May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry, Ireland · On-site

• I'm excited to be organizing the TEDxGlenbeigh! Living in the stunning Ring of Kerry, I'm constantly inspired by the powerful connection between nature, sustainable living, and fresh ideas. My goal for this event is to create a dynamic platform where individuals can share their unique stories, innovative solutions, and visions for a more conscious future. It's about sparking meaningful conversations, fostering a sense of community, and proving that incredible inspiration can truly flourish where mountains meet the sea. This isn't just an event; it's a movement to elevate voices and drive positive change in our world.

Dec 2024 – Aug 2025 · 8 mos · Ireland · Remote

• Data-Driven R&D: Engineered a proprietary analytics engine to decode professional branding algorithms, moving beyond surface metrics (e.g., posting times) to analyze deep engagement patterns and sentiment.
• Governance & Compliance: Designed the data ingestion pipeline to be strictly compliant with LinkedIn’s T&Cs and legal frameworks, prioritizing user data sovereignty from the start.
• Strategic Outcome: This project served as the technical proof-of-concept for @JuntoAI. The insights derived from analyzing "broken" networking incentives demonstrated the need for a new protocol, directly informing the architecture of JuntoAI’s Next Generation Business Network.

Oct 2024 – Jan 2025 · 3 mos · Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry, Ireland · On-site

• As a Chief Pizza Officer for 3 months, I was offering pizza every Friday evening. You could enjoy our pizza either as takeout or dine-in.
• I gained valuable experience in food service and hospitality management through this venture. It was rewarding to lead a small team of kitchen and front-of-house staff each Friday evening. Furthermore, it was a pleasure to assist owner Emilie in keeping the business running during the off-season.
• Thank you to all our guests for supporting us and enjoying my homemade sourdough pizza every week.

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Europe · Hybrid

Jan 2020 – Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Europe · Hybrid

• The Authentic Leader Academy is empowering leaders, inspiring authenticity, and guiding towards efficiency & excellence.
• What we offer:
• We offer leadership training and coaching that addresses business, body, mind and spirit. All of our work focuses on empowering leaders, fostering authenticity and guiding them towards efficiency and excellence.
• Why our process "Change from Inside to Outside" works:
• It is crucial to recognize that employees cannot be forcibly changed. They can only be encouraged to adapt and align with a shared vision. However, as a leader, you possess the power to cultivate your personal growth and become an authentic and inspiring figure.

Mar 2020 – Feb 2021 · 11 mos · Berlin

• 12 months parental leave

Sep 2017 – Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• As a Director of Data I own the Scout24 data strategy and I am leading a group (40 people) of talented people which enable Scout24 to build data products and provide all required technologies to create business value out of Scout24s data.
• Scout24s Data Engineering team is building & operating an efficient and scaling data lake and data platform on AWS.
• Our Data Access Services & Solutions team is helping everyone in Scout24 to access all data as easy as possible by providing tools as MicroStrategy, Alation DataCatalog and many more.
• The Scout24 Data Science team is working with our business units to move state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms into products.
• The Scout24 Machine Learning Engineering team is building the next generation AI platform and brings data science models in an efficient and reliable way into production.
• Overall, data technology teams are enabling Scout24 to live a data-driven culture.
• In 2018 the Scout24 data strategy with the "Scout24 Data Landscape Manifesto" won the BARC award for the most future looking self-service data strategy.

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos · Munich Area, Germany

May 2016 – Jan 2017 · 8 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• At glomex I was building up and leading a data team to help the company to understand the usage of the Glomex video platform. This included the ownership of the company data strategy and a scaling data platform following the Lambda-Architecture fully running on AWS. This platform wonn the "Gartner Best Data Management and Infrastructure Award 2017" (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-02-01-gartner-announces-winners-of-the-gartner-data-analytics-excellence-awards)

May 2016 – Jun 2016 · 1 mo

• 2 month parental leave for traveling

Mar 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Germany

• The online Chief Data Officer Business School provides the required knowledge and skills to the next generation Chief Data Officers (CDOs) to be efficient and successful in their data driven role. The CDO Business School trains CDOs to guide, measure and report data projects to success. Furthermore, it provides a platform to exchange and learn with and from CDOs from all over the world.

Jan 2016 – Apr 2016 · 3 mos · Unterföhring, Munich

Aug 2015 – Oct 2015 · 2 mos · Munich, Bavaria

• 3 months parental leave

Jun 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• I was working as an AWS Professional Services Senior Big Data consultant in the EMEA region. I supported and cooperated with many AWS customers and AWS partners in Germany and Europe. My work was focused on setting up transformation programs (including organization structures and technical setups) and data strategies to move data workloads to AWS.

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• Consultant for development projects in the telecommunication area with customers as Telefonica Dynamic Insights. Responsible for big data modelling and storing concepts, and the data analyses and data quality concepts with R and AWS EMR. Furthermore, responsible for the AWS Cloud based operation of applications and analyses infrastructure.

Dec 2011 – Oct 2012 · 10 mos · Munich, Bavaria

• 11 month parental leave

Jun 2011 – Dec 2011 · 6 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• Main part was the delivery of technical high-quality output to the community and the marketing team. Furthermore, I was a kind of in-house consultant developing ideas for new features and training new team members. For new customers I was a pre-sales engineer to get them as fast and efficient as possible onto the cloud based analyses environment.

Jun 2010 – Sep 2010 · 3 mos · Munich, Bavaria

• 4 month parental leave

Feb 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Germany

• HPC and statistic consultant for European companies as Gazprom Germania GmbH, especially for using R in HPC environments including AWS EC2 Cloud.

Jan 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• Big Data Analyst working with protein data. Research focus was on analysing protein data for unstructured regions. Furthermore, I was responsible for the operation of the lab's IT infrastructure.

Apr 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 11 mos · Ireland · Hybrid

• In 2009, my wife and I made a conscious decision to share equally in the responsibility of raising our children. This involved transitioning from a full-time to a part-time work contract, a change I've never regretted.
• Today, I celebrate the successful journey of travelling the world and homeschooling four amazing children, alongside a thriving and ever-more-amazing relationship with my business partner and wife.
• While caring for the kids and sharing household duties presented challenges, it also became a powerful catalyst for personal growth for both of us.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Greater Seattle Area

• R programmer for the BioConductor project and PhD student working on parallel computing concepts for R and algorithms in Bioinformatics.

Aug 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• Working in the 'Department for Biometrics and Bioinformatic'. Working on my PhD thesis "Parallel Computing for Biological Data".