Professional references
Selected roles, systems, and research showing how I work across applied AI, product leadership, technical programs, and hands-on development. Labels distinguish production systems, prototypes, leadership roles, and research.
SoundHound AI
Served as SoundHound AI’s primary onsite technical interface during the MVP phase of a global automotive Voice AI integration, aligning requirements, architecture, dependencies, and risks.
EvidenceConnected the OEM, engineering teams, systems integrator, UX, and technology partners for delivering the core feature set in the first two languages.
Medical Voice AI SaaS startup
Owned the product roadmap and led a cross-functional product and engineering organization spanning product operations, design, Conversational AI, machine learning, frontend, and platform development.
EvidenceAligned founders, customers, account management, and engineering around key product capabilities and delivery priorities.
Independent client work
Led the design, implementation, and deployment of a conversational system for a German customer-acquisition business, covering product framing, conversation design, implementation, and production integration.
EvidenceConnected previously unreachable prospects to an existing commercial process and generated direct revenue during the production run.
Volkswagen Group
Worked on speech-system requirements, NLU models, TTS, coverage metrics, field data collection, and user experience design across Volkswagen Group brands, and developed a multi-user Voice AI prototype.
EvidenceSpecifications, metrics, and NLU models went to production; the prototype was shown live at CES 2016 and selected for production by senior management; the wider work includes several patents.
Junglebrains
Built a low-latency exploratory prototype for prosodically adaptive voice interaction and used it in product discovery with contact-center leaders.
EvidenceSupported technical feasibility learning, product discovery, and participation in startup programs.
TU Braunschweig
Researched iterative multi-modal speech recognition, statistical signal processing, and acoustic speech modeling in academic and industry contexts.
EvidenceSix peer-reviewed publications, externally funded work, and a best-paper award at the 10th ITG Symposium on Speech Communication.
Hochschule Furtwangen University
Continuing to develop and teach guest courses spanning AI ethics, human-centric Conversational AI, and agentic human–AI collectives, connecting conceptual foundations, current governance questions, user experience, and hands-on implementation work.
EvidenceConsistently high student ratings and engagement.