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Philipp (Dipl.-Ing.) Gasteiger

Founder

Philipp Gasteiger
Munich, Germany

Experience

Jan 1999 - Dec 1999
1 year
Munich, Germany

Founder

Online-Start-Up

  • Founded the first online start-up with projects focused on regional online portals, e-commerce and price comparison while still studying.

  • Grew it into successful companies.

Project Lead / Product Owner

DENT Wireless

  • Project name: Agile Project Management in Telecommunications
  • Duration: 6 months
  • Led and managed the agile project during the development phase of a new telco product/service
  • Project management, planning, and control
  • International stakeholder management and communication
  • Identified necessary measures and coached for optimal agile work
  • Translated product requirements into epics and user stories
  • Maintained and updated the product backlog, including prioritization with the PO
  • Developed and designed new business model variants
  • Organized specific user tests and translated results into actions/epics

Senior Project Manager / Product Owner

E.ON

  • Project name: Project Management & Coaching New Customer Funnel
  • Duration: 8 months
  • Project management to integrate a business unit into the existing new customer funnel, including redesign and process design
  • Directed the needs analysis and gradually converted requirements into epics and user stories
  • Identified necessary actions for improvements and impediments
  • Monitored, maintained and updated the product backlog
  • Communication and stakeholder management
  • Designed an adapted data model for the new customer funnel in cooperation with stakeholders and verified it through test plans
  • Defined use cases and created customer models as test cases
  • Developed global acceptance criteria from a business and customer perspective as decision support for market launch
  • Coordinated in the program management of the customer area
  • Uncovered and analyzed defects and inefficiencies through process analysis
  • Tracked and maintained progress against milestones
  • Introduced process and collaboration improvements
  • Organized, prepared and followed up on workshops and meetings

Innovation Consultant

G+D

  • Project name: CashCycle process and product innovation
  • Duration: 1 month
  • Analyzed and mapped the cash cycle process
  • Innovated and optimized processes
  • Improved product features for better customer friendliness
  • Made technical optimizations to increase process security

Construction site management & planning

Heilit & Woerner

  • Project name: Site Management
  • Duration: 20 months
  • Planning and construction of 270 residential units in the inner city
  • Semi-public underground garage with 800 parking spaces and green areas
  • Execution planning and detailed planning
  • Site coordination and traffic management
  • Monitoring safety measures and rules
  • Acceptance of trades and sub-trades
  • Final acceptance and documentation

Construction Management & Planning

Ingenieurbüro Büger

  • Project name: Site management
  • Project duration: 8 months
  • Planning & construction of 15 residential units including parking spaces & green areas
  • Construction execution planning and detailed planning
  • Site coordination & traffic management
  • Construction supervision & execution control
  • Acceptance of trades and sub-trades
Israel

Senior-Facilitator

Innovation Consultancy

  • Senior facilitator at an innovation consultancy from Israel.

  • Leading own projects and start-ups in the IT and online sector.

Lead Innovation Consultant / Project Management

Knauf PFT

  • Project name: Product innovations for plastering machines
  • Project duration: 2 months
  • Analysis of existing technologies and processes
  • Survey and analysis of internal developments and measures
  • Identification of innovation drivers and enablers
  • Conducting a technical innovation workshop (agileSIT)
  • Clustering and evaluation of the generated ideas
  • Development of innovation projects/pipeline
  • Conceptualizing prototypes, use cases, and test plans for validation
  • Introducing and leading agile project management
  • Translating results into epics and user stories
  • Creating and maintaining the product backlog
  • Stakeholder management including executive management

Lead Innovation Consultant / Project Management

Lufthansa

  • Project name: Network planning and passenger processes
  • Project duration: 1 month
  • Adjusting the hub node structure
  • Slot adjustments with customer friendliness in mind
  • Improving passenger processes for stability and punctuality
  • Developing new passenger flows and boarding processes
  • Developing MVPs and testing strategies
  • Requirements management for MVP production (epics)
  • Stakeholder management including alignment and communication with FMG, LBA, and IATA

Lead Innovation Consultant / Project Management

Lufthansa

  • Project name: Provisioning processes for stability reserve
  • Project duration: 2 months
  • Redesign of the provisioning process
  • Analysis of process errors and complications
  • Development of quick fixes
  • Using new communication channels between partners
  • Radical overhaul of ground handling services
  • Developing testing strategies with involvement of the works council
  • Creating a communication plan for service partners
  • Defining requirements as epics and user stories
  • Coordinating and organizing necessary inspections and approvals by LBA, IATA, and works council

Lead Innovation Consultant / Project Management

Lufthansa

  • Project name: A380 crewing
  • Duration: 2 months
  • Quick fixes against the backdrop of staff shortages and training backlog
  • Alternative solutions to the usual dead heads
  • Employee-friendly process alternatives
  • Leveraging the employee structure
  • New short-term incentive models
  • Ramping up and optimizing group-wide training capacities + OAL
  • Defining concepts as user stories
  • Aligning and organizing the new models with the works council and unions as stakeholders

Process Expert / Service Innovation

Mobiliar Versicherung

  • Project name: Onboarding funnel and insurance UX design
  • Duration: 4 months
  • Process analysis and documentation of the current customer onboarding
  • Benchmarking and comparison with similar processes in other industries
  • Analysis of new technologies for process improvements
  • Systematic questioning of the current process and development of radical improvement measures
  • Designing new process variants and improvements focused on optimal UX and organizing demo sessions
  • Organizing specific user tests and interviews
  • Converting product requirements into epics including refinement
  • Creating and maintaining the product backlog including prioritization with the PO
  • Leading meetings and communication with stakeholders
  • Organizing necessary approvals and legal reviews during the project

Lead Innovation Consultant / Project Management

Porsche

  • Project name: Workshop processes of the future
  • Duration: 2 months
  • Analysis of current processes for customers and staff
  • Customer surveys and evaluation for the best customer experience
  • Developing customer profiles for the future (2035)
  • Evaluating and using new technologies
  • Generating ideas for the customer-friendly workshop of the future
  • Defining and describing innovation projects with user stories
  • Creating initial product backlogs and communicating with stakeholders
Munich, Germany

Senior Consultant, Project Leader & Manager, Agile Coach, Product, Process and Innovation Specialist

STI-Consulting

  • Philipp Gasteiger is a Senior Consultant, Project Leader & Manager, Agile Coach, and Product, Process and Innovation Specialist at STI-Consulting in Munich with extensive experience across various industries and methods.

  • In addition to his broad project management background, he is well-versed in (agile) methods such as Lean Six Sigma, SCRUM (PO and SM), Lean Start-Up, Kanban and Design Thinking, which he skillfully combines.

  • His experiences as a site manager, entrepreneur, organizational developer and service and process designer are now part of his innovation perspective and the basis of his agile approaches in project leadership and management.

Agile Coach / Project Management

SWM

  • Project name: Agile coach & project management for cloud development & data analytics
  • Duration: 18 months
  • Agile coach & Scrum Master for introducing Scrum with LeSS in the data analytics/cloud area for 6 Scrum teams + 1 Kanban team
  • Scrum Master & project management for developing a cloud platform in the LeSS framework
  • Designing team composition, project workflows, and scaled Scrum structures
  • Collaboratively creating the product vision and objectives including drafting suitable epics and stakeholder management
  • Organizing and running team events to develop agile working methods including techniques, artifacts and team development
  • Coaching and onboarding teams and management on agile work and value orientation, and maintaining and monitoring the backlog
  • Managing, project management and agile coaching for introducing Kanban to a development team
  • Coordination in program management in the IT area
  • Organizing, preparing and following up on meetings at all management levels
  • Introducing new tools and improvements for collaboration and project organization
  • Communicating with stakeholders, business units and service providers
  • Identifying and removing impediments at all levels
  • Analyzing and documenting project progress
  • Monitoring and analyzing project workflows and collaboration

Lead Innovation Consultant / Project Lead

SWM

  • Project name: Development of new customer-friendly offerings
  • Project duration: 1 month
  • Analysis of internal and external offerings
  • Gathering needs and customer requests
  • Identification of relevant trends
  • Development of typical user and customer profiles
  • Development of new offerings and services
  • Use of internal resources for add-ons
  • Preparation of use cases and service types for market research and customer testing
  • Project management and formulation of the resulting requirements into epics as initial project planning

Lead Innovation Consultant / Agile Coach / Project Lead

Siemens

  • Project name: Process and product innovation
  • Project duration: 2 months
  • Process analysis in production, including redesign
  • Analysis of existing bottlenecks
  • Solutions to eliminate bottlenecks, including on the product side
  • Innovative process design for production and sales
  • Product and process improvements for customers and production
  • Agile project kick-off
  • Definition of various products and research approaches
  • Creation of the product backlog with epics and user stories
  • Progress tracking and stakeholder management

Lead Innovation Consultant

Telefonica / Netzclub

  • Project name: Online customer journey and customer activation
  • Project duration: 1 month
  • Process design of user flow and interaction
  • User activation and gamification
  • Community building and customer retention
  • Development of new product ideas and adjustments
  • Reordering the registration process toward customer-friendliness
  • Definition and detailing of requirements
  • Breakdown into user stories and backlog management
  • Stakeholder communication & management

Agile Project Lead / Scope Manager / Project Manager

Telefonica Germany

  • Project name: Project lead & scope manager migration to cloud & Salesforce
  • Project duration: 10 months
  • Support of teams & streams in agile development
  • Planning, organization, and further development of project management
  • Progress tracking and documentation for management
  • Organization including preparation and follow-up of meetings & workshops
  • Analysis of scenarios and risks for decision documents
  • Refinement of epics & features with stakeholders
  • Communication with management, stakeholders, and suppliers

Industries Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology (1 year) and Retail (1 year).

Information Technology
Retail

Business Areas Experience

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Experienced in Marketing (1 year), Product Development (1 year), and Strategy (1 year).

Marketing
Product Development
Strategy

Summary

Philipp Gasteiger is a Senior Consultant, project manager, agile coach, and product, process and innovation specialist at STI-Consulting in Munich, with broad experience in diverse industries and methods. Before his role at STI, he spent four years as a Senior Facilitator at an innovation consultancy from Israel, leading his own IT and online projects and start-ups. In addition to extensive project management experience, he is well familiar with agile methods such as Lean Six Sigma, SCRUM (PO and SM), Lean Start-Up, Kanban and Design Thinking, which he blends skillfully. In 1999, while still a student, he founded his first online start-up with projects around regional online portals, e-commerce and price comparison, turning it into successful businesses. His experience as a construction site manager, entrepreneur, organizational developer, and service and process designer is now part of his view of innovation and the foundation of his agile methods in project leadership and management.

Skills

  • Jira, Trello, Slack, Ms Teams, Confluence

  • Html, Php, Mysql, Css, Fortran, Java

  • Wordpress, Woocommerce, Cms

  • Google Adsense, Admanager, Adwords, Analytics

  • Smm, Seo, Sem

  • Ms Office, Sap

  • Design Thinking & Design Sprint

  • Customer Centricity, Jtbd

  • Scrum, Kanban, Less, Safe

  • Project Management And Leadership, Prince, Itil

  • Lean, Lean Start-up

  • Agile Leadership & Okr

  • Kaizen, Tps, Kvp

  • Business Model Innovation & Generation

  • Agilesit & Triz

  • Gamification & User Activation

  • Six Sigma And Process Analysis

  • Exponential Transformation

  • Ux & Ui, Customer Experience

  • Requirements Engineering

  • Competitive Strategy And Organisation Design

  • Civil Engineering, Construction Planning, Site Management

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Italian
Elementary

Education

Technical University of Munich

Diploma in Civil Engineering, Traffic Planning · Civil Engineering · Munich, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Agile Leadership

Business Model Innovation

Competitive Strategy

Design Thinking

Gamification

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Prince2

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I + PSM II)

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)

Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) & LeSS (CLB)

TRIZ Practitioner

agileSIT-Facilitator

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Where is Philipp based?

Philipp is based in Munich, Germany.

What languages does Philipp speak?

Philipp speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), French (Elementary), Italian (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Philipp have?

Philipp has at least 1 year of experience. During this time, Philipp has worked in at least 1 role and for 1 company. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 11 months. Note that Philipp may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Philipp be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Philipp would be well-suited for roles such as: Founder, Project Lead / Product Owner, Senior Project Manager / Product Owner.

What is Philipp's latest experience?

Philipp's most recent position is Founder at Online-Start-Up.

Which industries is Philipp most experienced in?

Philipp is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) and Retail.

Which business areas is Philipp most experienced in?

Philipp is most experienced in business areas like Marketing, Product Development, and Strategy and Planning.

What is Philipp's education?

Philipp holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Technical University of Munich.

Does Philipp have any certificates?

Philipp has 12 certificates. Among them, these include: Agile Leadership, Business Model Innovation, and Competitive Strategy.

What is the availability of Philipp?

Philipp will be available from March 2026.

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