Project: Ready4U: Modernization / Transformation from SAP IS-U to S/4H Utilities (Cloud).
Program description: Migration of business processes; optimization of business processes; implementation of new functional requirements; implementation of (new) legal requirements.
Supported teams: data models (measurement concepts), data cleansing (data quality), migration, cut-over management, open processes (BPEM).
Technologies used: collaboration: Jira BigPicture, Structure, Atlassian Jira / Confluence, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Miro.
My tasks in the project:
Coaching and Scrum Master activities for the (agile) teams.
Setup and maintenance of Confluence and Jira.
Initial setup and introduction of Jira BigPicture.
Preparation, execution and follow-up of SAFe PI planning sessions, Inspect & Adapt sessions, system demos, PI retrospectives.
Planning and execution of agile events / ceremonies.
Support of project management in project controlling.
Implementation of CI measures and ensuring project quality.
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
6 months
Germany
Agile Coach, Scrum Master
Miele & Cie KG
Project: MABS: product platform development.
Development of a new software development platform for Smart Home, which will be used for future products and projects of Miele & Cie KG.
Establishment of a custom agile development process for the product units (ELC / ECC / ECA / EDR / ECP) to ensure a consistent and sustainable CE / CI / CD pipeline.
Support of the Miele platform UI/UX team as Scrum Master.
Support of the platform as Agile Coach.
Member of the Change Management Leadership (CML) team as a staff function to the Smart Home management, driving agile transformation.
Team size: international cross-functional team with 16 project members within a scaled environment with a total of 7 agile teams on the product platform and n-teams in the product units.
Technologies used: collaboration: Jira Portfolio (Advanced Roadmaps), Atlassian Jira / Confluence / Release, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Miro.
My tasks in the project:
Coaching the agile team.
Setup and maintenance of Confluence and Jira.
Planning and execution of agile events / ceremonies.
Implementation of CI measures and ensuring project quality.
Other activities within Miele Change Management Leadership (CML):
Preparation, execution and follow-up of workshops with the direct reports of the management, including coaching as part of agile transformation.
Active participation in the following communities of practice (CoPs): Agile Planning & Controlling, Requirements Change Management.
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
11 months
Germany
Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner
Miele & Cie KG
Project: MABS: product platform development.
Development of a new software development platform for Smart Home for future products and projects of Miele & Cie KG.
Establishment of a custom agile development process for the product units (ELC / ECC / ECA / EDR / ECP) to ensure a consistent and sustainable CE / CI / CD pipeline.
Support of the Miele platform UI/UX team as Agile Coach / Scrum Master & Product Owner.
Team size: international cross-functional team with 16 project members within a scaled environment with a total of 7 agile teams on the product platform and n-teams in the business units ELC, ECC, ECA, EDR and ECP.
Technologies used: collaboration: Jira Portfolio (Advanced Roadmaps), Atlassian Jira / Confluence / Release, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Miro.
My tasks in the project:
Coaching the agile team.
Setup and maintenance of Confluence and Jira.
Gathering customer requirements and preparing them together with the product management team.
Initial creation of requirements in Jira.
Detailing requirements at program level, considering all cross-team dependencies.
Conducting backlog refinement sessions at the team level.
Planning and execution of agile events / ceremonies.
Implementation of CI measures and ensuring project quality.
Analysis of existing customer requirements from product units and of development and interface processes between product units and development units in Smart Home to introduce a software development platform in an agile framework.
Other activities within the Miele Agile Center of Expertise (ACE):
Advisory support for continuous improvement of agile transformation.
Member of the ACE team.
Active participation in the following communities of practice (CoPs): Agile Planning & Controlling, Requirements Change Management.
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 1 month
Germany
Release Train Engineer, Digital Transformation, Agile Trainer, Project Management, Expert in Project Management (classic &
Schwarz Gruppe
Project: One Developer Journey (ODJ) - digitalization project; building an infrastructure platform (PaaS) and providing cloud services for products / applications within the Schwarz Group.
Team size (ODJ): management team with 5 project members, 3 product teams of ~10 members from various European countries.
Project budget (ODJ): > €8.0 million.
Technologies used (ODJ):
Collaboration: Jira Portfolio (Advanced Roadmaps), Atlassian Jira & Confluence, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint.
Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MS Azure, StackIT.
My tasks in the project (ODJ):
Advising management on agile and lean approaches.
Domain-level project management.
Coaching of agile teams.
Preparation of status reports for various committees such as the sounding board.
People management.
Conducting assessments.
Partner management.
Definition and creation of quality standards like Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR) and templates for product backlog items (PBIs).
Setup and maintenance of Confluence and Jira.
Planning, execution and follow-up of agile events / ceremonies as Release Train Engineer (RTE).
Continuous implementation of CI measures and ensuring project quality.
Other activities:
Agile Academy trainer: lean-agile trainer and PM expert for development and delivery of various training sessions on agility to drive agile transformation. Example sessions: Agile Awareness (mindset), Agile Methods and Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking, Business Model Canvas), Agility for Project Managers (training for traditional PMs).
Development of agile and hybrid project management guidelines for the entire Schwarz Group: development of a modular and hybrid PM guideline. Creation of a project statement of work (SOW). Fit & gap analysis of existing PM guidelines from Lidl, Kaufland, Lidl Digital, Schwarz Produktion, PreZero. Design of possible PM scenarios.
Member of Schwarz IT (SIT) Agile Chapter Community: driving agile transformation within SIT. Developing and implementing agile standards. Organizing and hosting global chapter events with colleagues from SIT Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain. Creating and providing agile tools and methods. Evaluations and recommendations for introducing agile applications.
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
2 months
İstanbul, Turkey
Kanban Trainer
Mercedes Benz Turkey
Project: Kanban coaching - preparation, delivery and follow-up of a Kanban training for the SDC team in Istanbul.
Project: Optica direkt 2.0 - development of an industry software solution in healthcare with one internal and three nearshore agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, Nexus).
Team size: 1 Scrum team on site with 10 members, 2 Scrum teams with 14 members nearshore (Istanbul and Sofia) and 1 mobile Scrum team with 3 members (Istanbul).
Project budget: > €3.0 million.
Technologies used:
Collaboration: Atlassian Jira & Confluence, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint.
Frontend: Angular 8, TypeScript.
Backend: Java 8, Spring Boot 2, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Spring Security, JWT, Keycloak, Git, PostgreSQL, Azure Cloud, Swagger, JUnit, Mockito, Gradle.
IDE: IntelliJ IDEA.
My tasks in the project:
Advising management on agile and lean approaches.
Coaching Scrum teams.
Advising the requirements engineering team.
Organizational setup of the nearshore teams including onboarding.
Ensuring coordination between the on-site Scrum team and the nearshore teams.
Interim Scrum Master for the on-site team.
Delivering Scrum training.
Definition and creation of quality standards like Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR) and templates for PBIs.
Initial setup of Confluence.
Definition of the Jira workflow process.
Configuration of Jira Scrum boards.
Planning and delivery of Scrum events / ceremonies.
Creation of agile reports for optica management.
Creation of EVA reports (Earned Value Analysis) for senior management.
Defining methods for Scrum retrospectives.
Implementation of CI measures and ensuring project quality.
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
4 months
Switzerland
Senior Consultant, Agile Coach
adesso Schweiz AG
Project: development of the agile service “Scrum meets Kanban” - building the agile service “Scrum meets Kanban” for adesso clients.
My tasks in the project:
Design of customer workshops.
Creation of agenda / program flow.
Creation of a landing page.
Development of Kanban service patterns.
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
2 months
Switzerland
Interim Scrum Master, Sparring Partner
SBB AG
Project: SBB mobile - further development of the “SBB mobile” app.
Technologies used: Jira, Confluence, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio.
My tasks in the project:
Analysis of fits & gaps.
Coaching the project team on agile and lean principles and practices.
Support and sparring partner for the Scrum Master and the Product Owner in their day-to-day.
Support of the Product Owner in creating the product map (story map).
Preparation, delivery and follow-up of Scrum events.
Project: Bi’Tikla ROP - modernization of the old IT architecture into a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) with project goals: authentication & authorization; unified UI design & templates & responsive; logging (business and application); transaction management; continuous integration & quality; exception handling; caching; common messaging, announcements, alerts; service governance & monitoring; scheduled job and batch processing.
Team size: two Scrum teams of 9 members via Nexus (scaled Scrum).
Project budget: > CHF 1.0 million (first project on the new architecture).
Technologies used: Jira, Confluence, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Maven, Bamboo, SonarQube, Git, Nexus.
My tasks in the project:
Defining agile transformation approaches and coaching management and the project team on agile practices.
Introduction, support and implementation of agile frameworks and methods (Scrum, Kanban, Nexus).
Planning and delivery of agile readiness workshops.
Support and sparring partner for the Scrum Master and Product Owner in their daily work.
Coaching and support of the Product Owner in creating the product vision and product map (story map).
Sparring partner for aspiring Product Owners.
Creation and implementation of a Kanban system into the existing Scrum project.
Development of training materials for Nexus (scaled Scrum) and its implementation in the existing project with two Scrum teams.
Project: S-GE New CRM - replacement of the existing CRM system (BSI, Oracle) and introduction of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, including integration of: MS Dynamics AX (ERP), Emarsys, Bisnode, LSC / New Member DB, Old Member DB, SurveyMonkey, OneOffixx, Tableau (BI).
Team size: one Scrum team with 6 members.
Project budget: > CHF 2.0 million.
Technologies used: MS Dynamics CRM, Team Foundation Server TFS, Jira, Visual Studio, MS Office including MS Project and MS Visio, SharePoint 2013.
My tasks in the project:
Running the project and leading the development team during realization including operational handover (team size: 5 members).
Crisis management and rescue of the project.
Introduction of Scrum.
Introduction of Kanban.
Scrum Master.
Kanban coach.
Maintenance of development work in TFS.
Preparation / delivery / follow-up of meetings.
Restructuring and maintenance of the project team site on SharePoint 2013.
Ensuring quality of deliverables.
Creation of documentation / specifications.
Single point of contact for the review process.
Creation of the test concept and related artifacts.
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
4 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer
SBB AG
Project: AusNetServ - leading an EU procurement project according to WTO for transferring existing network services FTP, external DNS, forward proxy and load balancer to at least one commodity service provider (XaaS solution).
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, SAP PS (Navigator), HP ALM, MS SharePoint.
My tasks in the project:
Overall project management and leading the project team including SMEs during initialization and high-level concept (team size: 5 members).
Leading the procurement process through to contract award.
Planning, controlling and monitoring the project.
Reporting to the steering committee.
Close cooperation with business units, legal, procurement, IT security, architecture and operations management.
Vendor management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Preparing procurement documents.
Creation of relevant PM documentation including the project charter.
Setup of the project team room on SharePoint.
Single point of contact for RFI, RFP, RFQ and PoC phases.
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
4 months
Switzerland
Project Manager
SBB AG
Project: DBR160 - rundown of the existing IBM AIX platform, building the Oracle shared platform (ExaData) and migration of ~75 business applications with 3–4 environments each, including a situational Oracle DB update to the current major release (v12.1).
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, SAP PS (Navigator), MS SharePoint, IBM AIX, Oracle ExaData, Oracle v12.1.
My tasks in the project:
Overall project management and leading the project team including SMEs during initialization and high-level concept (team size: 8 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring the project.
Planning, execution, control and monitoring of migrations.
Reporting to the steering committee.
Close cooperation with business units (approx. 50 AOMs) and operations management.
Process modeling and documentation of the migration.
Setup of the project team room on SharePoint.
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 8 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, Testing
SBB AG
Project: AWP2016 MPS - procurement and company-wide rollout of managed print services (MPS) under a WTO procurement. Scope: ~2,500 MFP printer installations.
Team size: 8 core team members, ~10 in delivery teams, 4 in the provider team.
Project budget: CHF 21 million.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, SAP PS (Navigator), HP ALM, MS SharePoint.
My tasks in the project:
Overall project management and leading the project team including SMEs during initialization, high-level concept, detailed concept, realization including rollout / operational handover and project close (team size: 8 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring the project.
Reporting to the steering committee.
Stakeholder management.
Vendor management.
Provider management.
Procurement management.
Single point of contact for RFI, RFP, RFQ, PoC phases.
Creation of relevant PM documentation.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Preparing procurement documents.
Evaluation of bids.
Testing manufacturer-specific printer firmware.
Usability testing.
Setup of the project team room on SharePoint.
Mar 2013 - Dec 2014
10 months
Switzerland
Remote
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
SBB AG
Project: GNWP RAS - functional extension of the existing RAS solution (Remote Access Service) based on Juniper Junos Pulse technology. Installations: 8,000 clients.
Team size: 4 members.
Project budget: > CHF 1 million.
Technologies used: Juniper Junos Pulse, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, SAP PS (Navigator).
My tasks in the project:
Leading the subproject and the project team during initialization, high-level and detailed concept, realization including rollout and close (team size: 4 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring the project.
Organizing and conducting workshops.
Reporting to project management.
Stakeholder management.
Provider management.
Single point of contact for pilot phase.
Planning and execution of rollout with operations management.
Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
8 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Scrum Master (Scaled Agile)
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
Project: itinerisApp - development of a mobile app for iOS and Android for FDFA citizen services. The app provides Swiss citizens with all information they need abroad: consulate and embassy contacts, travel and safety advice, etc. Users can also store their details and travel companions’ data so that in case of crisis or evacuation, citizen service can act quickly.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, Balsamiq, TestFlight.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the project and a geographically distributed team (Slovakia, Philippines, Switzerland) during realization.
Planning, controlling and monitoring the project.
Reporting to the client.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Supporting the creation of user stories.
Creation / design of mockups.
Aug 2012 - Sep 2013
1 year 2 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG
Project: KTool - subproject management for a WTO procurement in agriculture. Scope: evaluation and implementation of an IT solution for managing and coordinating inspections on farms.
Team size: 5 members.
Project budget: > CHF 750k.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, DecisionAdviser by pbroker AG.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the subproject and the project team during initialization and high-level concept (team size: 5 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring the project.
Reporting to the client.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Creation of HERMES project documents like project manual, plan, phase reports, test plan, QA and RM plans.
Ensuring maturity of WTO procurement documents.
Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
6 months
Switzerland
Senior Consultant
ERNI Consulting AG
Project: various PMO consulting activities - support of project management services in creating process instructions and checklists for project managers.
Technologies used: MS Office.
My tasks in the project:
Creation of various process instructions.
Creation of various PM templates and checklists.
Updating existing PM templates and checklists.
Jun 2011 - Jun 2012
1 year 1 month
Switzerland
Overall Project Manager, Subproject Manager, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, Test Manager, Usability Engineer
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
Project: various citizen service projects - overall management of four subprojects: SP1: changes/features in the EDAssist+ system; SP2: online registration (Itineris) for Swiss citizens; SP3: evaluation and introduction of an SMS mass messaging solution; SP4: evaluation and introduction of a call-center solution.
Team size: 6 members.
Project budget: CHF 750k.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, Ruby on Rails, EDAssist+.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the overall project and team through all phases.
Planning, controlling and monitoring.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Creation of project charters for SP1–SP4.
Reporting to the client.
Provider management.
Prototype development and design collaboration.
Creation of test documentation.
Conducting various testings.
Market analysis, evaluation and introduction of SMS mass messaging and call-center solutions for FDFA citizen services hotline.
Apr 2011 - Oct 2011
7 months
Switzerland
Senior Consultant
Federal Office for Veterinary Affairs FSVO
Project: Asan - various consulting activities supporting overall project management.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio.
My tasks in the project: creation of HERMES documents: project manual; plan; implementation concept; test plan; training materials.
Jun 2010 - Dec 2010
7 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Widerker Verwaltungsholding GmbH
Project: introduction of OS|ECM - rollout of standard software OS|ECM for real estate management and creation of an invoice intake workflow.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, LaTeX, Oracle, OS|ECM standard tools.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the project and team through all phases (team size: 4 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Contributing to the migration concept.
Application configuration.
Creation of the test concept.
Creation of documentation.
Dec 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 1 month
Germany
Management Consultant, Coach, Quality Manager
Optimal Systems
Project: introduction of a project management office (PMO) - setup and management of a PMO to ensure quality in customer projects and support project managers / consultants in day-to-day work.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Visio, LaTeX, OS|ECM.
My tasks in the project:
As-is analysis of existing methods and tools.
As-is analysis of templates and documentation.
Fit & gap analysis.
Creation of PM templates.
Creation of process instructions.
Staff training.
PMO leadership.
Sep 2009 - Jul 2010
11 months
Germany
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Deutsche Telekom AG
Project: introduction of OS|ECM and development of an electronic PIN management system - rollout of OS|ECM and development of an application for secure PIN batch handling. Previously, the client sent PIN batches in unprotected Excel files to third-party providers. We replaced this with an OS|ECM-based solution.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, LaTeX, Oracle, OS|ECM standard tools.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the project and team through all phases (team size: 5 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Contributing to application usability.
Contributing to migration concept and legacy data migration.
Application configuration.
Creation of the test concept.
Creation of documentation.
Apr 2009 - Dec 2009
9 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Federal Office of Communications OFCOM
Project: data migration & release update of OS|ECM - migration from a legacy system to OS|ECM and stepwise deployment from test to integration and production environments.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, LaTeX, Oracle, OS|ECM standard tools.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the project and team through all phases (team size: 5 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Application configuration.
Contributing to migration concept.
Creation of the test concept.
Creation of documentation.
Jan 2009 - Aug 2009
8 months
Switzerland
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Swiss UAV AG
Project: introduction of OS|ECM - rollout of OS|ECM for management of CAD drawings and company documents for a Swiss model aircraft manufacturer.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, LaTeX, MS SQL Server, OS|ECM standard tools.
My tasks in the project:
Leading the project and team through all phases (team size: 3 members).
Planning, controlling and monitoring.
Stakeholder management.
Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Application configuration.
Creation of the test concept.
Creation of documentation.
Dec 2007 - Dec 2009
1 year 1 month
Germany
Consultant
EnBW AG
Project: procurement and rollout of an ECM / DMS system - leading a Europe-wide procurement for a company-wide ECM / DMS rollout.
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, proprietary application.
My tasks in the project:
PMO.
Analysis, gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements.
Supporting procurement through RFI, RFP and PoC.
Single point of contact for RFI and PoC phases.
Organizing and moderating PoC phase.
Creation of use cases and test cases with business units.
Overall vendor evaluation with project management.
Aug 2007 - Dec 2008
5 months
Germany
Test Engineer, Tester
Janitos Versicherungs AG
Project: creation and execution of test cases - support of release management in creating and executing test cases.
Technologies used: MS Office.
My tasks in the project:
Developing test scripts from process descriptions and system requirements with business units.
Shared responsibility for planning.
Coordination and introduction of releases.
Execution of test cases, business analysis, defect resolution and documentation.
Languages
German
Native
Turkish
Native
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