Alexander Vitanyi - Product Owner

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Aug 2024 - Present

1 year 6 months

Munich, Germany

Product Owner

FI-TS

Rebuilding an existing cloud solution with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, GitLab, ArgoCD and PostgreSQL
Coordinating and managing external partners and service providers
Ensuring the service on time and within budget with budget responsibility
Integrating the cloud solution with external public clouds (AWS)
Setting up and defining processes and workflows in Jira and Confluence
Product management of software development for automation and self-service in CI/CD DevOps mode
Agile software development with Kanban and Scrum in various development teams
Single point of contact for key customers in the respective projects
Creating and aligning the product backlog with stakeholders from sales, architecture, development teams, marketing, management and customers
Migrating existing customers to the AWS cloud as product owner
Creating and aligning a product roadmap with internal and external stakeholders

Apr 2023 - Jul 2024

1 year 4 months

Berlin, Germany

Product Owner (Cloud Expert)

netgo software Berlin

Product Owner and IT project manager for software assessments for cloud validation with budget responsibility
Product Owner and IT project manager for projects to transform to the cloud using technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, observability, CI/CD, DevOps, ArgoCD, GitLab and containerization
Creating project proposals for software modernization including project plan and cost estimation
Product Owner of a SaaS and PaaS CI/CD cloud platform including software development of a portal and APIs for integration and customer interface with Virtuozzo, Kubernetes, GitLab, Argo CD, Harbor, Ansible, Terraform and Keycloak
Maintaining and prioritizing the backlog and creating epics and user stories including alignment with teams (refinement)
Developing a product vision and creating epics
Executing all Scrum artifacts (planning, refinement, review etc.)
Creating a roadmap including MVP
Developing an IAM/RBAC concept for using the cloud platform and related components
Product Owner of a cloud portal with user journey and user experience requirements, implementation with UI/UX experts and leading the software development
Product management of the platform with roadmap development and technology alignment
Integrating the platform into the company's overall portfolio
Coaching and training project managers, product managers and consultants
Advising customers and partners on various cloud solutions and technologies
Pre-sales activities as the first point of contact for sales colleagues
Point of contact for partners and customers at events and trade shows
Creating sales presentations
Project management for preparing proposals
Responsible for marketing activities (blog, webinars, social media)
Preparing and conducting webinars
Leading and coordinating social media activities (LinkedIn)
Further development of cloud products
Interface between marketing, sales and technology

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023

1 year 1 month

Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Owner - Cloud Market Segmentation

IONOS SE

Product Owner for the market launch of new products and services like databases, compute engines, big data, Kubernetes, CI/CD and IPv6
Managing and leading projects with service providers
Creating marketing materials with national and international partners
Product Owner of a SaaS and PaaS CI/CD cloud platform including software development of a portal and APIs with Virtuozzo, Kubernetes, GitLab, Argo CD, Harbor, Ansible, Terraform and Keycloak
Maintaining and prioritizing the backlog and creating epics and user stories including alignment with teams (refinement)
Executing all Scrum artifacts (planning, refinement, review etc.)
Creating a roadmap including MVP
Presentations and workshops with customers and partners on technical solutions and services
Conducting extensive technical, functional and commercial market analysis of the five largest international cloud providers
Creating battle cards and fact sheets
Aligning delivered services with relevant stakeholders from marketing, product management, sales and management
Internal training on network services, other services and cloud topics like load balancers, firewalls, Kubernetes and big data
Creating and aligning marketing stories for new products and services
Preparing analyses and reports for market entry in France, the UK and the USA

Nov 2021 - Mar 2022

5 months

Walldorf, Germany

Senior Product Owner SAP Learning

SAP SE

Creating new products and features within the SAP Learning web application including alignment with relevant stakeholders
Defining API interfaces and backend as well as organizational requirements in a complex technological environment
Project management and coaching of product managers
Prioritizing development
Developing new processes across various tools to improve the product development process and stakeholder management (craft.io, Jira workflow & Kanban, Confluence)
Optimizing the end-to-end product development process including Jira workflow, Kanban board and process documentation
Writing, aligning and monitoring the development of user stories
Validating and ensuring development results into a deliverable solution
Aligning design with the design team based on created user journeys

May 2021 - Oct 2021

6 months

Wiesbaden, Germany

Senior Product Owner, Cloud Services

Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung

Further development of products and services from an IaaS to a PaaS and SaaS platform
Developing, aligning and ensuring the roadmap
Creating requirements and user stories including acceptance criteria
Market and competitor analysis with deriving actions like price adjustments and roadmap changes
Creating and evaluating success analyses over three years
Setting up appropriate customer management
Full cost and revenue responsibility
Lifecycle management
Creating a pricing model similar to the open market
Demand management and requirements management with key stakeholders from management and customers

Feb 2020 - Apr 2021

1 year 3 months

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Executive Product Owner (Digital Technology)

SHE Informationstechnologie AG

Further development of the portfolio for the new workspace for existing and new partners and clients with cloud solutions, DevOps, and agile working methods
Internal consulting, motivating, and supporting the setup of agile working methods in a traditional hierarchical organization structure
Vertical expansion of the portfolio for new business opportunities
Ensuring profitability during declining revenue in the current core business (data center operations)
Creating and evaluating success analyses over three years
Presenting the portfolio at conferences and to partners and clients at all hierarchy levels
Developing, aligning, and maintaining the roadmap
Writing requirements and user stories including acceptance criteria

May 2014 - Feb 2020

5 years 10 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Senior Product Manager (Digital Workspace)

DB Systel

Technical and financial accountability for various products and services in the digital workspace
Conducting market and competitor analysis to inform pricing and roadmap changes
Creating and aligning the roadmap
Writing requirements and user stories including acceptance criteria
Creating and aligning the pricing strategy
Responsibility for revenue and contribution margin
Creating and evaluating success analyses over five years
Developing and launching new products in agile teams and via waterfall methodology
Developing new sales opportunities
Creating marketing materials
Working closely with top management on product development, budget, and profitability
Delivering speeches, presentations, and demos to up to 250 people at internal and external trade shows and industry conferences
Leading working groups to transform DB Systel into an agile company
Creating OKRs for the business unit

Mar 2013 - May 2014

1 year 3 months

Ra'anana, Israel

Technical Product Manager

Enghouse Interactive AG

Acting as central point of contact for customer support, professional services, pre-sales, and development in an international environment
Direct contact with key customers for roadmap evaluation, feature requests, and customer relations
Owning the product roadmap
Creating Market Requirement Documents (MRDs)
Reviewing and approving technical designs from development
Planning and prioritizing the development process
Managing projects and approving new product releases
Providing internal training for sales and pre-sales teams

Mar 2012 - Feb 2013

1 year

Ra'anana, Israel

Team Lead, Customer Support Expert Group

Enghouse Interactive AG

Building a customer support expert team with five members
Training and developing team members
Serving as escalation point for customers and own team
Acting as the support contact for major key accounts

Aug 2003 - Feb 2008

4 years 7 months

Working Student/Intern Software Development

Various software development tasks as a working student and intern

Skills

Industry Knowledge

Healthcare
Creating And Aligning User Stories For An Application For The Gkv-spitzenverband (Since 2023)
Supporting Various Medical Practices In It Operations And Compliance With The It Security Guideline Of The Association Of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Since 2018)
Technical Consultant In Developing A Healthcare Application For The International Market (2012)
Technical Product Manager And Point Of Contact For Healthcare Clients (2013-2014)

Cloud

Extensive Knowledge Of Different Cloud Architectures And Technologies (Since 2022)
Building A Cloud Platform Including Portal And Apis (Internal And External) (Since 2022)
Knowledge Of Portfolio And Pricing Of All Relevant Cloud Providers And Orchestration In Europe And Worldwide (Since 2022)
Cost And Portfolio Analysis Of All Relevant Cloud Providers (2022)
Creating Strategies For Cloud Migration (Since 2022)

In-depth Knowledge

Cloud Architectures
Modern Business Models (Saas)
High Availability Solutions
Data Center Architectures
Server Architectures
Hyper-converged Storage And Virtualization Infrastructures
Virtualization Systems, Especially In The Cloud Environment
It Infrastructure Of Cloud Solutions
Networks And Network Architectures
Voip
Security
Databases
Devops
Very Good General Technical Understanding

Tools And Technologies

Various Programming Languages (C++, C, C#, Java, Jscript, Python, Perl, Php, Vba And Others)
Windows Server Administration
Linux Server Administration
Ms Sql Server
Oracle Database
Vmware
Nutanix
Morpheus Data
Microsoft Azure
Aws
Jira (Incl. Creating Workflows)
Docker
Kubernetes