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.

• Solely responsible for two portfolios totaling USD 1 million with an average monthly performance of 2%
• Responsible for the investment strategy, specializing in US equities and ETFs (exchanges: NASDAQ and NYSE)
• Market, trend, data, and technical chart analysis
• Risk management – diversification, daily/weekly risk mitigation measures (rebalancing) to ensure optimal portfolio profitability

• Agile Transformation – introducing agile principles and transforming traditional IT departments into Scrum and Kanban teams

• IT Operating Model – redesigning the IT organization and introducing modern delivery structures and roles

• Flight Levels – implementing Flight Levels to align strategy, coordination and operational execution

• Leadership & Coaching – recruiting Agile Coaches and coaching Scrum Masters and IT leaders

• ERP Operations – acting as Interim Product Owner for the existing ERP landscape and ensuring business continuity

• ERP Transformation – supporting the migration from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as a Project Manager

• Operational Core (ERP) – establishing dedicated teams for ERP Support, Feature Development, and ERP Migration

• Modern Workplace – initiating the transition towards a Microsoft 365-based cloud workplace environment

• ConnectHub – establishing a dedicated team to drive integration and connectivity initiatives

• Warehouse Operations – building a cross-functional team to support logistics and warehouse-related capabilities

• Maintenance & Operations (M&O) – introducing a dedicated team focused on stable operations and continuous improvement

• AI Initiatives – identifying and promoting practical Artificial Intelligence use cases across the IT department

• As Interim Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for a leading industrial supplier with a strong e-commerce focus (often described as 'the Amazon for industrial goods') responsible for leading the digital and organizational transformation while reporting directly to executive leadership.

• Introduced agile principles and ways of working across the organization and transformed the traditionally structured IT department into cross-functional Scrum and Kanban teams focused on transparency, collaboration, and customer value delivery.

• Redesigned the entire IT organization by establishing a modern operating model, introducing new roles such as Product Owner, Scrum Master and Solution Architect and strengthening the organization through strategic hiring and targeted capability development.

• Recruited and onboarded Agile Coaches to accelerate the transformation and personally managed and coached Scrum Masters as well as IT department leaders to foster servant leadership, self-management and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Implemented Flight Levels practices based on Klaus Leopold to align strategic objectives, cross-functional coordination and operational execution across the organization.

• Introduced a ticketing system to increase transparency and enable data-driven decision-making, flow-based work management, and greater accountability at all levels.

• Established and supported multiple cross-functional teams, including the Operational Core (ERP) domain with dedicated streams for Support, Feature Development and ERP Migration, as well as teams responsible for Warehouse Operations, Maintenance & Operations (M&O), Modern Workspace and ConnectHub.

• Acted as Interim Product Owner for the operation and enhancement of the existing ERP landscape while supporting the migration from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as a Project Manager.

• Collaborated with the selected implementation partner to design and establish the project organization and target operating model for the ERP transformation, introducing agile delivery structures and ways of working.

• Facilitated the alignment between business, IT and the external vendor and played a key role in negotiating the contractual framework and delivery model to ensure a sustainable foundation for the transformation program.

• Initiated the strategic modernization of the workplace environment through the adoption of Microsoft 365 cloud capabilities, establishing the foundation for enhanced collaboration, scalability and future digital services.

• Launched AI initiatives to identify practical business use cases and promote the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence across the IT department.

• Encouraged self-management and empowered teams to take ownership of decisions, delivery and continuous improvement.

Project language: German

• Led the global transformation of Talent Operations by inhousing recruitment technologies, processes, and teams, reducing over 20 external partners to 2, defining the strategy to hire hundreds of internal talent specialists, and redesigning organisational structures and processes worldwide.
• Drove gap analyses and impact assessments and led the global rollout of Beamery, HireVue, and Paradox, covering solution design, pilot markets, global deployment, and hypercare, ensuring smooth market transitions and standardised operations.
• Developed and maintained detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, RAID logs, and governance routines, leveraging SharePoint as the central platform for programme documentation, rollout artefacts, approvals, and decision tracking.
• Coordinated cross-functional stakeholders including HR, IT, regional teams, and external vendors, using SharePoint-based documentation and governance frameworks to align requirements, manage dependencies, and resolve delivery issues.
• Conducted gap analyses and impact assessments across Paradox, Beamery, and Workday to ensure pilot readiness and global launch success, with outputs captured and governed through SharePoint.
• Built and executed comprehensive change management plans using ADKAR methodology, covering stakeholder mapping, communications, training, and adoption activities, supported by SharePoint-hosted enablement materials and rollout documentation.
• Broke down silos across regions and functions to drive adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.
• Tracked adoption metrics and user feedback post-deployment, driving continuous improvement in user experience and operational performance.

• Coaching, developing fundamentals and leading technical aspects in logistics transformation
• Extending SAP WM functionalities
• Efficiency measures in shuttle warehouse technology
• Setting up logistics operations reporting
• Comprehensive inventory planning and execution
• Preparing the technical and commercial foundations for cooperation with external logistics service providers
• Recommendations for the future process and organizational structure

Due to the steady growth of the client organization and the resulting increase in projects across various areas, including IT/digitalization, sales, organizational development and controlling, the demands on projects are increasing. Projects are often started but not completed within the planned timeframe, resources are not clearly assigned, and the business value is not clearly demonstrated. The objective of the assignment as Interim Head of PMO is to further develop and establish an existing project organization from the CDO area at executive 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 must be defined and established within the organization. In addition, this strategic PMO is to be supported by an IT solution, which must be selected and introduced. Furthermore, all ongoing projects are to be gradually integrated into the PMO governance and project management is to be centralized.

Project management and process harmonization between the French parent company (Equans Group, Axima Marine) and the German production company (Noske Kaeser) for maritime cooling and air conditioning systems.

• Design and co-implementation of an insolvency management platform in Germany for a client (based on an AI development tool)
• Concept, requirements engineering, and implementation support for a Dubai-based company to integrate processes into a CRM
• Business analysis and requirements engineering at Swisscom for integrations
• Integration of a new knowledge management system into the business processes at Swisscom AG – REST API definition
• Project manager, consultant, and sparring partner for the realignment/process digitalization at GIB Solutions AG
• Process designer and prototype for an AI-based real estate marketing system in Dubai
• Interim head of the ICT department at a telecom company, reorganizing and optimizing processes with a team of 5 at GIB Solutions AG
• Agile requirements engineer / external PO for a web-based solution for the German company DEHN AG
• Project management and consulting for the existing marketing and campaign planning solution at Swisscom AG
• Building the ALoHA nearshore offering at devpoint

• Launch of a new digital product in the Chinese market as part of a global growth strategy.

• Contact point and coordinating interface between central product management, local Chinese teams, and international stakeholders.

• Managing the full program management for coordinating complex digital projects.

• Successful launch of a digital product in China (including successful certification for the Chinese market).

• Balancing local requirements with global priorities while taking tax and regulatory conditions into account.

• Introducing a new way of working to improve collaboration and governance across locations.

• Developing and implementing a scaling strategy for the digital business model in China.

• Use of Jira, Confluence, Miro, Scrum, agile ways of working, SAFe.

• Project language: English.

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 infrastructures, systems management, hardware and software, telecommunications, ICT strategies, business models, database management, data center consolidations, support and call center setup

• Since 1999 independent consultant and project manager: ICT strategies and governance, processes, audits, security, infrastructure (including cloud, DevOps and tools), data and output management, organizational restructurings, business project management and consulting in various industries

• Generalist with analytical skills, strong communicator at all hierarchy levels, deployable as manager, coach, project manager or consultant

• Project management and consulting services with a focus on IT interim management: digitalization of corporate management, including processes and applications
• Assessment of the entire IT infrastructure, including applications, core processes, and contracts, including cost optimization
• Evaluation and introduction of solutions to support digitalization in the company in the areas of property management, CRM, invoice review and approval processes, smart metering, DMS, and time tracking
• Digitization of file folders and introduction of SharePoint and Microsoft Teams as the central document and communication platform
• Design and delivery of an AI workshop, including rollout of AI tools to increase efficiency and transparency in key business processes
• Creation of training materials and delivery of user training for newly introduced digital processes and solutions

• Deputy project manager for one of the largest projects in the Customs Union Code program, CEIS CDA for the Federal Ministry of Finance
• Budget planning and control
• Negotiations and ongoing communication with all relevant stakeholders
• Risk identification and assessment, and development of risk mitigation strategies
• Creation and implementation of action strategies to achieve project goals
• Efficient resource planning and allocation to support project requirements
• Managing the release process using agile methods and coordinating sprints for analysis, development, and testing phases
• Process optimizations and regular reporting for progress monitoring and decision making

• Managing and steering consulting and implementation projects in the financial services sector
• Responsible for project scope, budget, and resources
• Coordinating with clients and stakeholders in Zug and Zurich