Eduard (H.) V.

Workshop Leader 'Introduction to AI Development Tools'

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Frankfurt, Germany

Experience

Sep 2025 - Sep 2025
1 month
Germany

Workshop Leader 'Introduction to AI Development Tools'

Software company in Wiesbaden

  • Presentation introducing generic AI and large language models
  • Explanation of legal frameworks (EU AI Act, US CLOUD Act, GDPR)
  • Systematic review of AI tools along the SDLC and holistic systems
  • Comparison of on-prem LLMs vs. cloud-based, as well as change management and works council
  • Facilitated the discussion and derived next steps for introducing AI development tools
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
1 month
Germany

Workshop Leader 'Cloud and AI Introduction'

MDAX real estate company

  • Presentation on cloud technologies and AI use cases
  • Analysis of current IT status and brainstorming with the IT department
  • Identification of existing and potential challenges
  • Promoted understanding between IT and business units
  • Derived strategic recommendations and developed a roadmap
May 2024 - Present
1 year 8 months

Technical Business Analyst / Business Engineer / Requirements Engineer / Data Engineer

Food retail company

  • Supported procurement as a Product Owner representative in meetings on Obility and Papinet
  • Provided third-level support with error and system analysis for promotional materials
  • Handled stakeholder and requirements management using ETL, Kanban, JIRA + JQL, and Confluence
  • Developed user stories and coordinated with external service providers
  • Managed Jira boards and created visualizations with SQL, MicroStrategy, PowerBI, Snowsight
  • Documented IT security compliance and managed the Rewe Group advertising system
  • Gained initial experience with Zeppelin Notebook, Apache Spark, PySpark, Airflow, Google DataProc, Collibra, Kubernetes
May 2024 - Oct 2024
6 months
Germany

Project Manager & AI Specialist

Electricity distribution company

  • Gathered requirements from network planners, identified challenges, and conducted workshops
  • Defined project goals and high-level concept for an intelligent knowledge database
  • Planned and implemented an MVP with React.js, TypeScript, and a Flask backend
  • Implemented a proof of concept on Azure with Redis, JWT, Server-Sent Events, and RBAC
  • Conducted feasibility studies, quality testing, and introduced centralized API access
  • Incorporated user feedback following agile methodology and managed APIs with exponential backoff and rate limiting
Mar 2024 - Present
1 year 10 months

Management Consultant, Project Manager & Developer for AI and Generative AI

IT support organization for German statutory health insurers

  • Advised the CEO and owners on knowledge management and AI, focusing on transformers, voicebots, and conversational AI
  • Provided strategic consulting for prioritizing topics in artificial intelligence and genAI
  • Performed regular analyses for the CEO and direct reports to compare LLMs and handle hallucinations
  • Facilitated stakeholder meetings in the insurance funds and analyzed process landscapes
  • Generated suitable use cases and managed requirements
  • Led the project for production rollout of external provider PoCs, supported PoC processes, and handled procurement
  • Structured the project with critical path analysis and guided team members during deployment
  • Designed, built, and operated several proprietary knowledge management MVPs on Azure and Open Telekom Cloud
  • Independently implemented a React-based frontend and a Flask/Python-based RAG backend
  • Implemented chat/voicebots with technological modifications and applied various AI models
  • Gained initial experience with data security, regulation, AI risk analysis, and data protection impact assessments
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
3 months
Germany

Tech Lead Customer Documentation Automation

Mid-sized Bank

  • Project planning and organization based on WBS and project structure plan
  • Guiding team members, handling client meetings and documentation
  • Defining APIs and contracts, managing subcontractors
  • Preparing and leading customer workshops, pricing and change requests
  • Coordinating interfaces and managing test program control
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
1 month
Germany

Enablement / Support for Practical Use of AI

Mid-sized Manufacturing Company

  • Workshop to introduce AI in general and common industry applications
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 1 month
Germany

Technical Lead AI Chatbot Startup

AI Chatbot Startup

  • Requirements analysis for chatbots, voicebots and conversational AI
  • Project structure and workflow planning with Python, RAG, LLMs and MLOps
  • Regular customer workshops, sizing, scoping and estimation
  • Management consulting on business use cases and cloud implementation
  • Developing MVPs, sprint planning, prototype development with Flask and NGINX
  • DevOps, CI/CD and initial steps with Kubernetes, Kubeflow and text-to-speech
Jul 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 6 months
Germany

Business Analyst / Deputy Product Owner

Food Retail Company

  • Business analysis for migrating Europe's second-largest data warehouse from Teradata to Snowflake
  • Enabling business departments and supporting tests with BMC Control-M
  • Introducing a data mesh architecture and agile project management with Kanban, JIRA and Confluence
  • Acting as Product Owner, managing external service providers and creating user stories
  • Liaising between departments, stakeholders and team members
  • Requirements analysis, stakeholder management and ensuring data quality
May 2020 - Jun 2022
2 years 2 months
Germany

Data Scientist / Data Engineer

Energy Corporation

  • Energy price modeling with EPSI SaaS and WoodMac
  • Predictive marketing and price-forward curves with Python, Pandas, NumPy and Scikit-Learn
  • Applying ETL, data warehouse and API techniques for automated data exchange
  • Visualizing results and creating presentations with Jupyter Notebook and Anaconda
  • Further developing a data pipeline in Snowflake Cloud data warehouse and AWS
  • DevOps with GitLab CI, Apache Airflow, GitFlow, as well as team coaching and recruiting
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
9 months

Product Owner / AI Architect

AI-based Startup

  • Product ownership and architecture design of an NLP-based text analysis system for a universal bank
  • Modularization of the container-based semi-microservices architecture with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Leading MVP/PoC/pilot phases, team management and code review
  • Reporting, frontend usability and presentation of results
  • Technologies: Python, Tensorflow, NLTK, React.js, NodeJS, MongoDB, PostGreSQL, Neo4j
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
2 years

Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer / Data Scientist

Financial Services Corporation

  • KPI analysis for the IT security department and development of KPI reports
  • Creation of Tableau dashboards and automated reports in the data warehouse
  • Managing developers in India, presenting key metrics and CIO advisory
  • Interviews, business analysis and documentation in Confluence
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
4 months
Germany

Data Analyst / Data Scientist

Inspection Organization

  • Feasibility study for predictive maintenance using data mining and machine learning
  • Visualization and cleaning of inspection data using Python, MatPlotLib and Tableau
  • Analysis of over 3 million records to predict inspection results
  • Creation and presentation of a final report
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
2 years

Sourcing and Contracts Analyst

Eastern European Telecommunications Company

  • Data collection, cleaning and consolidation of 100,000 orders and several hundred contracts
  • Exploratory data analysis and presentation of results
  • Development of a cost optimization strategy and automation of PowerPoint reports using VBA
  • Advising the board and documenting results

Summary

Since 2014, I have been successfully supporting and leading numerous IT and consulting projects as an IT freelancer in artificial intelligence (AI), ETL, data migration, and analysis. My strength lies in combining:

  • Hands-on experience in artificial intelligence with in-depth knowledge of machine learning and generative AI systems, including large language models (LLMs/Transformers) like ChatGPT.
  • Deep expertise in management consulting, enabling the effective integration of AI technologies into business strategies.
  • A solid understanding of the IT infrastructures needed to implement (AI) applications. This synergy of technical know-how and management skills allows me to develop and implement innovative AI solutions that meet the complex demands of modern companies. Since 1995, I have been working mainly in Germany, both as a management consultant and in senior corporate roles up to Vice President.

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence & Ml Engineering: Generative Ai, Nlp, Modeling And Training, Mlops, Voicebots, Vector Databases
  • Project Management & Consulting: Project Structuring And Leadership, Stakeholder Communication & Management, Product Ownership, Strategy Consulting, Agile Methods
  • Data Science & Engineering: Time Series Analysis, Data Cleaning, Eda, Data Pipelines, Snowflake, Sql, Postgres
  • Cloud, Devops & Architecture: Azure, Gcp, Aws, Open Telekom Cloud, (Gitlab) Ci/cd, Docker, Mlflow, Security & Compliance, Api Gateways, Reverse Proxy
  • Fullstack Development: Frontend, Backend, Authentication
  • Business Intelligence & Visualization: Kpi Definition, Dashboards, Reporting, Mockups & Prototypes, Storytelling
  • Requirements Engineering & Business Analysis: Requirements Management, Story Development, Process Analysis, Business Enablement
  • Training & Enablement: Workshops, Ai Enablement, Facilitation Of Interdisciplinary Groups, Coaching, Training

Languages

German
Advanced
English
Advanced
Dutch
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Elementary
...and 1 more

Education

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Business Administration · Germany

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Computer Science and Physics · Netherlands

Certifications & licenses

Amazon Web Services / Cloud Practitioner

Modern Project Management

Tableau Specialist

Udacity Nanodegrees: Machine Learning Engineer & Natural Language Processing

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