Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

support SAFe adoption at team, ART and Portfolio level with consulting, coaching and training. Establish hierarchical enterprise backlog and Kanban Systems integrating portfolio, value stream and team level. Make e2e value stream flow across organisational boundaries visible and measurable. Teach "stop starting, start finishing" and Limit WiP.

• Setup of a scalable nearshore IT developer hub (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland) as an independent company through a BOT model (Build – Operate – Transfer)
• Identification, selection, and management of full-service agencies; introduction of control and governance mechanisms including KPIs, SLAs, and regular service reviews
• Creation and review of data processing agreements and framework contracts in alignment with Legal & Compliance; integration of regulatory requirements (incl. KRITIS) into process design
• Consulting on cloud vs. on-premise strategies, data storage, and authorization concepts; support for procurement in vendor selection and provider assessments
• Change management and process harmonization between internal teams and nearshore partners; reporting to management, CFO, and CIO

Result: Scalable IT developer hub with an audit-proof governance model, reduced operating costs, and faster product development.

• Planning and concept development for building a new business model, including structuring and implementing business processes.
• Coordination and management of external service providers as well as interface management.
• Introduction and implementation of new digital tools and processes to optimize operational workflows.

As a project coordinator in development projects (consisting of software and hardware), I was responsible in an advisory role for creating recommendations and organizational framework conditions in the areas of reporting, project scheduling, progress tracking, resource allocation, and results presentation.

• Technology stack: Teams, Azure DevOps, Android
• Keywords: software, hardware, AI, MDM, Kanban, requirements specification, functional specification, SaaS, ergonomics, health, medical device

Due to the steady growth of the customer organization and the associated increase in the number of projects in a wide range of areas, including IT/digitalization, sales and organizational development, and controlling, the demands on the projects are increasing. Projects are often started but not implemented within the planned time frame, resources are not clearly assigned, and the business value is not clearly demonstrated. The goal of the assignment as Interim Head of PMO is to further develop and embed an existing project organization from the CDO area at management level. It is important that the governance is pragmatic, easy to understand, and simple to apply in daily project work. The tasks and roles are to be defined, embedded in the organization, and this strategic PMO is also to be supported by an IT solution. This solution is to be selected and introduced. In addition, all ongoing projects are to be gradually transferred into PMO governance and project control is to be centralized.

• As part of the project, the further development of the identity management system was driven forward. This included a comprehensive refactoring of the interfaces to the connected target systems. In addition, several special systems were successfully connected to the IAM to ensure end-to-end identity and authorization management.
• Technical design and solution proposals for IAM system development
• Requirements analysis and requirements management (IREB, BABOK)
• Alignment of the strategy with the future target architecture (TOGAF)
• Prototyping of solutions
• Documentation of requirements (Innovator)
• Analysis and documentation of requirements and creation of process models (UML, BPMN, ArchiMate)
• Modeling of requirements and system functionalities (OOA/OOD, UML)
• Further development of interfaces (SOAP, REST)
• Carrying out architecture reviews

Lead Business Analyst – Analysis and optimization of private banking processes

• Responsibility for the business analysis and further development of business processes in private banking, with a focus on CRM, customer data management, and master data processes

• Carrying out a comprehensive business process analysis to identify optimization potential, business gaps, and improvement opportunities along the customer lifecycle

• Gathering, analyzing, and structuring business requirements in close cooperation with business units, management, IT architecture, and development teams

• Creating and aligning business concepts, process models, user stories, and requirement documentation as the basis for technical implementation

• Analyzing and optimizing existing master data processes with a focus on data quality, responsibilities, and efficient data maintenance

• Designing and further developing CRM customer data processes while taking regulatory requirements and business goals into account

• Planning and moderating workshops with business, IT, and stakeholders for requirements analysis, process design, and solution finding

• Managing requirements and ensuring consistent communication between business and IT

• Using AI-supported analysis tools to help with requirements analysis, structuring information, and improving documentation quality

Digitizing real-world places with 3D/LiDAR scans to make spatial data usable for AI applications and to derive concrete use cases and prototypes from it.

• Digital capture of real-world places as a basis for faster planning and analysis
• Browser-based access to 3D data for easier use and coordination
• Turning spatial data into concrete use cases, prototypes, and AI training scenarios
• Planning basis for urban development and other digital future applications

Keywords: LiDAR, 3D scan, AI, use cases, AI training, prototyping, Python, web development, data models, architecture

• Senior agile practitioner in a complex, regulated pharmaceutical environment — facilitating Scrum ceremonies across three international teams (~40 people) while supporting delivery governance and agile coaching.
• Time-limited assignment to bridge the gap until the client could fill the role internally
• Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Review, Retrospective) across multiple international teams; kept sprints predictable and productive
• Coached teams and Product Owners in agile practices within a GxP-regulated environment, pragmatically balancing agile ways of working with QMS compliance requirements
• Tracked and visualized delivery metrics, managed dependencies, and produced status reports for senior stakeholders and Steering Committee
• Stepped up to project leadership of the internal CCMS product initiative: introduced structured processes and transparent tooling into a previously low-governance environment
• Actively contributed to the company-wide Agile Community of Practice, including authoring blog articles on agile topics
• Commended for analytical thinking, reliability under pressure, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously

• Optimizing and accelera­tion of our Gitlab CI pipeline

• Conceptual work for the PoC of the Zero Trust system

• Extension of the policy-engine backend in Go

• Extension of the policy-testing mechanism in Python

• Architectural design of the PEP component of Zero Trust

• Documentation of the product

• Technologies: Zero Trust, Go, Python, Gitlab CI, Docker, JWT, Domain-Driven Design

• Stabilization of customer service, logistics and order processing during a transformation phase
• Management of the international warehouse relocation from Switzerland to Germany
• Optimization of processes and reduction of manual steps in day-to-day operations
• Coordination of international stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of strategic projects

Concept and implementation of a unified-commerce platform for SMEs for selling and building multi-product bundles

Successes: On-time concept, delivery, and customer acceptance of a 100% functional, CPQ-based buy flow process for configuring and selling multi-product bundles within the given 90-day time frame. Successfully tested integration of various interface services for the following areas: customer search, customer data enrichment, address validation, service qualification, phone number validation, credit check, appointment selection, and quote-to-order transition.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic target delivery: deriving and implementing strategic customer goals (e.g. release content, business value).
• Backlog management: creating and refining backlog items (initiatives, epics, user stories, defects) in close coordination with the project team and customer.
• Prioritization & releases: responsibility for prioritizing the product backlog and delivering defined release goals.
• Deliverable tracking: tracking work results on both the supplier and customer side.
• Roadmap & release planning: developing and implementing roadmaps and release plans together with the customer.
• Scope responsibility: responsibility for the contractually agreed scope of services.
• Claim management: active claim and change management toward the customer.
• Team coordination: steering and coordinating the development team.
• Using synergies: making use of synergies between customer projects and product development.
• Offer preparation: preparing offers (with supervision) and presenting them on site to customers and partners.

Skills: development, communication, and implementation of product visions; product backlog management; stakeholder management; regular reporting to management and steering committees; requirements analysis & engineering; planning and documenting workshops; functional leadership and coordination of (distributed) project teams and external service providers; epic management; user story specifications; creating use cases, support with software tests and user acceptance testing (UAT); release management and sprint planning; design of target processes; process optimization; planning, concept, and specification of interfaces to existing and new systems; identification, assessment, and steering of project risks; active claim and change management; facilitation of sprint planning and reviews; data migration; Scrum; Kanban; REST API; JSON; XML; BPMN; UML; Jira; Confluence

• Managed marketing, content and communications projects with six-figure budgets for a regional telecommunications and IT service provider
• Developed and managed content and video formats from concept to production, including shoot planning
• Led and coordinated social media managers, creative teams as well as external agencies and service providers
• Conceptualized, developed and optimized campaign landing pages throughout the entire lifecycle
• Managed collaboration between departments, management and external partners
• Ensured consistent brand communication as well as timely and high-quality delivery of all projects

• Planning and implementation of a migration strategy for master and transaction data for the continuous loading of a cloud-independent database
• Creation and pilot implementation of a company-wide Business Data Model for customers, suppliers, contracts, products, prices, consumption, invoices, and dunning
• Concept and consulting for a Data Governance Framework incl. definition of committees, roles, processes, and metadata model
• Operationalization of the Data Governance Framework with definition of data standards
• Sub-project management in two pilot projects (PoCs) for Data Governance systems (ErwinDIS and Atlan)
• Training and coaching the data team in migration, data quality, and data modeling