Senior Project Manager | Agile Coach | Product Owner

Get the right people. Then, no matter what else you may do wrong after that, the people will save you. That’s what management is all about.

Tom DeMarco


What You Get

  • Experienced Freelance Senior Project Manager and Product Owner, a versatile interface between department / product management and IT
  • Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO Scrum Alliance), Scrum Master
  • Skillful project manager for international and local IT projects of all kinds
  • Experienced working in cross-functional, dynamic multi-cultural teams in an international context in person and virtual
  • True ambassador and man of action for organizational change
  • A guy focussed on
    • getting things done,
    • mid- and long-term roadmapping + moderation between stakeholders,
    • writing user stories according to genuine Scrum,
    • large and mid-size platform-, CMS- and web-projects,
    • introduction of Scrum, Agile and Management 3.0 as a genuine way of working,
    • launch, maintenance and management of global and european platforms even with multiple markets/ stakeholders / countries,
    • projects for automotive, finance, insurance, global brands and the ‚Mittelstand‘.
  • Deepened knowledge about Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, TDD, OKR, Lean, Servant Leadership with an advanced use of JIRA & Confluence
  • A creative maker with an agile mindset and extensive knowledge about technologies, team organisation and motivation, agile frameworks, markets and successful project management
  • A passionate cyclist and offshore sailor

Release or Die Tryin‘

Born to launch – professional release management, fast software delivery and still fun in your DEV team

Jira, Scrum, Kanban

Ensure transparency, reliability and open communication within your project

Plan, Do, Check, Act

Deming cycle or sprint progress – gain knowledge with every step and get better

Keeping your project on an even keel if it gets stormy

Agile flexibilty, embracing change

Selected Projects

  • 2021 – 2024 Cognizant Technologies : Agile Master / Agile Coach for Munich insurance
  • 2020/21: various online projects. e.g. for museums and special purpose machinery manufacturing
  • August – December 2019 Scrum Master for API project in German public business development bank
  • March – August 2019 Agile Coach ti&m AG
  • June – October 2018 Triplesense Reply: Product Owner / Senior Project Manager — implementation of new portal for Burda Community Network with CMS TYPO3
  • 2017 – 2018 ETECTURE: Product Owner / Senior Project Manager — migration to a shared platform for all brands of Radeberger Gruppe (CMS FirstSpirit)
  • 2016 -2017 Fidelity International: Senior Consultant / Agile Coach / Change Agent — organisational change and implementation of agile ways of working for European platform management (CMS TeamSite)
  • 2015 – 2020 Associate Lecturer for Management at h_da Hochschule Darmstadt, department Interactive Media Design
  • 2015 Neuland + Herzer: Agile Coach for Neuland + Herzer and Senior Project Manager for migration of BASF EN (CMS Adobe AEM) and consulting for Social Media in the field of B2B Marketing and Social Selling
  • 2014 ETECTURE@Ogilvy: Agile Coach and Consultant – global platform management for development of Nestlé Global Infant Nutrition (CMS Drupal) and Ogilvy One: Scrum Master Relaunch R+V Versicherung
  • 2012 – 2014 Kia Motors Europe: European Platform & Manager E-Business Technology
  • 2012 OgilvyOne, ETECTURE: implementation & launch „Volkswagen. Mein Auto“
  • 2011 Scholz & Volkmer: interim unit direction, several projects for Mercedes
  • 2010 Neuland + Herzer: implementation & launch BASF Simplify for BASF AsiaPacific
  • 2000-2002 GFT Technologies / Pixelfactory: Relaunch Mercedes eMB, several projects for Mercedes divisions

Education

  • 1992 Freie Universität Berlin: German Philology, Political Science, Linguistics Magister Artium „Sehr gut“
  • 1997 Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin Dr. phil. „magna cum laude“ with a thesis about the late works of Arno Schmidt

Leading Pieces of Wisdom

  • „90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.“ Brian W. Kernighan & P. J. Plaugher on planning, productivity, releasing
  • „If you’re not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we’ll discuss your options afterwards.“ Bill Shankly, Manager Liverpool F.C.

Skills

Badge of "Certified Scrum Product Owner" by Scrum Aliance

Contact

Porträtfoto Stefan Voigt

Mail s.voigt@houseofuser.com

Phone +49 172 5251 833

Burgstraße 91, 60389 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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