Industries & Projects

I know your industry, including its rules.

Over 30 industries in 25 years. I am especially at home where software is regulated, safety-critical or business-critical.

Industries

Where I am at home

Ten fields with typical requirements and what I have concretely done there.

Energy & Critical Infrastructure

Data platforms, digital twins and integration layers in a critical-infrastructure environment.

Typical requirements

  • High demands on availability and traceability
  • Data-centric architecture across many source systems
  • Interplay of classic and agile project management

My experience

Technical leadership and product ownership for data products and integration layers in grid expansion.

Healthcare, Care & Medical Technology

Regulation meets software: telematics infrastructure, legal requirements and quality assurance.

Typical requirements

  • Legal requirements that keep changing
  • Data protection and secure communication
  • Device control, installers and quality assurance

My experience

Connection to the telematics infrastructure (KIM), care management according to national requirements, control software for medical devices.

Insurance & Financial Services

Billing, payment transactions and audit-proof archiving as greenfield applications, plus sales and form processes.

Typical requirements

  • Audit-proof document generation and archiving
  • Clean interfaces to ERP and payment transactions
  • Traceable business logic

My experience

Greenfield architecture with .NET and Blazor, process analysis, sales and data capture systems.

Public Sector

Data centres and state agencies: rescuing legacy projects, migrating old systems, connecting SAP and document management.

Typical requirements

  • Long-grown legacy systems
  • Strict processes and stakeholder structures
  • Connection to SAP and document management

My experience

Restart of a stalled project including migration to .NET, interfaces between ERP and DMS solutions.

Industry, Manufacturing & Building Technology

Production control, SAP integration, IoT and remote diagnostics of installed devices as a SaaS architecture.

Typical requirements

  • Linking IT and production
  • Heterogeneous system landscapes
  • Long-lived products that are supported remotely

My experience

SaaS architecture for remote diagnostics, optimisation of platform and production control, digital quality acceptance in shipbuilding.

E-Commerce, Travel & Logistics

Portals with logistics integration, configurators and CMS for travel products, backend processes and CRM integration.

Typical requirements

  • Many external interfaces and providers
  • Fast releases with stable quality
  • Scalable portals

My experience

Greenfield e-commerce portals, travel configurators, integration of external logistics providers, backend and CRM integration.

Fintech & Payment

Start-up environment: concepts, proofs of concept and system architectures for mobile payment and travel fintech.

Typical requirements

  • Fast validation of ideas
  • Scalable architecture from day one
  • Building team and processes

My experience

Concept and proof of concept for a mobile payment platform, system architecture and setting up a development office.

High Tech, Sensors & Signal Processing

Architecture for high-performance signal processing and evaluation software for sensors.

Typical requirements

  • High data rates and near real-time
  • Demanding algorithms
  • Advice at CTO level

My experience

Platform architecture, architecture workshops and an evaluation application for weighted decision methods.

Auditing & Consulting

Software engineering processes, workforce planning and quality management in a process-driven environment.

Typical requirements

  • Clear processes and traceability
  • Quality assurance and test concepts
  • Professional communication with non-technical people

My experience

Introduction of software engineering processes, development of workforce planning software.

Research & Education

EU research on augmented and virtual reality as well as learning systems and competence measurement.

Typical requirements

  • International teams and partners
  • Prototypes that must become robust
  • Publication and documentation

My experience

Mechatronic learning systems with augmented and virtual reality, competence database for digital-pen forms.

Project examples

Task, contribution, result

Anonymised, but concrete. I name details and references in a personal conversation.

Energy supply · critical infrastructure · 2021–2022

A digital twin as the data backbone for grid expansion

Grid expansion generates huge amounts of construction, planning and asset data, spread across many systems.

My contribution
Technical lead of the integration layer, technology selection, backlog and solution/data architecture; in parallel an interim role as data product owner.
Result
A central data product for infrastructure data and a data-centric integration layer on which the business units build.
Role
Tech lead · Product owner
Public sector · state data centre · 2017–2018

A stalled project restarted

A legacy project for court deposits and payment transactions was stuck, running on outdated technology.

My contribution
Review, restart and migration from Gupta to .NET; new architecture, planning, team and development processes; coaching of team and project management.
Result
New architecture, reliable planning and a working team with clear processes.
Role
Project manager · Architect · Team lead
Healthcare · care · 2021–2024

Connection to the telematics infrastructure (KIM)

A care management system that had grown over years had to meet new legal requirements for secure email communication.

My contribution
Architecture design and assessment, development of the KIM connection, database development and coaching of the team.
Result
Legally compliant communication with gematik, embedded in the existing application.
Role
Architect · Developer · Coach
Insurance · 2019–2020

Billing and payment transactions as a greenfield application

Billing of services and payment transactions had to be brought together in a new application, with legally sound archiving.

My contribution
Architecture, API design and development of a browser-based application with ERP-driven document generation and legally sound archiving.
Result
A new application for billing and payment transactions, built according to Clean Architecture.
Role
Architect · Developer · Process analyst
Building automation · industry · 2014–2016

SaaS architecture for remote diagnostics and building management

Installed devices were to be diagnosed remotely, with several product lines and external suppliers.

My contribution
New software architecture, technology and tool selection, setting up the entire ALM, supplier management; additionally a code review for a purchase decision.
Result
All four engagements were completed to the client’s full satisfaction; documented in a written reference letter.
Role
Project manager · Architect · Team lead
Travel fintech · start-up · 2012–2013

A development office built from scratch

A young company wanted to rethink e-commerce for travel services from the ground up and needed a team in Berlin for it.

My contribution
System architecture, profiles and recruiting, coaching and training, release processes, performance-based compensation concept, funding application.
Result
A development team of ten employees and a successful funding application of EUR 1.2 million.
Role
Architect · Interim head of development
High tech · signal processing · 2023

Architecture and sparring for a high-performance platform

A software architecture was needed for a platform that processes broadband antenna signals.

My contribution
Design of the architecture, architecture workshops, advising the CTO and coaching the executives.
Result
An elaborated platform architecture, agreed in workshops with engineering and management.
Role
Architect · Management consultant · Coach
In-house development · AI · since 2022

A portfolio of AI-assisted office tools

Recurring office work, from project acquisition to communication, costs time that is missing in projects.

My contribution
Own tools with LLMs, agents and RAG, locally operated models, integration via MCP, database in PostgreSQL.
Result
A field-tested portfolio of AI-assisted office tools whose experience I bring into client projects.
Role
Architect · Developer
Energy · supplier portal · 2026

SAP apps for suppliers in a procurement portal

Suppliers were to work with SAP processes through a central portal.

My contribution
Project management and business analysis: capturing requirements, steering stakeholders and suppliers.
Result
Ongoing project: SAP apps for suppliers in the One Supplier Portal.
Role
Project manager · Business analyst
Public sector · state agency · 2019–2020

Property management with SAP integration

For property management, MS Project Server had to be coupled with SAP, and ERP and document management had to work together.

My contribution
Implementation of client requirements in coordination with project management and BI architects, interfaces between ERP and DMS solutions.
Result
A custom solution connecting MS Project Server to SAP.
Role
Architect · Developer
Industry · manufacturing · 2016–2017

Internet platform and SAP production control optimised

An internet platform and the SAP production control were to be analysed, optimised and extended.

My contribution
Analysis, optimisation and extension, adapted development and deployment processes, test automation.
Result
An optimised platform with adapted deployment processes and automated tests.
Role
Architect · Developer
E-commerce · logistics · 2018

Greenfield portal with external logistics providers

A new e-commerce portal was to connect external logistics providers and social media.

My contribution
Technical architecture, API design, database development, network and identity management.
Result
A new e-commerce portal with connected external logistics providers and identity management.
Role
Architect · Developer
Product development · founding · 2002–2007

First commercial digital-pen-and-paper solution in Germany

Handwritten forms were to be captured digitally without media breaks, for mid-sized companies and corporations.

My contribution
Concept and implementation of the digipen product portfolio, partner and supplier network, sales partners, leading the development team.
Result
The first commercial Anoto digital-pen-and-paper solution in Germany and an in-house R&D team.
Role
Architect · Founder · Product manager · Head of R&D
Research · education · 1998–2002

EU research projects on mechatronic learning systems

A platform for vocational training was to connect real and virtual environments.

My contribution
Development and testing with augmented and virtual reality, optical and ultrasonic position tracking; cooperation with universities and industry in several countries; academic supervision of staff.
Result
Successfully completed EU projects, plus several publications.
Role
Research associate
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