Pierre S. - Agile Coach & PM

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Weingarten (Baden), Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Present

2 years 4 months

Wiesbaden, Germany

Agile Coach & PM

Medienhaus

Designing and coaching a cross-site agile transformation
Coordinating technical service providers and external agencies
Workshops

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

1 year 4 months

Celle, Germany

Consultant / Process Consulting

Papierfabrik

Developing and implementing cross-department process optimizations
Workshops

Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

6 months

Agile Coach & PO

Various Workshops & Transformation Support

Supporting transformations and workshops on Effectuation, Lean Startup, Scrum
eCommerce checkout redesign with updated UI/UX as PO/PM

Mar 2023 - Mar 2023

1 month

Karlsruhe, Germany

Agile Coach

Medical Service Provider

Realigning the service portfolio: Design Thinking workshops

Jul 2022 - Feb 2023

8 months

Munich, Germany

Interim Agile Coach & Scrum Master

Medical Software

Agile Coach & Scrum Master in cross-company DevOps teams for digital medical workstations
Merging teams with a new focus
Organizational restructuring: establishing a unified scaled Scrum@Scale environment and an in-house agile community
Coaching Product Owners and CPOs

May 2022 - Jul 2022

3 months

Munich, Germany

Interim Scrum Master & Business Analyst

Insurance

Scrum Master in two cross-company DevOps teams (scaled SAFe environment)
Supporting self-organization, improvement initiatives, and knowledge sharing
Product Owner coaching & RTE support
Business Analyst for data exchange & data warehouse for process digitization

Jan 2022 - Jan 2022

1 month

Berlin, Germany

Agile Coach

Media Agency

Workshops on agile principles, ways of working & company vision
Guiding the agile transformation
Scaled development of the in-house platform via LeSS with five DevOps teams
One-on-one coaching for leaders with focus on “focus”

Jun 2021 - Jun 2021

1 month

Munich, Germany

Consulting

Insurance Representative

Applying agile principles to redesign company presence and select suitable service providers/agencies
Coaching during reorganization and succession planning

Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

3 months

Berlin, Germany

Agile Coach

Media Agency

Workshops on agile principles, ways of working & company vision
Guiding the agile transformation
Scaled development of the in-house platform via LeSS with five DevOps teams
One-on-one coaching for leaders with focus on “focus”

Jul 2020 - Apr 2022

1 year 10 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Team Lead Product & Client Success Management

asknet Solutions AG / Nexway AG / asknet AG

Leading Product Owners, Client Success, project and content managers, and student interns
Company-wide Agile Coach
Improving communication channels with current and future international top clients; optimizations based on customer-specific KPIs
Hypothesis-driven product repositioning (Verify Service) with Lean Startup principles
Also served as Team Lead Product Management

May 2020 - Jun 2020

2 months

Munich, Germany

Consulting

Insurance Representative

Applying agile principles to redesign company presence and select suitable service providers/agencies
Coaching during reorganization and succession planning

Jan 2020 - Present

6 years

Weingarten, Germany

Self-employed, Agile Coaching

Pierre Smits

Coaching in agile transformations for management, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and teams
Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, OKR, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Effectuation
Workshops, facilitation, and events on innovation, exnovation, entrepreneurship, and self-management/self-organization
Training sessions: online and on-site

Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

1 month

Karlsruhe, Germany

Agile Coach

Medical Service Provider

Realigning the service portfolio: Design Thinking workshops

Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

2 years 1 month

Karlsruhe, Germany

Team Lead Product Management

asknet Solutions AG / Nexway AG / asknet AG

Leading Product Owners, project and content managers, and student interns
Product and project management for digital products Checkout and Verify Service
Cross-team Agile Coach
Requirements analysis, workshops, concept development, backlog management, prioritization, planning, project coordination, and implementation in the international business unit
Lecturer for internal training programs

Nov 2016 - May 2018

1 year 7 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Team Lead Customizing

asknet Solutions AG / Nexway AG / asknet AG

Leading frontend and shop developers, project and content managers
Concept and implementation of an agile transformation
Establishing Scrum processes
Also served as Team Lead Product Management

Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

1 year 5 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Lecturer

DHBW

Lecture: Web Engineering

Sep 2011 - Oct 2016

5 years 2 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Team Lead Professional Services

asknet Solutions AG / Nexway AG / asknet AG

Leading project managers, content managers, and usability engineers
Project management: planning, controlling, and implementing international eCommerce projects and product development
Requirements analysis, workshops, concept development, and (pre-)sales support/training
Leading and participating in working groups: shop innovation and entrepreneurship
Market analysis and management of external service providers
Lecturer for internal training programs

Oct 2007 - May 2014

6 years 8 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Lecturer

BA

Lectures: Web Services & SOA

Jan 2007 - Aug 2011

4 years 8 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Senior Software Engineer

asknet Solutions AG / Nexway AG / asknet AG

Developing and managing a distributed multi-partner download system and content delivery networks
Developing Java-based services for integrating external systems
Database-oriented (Oracle) applications, and migrating software architecture from C to Java (including security optimization)

Jul 2006 - Dec 2006

6 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Software Engineer

Ferchau Engineering

Developing Java and .NET-based services
Database-oriented (Oracle) applications
Optimizing internal software security

Oct 2005 - Apr 2006

7 months

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Graduate Student / Working Student

Siemens Business Services & DFKI Kaiserslautern

Impact of individual workspace on semantic search

Jul 2004 - Dec 2004

6 months

Cottbus, Germany

Lecturer and Project Manager

Valesco Media Agency

Web applications

Jan 2004 - Jun 2004

6 months

Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany

Working Student

lesswire AG

Company homepage & system requirements for creating a BMBF research report

Jan 2003 - Jun 2006

3 years 6 months

Cottbus, Germany

Student Assistant

Brandenburg University of Technology (DBIS & AWIP)

Lecture prep, administration, system development

Oct 2000 - Jul 2001

10 months

Cottbus, Germany

Lecturer

Brandenburg University of Technology

Algorithms, data structures, software development, databases

Oct 2000 - Mar 2001

6 months

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Intern / Working Student

Massey University New Zealand

Memory management for an object-oriented database management system

Jun 2000 - Jun 2006

6 years 1 month

Cottbus, Germany

Lecturer

TÜV Akademie & edFrau & Spectrum Bildung

Software development & IT

Summary

Agile Coach / Scrum Master / Product Owner / Product Manager (since 2016)
Agile methods (Scrum, LeSS, Scrum@Scale, SAFe, Kanban, OKR, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Effectuation, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®)
eCommerce (since 2006)
Transformation support
IT project management & project leadership
Requirements analysis
Team leadership
Workshops / training sessions