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Dirk Hesse

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Dirk Hesse
Cologne, Germany

Experience

Feb 2023 - Present
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Mannheim, Germany

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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

Web Development

  • Javascript, Typescript
  • Jquery, Angular, Vue.js
  • Php (Zend Certified)
  • Html, Css/less/sass, Responsive Design, Ux
  • Test-driven Development
  • Oop
  • Dbms (Sql, Mysql, Mariadb, Postgresql)
  • Sonarbird
  • Web Servers (Apache, Nginx)
  • Seo

Soft Skills

  • Strong Communication Skills Combined With An It Background
  • Willingness To Learn
  • Resilience
  • Ability To Think Abstractly

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2002 - Jun 2004

RWTH Aachen

Intermediate exam, Magister program with interdisciplinary modules in organizational development and communication science · Technical Communication · Aachen, Germany

Oct 1999 - Jun 2004

RWTH Aachen

Diploma, focus areas: software engineering, object-oriented analysis and design, database systems and data mining · Computer Science · Aachen, Germany

Oct 1990 - Jun 1997

Städtisches Gymnasium

High school diploma (Abitur) · Herzogenrath, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Product Owner PPO I

scrum.org

Professional ScrumMaster PSM

scrum.org

Zend Certified PHP Engineer

zend.com

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