Dr. Martin Lechner

Product Owner of the Natural Language Understanding Capabilities of Swisscom's Conversational AI Platform, working in a team of Software Engineers, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers.

In a team of 60 engineers in the area of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Software Engineering, we are developing innovative data-driven products and services to enable new revenue streams for Swisscom.

Bootstrapping a team of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Software Engineering experts to transform raw data in the Swisscom Big Data Lake into business value. We implement new Smart Data product ideas in fast-paced, agile Proof of Concepts to test, measure and demonstrate the potential of these ideas for new business generation, increased customer value and cost-savings.

As the Head of the team, my responsibilities include: - topic leadership (define focus, vision, roadmaps etc.) and product ownership for our Mobility Insight products - line-management of the entire agile team (10 engineers), consisting of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers and Automation/Dev-Ops experts - stakeholder management and coordination with the business (sales & marketing, data governance, security etc.) and our customers

- Leading a multi-disciplinary, agile team of software engineers, data analysts, connectivity experts and business (7 people) to develop and deliver a data analytics platform for Swisscom’s IoT customers - Product-lead for the full development lifecycle of the product, from setting up the team and product and architecture definition to MVP, delivery and hand-over to the business

- Executive-level position, making strategic company decisions - Technological company lead, leading a team of 15+ developers - Chair of the international ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group, consisting of more than 40 international companies, within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) - International conference speaker and presenter at various international conferences - Lead Developer of Wikitude Backend - Co-Developer of Wikitude on Android and J2ME

- Leading architect and developer of database scheme and Hibernate integration for an audiobook portal - Subproject manager (development-manager of subprojects with external development companies) - Development of web portals (front- and backends) based on Java 6, Tomcat 6, AJAX, JSP, Struts, Spring, JavaScript and an Oracle Database

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