Digital Architect | Enterprise Architect | Software Architect | Change Agent

5/2024 – 12/2024

Aufbau einer Cloud-Architektur zur Unterstützung des Rapid Prototyping von MVPs
• Einrichtung von DevOps-Praktiken und operativen Deployments unter Verwendung von Docker, VMWare und Nutzung von KI
• Dokumentation und Schulung von Stakeholdern zur Nutzung und Weiterentwicklung dieser Infrastruktur

DevOps, Enterprise Architect (EA)

5/2023 – 4/2024

• Exploring how IAM is currently implemented:
o Explore all processes and record all stakeholders, systems, data sources and data flows involved
o Document possible weak points in the process and the current overall architecture
o Conduct workshops to gather expert knowledge o Stakeholder and expectation management
• Setting up the target architecture
o Collect and document the desired and necessary use cases
o Design the target architecture for the future IAM platform and plan the transformation steps
• Accompanying the current development of the new IAM platform
o Code reviews
o Advice for development guidelines
o Hands-on discussions how to implement architecture
requirements
o Necessary data customizations and MVP
implementations requested and reviewed
• Systems & technology: ServiceNOW, ClearSkye (IAM System on ServiceNOW), Python, Groovy, diagram-as-code frameworks

Enterprise Architect (EA), Identitätsmanagement, Software Architecture, Stakeholder-Analyse

5/2023 – 1/2024

• Advice on the creation and further development of a platform strategy
o Maintenance and further development of documentation and LeanIX entries
o Analysis, evaluation and modeling of existing business capabilities and technical capabilities
o Derivation of necessary business and technical capabilities of a business technology platform
o Consulting on gap analyses for existing and necessary platform capabilities
o Consulting on the development of a business technology platform capability map
• Elaboration & consulting on the creation of a technical target picture for (after) sales
o Creation of a technical target image for (After) Sales (incl. parts business)
o Determination of need for action for new vehicle projects o Derivation of an initial IT target image that meets the
known and unknown functional and technical requirements (focus on Warranty processes for several brands and markets)
o Conducting workshops to gather expert knowledge
o Stakeholder and expectation management
o Advice on the architecture target picture for 2023 and
2030 and shutdown and modernization planning until
2030
o Setup of proesses to maintain a target architecture in
LeanIX (EAM service)
o Advice on guidelines for API layers
• Systems & technology: LeanIX, Python, JIRA/Confluence, REST

Enterprise Architect (EA), Softwareanforderungsanalyse, Solution Architektur

1/2023 – 5/2023

• Project for “The Line” by NEOM, Saudi Arabia together with Cerulean Circle and idea.la, Los Angeles – An application to visualize an apartment in a metaverse (VR) to a possible buyer, maintain a land registry and provide the complete apartment sale process.
• QA and DevOps
• Setup and implementation of automatic testing and deployment
processes
• Definition of development guidelines
• Part of the architecture team
• Systems & technology: Docker, Python, Bash, JavaScript, wo-
da.de Framework

DevOps, Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA (IT), Software Architecture

10/2022 – 1/2023

Systems and architecture inventory, risk and process analysis to prevent outages.

Enterprise Architect (EA), Infrastrukturarchitektur

7/2022 – offen

• Unternehmensarchitektur • Entscheidungsmodelle
• Geschäfts-/IT-Strategie
• Produktarchitektur
• IT-Transformation
• Cloud-Journey

DevOps, Enterprise Architect (EA), Software Architecture, Strategisches Management, Unternehmensberatung

1/2022 – 6/2022

Leading corporate architecture team
• Establish an Architecture Organization as a standard architectural advisor for projects/initiatives.
• Setup architecture processes (architecture reviews and governance, architecture definition and a distributed architecture decision process)
• Create and maintain internal communication and transparency to establish the newly formed architecture organization
• Define and maintain an Architecture Blueprint (architecture principles, business architecture, guardrails and guidelines to guide architecture decisions)
• Hands-on architectural support for IT engineering and infrastructure initiatives, coaching and mentoring
• Leadership of a team of 5 architects and hiring of architects
• Enterprise architecture: central organization of architecture documentation and selection of an enterprise processes and architecture tool to fulfill business and regulatory requirements applying TOGAF
• Part of the IT leadership team, regular interactions with management, business lines, product management, compliance and risk management and other internal stakeholders.

Enterprise Architect (EA), Personalführung, Software Architecture, Solution Architektur

2/2019 – 12/2021

Leading corporate architecture team and managing DevOps teams.
• Strengthen agile architecture, automation and DevOps practices.
• Managerial responsibility for 4 multi-cultural teams (17 people in France, Germany, US): DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Distribution, Documentation
• Cost control, people and resource management, transverse projects and process improvement
• Leadership of Architecture Board (8-10 software architects)
• Shaping the culture of software architecture processes (incl. architecture boards in each department)
• Providing tools, processes and best practices to improve performance of development teams

DevOps, Enterprise Architect (EA), Personalführung, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Software Architecture, Solution Architektur

5/2016 – 2/2019

Lead Software Architect to setup Corporate Architecture Board
• Setup and leadership of this board and shaping the culture of software architecture processes (8-10 software architects)
• Defining and maintaining a corporate architecture blueprint
• Project management in international teams
• Software architecture reviews and technical debt management
• CAE and VR software in the cloud and on-premise

Enterprise Architect (EA), Software Architecture, Solution Architektur, Team Building

6/2015 – 4/2016

Software Architect for platform related topics
• Lead architecture board (of one division) (5 software architects)
• C/C++, Fortran, OpenGL, CUDA, Git
• Project management with an international team and an out-sourced development in Nepal (5 offshore developers)

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Software Architecture, Solution Architektur

8/2012 – 5/2015

• Technical and team leadership, project management (4 people)
• C/C++, Java, OpenGL, Bash, CMake, Git, Qt
• Lead of the Software Architecture Board (5 software architects)
• Architecture reviews and support of various teams (Germany, France, Switzerland, India, US), multi-cultural international teams

DevOps, Personalführung, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Software Architecture, Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Solution Architektur, Test Automation

10/2007 – 7/2012

Managerial responsibility for a team and base software component development (4 developers)
• Team leadership, project management, technical leadership
• Responsibility of the core area of the highly distributed client/ server software portfolio where performance, scalability, extensibility and software architecture is key; massive refactoring projects to renew the core of the software
• C/C++, Linux, Windows, Java, OpenGL, Bash, Make, SVN, Qt
• Setup of a Software Architecture Board (5 software architects)

DevOps, Personalführung, Software Architecture, Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Solution Architektur, Test Automation, Virtual Reality

1/2005 – 9/2007

• Technical responsibility for software components, development and maintenance, project management (4-8 developers)
• VR software, Windows/Linux, C/C++, OpenGL, Bash, Make, SVN
• Rewrite and refactoring of our software portfolio

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Software Architecture, Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Test Automation, Virtual Reality

1/2000 – 12/2004

• Software development, project management
• VR software, devices, projection, mathematics
• C/C++, IRIX, Linux, SunOS, OpenGL, Bash, Make, SVN

Projektmanagement (IT), Software Design, Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Virtual Reality

7/1999 – 11/1999

Accomplish master thesis in computer science (“Diplomarbeit”).
Topic: “Synchronization of Scene Graphs in Shared Virtual Environments”
• C/C++, SGI (IRIX OS), VR hardware
• Implementation of a distributed system which allows collaboration between Singapore and Germany

Software Architecture, Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Virtual Reality

9/1997 – 12/1999

• Practical semester: Software development for virtual reality.
• Student research project: „Design and implementation of a graphical user interface for the administration of multidimensional interaction devices “
• C/C++, SGI (IRIX OS), VR hardware, CVS and RCS (as SCM), GUI, OpenGL, Bash, Make

Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Virtual Reality