Christoph Neumann

Interim CTO eCommerce

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Bischofsmais, Germany

Experience

Jan 2020 - Present
6 years

Interim CTO eCommerce

XXXL.digital

  • Led tech organization of 160+ FTEs (developers, scrum masters, QAs, test automation engineers, cloud engineers)
  • Challenged business cases and built bridge between shareholders, business, and engineering
  • Restructured software development processes, organization, leadership team, and internal communications
  • Fostered cultural change by empowering and coaching teams
  • Right-sized number and size of agile teams, including restructuring of relationships with external partners
  • Reshaped technology leadership team and introduced new functional teams
Jan 2017 - Present
9 years

CEO, Founder

GetTechTalent GmbH

  • Bootstrapped vetted network of 500+ freelance consultants, digital experts, and software developers
  • Generated €2M revenue with team of seven, 18 months after incorporation
  • Acquired 50+ corporate and startup clients (e.g., Innogy, NextBike, Pets Deli, Daimler Trucks)
  • Set up and automated recruiting, sales, contracting, and accounting processes by building custom web platform
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
5 years

Strategy Consultant, Interim CxO, Interim Manager

Freelance

  • Built and scaled tech- and product team of “kurando” – a quick commerce online pharmacy
  • Defined Daimler Truck's “Expert Track” management trainee program to grow future tech leaders
  • Reduced tech team by 70% by insourcing offshore team and migrating from Android/iOS to ReactNative
  • Built AI platform to identify video trends, enabling client to rank among top 25 global social video networks
  • Sped up product development of LegalTech by 25% by proposing agile product management processes
  • Designed Porsche Consulting's future HR IT landscape to enable best-practice HR for 600+ consultants
  • Conducted tech due diligences and advised C-level on best-practice tech strategies and their implementation
  • Launched marketplace to enable car buyers to configure cars of all brands and buy at the best local price
  • Acquired seed investments of €750k and first corporate clients for IoT and data analytics startups
  • Built and launched 10+ MVPs (web or mobile apps) to help clients test new business models
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years

CEO, Co-Founder

QuantifiedCode UG

  • Launched static code analysis platform to automatically repair software and automate tech due diligences—exit after 18 months
  • Acquired 3k users in organizations like Docker, German Aerospace Center (DLR), and CERN
  • Led all business activities from marketing to operations and raised €200k funding
Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
3 years

Consultant

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH

  • Identified €20M revenue potential for a Pay-TV provider via new customer retention strategy and pricing model
  • Uplifted EBITDA of a Swedish cable operator by 13% by identifying initiatives to improve operations performance
  • Harmonized delivery model, governance, and customer experience strategy of two cable operators during a post-merger integration
  • Substantiated €17M savings p.a. for a bank via data landscape harmonization strategy and reshaping IT projects
Jan 2005 - Dec 2011
7 years

Manager; Consultant; Analyst

Accenture GmbH

  • Saved €10M p.a. by developing a tool to standardize creation of PowerPoint slides for 30,000 consultants
  • Turned around a critical project threatening to delay a global post-merger integration with 5,000 project members involved—succeeded ahead of schedule, saving €250k; managed team of 15 consultants
  • Supported asset divestments of €1B in the high-tech industry by managing cross-functional carve-out teams
  • Ensured controlling of a €10B sales budget by defining performance management strategy and managing IT
  • Identified savings of €5M by streamlining global IT application portfolio of a technical services company
  • Introduced global sales planning to control €790M budget and to create transparency for investors pre-divestment
  • Ensured month-end closing of 34 legal entities and adjusted reporting and consolidation processes during a reorganization
Jan 2005 - Dec 2005
1 year

Diploma Thesis Candidate

CSC Ploenzke AG

  • Developed concept for sales force management via balanced scorecards and SAP, including prototype
Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
2 years

Intern

Bayer China Co. Ltd.

  • Conducted feasibility study and built prototype to evaluate introduction of mobile CRM for Bayer in China
Jan 1999 - Dec 2005
7 years

Proprietor

Programm- & Webdesign

  • Built 30+ Windows applications, databases, database archive systems, websites, marketplaces, and online stores
  • Developed and marketed custom software products such as CD-label printing software
Jan 1997 - Dec 1999
3 years

Apprenticeship as Industrial Management Assistant

Schott Zwiesel AG

  • Worked in all key departments such as sales, marketing, logistics, purchasing, production, and IT
  • Developed MS Access database to digitize production planning, data entry, and document flows for 800+ FTE
  • Designed, programmed, and launched Germany’s first FMCG online shop for table top products such as drinking glasses

Skills

  • 20 Years Of Hands-on Experience In Strategy, Tech, And Operations

  • Able To Communicate From C-level To Tech Team On Eye Level

  • Urge To Take Ownership And Responsibility

  • Experience In Leading Tech And Consulting Teams Of 100+ People—as Both Manager And Ceo

  • 50+ Projects—from Strategy, Restructuring, Growth, Carve Out, Post-merger Integration, Venture Building, To Software Development

  • Able To Bridge The Cultural Gap Between Corporate Politics And Fast Paced Startup Environments

  • Strong Eq Paired With Passion For Analytics, Automation, And Ability To Build Structures And Processes

  • Fully Committed, Highly Flexible, Persistent, Pragmatic, Humble, And Able To Perform Fast Under Pressure

  • Can Bring 500+ Vetted Digital Experts, Consultants, And Developers To The Table

  • Business Interim Management

  • Tech-strategy

  • Digital Transformation

  • Product Strategy/management

  • (Technical) Project Management

  • Business Development

  • Process Automation

  • It Architecture

  • Post-merger Integration

  • Carve Out

  • Pmo

  • Programming: Python, Javascript, Php, Visual Basic, Vba, Html, Css

  • Analytics: Excel Modelling, Business Warehousing (Sap Bw), Business Analytics

  • Databases: Postgres, Mysql, Mongodb, Mssql, Ms Access, Graphql

  • Other: Aws Cloud, Linux, Ansible, Apache, Nginx, Celery, Docker

Languages

German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2010 - Sep 2011

Mannheim Business School

Master of Business Administration · Business Administration · Mannheim, Germany · 1.1 (A)

Oct 2001 - Sep 2005

University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf

Diploma in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Deggendorf, Germany · 1.3 (A)

Oct 1999 - Jun 2000

Vocational High School Deggendorf

Vocational Baccalaureate · Deggendorf, Germany · 1.0 (A)

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