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About Felix

Digital & AI transformation executive with an operator’s perspective.

I work where operational constraints, digital products, data, and senior decisions meet. The aim is not more technology. It is better operating capability.

Operational Transformation Advisor for complex industrial environments.

Name variant used internationally: Felix Schuessler

Discuss Your Operating ModelReview Approach & Work
Felix Schüßler at an offshore wind farm
Offshore wind field context. The work is advisory, but the operating reality matters.

Operator perspective

Lessons from real operating environments.

Short principles on where transformation fails and what needs to be made explicit before technology can help.

Operator principle

Start with the work, not the tool.

Industrial transformation becomes credible when it respects constraints, interfaces, and the people accountable for the outcome.

Operator principle

Make decisions easier to make.

The useful layer is rarely another dashboard. It is the structure that helps teams choose, prioritize, and act.

Operator principle

Build capability, not dependency.

Sustainable change needs ownership, cadence, and support inside the organization.

Operating model

Digitizing fragments rarely fixes the operating system.

Industrial organizations often digitize local workarounds instead of redesigning the process, ownership, and data model beneath them. The result is usually more tooling around the same coordination problem.

AI enablement

AI is an accelerator, not the center of the story.

AI creates value when it augments accountable human workflows, improves decision quality, and sits inside a coherent operational system. Without process clarity, it accelerates ambiguity.

Industrial operations

Human accountability has to be designed explicitly.

In safety-critical and asset-heavy environments, accountability cannot be outsourced to technology. Roles, decisions, and escalation paths need clarity before digital support can scale.

Data foundations

Operational data models determine the ceiling of transformation.

Reporting, AI, planning, and maintenance ecosystems only scale when data structures mirror the real operational model. Data quality is often a symptom of operating-model quality.

Product operating model

Product organizations are part of the transformation system.

Long-term transformation needs ownership, governance, product roles, and support structures, not just implementation projects. The product organization becomes part of operational infrastructure.

Executive scope

€4M portfolio / VP alignment

Portfolio governance, multi-year roadmaps, and international stakeholder leadership.

Operational scale

18 wind farms / 300+ users

Data foundations and workflow systems across global offshore operations.

Organization building

14 Product Owners / ~45 specialists

Product ownership structures and matrix leadership across business and IT.

Curated CV

Operator-led transformation across industrial, product, and strategy environments.

Selected experience only. Contact details and references are kept private and available on request.

11/2019–present

RWE Offshore Wind & RWE Renewables

Head of Digital Products, Offshore Operations

09/2022–04/2026

  • Transformed Offshore Operations from fragmented IT projects into a global product-led organization, growing the team from 3 to 6 and ultimately 14 Product Owners across an end-to-end ecosystem of approximately 45 specialists.
  • Defined and owned the €4M annual portfolio and multi-year digital and AI transformation strategy, steering investments and aligning VP-level stakeholders around a scalable roadmap.
  • Modernized operational planning through a proprietary product suite integrated with SAP PM/MM, reducing planning effort by approximately 90% and underpinning an estimated eight-figure value opportunity.
  • Digitized warehouse operations across multiple offshore sites, including a 25% workload reduction at one measured site.
  • Established data and platform foundations serving 18 offshore wind farms and 300+ users, and initiated LLM-enabled knowledge retrieval and AI decision-support use cases.

Senior Digital Transformation Manager

11/2019–08/2022

  • Partnered with executive leadership and BCG to prioritize digital initiatives and value pools across the renewable energy value chain.
  • Scaled digital initiatives from strategy to deployment, including a low-code platform adopted by more than 1,000 users.

Consultant – Renewables Strategy

04/2021–06/2021 · Secondment

  • Contributed to RWE Renewables’ strategy development and built a business intelligence application for strategic analysis and executive decision-making.

01/2018–10/2019

OBI Group Holding

Product Owner

  • Built and led a five-person internal venture, launching a craftsman-booking service in Vienna with 50% faster time-to-market and 80% lower delivery costs; subsequently served as one of five Product Owners for the OBI app and enterprise microservice platform.

08/2017–12/2017

DHL

Innovation Project Manager & Startup Coach

  • Led two blockchain innovation projects and coached three international internal ventures from concept through validation.

01/2015–12/2017

locaneo.com

Co-Founder & CTO/CPO

  • Co-founded and led a technology startup as Managing Director and CTO/CPO, building a three-person product team and directing product strategy and end-to-end development.

Earlier career

Additional Industry Experience

Aerospace MRO & Specialized Industrial Machinery

  • Additional operating experience with Lufthansa Technik AG and Enrichment Technology Company.

Education

  • Collège des Ingénieurs: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • Imperial College London: Master of Science, Aeronautics, graduated Top 5%
  • RWTH Aachen University: Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, graduated Top 5%

Recognition

  • RWE Senior Talent Program: selected as one of RWE’s Top 15 Senior Talents globally, including C-level mentorship.
  • EXIST Business Start-up Grant: secured €130k in federal funding for locaneo.
  • Scholarships and academic honors including a fully funded MBA scholarship, Erasmus Scholarship, Dean’s List Award, and German National Scholarship.