Bringing software development in-house, Delivering customer requests, Designing and implementing new features, Evolving the software architecture and its supporting platform, Leading the software development team and technical staff, Operating the applications.
February 2018 – June 2019
HORNBACH Baumarkt AG
Agile Coach
Supporting several teams as they introduced agile processes using Scrum and Kanban, Facilitating retrospectives and workshops, Advising development teams on software quality, Promoting clean code and test automation.
August 2015 – January 2018
HORNBACH Baumarkt AG
Scrum Master
Initially working in the familiar context of online shop development, Coordinating work using the Nexus framework, Later supporting teams in the SAP environment.
April 2014 – July 2015
HORNBACH Baumarkt AG
Software Developer
Continued development of the online shop back end using Spring and Java
August 2011 – March 2014
1blick GmbH
Software Developer, IT Administration
A wide range of responsibilities in a start-up: administering Linux web servers and a Microsoft Exchange environment, supporting the network and other infrastructure, developing a web portal with Symfony/PHP, and developing modules with Java and Flash.
October 2009 – July 2011
B+B Unternehmensberatung GmbH & Co. KG
Software Developer, IT Administration and IT Consulting
Working for a small consultancy specialising in legacy systems, Administering the company's own and clients' IT systems, Analysing IT environments, Developing a method and tool to analyse the software strategy for mainframe applications, Supporting a user group for a COBOL compiler.
October 2006 – September 2009
B+B Unternehmensberatung GmbH & Co. KG
Student of Business Informatics
Studied at Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Mannheim in partnership with B+B Unternehmensberatung GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Dürkheim. The course specialised in consulting, and I chose IT service management (ITSM) as an elective.
1blick GmbH still exists, but it no longer pursues its original business model. Its aim was to give consumers a digital overview of their insurance policies and identify their insurance needs based on an individual risk profile. Revenue came from insurance referral commissions. CLARK Germany GmbH still follows a similar approach.
VYC was founded in 2016 in response to a large wine-growing business needing a better overview of its field operations and a way to manage the work. Later, features were added for cooperatives, including member administration, harvest planning and grape payment accounting.