Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Berlin

• Building the leading delivery platform to ship parcels in Europe.
• Serving clients such as ASOS, Miele, EMP, Best Secret, ShopApotheke, Lillydoo, Flaconi, Nu3, Foodspring to grow their cross-border business.
• Raised €16M Series B from Digital+ Partners (Lead) & btov Partners (2019)
• Won numerous awards:
• #5 Fastest growning tech company according to Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award (2019)
• Focus Business Top Employer 2019
• Winner of Gründerszene Mobility / Logistic Award (2018)
• #7 Fastest growing startup in Germany, Gründerszene (2018)
• E-commerce Berlin Awards 2018 - 1st place Best Logistics Solution *
• We are hiring - see our open jobs here: https://www.sevensenders.com/careers/
• Details on our stack: https://stackshare.io/seven-senders

Nov 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Leading all company technology efforts in product engineering, platform and workplace with 80+ people.
• Developed by a team of language learning experts, Babbel has helped millions of people speak a new language with confidence - being the shortest path to real-life conversations.
• Named 2016’s “most innovative company in education” by Fast Company*
• The World’s Highest Grossing Language Learning App*

Oct 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr

• Leading product and engineering with 70+ heads
• established new product vision and strategy
• growing product management, product design and UX research functions
• kickstarted new technology efforts around NLP, AI and ML
• formed analytics and data engineering teams
• established marketing tech teams
• continued evolution of organisation and processes to keep up with overall company growth

Nov 2013 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Leading and growing engineering from 20 to 50+ heads
• introduced agile and engineering practices
• built cross-functional teams
• mentoring and growing techleads
• pushed employer branding and tech recruiting
• Ensured scaling to 1M+ active subscribers

Sep 2001 – Nov 2013 · 12 yrs 2 mos · Germany, Switzerland, US, Philippines, India, France

• Senior Manager Technology - Systems Integration
• During my 12 years at Accenture, I focused on building and enabling software delivery teams based on various technologies and methodologies and leading the successful delivery of software products for clients in travel & logistics, automotive, retail and insurance sectors.
• Besides international work experience with clients I also gained deep experience in global sourcing (offshore/nearshore) with various locations in the Philippines, India and eastern europe.
• Client Roles (excerpt):
• Technical Program & Project Lead, Delivery Manager for several large custom-build software engagements
• General Contractor & Program Lead for large 20M+ fixed price software integration engagement including subcontractors
• Software Factory Co-Lead (200+ FTE) including global sourcing (India, Philippines)
• IT-Masterplan consulting for CIOs
• Enterprise Architecture Lead - Establishing of Enterprise Architecture Methodology
• Establishing end2end software delivery methodology (agile, XP, v-model on both custom&packaged) for clients
• Offshore Transition Lead for mission critical production applications (with 1 year presence in the Philippines)
• Technical Architecture Audits & Due Diligence
• Accenture Roles (excerpt):
• Delivery Lead responsible for overall delivery success and client satisfaction
• engagement lead for 100+ Accenture employees
• Technical Account Lead (technical account development & leadership) for large transport & logistic customers - generating double digit yearly revenue
• Deal Solution Architect (Architecture, Costing, Delivery, Contracting) for several multi-million frame- contracts and invidual bids
• Technical Recruiting for both graduates and experienced hires
• Faculty for international trainings in US (project management, delivery)
• Mentoring and Career Counseling

Mar 1996 – Sep 1998 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Böblingen, Germany

• Student software Engineer (Lisp, C++)
• implemented large parts of the partner integration API
• automated unit tests
• Originally part of Hewlett Packard´s Mechanical Design Division, CoCreate Software GmbH became independant in 1997 and was taken over 2001 by PTC

Jan 1994 – Sep 2001 · 7 yrs 8 mos · http://www.d-lusion.com

• d-lusion interactive media was first to introduce a TB-303 like software synthesizer for the pc back in 1996.
• With MJ Studio we pioneered MP3 music mixing and defined realtime audio processing.
• In 2001, d-lusion joined Native Instruments and laid the foundation for the world-famous Traktor DJ-ing line.
• Products:
• MJ Studio - the leading mp3 dj software
• RubberDuck - the first Roland TB-303 emulation
• Drumstation - a personal drummachine
• X-tracker - a 32 channel tracker
• Creator - 4 channel .Mod Tracker