About me
Two perspectives on the same thing
Over 30 years of professional experience, roughly half in general management and on the executive board, half in development and architecture. This combination is the core of my work: making the business case for a digitalisation decision, designing it technically, and embedding it in the organisation.
Sectors
Banking and financial services, public administration, retail and wholesale, mail order, publishing and print, pharmaceuticals, mechanical engineering, ICT, staffing services, utilities, fashion and sporting goods.
Career in brief
| since 2019 | Sole managing director of a group of three companies |
| since 2012 | Consultant, developer and software architect |
| 2013 – 2014 | Funding advice at executive level |
| 2006 – 2007 | Head of purchasing, EUR 1.5 to 2.5 million volume per month |
| 2005 – 2006 | Head of sales and product management, introduction of a matrix organisation |
| 2001 – 2004 | Sole managing director of a mail-order business, revenue doubled |
| 1994 – 2004 | Schaubek Group, latterly authorised signatory and member of the executive board, over ten years as head of IT |
| 1987 – 1994 | Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Karlsruhe, exchange year at INSA Lyon |
Qualifications
Certification: Data Protection Officer under the GDPR and the German Federal Data Protection Act, with examination, 2020.
Professional development 2024 to 2026: around 70 specialist training sessions, focused on AI, Copilot Studio and agent architecture (16 sessions), Microsoft 365 security and Entra ID (15 sessions), AI-assisted software development (5 sessions), agile working and Scrum.
Methods: software architecture and coding guidelines · turnaround and change management · controlling and full absorption costing · functional specifications and vendor management · Scrum and Kanban · clean code
Languages
German native speaker, English and French business fluent, Spanish basic knowledge.
Development and architecture
For application development and modernisation of legacy applications in the Microsoft environment I run a separate brand: Eckardt Fritz