Data Governance Leadership

• Designed and implemented data governance standards now applied across the entire Merck Group.
• Defined and established clear data roles within Merck Healthcare, including Data Domain Owner, Data Owner, Data Steward, and Technical Data Steward.
• Developed practical data management guidelines for the healthcare sector, addressing GDPR, cybersecurity, and AI governance.

Data Catalog and Community Building

• Led the successful rollout of the Zeenea data catalog, simplifying data discovery and management for business users.
• Founded and led the Healthcare Data & AI Community, fostering collaboration and strengthening the overall data culture.
• Received a global award, together with the team, for the successful implementation and adoption of the global data catalog solution.

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

• Applied leading practices from frameworks such as DAMA DMBOK to ensure consistency and professionalism in governance activities.
• Collaborated with R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Commercial teams to support their Data Domain activation and governance journeys.
• Acted as internal and external speaker on Data Governance and Data Culture, including during Merck?s Global Development Week and at external industry events.

Education and Culture Enablement

• Founded and led the Healthcare Data, Analytics & AI Academy, serving as trainer for Data Governance and Data Culture topics.
• Promoted data literacy and awareness across all business functions to embed a sustainable, data-driven culture within the organization.

• Responsible for the setup and enablement of data management activities at Merck Healthcare Germany, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA operating in the healthcare sector
• Rolling out Palantir Foundry, the Merck Data and Analytics Ecosystem to the local organization
• Development of a local data warehouse based on Foundry
• Development and rollout of a data quality tool based on Palantir Foundry and Power BI
• Initiating and steering data cleansing activities
• Having local responsibility for the global data governance framework
• Development of a local data catalog and an UI with Streamlit
• Converting multiple manual data processes to end-to-end automated processes using Foundry and Power Apps
• Converting Access Databases to SQL DBs on MS Azure
• Development of the local Data Management wiki, an internal knowledge and documentation hub, using Confluence
• Constantly exchanging within the Data and Analytics community and the sector data office for new data ingestions and enhancements
• Winner of the 2023 Merck KGaA international datathon with a team of 4
• Leading a team of external data analysts and working students

• In a central KION function, a business-side partial responsibility for the conception, control and rollout of SAP MDG of the data domain Business Partner in EMEA. 
• In particular main responsibility for the rollout of MDG in the KION ITS (Linde and Still "Industrial trucks and services") subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK and Ireland as Wave Manager

• Further development of master data management with focus on customer master data/business partner.
• Project management of EMEA-wide cleansing activities and main responsibility for the migration of customer master data to SAP ERP R3.
• Development and delivery of training on data management, data quality and customer master data in EMEA.
• Set-up of master data reporting to capture and continuously improve data quality.
• Subject matter expert on all issues related to customer master data
• Successful execution of a PoC for the technical implementation of a MDM system (EBX5 based on Java)

• Supporting the creation and maintenance of global projects in digital application PPMC
• Monitoring of project status and creation of corresponding reports
• Single point of contact for migration of legacy applications to global Sharepoint

• Conception and programming of a software for the automated verification of orders (Java) - rewarded with a one-time payment in the amount of 1000?.
• Creation of the corresponding technical documentation and coordination with decision makers from the USA
• Support of the sales team in daily business e.g. creation of cost checklists
  

• Leading the 8-person team in an internal university internship with the goal of developing an application to help the consultant build a business model canvas (grade 1.0)
• Programming of the web application (C#)

• Preparation of ISO 27001 (IT-Grundschutz) and supporting activities in the daily business of the IT department