Involvement in the initial development and further growth of the STACKITCloud platform at Schwarz Group, with key responsibilities including:

• Driving Product Strategy for STACKIT Cloud Platform, involved in shapingSTACKIT?s organizational strategy.
• Market research and positioning of STACKIT, with a focus on Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, as well as data sovereignty
• Establishment of product management function at the portfolio level, includingthe introduction of frameworks and tools
• Implementation of process improvements and Cloud product maturity modelsto enhance the scalability of product development
• Drove definition of initial product portfolio for market entry (IaaS and PaaS) in2022. Responsible for market introduction of Confidential Computing products.

Adjunct lecturer at the Chair of Information Systems for Software-IntensiveBusiness.

• IT-related, software-intensive Business Models
• Managing and scaling software-intensive organizations
• Platform Economics, Software Ecosystems
• Software Product Management
• Entrepreneurship

Provided IT and softwarebusiness related consulting, project management and trainings. Setup ofdiverse IT environments, e.g. (cloud-based and/or virtualized) server and network infrastructures. Developed customer specific software solutions andwebsites.

• Bootstrapped the company. Took responsibility for technical direction of thecompany.
• Managed >100 projects with strong focus on heterogenous IT infrastructuresusing several proprietary and open source technologies
• Drove Developed of customer specific software solutions, converted one ofthose specific solutions into our main standard software product.
• Internet award 2005, City of Boeblingen, Germany for best website project?fire department of Boeblingen?

Headed and ramped up the Cloud product development department ofcioplenu.

• Product Management:
  • Requirements Engineering, Roadmapping (complementary to POs)
• Team Management:
  • Lead disciplinary and fuctional an interdisciplinarydevelopment team of product owners, UX specialists, developers, and relatedpersonnel, 12 direct reports.
• Started shaping organizational setup and working principles towards agilityand scalability. 
• Achieved process improvements:
  • ?increased deploymentfrequency, reduced change lead time, change failure rate.

Technical and Commercial Lead SAP Cloud Platform for commercializingCloud services (products) incl. technical service definition, demand estimation,budget, and planning. Influenced product from a market, stakeholder andtechnology perspective. Supported SAP internal teams to sort out highlyescalated projects/topics.

• Commercialization:
  • Introduction of >10 platform-based cloud serviceswithin a team effort of a multi-disciplinary and global team (US, Europe andAsia). 
  • Services include Cloud Foundry, SAP HANA, Cloud Foundry Backing Services, Virtual Machines, provided on top of several IaaS (SAP, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) in accordance with SAP?s multi-cloud strategy.
• Cost Model Engineering, Infrastructure Cost Analysis and Cost Optimizationfor Platform-as-a-Service products provided out of hyperscaler (AWS, GCP,Azure) and SAP-owned infrastructures.
• De-escalation management and Deal support:
  • Solved highly escalated topicsin cross-functional teams. 
  • Commercial and technical support for strategiccustomers, deal sizes >10 million EUR Annual Contract Value (ACV).
• Stakeholder management and Roll-out:
  • Organized workshops and presentedSAP Cloud Platform in webinars and several customer/partner meetings up toC-Level, incl. providing (technical) demos.

IT business related research & education for students at one out of the topfive technical universities in Germany. 

• software business
• platforms economics
• software ecosystems
• product managementand enterprise software