience against unauthorized access and data manipulation

• Review of processes and controls in FATCA reporting
• Assessment of proper release management for FATCA software
• Identification of areas for improvement

Growth startup - stabilization / operational cleanup

• Discovery - Interview sessions - recommendations

• Discovery - DeepDive - Decision-to-Execution Framework

• Derive a target system landscape and transformation path

• Assess the future role of CRM/ERP/other systems

• Develop a pragmatic target vision for finance processes, roles and system support

• Prioritize by impact, effort and scalability

• Conduct end-to-end process and responsibility analysis

• Create transparency around roles, responsibilities and handovers

• Identify duplicate work, media breaks and governance issues

• Analyze data and system flows, including selected validations

• Review relevant interfaces and data transfers

• Validate selected booking and reconciliation logics (spot checks)

• Sharpen finance operating model and responsibilities

• Define boundaries between operational tasks and functional responsibilities

• Assess organizational options and future task distribution

• Prioritize risks, control mechanisms and stabilization measures

• Evaluate existing control points and traceability

• Derive initial measures to stabilize critical processes

• Deployed and optimized Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and diffusion policy models on NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor, meeting real-time inference latency targets for humanoid robot control loops.
• Built TensorRT engine pipelines (PyTorch → ONNX → TensorRT) with INT8/FP8 post-training quantization, calibration dataset design, and quantization-aware validation, reducing inference memory footprint by over 3× on Jetson without accuracy regression.
• Developed custom CUDA C++ plugins and CUDA Graphs for latency-deterministic, real-time policy execution – meeting hard runtime and memory constraints on embedded GPU targets.
• Developed an inference engine for VLA models on top of llama.cpp bringing different VLA policies under single runtime, packaging each as a single self-contained GGUF that needs no Python or PyTorch.
• Profiled and tuned GPU execution using NVIDIA Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute, identifying CUDA kernel bottlenecks, memory bandwidth saturation, and SM occupancy issues across Jetson Orin and Thor compute profiles for cross-layer performance optimization.