Jan Menzel
Subproject Manager / Process Manager
Experience
Jul 2023 - Present
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VHV Versicherung
Conducting coaching sessions, workshops, trainings and moderation assignments.
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
10 monthsSubproject Manager / Process Manager
VHV Versicherung
- Strategy development and execution
- Sparring with project management for restructuring the agile organizational design
- Optimization of PM / development tools and methodologies
- Optimizing cross-team processes
- Optimizing DevOps processes
- Redesign of team structure, roles and responsibilities for the next project phase
- Stakeholder management
- Project management and communication.
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 1 monthAgile Coach
New Work SE
- Process analysis and design
- Introduction of agile structures and processes
- Implementation of agile tools
- Moderating workshops
- Conducting trainings
- Coaching teams and leaders
- Strategy development and sparring.
May 2021 - May 2022
1 year 1 monthProduct Owner / Team Lead, Agile Coach, Integration Architect
Dataport AöR
- Building and staffing the development and DevOps team
- Developing the product vision and roadmap
- Creating a backlog
- Establishing agile structures within the integration team
- Advancing the integration architecture
- Embedding in a large-scale overarching project
- Stakeholder management
- Vendor management
- Planning, tracking, reporting.
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
1 year 1 monthSabbatical
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
5 monthsInterim Integration Project Manager, Agile Coach, Integration Architect, Product Owner
Insurance
- Establishing agile structures within the distributed integration team
- Managing the requirement engineering and development teams (nearshore) for integration components
- Introducing and moderating Scrum meetings
- Advancing the integration architecture
- Go-live preparation
- Planning, tracking, reporting.
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
1 year 2 monthsSubproject Manager
VHV Versicherung
- Staffing and team building
- Strategy development and execution
- Sparring with project management for restructuring the agile organizational design
- Assuming responsibility towards executive management
- Budget and personnel responsibility
- Optimization of PM / development tools and methodologies
- Operational responsibility for: release & change management, deployment management, job control/batch network, development leadership, operational NFA, cutover/go-live preparation, software tools, project IT operations/DevOps.
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
1 year 3 monthsManager, Technical Expert
VHV Versicherung
- Deployment management
- Environment management
- Interface to line IT operations
- Definition of software development procedures.
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
11 monthsExecutive Software Development
Ipsos GmbH
- Agile Coach – introduction of Scrum and agile processes
- Technology evangelist
- Software development with C# and .NET Framework, DevExpress and MSSQL databases
- Consulting on the use and development of digital solutions
- Consulting on agile product development.
Jan 2014 - Jun 2016
2 years 6 monthsProject Manager, Team Lead
Seamless Interaction GmbH & Co. KG
- Leading an agile team
- Coordinating stakeholders including requirements analysis
- Defining project goals and framework
- Responsible for software architecture and application development
- Developing prototypes for trade shows in the aviation sector
- Developing a flight attendant panel with modern web technologies to reduce time-to-market.
Summary
Mr. Menzel is an experienced Agile Coach, Leadership and Team Coach. He has in-depth knowledge in IT digitization, software development and integration projects.
He is convinced that agility must not be applied as an end in itself, but must always serve value creation. Mr. Menzel relies on the pragmatic use of agile methods in his work without adhering to a specific model.
Due to his qualification as a systemic coach, he is also able to deal with individual resistances that often occur in change processes and combines systemic attitude with the agile mindset in his organizational consulting.
Languages
English
Advanced
German
Advanced
Education
Mar 2011 - Jul 2016
HAW Hamburg
bachelor of science · applied computer science · Hamburg, Germany
Jan 2008 - Jul 2010
Arche NetVision GmbH
IT Specialist in Application Development · Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM)
Scrum Alliance
Business Coach
Coach Akademie Schweiz
Introduction to Transactional Analysis
German Association for Transactional Analysis
Team Coach
Coach Akademie Schweiz
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Specialist in Stress Management (IHK)
IHK, thekey.ACADEMY
Specialist in Agile Leadership (IHK)
IHK, thekey.ACADEMY
Constellations Coach
Coach Akademie Schweiz
Leadership Coach
Coach Akademie Schweiz
Coach & Consultant
Coach Akademie Schweiz
Life Coaching Certification
New Skills Academy
Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
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