Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)

• PO/PM for digital products such as Search, Recommendations & AI (IR/ML)-related projects, Knowledge and Document Management Systems, and Search with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs
• Agile evangelist helping people, teams, and organizations work in an agile way

• Providing cross-functional support to new teams as they introduce Scrum

• Coaching existing Scrum teams as needed and using various agile methods to establish an agile mindset and culture within teams and across the company

• Analyzing existing Scrum implementations, identifying dysfunctions (lack of commitment, avoidance of responsibility, etc.), and developing measures to improve team performance and satisfaction

• Introducing clear (product) goals focused on product value

• Providing hands-on support to different teams at various stages and helping them adapt to the organization’s specific needs

• Trialing weekly sprints to enable faster feedback and adjustments, and increase transparency and delivery capability

• Supporting the shift toward greater self-organization and personal responsibility

• Improving agile processes and structures within teams and streams

• Successful scaling

• Agile Coach and Scrum Master in the Baykom project
• Coaching the PO and the team
• Reorganization of previous processes with noticeable performance improvement (no statistics yet due to the few sprints, only feedback from the team and from the PO with their supervisor)

• Responsible for tool-supported project and portfolio management across the company
• Design, development and operation of Jira- and Confluence-based ways of working
• Translating project management and business unit requirements into robust tool concepts
• Integrating Jira into existing tool landscapes (including Planview, ServiceNow, SAP BW)
• Establishing governance, reporting and KPI structures
• Rolling out new ways of working, including training and key user models
• Using AI features to support planning and analysis

• Focus: Visual AI consulting, enablement, service, support and strategic growth for Fortune 500 clients
• Conducted AI consulting and workshops, training up to 6+ employees to enhance AI knowledge for clients such as Microsoft and Amazon
• Designed and automated workflows, driving 35% more ROI through improved time, resource, and investment effectiveness
• Led Salesforce initiatives securing €400k pipeline within three months
• Drove AI services adoption, enabling 10× faster content streams for brand and marketing units through accelerated content creation, improved quality, and reduced licensing costs

• Program Manager for a strategically highly relevant compliance project in the enterprise segment (C4)
• Management of 6 workstreams
• Establishment of the project organization, communication structures, project and budget planning, risk management
• Reporting to CIO
• Moderation of steering committee meetings
• Moderation of critical solution processes
• Responsibility for adapting the operating model of the IT organizations in Germany, the EU and India, including planning and managing the relocation of affected employees

• Consulting, coaching and support of the new IT manager as part of the internationalization
• Development of the IT and digitalization strategy
• Design of the consolidated target application architecture (Microsoft Dynamics, dc Commerce, Magic XPI)

• No project assignments accepted during this period
• Conducting coaching sessions, workshops, training sessions and moderation assignments

Industry: digital sovereignty, public sector

Responsibilities:

• Project coordination (teams: consulting, development, testing, deployment/operations)

Products and standards:

• Jira, Confluence, Asana, Miro, Mural
• Open Source, Keycloak, Open Xchange, ownCloud

• Product strategy and roadmap development for digital health portal
• Requirements engineering and feature prioritization
• User story definition and backlog management
• Prototype development
• Implementation of continuous delivery
• Search engine optimization
• Technological environment: Claude Code, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Agentic Coding, TypeScript, React, AstroJS, PostgreSQL, JetBrains IntelliJ, Netlify, Supabase, GitHub Actions, Git, DevOps, continuous delivery

• Coaching of project participants
• Project management for numerous content migration projects for Telefónica Germany's telecom brands
• Development and reporting of performance metrics
• Promoting collaboration between content managers and UX writers
• Running retrospectives and integrating agile elements
• Team size: 23 people
• Technical environment: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Teams, Adobe Experience Manager, Figma

• RTE/Agile Coach for the introduction of SAFe 6 (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Establishment and implementation of a LACE (Lean-Agile Center of Excellence) for several ARTs
• Use of the tools: Azure DevOps with SCALE, Loop, MS Whiteboard
• Building the ART with 7 teams
• Training Product Owners, e.g. through SAFe POPM training and LearnSnacks
• Conducting the initial PI Planning as a Kickoff Planning Event
• Introduction of a demand process

• Lead software architect and technical team lead for a new logistics platform for load carrier trade
• Core design of software architecture using arc42 spanning frontend, backend, delivery strategies and cloud native infrastructure with Domain Driven Design and Hexagonal Architecture
• Evaluation of initial business requirements and software development roadmap
• Technical team lead in a Scrum team of 9 people
• Introduced and strengthened AI-assisted (JetBrains AI & GitHub Copilot) and collaborative code development strategies to speed up feature development