Michael Simann - Business Analyst & Product Owner

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present

1 year 4 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Product Owner for stakeholder management, backlog prioritization, and sprint organization (refinements, planning, testing, release) in the agile development team (8 developers, 2 testers)
Scaling with SAFe by introducing sub-teams and leading retrospectives for team development
New development of the central DVAG commission system from batch to near-real-time processing (Kafka) including data migration and hierarchy structures
Specification of functional, technical, and quality requirements in close coordination with lead developers
Modeling complex business processes (BPMN) and interfaces (Kafka, REST, GraphQL)
Support in authentication (KeyCloak), frontend development (Angular), and test automation (CI/CD, CDCT)
Managed cloud migration of microservices to Azure; created workbooks, dashboards, and KQL queries for system monitoring
Analysis and optimization of database systems (CosmosDB, MongoDB, SQL) and reporting via Power BI to manage commission competitions
Industry expertise in sales and network marketing models, including support for financial products up to market release

Aug 2022 - Dec 2023

1 year 5 months

Germany

Analysis and optimization of environmental protection reports
Implementation of digital solutions for more efficient environmental processes
Independent planning, design, and project implementation considering legal emission control regulations
Creation of the IT system security concept (system admin)
IT infrastructure and architecture consulting in the business domain
Payment transaction processes between authorities and citizens
Communication and coordination with stakeholders (ministry)
Process modeling (BPMN 2.0), requirements gathering (stakeholder workshops), and requirements documentation (user stories)
Data analysis (data synopsis) and user acceptance testing
Requirements engineering following Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe in the agile SDLC

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

1 year 1 month

Hattersheim am Main, Germany

Sep 2020 - Feb 2022

1 year 6 months

Germany

Product ownership and support of product market release
IT service management according to ITIL
Big data analysis
Business requirements (workshops & user stories)
Business process modeling (BPMN 2.0)
Planning internal IT transformation processes
Aligning solution approaches with software developers
Analytical work for daily, monthly, and quarterly reports
Creation of a post implementation review (PIR)
Use of Jira, Confluence, Visio, Draw.io, Tableau, Power BI, SAP, SAP PLM, Azure IT Management, Figma, Miro

Mar 2019 - Mar 2020

1 year 1 month

Augsburg, Germany

Gathering requirements from the business department
Internal coordination and documentation of the solution process
System and application administration
Planning and executing the company OS update (Win 10 rollout)
Data backup and creation of daily backups
Use of WordPress, SharePoint, Citrix, XML, JSON, HTML, Python, C++, CSS, Java, VBA

Aug 2014 - Feb 2019

4 years 7 months

Gathering stakeholder requirements for web software development and presenting them in workshops
Consulting on IT infrastructures for web processes
Data analysis and reporting (KPIs, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Adobe Analytics)
Project management for marketing campaigns (e-commerce)
Optimization of business processes and SEO visibility
IT security and data management (infrastructure, backups, FTP servers, SQL databases)
UI/UX design for user-friendly web applications