
Freelancer, Entrepreneur, Open Source Advocate
Nürnberg Area, Germany

Freelancer, Entrepreneur, Open Source Advocate
Nürnberg Area, Germany
IT professional with comprehensive business expertise and a strong technical background in: requirements management, engineering, product management, project management, process improvement, estimating, testing and quality assurance, leading distributed teams.
Visionary, entrepreneurial spirit with a strong business acumen who enjoys working in an agile, innovative environment.
Motivated achiever with a strong, analytical and strategic thinking who is able to prioritize and balance customer needs with business strategies.
Proficient problem-solver, adapts to and identifies changing and emerging markets and technologies quickly, proven track record of bringing products and services from vision to on-time quality releases.
Multilingual. Fluent in German, English and French. Outstanding communication skills as a trainer, educator, and motivator.
Requirements engineering, agile project management, software product management, large scale & distributed software architecture & development. Finding the right ideas at the right time & realizing them.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Medical Devices industry)
June 2002 — Present (6 years 4 months)
Worked as freelancer evangelizing requirements engineering and -management; improved and created inhouse processes concerning hard- & software engineering and development. Created tools to streamline everyday use of Borland's CaliberRM aswell as IBM Rational's development and testing tools.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 4 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 4 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 6 months)
Investments, Technology, Gadgets, Open Source, Software, Unconferences, BarCamp, Startup Camp & -Weekend
SVPMA (Silicon Valley Product Management Association), SDForum, GABA (German American Business Association), PMI (Project Management Institute), BarCamp, Linux Business Campus Nürnberg e.V., Startup Weekend SF