Alex Paul
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Munich, Germany · Available for advisory

Alex Paul

Advisory Solution Consultant at ServiceNow, working on the Autonomous IT portfolio. I work in presales and build custom AI solutions on top of large-scale enterprise platforms — pairing deep technical detail with executive-level storytelling.

AI Solutions Enterprise Architecture IT Asset Management
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Years in enterprise software
Certifications held
Roles across four companies
Languages, all fluent
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01 — Profile

Senior solution consultant and architect with 14+ years in enterprise software — spanning IT Asset Management, technology consulting, and applied AI.

Equally at home in audit, compliance, and platform-migration programs, and driven by turning complex technology into measurable business outcomes. I extend more than a decade of enterprise delivery into production-minded AI — bridging model capability and enterprise constraint: data, security, adoption.

Alex Paul
Advisory Solution Consultant
ServiceNow 2024→
Location
Munich, Germany
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02 — Experience
Employment
history

Advisory Solution Consultant

ServiceNow
Since Aug 2024 · Munich
  • 01Part of the presales team for the Autonomous IT portfolio, partnering closely with sales and product management as a technical authority in customer engagements.
  • 02Translate complex platform and AI capabilities into clear business value for technical teams and executive stakeholders alike.
  • 03Design and build custom AI solutions, extending 12+ years of enterprise delivery into applied, production-minded AI.
High-Performer Group CxO Speaker Group

Principal Consultant

SoftwareONE
Apr 2021 — Aug 2024 · Munich
  • 01Owned design, governance, and day-to-day delivery of flagship consulting projects.
  • 02Created measurable benefits for clients and equipped teams with durable tools for growth.

Senior Technical SLM Consultant

SoftwareONE
Mar 2018 — Mar 2021 · Munich
  • 01Delivered presales, adoption, operations, and continuous improvement across engagements.
  • 02Drove development and adoption of Hardware Asset Management.
  • 03Helped devise a new business model and the steps to support it.

Technical SAM Consultant

SoftwareONE
Aug 2016 — Feb 2018 · Munich
  • 01Implemented Software Asset Management programs and communicated complex information to clients clearly.
  • 02Conducted data analysis to diagnose and frame problems, then found the most suitable solutions.

Consultant

Raynet
Aug 2012 — Jul 2016 · Paderborn
  • 01Developed and led Software Portfolio Analysis projects.
  • 02Formulated and adjusted delivery plans as client needs evolved.

IT-Specialist

K&J IT Services
Aug 2008 — Jul 2012 · Paderborn
  • 01Core contributor to a startup's foundational growth in sales, migrations, and end-to-end IT solutions.
  • 02Business development and sales of hardware and software.
03 — Selected work
Programs
and builds
Applied AI · recent

Custom AI Solution Development

Transformer-based and large language models that automate and augment ITAM, presales, and delivery workflows — bridging model capability with data, security, and adoption constraints.

End-to-end program lead

Platform Migration Leadership

Led a large-scale platform migration end to end — architecture, data migration, process redesign, and user adoption — coordinating technical and business stakeholders.

Stream lead · since Nov 2019

ServiceNow ITAM & ITOM Discovery

Presales, architecture, planning, and adoption; ITAM deployments and process definition to ensure correct, value-driving usage.

Architect & PM · since 2012

Flexera ITAM / FNMS Implementation

Architecture and presales; adaptation and deployment of inventory methods, optimization, data processing, and reporting across all technical aspects.

Business development

ITAM Program & Service Development

Compliance, information security, software portfolio, and risk management; contributed to data-center compliance and risk mitigation.

People & productivity

Team Building & Knowledge Sharing

Led team-building and knowledge-sharing initiatives, established a culture of continuous learning, and interviewed talent during hiring.

04 — AI value
Where AI
pays back

Enterprises rarely lack models. They lack the asset, contract, and entitlement data those models need — and the process to act on the output.

01

Entitlement & license intelligence

Language models read contracts, product-use rights, and vendor terms, then reconcile them against discovered installs — turning weeks of manual entitlement work into a reviewable draft position.

02

Audit & compliance exposure

Surface the handful of publishers, contracts, and data-quality gaps that actually drive audit risk, with the evidence trail attached — so remediation is prioritised by exposure, not by alphabet.

03

Asset data normalisation

Messy CMDB, discovery, and procurement records mapped to a clean catalogue. Normalised data is the precondition for every downstream automation — and the step most programmes skip.

04

Presales & delivery acceleration

Solution drafts, demo data, and value narratives generated from the customer's own environment — shortening the path from discovery call to a defensible business case.

05

Autonomous IT workflows

Agentic patterns wired into platform workflows, with human approval where the decision has cost or contractual weight — automation that operations teams are willing to trust.

The constraint is never the model. It is data, security, and adoption — which is where a decade of enterprise delivery matters more than a prompt.
05 — Skills
Technical
range
AI & Solutions
AI & LLM Solutions Transformer-based Models Presales & Solution Architecture
Platforms
ServiceNow ITAM ServiceNow ITOM App Engine Flexera / FlexNet Manager
Engineering
Python JavaScript SQL PowerShell
Cloud & Cost
Cloud Computing FinOps Cost & Process Optimization
Hands-on since
Years in production use
Flexera / FlexNet Manager 2012 14 y
ServiceNow ITAM / ITOM 2019 7 y
Cloud cost & FinOps 2021 5 y
Applied AI & LLM solutions 2023 3 y
06 — Credentials
Certifications
& education
CertificationIssued
Architecture Excellence (ArchX) · ServiceNow Sep 2025
Certified Application Developer (CAD) · ServiceNow Dec 2024
CIS — Discovery · ServiceNow Feb 2024
CIS — Hardware Asset Management · ServiceNow Feb 2024
FinOps Certified Practitioner · FinOps Foundation Oct 2021
CIS — Software Asset Management · ServiceNow Apr 2021
Certified System Administrator (CSA) · ServiceNow Nov 2020
MS-900 & AZ-900 · Microsoft 2020
FlexNet Manager Technical & Operations Consultant · Flexera Sep 2016
ITIL v4 Foundation & PRINCE2 Jul 2013
Education
Economic IT-Systems Management
Ludwig-Erhard Higher Business School
2009 — 2012
High School Diploma · Business
Ludwig-Erhard Higher Business School
2005 — 2008
Languages
GermanNative
EnglishFluent
RussianFluent
Recognition
Selected member of ServiceNow's High-Performer Group
Member of the CxO Speaker Group, delivering executive-level pitches at customer events
President's Club member, SoftwareONE
2019
07 — Contact

Let's talk about
your ITAM or AI value.

Independent advice on ITAM, ServiceNow architecture, and applied AI — from discovery through adoption.

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