Professional Background
- Amazon Web Services
since 06/2020: Sr. Leader Solutions Architecture Automotive EMEA - BMW Group
06/2019-05/2020: Lead Architect Data Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Data and DevOps Platforms
11/2018-05/2019: Lead Architect Connected Vehicle, Digital Backend, Big Data, Blockchain
2016-2018: Project Lead and Specialist for Cloud Native Connected Cars - Lenk Consulting
since 2003: Consultant and Speaker - IKF Institut für Kommunikation und Führung
09/2017-09/2018: Teaching Digital Transformation (Part of MBA Course) - BMWi Smart Data
2015-03/2016: Head of Smart Data Accompanying Research and Expert - FZI Research Center for Information Technology
2014-03/2016: Manager FZI Branch Office Berlin and Postdoctoral Researcher (Cloud Computing / Smart Data)
2010-2014: Department Manager and Researcher (Cloud Computing)
2009-2010: Research Assistant - BSH Home Appliances USA
2007-2008: Intern (Software Development) - Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
2005-2008: Teaching Assistant
Select Talks
- Redhat Summit Keynote on BMW Cloud-enabled Connected Cars (Video)
Redhat Summit, Boston, 2019 - AWS Summit Keynote on BMW Connected Cars Cloud Hubs (Video)
AWS Summit, Berlin, 2018 - On the Road to Cloud Native: Containerizing the BMW Connected Car Backend
Redhat Summit, San Francisco, 2018 - Industry Keynote: BMW Cloud Native Connected Cars (Slides)
6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC), Oslo, 2017 - Shifting up: How BMW speeds up application delivery using a cloud-native application platform (Slides)
Redhat Summit, Boston, 2017 - Towards a Taxonomy of Smart Data Standards
IEEE Big Data Conference (SCDM Workshop), Santa Clara, 2015 - Smart Data and Industry 4.0
European Commission DG GROW, Brussels, 2015 - The Technology Program Smart Data
German Ministry of Economics and Energy, Berlin, 2015 - Cloud Standby: Disaster Recovery of Distributed Systems in the Cloud
3rd European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC), Manchester, 2014 - Cloud Service Engineering: Building a Private Cloud
ICSE Tutorial, Cape Town, 2010
Select Publications
- Smart Data Business
Editor, Author, Smart Data Accompanying Research, 2016 - acatech Smart Service World
Working Group Member, acatech, 2015 - Cloud Standby: Disaster Recovery of Distributed Systems in the Cloud
Author, European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC), 2014 - What are you paying for? performance benchmarking for infrastructure-as-a-service offerings
Author, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2010 - What’s inside the Cloud? An architectural map of the Cloud landscape
Author, ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges of Cloud Computing, 2009
Panels
- since 2018: Working Group Secure IT Platforms
Digital Gipfel der Bundesregierung - 2015-2017: Working Group Smart Data
IT Gipfel der Bundesregierung - 2015-2016: DIN Big Data Standardization Expert
DIN e.V. - since 2015: FG Legal Framework / Smart Privacy
Smart Data Accompanying Research - since 2014: BITKOM AK Big Data and AK Cloud Computing
BITKOM - 2014-2016: acatech Smart Service Welt
acatech
Scientific Background
- 2014: Dr.-Ing. (Cloud Computing) / PhD in Computer Science
Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT) - 2009: Diplom (Information Engineering and Management) / Master-like degree
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - 2009-2016: Visiting Scientist (2009-2016 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2014-2016 TU Berlin)
Scientific Activities
- since 2016: Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management (PC Member)
- 2017: European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) (Keynote Speaker)
- 2017: European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) (Industry Track Chair, PC Member)
- 2016-2018: IEEE Cloud Computing (2017 Applications Track Chair, PC Member)
- 2015-2016: IEEE BigData Congress (PC Member)
- 2015: IEEE Cloud Computing Journal (Reviewer)
- 2015: IEEE Transactions on Service Computing Journal (Reviewer)
- 2012: ESWC / Reviewer Cloud Computing Track (PC Member)
Scientific Publications
- More than 20 scientific publications with over 1000 citations in the field of Cloud Computing and Smart Data are available on Google Scholar
Other Publications
- Smart Data Business
Editor, Author, Smart Data Accompanying Research, 2015 - Smart Data - Smart Privacy?
Author, Smart Data Accompanying Research, 2015 - Thesenpapier zum Schwerpunktthema Smart Data im Gesundheitswesen
Author, Nationaler IT-Gipfel, 2015 - Smart Data in der Energiewirtschaft
Author, Nationaler IT-Gipfel, 2015 - Leitlinien für den Big-Data-Einsatz im Überblick
Working Group Member, Nationaler IT-Gipfel, 2015 - acatech Smart Service Welt
Working Group Member, acatech, 2015 - Smart-Data-Technologien
Editor, Autor (Standardization), Smart Data Accompanying Research, 2015 - Vom Cloud Computing zu Smart Data
Autor, der freie beruf, 2015 - Warum Standards für Smart Data so wichtig sind
Radio Interview, Deutschlandfunk, 2015