Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

• Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
• Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
• Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
• Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
• Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
• Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.

Public sector, regulated environment with legal deadlines and interfaces to justice, finance offices, and authorities. Took over a software product, condition unknown. The handover reported 89 percent completion.

Description / Results:

Review of the current state showed only two months of remaining runtime until year-end. Stabilized the product base in four weeks, including setup. Process logic proven instead of estimated: 181 workflows with 28 steps each verified against the legacy system.

• Instructor for applied AI in the courses "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
• Running remote training sessions to qualify participants as "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
• Building n8n-based automations for the Digital Institut des Mittelstands

• Developing a product vision and strategy

• Creating a roadmap

• Improving stakeholder communication

• Introducing an outcome-oriented roadmap

• Aligning with stakeholders and creating transparency

• Defining relevant product metrics as a KPI tree

• Initiating measures to improve product quality and measurability

• Supporting the introduction and migration of the new Identity Provider (IDP)

• Set up, configure, and maintain Atlassian tools (especially Jira and Confluence) to optimally support project management and team collaboration.
• Develop, customize, and maintain workflows, automations, permission structures, and permission schemes within Atlassian systems to ensure efficient and transparent processes.
• Support integration of Atlassian systems with other applications and tools to enable smooth information flow and consistent processes.
• Document system configurations, processes, and customizations to ensure traceability, knowledge transfer, and long-term maintainability.
• Provide support for ongoing projects.
• Advise and support the introduction, customization, and optimization of agile methods (Scrum, Kanban), including coaching teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to ensure effective and transparent collaboration.

• Acted as product owner for an international customer portal for consolidated analysis of technical device data; defined vision, target state, and implementation strategy.

• Established a structured product backlog and introduced clear user stories; shortened development cycles and quintupled project progress within a few months.

• Achieved a significant boost in delivery performance by professionalizing requirements management and implementing lean workflows; reduced coordination effort by 25%.

• Served as technical single point of contact (SPOC) for the development team; closely orchestrated external stakeholders to optimize alignment between business requirements and technical implementation.

• Advanced and sharpened agile methodology to increase team efficiency; implemented KPI-based reporting with early warning indicators for proactive risk management.

• Conducted as-is analysis and assessed the status quo

• Identified required actions and consolidated them into work packages

• Analyzed content management systems

• Reviewed AI tools

• Evaluated and planned data migration

• Prepared a project plan for implementation in four phases

• Identified and communicated project risks

• Tracked status and handled communication

• Developed a solid plan for implementing the website relaunch

• Refined, prioritized, and phased the project scope

• Assessed integration of additional enterprise systems (especially CRM)

• Evaluated potential uses of AI solutions

• Initial technical analysis of the requirements for the two applications

• Creating a system concept for the interim solution and for the final solution

• Creating the product vision, customer journey, and story map for the interim solution in close cooperation with subject matter experts

• Building a development team

• Managing dependencies and interfaces with the other applications according to Domain Driven Design principles

• Creating EPICs and user stories, and maintaining the product backlog in coordination with subject matter experts and developers

• Running sprint reviews with relevant stakeholders such as subject matter experts and management

• Analyzing the requirements for the final solution

• The interim solution was built within 8 months and was successfully used for the 2022 heating cost billing

• The interim solution has since been further developed to increase automation

• A technical concept for the final solution was created

• Handover to two internal Product Owners is currently in progress

• Led the product development in top German FinTech within the banking and mortgages segment. A B2B SaaS full-service provider (€25M Revenue, ~400 FTEs) in the banking sector, specialized in real estate appraisals. Directed the end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing UI, robust APIs, and a mobile property inspection app. Managed cross-functional development teams (4–6 people) as well as an RPA team (2–3 people), with a focus on Customer Experience (CX), operational efficiency, and the seamless integration of B2B order and service workflows.

• Successfully implemented an AI-powered image processing system achieving 80% accuracy in image categorization, 85% in face and license plate blurring, and 75% in image deduplication, significantly enhancing automation and data integrity (GDPR and ISO 27001 standard).

• Increased product delivery efficiency by 30% by leading cross-functional teams and streamlining stakeholder communication across departments.

• Redesigned the app's frontend workflow based on user interviews, resulting in a 15% time savings per property inspection by streamlining on-site processes for field agents.

• Developed frontend automation solutions using UiPath to retrieve and store documents, significantly reducing manual workload and increasing process efficiency by 35%.

• Clarity in change and leadership: boutique consulting for change & crisis management & leadership coaching.

• Founded a neuro-coaching and employee well-being platform for organizations and high-performing leaders
• Designed and tested the MVP using neuroscience-based feedback loops and AI-driven insights
• Partnered with HR and C-suite leaders to integrate data-driven leadership development programs
• Focused on measurable behavioral change, engagement, and leadership resilience

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• Temporary Product Owner / Product Manager
• Project management
• Jira/Confluence setup/configuration
• Requirements engineering
• User story mapping, backlog creation and prioritization
• Scrum Master for hybrid and remote teams

• 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)

• 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