Profile

I combine strategic thinking with proven implementation expertise – delivering sustainable IT transformations and AI initiatives that drive your business forward.

Rainer Hentschel

Enterprise AI & SAP Transformation Lead

0 Years of Experience

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vCard +41 78 647 22 96 rh@hentschel-consulting.ch LinkedIn Sandmatte 2a, 5712 Beinwil am See, Switzerland

With 17 years of experience, I lead your international SAP or Enterprise AI project to success – as project manager, program manager, or workstream lead. I bridge business and IT and guide critical projects to a controlled go-live through rigorous test and cutover management. I apply the same discipline to AI initiatives: with AI coding agents, test automation, LLM evals and guardrails – from pilot to production.

Focus

Large-scale international projects & programs
Business-critical projects
Turnaround of ailing projects
Enterprise AI from pilot to production

Skills

Project Management Cutover Management Migration Management Test Management Change Management Agentic AI Engineering LLM Evals & Chat Grading Responsible AI

Industry Knowledge

Energy

Retail

eCommerce

Manufacturing

Transport & Logistics

Cloud & Datacenter

Professional Experience

03/2015 - present

Hentschel Consulting GmbH

Consultant - International IT Projects

08/2011 - 02/2015

XAAS GmbH & Co. KG

Consultant & Managing Partner

02/2010 - 07/2011

akquinet dynamic solutions GmbH

Consultant

10/2006 - 01/2010

Richard Ditting GmbH & Co. KG

IT Specialist / Working Student

Technology & Tools

GitHub Copilot (AI coding agents) for enterprise software development
Frontier LLMs (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) for enterprise AI initiatives
SAP ERP (R/3 & S/4HANA)
SAP Commerce Cloud
SAP Solution Manager
SAP PI/PO
HP ALM / HP QC
Cloud & Virtualization

Education

2011 - 2012

Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Business Administration

University of Hamburg

Two semesters part-time, then my company I founded in parallel was doing so well that I had to stop.

2006 - 2009

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Business Informatics

WAK Schleswig-Holstein

2009

Industrial Clerk

Chamber of Industry and Commerce

IHK

Certifications

SAP Activate Project Manager

Agile Project Delivery

ISTQB Advanced Level

Test Manager

PRINCE2

Practitioner

What I bring to your AI initiative

I bring the methods from my hentschel.ai case study to your initiatives – as project manager, architect or sparring partner.

Agentic Delivery & AI-native SDLC

Introducing AI coding agents into your development – as an operating model, not a tool rollout

Deliverables
- AI readiness check
- Role and approval model
- Required checks
- Knowledge base
- Permission concept
LLM Evals & Chat Grading

Eval framework for your chatbots and AI agents

Deliverables
- Golden set from business scenarios
- Rubric
- Deterministic checks
- Quality gate in the release
Agent & Context Architecture

Cleanly separating tool calling, guardrails and human-in-the-loop

Deliverables
- Architecture review
- Tool contracts
- Approval points
- Caching concept
Intelligent Document Processing

Turning reports and free text into verifiable structures

Deliverables
- Schema design (Structured Outputs)
- Validation
- Provenance
- Stability and hallucination measurement
Responsible AI & AI Security

Enforcing policies instead of describing them

Deliverables
- Governance framework
- Policy-as-code tests
- Security review based on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
AI Program Management

From proof of concept to production (Pilot-to-Production)

Deliverables
- Roadmap
- Business case with unit economics
- Experiment design
- Project management