Letter of Reference from Director Offering Development:

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Background

I have been working with [title and name on request] for more than 10 years at IQVIA (formerly IMS Health) in the local German subsidiary and in a Global department. Main objective was the creation and implementation of platform approaches for analyzing health care related longitudinal data so that respective projects could be offered and provided to clients much faster, in much better quality and more conveniently resp. more efficiently. The effect of the described activities was that the mentioned offering area could be built respectively grown so that a larger number of countries was able to establish such business successfully and that established countries were able to grow their project volume, revenue and margin.

The main contribution from [name on request] in that respect was not only the software engineering part which led to the most powerful analytic engine in terms of run time and capacity, but also the systematic and robust creation of the analytic concept as such, witnessing a deep context understanding of the related health care processes and as such going far beyond the mere technical implementation.

Overall feedback

[title and name on request] is a long-experienced and very skilled architect and developer who does not hide behind a pure technical position but who instead understands business very deeply and is always claiming to provide reasonable overall solutions. His mathematical, methodological, technical and analytical and understanding is paired with an unpretentious personality, challenging at most himself and taking care about others beyond the mere work relationship.

Client Focus

[title and name on request] understands clients' operational and technical environment in a broad understanding that goes far beyond the execution of implementing technically processes into programs. He has a broad and rich foundation of more than 15 years in providing solutions enabling for delivering longitudinal health care analytics successfully.

Collaboration

[title and name on request] provides information when needed and is supportive and responsive whenever possible and helpful. If necessary, he leaves the mere subject matter level and enters a confidential and personal communication style without intrusion into other's privacy.

Communication

[title and name on request] initially provides information when needed and communicates very clearly and precisely without unnecessary increasing communication volume and burden.

Innovation

[title and name on request] is a very innovative thinker who dares to pursue and develop approaches that do not follow a given main stream. This capability enables him to follow common habits and practices only if beneficial and to develop innovative individual solutions where needed.

He is capable and willing to find innovative approaches yet still following client demands and with a critical view on improvement. In other words, he does not let blind himself by just the fact that he is looking at an approach that someone named as being innovative.

Ownership

[title and name on request] actively approaches and initiates discussions and decisions about the business, the projects, his role without losing focus on his remits. Justifies ownership of his responsibilities by deep expertise and manages to convince others. Subject matter based, he is continuously pursuing his concepts even with low levels of support and resources.

Critical Thinking

[title and name on request] is always led by comprehensible arguments when discussing topics based on a foundation of deep technical and mathematical knowledge and understanding. Willing and able to critically and objectively reflect approaches regardless of whether they come from himself or from someone else. He shows rigor in critically scrutinizing other people’s as well as his own work, concept and approaches and oversees complex outcomes.

Expertise

[title and name on request]’s deep technical and mathematical knowledge enables him to create unrivalled concepts that do focus on the important, mission-critical performance features while preventing from dependencies to specific IT-platforms.

Execution

[title and name on request] plans work and delivers reliably. Doesn't let himself be forced to overpromising.

Business Leadership

[title and name on request] has well adopted to various changes and established professional relationships to changed and new internal contacts. If needed, he manages as well the search of and engagement with external contacts successfully.

People Leadership

[title and name on request] manages his team members very transparently and guiding but always in a fair manner. Successfully copes with severe problems (longer sickness leave, hiring problems) not losing his focus and always willing to work overtime to fill gaps that have occurred."

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• Solution Architect
• Agile Methods
• Design of epidemiologal analytics
• Presentation and Training in Europe and USA