Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Driving the BMW Group Transformation Programs: SAP Transformation, Cloud Transformation and Mainframe Migration:
• 1. SAP Transformation: 6 Greenfield initiatives and 1 brownfield initiative to move the BMW Group's SAP landscape to SAP S/4 and into the cloud with more than 150 Go Lives until 2030. Establishing RISE migration factory to significantly accelerate transformation.
• 2. Cloud Transformation: Transformation of BMW application landscape into private cloud. Modernizing and migrating existing applications to BMW standard cloud platforms. Optimizing existing infrastructure setup based on cloud first strategy.
• 3. Mainframe migration: Migration of mainframe applications by rollout of BMW Group Standard solutions as well as application modernisation with strong focus on automation supported by GenAI and data decoupling.
• Planning, Steering and Optimizing the transformation activities across all Business IT units and Central IT as well as the regional IT with clear focus on the overall business case. Building up and leading migration services based leveraging AI and factories to speed up migrations.

Jan 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Leading IT Services and DevOps for all BMW Group Plants in the UK and South Africa: Oxford, Swindon, Hams Hall, Goodwood and Rosslyn, enabling the supply chain and production of components and cars for the brands BMW, MINI and Rolls Royce.
• Leading a team of 11 managers and 170 employees.
• Integration and Rollout of global production and logistics solutions
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Agile Software Development (DevOps) for Finance, Customs, Logistics, Shopfloor, Sales
• Cloud Migration of the existing brownfield landscape
• Successful enabling of new custom integration processes due to BREXIT (changes in 37 applications, more than 700 cutover activities)
• Leading the Oxford Triple Go Live (biggest Big Bang Go Live in a running BMW plant): Rollout of the new SAP S/4 HANA Logistics Template, Finance Template and custom’s solution in 08/2023 (more than 1000 employees involved)

Jan 2015 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Global End-to-End responsibility for shopfloor / plant maintenance IT solutions at BMW Group.
• SCADA / MES with focus production monitoring & visualization
• Enterprise asset management with SAP EAM
• Maintenance planning & Scheduling
• Maintenance execution
• Spare Parts Management
• Test Equipment Management & Tool management
• Smart Maintenance & Mobile Maintenance apps
• Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance
• Firmware Management
• Initiating and Implementing a global digital transformation initiative for the BMW Group Maintenance Organisation focussed on smart and predictive maintenance and based on standardised and lean maintenance processes.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

• IT integration of a BMW Group production partner.
• EDI enabling for external & internal suppliers
• Parts quality and claims
• JIT & JIS supply and order processing
• digital supply chain
• physical logistics
• finance integration supply chain

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

• Leading the IT activities for a BMW group wide harmonization project for parts quality processes and IT solutions from blueprint to rollout phase.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2011 · 7 yrs

• SAP Inhouse Consultant and Project Manager for IT projects with focus on logistics and quality processes.
• Implementation and international rollouts of global SAP templates for vehicle, engine and component production.