Venture Builder

Business model development for solar parking lots. Software product development. Service design. Market analysis and segmentation for solar parking lots. Value stream design & end-to-end. Go-to-market.

Parking4Future is a young emerging company focused on solar parking lots for industrial clients. Specifically, it turns sealed parking lots into decentralized solar power plants. A key focus is circular economy in terms of the materials used for the roofing, which are meant to be low-emission. The company's goal is to simplify and advance the build-out of solar parking lots for industrial clients through a platform that provides pre-verified suppliers, specialists, and service providers.

• Market and competitor analysis, including interviews with companies in the sector
• Customer segmentation using outcomes-based innovation through interviews with the Jobs-to-be-Done methodology
• Designing the strategic and technical unique selling proposition
• Initiating and leading a partnership with CEMEX Switzerland
• Mapping the entire supply and value chain (end-to-end)
• Designing an evaluation system for potential suppliers and service providers
• Business modeling, feasibility analysis for industrial solar parking
• Preparing client presentations
• Designing a service design concept
• Gathering market insights
• Initiating a joint innovation project with CEMEX Switzerland and architects from the USA
• Developing a PV calculator

• Business model development & operations
• Product and concept development
• Technical architecture design
• Financing
• Customer jobs, market research, competitive analysis
• Scrum
• LEAN
• TRIZ
• Value stream mapping

SmartCloudFarming is an agritech startup focused on developing soil analysis and monitoring technologies using remote sensing and neural networks. The company has developed patented software that enables remote observation of soil carbon content and moisture, as well as tracking their changes over time. SmartCloudFarming's mission is to bring trust and transparency to carbon measurement in agriculture.

• Transforming a pure technology into a usable and valuable product concept
• Defining all planned product and service offerings/upgrades for the next 5 years
• Developing an architecture for the entire offering
• Concept development of soil data pipelines for AI applications in agriculture
• Competitive analysis & USP definition – both strategic and technological
• Business modeling, strategy design & execution
• Market research and calculation of unit economics
• Conducting customer interviews and research with Barilla/Italy using the Jobs to be Done framework
• Fundraising, grant applications, competition submissions
• Managing business operations
• Designing public presence and communications, copywriting
• Identifying relevant B2B customer segments
• Defining customer 'jobs to be done' for the relevant segments
• Developing a holistic & modular product concept
• Validating the value proposition
• Validating pricing in the main European and North American markets
• Technology transfer agreement with Fraunhofer AISEC
• Public funding of over EUR 750,000 & investment commitments of over EUR 1.3 million

• Product & go-to-market strategy
• Tokenomics
• Market analysis (tokens/coins)

RXXO was another blockchain startup that developed a new protocol for blockchain domains and token curated registries. The project later pivoted and RXXO became the NotQ initiative. InitiativeNotQ was the crypto counterpart to InitiativeQ – an alternative digital currency and payment system – and is meant to be a crypto store of value similar to gold. Today it's called UniversalUnit.

• Advising on strategy & go-to-market for token curated registries
• Designing tokens and tokenomics

• Member of the Innovation Advisory Board @ TE Connectivity
• Licensed Practitioner InnoSurvey™
• Jobs-to-be-Done Specialist
• Technology consultant & scout
• Futurist
• Continuous improvement (KVP)
• Innovation architect & strategy consultant for startups
• Product & concept design
• Data visualization (Tableau)
• UI/UX
• Future research for the renowned futurist Gerd Leonhard

Design and production of a 3D-printed product made from wood waste for the B2C sector with the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (project in planning).

Redesign of the transport and urban infrastructure of Kolkata in collaboration with Global Policy Incubator (project in planning).

Member of the innovation advisory board of a large US company in the automotive and industrial sector. Consulting on technical topics in agtech and the food and agriculture market.

Conducting data-driven innovation analyses and strategy design for SMEs in southern Germany using InnoSurvey™ by Innovation 360 Group/Sweden. Identifying jobs-to-be-done and customer value propositions.

Early-stage startups in Austria and Switzerland were actively supported in their strategy (marketing, market entry, product) and analyses including Porter’s Five Forces and PESTELD were conducted.

• Interim quality manager for Nordsee One
• Project manager for material qualification of fiberglass-reinforced plastic @ GMA Engineering
• Responsible for type certification of wind turbines @ GMA

Nordsee One was RWE Innogy's offshore wind energy project. The goal was to install 54 offshore wind turbines and produce 1.2 billion kWh of electricity.

• Quality assurance for 54 wind turbines (WTG), components and related quality processes
• Analyzing client requirements and their inclusion in quality assurance agreements (QSV)
• Designing, implementing, and tracking activities from customer requirements and internal QA guidelines
• Creating inspection and testing plans for WTG components
• Planning and coordinating project-specific communication regarding inspection schedules, QA status, and issue management
• Representing QA objectives, managing QA processes, and recommending new QA measures
• Customer support and supplier development
• Defining and setting the QSV, QA standards and building a project and communication structure between stakeholders until the project was retendered

Innovation projects/wind energy:

• Developing a PLM strategy to extend the service life of wind turbines for Vattenfall AB, Sweden (PLM strategy was adopted by Vattenfall AB)
• Initiating and concept development of an innovation project in real-time condition monitoring and preventive maintenance of WTGs with SAP SE (innovation project with SAP was not pursued further)

• Supervising non-destructive testing of rails
• Project Manager
• Developing innovations & strategic concepts
• Technology & vendor scouting

DB Netz AG: The rail network infrastructure of Deutsche Bahn, consisting of the track (rails, sleepers) and overhead lines, is inspected year-round using various non-destructive testing techniques to enable preventive maintenance measures.

• Support and technical guidance for rail inspection using ultrasound and eddy current
• Measurement data analysis and technical procurement
• Fault assessment and preparation of inspection reports
• Creating NDT test instructions and guidance for inspection personnel
• Planning and leading projects, conducting negotiations, and creating technical specifications
• Managing suppliers and development partners
• Initiation and successful completion of five projects within 18 months
• Increasing availability and improving reliability of testing equipment and test vehicles
• Successfully managed conflicting teams

Innovation projects @DB Netz AG:

• Designing a startup logic for a central measurement and testing computer system in the new rail testing train (The startup logic was approved and implemented)
• Establishing a university partnership between DB Netz AG and Aachen University of Applied Sciences
• Developing innovative business ideas for DB Netz AG
• Concept development of a cloud computing strategy for the testing department
• Generating ideas for a new recruitment approach, which was later awarded

• Development of process technology for the production of precision forging blanks (an EU project)

Fraunhofer IPT: An EU-funded project between three European countries and India to develop processes for producing precision forging blanks, which until then were only mastered by Japanese companies.

• Process and tool simulations for producing precision forging blanks using FEM software
• Preparation of project proposals and risk analyses
• Implementation of a project structure
• Identification of project risks and development of countermeasures

• JAVA Developer