Patrick Mester

Product Owner

Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 7 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Telefonica Germany GmbH

Project goal: Service management

  • Process optimization
  • Introduction of agile working
  • Setup and configuration of Atlassian Jira
  • Setup and configuration of Atlassian Jira
  • Coordination of request management
  • Building and leading internal projects

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Prioritizing features
  • Alignment with stakeholders / departments
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories
  • Managing the budget
  • Coordinating a Scrum team

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
11 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Detlev Louis Motorcycle Sales GmbH

Project goal: Further development of the webshop

  • Improving and reimplementing Elastic Search
  • Developing the new store louis.es
  • Building various features (product reviews)

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Prioritizing features
  • Alignment with stakeholders / departments
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories
  • Managing the budget
  • Coordinating a Vietnamese development team
  • Development according to corporate identity and UI/UX

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Spryker
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

The Quality Group GmbH (brands like ESN, Fitmart, Foodist, More Nutrition, Got7)

Project goal: Further development of the ERP system

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Prioritizing features
  • Alignment with stakeholders / departments
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories
  • Managing the budget

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Kanban
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
7 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Edeka Digital GmbH

Project goal: Cloud migration of edeka.de

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Prioritizing features
  • Alignment with stakeholders / departments
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories
  • Managing the budget
  • Development according to corporate identity and UI/UX

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Scrum
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Happybrush GmbH

Project goal: Development of an adult and a kids app to track brushing habits

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Prioritizing features
  • Alignment with stakeholders
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories
  • Managing the budget
  • Coordinating service providers
  • Development according to corporate identity and UI/UX

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Scrum
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

Das Geld hängt an den Bäumen gGmbH

Project goal: Implementation of an ERP system

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Coordination and implementation of the ERP system
  • Project planning and report creation
  • Integration of various third-party systems (e.g. Shopify)
  • Development according to corporate identity and UI/UX

Methods / Technologies:

  • Xentral ERP
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
5 months
Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

ahead GmbH

Project goal: Implementation of an ERP system

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Coordination and implementation of the ERP system
  • Project planning and report creation
  • Integration of various third-party systems (e.g. Shopify)
  • Coordination of international service providers
  • Development according to corporate identity and UI/UX

Methods / Technologies:

  • Xentral ERP
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
5 months
Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

Bosch Rexroth AG

Project goal: Visualization of the order-to-cash process

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Providing and cleaning data
  • Visualizing the process in Celonis
  • Deriving actions

Methods / Technologies:

  • Celonis
  • SAP
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
1 year 8 months
Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

kitchen guerrilla GmbH

Project goal: Implementation of an ERP system

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Coordination and implementation of the ERP system
  • Project planning and report creation
  • Integration of various third-party systems (e.g. Shopify)
  • Development according to corporate identity and UI/UX

Methods / Technologies:

  • Xentral ERP
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
5 months
Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

COLLIDE beverages and more GmbH

Project goal: Implementation of a CRM system

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Coordination and implementation of the CRM system
  • Project planning and report creation
  • Integration of various third-party systems (e.g. Shopify)

Methods / Technologies:

  • HubSpot
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
8 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Miles & More GmbH

Project goal: Building a CRM system for the service area

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Communication with stakeholders
  • Prioritizing increments
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories

Methods / Technologies:

  • Salesforce CRM
  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Scrum
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 5 months
Hamburg, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

Skoda Auto Germany GmbH

Project goal: Rollout of Group Office Client

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Coordinating and ensuring communication between OEM, VW and service providers
  • Error analysis, fixing and documentation
  • Support in technical implementation
  • Planning and executing the rollout

Methods / Technologies:

  • MS Office
  • Group Office Client
Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
1 year 3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Volkswagen AG

Project goal: Further development of an online used car platform

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Communication with stakeholders
  • Prioritizing increments
  • Managing the backlog and writing user stories

Methods / Technologies:

  • Salesforce
  • Atlassian Confluence / Jira
  • Nagios
  • Postman
  • Scrum
  • XML, XSD, REST, SOAP
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Owner

Volkswagen AG

Project goal: Ensuring go-live of ID prebooking

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Coordinating development service providers
  • Coordinating and ensuring communication between OEM, markets and dev team
  • Error analysis, fixing and documentation
  • Support in technical implementation

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Confluence / Jira
  • MS Office
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
1 year 3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Technical Market Support

Volkswagen AG

Project goal: Running an online used car platform

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Performing 2nd-level support tasks according to ITIL
  • Error analysis, fixing and documentation
  • Ticket management
  • Coordinating development service providers for bug fixes
  • Conducting alignment meetings with international markets
  • Supporting markets with new requirements
  • Setting up and analyzing system monitoring

Methods / Technologies:

  • Salesforce
  • Atlassian Confluence / Jira
  • Nagios
  • Postman
  • Scrum
  • XML, XSD, REST, SOAP
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
9 months
Hamburg, Germany

Application Management

Edeka Digital GmbH

Tasks / Responsibilities:

  • Performing first and second level support tasks
  • Error analysis and documentation for software vendors
  • Coordinating new system requirements
  • Creating manuals and training materials
  • System monitoring and presenting results

Methods / Technologies:

  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Concludis (application management system)
  • Lotus Notes
  • MS Office
  • BPMN
  • Technology checklist from Best & Weth
  • MS Office
  • MS Visio

Summary

You get an expert in digital products with more than ten years of experience as an IT consultant, strategist and implementer. I’m a sports-loving computer scientist with strong people skills. I’m known for my meticulous and transparent way of working and my high energy level. I deliver visible results in the development and rollout of digital products and services. In my many years of experience I’ve seen a lot of situations and there’s no problem that can’t be solved. With me you get a strategic partner on equal footing.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Sep 2013 - Mar 2017

Flensburg University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor of Science · Business Informatics · Flensburg, Germany

Aug 2008 - Jun 2011

Möhle und Braker Datentechnik

Training · IT Specialist System Integration · Ehndorf, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Celonis Business & Data Analyst

Celonis

Lean Product Management

Itamar Gilad

Product Masterclass

Professional Scrum Master I

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce