Gilbert Huwar - Process Design: Solution Development and Release Management (Freelancer)

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Düsseldorf, Germany

Experience

Aug 2023 - Mar 2024

8 months

Process Design: Solution Development and Release Management (Freelancer)

E.ON Digital Services, "Future Energy Home"

Workstream lead for analysis and optimisation of the solution development process and Release Process for the newly established organizational structure within E.ON Digital Services.
The goal of this project was to analyse and adopt existing processes after the team of Business Owners transitioned the technical responsibility to E.ON Digital Services. One key aspect was the support of the agile development approach within the engineering teams.
A unified workflow for business requirements and clear communication interfaces was established and documented using Atlassian Jira as the project management tool on both the business and engineering sides.
Dashboards based on "Rich Filters for Jira Dashboards" were created to provide an overview of feature releases and their connection to technical releases (component updates).
Newly designed burnup charts and statistics per release improved the transparency of the overall technical progress at the product level.

Apr 2023 - Jun 2023

3 months

Training and certification

Scrum.Org

Re-certified as Scrum Master (PSM Level 1 and Level 2) and Product Owner (PSPO 1)

Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

1 year 9 months

Release Management / Rollout Coordination (Freelancer)

Vorwerk Digital

Adapting Release Management to the requirements of Vorwerk’s growing delivery organisation. Transforming the purely technical Release Management tasks into a part of the agile, DevOps delivery organisation.
By adding the requirement of “feature management” into the Release Management role and designing the interfaces, processes and tools, the new, more business focussed “Rollout Management” was defined and maintained.
This role builds the bridge between the agile technical teams and the business organisation.
The footprint of the technical Release Management was significantly reduced and the requirements were adapted to modern toolchains and agile, self- responsible DevOps teams.

Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

4 months

Germany

Government services “Polizei 2020” (Freelancer)

Polizei NRW

Requirements engineering / concept paper.
Messaging-based communication standard (Enterprise Service Bus) for interoperability of components in the planned IT landscape of the German police administration.

Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

5 months

Project Support “Service Management” (Freelancer)

Vorwerk Digital

Service Desk transition for “Kobold” products to an external service provider.
Review and optimisation of the process to create the Service-Management monthly report.
Definition and documentation of the Risk-Management process under consideration of the existing IT-Security risk management.
Support of the introduction of “Service Acceptance Criteria” for new developments in the “Thermomix” area.

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

1 year 2 months

Agile Transformation of Release Management (Freelancer)

Vorwerk Digital

Design, introduction and documentation of a Jira-based Release Management process for the agile development of the “Cookidoo” recipe platform for Vorwerk´s Thermomix TM5 and TM6.
Tracking of software releases and infrastructure changes deployed as part of the agile development process (Continuous Delivery) with internationally distributed teams and markets.
Targeting a global OpenShift-based microservice architecture operated on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with multiple environments (productive, integration, test).
Migration of the existing “Polarion”-based Release Management process for legacy components to Jira.

Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

9 months

Training and Certification (Cloud Computing)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Further education and practical training.
Migrating the personal online presence to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
May 2018: certified as “AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner“
December 2018: certified as “AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate“

Feb 2013 - Oct 2017

4 years 9 months

Project Management and Deployment Management (Freelancer)

Vodafone Group

Introduction of new services, upgrade- and operations-projects in Vodafone Group´s data centre.

Apr 2012 - Oct 2012

7 months

Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Management and Application Design (Freelancer)

Appseleration GmbH

Technical project management, requirements management and conceptual work for an agile software development project introducing a sales application.

May 2011 - Dec 2011

8 months

Bonn, Germany

Project Management / Project Office (Freelancer)

Deutsche Telekom AG

“Wholesale Application Community” (WAC).
Support of the standardisation- chair for HTML 5 based widgets.
Support of go-to-market activities, interconnection to a cross-operator-billing API.

Nov 2010 - Jan 2011

3 months

Project Management (Organisation of Operational Processes) (Freelancer)

Vodafone Group

Project management “Environment Strategy“.
Creation of processes and MS- Sharepoint-based Tools.

Jan 2007 - Sep 2010

3 years 9 months

Düsseldorf, Germany

Programme Management

Vodafone Group (GSP)

Programme Management “Mobile Applications Programme“.
Introduction of a Widget Platform and a Widget Runtime Engine for HTML 5 based Widgets.

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

2 years

Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Management

Vodafone Group (GSP), “Prototypes and Pilots“

Agile project management and specification.
Development and introduction of Vodafone´s “Mobile TV-Player“ and “Interactive Mobile TV Player“.
A mobile client/server solution for interactive streaming media on JME capable devices.

Jan 2004 - Dec 2006

3 years

Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Management

Vodafone Group (GSP)

Project management and engineering: “MMS Migration“

Jan 2002 - Dec 2004

3 years

Düsseldorf, Germany

Technical Project Management

Vodafone D2 GmbH

Project management and engineering: “Multimedia Messaging Service“ (MMS).
Introduction of Vodafone´s MMS platform.
Interfacing with national and international network operators.
Introduction of various value-added-services.

Jan 2000 - Dec 2002

3 years

Dortmund, Germany

Research & Business Development

Materna GmbH

Study-related part-time employment in the area of mobile communications and value-added services.

Summary

Solution-oriented team player with hands-on mentality
Empathic and strong in communications
Quick learner of new technologies and methods
Pragmatic, product-focused, and supportive.
Extensive experience in project management and implementation of agile processes.
Agile mindset, experienced in working with Scrum and Kanban teams.
Integrating agile teams into classical, delivery-driven organisations