About Me
Hey, I’m Christopher. I’m an AI Product Manager at Würth Deutschland, responsible for our internal GPT solution: improving the product itself and helping colleagues across the company make it part of their daily work.
Before that I spent three years at Mercedes-Benz AG, where I built mixed reality applications for the digital after-sales and later drove the AI adoption of the division. Originally I come from the XR world, with a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Würzburg.
What interests me most right now: AI that supports everyday tasks, automation, computer vision, and the UX of AI solutions. On the technical side I work with generative AI and machine learning, and I still know my way around Unity, C# and real-time interactive systems. I’m also a certified SAFe 6 Product Owner / Product Manager.
Experience
Product management for Würth's internal GPT solution.
As product manager for Würth’s internal GPT solution I take care of the product and its adoption:
- Change management to bring AI into everyday work across the company
- User workshops: gathering requirements, training colleagues, improving the solution
- Build-or-buy decisions for AI tooling and vendors
Mercedes-Benz AG,
Böblingen
Technical Solutions Architect (XR/AI)
August 2023 - June 2026
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/
XR and AI in the digital after-sales.
Started as an XR Software Engineer, left as Technical Solutions Architect (XR/AI):
- Product Owner of a HoloLens 2 mixed reality application for 3D repair instructions and visualisations, including the rollout to 100+ devices in US dealerships
- Built an end-to-end mixed reality content pipeline (engineering data → repair instruction → MR experience), developing in C# and Unity in an agile team
- AI Navigator for a division of around 1,000 employees: identifying, validating and managing AI use cases, with presentations up to C-level
- Represented the department at the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) in Heilbronn
- Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner / Product Manager
University of Würzburg,
Würzburg
Research Assistant
November 2021 - June 2023
https://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Research Assistant at the HCI Chair at the University of Würzburg.
Working in the HiAvA project and focusing on the development of the system platform for different end devices (VR-HMDs, iPhones and Desktops) as well as integration work of features of the other project partners and research about different locomotion techniques and their effect on other participants within a social XR.
Working student in the Research & Innovation Team at TecAlliance.
HoloLens2 development & machine learning e.g. different YOLO architectures and image recognition via Google cloud vision and Microsoft custom vision
Internship at Audi Production Lab as a software developer in virtual/augmented reality.
Collaboration in the project: Virtual 3P Workshops in Virtual Reality. Creation of an automated python based data conversion pipeline for CAD data to be used in virtual reality applications.
Admission to the Audi Talent Program for students.
Unversity of Würzburg,
Würzburg
Working Student
August 2018 - March 2019
https://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Student assistant at the HCI Chair of the University of Würzburg.
Software development in virtual reality using Unity and conducting subject studies in VR. Collaboration in the projects: Illusion of Virtual Body Ownership and InjectX - Augmenting Social Behavior
Projects
Scalable hybrid avatar-agent technology for everyday social interaction in XR - project organization, platform development & impact research.
Automated Python pipeline that generates areas of interest and measures fixations from eye-tracking data in a mirror exposure.
Unity application for the HoloLens 2 using computer vision and text recognition to support automotive mechanics in workshops.
Education
University of Würzburg
Master of Science
2019 - 2022
Master of Science in Human-Computer-Interaction.
Principles of real-time interactive systems, Psychology of real-time interactive systems, Machine Learning, Theorys of HCI, Eye-tracking, Advanced methods of data analysis, Networking and Concurrent Programming, 3D User-interfaces, Multimodal Interactions.
Master Thesis: Stress Generation and Social Ostracism with Teenagers in Virtual Reality - Implementation and Evaluation of an Interactive Therapeutic VR Application, supervised by Prof. Dr. Carolin Wienrich and Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik. Grade: 1.0
Final grade: 1.2 (with distinction)
University of Würzburg
Bachelor of Science
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Science in Human-Computer-Systems.
Introduction to Programming, Algorithms and Data structures, Interactive Computergraphic, Introduction to Human-Computer-Interaction, Research Methods, Statistics, Augmented Reality and User Research.
Bachelor Thesis: Influence of cognitive load on Simulator sickness in a simulated autonomous driving supervised by Prof. Dr. Carolin Wienrich. Grade: 1.3
Grade: 2.2
A Little More About Me
During my free time I like to do sports, like soccer or strength training. Since 2024 I’ve also been the deputy head of the football division at TSV Weikersheim, taking care of sponsoring, public relations and digitalisation. And I still enjoy a cold beer while having interesting and insightful conversations.