SAFe Agilist (SA)

Technologies: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Office 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Copilot, Excel, SharePoint, Forms, OneNote, PowerAutomate, Word), DataDog, Conceptboard, Python, AWS, Claude, Perplexity Methodology: Scrum

• Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a SAFe-inspired quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning at program level.
• Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value creation for internal and external customers.
• Designing and building efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and central stakeholders in the organization.
• Moderating and facilitating cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
• Coaching leaders, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
• Removing structural obstacles at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
• Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
• Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their impact in the transformation program.
• Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
• Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, business value prioritization, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
• Introducing, governing, and scaling Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization on usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.

Achievements:

• Clear increase in visibility, transparency, and perceived value creation of the development teams within the overall organization.
• Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
• Optimization of work processes, workflow, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.

• Led a migration team of several squads for a Public Sector client (on-prem to AWS & Azure), incl. lift-and-shift and database modernisation to PostgreSQL.
• Led AWS/Azure discovery & assessment of 80+ applications and 400+ environments, delivering the wave plan.

• Lead distributed engineering teams on industrial software products, owning delivery, people development and hiring
• Stay hands-on in Java/JavaEE: bug fixes and new feature development alongside management work
• Introduced AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Claude agents) for coding and unit-test generation

Build the business value case for a global Talent Acquisition transformation covering talent attraction, shared specialist capabilities, process standardization, AI-enabled automation and the future HR operating model.

• Led the value-case workstream and aligned Finance, HR, Digital and workstream leaders on scope, assumptions, investment requirements and decision criteria.
• Built low, base and high scenarios linking adoption, productivity, workforce capacity, cost and service outcomes; identified double-digit FTE-equivalent capacity and multi-million-euro modeled value potential.
• Assessed AI and automation across scheduling, sourcing and candidate qualification, separating released capacity, avoided cost, qualitative benefits and standalone investment needs.
• Produced executive dashboards, a value-driver tree and a traceable calculation guide; reconciled cross-workstream inputs into the storyline used for the investment decision.

• Playwright-based API test automation for the Oracle JD Edwards ERP system
• Development of a TypeScript/Node.js test framework with MSSQL database integration
• End-to-end business process automation for order processing, customer management, etc.
• OpenAI integration for automatic PDF document validation
• Jira/Xray integration for automated test reporting with dashboard
• REST API client development with role-based authentication
• Test data management, dynamic ID validation, and cross-test data sharing mechanisms

I assess the skills of project managers, also taking into account the feedback of the leaders they name.

• Provided targeted consulting and support on IT delivery and integration topics.
• Designed, implemented and operated own software products (Rendita, vailuate) independently: requirements, architecture, testing, releases and ongoing development, implemented with AI support.
• Ongoing learning in AI, mainly through hands-on work with LLMs: API integration, agentic workflows with automated evaluation, Model Context Protocol; supported academically through the MSc study program in AI Transformation.

• Managing the Testing services for the Global IT Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) team, which is responsible for managing and supporting the Product & Project Testing Workstreams on various Regional Projects, especially in Pharmacovigilance, Digital Supply Chain, Clinical Practice and R&D, etc.
• Managing Client relationships, escalations and continuing to grow the project services globally, while also driving the testing efforts on Takeda’s AI, DevOps, Agile, and Digital projects.
• Led the implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with GCP, GMP, and Swiss and EU regulations, resulting in a huge improvement in audit readiness.
• Overseeing projects for systems including ERP, EDGE, SAP ECC, SAP Transportation Management, S/4 HANA migration etc.
• Led an AI/ML PoC for AI implementation.
• Led a cross-functional team to ensure compliance with MDR, FDA regulatory guidelines and achieved successful project deliveries.
• Led and managed change management and communication for TCoE, keeping the Takeda organisation informed of change communication and practices, including presentations to various stakeholders.
• Ensuring TCoE outsource vendor resources adhere to regulatory, compliance and quality system standards and practices for GxP & non-GxP System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including aSDLC and TCoE Global Standards.
• Translated the product vision, strategy and requirements into backlog items, which were prioritised based on potential business impact and customer value.

Design, development, and market launch of digital products and platforms – from strategic alignment and agile implementation to Go-to-Market and Go-Live, integrating AI into processes and products

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance
• Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, Scaled Agile Inc.
• ICP – Agile Project and Delivery Management, ICAgile
• Management consultant and agile coach for agile organizations

• Delivery of a Customer Engagement & Loyalty Solution in the cloud (AWS) and integration into the existing on-premise system landscape.

• Technology: AWS EKS - Kubernetes, Helm, AWS EC2, AWS S3, PostgreSQL, SAP GLIF, RabbitMQ, Git, GitLab, ArgoCD, GitOps, CI/CD, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, JFrog Artifactory, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, bash, IntelliJ, draw.io, Confluence

• Result: Delivery of a cross-product rewards program for retail banking customers, integrated into online and mobile banking; building both practical and emotional customer loyalty; increasing profitability and loyalty; encouraging cross-selling and upselling; improving customer satisfaction over the long term and positively influencing the company’s image.

continued product ownership of the global B2C platform

Building the practice that treats adaptive capability as a strategic asset, not a consulting engagement. Working with C-suite leaders at European and global organizations to build the internal capability to evolve continuously – faster, with less dependency on outside help.

• Delivering the Adaptive Capability Diagnostic: a structured engagement that scores organizations across 6 dimensions and produces a clear roadmap for building transformation capability.
• Advising executives on transformation portfolio management: which initiatives to run simultaneously, how to sequence them, and how to build the governance to sustain all of it.
• Speaking at industry events including executive roundtables, conferences, webinars, and podcasts on building organizational adaptability at scale.

• Many years of experience in application development, ICT infrastructure, systems management, hardware and software, telecommunications, ICT strategies, business models, database management, data center consolidation, support and call center setup

• Independent consultant and project manager since 1999: ICT strategies and governance, processes, audits, security, infrastructure (including cloud, DevOps and tools), data and output management, organizational restructuring, business project management and consulting across various industries

• Generalist with strong analytical skills and excellent communication at all organizational levels, able to work as a manager, coach, project manager or consultant