Tarik Hennings

Technical Product Owner

Tarik Hennings
Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
11 months

Technical Product / Digital Asset Owner

Sodexo Pass & Benefit Services

  • Migration of 3 DE /AT payment IOs/Android Apps, + Web Portal to global solution
  • Perform a Fit Gap Analysis for 6 consumer apps vs. global solution
  • Manage the migration project to global CWC solution, develop End2End test for backend systems, Pi Planning, Release planning
  • Organization development of product department: OKR, artefacts, Lean Product
  • Develop product Team, develop North Star metrics/ KPI set for customer experience
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
8 months

Technical Product Owner

Knauf

  • Team setup of the Team Order Service, building the Order Portal, Go live with 2 leadmarkets after 8 months
  • Setup of the Auth Team and enablement to develop Auth Service: Development of Authorization and Authentification Authorization and Authentification concept using Okta
  • CrossStream communication and cross team alignment between Data as a Service, Okta Auth stream, Lead Project Manager and CMS Team
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year 4 months

Technical Project Management / PMO

SHARE NOW GmbH

  • Development of a new company-wide rights & roles system in order to fullfill the franchise requirements and audit criteria, rollout of Franchise 2.0 project
  • Service interface design, business case development, solution architecture for 6-month Salesforce project with an implementation partner
  • Transforming 18 teams to a service oriented franchise company
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
3 years
Netherlands

Lead Product Manager

Switch2move.com

  • Product Management and business development: Development of different products and product pitches for different target groups having a different perspective on the Switch2Move healthcare and creative movement programs
  • IT-product and project management of the Switch2Move content platform
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
1 year 10 months
Liechtenstein
Remote

Lead Product and IT-Project Manager

BENY AG

  • IT-project and product management with remote teams
  • Product Management: creating the product roadmap and defining specifications, wireframing product development with different stakeholders
  • Development and proof of Repricing logics to regain competitive advantage
  • Stabilizing technical infrastructure and breaking up a monolith with micro services
  • Software Architecture: product refinement, database and architecture definition, development of feedback and report, building algorithms
  • Developing angular based frontend, providing SEO and indexing by search engines using angular universal, mobile App optimization
  • Developing backend API using Go Lang including login, account etc, developing calculation and feedback algorithms, developing customized PDF output, setup nginx
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
2 years

Fullstack Software Developer

Viabono GmbH

  • Product Management and business development: Development of different products and product pitches for different target groups having a different perspective on the Switch2Move healthcare and creative movement programs
  • IT-product and project management of the Switch2Move content platform
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
2 years

CEO: Product Management & Software Development

pangea labs GmbH

  • SaaS and market research company
  • Developing new award winning features for the B2B survey tool questfox.com
  • Winning best practice innovation award on GOR 2019 with developed market innovations like: Text-to-Speech, Video-question-types and Speech-to-text
  • Business turnaround achieved within 2 years to SaaS with 30% growth per year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year

Fullstack Software Developer

Viabono GmbH

  • Product development and Web-App development in Angular + GoLang for [link]
Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
4 years

IT-Consultant & Project Manager

OECD Centre Berlin

  • Consulting and project management of different IT infrastructure projects
  • Coordination between Paris / DKI HQ and the Germany head quarter
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years

Product / Business & Software Developer

pangea labs GmbH

  • Product and business development of features like Tinsort & implicit method
  • Fullstack development AngularJS & .net; break up of a monolith in microservices
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year

Entrepreneur in Residence

trecker.com

  • Initiator of partnersales project & IT-Software Quality Engineering
Jan 2010 - Dec 2016
6 years

Project Manager of a Turnaround | Junior CEO

Hennings Landmaschinen

  • Creation of a marketing strategy, market analysis & market positioning
  • Restructuring of the business model, product portfolio & key partners
  • Corporate design, online marketing and founding of a sales team
  • Restructuring of accounting, cost accounting, prices & processes
  • Implementation of the ERP-System ORBIS and other IT-infrastructure sold 2018
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
3 years

ERP System Developer

zunft.de

Development of an ERP-System for [link] automated orders and data integration

Jan 2005 - Dec 2009
4 years

Web Developer & IT-Services Provider

Dr. Ralf Schwedler E.K.

Web development for Typo3, integration of LDAP-Databases, data integration; network, routing & service administration

Freelance IT product and project lead

ITUB Product and IT Solutions GmbH

As a freelance IT product and project lead I am supporting companies in developing inspiring software products that customers love. The way to solve product and software development problems are manifold and require profound knowledge in business, product and tech. A key strength of mine is leading in product development and software development topics using my business and tech background with full-stack coding skills and solutions development. Therefore, I can service in a whole bandwidth of roles like technical product owner, IT project lead, head of product, product coach, product manager, engineering manager or technical consultant.

Summary

As a freelance IT product and project lead I am supporting companies in developing inspiring software products that customers love. The way to solve product and software development problems are manifold and require profound knowledge in business, product and tech. A key strength of mine is leading in product development and software development topics using my business and tech background with full-stack coding skills and solutions development. Therefore, I can service in a whole bandwidth of roles like technical product owner, IT project lead, head of product, product coach, product manager, engineering manager or technical consultant.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2012 - Jun 2016

Technische Universität Berlin

Wirtschaftsingeneurwesen, ET/Informatik & Kommunikationsysteme · Berlin, Germany

Oct 2009 - Jun 2011

Technische Universität Hamburg Harburg - TUHH

General Engineering Science · Hamburg, Germany

Oct 2000 - Jun 2009

Auguste-Viktoria-Schule Itzehoe

Math, Physics, Latin, History · Itzehoe, Germany · 1.3

Certifications & licenses

TÜV Nord Certified Al Consultant for generative Al LLMs and Al automation

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