Simson Otterbach

Product Owner Salesforce

Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
7 months
Germany

Product Owner Salesforce

Hermes Germany GmbH

  • Optimization and roll-out of Salesforce processes (Sales Cloud + Marketing Cloud) to support sales.
  • Implementation of processes for requirements gathering from various business units.
  • Expansion of reporting for transparency of project progress and backlog priorities.
  • Management of the backlog, creation of user stories and acceptance criteria.
May 2022 - Dec 2022
8 months
Germany

Product Owner

Dataport

  • Advising stakeholders in conception and service design
  • Creation and prioritization of user stories for three .Net online services with different stakeholder groups
  • Coordination with other development teams for cross-team platform functionalities and dependencies
  • Creation of roadmaps and reporting to stakeholders.
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
7 months
Germany

Consulting Position for the Implementation of the New Reporting/BI Landscape

Senacor Technologies AG

  • Supporting the development team with domain expertise
  • Developing the data model in the DWH
  • Advising on prioritization and further project approach
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Germany

Product Owner (DE/EN)

Senacor Technologies AG

  • Designing the expansion of an internal control and planning platform for holistic company management, especially adding an absence management tool with more autonomy for employees
  • Creating mock-ups, aligning requirements and user stories with stakeholders
  • Prioritizing user stories and maintaining the product backlog
  • Moderating and conducting all internal (SCRUM) meetings as well as workshops for requirement elicitation
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
4 months
Germany

Project Lead for Redesign of the Reporting/BI Landscape

Senacor Technologies AG

  • Evaluating existing systems
  • Designing a target concept
  • Creating the final presentation
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
2 years 3 months
Germany

Product Owner and Project Manager Inhouse Development

Senacor Technologies AG

  • Transforming a legacy monolith into a modern system landscape for the company's back offices (including a billing tool for recorded times, bonus calculation based on the income statement, integration of 3rd-party software)
  • Analyzing existing processes and tools as well as optimizing them and designing a new application for step-by-step replacement of the legacy system
  • Prioritizing user stories and maintaining the product backlog
  • Moderating and conducting all internal (SCRUM) meetings as well as workshops for requirement elicitation
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 2 months
Germany

Developer Reporting/BI

Senacor Technologies AG

  • Gathering requirements and creating product backlog items
  • Creating SSRS reports
  • Adjusting and extending the DWH (SQL Server) as well as the loading ETL pipeline and the data cubes on top of it (SSAS)
  • Creating a Power BI report for evaluating site utilization
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
8 months
Germany

Business Analyst

Senacor Technologies AG

At a leading German bank:

  • Implementing an ID card reader device: checking the data flow for compliance with regulatory requirements and designing and presenting possible solution variants
  • Gathering requirements and aligning user stories for the implementation of an instant payment process by an agile development team
  • Aligning requirements and designing the redesign of the ATM software as well as creating all necessary business specifications and coordinating and aligning group-internal project workflows
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
4 months
Germany

Business Analyst

Senacor Technologies AG

At a globally operating automotive and motorcycle manufacturer:

  • Scoping digital products as suitable PoC candidates
  • Designing a self-service backend
  • Analyzing and evaluating make-or-buy decisions for a specific subproduct
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
7 months
Germany

Business Analyst of a Scrum Team

Senacor Technologies AG

At an international insurance group:

  • Implementing a data distribution hub in the context of the rollout of a group-wide CRM at a global insurance group
  • Supporting the Product Owner and project management, e.g. by creating user stories and grooming the backlog
  • End-to-end test management (scoping test cases and controlling the timeline with the project environment)

Summary

I am a creative designer, a fan of the agile mindset, and an active listener. For over 5 years I have supported companies as a consultant and Product Owner in digitizing their processes. My analytical thinking, hands-on IT experience, and empathetic approach make me the ideal fit for interface roles between developers and business teams.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2013 - Sep 2016

Uni Hamburg

Business Mathematics · Hamburg, Germany · 1,78

Oct 2010 - Sep 2013

Uni Hamburg

Business Mathematics · Hamburg, Germany · 1,93

Aug 2000 - Jun 2009

RGE

Abitur · 1,6

Certifications & licenses

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance