Albert Frischmann

Lead Product Owner

Stuttgart, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 6 months
Germany

Lead Product Owner

CMBlu Energy AG

Brief description:

  • Lead Product Ownership for R&D Digitalization
  • Leading and coordinating a greenfield project to digitize lab operations and R&D workflows

Tasks:

  • Leading 4 development teams
  • Introducing a LIMS/ELN system and a data lakehouse
  • Building an AI-powered R&D assistant for knowledge extraction
  • Implementing an OpenWeb UI and Azure OpenAI based RAG system
  • Configuring and managing Jira projects
  • Implementing classic Scrum processes and acting as Scrum Master
  • Assisting with hiring
  • Making architecture decisions for the data platform

Methods used:

  • Scrum/Kanban
  • OKR
  • Domain Driven Design
  • C4 modeling
  • Agentic RAG

Technologies/Tools:

  • Uncountable LIMS, Databricks on Azure, Azure Data Factory, Tableau, Azure OpenAI, PostgreSQL (pgvector), MongoDB, InfluxDB, Open Web UI, SharePoint (Graph API)
Jan 2021 - Mar 2024
2 years 3 months
Germany

Interim Product Owner

Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG

Brief description:

  • Product Ownership for an IIoT (Industrial IoT) platform
  • Managing and optimizing an advanced IIoT data platform for controlling smart wind turbines

Tasks:

  • Leading a 14-person development team
  • Developing and communicating the product roadmap
  • Managing stakeholders and software delivery cycles
  • Supporting the transition to the SAFe framework
  • Leading planning and coordination for cloud migration
  • Redesigning secret management for hardware access
  • Designing domain-level APIs and security concepts

Methods used:

  • Scrum/Kanban
  • SAFe
  • OKR
  • OOA/OOD (SysML)
  • Domain Driven Design
  • C4 modeling
  • Microservices architecture

Technologies/Tools:

  • Cumulocity IoT, Kubernetes, SpringBoot, Java, Entra ID, KeyCloak
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years
Switzerland

Lead Product Owner

Juice Technology AG

Brief description:

  • Product ownership for EV telemetry, energy management and the backend of charging infrastructure and mobile apps
  • Implemented as a Kafka-based microservice architecture in a hybrid cloud

Tasks:

  • Leading 3 teams across different countries
  • Developing the product vision, MVPs and roadmaps
  • Stakeholder management and product delivery
  • Managing a multi-cloud infrastructure
  • Introducing access management
  • Implementing centralized credential management
  • Controlling and budget responsibility
  • Developing pricing and business processes

Methods used:

  • Scrum/Kanban
  • Customer Journey
  • OOA/OOD (UML)
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Event-driven microservices architecture

Technologies/Tools:

  • Kubernetes, KeyCloak, Kafka, PostgreSQL, NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS Cloud, Hetzner Cloud
Jan 2019 - Dec 2023
5 years
Germany

Product Owner and System Architect

DVS Beregnung GmbH

Brief description:

  • Product ownership for a web application for AI-driven automated irrigation planning for private and commercial gardens

Tasks:

  • Developing the product vision, MVPs and roadmaps
  • Controlling and budget responsibility
  • Managing and maintaining the product backlog
  • Defining and prioritizing product requirements based on customer needs
  • Ensuring scalability and system performance

Methods used:

  • Scrum/Kanban
  • OOA/OOD (UML)
  • C4 modeling

Technologies/Tools:

  • PWA, NodeJS, ReactJS, MobX
Jan 2019 - Sep 2021
2 years 9 months
Germany

Business Use Cases Designer and Data Analyst

CARIAD SE

Brief description:

  • Analyzing usage data of the ID.3 focus fleet
  • Optimizing user interfaces and developing market-relevant use cases

Tasks:

  • Business and management presentations
  • Specifying business use cases
  • Data analysis and data quality management
  • Data preparation and visualization

Methods used:

  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Business Model Canvas
  • SWOT analysis

Technologies/Tools:

  • SQL, Python, Pandas, Tableau, PostgreSQL, Amazon RedShift
Jan 2015 - Feb 2020
4 years 2 months

Business Owner

Albert Frischmann Consulting & Creative

Brief description:

  • Business owner of SaaS teslametric.com, a telemetry value-added service for Tesla vehicles, later acquired by Juice Technology AG

Tasks:

  • Market analysis and product development
  • Maintaining the roadmap
  • Client communication
  • Go-live strategies and security concepts
  • Pricing and marketing strategies

Methods used:

  • Lean Startup
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Customer Journey
  • SWOT analysis
  • Scrum

Technologies/Tools:

  • PWA, NodeJS, ReactJS, MobX, PostgreSQL
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
2 years 8 months
Belgium

System Analyst

Europäische Kommission

Brief description:

  • Developing a vehicle big data marketplace

Tasks:

  • Requirements analysis and design
  • Presentations and workshops
  • Coordinating and implementing modules
  • Optimizing Tableau dashboards

Methods used:

  • OOA/OOD with UML
  • Platform architecture
  • Use case analysis
  • Business Model Canvas

Technologies/Tools:

  • Oracle DB, SQL, PL/SQL, J2EE, ADF, ReactJS
Jan 2009 - May 2017
7 years 5 months
Germany

Senior Partner Consultant and Product Owner

Volkswagen AG

Brief description:

  • Leading CaTeX, a telemetry-based analytics portal for fleet utilization analysis

Tasks:

  • Implementing and specifying modules
  • Team leadership
  • Optimizing business processes through data visualization
  • Scrum product ownership

Methods used:

  • OOA/OOD with UML
  • V-Model, later Scrum/Kanban
  • DWH architecture

Technologies/Tools:

  • Oracle DB, SQL, PL/SQL, J2EE, ADF, ReactJS
Jan 2009 - Nov 2018
9 years 11 months
Germany

Project Manager and Product Owner

Volkswagen AG

Brief description:

  • Leading the Vehicle EKG project, a telemetry-based diagnostics platform

Tasks:

  • Designing and managing vehicle data projects
  • Leading the team and optimizing business processes
  • Budget responsibility and roadmap maintenance
  • Scrum product ownership
  • Developing PKI infrastructure and access management

Methods used:

  • OOA/OOD with UML
  • V-Model, later Scrum/Kanban
  • DWH architecture

Technologies/Tools:

  • Oracle DB, SQL, PL/SQL, J2EE, ADF, ReactJS

Summary

Very strong analytical and conceptual skills

Extensive experience in managing technology implementation projects, requirements analysis, project management and client communication

Senior Product Owner with broad experience in agile software development and leading technically challenging projects. Specialized in delivering data-driven systems, IoT and Big Data solutions. Strong ownership mindset focused on business value and technical delivery.

Acting as the interface between business units and IT implementation and delivery, as well as in project management

Coordinating projects with internationally distributed teams

Cross-sector and cross-domain process and solution knowledge

Strong leadership skills

Excellent communication skills, especially in conveying complex technical information

Strong presentation skills

High resilience and mobility

Ability to handle critical and political project situations

Stress-tested and conflict-resistant

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

Certified CI-Practitioner

Professional Certified Product Owner