Olaf K. - Technical Product Owner PIM (Freelancer)

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Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Feb 2021 - Present

4 years 7 months

Hamburg, Germany

Technical Product Owner PIM (Freelancer)

Beiersdorf Shared Services GmbH

Operational and strategic development of Product Information Management (PIM) and product content syndication in an international corporate environment
Analysis and documentation of internal and external processes and data flows
Project management: coordinating project activities and day-to-day operations in cooperation with the Business Product Owner, internal and external stakeholders, and service providers in an agile environment
Independent planning, design, coordination, and implementation of product data delivery to international partners (data transformations and system integrations within the Productsup platform)
English (international team, service providers, partners, and stakeholders)
Expansion of automated product data transmission; integration of international partners, online shops, and syndication platforms

Feb 2020 - Aug 2020

7 months

Hamburg, Germany

IT Business Analyst/Product Owner (Freelancer)

Fielmann AG

Further development of an omnichannel solution (web, app, and in-store) for contact lenses
Close collaboration with the internal agile development team
Backlog management (Atlassian Jira), creating user stories, refinements
Database research and analysis (MongoDB)
Integration of a new online shop for contact lenses (product data supply and order processing)

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

1 year

Career Break (World Trip)

Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

10 months

Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner PIM/IT Project Manager (Freelancer)

moebel.de Einrichten und Wohnen GmbH

Implementation of a Product Information Management system (PIM)
Agile software development project for the relaunch of a vertical product search engine (microservice architecture)
Building and maintaining the backlog (Atlassian Jira)
Leading the internal development team and managing external developers (nearshoring)
English (international development team)
On-time delivery of the PIM software for the website relaunch

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

2 years 1 month

Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager Shop Platform (Freelancer)

Libri GmbH

Relaunch of a white-label platform for online shops
Agile software development project to relaunch and further develop a white-label platform for online shops (shop system and CMS)
Rollout planning and coordination with internal departments
Defining and refining user stories
Backlog management and ticket handling
Managing external service providers and coordinating the internal team
On-schedule relaunch/rollout for more than 1,000 online shops

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

1 year

World Trip and Book Project

Author of the travelogue/photo book “Europe Can Wait” (as Olaf Broder)
Self-published (founded own publishing house)

Apr 2011 - Dec 2014

3 years 9 months

Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Lead/IT Product Manager ERP/Shop Platform

Libri GmbH

Relaunch of a white-label platform for online shops
Project lead: concept, IT business analysis, release planning, quality assurance, documentation, training, rollout
Interface between sales, departments, internal IT, and external service providers
Further development of the white-label platform for online shops in the book trade
Leading development and support team members
Migration of a B2C platform for 1,000 white-label shops
Integration of a new payment and payment service provider into the white-label platform
Further development and operation of the bibliography, catalog, and ERP software (client-server application); 1,400 bookstores as users, online catalog with over 5 million items

Jan 2004 - Mar 2011

7 years 3 months

Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Lead/Team Lead/IT Business Analyst ERP

ETHALON GmbH

Project leadership and IT business analysis
Technical and disciplinary leadership of a software development team
Responsible for vocational training
Custom ERP development: design and implementation of core system, CRM, and purchasing modules on a JEE-based service-oriented architecture
Implementation and rollout of applications for automatic staff scheduling
Establishment of requirements management: defining company processes and standards based on IBM Rational Unified Process
External role as IT Business Analyst in an international insurance group: English-language requirements management for a central enterprise document management solution
Implementation and operation of internal core processes (project control, time tracking, billing)

Aug 2000 - Dec 2003

3 years 5 months

Hamburg, Germany

System Analyst

Ludwig Görtz GmbH

Areas: organization and systems
Maintenance of hardware and software infrastructure
Network administration, hotline, and user support
Software development with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
Mentoring trainees
Design and implementation of a company-wide intranet based on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino