Patrick (E.) Schärer

Project Manager

Patrick Schärer
Heidelberg, Germany

Experience

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 years

Project Manager

Leading credit card manufacturer

Project to create a solution for web layout, approval procedures, mass printing and dispatch of credit card carriers. Management of market analysis of existing standard software (output management systems) and delimitation of necessary in-house development, project planning and planning of implementation project by various Scrum teams (partly as Scrum Master, partly as Product Owner). Leading responsibility for business process analysis, requirements engineering and structuring of relational databases.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year
Germany

Leading Analyst

German State Office for Geoinformation / Ministry of Agriculture

Structuring the complete recording of complex business processes, existing and planned hardware / software / interfaces between internal and external systems. Training of internal employees.

Jan 2015 - Dec 2025
9 years
Bulgaria

Founder, PO and Project Manager

Symatics GmbH

Establishment of a nearshoring development team in Bulgaria. Establishment of a Scrum team of experienced and talented developers in Varna, Bulgaria for the cost-effective implementation of development projects that are requested in Germany and Switzerland due to his analysis activities. PO and project manager for internal projects.

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
3 years

Project Manager

Leading credit card manufacturer

Project to create a solution for web layout, approval procedures, mass printing and dispatch of credit card carriers. Management of market analysis of existing standard software (output management systems) and delimitation of necessary in-house development, project planning and planning of implementation project by various Scrum teams (partly as Scrum Master, partly as Product Owner). Leading responsibility for business process analysis, requirements engineering and structuring of relational databases.

Jan 2011 - Dec 2025
13 years

Trainer

IT-Visions

Thematic focus on UML, BMPN, Sparx Enterprise Architect, project management

Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
4 years
Germany

Lead Requirements Engineer

Hannover Re

Main responsibility for requirements engineering in a multi-year business-critical project; introduction of use case analysis and BPMN in the environment of the existing project structures and reorganization of the previous methodologies. Intensive use of Scrum (partly Kanban). Participation in development (Silverlight, Prism, Oracle).

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
1 year
Germany

Use Case Analyst

Large bank publishing house and credit card producer

Recording of use cases and creation of the application architecture of the central planning software of another large bank publishing house and the counterpart at its credit card producer as two remotely communicating applications.

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
1 year
Germany

TFS Migration Specialist

Renowned credit card manufacturer and German bank publisher

Migration of current development projects: conversion of source code and work item management from other systems to TFS.

Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year

Silverlight Developer

International publishing house

Example of a data-centric Silverlight 4 application with complex data structures in the background and a rich user interface in the browser. Implementation both with WCF standard services (here with in-house developments for data state handling, error trapping, conflict handling, etc.) and with WCF Ria Services 1.0.

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
3 years
Germany

Silverlight Developer Trainer

Training, partly in cooperation with Integrata AG, for developers and development teams in the area of Silverlight 4 / C# / WPF / WCF-Services / WCF-Ria-Services / ADO.NET / LINQ / Entity Framework (with Visual Studio 2010) with a focus on data-centric applications. Silverlight 5, Visual Studio 11. Speaker at the 2nd Silverlight Developer Conference Frankfurt and as in several years before the SQL-Server and .NET DevCon (devcon.dfpug.de) on Ria-Services and Silverlight Basics for newcomers.

Jan 2007 - Dec 2011
5 years
Germany

Pin Printing Project Manager

Several bank publishers

Joint project for the printing and dispatch of credit card pins (with management of templates, approval procedures, etc.): Working with separate security network, communication between the networks via SQL service broker technology, data coordination at different database locations. The development work was preceded by an extensive use case analysis.

Jan 2004 - Dec 2004
1 year
Germany

Head of Analysis

Raiffeisendruckerei GmbH

Management of a 7-member analysis team as part of a large-scale use case analysis for the reprogramming of the card production software of Raiffeisendruckerei GmbH.

Jan 1999 - Dec 2025
25 years

Use Case Analyst

Intensive involvement with the RUP (Rational Unified Process); development of a proprietary system for data-based support of use case analyses and project planning: experience from this area has been incorporated into today's work with agile project planning principles and in TFS.

Jan 1999 - Dec 2025
25 years
Germany

Software Architect

Raiffeisendruckerei GmbH

(Credit and debit card manufacturer of all Volks- and Raiffeisenbanken in Germany, thus one of the 3 largest card manufacturers in Germany). Software architecture according to multi-tier structure and distributed COM server systems. Experience with data volumes in the multi-million range (SQL server).

Jan 1999 - Dec 2004
5 years
Germany

Project Manager

Bundesdruckerei GmbH

At the well-known "money printing company" project conception and use case analysis according to UML notation, project management and development.

Jan 1999 - Dec 2000
1 year

Author

Addison-Wesley

The publication of the first German-language book on Visual FoxPro by Addison-Wesley ("Der Visual FoxPro 6.0-Anwendungsentwickler", ISBN 3827315999, 2000), as a methodical and didactic introduction to object-oriented programming with Visual FoxPro and its successor book on Visual FoxPro 7.0, was very well received.

Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
3 years
Germany

Project Manager

DEGUSSA AG

Complex system for cost calculation in the precious metal separation business.

Jun 1997 - Jun 1997
1 month
United States

Localization Specialist

Microsoft

Close cooperation with Microsoft Dublin (Central Europe) and Microsoft Redmond (USA) on the translation of Visual FoxPro 5.0 into German. In the process, gained extensive experience of Microsoft's working methods and built up important relationships with Microsoft.

Jan 1997 - Dec 2025
28 years
Germany

Framework Developer

Framework "ClassMaxX" for Visual FoxPro projects, development in cooperation with a well-known provider of FoxPro tools and coaching in the German FoxPro world.

Jan 1997 - Dec 2011
15 years
Germany

Lecturer/Trainer

Integrata AG

Several years lecturer at Integrata Training for all Visual FoxPro programmer courses in Germany, among others many times at Münchner Rückversicherungs-AG, since 2011 in the areas of XAML, WPF, Silverlight.

Jan 1992 - Dec 2025
32 years
Germany

Founder

Business & System

Jan 1987 - Dec 1993
6 years

Software Developer

Working in the IT sector, initially in programming, then increasingly in software analysis, project management and business management.

Summary

Patrick E. Schärer (born 1966) has been working in the IT sector since 1988, initially in programming, then increasingly in software analysis, project management and business management. His company Business & System was founded in 1993. - Project activities: Extensive project experience as head of development teams, leading software analyst in analysis teams, requirements engineer, business process analyst, solution architect or as project manager in the insurance/reinsurance environment as well as with customers such as Degussa, Bundesdruckerei and others. Development projects in security-relevant and performance-critical environments. Experienced in the design and management of data structures. Application of agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban in various roles. - Requirements engineering and business process analyst: Analysis of projects of various sizes. Intensive use of Sparx Enterprise Architect and Azure Teams Services. Development of an own methodology for the integration of possibilities of use case analysis (UML) and requirements analysis in structured project management in the environment of agile processes. - Training activities: Many years as trainer in the areas of notation languages, software analysis with UML, business process analysis with BMPN, Sparx Enterprise Architect. Partner for training companies such as Integrata AG and IT-Visions. Speaker at international developer‘s conferences. - Author: Two books published by Addison-Wesley in the field of object-oriented development.

Languages

English
Native
French
Native
German
Native
Spanish
Native
Hungarian
Elementary
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Education

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Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium · Musik / Musikpädagogik · Germany

Certifications & licenses

Scrum-Master