Born 1981 in Graz

Living near Vienna, Austria

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Who I am

I am a deeply passionate techie with a knack for communication and infecting others with new ideas and positive viewpoints. My focus is on "value & content first", exploration and, above all, people and trust.

Professionally, I have been described by colleagues and customers as an intern, consultant, mentor, expert, engineer, manager, architect, teacher, speaker, moderator, leader, "trash heap of knowledge", and a friend.

What I do

My favourite things to do are collaborating and solving challenges, regardless of their size or flight-level. I drive things forward with my passion, positivity and a solution-oriented, non-hierarchical worldview.

I have worked with over a hundred organizations around the globe, with some of them for more than a decade.

My main causes are promoting excellence in software quality and building AI literacy: internally, across organizations and in the public eye.

People often approach me when they want a sparring partner to challenge their ideas, when they want to know how to realize their ideas, or when they are out of ideas. More often than not, I can help them.
That makes me proud.

Roles & Qualifications

Working @ Nagarro (formerly ANECON) since 2004

CTO, Global Senior Management

Lead Global Business Unit for Quality & Test Engineering

Lead Global Practice for Intelligent Test Automation

Pre-Sales (technical & commercial)

Sponsor & Content Support for Marketing & PR Initiatives

Tech owner of the Research Project "AI for Testing" (AI4T)

Speaker at events and conferences & author

Test Automation Architect & Advisor

Software Testing Strategy Consultant

Agile Development & Testing

DevOps, BDD and Continuous Everything

Test Management

Project Lead

Trainer for ISTQB Certified Tester Courses

Author "Basiswissen Testautomatisierung"

ISTQB Certified Tester - Full Advanced Level

IREB Certified Requirements Engineer

iSQI Certified QAMP

TOSCA Certified Implementation Partner (exp.)

Author "Basiswissen Testautomatisierung"

Formal Education

Bachelor "Medieninformatik"

Master "Computational Intelligence"

at TU Wien (and NTNU)

School education in Graz & Vienna (Austria)
and Riobamba (Ecuador)

Fluent Languages

German (native)

English (near native)

Spanish (fluent)