Solution Manager / Architect

The Saarland launched a tender for a primary school messenger. While working at Sdui GmbH, I led and won the tender. This resulted in an app currently used by all primary schools in Saarland. The app is available in the App Store under the name “OSS Messenger”. For drafting the tender and implementing the OSS Messenger, I applied my skills in capturing, analyzing, and evaluating business processes in the public administration context and managed the development team using agile methods.

For Rackow-Schulen, I took over the concept design and project management of the three-person development team. As part of the project, the existing school administration software was migrated from an MS Access implementation to a modern PHP framework (Laravel + Blade) and gradually introduced into ongoing operations, enabled by a planned configuration and release management process.

My tasks included:

• Designing and gathering requirements for the new software
• Converting the MS Access data model into a MySQL-based database model
• Planning workflows and directing the developers
• Performing editorial work (harmonizing documents, layout adjustments, etc.) for the school management and obtaining ISO-standard software certification with full support of BSI guidelines.

Invertas operates as an independent insurance and financial advisor in the Frankfurt metropolitan area. To manage the commissions of employees and freelance advisors, I defined and implemented a platform with management, which maps the internal sales structure, distributes commissions over the contract period, and provides each employee with an overview. In this project, I applied my skills in agile project management, requirements engineering, and building the development team to successfully bring the project to completion.

Since early 2020, I have supported Europe’s largest wine machine manufacturer in its digitization strategy through Sdui GmbH. In my role, I designed and implemented a system landscape around viticulture through the deployment of machines produced by ERO.

My responsibilities included among others:

• Requirements gathering and concept design of software systems
• Setting up and planning the IT infrastructure with AWS
• Designing the company’s new digital department
• Recruiting and training new employees
• Implementing the systems that represent ERO’s new digital product portfolio
• Setting up software architectures, databases, and frameworks such as NodeJS, Kubernetes, ReactJS, MongoDB, etc.
• Documentation and reporting with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Adobe Suite, Excel, Jira
• Continuous configuration and release management

As co-founder and CEO of GoContract, we launched an investor-financed startup for digital contract management and sold it in April 2022. The value of the company lay in the proprietary encryption algorithm.

For SEW Eurodrive, I led the team responsible for the global software maintenance of the company’s web presence.

My tasks included:

• Capturing and resolving incidents with our development team (programming languages: JavaScript, Python)
• Performing editorial work (harmonizing documents, layout adjustments, etc.) in release management and release documentation/communication

Additionally, I established and implemented a new release process for worldwide CMS-maintained website content, which is still in use today.

Prior to my time, Vainplex GmbH had developed a CMS that allowed Audi to transfer its print magazines to the web. My task was to maintain this CMS and implement Audi’s change requests into the system (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript) based on the Design Thinking methodology.