Michael Simann

Business Analyst & Product Owner

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 4 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Business Analyst & Product Owner

Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG)

  • 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

Business Analyst

Init AG

  • 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

PLM Product Manager

Newell Brands

  • Business process modeling (UML, BPMN, ERM, EPK, SERM)
  • Creation of user stories and use cases
  • Conducting stakeholder workshops
  • Requirements management for products and features
  • Support of product market release
  • Creation of test cases for user acceptance testing
  • Interface documentation (API)
  • Product monitoring and management (ERM)
  • Big data analysis with Power BI and Tableau
  • Payment processing (e-payment)
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
1 year 6 months
Germany

Business Analyst

Münchner Rückversicherung

  • 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

Business Analyst

Uniklinikum Augsburg

  • 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

Marketing Engineer / Analyst

Selbstständig (Einzelgewerbe)

  • 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

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Italian
Intermediate
Russian
Elementary

Education

Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

Asklepios Klinik

State-certified IT assistant · Computer Science · Bad König, Germany

Oct 2011 - Jun 2013

BSO

Technical high school diploma · Computer Science · Michelstadt, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Cisco 1

Cisco 2

Federal Information Management

IT infrastructure and architecture consulting in the business domain

Professional Scrum Master

Professional Scrum Product Owner

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