Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

• Planned, organized, and managed IT projects using agile and ITIL-based methods; tools: Confluence and OnePlan.
• Worked with business departments, developers, and external partners; led project meetings, facilitated discussions, and managed conflicts.
• Supported IT Client Services in day-to-day operations.

Interim leadership of a department within Sales IT with around 80 internal and external FTE, including 32 internal employees. Responsible for IT and financial portfolio management, project management, requirements engineering and agile coaching.

• Led four team leaders and two portfolio managers, supporting their development through professional and methodological guidance and coaching; also covered the Agile Coaching team lead role
• Further developed the methodology for prioritizing the IT portfolio and introduced mechanisms to align priorities with available budgets and capacity
• Set up a project to transition projects and development teams to a nearshore location: clarified goals and scope, defined the governance structure and responsibilities, and led the first team transition with 15 employees through to live operations
• Developed and aligned a concept to standardize and support budget planning, forecasting, reporting and ordering processes with tools
• Coordinated the introduction of Spec-Driven Development for requirements engineering in the context of Agentic AI; clarified roles across requirements engineering, business and development, and launched a pilot project
• Developed and aligned an AI maturity model and coordinated its organization-wide assessment

Part-time, full-time operations planned from 01/2027

Management consulting for automation, digitalization, interoperability, track & trace and artificial intelligence · Pharma/MedTech and mechanical engineering

• Built a service portfolio across the five competencies: from analysis, architecture and planning to supported implementation.
• Listed as a consultant by BAFA (09/2026): consulting services for SMEs as part of BAFA funding.
• Established a brand identity, website and quality management handbook as the basis for consistent, transparent consulting quality.

• Patch management and system hardening for Linux and Windows via AWS Systems Manager, including Maintenance Windows; image pipelines (AWS Image Builder), Ansible, and PowerShell DSC
• IT security & compliance: IAM/KMS/MFA, secrets management, Policy-as-Code (Checkov, tfsec, cfn-nag), AWS Config, CloudTrail, and Security Hub; infrastructure security audits, internal audits, penetration tests, and incident response exercises
• Analysis of cloud security reports and implementation of preventive measures; automated security and compliance tests; backup strategies using snapshots and S3 Glacier
• Administration of multiple AWS accounts (VPCs) with up to 2.500 Linux and Windows servers and hybrid networks
• Automation using Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Ansible, and PowerShell DSC; CI/CD with GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
• Planning of rollouts, upgrades, and lifecycle management for key components; coordination with DevOps, security, and development teams; preparation of concepts and decision papers

AI Learning Management System

DOKKI

AI-powered digital health product development

• Shaped the product vision, requirements, priorities, and technical target architecture of an AI-powered solution for processing medical documents.
• Designed LLM evaluation, data processing, data protection/governance aspects, and subsequent product development; technical prototyping with Codex.

• Requirements Engineering
• Process optimization and introduction of collaborative working models
• Process modeling with BPMN
• Analysis, specification, and documentation of logistics processes, IT systems, and data models
• Development of conceptual solutions
• Use case creation and documentation
• Data analysis with SQL
• Administration of Jira & Confluence

• Drive enterprise-wide transformation through leadership coaching and a clear vision that stimulates and guides organizational change
• Guide organisations in developing agile strategies, optimising workflows, and embedding best practices
• Foster stakeholders' buy-in through effective communication, ensuring collaborative engagement throughout the transformation and change management process
• Support post-acquisition integration, aligning processes and ways of working between the acquired company and Xebia
• Guide clients in adopting digital and AI innovations to streamline operations and enable smarter decision-making
• Empower teams with tools and techniques to foster continuous improvement, adaptability, and sustainable growth

Responsible for the strategic and operational coordination of app development for the Hameln-Pyrmont district

• Development and implementation of the digitalization strategy for citizen-focused mobile services and the optimization of internal administrative processes
• Requirement Engineering: Systematic collection of complex administrative requirements and conversion into structured user stories
• Stakeholder management: Coordination between specialist departments, citizens, administrative levels and external service providers in multi-level committee structures
• Prioritization and management of the Product Backlog while taking compliance requirements and regulatory guidelines into account
• Participation in agile ceremonies and coordination meetings for continuous product improvement
• Integration of GDPR requirements and administration-specific security standards into the development process
• Citizen participation: Coordination of feedback processes and user-focused tests to increase digital citizen satisfaction

• Project Management Lead for AI and Modernization implementation (Operations)
• Led the end-to-end RFP process for a predictive maintenance & asset health platform — requirements, evaluation criteria, and vendor selection.
• Negotiated the SOW — scope, timeline, and commercial terms (license split, credits) with the selected vendor.
• Product Owner for the POV pilot — defined scope, KPIs (OEE/downtime), success criteria, and go/no-go milestones.
• Aligned global and site stakeholders across engineering, operations, procurement, and legal — incl. GxP and scalability requirements for multi-site rollout.

Region: EU

• Functional requirements management for DIVID, the Umweltbundesamt platform for administering the single-use plastics fund. Focus: entitled parties, sub-entitled parties, and benefit reports.
• Consolidation and analysis of specifications, Jira, Confluence, functional concepts, and UX designs. Independent structuring and delimitation of requirements, as well as identification of contradictions, gaps, and dependencies.
• Creation and quality assurance of implementable user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria. Preparation of decision alternatives and coordination with business, development, UX, and QA through team refinement.
• Conducting manual and technically assisted accessibility tests. Coordinating findings with QA and the Product Owner for further planning and implementation.
• Result: more consistent requirements, clearly defined processes and stories, and transparent open decisions. Separation of assumptions from confirmed requirements; better basis for implementation, refinements, and QA test cases.

Tools used: Jira, Confluence

• Develop data products as part of a Data Mesh / Medallion architecture on Databricks and Azure Synapse.
• Build Power BI dashboards using consolidated data from multiple source systems (sales, service, contracts, inventory data).
• Define KPIs and reporting standards in close collaboration with business stakeholders.

for Baan Front Office Solutions

• Designed and managed complex transformation programs in regulated industries, including target vision, operating model and governance.
• Led and coached teams and executives to establish modern delivery, portfolio and organizational structures.
• Advised executives and department heads on roadmaps, organizational development and strategic transformation decisions.
• Business development, proposal development, pitch support and building strong customer relationships.
• Built internal methods, standards and practice contributions for banking, insurance and agile transformation.