Matthias Kittner
General ERP and AI Consulting
Experience
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 1 monthVillmergen, Switzerland
General ERP and AI Consulting
Swissnorm
- Improve and properly define internal processes
- Requirements management and selection of an ERP system
- Consulting on selection, implementation, and use of AI to optimize processes
- Systems and technology: ERPnext
Nov 2024 - Present
1 year 2 monthsBalingen, Germany
Process and AI Consulting
Holzland Reichert
- Improve internal processes
- Requirements management and selection of a project planning system
- Consulting on selection, implementation, and use of AI to optimize processes
- Systems and technology: ClickUp, ChatGPT and other AI models, Python, n8n, make.com, Zapier
Aug 2024 - Present
1 year 5 monthsJena, Germany
IT Architecture & DevOps & Coach
schmidt&töchter
- Setting up software development and DevOps processes
- Coaching the software development team
- Consulting for development projects (requirements management, continuous architecture, TDD architecture, risk analysis, processes)
- AI implementation consulting
- Systems and technology: ERPnext, open source, Python
May 2024 - Dec 2024
8 monthsMunich, Germany
Infrastructure Architecture & DevOps
Cerulean Circle
- Building a cloud architecture to support rapid prototyping of MVPs
- Setting up DevOps practices and operational deployments using Docker, VMware, and AI
- Documenting and training stakeholders on using and further developing this infrastructure
May 2023 - Apr 2024
1 yearMannheim, Germany
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
ABB Group
- Analyzing the current IAM implementation
- Exploring all processes and identifying all involved stakeholders, systems, data sources, and data flows
- Documenting potential weaknesses in the process and the current overall architecture
- Conducting workshops to gather expert knowledge
- Stakeholder and expectation management
- Building the target architecture
- Collecting and documenting the desired and necessary use cases
- Designing the target architecture for the future IAM platform and planning the transformation steps
- Supporting the ongoing development of the new IAM platform
- Conducting code reviews
- Consulting on development guidelines
- Hands-on discussions on implementing the architectural requirements
- Requesting and reviewing necessary data adjustments and MVP implementations
- Systems and technology: ServiceNOW, ClearSkye (IAM system on ServiceNOW), Python, Groovy, diagram-as-code frameworks
May 2023 - Jan 2024
9 monthsWolfsburg, Germany
Domain, Solution, and Enterprise Architecture
Volkswagen AG
- Advising on creating and advancing an SAP platform strategy
- Maintaining and expanding documentation and LeanIX entries
- Analyzing, evaluating, and modeling existing business and technical capabilities
- Deriving the required business and technical capabilities for a business technology platform
- Advising on gap analyses for current and needed platform capabilities
- Advising on developing a business technology platform capability map
- Drafting and advising on creating a technical target architecture for (after-)sales
- Creating a technical target architecture for (after)-sales, including the spare parts business
- Identifying action items for new vehicle projects
- Deriving an initial IT target architecture to meet known and unknown functional and technical requirements, focusing on warranty processes across multiple brands and markets
- Conducting workshops to gather expert knowledge
- Managing stakeholders and expectations
- Advising on target architectures for 2023 and 2030 as well as decommissioning and modernization planning up to 2030
- Setting up processes to maintain a target architecture in LeanIX (EAM service)
- Advising on guidelines for API layers
- Systems and technology: LeanIX, Python, JIRA, Confluence, REST
Jan 2023 - May 2023
5 monthsMunich, Germany
Proof-of-Concept Web VR Application
Cerulean Circle
- Project for "The Line" by NEOM in Saudi Arabia, with Cerulean Circle and idea.la, Los Angeles
- Developed an application to visualize an apartment in a metaverse (VR) for a potential buyer, manage land registry, and handle the full apartment sales process
- Responsible for QA and DevOps
- Set up and implemented automated testing and deployment processes
- Defined development guidelines
- Contributed to the architecture team
- Systems and technology: Docker, Python, Bash, JavaScript, wo-da.de framework
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
5 monthsMannheim, Germany
System and Architecture Inventory
ABB Konzern
- Took inventory of software and hardware systems at six ABB sites in Germany
- Reviewed current system management processes by interviewing stakeholders, using CMDB data, documentation, and other sources
- Assessed risks to prevent outages and to address security and compliance issues
- Developed recommended transformation goals and steps
- Systems and technology: ServiceNOW as CMDB, IGAR (proprietary ABB service), connectors (Python)
Jul 2022 - Present
3 years 6 monthsWeimar, Germany
Digital Architect and AI Consultant
Matthias Kittner Consulting
- AI consulting, enterprise architecture, DevOps, IT transformation, and digitization
- Enterprise architecture
- Decision models
- Business/IT strategy
- Product architecture
- IT transformation
- Cloud journey
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
6 monthsBerlin, Germany
Head of Architecture
Ratepay GmbH
- Led the company-wide architecture team
- Established an architecture organization as the standard architecture advisor for projects and initiatives
- Built architecture processes (reviews and governance, architecture definition, and distributed decision-making)
- Created and maintained internal communication and transparency to embed the new architecture organization
- Defined and maintained an architecture blueprint (principles, business architecture, guardrails, and decision guidelines)
- Provided hands-on architecture support for IT engineering and infrastructure initiatives
- Coached and mentored team members
- Managed a team of five architects and hired architects; member of the IT leadership team
- Enterprise architecture: organized central architecture documentation and selected a tool for enterprise processes and architecture to meet business and legal requirements
- Applied TOGAF with a focus on security, availability, and governance in a highly regulated environment
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 11 monthsParis, France
Head of Software Architecture and DevOps
ESI Group
- Leading the enterprise architecture and DevOps teams
- Strengthening agile architecture, automation, and DevOps practices
- Leadership responsibility for four multicultural teams (17 people in France, Germany, USA) in DevOps, enterprise architecture, sales, and documentation
- Cost control, personnel and resource management, overseeing cross-functional projects and process improvement
- Leading the Enterprise Architecture Board (8-10 software architects)
- Shaping the culture of software architecture processes, including architecture committees in each department
- Providing tools, processes, and best practices to improve development team performance
May 2016 - Feb 2019
2 years 10 monthsParis, France
Platform Architect
ESI Group
- Lead software and enterprise architect to set up the Corporate Architecture Board
- Building and leading this body and shaping the culture of software architecture processes in the company (8-10 software architects)
- Defining and maintaining a corporate architecture blueprint
- Project management in international teams
- Reviewing software architecture and managing technical debt
- Responsible for CAE and VR software in the cloud and on-premises
- Architectural consulting for the entire portfolio
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
11 monthsStuttgart, Germany
Senior Software Architect
ESI Software Deutschland GmbH
- Software architect for platform-related topics
- Leading the architecture board of a division (five software architects)
- Using C/C++, Fortran, OpenGL, CUDA, Git
- Project management with an international team and an outsourced development in Nepal (five offshore developers)
Oct 2013 - May 2015
1 year 8 monthsBad Gandersheim, Germany
Sabbatical / Student
Glaubenszentrum
- Sabbatical and training in supernatural discipleship
- Intensive Bible study
Aug 2012 - May 2015
2 years 10 monthsStuttgart, Germany
Team Lead & Software Architect
ESI Software Deutschland GmbH
- Technical leadership and team management, project management (four people)
- Using C/C++, Java, OpenGL, Bash, CMake, Git, Qt
- Leading the Software Architecture Board (five software architects)
- Conducting architecture reviews and supporting various teams in Germany, France, Switzerland, India, and the USA
- Working with multicultural international teams
Oct 2007 - Jul 2012
4 years 10 monthsDarmstadt, Germany
Team Lead Software Development
ICIDO GmbH
- Leadership responsibility for a team and the development of core software components (four developers)
- Team leadership, project management, technical leadership
- Responsible for the core of a highly distributed client/server software portfolio, focusing on performance, scalability, extensibility, and software architecture
- Conducted large-scale refactoring projects to renew the core of the software
- Technologies: C/C++, Linux, Windows, Java, OpenGL, Bash, Make, SVN, Qt
- Established a Software Architecture Board (five software architects)
Jan 2005 - Sep 2007
2 years 9 monthsDarmstadt, Germany
Lead Software Engineer
vrcom GmbH
- Technical responsibility for software components, development, and maintenance
- Project lead for a team of four to eight developers
- Developed VR software on Windows and Linux
- Used C/C++, OpenGL, Bash, Make, SVN
- Rewrote and refactored the software portfolio
Jan 2000 - Dec 2004
5 yearsDarmstadt, Germany
Software Engineer
vrcom GmbH
- Software development and project management
- Developed VR software, devices, projection, and mathematical components
- Used C/C++, IRIX, Linux, SunOS, OpenGL, Bash, Make, SVN
Jul 1999 - Nov 1999
5 monthsSingapore
Student Assistant
Fraunhofer CAMTech @ NTU
- Wrote a diploma thesis in computer science on "Synchronization of Scene Graphs in Shared Virtual Environments"
- Used C/C++, SGI (IRIX OS), VR hardware
- Implemented a distributed system enabling collaboration between Singapore and Germany
Sep 1997 - Dec 1999
2 years 4 monthsDarmstadt, Germany
Student Assistant
Fraunhofer IGD
- Internship: software development for virtual reality
- Academic project: "Design and implementation of a graphical user interface for managing multi-dimensional interaction devices"
- Used C/C++, SGI (IRIX OS), VR hardware, CVS and RCS as SCM, GUI, OpenGL, Bash, Make
Jul 1993 - Sep 1994
1 year 3 monthsSchmalkalden, Germany
Civilian service
Christliche Wohnstätten GmbH
- Care and nursing for physically and mentally severely disabled people of all ages in a nursing home
Summary
AI is my passion. It enables faster workflows, higher throughput, and greater efficiency. But for it to really work, processes need to be well thought out and tailored.
For over three decades, I've analyzed and improved business and IT architectures. In the process, I've learned how hard it can be to create a cohesive whole from many parts.
I help you structure your processes, reduce complexity, and make the most of AI's benefits. This creates clarity and stability for sustainable growth.
Skills
It Architecture & Devops & Coach
Solution Design And Architecture
Enterprise Architecture
International, Multicultural Environment
Leading And Fostering Team Spirit And Performance
Active Listening, Communication, Coaching
Problem Solving, Decision Making
Keeping Code Simple, Clean, And Maintainable
Stakeholder Management
Strong Analytical Skills
C/c++, Java, Js, Python, Sql, Php, ...
Cmake, Jenkins, Conan, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence, ...
Spring Boot Based Microservices, Kafka
Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes, Containers, Docker, Swagger
Aws, Azure
Windows, Linux, Irix, Shell, Gui, Web
Immersive Interactive Systems
Parallel Systems, Simulation, Rendering
Architecture & Devsecops Practices & Patterns
Adonis/adoit, Leanix
Virtual Prototyping, Iot, Industry 4.0
Zapier, Make.com, N8n
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedRussian
ElementaryEducation
Oct 1994 - Jun 2000
Ilmenau University of Technology
Diploma in Computer Science, minor in Economics · Computer Science, minor in Economics · Ilmenau, Germany
Oct 1989 - Jun 1993
Goetheschule Ilmenau
Abitur with special class · General university entrance qualification, science and technology track · Ilmenau, Germany
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