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About me

Change is inevitable - but whether it becomes an advantage depends on how companies organize their work and structure their communication. Those who create clear structures, define responsibilities and set priorities can not only react to change, but also use it as a real opportunity.

I support managers and teams in integrating precisely these principles into their daily work. Through clarity, structure and targeted collaboration, organizations become more resilient, effective and adaptable - and turn change to their advantage.

My roles: Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Project Manager, Consultant

Languages

  • German (mother tongue)

  • English (fluent).

Industries

  • Insurances

  • E-Commerce

  • Banks / Finances

  • Energy

  • Tourism

  • Media

  • Telecommunications

  • Automotive

  • Mineral oil

Availability

from March 2025

Reference orders

  • Leading the agile transformation in a petroleum refinery, implementation of portfolio management, ISO9001 certification, group-wide performance management incl. OKR

  • Management and development of a new solution with a total of 6 ARTs and approx. 600 employees. Challenges included the integration of numerous external service providers, complex stakeholder management, integration of ARTs with very different levels of maturity, global distribution of ARTs / teams

  • Management of an ART in the role of RTE with 9 teams. Challenges: complex stakeholder management, DevOps

  • Development and management of an ART with 5 teams

  • Introduction and establishment of agile product development processes, portfolio management, coaching of management, future Scrum Master and Product Owner / Manager

  • Supporting two development teams as Scrum Master (SAFe), especially in the areas of DevOps, QA, CI/CD. In addition: resolving team conflicts, coaching stakeholders, flow optimization

References

Methods / Skills

  • OKR

  • LEAN / Six Sigma

  • Change management

  • Mediation / conflict management

  • Stakeholder management

  • (Lean) Portfolio Management

  • Budget planning

  • Leadership (executive) coaching

  • Design Thinking

  • LEGO Serious Play

  • ASPICE (Automotive SPICE)

Tools / SoftwareMS Office

  • MS Teams

  • Miro

  • MURAL

  • JIRA / Confluence (incl. administration)

  • Azure DevOps (incl. administration)

  • Notion

  • Power BI

  • Octance

  • Open Projects

Experience as a software developer & architect

  • .NET / ASP.NET

  • Java

  • Javascript / Typescript

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • PHP

  • SQL

  • NOSQL

  • Micro Services