Venture Builder

Business model development for solar parking. Software product development. Service design. Market analysis & segmentation of solar parking. Value stream design & End-2-End. Go-2-Market.

Parking4Future is a young, emerging venture focused on solar parking for industrial customers. It turns sealed parking lots into decentralized solar power plants. A major focus is circular economy in choosing building materials for the canopies to keep emissions low. The venture's goal is to simplify and speed up building solar parking for industrial clients through a platform that provides pre-verified suppliers, tradespeople, and service providers.

• Market and competitive analysis, including interviews with companies in the sector
• Customer segmentation using outcomes-based innovation through interviews with jobs-to-be-done methodology
• Defining the strategic and technical unique selling proposition
• Initiating and leading a collaboration 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 and financial analysis for industrial solar parking
• Preparing customer presentations
• Creating 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
• Fundraising
• 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 a patented software that lets you remotely track soil carbon content and moisture levels 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 full offering
• Concept development of soil data pipelines for AI applications in agriculture
• Competitive analysis & defining the USP, both strategic and technical
• Business modeling, strategy design & implementation
• Market research and calculation of unit economics/cost per unit
• Customer surveys and research with Barilla/Italy using the Jobs-to-be-Done framework
• Fundraising, grant applications, competition entries
• Business operations management
• Public presence and communications design, copywriting
• Identifying relevant B2B customer segments
• Defining the customer 'jobs to be done' for those segments
• Developing a holistic & modular product concept
• Validating the value proposition
• Validating pricing in key 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 and 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 InitiativeNotQ. InitiativeNotQ was the crypto counterpart to InitiativeQ - an alternative digital currency and payment system - meant to be a crypto store of value similar to gold. Today it's called UniversalUnit.

• Advising on strategy and launch of token curated registries
• Token and tokenomics design

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

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

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

Member of the innovation advisory board of a large US automotive and industrial company. Consulted on agritech and food & agriculture market topics.

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

Actively supported early-stage startups in Austria and Switzerland on their strategy (marketing, market launch, product) and conducted analyses such as Porter's Five Forces and PESTELD.

• Interim Quality Manager for Nordsee One
• Project manager for GFRP material qualification @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 wind turbines at sea and produce 1.2 billion kWh of electricity.

• Quality assurance for 54 wind turbines, components, and related quality processes
• Analyzing client requirements and incorporating them into QA agreements (QSV)
• Designing, implementing, and tracking activities from customer requirements and internal QA guidelines
• Creating inspection and test plans for turbine components
• Planning and coordinating project-specific communication regarding inspection schedules, QA status, and defect management
• Representing QA objectives, managing QA processes, and recommending new QA measures
• Customer support and supplier development
• Defining and setting QA agreements (QSV), QA standards, and establishing a project and communication structure among stakeholders until the project was re-tendered

Innovation Projects / Wind Energy:

• Developed a PLM strategy to extend the lifespan of wind turbines for Vattenfall AB, Sweden (strategy was adopted by Vattenfall AB)
• Initiated and developed a concept for an innovation project on real-time condition monitoring and preventive maintenance of wind turbines with SAP SE (project with SAP was not pursued further)

• Inspection supervision for non-destructive rail testing
• Project Manager
• Developing innovations & strategy concepts
• Technology & supplier scouting

DB Netz AG: The rail network infrastructure of Deutsche Bahn, consisting of the track (rails, sleepers) and the overhead lines, is tested non-destructively all year round using different inspection technologies to enable preventive maintenance measures.

• Overseeing and providing technical support for rail inspection using ultrasound and eddy current
• Analyzing measurement data and handling technical procurements
• Assessing defect findings and preparing inspection reports
• Creating NDT inspection instructions and guiding the inspection staff
• Planning and leading projects, conducting negotiations, and drafting technical specifications
• Managing suppliers and development partners
• Initiating and successfully completing five projects within 18 months
• Increasing availability and improving the reliability of inspection technology and inspection vehicles
• Successfully leading teams with diverse perspectives

Innovation projects @DB Netz AG:

• Designing a startup logic for a central measurement and inspection computer system in the new rail inspection train (The central 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
• Developing a cloud computing strategy concept for the inspection department
• Generating ideas for a new talent outreach, whose implementation was later awarded

• Developing process technology for the production of precision blanking presses (an EU project)

Fraunhofer IPT: An EU-funded project involving three European countries and India for developing processes to produce precision blanking presses, which until then were mastered only by Japanese companies.

• Process and tool simulations for producing precision blanking presses using FEM software
• Creating project proposals and risk analyses
• Implementing a project structure
• Identifying project risks and developing countermeasures

• JAVA Developer