Julian has been actively supporting our team since September 2016 as an experienced CTO, Business Unit Director and Expert Software Developer. Due to his ambitious and determined characteristics, Julian already has several certified qualifications and a broad knowledge of IT/software topics.
"SUSI&James has outlined a vision for me that aligns with what I love to do. In that sense, the company is my employer, a little family, and makes me feel like I'm doing something meaningful with my labor."
Julian studied computational linguistics and successfully completed his bachelor's degree with the topic "Genre Adaptive Optimization of Normalization Algorithms". Here, he investigated the improvement possibilities for methods that transform tweets into a machine-readable form. Already in his childhood he was fascinated by computers and software development.
Julian is a peaceful, patient and reliable person and co-worker. As a balance to work, he likes to do weight training and deal with language in literature, on TV and on the net. His family is Julian's top priority, but right after that he is a passionate workaholic and always digitally on the go.
Julian invests several hours a day in expanding his knowledge. He likes to push his limits in order to expand them afterwards. In the course of his professional career, Julian took part in a number of certified advanced training courses after focusing on digital speech processing. In this context, Julian has intensively dealt with the evaluation of various conversational engines in order to gain a fair and comprehensive impression of the current technical possibilities.
He believes that true expertise comes from constantly setting new goals and being ambitious. Before joining SUSI&James, Julian founded two companies, one of which was a project with SUSI&James. Through this he got to know the team and after a short time he decided to join the team.
"I expect progression, teamwork, a common goal and commitment. I myself want to constantly develop and work in a meaningful way."
As Chief Technology Officer of SUSI&James, Julian is responsible for all technology, software and hardware, of the company in cooperation with other employees. However, Julian also serves as the Business Unit Director of our EVA business unit and oversees all of our developer colleagues. As part of the management board, Julian discusses strategic and administrative issues with the management as well as other BU heads of SUSI&James.
He qualitatively implements organizational-administrative tasks and, for example, establishes criteria for the position to be filled in the case of a new hire and prepares personnel cost planning. In doing so, Julian ensures that project results of his business unit match or, at best, even exceed the cost center planning of Controlling.
Having accumulated over a decade of experience and being a passionate software developer, Julian also participates productively in projects in addition to his administrative participation. He either implements functional units or the entire project. Along the way, in 2019 Julian wanted to be able to address our Digital Associate SUSI like Alexa and as a result independently developed both the interior, the software, and the housing of a smart speaker. The smart speaker was ready for use after 5 months and was given away by Julian to our company founder.
We thank Julian for the interview and are happy to have him with us!