May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction on the design, development, security, infrastructure, testing and implementation of the CV Wallet platform.
• Provide strategic advice on implementing Web3 technology to bring decentralized trusted identity to recruiting.

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Remote

• Advisor to Jobiqo, the award-winning global leader in white-label job board software and programmatic recruitment advertising serving 150+ customers across 22 countries. I provide strategic guidance on SEO optimization, AI-powered matching technology, and monetization strategies for over 130 job boards using the Jobiqo SaaS

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

• With over 200000 applications, Crypto Careers is the most trusted platform connecting exceptional professionals and businesses building digital assets and blockchain technology.

Jul 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

Jul 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

• WorkHarmony is a modern global holding company for companies servicing candidates, employers, and partner organizations that are shaping the future of work. Our mission at WorkHarmony is to serve people to find their next career opportunity utilizing the latest developments in web technology, crawling, machine learning and AI.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

• TAtech is the trade association for the worldwide community of organizations that provide technology-based tools for recruiting.
• During its early years, the association devoted itself to serving job boards, association career centers, aggregators, job ad distribution companies and the vendors that work with and support them. On that foundation, it has now built a community that includes organizations offering solutions for every facet of talent acquisition, from employment branding and talent community development to recruitment advertising and programmatic ad buying, from interviewing and assessment to candidate communications and compliance.
• As a member of the European Board of Advisors, I support the association with speaking activities during TaTech Europe and with general overview of the German recruiting market.

Jan 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Data Services is Experteer's Technology unit focusing on solving complex HR Tech Industry problems with machine learning and data science, both for internal, as well as external clients. The scope of our work includes processing of job data (crawling and extraction), classification of jobs in diverse ontologies, enrichment of job data, salary prediction, matching jobs to candidates. We constantly innovate our tech stack and evaluate the latest research in the fields of deep learning and classical machine learning to build supreme algorithms.
• Our mission is to help HR Tech Companies achieve large scale process automation by providing machine learning services for job processing, job categorization and classification, on-demand job crawling, high quality job back-fill in all European/US/UK markets.

Jan 2016 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Job Advertising is Experteer's Business Unit that enables Job Boards, Companies and Aggregators to publish their high-paid vacancies on the Experteer Platform to source high-quality candidates. We use our cutting-edge data processing stack to filter millions of jobs from our partners so that we can provide candidates with the most comprehensive selection of high level and executive positions.

Jul 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• In this role I was responsible for the strategic and technological transformation of the department. This included the development and the roll-out of a major program to innovate our crawling and data processing stack. The scope of the program was the implementation of machine learning tools, crawlers and semantic text mining to fully automate the existing operational processes as well as find and classify every executive job on the market.
• My responsibilites included:
• P&L Responsibility for the Data Science and Engineering Unit (60+ Team)
• research, develop and implement machine learning and crawling technologies;
• management of external software development firms;
• lead and manage a team of 4 software developers;
• ownership of the product management function of the department.
• The team achieved:
• launching a custom-built tech stack, which completely automated the existing data classification process for 8 languages.
• Increasing the job supply to candidates by 300% YOY

Feb 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Major Achievements:
• Definition, planning and implementation of a department wide reorganization together with the VP of Operations, which resulted in constant cost reduction of 10% after 8 months;
• Creating a scalable organizational model, capable of processing more than 40.000 jobs from 10.000 different companies.
• Selected three employees from the team and successfully developed, a team of 3 team leaders and preparing them for their first managerial role. Each team leader is currently successfully leading a team of 20-25 Students.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead, manage and develop 3 Team Leaders, responsible for 70 students/freelancers, researching the European and US job market for high-caliber senior specialists and management positions.
• Career and personal development of the team leaders, performance reports and evaluation, coaching and mentoring
• Definition and implementation of work processes in the content department to assure stable operations
• Specification and implementation of department specific reporting and controlling tools
• Align the content strategy with key stakeholders – B2B and Marketing departments.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Major Achievements:
• Specification and development of a content indexing software based on java script/ruby on rails, currently capable of indexing content from more than 10.000 career pages in a quick and efficient manner. The tool improved the performance of researchers by more than 40% over three years.
• Successful specification and implementation of a web crawler technology, automatically checking for content which is not available anymore. The project virtually eliminated complaints from external partners regarding outdated content.
• Successfully lead the product definition, roll-out and management of product life cycles of more than 40 technology projects and partnerships with external content suppliers. Typical project length between 1-300 man days.
• Responsibilities
• Designs and implements solutions to improve existing processes and tools in the content department
• Promotes best practices and trains others on existing and new processes and tools across teams and departments
• Ensure development and on-going accuracy of requirement and spec documents and use cases for new product and features
• Research and increase knowledge about competitive products, market trends, technology roadmaps and develop strategy to address
• Ensure development and on-going accuracy of requirement and spec documents and use cases for new product and features
• Quantitatively and qualitatively analyze results to influence product decisions for internal processes

Oct 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Major Achievements:
• Specification of an API, capable of processing external content (jobs) from other partners. The API is currently handling an import of more than 5000 jobs / month from more than 20 different partners.
• Integration of major relevant partners for Experteer from the area of job search and job distribution: Broadbean and Idibu (leading Multiposting companies from the UK), Equest –preferred multiposter for the major ATS platforms like Taleo and Brassring, Multiposting.fr – leading multiposting service provider from France.
• Responsibilities
• lead, manage and develop a team of 40 students, researching the US and UK job market for high-profile senior and management jobs
• identify potential partners for content and lead the technical implementation of cooperations based on XML/Restful services
• improve operational processes and procedures and control frameworks

Jul 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Mar 2007 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Job Market Analysis