Sacha Storz

I work as Head of Project Management at TechDivision in Munich. I have spent around 20 years in IT, and my background is in psychology. Since 2022, I have focused intensively on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large language models (LLMs)—not only in theory, but also through hands-on work with Python, data, and my own LLM projects.

I am particularly interested in the intersection of technology, people, and organizations: How does AI change products, collaboration, and decision-making—and how can we shape that change thoughtfully? My experience also includes roles as an Agile Coach, Product Owner, and Project Manager. As an Agile Coach, I worked with individuals, teams, and organizations on organizational development—with a focus on making collaboration more effective, adaptable, and healthy.

If you are exploring similar questions or would like to work with me, I would be happy to hear from you.

Selected and Upcoming Talks

A selection of my talks on agentic work, AI in organizations, and product work:

• Upcoming · October 22, 2026, 6:00 p.m. · TechDivision, Kolbermoor
  Rosenheimer New Work Meetup: Why Agentic Work Only Works as an End-to-End System – a practical case study of how AI-accelerated development shifted the bottleneck into customer testing and how we responded with an AI-assisted test suite. The talk will be in German.
• Talk “The Impact of AI on Business” at the Europa Möbel-Verbund board retreat
• ML Con 2025, Munich: GenAI for Product Owners throughout the product management lifecycle
• GenAI Center of Excellence, St. Gallen: How does GenAI change the way we collaborate?

Browse all talks and appearances →

Earlier writing

New articles now appear in my blog. These four earlier pieces from Medium represent the themes I continue to explore:

• Frontier vs. Local LLMs: I Tested 8 Models on a 340-Page Book Medium · 2026
• CoB prompting had no effect, whereas CoT prompting sometimes helped with small OS LLMs Medium · 2025
• The secret to a fast AI assistant is caching (and parallelism) Medium · 2025
• Steps Towards an AI-Augmented Organization Medium · 2024

Browse all earlier publications on Medium and Substack →

Selected ML/AI Projects

A selection of applied work, open-source projects, and reproducible experiments:

• Local LLM Benchmark Suite My own tasks instead of a global leaderboard: tests for writing, knowledge work, coding, and agentic systems.
• LLM-based processing of tender documents Automated support for the sales and quotation process at a market-leading midsized mechanical engineering company.
• Predicting touch time in software development An experimental ML approach with TechDivision based on issue-complexity categories.
• RAG experiment with LangChain, Llama 3, and Chroma A publicly reproducible experiment with retrieval-augmented generation and local AI.

Browse all ML/AI projects and experiments →

Over the years, I have completed numerous certifications, courses, and training programs. It is remarkable how much knowledge is available online. Most of the time, all it takes is a little money—and a lot of time.

• CCA - Claude Certified Architect – Foundations Certification (Anthropic Academy) [Certificate]
• Digital Strategy Specialization (IBM, University of Virginia Darden School, Coursera, 40-hour program) [Certificate]
• Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme (40-hour program) [Certificate]
• Advanced AI Product Management & Leadership Certification with ex-Google-Gen-AI-lead, ex-Meta, TEDx speaker Marily Nika (40-hour program) [Certificate]
• Generative AI for Product Managers Specialization (IBM, Coursera, 40-hour program) [Certificate]
• AI For Business Specialization (University of Pennsylvania, Coursera, 40-hour program) [Certificate]
• Machine Learning Specialization with Andrew Ng (Stanford University, Coursera, 90-hour program) [Certificate]
• Data Analyst with Python (DataCamp, 40-hour program) [Certificate]
• And of course many agile certifications, like CSPO, PSM, SCP, CAL-O, CARS, KMP, AKT, SPC, unFix, M30.

Contact

Email me at sacha@storz.net.