Volunteer Examiner for IT Apprenticeships

As a PhD computer scientist with deep expert knowledge combined with extensive hands-on experience and strong communication skills, I want to contribute to developing a high-quality IT strategy, software, and components, combining strategic vision with practical execution.

With my combined expertise in operational IT management and software development, as well as goal-oriented project leadership, I aim to support teams and projects with my know-how. My goal is to actively shape modern IT and software landscapes while keeping an eye on the big picture to enable critical decisions for internal and external stakeholders.

• PhD Computer Science expert (Dr.-Ing.) with broad know-how and several years of hands-on experience in IT management and software development

• Strong competence in planning, steering, and executing IT and software projects, both conceptually and in implementation

• Extensive leadership experience through managing an IT and software department, as well as founding and leading a startup in the digital education sector

• Strong communication skills as a long-time technical author for software topics and lecturer for programming, database design, and information processing

• Organized project manager who leads strategically and is hands-on operationally

• Expertise in cloud migration and building a development team

• Structured working style through planning and creating teaching materials

• Specific expertise in eye-tracking as an analytical method

• Curious personality striving for continuous growth and eager to share knowledge, both personally and as an author, lecturer, and blogger

• Cloud migration of an IT environment to Microsoft Azure

• Implementation and decommissioning of IT applications (legacy, cloud migration)

• Introduction of customer relationship management tools (Bitrix24 and HubSpot)

• Support for startups in computer science and software development

• Founding and scaling my own startup

• Acquisition and delivery of various software projects as a freelancer

• Design, implementation, and launch of an authoring platform

• Design of an agent system for AI-supported unit test generation

• Design and implementation of a platform for AI-generated flashcards

• Publication of numerous technical articles and scientific papers, including the first German-language book on Vue.js 3

I practice a cooperative leadership style and value interactions at eye level despite hierarchical structures. I actively involve my team members to find solutions that everyone supports. Clear and firm agreements are an important tool. As a leader, I see it as my responsibility to create the conditions and framework that allow everyone to contribute and grow. When needed, I assert myself effectively and make realistic, actionable decisions.

With my experience as a founder and managing director, I value a balanced mix of short-term pessimism and long-term optimism. On one hand, I believe in the big picture, trust in the overarching goals, and am convinced of their feasibility. This creates the positive energy needed to tackle tasks. At the same time, I consciously remain skeptical about the coming weeks and months to avoid charging in blindly and being unprepared for potential risks.