Software project manager

5/2023 – offen

• Contributed in defining the vision and strategy for the Connected Country Rollout solution across Rest of World (RoW) regions.
• Led the solution definition phase for online services rollout programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility in RoW markets.
• Managed end-to-end planning and execution of rollout activities across multiple Agile ARTs, supporting two major strategic programs within the organization.
• Collaborated closely with customer product management teams (Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche) to align on priorities, solution scope, and delivery milestones.
• Co-developed the Connected Country Rollout roadmap with key stakeholders, ensuring transparency, traceability, and alignment with broader organizational objectives.
• Participated in Change Control Board (CCB) committee for the changes related to Connectivity Module ECU.
• Identified, assessed, and mitigated solution-level risks, ensuring proactive resolution and minimal impact on program timelines and deliverables
• Managed cost estimation processes for the rollout program, refining and optimizing a budget of approximately €26 million in collaboration with finance and delivery teams.
• Led a diverse team of Project Managers, Test Managers, and Function Owners, providing strategic direction, mentoring, and performance feedback to ensure consistent delivery across workstreams.
• Led process improvement activity for A-SPICE targeting achieving level 2 compliance in SYS process group and MAN process group.
• Translated complex program objectives into actionable plans for each domain, balancing technical depth with organizational priorities and stakeholder expectations.

Cloud (allg.), Internet of Things (IoT), Programm-Management, Prozessoptimierung

6/2018 – 4/2023

• Prepare software time and cost estimations for the projects in RFQ phase.
• Coordinate risk assessment of new project based on the technology, software reuse” application and platform” and functional safety level.
• Spearheading the requirements elicitation activities during the product increment planning with the customer.
• Collaborate with the product owners in planning the work packages and challenge the team during the backlog refinement.
• Negotiate the schedule for the software delivery against project constraints.
• Ensure the technical dependency alignment between the teams and mediate any possible conflicts.
• Supervise and Execute work packages deliveries to the customer in collaboration with the release manager.
• Coordinate the release branching of the software in alignment with the customer various vehicles and milestones.

Agile Methodologie, Automotive Electronics, Embedded Software, Programmierer C, C++, Prozessmanagement, Prozessoptimierung

12/2015 – 5/2018

• Contributed gation system development; advanced from Validation Engineer to Scrum Master in an Agile team.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies, refined backlog, and defined acceptance criteria and DoD for quality delivery.
• Led defect triaging and RCA of regression testing; built JIRA dashboard to improve visibility on issue resolution.
• Contributed to ASPICE L2 audit by aligning Agile practices with process steps from SWE.4 to SWE.6.

Lean Prozesse, Software engineering / -technik