Experiences

  • Lead Architect - Generative AI (Mercedes-Benz, AI Center of Competence)
    Lead enterprise architecture for generative AI as a direct report to Mercedes-Benz’s Chief Data & AI Officer, overseeing multi-cloud AI platform development and governance for scalable enterprise AI solutions. Drive the company’s Workplace AI strategy, nearly tripling AI tool usage in the past year, and manage strategic partnerships to expand the AI ecosystem. As the Data & AI Squad lead, align cross-team initiatives with the company’s AI roadmap.
    Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
  • Senior Principal AI Technology Strategy
    Drive AI strategy and innovation across Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation’s global “Home of Tech” network (5,000 engineers), reporting directly to the CEO. Spearhead cross-functional AI initiatives, co-lead the Generative AI Accelerator program, and lead a cross-hub AI competence group to share knowledge and best practices.
    Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
  • Co-Lead Team Autonomous Systems Karlsruhe
    Created a delivery team specialized in enterprise-grade deep learning, focusing on business development, technology strategy, and talent management.
    Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
  • Lead Expert / Principal Machine Learning and AI
    Increased Mercedes-Benz’s ability to consistently deliver excellence in ML through individual contributions and by building networks to acquire and retain projects, talent, and partners. Helped position Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation as a leader in Generative AI; played a leading role in acquiring, designing, and implementing the GenAI Accelerator for Mercedes-Benz.
    Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
  • Professor Digital Transformation and Technology
    Part-time professor focusing on digital transformation and technology.
    Duale Hochschule Baden-WĂĽrttemberg (DHBW) Mosbach
  • Senior Data Scientist
    Business development for the then-new area of “Big Data” (marketing, offer development incl. ROI analysis, and PoCs across Daimler). Led strategic Big Data and AI projects, including early use of Daimler’s on-prem Hadoop cluster for parts forecasting and a predictive maintenance application still used in Mercedes-Benz workshops worldwide.
    Daimler TSS
  • Senior Consultant Big Data
    Consulting on realtime analytics, Hadoop, and log & performance management.
    codecentric AG
  • Division Manager 'Information Process Engineering' (IPE)
    Program management and business development for the interdisciplinary research group IPE with 50 projects and multi-million € annual revenue. Line manager responsible for budget and personnel (up to 45 full-time and 80 part-time employees), reporting to the management board.
    FZI Research Center for Information Technology
  • Deputy Head of Department 'Knowledge Management' (WIM)
    Multi-project management and business development for a scientific consulting team with ~10 projects and ~€1M annual revenue, specializing in realtime information processing, semantic databases, and collective intelligence.
    FZI Research Center for Information Technology
  • Researcher Artificial Intelligence
    Research, development, and project management for contract and publicly funded AI/data mining projects solving complex information-processing challenges.
    FZI Research Center for Information Technology
  • Employee Research and Development - Part Time
    Defined and implemented information management concepts for the KSI-underground project, focusing on semantic databases, information retrieval, and recommender systems.
    ontoprise GmbH
  • Founder and CTO (Volunteer)
    Co-founded and served as chief technician of Germany's first internet volunteer agency.
    www.ehrenamtlich.de
  • Student Researcher
    Created software for game-theoretic experiments and statistical analysis of experimental results.
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
  • Community service
    Community service role.
    Die Jugendherbergen - DJH e.V.
  • Soldier
    Military service.
    Bundeswehr Wir. Dienen. Deutschland.
  • Assistant
    Assistant role.
    Siemens

Education

  • PhD, Economics (specialization in Computer Science)
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
    Karlsruhe, Germany
  • MS, Computer Science
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    Dartmouth, MA, USA
  • Computer Science and Psychology
    Freie Universität Berlin
    Berlin, Germany