Alexander Wachtel, Dipl.-Inform.
(EN: Graduate Computer Scientist)

Introduction

Alexander Wachtel is working as a Managing Director for the ESCde GmbH. As a Microsoft Gold Partner in several competencies, the ESCde offers professional IT support, consulting and training for Microsoft products. Supported technologies include Microsoft operating systems as well as Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Microsoft System Center Suite, and Office. Due to his many years of experience, he has been honored as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2013 till today.

After graduating in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2012, he also works on his Ph.D. thesis in the field of programming in natural language at the chair of Prof. Dr. Walter F. Tichy. During this time, he has published several technical research articles in the area of Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Programming, AI & Cognitive Services.

Since 2012, Wachtel has increasingly been integrating Microsoft technologies into his courses, teaching Azure, Bot Framework and Azure Machine Learning. For this reason, since 2016 he has been awarded as the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert.

Technical Talks & Publications

• Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp Cologne, "No-Code Chatbots mit Microsoft Power Virtual Agent", 26. November 2020

• Microsoft Global AI Tour Karlsruhe, "Microsoft Power Virtual Agents: ChatBots erfordern gute Dialogführung!", 05. August 2020

• Microsoft Global Azure Virtual 2020, ”Conversational Intelligence - Design intelligent chatbots with Microsoft AI”, 23. April 2020

• Microsoft Global Azure Virtual 2020, “No broken chatbot anymore: Best Practice for creating of Natural Language User Interfaces”, 23. April 2020

• Global Azure Bootcamp 2019, “Boost your chatbot with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)“, 27. April 2019, Köln

• 16. SWISS Business & IT Service Management, “Integration der Künstlichen Intelligenz im Service Management“, 26. März 2019, Zürich

• IT Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) 2019, “Integration der Künstlichen Intelligenz im Service Management“, 28. Februar 2019, Wien

• Alexander Wachtel, Sophie Schulz und Walter F. Tichy. Dialog-based Meaning Derivation Service For Technical Language Domains. 2019, January. The 13th IEEE International Conference on semantic computing (ICSC), Newport Beach, California.

• 18. itSMF Jahreskongress: “Künstliche Intelligenz im Unternehmen“,
  5. Dezember 2018, Koblenz

• Alexander Wachtel, Enterprise Service Management (ESM) and Microsoft Cloud Technologies, 2018, Mai, Karlsruhe, Germany

• Alexander Wachtel, Felix Eurich and Walter F. Tichy. Programming In Natural Language: Building Algorithms From Human Descriptions. 2018, March. The Eleventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction, Rom, Italy.

• Alexander Wachtel, Jonas Paczia and Walter F. Tichy. An Interactive Action Set Detection In Natural Language Hybrid System. 2017, July. The Eleventh International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Alexander Wachtel, Jonas Klamroth and Walter F. Tichy. Natural Language User Interface For Software Engineering Tasks. 2017, March. The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Nice, France.

• Alexander Wachtel, Michael Franzen and Walter F. Tichy. Context detection in spreadsheets based on automatically inferred table schema, Best Paper Award. 2016, October, London, UK.

• Alexander Wachtel, Jonas Klamroth and Walter F. Tichy. A Natural Language Dialog System Based on Active Ontologies. 2016, April. The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Venedig, Italy.

• Alexander Wachtel, Sebastian Weigelt and Walter F. Tichy. Initial implementation of natural language turn-based dialog system. 2015, October. The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, Allahabad, India.

• Alexander Wachtel, Sebastian Weigelt, Philipp Voigt and Walter F. Tichy. Prototyp einer naturlichsprachlichen Schnittstelle für Tabellenkalkulation. 2015, March. Multikonferenz Software Engineering & Management, Dresden, Germany.

Certificates

• Microsoft Certified Trainer (2013- today)

• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate

• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

• Microsoft 365 Certified Teams Administrator Associate

• Microsoft 365 Certified Modern Desktop Administrator Associate

• Microsoft 365 Certified Security Administrator Associate

• Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)

  • Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

  • Productivity

  • Messaging

• Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)

• Microsoft Transkript:

  • ID: 1085690

  • Access Code: 54ztrdfg

• APMG International: ITIL Foundation

• APMG International: PRINCE2 Foundation

Mentoring & Awards

• 1. Place (as Mentor, Team SmartCase) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 DEU

• 1. Place (as Mentor, Team VRMotion) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016 DEU

• Lecture Award from Karlsruhe Software Engineers e.V., 2015

• 1. Place (as Mentor, Team enCourage) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015 DEU

• 1. Place (as Mentor, Team Dogma) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015 DEU

• 1. Place (as Mentor, Team Symbiosis) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015 DEU

• 1. Place (as Mentor, Team Krowd) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014 DEU

• 1. Place (as Student, IT Challenge) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 DEU

• 1. Place (as Student, IT Challenge) at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 DEU

Community Events

• Organizer, VKSI Sneak Preview: "Digitalisierung der Stadt“, 6. Juni 2018, Karlsruhe

• Organizer & Speaker, FIT-ÖV Enterprise Service Management, 29. Mai 2018, Karslruhe

• Organizer, VKSI Sneak Preview: "Big Data implements Datenschutz?", 20. September 2017, Karslruhe

• Organizer & Speaker, Azure Community Day: Cloud Data Analytics & Azure Web Stacks, 24. Mai 2017, Karslruhe