Andreas Ernst - Consultant

Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Present

2 years 5 months

Consultant

Iteratec GmbH

Jan 2023 - Aug 2023

8 months

VP Software Development Health Alliance & Clinical

CompuGroup Medical AG

Responsible for the technological setup and management of the cross-sectional Health Alliance division with over 300 employees at locations across Europe
Overall architecture of the main HIS product Clinical, other SaaS products and a CGM-wide development platform
Planning and management of all central and decentralized architects and platform teams
Co-responsible for budget planning, recruitment, and staffing for the platform

Jan 2017 - Dec 2022

6 years

Chief Software Architect; Chief Technical Architect

Schenker AG

Recruitment, staffing, and organization of a new distributed software engineering team of approximately 30 employees (Essen, Nanjing, Bangalore) for the NGES project as Schenker's new customer portal
Overall NGES architecture
Establishment of a new Software Factory department as a central service provider for internal projects and a staff unit for architecture and software engineering aspects
Fundamental technological redesign of the IT by defining a new overall architecture and technical platform based on state-of-the-art technologies, taking into account high-load requirements
Migration or redesign and go-live of all core systems based on the new platform
Integration of the first AI components (Recommendation Engine, Sentiment Analysis)
Member of the IT management team; co-responsible for budget planning, staffing and recruitment

Dec 2013 - Dec 2016

3 years 1 month

Principal Architect

HRS GmbH

Architect and project lead of a new micro-frontend-based technology stack/framework for portal applications, including a virtualized microservice-based backend IoT infrastructure (Kubernetes, Argo CD) for SENEC GmbH
Technical project lead of two portal applications/teams

Jan 2001 - Dec 2010

10 years

Principal Consultant

Capgemini AG (sd&m)

Chief architect and technical project manager of an Air & Ocean Transportation System (>150 employees) for Schenker AG
Enterprise architect of all Schenker projects such as Land Transportation System, Rate & Contract Management, Master Data Management
Chief architect of the Order Management project (80 employees) for Deutsche Post AG
Chief architect of Quasar, a technical platform used throughout sd&m
Member of the business unit's management team; co-responsible for staffing and recruitment
Pre-sales activities

Jan 1993 - Dec 1996

4 years

Software Engineer

COI GmbH

Responsible for the technical foundation and architecture of a document- and workflow-management system Business Flow
Development of a proprietary functional and object-oriented programming language

Summary

A creative and talented mentor and pragmatic doer who sets directions with courage, decision-making skills and the will to assert himself and thus producing results quickly.

A creative and curious technological innovator who continuously enhances existing platforms with state-of-the-art technologies to unlock new use cases and significantly boost productivity.

An energetic, charismatic and empathetic leader and mentor, who motivates and inspires employees - with vision, ambition and a hunger for success.

Skills

Redesign Of Group-wide State-of-the-art It Architectures And Platforms
Implementation And Rollout Of Core Systems
Establishment Of Software Engineering Processes To Optimize Development Efforts And Costs
Establishment And Expansion Of High-performance Teams

Leadership

Technical Leadership Of International, Decentralized Teams With Over 100 Employees
Disciplinary Leadership Of 30+ Employees
Responsibility For The Entire Employee Lifecycle
Change Management
Cooperative Leadership Style

Project Management

Agile Project Management Based On Scrum, Safe
Introduction Of Agile Processes, Methodologies And Culture
Project Management Of International Projects

Industry Experience

Logistics
Healthcare
Energy Industry
Travel Industry
Retail
Finance

Methodologies

Scrum
Kanban
Xp
Prince2
Togaf
Itil

Technologies – Programming Languages (Extract)

Php
Python
Java
Kotlin
Dart
C
C++
C#
Objective-c
Swift
Scala
Javascript
Typescript
Smalltalk
Modula
Prolog
Lisp
Clos

Databases

Oracle
Mariadb
Postgres
Db2
Databricks
Snowflake
Cassandra

As & Middleware

Jboss/wildfly
Oracle Weblogic
Ibm Websphere
Tomcat
Ibm Mqseries
Activemq
Hornetq
Mulesoft

Backend Frameworks

Jpa/hibernate
Spring
Elastic Stack
Jgroups
Terracotta
Infinispan
Drools

Frontend Frameworks

React
Angularjs
Angular
Flutter
Vaadin
Jsf
Ionic
Cordova

Virtualization

Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Argo Cd
Aws
Gcp
Azure

Pytorch
Rasa
Langchain
Langgraph
Rag
Mcp

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 1985 - Jun 1989

University Koblenz Landau

Diploma in Applied Computer Science with a focus on Computational Linguistics · Applied Computer Science · Koblenz, Germany · 1,7

Oct 1977 - Jun 1984

Tannenbusch-Gymnasium Bonn

High school diploma · Bonn, Germany · 1,5

Oct 1974 - Jun 1976

International School of Belgrade

Belgrade, Serbia

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Summary

Skills

Languages

Education

University Koblenz Landau

Diploma in Applied Computer Science with a focus on Computational Linguistics · Applied Computer Science · Koblenz, Germany · 1,7

Tannenbusch-Gymnasium Bonn

High school diploma · Bonn, Germany · 1,5

International School of Belgrade

Belgrade, Serbia

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