Pierre (Alexander) Smits
Agile Coach & PM
Experience
Sep 2023 - Present
1 year 11 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 2025
1 year 4 months Celle, Germany
Consultant / Process Consulting
Papierfabrik
- Developing and implementing cross-department process optimizations
- Workshops
Mar 2023 - Aug 2023
6 monthsAgile 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 2021 - 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
5 years 7 months 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
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Education
Oct 1998 - Jun 2006
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus
Diploma · Cottbus, Germany · 1.9
Feb 1996 - Jun 1998
Lausitz Sports School, Cottbus
High School Diploma · Cottbus, Germany · 1.3
Sep 1989 - Feb 1996
Franz Marc Gymnasium, Markt Schwaben
Secondary School, Science Track · Markt Schwaben, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Agile Coaching & Leadership
Certified Product Owner
Certified Scrum Master
Design Thinking
Effectuation
Driver’s License Classes 3, 4, 5
ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level
Project Management
Web Security
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