Michael Schiffer
AI-first Professional Authority

Full Curriculum Vitae

Dipl.-Ing. Michael Schiffer MBA

Process optimizer & Program Manager with 20+ years in automotive industry, production launches and global plant structures. Since 2024 increasingly focused on Generative AI, Healthcare Automation, data analysis, AI-driven process optimization and telemedicine workflows.

Operates a self-hosted on-premise LLM infrastructure on a heterogeneous multi-GPU cluster: two production RAG systems with around 42,000 embedded chunks (COBOL legacy corpus and a document/mail knowledge base), 130,000+ routed requests and 463M processed input tokens in 14 days.

Solid expertise in Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL with pgvector, hybrid retrieval and reranking, GPU load management and document AI (OCR/vision LLM).

Contact

schiffer@1stAI.eu
Kostomloty, Poland
https://www.schifferm.de
LinkedIn

Languages

German: nativeEnglish: fluentFrench: basicSpanish: basicPolish: basic

Work Experience

The Implementers GmbH

2010-01 – present
Principal Consultant / Managing Director
Managing Director

Consulting and interim management in the automotive industry, healthcare and other sectors. Focus areas: program management, production launches, plant management, supplier development, cost reduction, process optimization, AI implementation and AI-driven process automation.

Projects26 projects – click for details

Praxis für Schmerztherapie & TCM, Olga Schiffer MSc

2017-05 – 2025-05
Practice IT, Digitalisation and Back Office
Practice IT and administration

Set up and maintained the IT of a private practice for naturopathy, TCM and pain therapy, in parallel with the role at The Implementers GmbH. Responsible for digitalising practice workflows, integrating medical devices, billing and document processes as well as website and back office.

Projects2 projects – click for details

Johnson Controls

1997-02 – 2010-06
10 positions
2009-07 – 2010-06
Program Manager Insolvent Suppliers
Program ManagerCross-functional

Leading a cross functional team for transfer and relocation of various tools and processes incl. painted parts. This includes supplier development in Valencia for the Ford C344 Launch.

2007-12 – 2009-06
Program Manager
Program ManagerCross-functional

Leading a simultaneous development team based in Bratislava till the successful Launch for the Hyundai Kia in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Germany. With the responsibility for profit, timing, quality and customer satisfaction.

2006-09 – 2007-11
Operations Manager (Crisis Management)
Operations ManagerProduction

Supporting a 408 people plant in crisis management with focus on production, technique, and launches and restructuring the supplier base with the focus on customer PPM, scrap and efficiency.

2006-01 – 2007-11
Operations Manager
Operations ManagerProduction

450 people automotive process and assembly plant for seating components and sunshades. Leading Operations (incl. production, methods, industrialization, quality and outbound logistic) with 80 employees and 12mil€/ano turnover, for Sunshades and seat back-panels with the focus on safety, scrap and efficiency.

2005-08 – 2005-12
Leader Taskforce "Red Adair"
Program ManagerProduction

Leading a cross functional European team with the objective to stabilize a 250 people process and assembly plant before the closure with the focus on customer PPM, scrap and efficiency.

2003-09 – 2005-08
Technical & Launch Manager
Department ManagerProduction

Leading and restructuring the departments Methods, Industrialization, Maintenance and Launch with 50 people in a 500 people automotive headliner plant.

2001-05 – 2003-08
Black Belt in Program Management Office
Project ManagerCross-functional / Corporate

Black Belt projects with focus on optimization of product development process and program management. Implementation of management information systems, PM trainings, change process optimization and development resource planning.

2000-04 – 2001-05
Project Engineer Electrical / Electronics
Engineering

Support of VW complete seat team with focus on the seat controller and all electrical and electronic components and wires harness routing incl. trouble shooting. Evaluation and test drives with and without customer with focus on seat function and comfort.

1998-02 – 2000-04
Test Engineer / Test Coordinator
Engineering

Building up new department "Interior Testing" incl. design and procurement of test machines. Creating test plans for various European vehicle interior projects, budget planning, supervising vibration measurements, durability tests and legal homologation tests. Extension of seating test lab to a full interiors system test lab (incl. FMVSS 201 FMH).

1997-02 – 1998-02
Student in Testing
Testing

Part time job: QM system support VDA6.1, QS9000, design of test fixtures, test execution and evaluation.

UB Dr. Hans Schiffer

1997-01 – 1998-01
Backoffice Assistant – Management Consulting
Consulting

Prepare, format, and update presentations, proposals, and project documents. Assist with the preparation of reports, analyses, and workshop materials. Maintain and organize client and project data. Support invoicing, time tracking, and monthly reporting.

Education

UEL University of East London / ELBS London

2001-09 – 2003-11
MBA Master of Business Administration — International Management
Grade: 63
Thesis: Successful Implementation of Kaizen.
2 years part time.

Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln

1995-03 – 1998-05
Dipl.-Ing. Mechanical Engineering — Mechanical Engineering, specialization: Design Engineering
Grade: 1,3
Thesis: Design and realization of a Test Rig for Headrest energy absorption and acceleration curves according to ECE-R17.
3.5 years including final exam.

Bonner Autohaus GmbH (Vertragswerkstatt der Daimler-Benz AG)

1992-10 – 1995-01
Car Mechanic (Journeyman Certificate) — Automotive Mechanics
Car mechanic at the Bonner Autohaus GmbH licensed garage of Daimler-Benz AG in 2.5 years.

Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium der Stadt Bonn

1988-06 – 1991-06
High School Diploma (Abitur) — Focus on Mathematics and Physics
Grade: 3,2
High school in Bonn, finished after 13 years (minimum time).

Skills

LLM Infrastructure

LLM-Serving (llama.cpp, vLLM, ollama, TEI)
advanced
Multi-GPU-Betrieb & GPU-Lastmanagement
advanced
RAG & Hybrid Retrieval (Vektor + BM25, RRF)
advanced
Embeddings & Cross-Encoder-Reranking (bge-m3, Cohere)
advanced
Azure OpenAI / EU-gehostete Cloud-Modelle
proficient
Azure Document Intelligence
proficient
Quantisierung & Modellauswahl (Qwen MoE, Gemma, MedGemma)
proficient
OCR & Vision-LLM (PaddleOCR, DeepSeek-OCR, Qwen-VL)
advanced
LLM-Evaluation & Benchmarking (Ground-Truth-Harness)
proficient

Programming

Python
proficient
C#
basic
Visual Basic
basic
VB.NET
basic
Pascal
basic
C
basic

AI & Automation

N8N
proficient
Ollama & LM Studio (lokale KI)
proficient
Claude Code / Codex
proficient
GPT-OS:20B / Qwen etc.
proficient
Lokale Telefonagenten / Local Phone Agents
proficient

Backend & DevOps

FastAPI (async, SSE, WebSockets)
advanced
SQLAlchemy async / asyncpg
proficient
React + TypeScript (SPA, Live-Monitoring)
proficient
Docker / Docker Compose
advanced
Caddy Reverse Proxy & Security-Hardening
proficient
GitHub Actions CI / Container Registry
proficient
Kubernetes (Deployment-Manifeste)
basic

Databases

MySQL
basic
PostgreSQL mit pgvector
advanced
Alembic / Schema-Migrationen
proficient
Access
basic
Lotus 1-2-3
basic

Medical Technology

qEEG-Messung und -Auswertung (19-Kanal / 2-Kanal, Normdatenbank-Abgleich)
proficient
Neurofeedback-Systeme (Messung und Protokolle)
proficient
Narkosemonitor-Anbindung GE / Mindray inkl. EKG-Daten
proficient
OpenEMR (Praxis- und Klinikinformationssystem)
proficient

Office

MS Excel
advanced
MS PowerPoint
proficient
MS Word
proficient

CAD

OnShape
proficient
AutoCAD 3D
proficient
CATIA V5
basic

Project Management Tools

MS Project
advanced
DotProject
basic
eGroup
proficient
eRoom
proficient
BugZilla
proficient

Operating Systems

Windows (bis 11)
proficient
Linux
proficient

PDM

Sherpa
basic
Matrix One
basic

ERP / MRP

SAP
basic

Certifications

AI & Data

11
  • EU AI Act Explained: What You Need to Know About the New AI Regulation from August— WBS.LEGAL (Prof. Christian Solmecke)
    2026-08
  • Agentic AI with LangChain and LangGraph— Coursera (IBM Skills Network)
    2026-04
  • Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras (IBM)— IBM / Coursera
    2026-01
  • Google AI Essentials (Specialization, 5 courses)— Google / Coursera
    2026-01
  • Introduction to OpenAI Codex— Scrimba / Coursera
    2026-01
  • Google Prompting Essentials (Specialization, 4 courses)— Google / Coursera
    2025-12
  • Introduction to AI (Google)— Google / Coursera
    2025-12
  • Vector Databases for RAG— IBM / Coursera
    2025-10
  • Build Intelligent Agents using DeepSeek & N8N— Board Infinity / Coursera
    2025-07
  • MySQL for Data Engineering— Duke University / Coursera
    2025-05
  • Python for Everybody (Specialization, 5 courses)— University of Michigan / Coursera
    2025-04

AI Healthcare

1
  • Generative AI-Powered Solutions for Modern Healthcare (Specialization, 9 courses)— Coursera
    2025-11

Management

4
  • Strategy for Success (EKS Success Strategy)— KMU-Akademie e.V. / Cord Tepelmann, UnternehmerCoach
    2010-04
  • Certified SME Restructuring Consultant— KMU-Akademie e.V., Hamm
    2010-03
  • Certified Program Manager (PMU / JCI)— Johnson Controls
    2002-07
  • Managing the company with key performance indicators— RKW Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der Deutschen Wirtschaft e.V., Bayern Büro Nürnberg
    1996-10

Awards

  • Pallas Athene Medal for final exam and best of term(1998)
  • Best of term for the education to a Car Mechanic(1995)

Driving Licenses

Class II + III (Passenger car and semi truck >7.5t)Forklift licenseMotorboat license for coast and riverUKW-Radio licenseCEPT-Novice amateur radio license (class E)

Memberships

  • BDS— German Sport Shooters Association
  • DARC— German Amateur Radio Club

Interests

Mobile homesTravellingCookingWalking BouviersHam radioSport shooter

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