Stefan (Dr.) V.

Senior Manager Projects

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Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
4 years

Senior Manager Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH

  • Agile coach and scrum master in property insurance/underwriting for Allianz Technology
  • Team 1: Kanban/Scrumban team in DevOps mode – new features, distributed monolith to microservices, reduction of technical debt & refactoring, implementation of CI/CD, expansion of automated testing
  • Team 2: SAFe team – greenfield service for global software and German adaptation, AI integration (Cythora)
  • Scrum trainings, scrum manuals in Confluence, all ceremonies, establishment of an experimental just culture, team replacement and scaling from 7 to 20
  • Requirements engineering, prioritization via business value for product owners, risk identification
  • Project budget management, JIRA monitoring and automation, steering committee support, test strategy
  • SAFe integration, PI planning, flight levels and road mapping
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
3 months

Freelance Concept Development

3defacto Spezial-Maschinenbau

  • Conception for relaunch: market analysis, communication concept, wireframes, sitemap, text
Jan 2020 - May 2020
5 months

Freelance Technical Consultant

Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark GmbH

  • Technical consulting for WordPress relaunch and tendering for service providers
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
5 months

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

KfW

  • Introduced Scrum for KfW business team MDa1 (Digital Business Development)
  • Created MVP for first external KfW API (MS Azure API Gateway) for digital finance and funding advisor in loans and grants
  • Conducted Scrum training and workshops on agility and lean for team, product owner and management
  • Led all Scrum ceremonies
  • Defined IT governance and integration into existing KfW IT based on MS Azure API Server
  • Coached executive management and stakeholders to integrate Scrum teams and increments into KfW structures
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
6 months

Agile Coach

ti&m AG

  • Conducted various projects, market studies and sales presentations (digital health market, smart cities, smart banking)
  • Coached teams of 3–9 on agile practices

Skills

  • Very Good Knowledge Of Jira Administration, Confluence, Miro
  • Very Good Knowledge Of Internet, Web And Social Media Technologies (Html5, Css, Responsive Web, Semantic Web, Xml, Server And Database Structures Etc.) And Various Content Management Systems
  • Very Good Knowledge Of Ms Office, Ms Project, Mindmap And Various Graphics And Authoring Programs

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Swedish
Elementary

Education

Jul 1992 - Jan 1997

Free University of Berlin

Ph.D. · German Studies · Berlin, Germany · magna cum laude

Apr 1985 - Jul 1992

Free University of Berlin

Master of Arts · German Studies, Political Science, Linguistics · Berlin, Germany · Very Good

Sep 1978 - Dec 1984

Lily Braun Secondary School Berlin-Spandau

German Abitur · Berlin, Germany · 2.7

Certifications & licenses

SaFe® Product Owner/Product Manager

Scaled Agile

Google Cloud Digital Leader

Google Cloud

Agile Business Coach Foundation Level (ACF)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

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