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Engineering
Software Engineer | Backend & Platform
Software engineer with 5 years on backend and platform teams. Owns services end to end — design, deploy, on-call — and measures the result. Recently cut p95 latency 77% on the main read path and brought CI down from 22 minutes to 6.
- Cut p95 API latency from 840ms to 190ms by adding a read-through cache and removing two N+1 queries
- Migrated 23 services from EC2 to EKS with Terraform; deploy time dropped from 25 minutes to 7
- Brought CI from 22 minutes to 6 by parallelising the suite and caching dependency layers
- Shipped the billing rewrite that now processes €4.2M/month with zero reconciliation failures
- Raised test coverage on the payments path from 41% to 88% ahead of the PCI audit
Python · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Terraform · GraphQL · CI/CD
Civil Engineer | Structures and Site Supervision
Civil engineer leading reinforced concrete design on schemes up to €24m construction value and supervising site works through HOAI phases 6 to 8. Reduced reinforcement tonnage 11% on a recent car park frame.
- Led structural design for a 6-storey RC office building at €24m construction value
- Designed foundations for 14 bridge piers on a 3.2 km road realignment to Eurocode 7
- Cut reinforcement tonnage 11% on a car park frame, saving about €180k
- Supervised HOAI phases 6 to 8 on a €9.5m school, delivered 3 weeks early
- Prepared tender documentation for 7 packages worth €31m and evaluated 22 bids
Reinforced concrete design · Eurocode 2 and 7 · Foundation and geotechnical design · AutoCAD Civil 3D · SOFiSTiK · BIM coordination · Tender documentation · Site supervision · Drainage design
Mechanical Engineer | Design for Manufacture
Mechanical design engineer with parts in series production at 40,000 units a year, most recently cutting assembly cost per unit from €68 to €51. Works in SolidWorks with FEA and GD&T through to supplier release.
- Designed a gearbox housing now in series production at 40,000 units a year
- Cut assembly cost per unit from €68 to €51 by consolidating 14 parts into 6 castings
- Held a 7-part assembly within a 0.05 mm tolerance stack using GD&T
- Raised bracket fatigue life from 180,000 to over 1,000,000 cycles through FEA-led redesign
- Qualified 5 machined-component suppliers and cut lead time from 12 weeks to 7
SolidWorks · Finite element analysis · GD&T and tolerance stack-up · Design for manufacture · Sheet metal and casting design · Prototype build and test · Supplier qualification · Bill of materials management · ISO 9001 documentation
Data
Data Analyst | Product & Revenue Analytics
Data analyst with 4 years in product and revenue analytics. Comfortable owning a question end to end — from the SQL to the meeting where the decision gets made. Most recent work identified €1.8M of at-risk ARR.
- Built the churn model that identified €1.8M of at-risk ARR; retention campaign recovered 34% of it
- Replaced a 40-tab spreadsheet with a dbt model and Looker dashboard used daily by 60 people
- Ran the pricing A/B test across 240k sessions that lifted checkout conversion 11%
- Cut month-end reporting from 5 days to 6 hours by automating the ETL in Python and Airflow
- Found and corrected a revenue-attribution error that had understated paid search by 18%
SQL · Python · dbt · Looker · Tableau · Snowflake · Airflow · A/B testing · Excel
Business Analyst | Process and Systems
Business analyst working across order-to-cash and logistics, most recently reducing manual handoffs from 14 steps to 6 on an ERP migration. Writes the requirements and queries the data instead of relying on reports.
- Mapped 31 as-is order-to-cash processes and cut manual handoffs from 14 steps to 6
- Wrote 148 user stories for an ERP migration across 4 warehouses and coordinated UAT with 36 testers
- Built the business case for a €650k automation project with an 18-month payback
- Analysed 400,000 claim records in SQL and found a routing rule breaching service levels on 12% of cases
- Cut invoice exception handling from 90 to 25 minutes per case by redesigning the approval matrix
Requirements engineering · Process mapping and BPMN · Stakeholder workshops · SQL · Power BI · Jira and Confluence · UAT coordination · Business case development · Gap analysis
German (C2) · English (C1)
Product
Healthcare
Registered Nurse | Med-Surg & Emergency
Registered nurse with 6 years across med-surg and emergency settings. Carries a 6-patient assignment, precepts new graduates, and led the unit's Epic transition for 34 staff.
- Managed a 6-patient med-surg assignment across 12-hour shifts with a 98% medication-accuracy audit result
- Reduced central-line infection rate from 2.1 to 0.6 per 1,000 line-days over 18 months
- Precepted 8 new graduate nurses; all 8 completed orientation on schedule
- Triaged up to 40 patients per shift in a level-2 emergency department
- Led the unit's transition to Epic, training 34 staff with no drop in documentation compliance
Patient assessment · Triage · IV therapy · Medication administration · Epic EHR · BLS · ACLS · Infection control · Care planning
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) · AHA · 2024
- Basic Life Support (BLS) · AHA · 2024
Pharmacist | Community Practice and Medication Review
Registered pharmacist supervising about 2,400 dispensed items a week and 380 documented clinical interventions a year. Runs structured medication reviews and a vaccination service alongside daily dispensing.
- Supervised dispensing of about 2,400 items a week with a 6-person team
- Documented 380 clinical interventions a year, 41 requiring prescriber contact
- Cut errors reaching the patient from 9 to 2 a year with a second-check at handout
- Delivered 1,150 influenza and COVID vaccinations across two seasons
- Ran 210 polypharmacy medication reviews, deprescribing at least one item in 64 cases
Prescription review and dispensing · Clinical intervention documentation · Medication therapy management · Controlled drugs governance · Vaccination administration · Compounding · Patient counselling · Cold chain and stock control · Team supervision
- Pharmacist Registration · Swiss Federal Office of Public Health · 2017
- Vaccination Certificate (FPH) · pharmaSuisse · 2021
German (C2) · English (C1)
Medical Assistant | General Practice, Phlebotomy and ECG
Medical assistant in a 4-doctor general practice, rooming 55 to 70 patients a day and performing about 90 venepunctures a week. Handles ECGs, vaccinations and the daily appointment book of 120 slots.
- Roomed and prepared 55 to 70 patients a day across 4 physicians
- Performed about 90 venepunctures a week with a repeat-draw rate under 2%
- Recorded 40 ECGs a week and flagged 6 arrhythmias for immediate review in one year
- Administered around 700 vaccinations in a single flu season under standing orders
- Cut no-shows from 14% to 8% across a 120-slot daily appointment book
Patient intake and vitals · Phlebotomy · ECG recording · Vaccination administration · Wound dressing · Instrument sterilisation · Electronic health records · Appointment scheduling · Specimen handling
- Medizinische Fachangestellte (MFA) · Landesärztekammer Hessen · 2019
- Wound Management Basic Certificate · Initiative Chronische Wunden · 2023
German (C2) · Turkish (B2)
Physiotherapist | Musculoskeletal and Post-Surgical Rehab
Physiotherapist carrying 58 patients a week across musculoskeletal and post-surgical rehabilitation, with average pain scores falling from 6.8 to 2.4 over 120 low back episodes. Also runs group falls prevention work.
- Carried 58 patients a week in 30-minute appointments across MSK and post-surgical rehab
- Returned 34 post-ACL patients to sport, 29 inside the 9-month protocol
- Cut average episode length from 9 sessions to 6.5 with discharge scores unchanged
- Reduced non-attendance from 19% to 7% with written home programmes and 3 review points
- Ran a 12-week falls group for 22 older adults, median Berg Balance gain of 6 points
Musculoskeletal assessment · Manual therapy · Exercise prescription · Post-operative rehabilitation · Gait and balance analysis · Outcome measurement · Group programme delivery · Clinical documentation · Student supervision
- State Licence, Physiotherapeut/in · Behörde für Gesundheit Hamburg · 2018
- Manual Therapy Certificate · Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie · 2021
Social Worker | Children and Families, Statutory Caseload
Social worker holding a statutory caseload of 24 families and 61 children on plans, completing 88 assessments a year with 79 inside timescale. Experienced in court reporting and multi-agency chairing.
- Held 24 families with 61 children subject to protection or support plans
- Completed 88 assessments a year, 79 within the 45-day statutory timescale
- Wrote 14 court reports and gave evidence in 5 hearings, recommendations adopted in 4
- Chaired 40 multi-agency meetings a year with health, school and police
- Cut repeat referrals on my caseload from 21% to 11% through earlier family group meetings
Statutory assessment · Safeguarding and risk assessment · Care and support planning · Court report writing · Multi-agency coordination · Crisis intervention · Family group conferencing · Case recording · Practice supervision
- Staatliche Anerkennung als Sozialarbeiter/in · Freistaat Sachsen · 2017
German (C2) · English (B2)
Marketing
Operations
Project Manager | ERP & Operations Programmes
Project manager with 7 years running operational and ERP programmes up to €3.4M. Known for recovery work — most recently brought a programme that was 9 weeks late back to its original first-release date.
- Delivered a €3.4M ERP migration across 6 sites, 11 months, on budget and two weeks early
- Recovered a programme running 9 weeks late by re-scoping to two releases; shipped the first on the original date
- Introduced weekly risk reviews; escaped-risk incidents fell from 8 per quarter to 2
- Ran a portfolio of 12 concurrent projects with a combined €7M budget and 40 contributors
- Cut change-request turnaround from 14 days to 4 by rebuilding the approval path
Agile · Scrum · PRINCE2 · Risk management · Budget ownership · Stakeholder management · Jira · Change management
- PRINCE2 Practitioner · AXELOS · 2022
Operations Manager | Fulfilment and Continuous Improvement
Operations manager running a 64-person fulfilment site with a €7.8m budget, holding on-time dispatch at 98.6%. Focused on cost per order, rota stability and getting safety incidents down.
- Led 64 staff over 3 shifts and lifted on-time dispatch from 91% to 98.6%
- Owned a €7.8m budget, finishing 3% under plan two years running, and cut cost per order from €4.60 to €3.35
- Handled a 42,000-order peak week with no permanent headcount increase
- Ran 11 kaizen events that removed 2,400 labour hours a year from packing
- Brought recordable safety incidents from 14 to 3 a year by redesigning the loading bay flow
Operations leadership · Capacity and shift planning · Lean and kaizen · Budget ownership · Vendor and courier management · KPI reporting · Health and safety · Root cause analysis · WMS systems
HR Manager | Employee Relations and Works Council
HR manager supporting 480 employees across 3 German sites, handling 57 employee relations cases a year and negotiating works council agreements. Brought voluntary attrition from 24% to 15% in 18 months.
- Sole senior HR contact for 480 employees across 3 sites and two legal entities
- Handled 57 employee relations cases a year, settling all 4 labour court matters before hearing
- Negotiated 6 works council agreements, including a shift allowance change affecting 210 staff
- Cut voluntary attrition from 24% to 15% by redesigning the first-90-days plan
- Benchmarked 38 job families and narrowed a 7% gender pay gap to 2.1%
Employee relations · German employment law · Works council negotiation · Performance management · Compensation benchmarking · Personio · Restructuring and consultation · Onboarding design · HR analytics
German (C2) · English (C1)
Recruiter | Full-Cycle Tech and Commercial Hiring
In-house recruiter carrying 18 live requisitions and delivering 64 hires a year at a 38-day average time to fill. Sources 71% of hires directly, which has taken €190k a year out of agency spend.
- Carried 18 live requisitions and made 64 hires a year across engineering and sales
- Cut time to fill from 61 days to 38 with a structured 20-minute pre-screen
- Filled 9 senior engineering roles that had been open over 5 months
- Built a 1,200-candidate talent pool in Greenhouse that produced 14 hires without fresh sourcing
- Lifted offer acceptance from 74% to 91% by moving compensation talks to first interview
Full-cycle recruiting · Direct sourcing · Boolean search · Greenhouse ATS · Structured interviewing · Offer negotiation · Hiring manager partnering · Talent pooling · Recruiting analytics
Administrative Assistant | Office and Invoice Administration
Sole administrator for a 28-person department, processing about 260 invoices a month at under 1% coding errors. Handles travel, minutes and supplier ordering alongside the main office line.
- Sole administrator for 28 staff, handling diaries, travel and documents
- Processed roughly 260 supplier invoices a month with a coding error rate under 1%
- Managed a €40k supplies budget and cut spend 15% by consolidating 7 suppliers to 3
- Handled about 70 calls and 120 emails a day on the main office line
- Reorganised a 9,000-file paper archive into a searchable digital structure in 4 months
Diary and travel management · Invoice processing · SAP data entry · MS Office and Outlook · Minute taking · Document management · Supplier ordering · Expense administration
German (C2) · English (B2)
Executive Assistant | Board and C-Suite Support
Executive assistant to a CEO and two managing directors across 4 time zones, preparing board packs for 6 meetings a year. Runs travel, expenses and offsites for a leadership group of 9.
- Supported a CEO and two managing directors, protecting about 45 hours of meeting time weekly across 4 time zones
- Prepared board packs for 6 meetings a year, circulated 7 days ahead every time
- Organised a 120-person leadership offsite on a €140k budget, delivered €9k under
- Coordinated 90 international trips a year including visas for 14 countries
- Managed an office relocation for 85 staff over one weekend with no lost working days
Complex diary management · Board pack preparation · International travel coordination · Expense management in Concur · Event coordination · Stakeholder liaison · Minute taking · Vendor negotiation · Confidential document handling
German (C2) · English (C1) · French (B2)
Warehouse Associate | Picking, Goods In, Forklift
Warehouse associate picking 148 lines an hour against a 120 target at 99.7% accuracy. Licensed on counterbalance and reach trucks, with 3 years on 12-hour shifts and no reportable incidents.
- Picked 148 lines an hour against a 120 target at 99.7% accuracy
- Packed up to 340 parcels a shift in peak weeks with no missed cut-off
- Trained 7 seasonal starters on RF scanners, all at full rate within 10 working days
- Unloaded and checked 20 to 25 containers a week, logging discrepancies within the shift
- Completed cycle counts on 600 SKUs a month and closed an €18k stock discrepancy
Order picking and packing · RF scanner and WMS · Counterbalance forklift · Reach truck · Goods in checking · Cycle counting · Pallet wrapping and loading · Health and safety
- Forklift Licence, Counterbalance and Reach Truck · DGUV Certified Training Centre · 2024
CE Truck Driver | International Haulage and ADR
CE driver covering 120,000 km a year on international routes with zero at-fault accidents in 6 years. ADR qualified for class 3 and 8 loads, with a clean tachograph record.
- Drove 120,000 km a year on CE international routes with no at-fault accidents
- Hauled ADR class 3 and 8 loads for 3 years with full documentation checks per consignment
- Cut fuel use 6.4% in 12 months, about €4,300 a year on my vehicle
- Completed 18 to 22 multi-drop deliveries a shift in urban Munich at 99.2% on-time
- Reported 31 vehicle defects at walkaround before they became roadside failures
CE articulated driving · ADR class 3 and 8 · Tachograph and driver hours · Load securing · Daily walkaround checks · Multi-drop delivery · Route planning · Fuel-efficient driving
- Driving Licence CE with Code 95 · Führerscheinstelle München · 2024
- ADR Certificate, Classes 3 and 8 · IHK München · 2023
Design
Support
Finance
Accountant | General Ledger & Statutory Reporting
Accountant with 6 years in multi-entity general ledger work, closing 3 entities on a 4-day cycle under HGB and IFRS. Comfortable owning reconciliations, VAT filings and the auditor relationship end to end.
- Closed 3 legal entities on a 4-day cycle, down from 9 days, after automating 42 recurring journals
- Reconciled 180 balance sheet accounts monthly and cleared a €310k legacy suspense balance
- Acted as audit lead contact and reduced auditor queries from 61 to 18 year on year
- Processed roughly 900 supplier invoices a month and raised on-time payment from 78% to 96%
- Rebuilt a fixed asset register of 1,400 items and corrected depreciation on €2.1m of net book value
General ledger · Month-end close · Balance sheet reconciliation · VAT and statutory filing · SAP FI · DATEV · IFRS and HGB reporting · Fixed assets · Excel modelling
Financial Analyst | FP&A and Forecasting
FP&A analyst supporting a €240m revenue manufacturer, with rolling cash forecasts held inside 4% variance for 11 quarters. Builds the models and pulls the data, rather than waiting on a reporting team.
- Owned the rolling 13-week cash forecast for a €240m revenue business, variance under 4% for 11 quarters
- Rebuilt the budget model across 38 cost centres and cut the planning cycle from 10 weeks to 6
- Analysed 1,200 customer accounts and surfaced €3.4m of margin lost to unpriced freight
- Replaced 14 manual Excel reports with a nightly Power BI model, saving about 20 analyst hours a month
- Ran variance reviews with 9 department heads and cut unexplained spend variance from €640k to €95k
Financial modelling · Budgeting and forecasting · Variance analysis · Scenario planning · SQL · Power BI · Cash flow forecasting · Business partnering · Advanced Excel
Sales
Sales Representative | B2B New Business
B2B sales representative closing 41 new logos at an average €11,600 contract value against a €480k quota. Comfortable running outbound at volume and holding a clean Salesforce pipeline.
- Finished at 118% against a €480k new business quota in the first full year in territory
- Closed 41 new logos at €11,600 average contract value with a 34-day median cycle
- Held 3.1x pipeline coverage with under 5% of open deals past their close date
- Booked 22 qualified meetings a month from 140 calls and 200 emails weekly
- Grew a dormant territory of 320 accounts from €90k to €310k in annual revenue
New business development · Cold outreach · Lead qualification · Salesforce · Negotiation · Pipeline management · Product demonstrations · Territory planning
Account Manager | Retention and Expansion
Account manager holding a €5.2m book across 46 accounts at 94% gross retention and 112% net revenue retention. Strongest on renewal negotiation and turning at-risk accounts around before they reach notice.
- Held 46 accounts worth €5.2m ARR at 94% gross retention and 112% net revenue retention
- Closed €880k of expansion revenue and renegotiated 19 renewals for a 14% uplift in average value
- Recovered 3 at-risk accounts worth €640k by rebuilding their onboarding plans
- Cut mid-market churn from 17% to 9% with day-30 and day-90 health checks
- Brought average escalation resolution down from 11 days to 4 with a shared tracker
Account management · Renewals and negotiation · Upselling and cross-selling · Churn analysis · Quarterly business reviews · Salesforce · Stakeholder management · Customer onboarding · Escalation handling
Retail Sales Associate | Electronics and Conversion
Retail sales associate hitting 112% of an €18,000 monthly target in a 900 sqm electronics store, converting 31% against a 24% store average. Also key holder for opening and cash reconciliation.
- Hit 112% of an €18,000 monthly personal sales target in 7 of 9 months
- Converted 31% of customers served against a 24% store average
- Raised units per transaction from 1.6 to 2.2 by pairing accessories at point of sale
- Signed up 240 loyalty members in a quarter, highest of 14 floor staff
- Cut departmental shrinkage from 1.9% to 0.8% across quarterly counts on 4,000 SKUs
Consultative selling · Till and cash reconciliation · Visual merchandising · Stock counts and shrinkage control · Loyalty sign-ups · Returns processing · Click and collect · Product knowledge training
German (C2) · English (B2)
Education
Skilled Trades
Hospitality
Head Chef | 200-Cover Service and Food Cost Control
Head chef running 180 to 220 covers a night with a brigade of 9, holding food cost at 28.4% against a 31% budget. Writes seasonal menus and has lifted spend per head from €41 to €48.
- Ran 180 to 220 covers a night with a brigade of 9 across 5 sections
- Held food cost at 28.4% against a 31% budget for 14 consecutive months
- Wrote 4 seasonal menus of 22 dishes, lifting spend per head from €41 to €48
- Delivered a 400-guest plated wedding service inside 55 minutes
- Cut kitchen waste 22% in six months with written prep lists and daily yield checks
Menu development · Food cost and GP control · Brigade leadership · HACCP and allergen management · Banqueting service · Supplier negotiation · Stock and yield control · Rota planning · Section training
- HACCP Food Safety Management · WKO Vienna · 2024
Server | High-Volume Brasserie and Wine Service
Server working a 7-table section at around 60 covers a shift in a 220-cover brasserie. Took section spend per head from €34 to €41 through wine pairing suggestions.
- Worked a 7-table section, about 60 covers a shift, in a 220-cover venue
- Lifted section spend per head from €34 to €41 with wine pairing suggestions
- Sold 210 tasting menu covers in one month, highest of 11 servers
- Handled about €3,200 a shift in takings with no till discrepancy over 9 months
- Ran a 14-table terrace alone across 3 consecutive weekends during a staff shortage
Table service · Wine and drinks upselling · POS operation · Allergen awareness · Cash handling · Complaint handling · Section management · New starter training
German (C2) · English (B2) · Spanish (B1)