Armin Fanzott - Head of AI & Data Science

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Experience

Mar 2022 - Present

3 years 11 months

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Head of AI & Data Science

Ascent DACH

Lead architect for AI and ML projects including GenAI, LLM-based apps and forecasting solutions
Guided customers through solution scoping, architecture design, and PoCs across various industries (Pharma, Insurance, Logistics, FMCG)
Delivered production ML pipelines using Azure ML, MLflow, and MLOps best practices
Responsible for effort estimation, delivery and staffing of 5 – 10 projects simultaneously
Hiring manager for the data science and AI team and responsible for creating the technological offering and roadmap in the AI & Data Science space
Built and scaled the AI/Data Science service offering from scratch to a high 6-figure annual revenue with 30+ successful deliveries and 20+ clients
Regular speaker at AI and data science conferences and academic institutions

Jun 2020 - Jun 2022

2 years 1 month

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Data Science & Engineering Consultant

Self-employed

Developed REST/SOAP-based data pipelines integrating on-premise systems with SAP HANA Cloud using KNIME
Built and deployed ML models (Python) for invoice classification and document processing at a B2B SaaS FinTech

Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

2 years 1 month

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Project Lead – Customer Analytics

KELAG

Managed the creation of a central customer data platform, integrating SAP IS-U, BW, and Oracle into MS SQL (SSIS)
Applied predictive models (XGBoost, SVM, Logistic Regression) for customer segmentation and campaign optimization
The project was finished in time, budget, and quality (Medium six-digit amount)

Sep 2018 - Mar 2020

1 year 7 months

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Data Science Trainee

KELAG Energie

Developed R Shiny dashboards and churn models across energy companies in Germany (Innogy, LEW)
Built time series models (HMM, ARIMA, GARCH) for hydropower-based risk forecasting

Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

1 year 1 month

Villach, Austria

Data Science Working Student – Product Engineering

Intel

Conducted advanced analytics on semiconductor test data using R, SQL and Tibco Spotfire v2 SDK

Apr 2017 - Jun 2017

3 months

Villach, Austria

Data Science Intern – Quality Control

Infineon

Developed statistical quality control methods to reduce semiconductor testing by up to 50%
Published scientific paper: [link]

Summary

Proven track record in building and leading high-performing AI teams, architecting data-driven solutions across industries, and delivering real business impact.