Senior IT management specialist with over 25 years' experience in► Technology strategy, development, project and program management► Team setup, scaling and management (in-house and outsourcing)► Project appraisal, feasibility and rescueI am happy to contribute my knowledge to interesting projects in a senior technology management capacity at CTO/CIO/board level. With a strategic view and the ability to communicate technical issues to a non-technical audience I am often described as “the interface between business and technology".► Excellent business analysis, planning and problem-solving skills, a strategic vision and solid full IT development life cycle experience from requirements analysis to design, implementation, testing, documentation and maintenance as well as operations, data analysis and analytics.► Startups: CTO and co-founder of digital accelerator Dreamstake and film discovery platform FilmDoo. My portfolio contains CTO positions with online property management startup Yulpa, PropertyTribes, dating startup Wink’d, education platform Quickclass, HealthTech startup On The Mend as well as Head of Program Management for shopping discount app Shopitize and mentor for Cocoon Networks and Berlin Startup Weekend, hackathon judge and tutor.► Corporate: My experience is as diverse as working with major hotel chains and investment banks as well as fitness clubs on performance benchmarking platforms for Deloitte, developing online research tools and working with data feeds from world-wide publishers at Lexis-Nexis (Reed Elsevier), system integration of e-procurement and customer management systems at Siemens.► I have a degree in Communications Engineering from Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, am a PRINCE2-certified project management practitioner, hold Sun Java and several BrainBench certifications and have been formally trained in recruitment and staff appraisals.► Yes I am also composing electronic music, my remixes win prizes, and I DJ :)