Lead Architect — Generative AI
AI Center of CompetenceLead enterprise architecture for generative AI as a direct report to the Chief Data & AI Officer, overseeing multi-cloud AI platform development and governance. Drive the Workplace AI strategy — nearly tripling AI tool usage in the past year — and manage strategic partnerships. As Data & AI Squad lead, align cross-team initiatives with the company’s AI roadmap.
Senior Principal AI Technology Strategy
Mercedes-Benz Tech InnovationDrove AI strategy and innovation across the global “Home of Tech” network (5,000 engineers), reporting directly to the CEO. Co-led the Generative AI Accelerator program and led a cross-hub AI competence group.
Co-Lead Team Autonomous Systems Karlsruhe
Mercedes-Benz Tech InnovationBuilt a delivery team specialised in enterprise-grade deep learning — business development, technology strategy and talent management.
Lead Expert / Principal Machine Learning and AI
Mercedes-Benz Tech InnovationStrengthened the company’s ability to deliver excellence in ML through individual contributions and networks for projects, talent and partners. Played a leading role in acquiring, designing and implementing the GenAI Accelerator.
Professor, Digital Transformation and Technology
Part-timeTeaching digital transformation and technology at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University.
Senior Data Scientist
Business development for the then-new area of Big Data, incl. ROI analysis and PoCs across Daimler. Led strategic Big Data and AI projects — among them early parts forecasting on Daimler’s Hadoop cluster and a predictive-maintenance application still used in Mercedes-Benz workshops worldwide.
Senior Consultant Big Data
Consulting on real-time analytics, Hadoop, and log & performance management.
Division Manager, Information Process Engineering
Program management and business development for an interdisciplinary research division with 50 projects and multi-million-euro annual revenue. Line manager for up to 45 full-time and 80 part-time staff, reporting to the management board.
Deputy Head of Department, Knowledge Management
Multi-project management and business development for a scientific consulting team (~10 projects, ~€1M annual revenue) in real-time information processing, semantic databases and collective intelligence.
Researcher, Artificial Intelligence
Research, development and project management for contract and publicly funded AI and data-mining projects.
Research and Development
Part-timeInformation-management concepts for the KSI-underground project: semantic databases, information retrieval and recommender systems.
Founder and CTO
VolunteerCo-founded and served as chief technician of Germany’s first internet volunteer agency.
Student Researcher
Software for game-theoretic experiments and statistical analysis of their results.
Assistant at Siemens · Military service, Bundeswehr · Community service, Deutsches Jugendherbergswerk