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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Miro is an online, visual collaboration platform designed to unlock creativity and accelerate innovation among teams of all kinds. The platform’s infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 50M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,500 employees in 12 hubs around the world.

Berlin, Germany

Global Solutions Architects work with some of worlds largest companies, to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with account managers, we assist in driving growth across a set of global customers. As trusted customer advocates, we will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. We help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and use of AWS within enterprise customers.Since joining AWS I've obtained all 12 AWS Certifications.

Munich Area, Germany

Co-founder of Mbanq – a breakthrough leader in digital banking with the potential for industry dominance worldwide. Mbanq's business is to deliver cutting-edge financial technology. Mbanq started as a technology provider, transforming in 2017 into one of the most comprehensive Banking-as-a-Service FinTechs, globally.Mbanq has built proprietary and scalable, universal digital banking technology for its key customer segments:• Traditional banks• Challenger banks• Non-banksMbanq provides the full complement of technological capabilities for these entities to create and operate a digital bank of any size. Mbanq's service also enables customers to comply with the international and local regulatory requirements, such as GDPR, PSD2 and ISO.Mbanq's solution is suitable for all banking products for both retail and corporate clients. From white-label mobile apps to open banking APIs, Mbanq allows customers to access best-of-breed innovations in digital banking.Mbanq is firmly on track to establish itself as a global FinTech leader with revenues from:• Digital Banking• Global Payments• RegTech• The wider ecosystem, including Mbanq's Banking-as-a-Service FinTech accelerator program

Munich Area, Germany

Fidor is an award-winning innovator of digital financial services, with a mission to create better banking for a digital world. Some of our many awards include Global Growth Company from the World Economic Forum, Best Online Bank in Germany, Celent Model Bank of the Year, and winner of the Product and Service Innovation award from BAI. Fidor has been awarded for SmartCard products as well as the Karma and bonus systems used in our Community. We are recognized as being in the forefront of the API Economy for financial services with our approach to open banking APIs, seeing the bank as a platform, and close collaboration within the fintech ecosystem.

Munich Area, Germany

Chief Software Architect for hybris, working with business stakeholders and System Architects to drive holistic technology implementation across programs. Fostering adaptive design and engineering practices and driving collaboration of programs and teams around a common technical vision.Responsibilities:■ Maintain a high-level, holistic vision of enterprise solutions and development initiatives■ Help define key initiatives that support Investment Themes via Architectural Epics■ Participating in the strategy for building and maintaining the enterprise Architectural Runway■ Communicating key business drivers for architecture to system architects and communicating technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders■ Driving the Architectural Epic Kanban and participating in epic analysis■ Influencing common Modeling, design and coding practices■ Collecting, generating, and analyzing innovative ideas and technologies that are applicable across the enterprise■ Facilitating the re-use of ideas, components, and proven patterns■ Synchronizing across solutions whenever possible, including systems and data security quality, production infrastructure, system to system UX governance, scalability, performance, and other NFRs■ Research and prototyping■ Product architecture and strategy for Platform-as-a-Service and Commerce-as-a-Service initiatives■ Due diligence for M&A

Munich Area, Germany

Principal Consultant and line manager for hybris GmbH. hybris provides a complete multichannel commerce software solution that integrates product content, commerce operations, and the extended channel to help retailers, manufacturers, and other businesses create a unified and seamless experience for their customers – from online, to in-store, to mobile and beyond.Responsibilities:■ Line manager for consulting team in central Europe and Poland■ Consulting of hybris partners and customers, including sales, business analysis, project management, and software development■ Working at hybris offices and on-premise at customers and partners. Significant travelling.■ Providing in depth knowledge of the hybris platform and components developed, supported & delivered by the hybris group■ Guidance on hybris platform best practice to hybris partners and customers■ Customer requirements management■ Co-operation with hybris partners in the fields of conceptual design and implementation of hybris E-Business Platform software solutions■ Start-up workshops / proof of concepts■ Technical solution reviews■ Recruiting, technical and competency interviews

Munich Area, Germany

Metagee specialized in developing commerce and product catalog management solutions. As founder I built-up an international team of consultants and software engineers that serviced BMW, Siemens, SKIDATA, and utilities companies in Europe. Responsibilities:■ Software Development■ Project Management ■ Support for Sales / Business Development■ Customer Training & Workshops■ Application Management & Operations

Walnut Creek, California

Commerce One was a pioneering e-commerce company founded in 1994. As an Application Engineer, I was responsible for designing, deploying, and operating the full stack of infrastructure and technology for managed and on-premise customer implementations.Achievements:• Architected and deployed multiple data centers for Commerce One. Successfully managed > 1000 servers and applications with our team across these data centers.• Deployed the full hardware and software stack, for > 30 e-commerce marketplaces. • Consulted companies deploying Commerce One software - led to successful launches that include Sterling Commerce, GM, Covisnt, Quadrem, Grainger, and Forest Express.• Created training program for Anderson Consulting and SAP teams, where they went forward and delivered many successful trainings on implementing Commerce One software.

Pleasanton, California

As a systems engineer, I managed the software and network infrastructure for CSAA emergency call centers. I managed deployment of software updates to customer service agent systems, and troubleshooting of network, software, and hardware issues.

Pleasant Hill, California

Responsible for building out new desktop computer systems, upgrading existing systems, and troubleshooting customer software and hardware issues.

Philosophy / Psychology

High School, High School, High School

Activities and Societies: Mock Trial, Drama