Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Time-limited interim assignment filling a vacant program leadership position: joint leadership of a complex software project and orchestration of several agile teams (business, development, and DevOps teams), as well as actively driving change processes.

• Program Management & Planning: Responsibility for creating and updating milestone, resource, and budget plans to ensure project objectives using agile and hybrid methods.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Promoting cooperation and knowledge sharing across teams; resolving blockers through proactive conflict management and targeted facilitation.
• Stakeholder Management & Transparency: Ensuring transparent and audience-appropriate communication within and outside the project organization using modern project management tools.

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Core technologies: Android, Jetpack Compose, Retrofit, Regula Document Reader, Adobe Sign

Android app on dedicated devices for identifications and electronic signatures at the PoS

• Advising European companies on India market entry — covering partner identification, distributor outreach, and senior-level negotiation support
• Supporting German Mittelstand companies in building and expanding commercial presence in India
• Confirmed speaker at Düsseldorf Future Tech Fest startup delegation event (September 2026) — presenting EU market entry strategies to Indian tech founders
• Active member of AHK India, IGCC, and Indo-German business networks in NRW

• Led end-to-end delivery of complex international customer-facing IT and system transformation projects across mobility, retail, life sciences, and product development domains.

• Managed project opportunities and delivery initiatives from concept development, planning, execution, migration, validation, deployment, and final customer acceptance.

• Acted as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring alignment between customers, business units, suppliers, and delivery teams.

• Ensured timely project execution through proactive monitoring of milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements.

• Led and coordinated global cross-functional teams of 20+ members across multiple time zones. Served as the central coordination point for project activities, ensuring accountability, milestones, progress tracking, and timely resolution of issues across multiple stakeholders. Managed status reporting with all the stakeholders, providing clear and timely updates to ensure alignment on project goals.

• Provided functional leadership, mentoring, coaching, and issue resolution support to project team members. Worked closely with senior leadership and executive stakeholders to define project charter and project scope, priorities, milestones, manage dependencies, success criteria and achieve project goals.

• Collaborated closely with senior leadership, business stakeholders, suppliers, operations teams, and external partners to define project objectives and ensure successful execution.

• Managed stakeholder communication through executive dashboards, KPIs, governance reviews, steering committee meetings, and project status reporting.

• Anticipated business needs and provided effective technical solutions in a timely manner to improve business satisfaction.

• Led and supported sub-project management structures, ensuring consistent execution, reporting, and escalation across complex initiatives.

• Managed supplier relationships and service providers to ensure compliance with contractual obligations, service levels, timelines, and quality expectations.

• Supported vendor selection processes, RFP evaluations, delivery governance, cost monitoring, and performance reviews.

• Controlled project budgets, forecasts, resource allocations, and financial tracking to ensure delivery within approved constraints.

• Scheduled workshops explaining the business requirement, prioritizing project goals and managing change.

• Oversaw cloud migrations (Azure/ AWS), database migrations/upgrades, system upgrades, infrastructure & application modernization, data management, legacy decommissioning initiatives, AI solutioning, transition plan of 2000+ applications etc.

• Coordinated execution, deployment, integration, commissioning, data migration and handover activities to ensure production readiness.

• Led a cross-functional team proactively managing dependencies and resolving project issues to closure, while maintaining delivery timelines.

• Proactively managed project risks, dependencies, issues, change requests, and escalations to ensure predictable project outcomes.

• Ensured compliance with GxP, ITIL, corporate governance standards, validation requirements, and audit controls.

• Led internal and external audit support activities, validation documentation, CAPA coordination, and regulatory compliance initiatives.

• Drove process standardization, automation, and governance improvements across project delivery functions.

• Led application rationalization initiatives resulting in the retirement of more than 50 legacy applications, improving operational efficiency and reducing maintenance costs.

• Currently driving Generative AI initiatives to automate project documentation, reporting, knowledge management, and delivery processes.

• Facilitated lessons learned workshops and implemented continuous improvement actions to enhance project execution effectiveness.

I advise the board of a fund company. Analysis of the IT structure with a view to the use/replacement of on-premise VDI solutions with managed services and the use of artificial intelligence

• Analysis and remediation of security vulnerabilities in a risk assessment system for energy trading
• System analysis
• Threat modeling
• Decision-making on vulnerability mitigation strategies
• Implementation of vulnerability detection mechanisms
• Security scans
• DevSecOps practices
• Technical environment: Visual Studio Code, JetBrains Suite, MS Threat Modeling Tool, DevSecOps, Git, AWS, DynamoDB, SQL Server, Endur, Snowflake, Orca
• Languages: C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, SQL

• Project leadership of a cross-functional team of data scientists, software architects, and business stakeholders to develop a dynamic pricing model for the EMEA and US truck tire market
• Management consulting for applied analytics and AI, focusing on agile organizational strategy and designing a global strategy implementation based on agile frameworks with an emphasis on AI enablement
• Methods and technologies used: portfolio management, value stream mapping, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Flight Levels, lean management, OKRs, usability testing, acceptance tests, test management oversight

• PMO & Scrum Master in a banking transformation project (ETT Market initiative)

• Coordinated deliverables, milestones, and reporting across project streams

• Prepared management reports and supported steering committee meetings

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, coached the team in agile practices, and tracked sprint progress and impediments in Jira

• Supported backlog refinement and sprint planning activities

• Contributed to AI-driven process optimization concepts and client workshops

• PMO in a tool evaluation and implementation initiative (Landgard eG)

• Supported evaluation and selection of a suitable Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution

• Conducted market and product research to compare tool functionalities and vendor fit

• Assisted in preparing the final client presentation, including structure, storyline, and slides

• Setting up and enhancing an international subscription management system

• Migrating and decommissioning a Hybris-SAP system and integrating Zuora

• Implementing numerous interfaces to various systems (external and internal)

• Setting up and improving monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and Databricks

• Introducing logging with Loki

• Implementing business requirements using jQuery, Thymeleaf, Spring Boot, Java, Go, and Python

• Adjusting and extending the GitLab CI pipelines

• Setting up and extending infrastructure as code with Terraform and ArgoCD on AWS

• Setting up and running E2E and performance tests

• Expanding the Databricks business intelligence solution to provide various KPIs

• Responsibilities: Architecture, DevOps, development, unit tests, coaching employees and apprentices, E2E, smoke, and integration tests, agile methods consulting (Kanban, Scrum)

• Technologies and methods: Java, Go, Kotlin, Node.js, Spring Boot, SOAP/REST, Quarkus, Thymeleaf, Vaadin, Slack, Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ, GitLab, SQS, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Maven, Gradle, GitLab CI, Databricks

• Strategic consulting on knowledge transfer, change management and communication
• Stakeholder communication and engagement
• Development and implementation of change strategies
• Change impact analyses
• Ensuring quality gates
• Regular project communication (newsletter/intranet/Confluence/social media)
• Building and embedding a change agent network
• Design and implementation of relevant processes
• Coaching of executives
• Planning and execution of all activities in the area of change management
• Regular health checks to evaluate change readiness
• Facilitating reviews and workshops, including lessons learned
• Empowerment of specific target groups
• Designing and facilitating working sessions
• Coordinating implementation partners
• Risk assessments and planning of actions

• Project name: Product & innovation development – mobile portals & app strategy
• Assignment: international (London / Bonn)
• Project duration: 4 months
• Business case development
• Conducting benchmarks
• Market analyses
• Proposition Development

• Managed the entire hiring process with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Analyzed recruiting data using Excel and ATS to optimize processes effectively.

• Extraction and transformation of relevant data from the SAP system developed for the bank and consolidation into the existing reporting environment
• Integration of the data into the existing BI model (extending the star schema to a galaxy schema) for generating the funding committee report and the business development report
• Ensuring data quality
• Knowledge transfer to department staff (SAP, SQL database, Power Pivot, DAX)