2019 ? 01/2026: various

Role: Senior Director, Cloud Operations & Digital Transformation
Customer: SAP AG, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Tasks:
Strategic Achievements:

• ?250M Business Impact: Identified revenue opportunities and cost savings through Tenant Cleanup Initiative
• ?1M Daily Savings Target: Management-evaluated initiative for operational cost reduction across all LoBs
• Deloitte "Project of the Year" (2024): External recognition for operational excellence and partner leadership
• NGCS Reporting Authority: Selected by C-suite to establish SOXcompliant monitoring for next-generation cloud selling
• IFRS15 Compliance: Provided critical data infrastructure for company-wide revenue recognition transformation

Operational Excellence:

• Achieved 99.52% tenant compliance rate (2025) from 25% baseline, managing 1.8M tenants globally
• Delivered ?1.9M annual savings in single LoB through automated tenant cleanup (14 LoBs total engaged)
• Reduced quote exception processing time by 95% (40 days to 2 days) through workflow automation
• Ensured contract and tenant integrity for 26,000 customers during OneStrike hyperscaler migration
• Crisis response: Provided CEO with 5-minute analysis during Russia datacenter shutdown (2022)

Technical Leadership Excellence:

• Personally architected and implemented enterprise platform (300k+ LOC) processing 5TB annually
• Achieved near 100% uptime over 6 years through resilient architecture and automated failover systems
• Developed MySQL plugin in C for Python backend callouts; automated view regeneration for sub-second migrations
• Created zero-code Airflow orchestration through innovative directory-based DAG generation
• Built comprehensive automation suite: PowerPoint and Excel generation, real-time D3.js dashboards

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2014 - 2019: IT Strategy & Architecture

Role: Senior Director
Customer: SAP AG, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Tasks:

• Developed comprehensive business case securing ?15M investment over 3 years
• Pioneered machine learning applications for security (pre-AI boom)
• Authored R-based machine learning models for user behavior outlier detection

Led innovation initiatives for HANA, Cloud, and Analytics products across EMEA region.

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2013 - 2014: HANA Enterprise Cloud Services Sales

Role: Regional Head MEE
Customer: SAP AG, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Tasks:

• Established go-to-market strategy for Middle and Eastern Europe, managing regional P&L and sales teams.
• Led regional team of business development, bid process, presales with regional sales directors.

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2012 ? 2013: Virtualization & Cloud Management

Role: Business Manager
Customer: SAP AG, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Tasks:

• Developed consulting services portfolio for SAP HANA Cloud platform.
• Coorganized first North American technology services conference in Palo Alto and Philadelphia.

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2010 ? 2012: Technology Architecture Management

Role: Principal Technology Architect Management
Customer: SAP AG, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Tasks:

• Top Talent Fellow for Global Communications.
• Led Business Objects integration into flagship products including SAP Regatta Dashboard serving 200k+ customers.
• Developed Sales Support Mobile Applications on iPad.
• SAP Max Attention for UBS.

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2008 ? 2010: Technology architecture

Role: Senior Technology Architect
Customer: SAP AG, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Tasks:

• Successfully integrated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology for major Swiss bank into core Business Objects portfolio.
• Solutions gained immediate interest from US Department of Defense, UBS, Credit Suisse, Zurich Insurance, Rolex, RBS Coutts, UBP, BNP as well as several Swiss Governmental Organizations.

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2002 ? 2008: Creating multiple Business Objects APIs

Role: Service Line Leader for Products, EMEA
Customer: Business Objects (SAP), Lausanne, Cologne

Tasks:

• Authored multiple Business Objects APIs adopted enterprise-wide
• Developed product extensions for Business Objects WebIntelligence unlocking ?2M+ revenue at UBS
• Identified ?10M+ revenue opportunities through product extensions
• Solutions Architect for 80+ enterprise accounts including UBS, Credit Suisse, Zurich Insurance, Rolex
• Global Field Services Representative · Global Education Services Readiness Representative
• Member: World Wide Presales Leadership Council.

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2000 ? 2002: Implementation of various corporate websites

Role: Senior Consulting Roles
Customer: Vignette Corporation, Austin, Munich

Tasks:

• Senior Project Manager implementing Allianz.com and 30+ enterprise websites
• Advanced Services Readiness Representative

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1991 ? 2000: Establishment and expansion of branches

Role: Country Manager
Customer: MICRO-PLUS, USA & France

Tasks:

• Established and grew US and French operations from ground up
• Built high-value customer base in chemical/agricultural sector