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• Chief Executive Officer (CEO), alfatier GmbH

  May, 2021 - Present

  Founder and Leading the company.

  • Started the company

  • Grow revenue to 7 digits within 2 years

  • Build a team of 6 employees

• COO, Co-Founder, Cleanz Technologies UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

  Nov, 2022 - Present

  COO & Co-Founder

  • Arragned first investment round

  • Created IoT platform incl. billing system

  • Embraced a complete new market

• CEO, Seed Investor, Neuhauss Capital UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  Investing in early-stage/pre-seed startups

  • Invested in 5 startups

  • Mentored 3 startups

  • Founded 1 startup

• CEO, Founder, Bright Skies GmbH, sold to Rackspace Germany GmbH

  Oct, 2014 - May, 20216 years 7 months

  Build a leading Microsoft Cloud transformation consulting and managed services company

  • Grow revenue to 8 digits within 5 years

  • Grow team to 70 employees across 5 offices in Germany

  • Developed an intense partnership with Microsoft

  • Successfully sold the company to Rackspace Germany GmbH

• Principal Domain Architect, RedHat GmbH

  Mar, 2014 - Oct, 20147 months

  Drive strategic customer engagement by identifying key accounts, building trusted partnerships with executives, architecting innovative virtualization and cloud solutions, leading implementations, collaborating across Red Hat teams, and contributing thought leadership to scale services and enhance customer experiences.

  • Team with dedicated enterprise virtualization sales specialists to identify key accounts, assist in the creation of account plans, and execute on those strategic plans

  • Attain trusted advisor status with top-level IT and business executives within targeted accounts with the goal of creating a long-term partnership with customers

  • Architect novel virtualization and cloud solutions to meet the unique requirements of Red Hat's most strategic customers

  • Lead proof of concept and pilot implementations of Red Hats virtualization and cloud technologies within key accounts

  • Work closely with product team, product engineering, professional services, support, and sales to ensure a world-class customer experience with Red Hats products

  • Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat's services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk

  • Demonstrate thought leadership in the virtualization and cloud areas by producing world-class white papers, webinars, blog posts, and speaking at industry leading conferences

• Global Solutions Consultant, VMware Global, Inc.

  Feb, 2011 - Mar, 20143 years 1 month

  Drive strategic customer engagement by identifying key accounts, building trusted partnerships with executives, architecting innovative virtualization and cloud solutions, leading implementations, collaborating across VMware's teams, and contributing thought leadership to scale services and enhance customer experiences.

  • Presenting VMware value proposition to customers and partners.

  • Understanding Siemens’ high-level business challenges globally and locally.

  • Matching VMware solutions to Siemens' business and technical requirements.

  • Becoming a trusted advisor within Siemens.

  • Selling professional services consistently as part of a total solution.

  • Defining and implementing a strategy for Siemens to ensure technical adoption of VMware solutions.

  • Building and leveraging strong OEM and partner relationships.

  • Identify new projects within Siemens for VMware solutions.

  • Presenting VMware vision, strategy and product roadmaps to executives and technical management.

• Executive Director, CEMA AG

  May, 2006 - Dec, 20104 years 8 months

  Second Managing Director of two branches in Hamburg and Hanover.

  • Direct reporting to the Board.

  • Planning, management, motivation and development, in particular the technical team.

  • Implementation of salary and annual employee reviews, recruiting and hiring new staff, negotiation of compensation and the implementation of layoffs.

  • Training and education planning, supervision of trainees and the introduction of a team leader structure.

  • Support the sales staff in the pre-sales process.

• IT Consultant, Computer & Competence GmbH

  Dec, 2001 - Jun, 20031 year 7 months

  Design, implementation and troubleshooting in server-based computing, especially using the products from Citrix and Microsoft

  • Project management and project controls and technical leadership of project teams.

  • Design and implementation of IT security solutions using firewalls, content filters, AVS solutions, Intrusion Detection, and (SSL) VPN appliances.

  • Conducting security audits, penetration tests and workshops on IT security.

• Systems Engineer, HDT Hanseatische Datentechnik GmbH

  Sep, 2001 - Dec, 20014 months

  External IT security consultant for the customer Philips Medical Systems in Hamburg as part of an out-tasking project.

• Administrator, SC Service Concept GmbH

  Jul, 2000 - Aug, 20011 year 1 month

  Service and technical support for mission-critical customer systems, particularly in the banking sector.

• Working Student, Philips Semiconductors

  Jan, 1997 - Jan, 19992 years

  Support for Oracle database servers, design and programming of intranet information systems for item tracking, documentation and quality management.

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