Work Experience

CIO Advisory - Digital Strategy, KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (11/2018 - 12/2021)

Positions

10/2020 - 12/2021: Assistant Manager
11/2018 - 09/2020: Senior Associate

Responsibilities

Leading international consulting projects, predominantly Pharma, Life Science, and Retail industry clients
Development and implementation of new digital strategies for CIO, CDO, and CTO functions of leading DAX companies
Evaluation of existing and design of new IT solutions to optimise the IT value contribution
Process analysis and target state modelling for business process optimisation in IT-Service Management
Business case development to assess IT- and digital initiatives and establishment of IT transformation plans
Conceptualisation of the technical architecture required to implement strategic digital initiatives and consulting advice on technology trends such as AI, Robotic Process Automation, Industrial IoT and Cloud
Program management for strategy implementation following SCRUM and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in agile software project teams
Mentoring, coaching, and developing associates and interns of the CIO Advisory - Digital Strategy team in Frankfurt

Dual Student, IBM Deutschland GmbH (10/2015 - 09/2018)

08/2018 - 09/2018: SW Services, Ehningen (improving development & sales of SW assets)
02/2018 - 05/2018: SW Services Nordics, Stockholm (sales process optimisation)
10/2017 - 11/2017: IBM University Programs, Ehningen (platform for start-ups)
09/2017 - 10/2017: Watson & AI Innovation Team, Hamburg (demos, watson summit)
05/2017 - 08/2017: SW Services, Madrid (process optimisation)
11/2016 - 02/2017: Key Account Management, Bonn (distribution activities, CeBIT)
06/2016 - 08/2016: SW Services, Cologne (enterprise solution sales)
01/2016 - 03/2016: Financial Operations, Böblingen (test system/AIX, knowledge mgmt.)

Education

Since 01/2022: PhD Student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
10/2019 - 08/2021: M.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering & Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
10/2015 - 09/2018: B.A. in Business Administration, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg and IBM Deutschland GmbH

Publications

2024

Reports/Preprints

DIRECTIONS-Kriterienkatalog: Fassung 0.7, Stand 12.06.2024
Brecker, K.; Danylak, P.; Helmke, J. T.; Hornung, G.; Kohpeiß, M.; Link, H.; Lins, S.; Schild, H.-H.; Schindler, S.; Späthe, E.; Sunyaev, A.
2024. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). doi:10.5445/IR/1000172025

From Guidelines to Practice: Integrating Techniques in Development Platforms to Achieve Trustworthy AI
Singer, P.; Brecker, K.; Sunyaev, A.
2024. doi:10.5445/IR/1000175284

Posters

From Guidelines to Practice: Integrating Techniques in Development Platforms to Achieve Trustworthy AI
Singer, P.; Brecker, K.; Sunyaev, A.
2024. 19. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2024), Würzburg, Germany, September 16–19, 2024

2023

Conference Papers

Artificial Intelligence Systems’ Impermanence: A Showstopper for Assessment?
Brecker, K.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A.
2023. Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2023)

Why it Remains Challenging to Assess Artificial Intelligence
Brecker, K.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A.
2023. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences : January 3-6, 2023, 5242–5251, University of Hawaii

Artificial Intelligence as a Service: Trade-Offs Impacting Service Design and Selection
Brecker, K.; Lins, S.; Trenz, M.; Sunyaev, A.
2023. ICIS 2023 Proceedings. 5, Hyderabad, 10th-13th December 2023, 17

2022

Posters

Certifications to Safeguard Data Protection Standards? How Superficial Internalization Thwarts the Plan
Danylak, P.; Brecker, K.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A.
2022, October 13. Forum Privatheit (2022), Berlin, Germany, October 13–14, 2022