Experience
Sep 2022 - Present
3 years
- Team coach for the “Mobile Platform” team.
- Team coach for the “Wild Tangent” team.
- Established a continuous improvement process.
- Advised and supported product owners.
- Hosted training, workshops, and courses on agile practices and principles.
Sep 2022 - Present
3 years
- Led the company’s agile transformation.
- Scrum Master for three product teams.
- Stabilized agile ways of working and principles.
- Ran agile ceremonies.
- Ensured a continuous improvement process.
- Advised and coached the product organization (Product Owners, VP Product).
- Introduced structured product discovery.
- Provided 1:1 professional coaching following ICF standards.
- Conducted mediations.
Sep 2022 - Present
3 years
- Agile Master in software and factory areas.
- Supported five development teams.
- Worked across the product organization, especially on goal-oriented methods (Flight Levels, Evidence Based Management).
- 1:1 coaching following ICF standards.
- Advised and supported Product Owners.
- Led workshops and trainings on process topics, product discovery and delivery, communication, and personal development.
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
3 years 9 months
- Responsible for the organization’s agile transformation.
- Introduced and continuously improved the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) framework.
- Trained and coached agile development teams.
- Introduced the Product Owner role, trained and coached Product Owners.
- Rolled out agile process models (OKR, Scrum, Kanban) and XP practices across ten teams.
- Developed an agile requirements engineering process at the program level.
- Taught agile values, principles, and practices through trainings, workshops, and 1:1 coaching across teams.
- Coached leaders.
- Trained complementary skills like nonviolent communication and conflict management.
May 2018 - Nov 2018
7 months
- Coached two Scrum teams.
- Coached two Product Owners.
- Supported the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Planned and facilitated all Scrum events and cross-team events.
- Supported the execution and preparation of 3-day Program Increment Plannings.
- Planned and delivered the “SAFe for Teams” training series.
May 2014 - Apr 2018
4 years
- Trained and implemented agile values, principles, and practices.
- Coached the Scrum development team in Ettlingen and the offshore Kanban team of the subsidiary TDS in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
- Served as a mediator inside and outside the Scrum team.
- Helped select and evaluate current technologies and tools in the development process (Git, PostgreSQL, JIRA, Zephyr, Jubula).
- Company mentor for DHBW students (Applied Computer Science).
- IDS know-how lead for Atlassian JIRA.
- Trained and coached another Scrum team in the integration solutions department for a project with 50Hz Transmission GmbH.
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
6 months
- Designed the software architecture.
- Implemented software components.
- Introduced Kanban as the development model.
- Supported project management.
- Maintained and improved the energy feed-in management requirements.
- Advised technical writers on creating user manuals.
Jan 2012 - Oct 2013
1 year 10 months
- Redeveloped an energy controlling system (Efficio) based on IDS core technologies.
- Central technical and domain contact supporting the newly formed Scrum team at IDS subsidiary Berg.
- Assisted the Product Owner with requirements analysis.
- Participated in all Scrum ceremonies on-site (Seeheim-Jugendheim) and remotely.
- Supported the team on architecture topics like IDS core technologies, web tech, PostgreSQL, Spring, and Hibernate.
- Maintained and evolved the IDS Core Framework to meet new requirements in Berg product development.
Aug 2010 - Dec 2011
1 year 5 months
- Managed the IDS energy billing system (EAS) at BASF sites in Ludwigshafen and Schwarzheide.
- Responsible for development, maintenance, and operation of the BASF energy billing systems.
- Led the IDS/TDS development team.
- Planned and held regular project meetings at the Ludwigshafen site.
- Conducted requirements analysis in close collaboration with the client.
Jan 2010 - Jul 2010
7 months
- Developed a data management system for Vattenfall/50Hz.
- Designed and implemented integration solutions using IDS core technologies and the X4 EAI solution.
- Contributed to requirements analysis.
Mar 2002 - Dec 2009
7 years 10 months
- Built web-based B2B solutions.
- Designed and implemented custom solutions using J2EE technologies.
- Worked on EAI projects for oxaion AG’s customers.
- Developed Java in the context of oxaion Business Solution and oxaion Open ERP systems.
- Administered DB2 and developed database applications.
Aug 2001 - Jun 2002
11 months
- Planned and delivered employee training in:
- MS Excel for beginners and advanced users
- Application development with MS Access
- MS Visio, MS Word, MS PowerPoint
- Windows 98 and Windows 2000
Jul 1998 - Feb 2002
3 years 8 months
- Java development (AWT/Swing) of a UI component framework.
- Designed and developed database-backed in-house applications using VB/VBA.