Christian Prokopp
International Council Member @UNICEF
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WORK HISTORY
International Council Member @UNICEF
EDUCATION
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
PhD, Computer Science focusing on Machine Learning enabled Information Retrieval
Berufsakademie Karlsruhe
BSc(H), Information Technology
The University of Queensland
Masters of Commerce, E-Commerce and Semantic Vector Space Research
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRISTIAN PROKOPP
Christian is a Founder, Advisor, CTO, CDO, and at heart, an engineer with a passion for Data. When he is not working or spending time with his family, you will find him travelling the world.Christian translates business goals into executable technology strategies. He hires, develops and leads successful teams and creates roadmaps and architectures. Christian has profound experience in data and analytics, including ML and AI, combining data engineering, business intelligence, and data science. He regularly breaks new ground and provides thought leadership while delivering outcomes.Christian is a talented communicator. He is experienced in writing white papers, presenting in front of large crowds, in boardrooms, to investors, and negotiating with customers and suppliers including under challenging circumstances. He can engage engineers and data scientists as easily as CxOs and boards. He plans strategically and regularly measures and evaluates the business\'s success. He is skilled in breaking down complex problems into achievable short-term goals and a long-term guiding strategy. He has comprehensive international experience living and working in Europe, Asia, and Australia, as well as managing large and geographically dispersed teams.Christian worked in start-ups and helped two of them exit, one to Google and one to Teradata. At the same time, he has also experience with large global enterprises. Christian has a rich background in technology and research, including a PhD, encompassing software engineering, cloud computing, data engineering, devops, architecture and data science. In his career, he developed software in numerous languages focused on quality and testing. He designed and built Hadoop and cloud-native large-scale data mining and analytics solutions before most companies explored either, and he continues to stay current.Qualities: Exceptionally fast learner, unstoppable curiosity, prefer challenging and novel work over predictable one, pragmatic, business outcome-focused, proud of my integrity and strong work ethics, enjoy working with and learning from smart, driven individuals and teams, a sense of humour, help others succeed with the organisation\'s business goal in mind.Specialities: Data and Analytics, Strategy and Architecture, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Management
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