Qualification as an AML officer in the Swiss jurisdiction
Responsible for the implementation of AML policies and procedures.
Responsible for due diligence reviews of clients and compliance monitoring of transactions to identify suspicious activity.
Organize staff training on AML regulations and practices.
Working with regulators and audit firms to ensure compliance (AML audits)
Jan 2022 - Dec 2025
2 years
Locarno, Switzerland
Chief Executive Officer
Rescale Consulting GmbH
Founded and built a software development agency, as the sole shareholder
Consulting customers on web- and app-based IT projects, using experience and strategies on customers business ideas, modeling use cases and drawing click dummies and high fidelity designs as well as well as writing technical concepts.
Consulted companies in the energy and data center sectors, interim position as Head of IT, development and implementation of monitoring systems for the data center, coordination of control power services (FCR).
Project management of an IT team in the financial sector for the development of a payment gateway and other financial services tools with high requirements on security with PCI-DSS in a primarily cloud environment.
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
3 years 10 months
Kassel, Germany
Chief Executive Officer (and CTO)
Lehrerheld UG
Business development and chief technology officer
Develop business model, find and improve product market fit
Design platform and marketing materials
Orchestrate international development team in Poland and Russia
Leading technical project management
Jun 2007 - Nov 2007
6 months
Berlin, Germany
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
seosupport GmbH
Search engine optimization for customers and company marketing
Pre-Sales, includes creating offers and invoices
Build search engine optimized customer websites
Orchestrate copywriters and designers
Feb 2005 - Dec 2023
18 years 11 months
Kassel, Germany
Chief Executive Officer
PlatinPower.com GmbH
Founded and built a software development agency, as the sole shareholder
Consulting customers on web and app based IT projects, using experience and strategies on customers business ideas, modeling use cases and draw click dummies and high fidelity designs as well as write concepts technically. Support on market entry and marketing engagement with support of technology and digital sales
Consulting customers on cyber security, cyber security awareness, OSINT, improve software applications on security terms (OWASP), implementation on security systems (WAF), managing external penetration testings and orchestrate incorporation of pentest results into the software applications
Actively react on hacked websites by NIST framework structure: Respond to incidents by analyzing hacked websites on intrusions, backdoors and malware, free websites from malicious code. Implement strategies to prevent future incidents by identify risk management and governance, preparation and prevention as well as detection and analysis by WAF, MFA and similar, fitting company sizes
Consult and manage GDPR requirements on software projects and technical infrastructure decisions
Orchestrate marketing to generate short term (ads on Google, Facebook) and long term (organic visitors) leads. Create ideas for marketing campaigns, organize photographers and videographers, copywriter and create sales funnels
Sales and distribution based on inbound sales as well as outbound sales, creating selling processes and phone call scripts
Writing contracts in legal space of the federal republic of Germany (BRD)
Quality assurance for graphic and code developments, orchestrate test strategies
Consultation and execution of search engine optimizations (SEO) and search engine advertisements (SEA) technically and by copy text (on-page) and external parameters (off-page)
Coding in several development languages as mainly HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL on small tasks, tools and jobs
Setup, configure and administrate linux based web servers on tasks with simple requirements
Apr 2004 - Jul 2005
1 year 4 months
Kassel, Germany
Trainee
B.I.O.S. Technologie Partner GmbH
Technical assistance on server setups (Windows and Linux)
Developing customer project websites
Quality assurance on software products, find and report bugs
Document digitalization on insurance branch of B.I.O.S.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Italian
Advanced
Education
Oct 2007 - Jun 2009
Universität Kassel International Management School
Marketing Economics · Kassel, Germany
Oct 2004 - Jun 2006
Max-Eyth-Schule Kassel
Technical College Maturity · Kassel, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Professional Scrum Product Owner 1
scrum.org
Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile Inc.
AML basic education
VQF Zug
Remote Pilot Certificate of Competency ("Fernpiloten-Zeugnis")