Background and experience.
This page provides a structured overview of my roles, capabilities, and selected signals of my work. It complements the main pages and focuses on clarity over narrative.
Professional Vita
Experience
Director IT Excellence & Principal Consultant
Overall entrepreneurial responsibility for the Software Engineering Excellence division with disciplinary leadership across multiple management levels and an active role as Principal Consultant in strategic client projects.
- Disciplinary leadership of up to 8 Head-of functions (incl. project management, requirements, architecture, software engineering, cloud)
- Responsibility for the development of approximately 60 employees in the software engineering environment
- Market-oriented further development of the business unit including co-shaping the corporate strategy
- Execution of strategic corporate goals within the responsible business unit
- Development and coaching of managers
- Active participation in new client acquisition and strategic pre-sales
- Assumption of strategic architecture and consulting roles in selected client programs
- Ensuring delivery quality, technological excellence, and economic target achievement
- Established a personal brand strategy for Head-of roles to strengthen visibility and market access
- Secured stable utilization and revenue development despite challenging economic conditions
- Conducted a structural reorganization (approx. 10% of positions, 20% of leadership roles)
- Sustainably secured an average utilization of over 80% across the entire area of responsibility
Head of Architecture & Principal Consultant
Disciplinary and professional leadership of the architecture discipline combined with a strategic role as Principal Consultant in complex client projects.
- Disciplinary leadership of an architecture circle (senior and principal level)
- Revenue and margin responsibility for the area
- Strategic alignment and positioning of architecture competency in the market
- Presentation of strategic concepts before management and supervisory bodies
- Multiplier role for architecture methods and standards
- Coaching and development of senior and principal architects
- Support of pre-sales and proposal processes
- Reporting line to the CTO
- Consistently maintained an average utilization above 80%
- Regularly achieved slight overperformance against revenue targets
- Developed the architecture discipline into a strategically relevant unit
- Sustainably qualified colleagues in the critical area of software architecture
Head of Architecture & Senior Consultant
Building and professional leadership of the architecture discipline combined with operational responsibility in business-critical client projects.
- Built the company-wide architecture community
- Professional leadership and guidance of consultants and experts
- Led agile teams with lateral leadership responsibility
- Technical project leadership in complex client projects
- Prioritization of requirements and sparring with product owners
- Participation in company-wide strategic initiatives
- Successful completion of several business-critical projects with independently led teams
- Assumed technical project leadership in highly critical client projects
- Supported the executive board in acquiring the largest project in company history
- Established first company-wide architecture standards
Senior Consultant
Senior role with responsibility for complex technical topics, team coordination, and client communication.
- Led agile teams with lateral leadership responsibility
- Prioritized and managed requirements
- Sparring with requirements engineering and product ownership
- Professional support on complex problem areas
- Quality assurance of concepts and implementations
- Rapid assumption of expanded project and leadership responsibility
- Stable delivery quality in demanding project constellations
Consultant
Independent contribution in agile client projects with a focus on requirements elicitation, design, and implementation.
- Contribution to agile project teams
- Independent implementation of functional and technical requirements
- Requirements elicitation together with business units
- Design and implementation of solution approaches
- Participation in internal working groups with strategic relevance
- Preparation and delivery of internal technical presentations
- Reliable execution of demanding project requirements
- Built trust with clients and internal stakeholders
- Actively shaped internal knowledge and working formats
Education
M.Sc. Computer Science
- Institution
- FernUniversität in Hagen
- Status
- in progress
B.Sc. Computer Science
- Institution
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Status
- finished
Abitur (University Entrance Qualification)
- Institution
- Gymnasium
- Status
- finished
Skills & Capabilities
Basic understanding; can place the concept and apply it in familiar contexts.
Independent application in projects; delivers reliable results.
Regular application in complex contexts; high quality and decision contribution.
Design, ownership, and enablement of others; shapes standards, architecture, and operating models.
Applied for organizational, portfolio, or company-level design; directly impacts market, structure, and leadership.
Architecture & Systems Design
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Software Architecture in regulated environments
Enterprise Architecture & Target Architectures
Event-driven & Integration Architecture
Legacy Modernization Architecture
Architecture Assessments & Due Diligence
AI & Modernization
AI-assisted Modernization
AI-augmented Software Engineering
Rapid Prototyping for Architecture Decisions
Executive Decision Support & Storytelling
Cloud & Engineering
Cloud Architecture (AWS)
Cloud Architecture (Azure)
DevOps & GitOps Operating Models
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Distributed Systems & Microservices
Backend Engineering (Java, Spring Boot)
Frontend Engineering (TypeScript, Angular)
Data & Persistence (SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DynamoDB)
Leadership & Strategy
Disciplinary Leadership & People Development
Leadership Development (Heads-of & emerging leaders)
Business Development, Pre-Sales & Client Acquisition
Operating Models & Governance (Architecture/Engineering)
P&L, Utilization & Delivery Economics
Organizational Transformation & Restructuring
Thought Leadership & Personal Brand Enablement