Patrick (E.) S.

Project Manager

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Heidelberg, Germany

Experience

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 years

Project Manager

Leading credit card manufacturer

  • Created solution for web layout, approval procedures, mass printing and dispatch of credit card carriers
  • Managed market analysis of existing output management systems and determined necessary in-house development
  • Planned projects and implementation by various Scrum teams as Scrum Master and Product Owner
  • Led business process analysis, requirements engineering and relational database structuring
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 year

Leading Analyst

German State Office for Geoinformation / Ministry of Agriculture

  • Structured the complete recording of complex business processes, hardware, software and interfaces
  • Trained internal employees
Jan 2016 - Dec 2024
9 years
Varna, Bulgaria

Founder; Product Owner; Project Manager

Symatics GmbH

  • Founded Symatics GmbH and established a Scrum team of experienced developers for cost-effective implementation of projects requested in Germany and Switzerland
  • Served as product owner and project manager for internal projects
Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
3 years

Project Manager

Leading credit card manufacturer

  • Created solution for web layout, approval procedures, mass printing and dispatch of credit card carriers
  • Managed market analysis of existing output management systems and determined necessary in-house development
  • Planned projects and implementation by various Scrum teams as Scrum Master and Product Owner
  • Led business process analysis, requirements engineering and relational database structuring
Jan 2012 - Dec 2024
13 years

Trainer

IT-Visions

  • Delivered training on UML, BPMN, Sparx Enterprise Architect and project management
Jan 2012 - Dec 2015
4 years

Requirements Engineer

Hannover Re

  • Main responsibility for requirements engineering in a multi-year business-critical Silverlight project
  • Introduced use case analysis and BPMN and reorganized previous methodologies
  • Intensively applied Scrum and Kanban
  • Participated in development using Silverlight, Prism and Oracle
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
1 year
Remote

Use Case Analyst

Large bank publishing house and its credit card producer counterpart

  • Recorded use cases and designed application architecture for central planning software as two remotely communicating WPF and Silverlight applications
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
1 year

Migration Consultant

Renowned credit card manufacturer and major German bank publisher

  • Migrated source code and work item management from other systems to TFS
Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
1 year

Silverlight Developer

International publishing house

  • Implemented a data-centric Silverlight 4 web application with complex background data structures and rich browser UI
  • Used WCF services with custom data state handling, error trapping and conflict management and WCF Ria Services 1.0
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
3 years

Silverlight Trainer

Integrata AG

  • Trained developers and teams on Silverlight 4, C#, WPF, WCF Services, WCF Ria Services, ADO.NET, LINQ and Entity Framework
  • Focused on data-centric applications using Visual Studio 2010 and later Silverlight 5 with Visual Studio 11
  • Presented at the Silverlight Developer Conference Frankfurt and devcon.dfpug.de on Ria Services and Silverlight basics
Jan 2007 - Dec 2011
5 years

Project Manager

Several bank publishers

  • Managed joint project for printing and dispatching credit card PINs with template and approval procedure management
  • Worked within a separate security network and coordinated data across multiple database locations via SQL Service Broker technology
  • Conducted extensive use case analysis before development
Jan 2004 - Dec 2004
1 year

Head of Analysis

Raiffeisendruckerei GmbH

  • Led a seven-member analysis team for a large-scale use case analysis
  • Oversaw reprogramming of card production software
Jan 2000 - Dec 2004
5 years

Project Manager

Bundesdruckerei GmbH

  • Conducted project conception and use case analysis according to UML
  • Managed projects and development for the state printing company
Jan 2000 - Dec 2000
1 year

Author

Addison-Wesley

  • Published two German-language books on Visual FoxPro 6.0 and 7.0 as methodical introductions to object-oriented development
Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
3 years

Project Manager

Degussa AG

  • Managed development of a complex cost calculation system for the precious metal separation business
Jun 1997 - Jun 1997
1 month

Localization Specialist

Microsoft

  • Collaborated with Microsoft Dublin and Redmond to translate Visual FoxPro 5.0 into German
  • Gained extensive insight into Microsoft’s working methods and built key relationships
Jan 1997 - Dec 2011
15 years

Lecturer

Integrata AG

  • Delivered Visual FoxPro programmer courses nationwide, including at Münchener Rückversicherungs-AG
  • Since 2011, taught XAML, WPF and Silverlight topics

Summary

Patrick E. Schärer (born 1966) has worked in IT since 1988, first in programming and later focusing on software analysis, project management and business management. He founded his company Business & System in 1993.

  • Project activities: Wide project experience as a development team lead, senior software analyst, requirements engineer, business process analyst, solution architect and project manager in insurance and reinsurance (e.g., Hannover Re) and with clients like Degussa, Bundesdruckerei and others. Carried out development projects in security-sensitive and performance-critical environments. Skilled in designing and managing data structures. Used agile methods like Scrum and Kanban in different roles.
  • Requirements engineering and business process analysis: Handled projects of various sizes, including leading a team of analysts covering all departments of one of Germany's largest chip card makers for one year and coordinating requirements engineers at Hannover Re. Made heavy use of Sparx Enterprise Architect and Azure Teams Services. Developed my own method to combine use case analysis (UML) and requirements analysis in a structured project management approach in agile environments.
  • Training activities: Many years as a trainer in notation languages, software analysis with UML, business process analysis with BMPN, and Sparx Enterprise Architect. Partnered with training companies like Integrata AG and IT-Visions (Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg). Speaker at international developer conferences.
  • Author: Wrote two books on object-oriented development, published by Addison-Wesley.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
French
Advanced
Hungarian
Elementary
...and 2 more

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