27 yr Microsoft Veteran | Enterprise Architecture | Agentic AI Solutions | Fortune 500 Cloud Migrations | Automation Programming for Automotive/Manu
Aktualisiert am 05.11.2025
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Verfügbar ab: 04.11.2025
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M365 Migration
Python
Industrial Internet of Things
Internet of Things
OPCUA
AI
AI Cameras
deep expertise in cloud migrations
IoT integration
data analytics
MS Power BI
M Language
PowerQuery
C#
MQTT
Siemens S7
Keyence
English
Muttersprache
German
Goethe Institute B2

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

Projects

Cloud Migrations
Software companies often have a challenge ? Customers purchase large agreements, but struggle to deploy due to complexity, training, compliance requirements.
  • Partnered with sales to nurture strategic enterprise clients, developing comprehensive win strategies, close plans, and ?land and expand? opportunities.
  • Led envisioning, design, and roadmap creation for enterprise migrations to Microsoft?s cloud, aligning solutions with business outcomes and strategic imperatives.
  • Directed a regional team of Enterprise Architects (Benelux) to accelerate cloud adoption, ensuring architectural governance, resource optimization, and best practice consistency.
  • Managed complex, large-scale migrations?overseeing assessment, compliance, and training?to ensure seamless transitions; provided executive-level support and established escalation processes where needed.
  • Standardized assessment methodologies to map customers? current cloud maturity, identify pain-points, and shape actionable roadmaps that drove business outcomes.
  • Conducted strategic workshops uncovering underutilized technologies, guiding clients through customized migration plans that leveraged existing investments for greater ROI.
  • Curated and shared best practices and architectural frameworks internally, enhancing organizational capability and improving future client engagements.
  • Delivered successful migrations for leading global customers (e.g., UBS, Stellantis, ABSA, Dutch Tax Authority), ensuring that technical solutions met compliance requirements and aligned with long-term objectives.
  • Emphasized collaborative assessment, remediation, and migration services, reinforcing Microsoft?s role as a trusted advisor to guide clients through every stage of their cloud journey.
Consulting Head International Workplace Technologies
  • Lead Solution Architect Team (50) responsible for EMEA Modern Workplace Services business.
  • Managed pre-sales, lead to order, and delivery for Cloud Migration Services, Tenant to Tenant migrations, and bespoke information-worker solutions.
  • Responsible for billed-revenue, and utilization for smaller teams and larger (50) employees.
  • Implemented area planning, cascade of targets, and regular reviews to improve sales discipline resulting in 200% pipeline growth netting 2X New Work Sold in 1.5 years.
  • Customers and projects: UBS Cloud Migration, Adidas Teams Rollout, Nordea Remote Advisory Services, Santander Collaboration Platform
  • Achieved yearly targets as measured by new-work sold, billed revenue, and license improvement.
  • Manage customer escalations, and ensure positive customer satisfaction.
Technology Product & Services Sales & Marketing
  • Led marketing activity for Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Server products ($150M portfolio). Delivered double-digit growth in product segments.
  • Led Area Planning for sales and marketing, cascading target, building and managing KPI dashboards.
  • Lead Product Launch Campaign for CEE Region. Coordinate V-Team and Execution. Achieved: 9000 resellers trained, drove 550k Beta Downloads.
  • Landed Customer Immersion Experience Hands-On Labs in 13 subsidiaries to drive sales of Office products.
  • Delivered Business Intelligence roadshow across 15 subsidiaries reaching 1200 attendees and 550+ qualified enterprise customers.
  • Owned partner readiness and exceeded all readiness targets for region.
  • Top Speaker at Trade Shows and Launch events.

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1989
Studie - Economics; minor: Art History
Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Thesis: on request
Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

M365 Migration Python Industrial Internet of Things Internet of Things OPCUA AI AI Cameras deep expertise in cloud migrations IoT integration data analytics MS Power BI M Language PowerQuery C# MQTT Siemens S7 Keyence

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile
  • High-performing Enterprise Architect manager leading teams focused on large-scale enterprise cloud migrations, and enterprise solutions.
  • Helping enterprise customers (Fortune 500) to architect, deploy and implement Microsoft 365 & Azure Workloads.
  • Led Area Planning for enterprise sales and marketing, cascading target, building and managing KPI dashboards.
  • Led large scale complex projects and Cloud Migrations impacting 4.2M licenses, and ~160M commercial impact.
  • Customer obsessed and results driven, merging business strategy with the IT to maximize value. Change driver (PROSCI certified).
  • Player-coach, leading technical discussions (M365, Azure, Virtualization, Directory Services, networking, migration tooling, Enterprise Telephony, Microsoft Teams, SQL ORM, SNA integration)
  • Managed pre-sales and delivery processes.
  • Collegial and Resilient Manager with many years of experience with exceptional team satisfaction
  • Experience leading large teams (>50).
  • Experienced Product Marketer for Microsoft Office, Exchange, SharePoint and UC products
  • Goal-oriented management style that emphasizes respect, trust, and inclusion.

Technology Skills
  • Enterprise Architecture: Consultative approach to customer?s existing technology estate, assessment, and building a roadmap to newer platforms.
  • Enterprise Cloud Migrations: On-Premise -> M365 Enterprise Migrations, Skype for Business -> Microsoft Teams, Tenant to Tenant Migrations, large desktop migrations, server consolidation/virtualization
  • Workplace technologies: Office365, Windows, PowerApps, PowerBI, Enterprise Voice (Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams)
  • Application Development: A passion to remain technically current with Azure (SQL, Service Bus, IoT, ML Studio), SNA-Server + CICS, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, Container and Virtualization technologies, Python + OpenAI/Llama, NGINX, C, ESP-32 embedded firmware

Technical Skills
  • Microsoft Cloud, Azure, Office, Windows
  • Adoption and Change Management (ProSci Certified Practitioner)
  • Python + OpenAI/Llama Index APIs C#, .Net, C Developer
  • Docker/docker-compose, Proxmox/Linux virtualization
  • ESP32 firmware development, Azure IoT, Service-Bus, Azure AD, Cognitive Services
  • Manufacturing integration with OPC UA + time-series databases

Career path

2024 ? today
Clemens Consulting (Germany)
Manufacturing Analytics ? Stellantis

2021 ? 2023
Microsoft (Germany)
Cloud Migration Lead - FastTrack Engineering Team

2014 ? 2021
Microsoft (Germany)
Global Practice Leader/ Microsoft Consulting Services

2010 ? 2014
Microsoft (Germany)
WW Consulting Field Enablement Lead

2007 ? 2011
Microsoft (Germany)
Office Product Manager CEE

2006 ? 2007
Microsoft (Seattle)
Technical Readiness Manager

2005 ? 2006
Microsoft (Seattle)
Senior Product Manager, Unified Communications

2004 ? 2006
Microsoft (Seattle)
Global Accounts Technology Manager

2003 ? 2004
Microsoft (Chicago)
Technology Specialist Midwest District

1996 ? 2002
Microsoft (Chicago)
Enterprise Strategy Consultant

1994 ? 1996
Kraft Foods (Chicago)
Senior Marketing Information Systems Consultant

1990 ? 1994
Kraft Foodservice (Chicago)
Systems Administrator

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

Projects

Cloud Migrations
Software companies often have a challenge ? Customers purchase large agreements, but struggle to deploy due to complexity, training, compliance requirements.
  • Partnered with sales to nurture strategic enterprise clients, developing comprehensive win strategies, close plans, and ?land and expand? opportunities.
  • Led envisioning, design, and roadmap creation for enterprise migrations to Microsoft?s cloud, aligning solutions with business outcomes and strategic imperatives.
  • Directed a regional team of Enterprise Architects (Benelux) to accelerate cloud adoption, ensuring architectural governance, resource optimization, and best practice consistency.
  • Managed complex, large-scale migrations?overseeing assessment, compliance, and training?to ensure seamless transitions; provided executive-level support and established escalation processes where needed.
  • Standardized assessment methodologies to map customers? current cloud maturity, identify pain-points, and shape actionable roadmaps that drove business outcomes.
  • Conducted strategic workshops uncovering underutilized technologies, guiding clients through customized migration plans that leveraged existing investments for greater ROI.
  • Curated and shared best practices and architectural frameworks internally, enhancing organizational capability and improving future client engagements.
  • Delivered successful migrations for leading global customers (e.g., UBS, Stellantis, ABSA, Dutch Tax Authority), ensuring that technical solutions met compliance requirements and aligned with long-term objectives.
  • Emphasized collaborative assessment, remediation, and migration services, reinforcing Microsoft?s role as a trusted advisor to guide clients through every stage of their cloud journey.
Consulting Head International Workplace Technologies
  • Lead Solution Architect Team (50) responsible for EMEA Modern Workplace Services business.
  • Managed pre-sales, lead to order, and delivery for Cloud Migration Services, Tenant to Tenant migrations, and bespoke information-worker solutions.
  • Responsible for billed-revenue, and utilization for smaller teams and larger (50) employees.
  • Implemented area planning, cascade of targets, and regular reviews to improve sales discipline resulting in 200% pipeline growth netting 2X New Work Sold in 1.5 years.
  • Customers and projects: UBS Cloud Migration, Adidas Teams Rollout, Nordea Remote Advisory Services, Santander Collaboration Platform
  • Achieved yearly targets as measured by new-work sold, billed revenue, and license improvement.
  • Manage customer escalations, and ensure positive customer satisfaction.
Technology Product & Services Sales & Marketing
  • Led marketing activity for Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Server products ($150M portfolio). Delivered double-digit growth in product segments.
  • Led Area Planning for sales and marketing, cascading target, building and managing KPI dashboards.
  • Lead Product Launch Campaign for CEE Region. Coordinate V-Team and Execution. Achieved: 9000 resellers trained, drove 550k Beta Downloads.
  • Landed Customer Immersion Experience Hands-On Labs in 13 subsidiaries to drive sales of Office products.
  • Delivered Business Intelligence roadshow across 15 subsidiaries reaching 1200 attendees and 550+ qualified enterprise customers.
  • Owned partner readiness and exceeded all readiness targets for region.
  • Top Speaker at Trade Shows and Launch events.

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1989
Studie - Economics; minor: Art History
Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Thesis: on request
Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

M365 Migration Python Industrial Internet of Things Internet of Things OPCUA AI AI Cameras deep expertise in cloud migrations IoT integration data analytics MS Power BI M Language PowerQuery C# MQTT Siemens S7 Keyence

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile
  • High-performing Enterprise Architect manager leading teams focused on large-scale enterprise cloud migrations, and enterprise solutions.
  • Helping enterprise customers (Fortune 500) to architect, deploy and implement Microsoft 365 & Azure Workloads.
  • Led Area Planning for enterprise sales and marketing, cascading target, building and managing KPI dashboards.
  • Led large scale complex projects and Cloud Migrations impacting 4.2M licenses, and ~160M commercial impact.
  • Customer obsessed and results driven, merging business strategy with the IT to maximize value. Change driver (PROSCI certified).
  • Player-coach, leading technical discussions (M365, Azure, Virtualization, Directory Services, networking, migration tooling, Enterprise Telephony, Microsoft Teams, SQL ORM, SNA integration)
  • Managed pre-sales and delivery processes.
  • Collegial and Resilient Manager with many years of experience with exceptional team satisfaction
  • Experience leading large teams (>50).
  • Experienced Product Marketer for Microsoft Office, Exchange, SharePoint and UC products
  • Goal-oriented management style that emphasizes respect, trust, and inclusion.

Technology Skills
  • Enterprise Architecture: Consultative approach to customer?s existing technology estate, assessment, and building a roadmap to newer platforms.
  • Enterprise Cloud Migrations: On-Premise -> M365 Enterprise Migrations, Skype for Business -> Microsoft Teams, Tenant to Tenant Migrations, large desktop migrations, server consolidation/virtualization
  • Workplace technologies: Office365, Windows, PowerApps, PowerBI, Enterprise Voice (Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams)
  • Application Development: A passion to remain technically current with Azure (SQL, Service Bus, IoT, ML Studio), SNA-Server + CICS, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, Container and Virtualization technologies, Python + OpenAI/Llama, NGINX, C, ESP-32 embedded firmware

Technical Skills
  • Microsoft Cloud, Azure, Office, Windows
  • Adoption and Change Management (ProSci Certified Practitioner)
  • Python + OpenAI/Llama Index APIs C#, .Net, C Developer
  • Docker/docker-compose, Proxmox/Linux virtualization
  • ESP32 firmware development, Azure IoT, Service-Bus, Azure AD, Cognitive Services
  • Manufacturing integration with OPC UA + time-series databases

Career path

2024 ? today
Clemens Consulting (Germany)
Manufacturing Analytics ? Stellantis

2021 ? 2023
Microsoft (Germany)
Cloud Migration Lead - FastTrack Engineering Team

2014 ? 2021
Microsoft (Germany)
Global Practice Leader/ Microsoft Consulting Services

2010 ? 2014
Microsoft (Germany)
WW Consulting Field Enablement Lead

2007 ? 2011
Microsoft (Germany)
Office Product Manager CEE

2006 ? 2007
Microsoft (Seattle)
Technical Readiness Manager

2005 ? 2006
Microsoft (Seattle)
Senior Product Manager, Unified Communications

2004 ? 2006
Microsoft (Seattle)
Global Accounts Technology Manager

2003 ? 2004
Microsoft (Chicago)
Technology Specialist Midwest District

1996 ? 2002
Microsoft (Chicago)
Enterprise Strategy Consultant

1994 ? 1996
Kraft Foods (Chicago)
Senior Marketing Information Systems Consultant

1990 ? 1994
Kraft Foodservice (Chicago)
Systems Administrator

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