Curriculum Vitae

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

More than 20 scientific publications with over 1000 citations in the field of Cloud Computing and Smart Data are available on Google Scholar