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Consulting for the introduction and optimization of Artificial Intelligence / AI / AI

Available from
Jan 2, 2020
Availability
20 %
on customer site
25 %
Cities
Berlin
50 km
Contact Settings

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Projects

08/2019 - Today

5 months

Focus on Artificial Intelligence

Roles
FREELANCER / CONSULTANT
Customer
MRI Software / Beck Verlag
Place of work
US, Ohio / Germany, Munich
Tasks
  • Focus on Artificial Intelligence
  • helping companies to define and execute their AI and IT strategy
  • Link on request

02/2012 - 07/2019

7 years 6 months

Developed state-of-the-art Deep Learning architecture

Roles
CTO / FOUNDER
Customer
LEVERTON GMBH
Place of work
Berlin
Tasks
  • LEVERTON offers cloud based SaaS Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution with the capability of automated Information Extraction from (scanned) documents
  • Defined tech, product, marketing and HR strategy as managing director and board member for a fast growing, international company with 90+ FTE in Berlin, London and New York
  • Developed state-of-the-art Deep Learning architecture and algorithms, used for OCR, Document Classification and Information Extraction
  • Scaled IT team from 1 to 35 highly talented engineers
  • Established SCRUM processes, cross-functional teams, engineering processes
  • Solely responsible for product development, infrastructure and R&D
  • Defined architecture and infrastructure
  • Involved in all investor, shareholder and M&A dialogues
  • Acquired funding of € 20MM+
  • Successful sale of company to MRI Software (US / Ohio) in July 2019

09/2009 - 04/2013

3 years 8 months

Lead of R&D projects

Roles
VICE HEAD OF R&D
Customer
NEOFONIE GMBH
Place of work
BERLIN
Tasks
  • Lead of R&D projects funded by BMWi with 15-35 research engineers
  • Focus on big data, semantics and machine learning
  • Managed project partners like DFKI, Siemens, ATOS, Fraunhofer
  • Project controlling and reporting
  • Acquired R&D projects with volume of € 5MM+
  • Rejected offered position as Head of R&D in favor of founding
  • LEVERTON in 2012

09/2006 - 08/2009

3 years

Technical lead of SCRUM teams

Roles
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Customer
NEOFONIE GMBH
Place of work
BERLIN
Tasks
  • Technical lead of SCRUM teams with 5-12 engineers
  • Focus on CMS and search based web portals
  • Consulting and presales
  • Customers: DHL, TELEKOM, Springer, Gruner + Jahr, Ebay, Audi

02/2004 - 09/2006

2 years 8 months

Leading team of 3 engineers

Roles
LEAD DEVELOPER
Customer
TESTDAF INSTITUTE
Place of work
HAGEN
Tasks
  • Leading team of 3 engineers to build online language tests

06/2002 - 01/2004

1 year 8 months

Developing a CMS system

Roles
DEVELOPER
Customer
UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN
Tasks
  • Developing a CMS system for creating and editing online
    lectures as part of my diploma thesis

Skills

Products / Standards / Experiences
Confluence
GitLab CI
IntelliJ
Jenkins
JIRA
SonarQube
Unity

Profile

Open-minded and creative entrepreneur, innovator, all-rounder, pragmatist and problem solver. Highly experienced in software/system architecture and applied research. 7+ years of executive level experience, 16+ years of experience in people lead, engineering, project lead and product development.

Research

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Clustering
  • Information Extraction
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Question Answering
  • Semantics
  • Ontologies

Technology

Cloud Technology, Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, React, Python, C#, NoSQL, Relational DBs, Big Data, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Micro services, CI/CD, ESB

VR / AR

Private projects in Unity3D / C# (12+ month experience)


Management Experience in Companies
agile management (SCRUM)
Budget definition
contract negotiation
definition of company -vision, -mission, -strategy, -culture, -structure and -values
goal definition (OKR)
legal assessment
recruiting and retention
risk management
shareholder and investor relations

Language Skills
English
working language since 10+ years
German
native

Comments

Memberships on request.


Education and Training

10/1996 - 05/2002

5 years 8 months

Information Systems

Certification
Diploma in Information Systems
Institute
UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER

10/1993 - 10/1996

3 years 1 month

Apprenticeship export merchant

Certification
Apprenticeship export merchant
Institute
DOUGLAS HOLDING AG