• Mehrjährige Erfahrung als Scrum Master für interdisziplinäre Teams
• Coaching von Teams in agilen Projekten (auch unternehmensweites agiles Coaching)
• Moderation der Scrum Meetings (Daily Standups, Reviews, Retrospektiven)
• Koordination und Unterstützung für Product Owner
• Beseitigung von Hindernissen/Roadblocks für Teams
• Consulting im Bereich Open Innovation & Community-Building/Management durch jahrelange praktische Erfahrung für namhafte Unternehmen
• Consulting im Bereich Online Marketing durch diverse Marketing-Konzepte (Online, Guerilla etc.)
• Entwicklung diverser Web-Projekte und Web-Services für unterschiedliche Kunden unter Einsatz von jQuery, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL etc.
• Entwicklung zahlreicher Microsoft Office Add-ins und Tools auf Basis von MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook, Visual Basic for Application (VBA) und Visual Basic .NET.
• Offizieller Microsoft-Partner

1993-present: Freelancer, Professional Scrum Master, Senior Agile Project Manager 

• Profound know-how as Scrum Master, Senior Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Corporate Communication Manager and extensive management experience
• Reference customers include Microsoft GmbH, Beiersdorf GmbH, Mars/Masterfoods GmbH, Eni Deutschland GmbH, Tchibo GmbH
• Topics include agile transition, scrum training, executive coaching, product owner coaching, team coaching and guidance
• Agile Coach for multiple scrum teams (3+) with a clear focus on guiding the teams towards self-organization, improving the productivity of the teams and reaching their goals
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress (burn-down charts)
• Mentor to other Scrum Masters and Product Owners and coaches all levels and roles, including senior leaders and managers, across the organization on Agile principles, process, practices and tools
• Guidance/Coaching on achieving high levels of Agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and enterprise standards
• Facilitating cross-team coordination and collaboration and drive visibility of information
• Coaching interdisciplinary teams towards a culture of full transparency of relevant metrics and the agile methodology to all stakeholders and foster a culture of open communication
• Experience with software tools like Jira, Trello, Asana & MS Project
• Knowledge of different IT methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Agile), SOA and SDLC methodologies and deep understanding of technical issues at a high level
• Web Frontend & Backend Development (jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, XML, PHP, MySQL)

2018: KPMG, Senior Professional Scrum Master, Senior Agile Coach

• Guidance/Coaching, improvement of self organization and conflictmanagement of several interdisciplinary, international, multi-lingual scrum teams with an amount of about 20 team members (2 teams of 8-9 people)
• Coaching of stakeholders (e.g. project managers, PMOs, C-level members)
• Acting as a facilitator and removing impediments, improvement of team?s productivity/velocity, reaching the sprint goals and moderation of Scrum events (e.g. Dailys, Reviews, Retros, Plannings, Backlog Grooming, Refinement, Estimation)
• Coaching of POs on improvement of user stories and agile mindset
• Extensive working experience with Jira, Confluence & TFS
• Project Scope: Intranet-Cloud-Platform

2018: XTractor for Jira (Cloud) ?(Inhouse Development), Agile Project Manager

• Complete agile Project -Management of the Software-Development
• Guidance/Coaching of Dailys, Reviews & Retrospectives, Plannings of the team (3 team members)
• Acting as a facilitator and removing impediments, improvement of team?s productivity and reaching the sprint goals
• Acting as a Product Owner
• Coaching multiple interdisciplinary teams and PMOs on agile mindset
• Project Scope: Web-Add-in for Microsoft Excel in combination with the JIRA API

2017 / 2018: KPMG, Professional Scrum Master, Agile Coach

• Guidance/Coaching, improvement of self organization and conflictmanagement of several interdisciplinary, international, multi-lingual scrum teams (partly remote) with an amount of about 30-40 team members (3 teams of 7-9 people)
• Coaching of stakeholders (e.g. project managers, PMOs, C-level members)
• Coaching of POs on improvement of user stories and agile mindset
• Scrum of Scrums with other Scrum Masters
• Acting as a facilitator and removing impediments, improvement of team?s productivity/velocity, reaching the sprint goals and moderation of Scrum events (e.g. Dailys, Reviews, Retros, Plannings, Backlog Grooming, Refinement, Estimation)
• Extensive working experience with Jira, Confluence & TFS
• Project Scope: Intranet-Cloud-Platform
  

2017: Banking/Finance, Professional Scrum Master, Agile Coach 

• Coordination, Coaching and Serveant Leadership of a remote developer team (4 people)
• Guidance/Coaching of Daily Standups, Reviews & Retrospectives
• Acting as a facilitator and removing impediments, improvement of team?s productivity and reaching the sprint goals
• Backlog Grooming
• Coaching on agile mindset

2016-2017: Real Estate, Professional Scrum Master, Product Owner

• Guidance/Coaching of Daily Standups, Reviews & Retrospectives
• Acting as a facilitator and removing impediments, improvement of team?s productivity and reaching the sprint goals
• Development of an automated Add-in for Office 365 with API-connectivity (XML)
• Integration of control functions for compliance with API-restrictions
• Integration of default settings and feature optimization based on the last user experience

2016: FinTech company, Freelance Consultant /Agile Coach

• Acted as an agile coach for the whole company (including development, marketing and executives)
• Development of a technical documentation for the financial services API
• Development of several code snippets (JavaScript, jQuery, PHP) connecting with the financial services API
• Creation and design of investor pitch decks

1993-2015: Eni Deutschland GmbH, Freelance Consultant / Senior Software Developer 

• Development and maintenance of several financial analysis and controlling solutions for daily investment decisions for handling and reporting USD 1M+ per day based on Microsoft Excel (VBA).
• Development and establishment of central document storage systems.
• Development of a centralized lubricant software database

2014-2015: Kakadodo (in-house-development), Scrum Master / Product Owner

• Conceptualized and created a web-based idea- and innovation platform for corporate intranets to collect and use employee?s ideas/innovations (also available as SaaS).
• Guided as a Scrum Master a team of 5 cross-functional developers (team start-up) in self-organization, facilitator and removing impediments, improvement of team?s productivity and reaching the sprint goals
• Processes software development streamlining people-centered value chain
• Teaching agile and scrum values, principles and methodology
• Tracking team velocity and sprint/release progress (burn-down charts)
• Coached different companies and their management how to establish agile principles and how to embrace changes and internal ideas/innovations
• Experience with Jira and development in JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, XML, AJAX, PHP, MySQL

2007-2015: Mars / Masterfoods, Senior Software Developer

• Defined and developed several different software products on Microsoft Excel (VBA)
• Developed administrative and logistic software on Microsoft Excel (VBA)
• Served employees at Mars as a serveant leader and offered guidance on work-improvement

2012-2014: Good IO Ltd., Executive Manager, Scrum Master

• Maintained existing and acquiring new business links
• Coached multiple cross-functional scrum teams as a Scrum Master in self-organization, removing impediments and acting as a servant leader
• Extensive team building skills
• Proves a calm attitude during difficult situations
• Provided guidance to form and shape scrum frameworks, by developing and introducing, applying, hosting and managing of scrum methodology, rules, events, roles and artifacts
• Supported project governance and providing mediation for the teams
• Supported projects' risk management i.e. by helping to identify and removing project impediments.
• Acting as a facilitator for the development teams and product owners
• Where necessary, process definition and/or optimization within the agreed project management framework (including documentation)
• Constantly improving the quality of all deliverables by i.e. supporting the development teams to organize themselves
• Working experience with Jira & Trello

2007-2012: Gardner Denver, Freelance Consultant / Senior Software Developer

• Developed several MS Excel (VBA) database systems (connected with SQL database)
• Developed an Inventory-Analysis-Tool on MS Excel (VBA)
• Held several workshops in Microsoft Excel (Basics, Advanced and VBA)

2006-2012: Tchibo GmbH, Freelance Consultant / Senior Agile Project Manager

• Project manager and agile coach for the innovation platform "Tchibo ideas"
• Acted as a Scrum Master for 3 different team by removing impediments, guidance in self-optimization, acting as a facilitator
• Collaboration with the Product Manager to ensure alignment of critical commitments and future business objectives
• Tracking of sprint/release progress (burn-down charts) and team velocity
• Provided guidance to form and shape scrum frameworks, by developing and introducing, applying, hosting and managing of scrum rules, events, roles and artifacts
• Coaches management at all levels of the organization to understand the benefits of working agile
• Complete conception, strategic planning, process optimization & re-structuring
• Team building and guidance in community building & community management for 10k+ users
• Acted as an agile coach and strategic consultant (structure- and competition-analysis, staff coaching)
• Self-motivated, creative, innovative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
• Strong communication skills (consulting, worst-case-scenarios and execution)
• Development and execution of the Tchibo ideas blogger campaign (guerrilla marketing)
• Innovation scouting, innovation-(pre-)screening and innovation evaluation

1999-2007: Microsoft, Agile Project Manager

• Project Management, conception, community-building and establishing MSN Communities in Germany (100k+ users in Germany)
• Acted as a servant leader (scrum master) and an agile coach for 3 interdisciplinary teams in self-organization
• Worked together with the product owner on defining the priority and content of the backlog items ? especially ensuring the user stories meet the acceptance criteria
• Acted as a facilitator, removed impediments for the teams, provided conflict management due to perfect interpersonal skills and removed organizational impediments/roadblocks
• Influencing change at the team member level
• Provided additional support and development of web services for subsidiaries in many international markets (e.g. Brazil, Japan, China, Thailand etc.).

2002: Beiersdorf AG, Software Developer

• Developed a day-to-day category management software for market data analysis 

1999-2000: Microsoft, Agile Project Manager

• Creation and leadership of the biggest Microsoft Community "Millennium 2000" with more than 100k users - worldwide!
• Acted similar to a Scrum Master by coaching the team to self-organize, being a facilitator for the team and removing impediments/roadblocks
• Guided a remote team of 5 people on communication and cooperation with direct customer contact 

1994-1995: creaTV, Software Developer / Business Analyst

• Developed an internal accounting software for planning and calculating one of Germany?s most successful daily TV show ?Hans Meiser?

1992-1993: TOPIX Inc., Representative Europe, Executive Management

• Maintaining existing and acquiring new business links
• Establishing 3D animation for TV commercials & TV spots
• Support of US headquarter on European markets

1992-1993: Sony/BMG, Software Developer / Business Analyst 

• Development of several financial analysis , controlling and reporting software for several music stars (e.g. Peter Maffay)
• Developed automated accounts diagram in Microsoft Excel with data extraction from SAP
• Developed automated file creation, -formatting and -mailing to all account managers
• Developed reporting of separate company departments
• Developed complete analysis of planning data for reporting
• Automated comparative cost system for UFA International GmbH

1989-1991: Action Games GmbH, CTO 

• Software Development for Europe's most complex TV-Show (Bingo)
• Improved Sony?s video wall by developing a special software so the video wall was able to work with a much better frame rate reaction time than Sony?s technicians knew it was possible
• TV-Show-Production, Technical Management & Computer Development
• Programming for TV-Game-Shows (Bingo aka Trump Card (Sat.1), The Krypton Factor (Sat.1))
• Casting Senior Specialist (Disney Club (ARD))