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Sydney, NSW, AU

Menlo Park, CA, US

I lead Data Engineering for Ads @ Meta. Previously created the Marketplace Data Engineering team.

Houston, Texas, US

Running PM for multiple product lines (on-prem and B2B SaaS) in the area of Pricing & Sales Effectiveness.

San Francisco, CA, US

Running Product Management for a VC-backed, B2B SaaS startup. Focusing on the supply chain domain, until we were acquired by PROS.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Startup inside big company - leveraging graph databases, search, in-memory columnar databases, machine learning and mobility. Several patents pending.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Ran technology strategy for Data & Analytics at SAP, reporting to SAP's Deputy CTO. Worked on overall product strategy with a focus on Big Data, evaluating startups and new technologies, M&A and partnerships, and architecture recommendations.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Working in the SAP BusinessObjects Sales group in a strategy role, for the areas of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications. Focusing on Competitive and Market Intelligence, Partnerships and Acquisitions, GTM strategy for new and acquired products, and sales support.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Head of Product/Solution Management for the flagship product in our EPM business (Enterprise Performance Management): SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC – formerly OutlookSoft Corporation).
• Oversaw growth of 60% YoY (on a large revenue base)
• Established a world class team of Product Managers, with zero employee turnover
• Rolled out the new and highly successful BPC NetWeaver product
• Created and owned the overall product road map
• Prioritized and designed new product features

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Working in the Product/Solution Management organization for EPM, I ran a small Solution Architecture team, focusing on acquisition and partnership technical due diligence, as well as the integration of acquired.
• Recruited and trained both product managers as well as developers
• Prioritized and redesigned all product features
• Architect all components of the product for the new platform
• Prototyped and validated complex designs before handing over to engineers – ABAP and.NET
• Developed components of the overall solution

Walldorf, BW, DE

In Dec 2006, SAP began forming a new business unit for analytic applications: Corporate Performance Management (later renamed to Enterprise Performance Management). As one of the first four product managers in this group, we did competitive and market research, put together business cases for proposed investments, reviewed possible acquisition targets, and.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Responsible for rolling out SAP’s new product (Visual Composer) and analytic applications (xApp Analytics) in North America. Provide customer feedback into development; ran customer, partner and internal training courses; on site at first customer implementations; presented at conferences; published the book SAP xApp Analytics; worked on custom development.

Independent Consultant for SAP software, in the area of Analytics and Business Intelligence. Implemented data warehouses end to end, custom reporting solutions, planning applications, management dashboards, data mining applications, and custom development projects in various companies and industries. Worked with BW, BEx, SEM, APD, ABAP, VBA, BSP pages, CRM.

Sydney, New South Wales, AU

Managed all financial and IT operations for a small, non-profit organization.

B.Comm, Commerce

Master Of Business Administration - Mba