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Leader | Agile Coach | Scrum Master | Organization Improvement Expert

Available from
Mar 4, 2020
Availability
100 %
on customer site
100 %
Areas

D8

Austria

Cities
München
50 km
Contact Settings

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Projects

10/2010 - Today

9 years 5 months

Organization Development

Roles
Founder
Customer
On Request
Place of work
Munich
Tasks
  • Plattform „League of Teams“ zur selbstorganisierten Unternehmensoptimierung
  • Beratung, Coaching und Begleitung zu Themen rund um (agile) Unternehmensentwicklung

02/2018 - 01/2020

2 years

Autonomous Driving

Roles
VP Teams Operations
Customer
Zenuity
Place of work
Munich, Gothenburg
Tasks
  • Owning the company’s teams’ operations as foundation for a robust and flexible organization to meet current and future business needs.
  • Leading a team of 25+ team leaders and agile organization experts in three locations.
  • Developing related structures, procedures, and principles to enable innovative product development with empowered and high performing teams in the center.
  • Securing long term competence sourcing and continuous rebalancing of teams.
  • Member of the leadership team, engaged in the long-term development of the company.

04/2013 - 01/2018

4 years 10 months

Retail/Marketing

Roles
various
Customer
emnos GmbH
Place of work
Munich
Tasks

Head of Development (since 03/2017)

  • Leading an organization of six development teams from five locations; service provider management for ad-hoc and/or long-term support (up to 40 ppl).
  • Developing engineering aspects, teams, and stakeholders towards an agile organization, considering sense of urgency, capabilities, and continuous learning from doing.
  • Process owner for the portfolio planning (along purpose, confidence, and capacities) in close collaboration with the functional owners from product management.

Product Owner (Manager)

  • End-to-end responsibility for the data-driven promotion planning and optimization tool (emnos PromoBalancer) as part of the emnos SaaS retail platform.
  • Leading a distributed, agile product team (up to 14 ppl.), driving intra-cooperate alignment on development and delivery processes, operations, and quality mgmt.

05/2012 - 03/2013

11 months

Product Development

Roles
Freelancer / Entrepreneur
Customer
emnos GmbH
Place of work
Munich
Tasks
  • Leading a small development team (design and implementation) designing and building a new data driven planning and evaluation tool for retail promotions (direct marketing)

09/2010 - 03/2012

1 year 7 months

Development of a software platform

Roles
Tech Lead/Co-Founder
Customer
On Request
Place of work
Munich
Tasks
  • Development of a software platform to extract and interpret arbitrary information from the internet for extended market analysis (i.e. assortment, price, and image)

05/2011 - 10/2011

6 months

Organization of the data analytics department

Roles
Interim Management Data Analytics
Customer
Tchibo
Place of work
Hamburg
Tasks
  • Organization of the data analytics department (previously distributed across the org).
  • Development of the team from a workbench mentality to a popular service provider.

06/2007 - 08/2010

3 years 3 months

Development of a web-based Customer Insights Platform („Big Data“)

Roles
Head of Technical Solutions
Customer
emnos GmbH
Place of work
Munich
Tasks
  • Development of a web-based Customer Insights Platform („Big Data“) for FMCG retailers.
  • Managing product requirements, service providers, and development teams of various sizes (up to 25 ppl.) – delivery responsibility.

04/1999 - 05/2007

8 years 2 months

Development of web-based auditing and content management solutions

Roles
Lead Developer / Software Architect
Customer
webfair AG (Urban Science)
Place of work
Munich
Tasks
  • Development of web-based auditing and content management solutions for the automotive industry (retails/service networks)
  • Team lead for smaller development units, owner of the agile development processes

Industries

  • Software/IT
  • Retail
  • Automotive

Skills

Language Skills
English
fluent
German
native

Products / Standards / Experiences

OBJECTIVES:
Working together in and amongst small teams, where variety of talents and the multi-faceted personalities becomes a competitive advantage. For me, an appreciation of the power of teams and their skills comes in first place. With a profound background in software development and product management, I have developed an excellent sense for the needs of development teams. A companion with vast experience to break up patterns, drive teams to superior performance, and make change and renewal a source of strength for the whole organization.

SUMMARY:

  • 20 years of experience in software and product development
  • versatile skills in building and leading international, distributed teams
  • agile pioneer and strategic „systems thinker”
  • proficiency in building smart solutions to integrate, analyze, and use data for business decision
  • creative mind and motivator
  • ability to deliver proven by various successful projects and products

Working Agile:

  • Agile Methodologies
  • Agile Project Management
  • Scrum (Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner)
  • Kanban
  • Scaling Agile (SAFe)
  • Agile Coaching


Software Product Development:

  • Product Management
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Workforce Planning
  • Software Development
  • Quality Management
  • Continuous Integration
  • Employee Development
  • Personal Development
  • Staff Development


Employee Engagement:

  • Employee Experience
  • People Management
  • Objective Agreements


Organizational Guidance:

  • Leadership
  • Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship
  • Start-ups
  • Business Analysis
  • System Thinking


Developing Organizations:

  • Organizational Structure
  • Leadership Models
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Team Management

Software Development:

  • Web Development – HTML/CSS/JS
  • Java
  • Application Server
  • Databases
  • DevOps

Data-Driven Knowledge Management:

  • Company Insights
  • Analytics
  • Dashboards
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Management

Process Management:

  • Process Optimization
  • Agile Processes
  • Compliance Management
  • Flow Optimization

Collaboration Tools:

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Slack
  • Employee Surveys - &frankly / Survey Monkey

Collaboration:

  • Storytelling
  • Thought Leadership
  • Conflict Management
  • Mediation

Employee Integration:

  • Recruitment Processes
  • Onboarding Procedures
  • Occupational Health & Safety
  • Labor Legislation

Customer Insights (Retail):

  • Direct Marketing
  • Campaign Management
  • Marketing Management
  • CRM
  • Assortment Analysis

Automotive Software:

  • ASPICE
  • Functional Safety

Training History

1999

Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering - TU München (final grade: 2,8)
Diploma Thesis: Motion Analysis and Aggregation of Segments in Video Sequences

CERTICATIONS/TRAININGS:

  • SAFe Scaled Agile Framework, 2017
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), 2015
  • Managing Projects (PMI)
  • Effective Presentations
  • Tough Conversations