Agile Project and Product Management / Team and Leadership coaching

2/2023 – 1/2024

Transformationsbegleitung als Coach und Consultant:
- Optimierung vom Sourcing mit IT Fachkräften
- Optimierung der End to End Verantwortlichkeiten im Software Engineering
- Verbesserte Zusammenarbeit und abgestimmte Ergebnisorientierung zwischen dem Software Engineering und dem Product Management

Agile Entwicklung, IT-Governance, Product Owner, Schulung / Coaching (allg.), Transformation Management

4/2022 – 12/2022

Responsibilites
- Leading ~ 50 engineers through a post-merger integration
- Update tech strategy focused on AI-based automation

Projects
- Post Merger Integration of two engineering groups: Designing a target architecture and fostering an engineering culture focused on technical excellence and delivery (Jan 21-June 22)
- Hire and ramp up an AI team to leverage deep learning for the automated content evaluation of news content (April 21-Dec 22)
- Prepare a cost reduction case of a mainly manual production process for Media Resonance Analysis by conducting process discovery, requirements engineering and leading alignment meetings among different business stakeholders (July 22-Oct 22)

Corporate Governance, Maschinelles Lernen, Requirement Analyse, Transformation Management

2/2017 – 3/2022

Responsibilities
- Define and implement tech strategy
- Scale up tech team from 10 to 30 engineers

Projects
- Speeding up delivery and simultaneously upskilling existing teams by temporary integrating external consultants in a “Co-Delivery” setup (June 20-April 21)
- Standardize and automate a production system to manually classify news content by developing an automated workflow utilizing the AI capabilities of the Google Cloud Natural Language API (Jan 20-March 21)
- Develop and implement a tech strategy aligned with business demands to transform a LAMP-stack based semi-automated workflow system into a highly automated Google Cloud-based solution resulting in massive reduction of manual operation costs (Jan 19-Dec 20)
- Stabilizing and modernizing an outdated and hard to maintain legacy tech stack by upskilling the existing team, extending it with experienced engineers and by carefully prioritizing stabilization versus re-implementation (Feb 17-Aug 18)

Management (allg.), Product Owner, Software engineering / -technik