Résumé
Summary
Education
10/2009 - 06/2013
University of Applied Sciences, MunichInformation Systems and Business Administration, BSc
Experience (last 3 positions)
04/2022 - current
Alloy TechnologiesDirector, Engineering (Head of Vancouver office)
I am responsible for all five engineering teams of Alloy and lead the operational excellence of the engineering department, as a whole, with direct reports varying from 5 - 11 people.
Additionally, I was elevated to the executive team of Alloy to play a role in all company decisions.
My tasks include:
- Recruitment of all engineering roles
- People and performance management for all engineering team leads
- Responsible for the office as part of Alloy's senior management onsite representation
- Driving key technical projects ranging from more secure authentication for Alloy's data pipeline to building new integrations and features with state-of-the-art technology
- General operational delivery
- Support of SOC 2 certification
- The occasional implementation here and there (e.g., integration into Google Cloud Marketplace)
09/2019 - 12/2021
SinnerSchraderExecutive Director Product Engineering, Authorized Signatory (procuration)
As part of a three-person executive leadership team, I was tasked in running the Munich office of SinnerSchrader. The office employs 50 – 60 talents in
cross-functional teams consisting of Product Engineers, Product Designers, and Product & Client Managers. However, I mostly focused on the Product
Engineers as that was my field. Together, we have built web products like car configurators, portals, and e-commerce shops.
My tasks included:
- Overall responsibility in terms of technical and disciplinary management of the 25-member Product Engineering team of the SinnerSchrader Studio Munich
- Design of the technology portfolio of the local product engineering team
- Responsibility for the SinnerSchrader Studio Munich with around 60 employees from all disciplines and up to 10 active customer relationships
- Management of the studio's customer relationships in the technology/product engineering dimension as well as the business success of the projects with these customers
- Participation in the acquisition of new customers and winning new projects with existing customers
- Participation in the overarching design of the Product Engineering division at SinnerSchrader
- Active participation in the recruiting of software developers at all levels
- Designing and organizing the local selection and hiring processes in the Product Engineering division
- Participation in the organization-wide Leadership Team of SinnerSchrader
12/2017 - 08/2019
SinnerSchraderTechnical Director
I was the team lead (direct supervisor) of one of the engineering teams consisting of 5-6 people. On top of that, I was (technical) responsible for 1-2 projects and their technical excellence. The members of my team worked across different projects and in different project teams.
My tasks included:
• In-depth managing of individual employee situations
• Salary, vacation, and contract negotiations as well as performance reviews of my team
• Leading, supervising and hiring a team of developers
• Influencing in the sense of good architectural decisions taking into account technical goals and our clients' wishes
• Definition and iteration of the development process
• Participation in all phases of the software lifecycle, including working with product managers to define product specifications
• Review of code and control of contributions throughout the process
• Proactive search for and minimizing pain points in project infrastructure and code base
• Taking over personnel responsibility, coaching and further development of the team