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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Expertise, consulting, impulses, sparring, speaker - strategic consulting for agile leadership and digital transformation.Project references available on request.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

The next summit for all CEOs, board members and owners of German software and technology companies will take place in Frankfurt on 14-15 October 2024.

Wuppertal, DE

IQUADAT AG is one of the leading German providers of innovative software solutions for document management, flexible processes and legally compliant archiving.

Bonn, NRW, DE

Responsible for the products of Scopevisio Group AG: Scopevisio's cloud-based ERP solution with the main functions Organisation, Finance, Sales, Procurement, HR and DMS/ECM simplifies daily work and supports cross-location and cross-departmental collaboration. Scopevisio AG employs more than 300 people at its locations and counts more than 7,500 companies.

Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia, DE

Overall product responsibility for the we22 group of companies in the newly spun off subsidiary CM4all GmbH. Leading several independently working teams with high diversity (and proud of 50% female quota 😊): Product Owners, UX Specialists, Web Developers, (Web) Designers, Scrum Masters.

Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia, DE

Established and expanded the department to include UX, design and product marketing. Introduction of cross-location exchange formats and collaboration for user-centred product development. Conception of the CM4all ecosystem with a tool landscape for "Do it for me" services related to digitisation and website creation.

Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia, DE

Actively involved in the introduction and ongoing implementation of the company's agile transformation - supervising several development teams in Cologne and Erfurt, establishing an internal staff structure to manage product development. Continued development of CM4all Sites into the leading OEM website builder.

Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia, DE

Responsible for the OEM product lines as well as the technical conception of a new product platform "CM4all Business" (today: web4business). Development of a new OEM product line "CM4all Sites" - a highly scalable website builder with a fully customisable feature set for any international target market.

Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia, DE

Responsible for release planning, conception and implementation of our own website builder CM4all WebsiteCreator. This included standardising the user interfaces in terms of usability and functionality, also for international markets and partner requirements.

Cologne, North-Rhine-Westfalia, DE

Responsible for internal/external corporate communications and press relations, negotiating and supporting partner contracts for software and content components supplied.

Köln, DE

Overall product responsibility for the we22 group of companies in the newly established subsidiary CM4all GmbH.

Specialist in making complex technical issues understandable. Press and marketing work for software vendors, author of several technical books (Data Becker) and technical editor for IT training materials (Herdt Verlag). Teaching project management training courses.

Germany-wide B2B sales of an object-oriented database (ObjectStore) based on persistent C++ classes. Customers are manufacturers/providers of high-performance systems with complex data structures (e.g. telecommunications, CAD manufacturers, insurance companies). Object Design GmbH was founded as a spin-off of Patzschke + Rasp GmbH and as a branch of Object.

Wiesbaden, DE

Germany-wide B2B distribution of DataViews, a (high-priced) Unix-based software solution (editor, C libraries) for the visualisation of process data. Customers are software development departments in medium-sized and large companies; cooperation with Sun, IBM, HP and DEC.

Wiesbaden, DE

Working student activity: Design & programming of a CRM system based on a Sybase database using a C interface, consulting at trade fairs. 6-month full-time thesis project - Programming of a visually editable user interface for measurement data in an Oracle database under DEC VMS, implemented in C.