• Setting organizations up for growth by establishing scalable processes in areas of product management, design, agile software development, data science, talent acquisition / recruiting, IT operations and organizational governance
• Interim leadership for IT and software engineering heavy departments
• Supporting IT and tech leadership teams with project management and operational challenges
• Transitioning toward partial office usage and fully remote work setups
• Fostering collaboration of interdisciplinary teams in context of agile software development projects (e.g. product, tech, data science, design, marketing, sales)
• Technical due diligence of software engineering departments and artefacts as part of mergers, company acquisitions and venture capital investments

Customer: market leading online classifieds platform in Germany

• Orchestration of larger development project for a new product with high number of dependencies between departments and functions
• Setup software development capitalization projects and reporting to capture capitalization relevant engineering efforts according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS)
• Operationalize headcount management of product and tech organization considering investment cases, budget constraints, reporting needs, people strategy and individual team situations
• Organize and moderate off-site workshops and events for product & technology leadership team
• Moderate retrospectives of cross functional teams to strengthen best practices and identify collaboration improvement potentials
• Project management for collaborating with a local university on a student project to ideate in areas of technology and business model innovation
• Manage replacement of external product and tech services with new permanent internal staff

• Leadership of software engineering teams as part of a matrix product development organization consisting of software engineers, data engineers and data scientists
• Support team members with defining focus areas and professional growth opportunities along their career ambitions
• Acting as a servant leader to help continuously improve team internal processes based on agile software engineering principles
• Drive products to enable (1) off-platform marketing for professional car dealers to advertise on social media & web pages, (2) integration between mobile.de and eBay Kleinanzeigen marketplaces and (3) machine learning based predictions on mobile.de
• Define objectives and key results (OKRs) as part of interdisciplinary teams to focus department efforts on strategic topics
• Help to explore creative employer branding methods and streamlined recruitment processes to support large scale hiring initiatives
• Establish a new trainee program for job changers and recent graduates to tap into new talent pools in light of tough talent market situation
• Manage partnership with external ad tech technology provider including contract negotiation, defining priorities and monitoring operations
• Act as privacy champion to ensure General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance as part of a big data project

• Leadership for a design team supporting a product development organization consisting of three product lines with design thinking, research, user experience design, usability testing and visual design
• Professionalizing design operations and establishing design systems to increase efficiency of design related processes
• Development of corporate real estate solutions to support new work office usage concepts like shared desks, neighborhoods and IoT sensor based utilization tracking
• Acting as a parental leave substitution for a senior management role of a global product development organization developing finance, corporate real estate and healthcare solutions
• Beginning of Covid19 pandemic: transition engineering departments in multiple countries toward partial office usage and fully remote setups

• Leadership for cross-functional agile software development teams consisting of software engineering, product management, design, documentation, site reliability engineering, business development and agile coaching including people, budget, product and operations responsibility
• Supporting development teams and individual team members as a servant leader with their challenges at hand and professional growth
• Recruiting new colleagues to evolve the team structure along changing business needs including measures to attract good candidates in a highly competitive talent market
• Introducing objectives and key results (OKR) framework as departmental leadership toolkit to align on priorities and trade-offs
• Leverage new technology innovations (e.g. in-memory data bases, machine learning, JavaScript frameworks and cloud native architectures) to develop solutions for finance departments in context of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to 1) drill down on financial KPIs to line item level, (2) simulate impact of business changes to profit and loss statement and (3) predict financial outcomes based on historic accounting data

• Product owner as part of an agile development team to develop a digital board room experience for senior leadership teams to (1) intuitively navigate an analytics software interface live during a meeting, (2) analyze real time financial results across departments and regions and (3) capture action items
• Design Thinking based requirements engineering with corporate customers across Europe and the US to explore business challenges and ideate on solutions
• Use wireframes and paper / clickable prototypes to validate ideas with end users
• Break down development needs into Sprint compatible user stories for the engineering team and define acceptance criteria to probe for completeness
• Support creation of physical conference prototype to make long term product vision tangible (SAP Digital Boardroom)
• Manage engagement of finance related topics of a large international key account

• Production of 4K time lapse videos for large construction sites using custom hardware housing with DSLR cameras & LTE connectivity and custom developed image post processing algorithms (e.g. palace in Potsdam / Landtag Brandenburg)
• Development of payroll software for a small construction business to implement salary incentive models based on construction site specific profit margins

• Development of a Python based benchmark suite using Gatling load simulations and Cucumber tests to compare performance of popular web development frameworks
• Development of a Java based tool to automatically tune extract-transform-load (ETL) processes e.g. by pushing filters to earlier process stages

• Mentorship for multiple student teams building a customer relationship management (CRM) software for educational purposes as part of a scaled Scrum setup with ~100 engineers
• Educating student teams about Scrum ceremonies, scaling Scrum, backlog management, writing user stories, GitHub best practices and test driven development (TDD)

• Development of a prototype logistics platform and mobile clients to receive real time updates for shipping instructions using Java, JavaScript and Ericsson WARP
• Analysis of production readiness of SAP?s cloud infrastructure JPaaS with prototype applications

• Requirements analysis, implementation and roll out of an online training platform for employees using Moodle and virtual server infrastructure