Résumé

Summary

Education

10/2009 - 06/2013
University of Applied Sciences, Munich

Information Systems and Business Administration, BSc

Experience (last 3 positions)

04/2022 - current
Alloy Technologies

Director, 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
SinnerSchrader

Executive 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
SinnerSchrader

Technical 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

Misc

Last code in production

SaaS integration into Google Cloud Marketplace – 2023

Last talk I gave

“How bees helped me to better understand our company” – 2020

Last tinker project I did

Temperature measuring device for a server rack with Google Data Studio integration to win an argument with IT ops – 2019

Largest deal I was part of

Termination of a contract with a client due to an unhealthy work relationship with our employees. Around 5 million € revenue – 2021

Largest pitch I was part of

Global roll-out and development of a new tool chain (e.g., CRM, DAM, websites, internal tools) for the automotive industry. Volume: around 400 million € across 5 years - 2020