Work Experience
Senior IT Expert
Migration from a legacy Manufacturing Execution System to SAP Digital Manufacturing and integration of Industry 4.0 solutions into the IT landscape for production.
- Leading a project team with internal and external SAP developers
- Collaborating with stakeholders to analyze business and user requirements and design effective solutions
- Establishing guidelines for the standardized development and configuration of manufacturing execution components
Senior IT Architect
Development of architecture guidelines for the transition of legacy applications and infrastructure into a cloud native environment.
- Onboarded product teams to a centralized logging, monitoring and tracing stack
- Migrated a Docker Compose-based application to Kubernetes
- Set up a CI/CD pipeline for a microservice-based application
- Evaluation of a C# / .Net Library for replacing a proprietary machine communication protocol with OPCUA
Techie & Founder
I founded a startup company for working on own ideas and projects.
- Developed a social network MVP with frontend (Svelte), backend (Python & Node.JS) and authentication
- Digitized a card game using serverless technologies (Cloudflare Workers, Pages, KV, Durable Objects)
- Organized "Codepals" meetups and joined conferences for developers
- Registered a company and a trademark in the EU
Expatriate Specialist IT
As technical expert for MES systems, I worked in the local IT team for production control.
- Planned and executed weekly technology and business related trainings for Chinese colleagues
- Developed an API-backed tool for regression testing of the MES system
- Developed a smartwatch prototype for the MES system
- Rolled out the production control system in Beijing/Shunyi
Project Manager & System Coordinator
System expert for the MES in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Beijing
- Supplier-, Incident-, Change-, Problem-, Release- and Test Management
- Led various projects in the MES area ensuring the production readiness of the plant in Beijing for new car and engine models
- Developed a machine simulator in Python to reproduce production issues in the lab
IT Performance Manager
IT internal controlling and reporting of KPIs.
- Drove and supported financial reporting and planning within the IT organization for Sales, After Sales and Financial Services in Europe & USA by introducing an Excel-based planning tool & automation technologies
- Supported development of cross-country benchmarking, operative planning and SLA Management