Dirk Hesse - Owner

Recommended expert

Cologne, Germany

Experience

Feb 2023 - Present

3 years

Mannheim, Germany

Owner

Soorce GmbH

On secondment to REWE digital GmbH
Agile team coach for a brick-and-mortar retail team
Coaching, lateral leadership and facilitation
Establishing agile values and applying agile methods
Team development and conflict moderation
Facilitating company-wide strategy workshops
Technologies: Kanban, Scrum, Microsoft Teams, Liberating Structures, Jira, Confluence, Concept Board, Miro, Test-Driven Development, OOP, DBMS (SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL)

Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

8 months

Project Manager

Sonarbird GmbH

Project management for a podcast hosting platform (web-based, AI-assisted creation and rendering of podcasts)
Introducing Kanban as the agile methodology
Conducting weekly planning meetings
Organizing and facilitating retrospectives
Introducing Lean Startup methods
Aligning the company using the Business Model Canvas and value propositions
Prioritizing and selecting product backlog items in close coordination with customers
Organizing, setting up and advancing Confluence and Jira
Technologies: Kanban, Lean Startup, Value Proposition Design, Grafana, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Slack

Jan 2021 - Present

5 years 1 month

Haan, Germany

IT Consultant

Visaton GmbH

Change management
Advising on the digitalization of work processes
Establishing an agile mindset
Introducing project management software
Technologies: Jira, Stackfield, OpenProject, Confluence

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

2 years

Aachen, Germany

Scrum Master

With love and data GmbH

Project management of a big data project for unified marketing and audience measurement of podcast offerings for the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse (agma)
Establishing Scrum in the company and team
Facilitating sprint planning sessions
Facilitating and establishing daily scrums
Organizing and facilitating sprint reviews
Organizing and facilitating sprint retrospectives
Assisting the product owner with prioritization and building the product backlog
Removing impediments for individual team members
Establishing a feedback culture through weekly one-on-ones and joint OKR goal setting
Technologies: Scrum, OKRs, Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitHub, Guru, Zendesk, Microsoft Teams

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

4 years

Düsseldorf, Germany

Scrum Master

bam! interactive marketing GmbH

Scrum Master for an ad campaigning software
Introducing and establishing Scrum in the team and company
Planning and facilitating sprint planning sessions
Organizing and facilitating sprint reviews
Organizing and facilitating sprint retrospectives
Supporting the selection and onboarding of new members of the international team
Facilitating conflict resolution
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, O3s, Slack, Microsoft Teams

Jan 2016 - Dec 2019

4 years

Düren, Germany

Scrum Master and Frontend Developer

raw Rechen-AnlageWest GmbH

Scrum Master for a single-page application (ERP)
Frontend development of a mobile solution for this SPA
Setting up agile methods (Scrum)
Establishing and introducing TDD
Establishing and introducing Extreme Programming approaches
Technologies: Jira, Angular, SASS/CSS, HTML, unit and UI testing (Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, Selenium), GIT, WebStorm

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

2 years

Aachen, Germany

Brand Relaunch Consultant

Thinking Networks AG

Consulting for brand relaunch (brand core, brand messages)
Selecting and implementing communication channels
Technologies: Design Thinking process

Jan 2013 - Dec 2019

7 years

Aachen, Germany

Scrum developer and UX designer

Thinking Networks AG

Scrum development for a business intelligence solution
UX design of the application
Frontend development
Establishing and introducing Extreme Programming approaches
Frontend concept and implementation in a cloud-based BI tool
Technologies: Scrum, Java (with ZK Framework), Eclipse, LESS/SASS, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD with Jenkins, Balsamiq

Jan 2013 - Dec 2018

6 years

Cologne, Germany

Web Developer

paxconnect GmbH

Development of the company website
Product development and design of web-based components for a vacation booking module (news module, surveys)
Technologies: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL, GIT

Jan 2008 - Present

18 years 1 month

Cologne, Germany

Freelancer

basiscode.de

Freelance IT consultant, Scrum Master, and web developer for various companies of different sizes

Skills

Agile Methods

Agile Working According To Scrum And Kanban
Excellent Know-how In Management Methods Such As Okr And Lean Startup
Team Leadership And Facilitation For Conflict Resolution In Teams And One-on-ones
Many Years Of Experience In Agile Web Development
Extensive It Knowledge, Especially In Software Engineering And Implementing Web-based Solutions
Certified Scrum Master
Certified Product Owner
Agile Methods
Kanban
Okrs
Liberating Structures
Facilitation
Communication Consulting
It Training
Social Media
Digitalization
Lean Startup
Flight Levels
Entrepreneurship