Albert Frischmann

Lead Product Owner

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Stuttgart, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
6 months

Lead Product Owner

CMBlu Energy AG

  • Lead Product Owner for 4 development teams
  • Leading and coordinating a greenfield project with parallel implementation of core components by independent teams; managing dependencies and resources
  • Establishing a data lakehouse approach including analysis of data volumes and future requirements in the context of a cloud migration (best-of-breed approach)
  • Responsible for requirements analysis, selection, and piloting of a LIMS/ELN system, supported by advising decision makers and managing external service providers
  • Implementing and managing an OpenWeb UI and Azure OpenAI-based RAG system to support knowledge discovery and data-driven analyses
  • Setting up, configuring, and managing Jira projects, as well as developing project-related workflows and automations
  • Implementing classic Scrum processes with all ceremonies and taking on the Scrum Master role for all involved teams
  • Supporting recruitment through interviews and assessments from a Product Owner perspective
  • Making decisions on key architectural issues, including selecting the platform for the data lakehouse (Databricks) and the strategic integration of LIMS and analytics platforms
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
3 years

Interim Product Owner

Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG

  • SCRUM/SAFe Product Owner for a 14-person development team
  • Developing and communicating the product roadmap
  • Managing corporate stakeholders, including executives, internal customers, and adjacent teams
  • Responsible for managing software delivery and operational cycles (including CAB and CI/CD)
  • Making key architectural decisions to ensure scalability and efficiency of the system architecture
  • Supporting the transition to the SAFe framework in conjunction with existing SCRUM practices in Germany, Spain, and India
  • Leading planning and coordination activities for migrating the IIoT platform to the Azure cloud
  • Conducting system analysis to identify requirements and create detailed specifications for the development teams
  • Leading the redesign of secret management for field hardware access
  • Designing the role-based security concept and Entra ID IAM integration for the domain API
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
2 years

Lead Product Owner, Project Manager

Juice Technology AG

  • Leading 3 teams (8 mobile, 5 web/backend, 2 DevOps) across 3 countries
  • Developing the product vision, defining MVPs and roadmaps
  • Managing and maintaining multiple product backlogs
  • Stakeholder management, including executives, customers, and service providers
  • Establishing and managing product delivery from idea to global launch in mid-2022
  • Leading a GitOps IaC concept and implementing a multi-cloud infrastructure (Hetzner Cloud, AWS)
  • Building and managing CI/CD processes and DevOps operations
  • Introducing a KeyCloak-based access management with PKI and mTLS-secured communication
  • Introducing centralized credential management in HashiCorp Vault
  • Operational coordination between app, embedded, and backend teams, conflict moderation and de-escalation
  • Controlling, budget responsibility, and financial reporting
  • Procurement: researching, selecting, and purchasing third-party services
  • Developing and implementing go-live and pricing strategies
  • Analyzing and optimizing business processes
Jan 2019 - Present
7 years 1 month

Product Owner and System Architect

DVS Beregnung GmbH

  • SCRUM product ownership and stakeholder management
  • Developing product vision, defining MVPs and roadmaps
  • Controlling, budget responsibility, and financial reporting
  • Managing and maintaining the product backlog
  • Defining and prioritizing product requirements based on customer needs and market analysis
  • Ensuring feasibility and implementation of requirements considering budget, time, and resource constraints
  • Ensuring system scalability, performance, and security through systematic planning and implementation of design principles and best practices
Jan 2019 - Sep 2021
2 years 9 months

Conceptualization and Design of Business Use Cases and Data Analysis

CARIAD SE

  • Preparing business and management presentations
  • Analyzing and specifying business use cases for value-added services based on collected data
  • Conducting exploratory data analyses to derive valuable insights from large datasets
  • Creating and designing sophisticated data visualizations using Tableau
  • Developing and optimizing complex SQL queries
  • Data preparation and transformation using Python and Pandas
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
4 years 2 months

Owner

Albert Frischmann Consulting & Creative

  • Market analysis and Problem/Solution Fit
  • Product idea and Product Development
  • Product Market Fit
  • Budget and Controlling
  • Creation and maintenance of the roadmap
  • Customer communication and Ideation
  • Procurement: research, selection and purchase of third-party services
  • Development of the security concept and implementation of access management based on Keycloak
  • Development and implementation of a Go-Live strategy
  • Development of pricing and marketing strategies
Jan 2016 - Aug 2018
2 years 8 months

System Analyst

European Commission

  • Conducting requirements analysis and designing modules as part of the AutoMat project for Volkswagen AG
  • Designing and creating presentation materials to communicate project results
  • Preparing and leading workshops
  • Coordinating and implementing modules, monitoring development processes, and ensuring on-time delivery
  • Conducting exploratory data analysis to gain valuable insights
  • Creating detailed requirements specifications
  • Developing and optimizing Tableau dashboards for data visualization
Jan 2010 - May 2017
7 years 5 months

Senior Partner Consultant, System Analyst, Product Owner

Volkswagen AG

  • Conceptualizing, specifying, and managing the implementation of modules and subfunctions in the CaTeX portal
  • Leading the team and optimizing business processes through data analysis and visualization
  • Gathering requirements in workshops and creating detailed requirement specifications
  • Creating and maintaining the product roadmap
  • Controlling, budget responsibility, and reporting
  • Taking on Scrum product ownership to ensure agile project execution
  • Stakeholder management, presentations, and workshops
Jan 2009 - Nov 2018
9 years 11 months

Project Manager, Architect, Product Owner

Volkswagen AG

  • Conceptualizing, specifying, and managing the implementation of modules and subfunctions in the vehicle data analysis project
  • Leading the team and managing the project
  • Optimizing business processes through data analysis and visualization
  • Gathering requirements in workshops and creating detailed requirement specifications
  • Creating and maintaining the product roadmap
  • Controlling, budget responsibility, and reporting
  • Taking on Scrum product ownership to ensure agile project execution
  • Stakeholder management, presentations, and workshops
  • Developing identity management and PKI infrastructure for devices in the field with certificate-based access management

Summary

  • Senior Product Owner with extensive experience in agile software development and leading technically challenging projects. Specialized in implementing data-driven systems, IoT, and Big Data solutions. Strong ownership mindset with a focus on business value and technical delivery.
  • Interface between business units and IT implementation and execution, as well as project management
  • Coordination of projects with internationally distributed teams
  • Cross-sector and cross-domain process and solution knowledge
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Excellent communication skills, especially when conveying complex and technical content
  • Strong presentation skills
  • High stress tolerance and mobility
  • Ability to handle critical and political project situations
  • Stress-tested and conflict-resistant

Skills

  • Project Management**

  • Classic (V-model)

  • Scrum (Professional Certified Product Owner)

  • Safe

  • Kanban

  • Story Mapping

  • Pm Tools

  • Jira/confluence

  • Azure Devops

  • Ms Project

  • Trello

  • Product Definition/ideation

  • Classic (Moscow Analysis/decision Matrix)

  • Leanstack (Certified Ci-practitioner)

  • Gen. Ai And Llm**

  • Rag/agentic Rag

  • Vector Databases (Pgvector)

  • Visual Embedding (Colpali)

  • Content Extraction/chunking (Apache Tika)

  • Mcp And Agentic Tool Use

  • Software Architecture**

  • Layered Architecture (Classic Web)

  • Hexagonal Architecture

  • Microservices Architecture (Including Event-driven), Synchronous, Orchestration, Choreography, Cqrs, Sagas, Etc.

  • (I)iot/big Data Specifics (Lambda, Kappa, Etc.)

  • Generative Ai Architectures (Llm, Rag, Rlhf/lora, Vector Databases, Ai Orchestration (Langchain, Llamaindex))

  • Modeling Languages**

  • Uml

  • Sysml

  • C4

  • Archimate

  • Bpmn

  • Modeling Tools**

  • Sparx Enterprise Architect

  • Miro/draw.io/mermaid

  • Bluedolphin

  • Event Storming Workshops

  • Api Design**

  • Openapi

  • Websocket

  • Asyncapi

  • Mcp

  • Exploratory Data Analysis / Ad Hoc Reporting**

  • Tableau

  • Excel Hard Core (Including Vba)

  • Sql Hard Core (Oracle And Postgresql)

  • Python (E.g. Pandas, Pyspark)

  • Data Visualization / Presentation**

  • Tableau

  • Highcharts

  • Ms Office Suite (Wizard Level)

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

LeanStack (Certified CI-Practitioner)

SCRUM (Professional Certified Product Owner)

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