Product Owner in Hamburg

• Designed and moderated a NIS2 preparation workshop for RAS Reinhardt Maschinenbau GmbH and its IT service provider Catuno GmbH. Together with executive management and IT leadership, the current status was assessed, an initial GAP analysis was conducted and areas for action were prioritized based on ISO 27001.
• Developed an ISO-27001-based regulatory framework (ISMS) for NIS2 compliance, including a structured current/target GAP analysis, targeted improvement of the security maturity level and preparation of the organization for NIS2 audit readiness.

• Lecturer for applied AI in the “AI Implementation Architect” and “AI Business Innovator” courses
• Conducting remote training to qualify participants as "AI Implementation Architect" and "AI Business Innovator"
• Building n8n-based automations for the Digital Institut des Mittelstands

• Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
• Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
• Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
• Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
• Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
• Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.

• Defined and established the areas of responsibility
• Built a governance model for the department and its areas of responsibility
• IT strategy, project management, process management, and quality and sustainability management
• Developed a communications strategy for the group
• Created the IT strategy
• Designed templates, guidelines, and processes for consistent ways of working
• Recorded strategic guidelines and grouped ongoing projects – derived a roadmap for strategic planning
• Reviewed ongoing projects
• Prepared staffing calculations and capacity planning
• Defined job profiles

• I am currently creating various AI agents for an end client of my client to support managers with employee management and leadership development (Copilot Studio)

• Gathered and analyzed User Requirements Documents (URDs), wrote Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), and coordinated the backlog with development and QA teams to keep release scope focused.
• Led gap analysis for EDMS (OpenText, FileNet) and an RPA PoC (UiPath, Blue Prism), projecting 10% cost savings in document handling and improved screening accuracy.
• Monitored sprint progress, presented roadmap updates in technical reviews to C-level executives, and aligned stakeholders.
• Developed user stories and epics to drive project delivery and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Promoted Agile methodologies, improving team collaboration and iterative delivery.

Migration from Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2019 and Exchange Online, as well as the introduction of a backup solution and an archiving solution. The goal was to securely modernize the email and archiving infrastructure in compliance with legal requirements and ensure high performance.

Responsibilities as IT PROJECT MANAGER: Overall project management and operational coordination / Ensuring compliance with budget and resource limits / Ensuring project objectives are met / Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and policies, including ISMS, ITIL, and data protection requirements / Preparing and presenting management reports for the project sponsor and steering committee / Coordinating cross-functional teams across Exchange, network, data protection, and IT security / Planning and carrying out the migration from Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2019 / Planning and carrying out the migration from Exchange 2019 to Exchange Online / Planning and introducing a backup solution for Exchange Online / Coordinating an EU-wide tender for an archiving solution, including market research with potential suppliers / Planning and introducing an archiving solution for Exchange Online / Coordinating and preparing the BAS notices required for the project / Coordinating and aligning with stakeholders (for example, business units, external service providers, and suppliers) to define requirements and deliver solutions

Technical environment: MS Exchange 2016, MS Exchange 2019, MS Exchange Online, MSOffice, MS Planner, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, MS Teams, CodeTwo, Hornet Security

• Industry: Health Care/ IT
• Tools: Internet, telephone, email, Confluence, Azure DevOps, DISweb, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, FHIR
• Requirements engineering for implementing the e-prescription in an existing PVS and a web-based dialysis monitoring system
• Implementation of the archive and exchange interface of the KBV
• Creation and maintenance of user stories and backlog maintenance
• Stakeholder management and support for developers in implementing the user stories
• Reporting to management and conducting refinements

• Managed and coordinated all tasks related to the platform relaunch for DETAIL GmbH, a leading internationally specialized information group for architecture and structural design
• Served as Product Owner for the backend development team at dreamIT GmbH and implemented a product management process

• Developing a product vision and strategy

• Creating a roadmap

• Improving stakeholder communication

• Introducing an outcome-oriented roadmap

• Aligning with stakeholders and creating transparency

• Defining relevant product metrics as a KPI tree

• Initiating measures to improve product quality and measurability

• Supporting the introduction and migration of the new Identity Provider (IDP)

• Gathering requirements from business departments
• Developing mockups
• Maintaining the backlog and moderating sprint meetings
• Managing developers
• Stakeholder management
• Skills used: Scrum, Requirements Engineering, Requirements Management
• Technologies used: various
• IT environment: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
• Industry: Real estate
• Role: Project lead, Product Owner

• Design and conduct audits & workshops
• Ensuring accessibility for the online shop, center websites, app, and newsletters by 2026-06-28
• Agile project management: creating innovation cycles, reviewing and ensuring the implementation of guidelines and success criteria, testing and ongoing quality management
• Culture management/change management: guiding the change across all channels/departments, establishing editorial guidelines
• Designing and legally coordinating the accessibility statement for each channel
• Designing enablement programs and training for stakeholders (internal and external): agencies and partners; training on testing procedures (screen reader/tab testing); concept and coordination of the accessibility statement

• Role: Developer, Architect
• Technologies: java, typescript, golang, spring (boot, web, security, data), Angular, AWS (OpenSearch, Aurora, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, EC2, IAM), Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, OAuth, Keycloak, CI/CD, gradlew, Liquibase, Test Driven Development, shell scripting

• Founded and led a new SDK team focused on developer experience and device-side innovation while providing data for attribution as Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP) and in-app user behavior tracking
• Built in-app event visualization (funnels, cohorts), enabling product teams to identify drop-offs and improve user engagement
• Implemented automatic in-app purchase tracking across iOS/Android, enabling unified monetization insights across ads and purchases
• Reduced SDK onboarding complexity by cutting predefined events from 80 to 24, significantly making the SDK integration easier
• Delivered anti-fraud features like Google Integrity API; prepared readiness for Privacy Sandbox and iOSAdAttributionKit, reducing fraud traffic by 93% on Android to keep the attribution logic as MMP updated to industry-wide changes
• Managed a team of 6 consisting of mobile developers, full stack developers, QA and data analyst; owned sprint planning and performance cycles