Manfred Ritz
Angestellt, Director Program Office, EXA AG
Heidelberg, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Manfred Ritz
Support CEO and Senior Management Team. Responsible for improvement of EXA business processes, support program and project management, consult in architectural and quality reviews, lead creation and marketing management, consult for innovation at EXA.
Manage analytics team, commercial and university partnerships. Define scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks for consulting and service offerings. Project management, design, develop self-sustained AI applications, adaptive learning algorithms and big data platform on Azure Cloud for asset condition monitoring, deployment on edge, premise & cloud. Business plan, go-to-market strategy for generic AI-Applications, DevOps-platform embedding, interface to IoT/Energy/Finance-platforms.
2 years and 1 month, Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Senior Program Manager Analytics and Information Security Officer
EXA AGManage analytics programs, agile projects and cloud application development on Azure, AWS leading project teams on-shore and off-shore, India. Design, execute go-to-market for solutions, products emerging issue detection, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, digitization of paperwork & NLP. Manage - information security management system, ISO27001/2 certification in additional executing role as information security officer. Consultant to customer project digital target picture definition.
Program management, advanced analytics, consulting services for customers of EXA AG. Stream lead - enterprise data governance - agile project to build enterprise - data ingestion platform (Cloudera-Hadoop, Informatica, IIoT/digital twin), central data and analytics services.
3 years and 6 months, Jan 2015 - Jun 2018
Manager BI/Business Data Analyst
Hubert Burda Media - BurdaDirect - Burda Ciscom GmbH - Customer Solutions
Department Customer Solutions: analytics management, consulting, project lead and architecture (analytical CRM, DWH, Data Marts). Cross-profit-center project lead, design and develop machine learning, analytical CRM solutions including churn prevention, cross & up-selling, SAS Visual Analytics customer segmentation. Design, develop, operate subscription & customer lifetime forecasting system. Concept to improve data quality and enrichment across entire ETL chain up to feature formation in DWH.
1 year and 11 months, Feb 2013 - Dec 2014
Manager BI/Business Data Analyst
Hubert Burda Media - BurdaDirect - Burda Direct Interactive GmbH - DialogPlus
Department DialogPlus: Analytics consulting, project management and solution design for advanced analytical CRM. Initiate strategy, design, simulation for optimization of subscription marketing budget via sales channels based on subscription lifetime prognosis/hazard/risk-modeling and customer lifecycle management.
1 year and 3 months, Nov 2011 - Jan 2013
Manager BI/Business Data Analyst
Hubert Burda Media - BurdaDirect - Valiton GmbH
Department Cross- & Up-Selling Platforms: Advanced analytics, BI (eCommerce, Web Analytics) management: Design and develop subscription-survival predictive-modeling- and -analytics (cost per offer calculation, risk-KPIs). Business data analysis for participation management, analyze eCommerce participation candidates and provide sales forecasts. Business data analysis, pre-sales support for Valiton GmbH to internal customers of Burda Holding, including Debitor Inkasso GmbH, XING AG, Cyberport GmbH.
1 year and 1 month, Oct 2010 - Oct 2011
Senior Business Analyst/Enterprise Business Intelligence
1&1 Internet AG
Department Enterprise Business Intelligence - Team Business Analysis & Architecture: Consulting Internal Customer (Product Management, CRM, Offer Management, Customer Sales), Business Intelligence Requirements Analysis, Project Management (Migration of Reporting Solutions)
6 months, Apr 2010 - Sep 2010
Senior Business Analyst/Customer Management
1&1 Internet AG
Department Customer Management - Business Process Management: Development of Churn-, Up- and Cross-Selling Scores. Development of Customer Segmentation System and Customer Lifecycle Management, Customer Sentiment Analysis.
7 months, Sep 2009 - Mar 2010
Business Engineer/Analyst - Senior Data Scientist/Scoring Systems CRM
1&1 Internet AG
Department Media Factory: Project Management, Development of automated Scoring System (Churn-, Cross- and Up-Selling-Scores) for Department Customer Management Consumer, CRM.
1 year and 10 months, Nov 2007 - Aug 2009
Business Engineer/Analyst - Senior Data Scientist/Online Targeting Systems
1&1 Internet AG
Online Marketing - Target Group Planning (TGP) for United Internet Media AG. Design, develop machine learning solutions in big data projects for Target Group Planning (TGP) - Manufacture of United Internet Media AG: premium behavioral targeting models, automated target system (ETL, data mart, models, scores, profiles).
2 years and 11 months, Jan 2005 - Nov 2007
Functional Analyst Index Business
Deutschen Börse AG
Design, develop and test new index products like DAX, VDAX and other indices, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), based on trading systems XETRA, EUREX. Build automated test framework.
2 years and 10 months, Mar 2003 - Dec 2005
Chief Executive Officer/Member of Company
4HumanKnowledge GmbH
11 months, Apr 2002 - Feb 2003
Consultant - Data Science Services
Self Employed Person
Data Mining - Services, Development of Data Mining Tools for Customer Scoring in Banking.
1 year and 2 months, Oct 2000 - Nov 2001
Chief Technology Architect
Skyon AG
4 years and 7 months, Mar 1996 - Sep 2000
Solution Architect
Skyon AG
Educational background for Manfred Ritz
macroeconomics
Universität Heidelberg
Investment and capital market, investment theory, business informatics.
Computer Science
San Diego State University SDSU, USA, California
Computer science, parallel computing systems, solid-state-theory.
Physics
Heidelberg University
Deep learning/neural networks, solid-state-theory, mathematics.
Languages
English
Fluent
French
Intermediate
German
First language