Apr 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Chapter

• The Startup Leadership Program (SLP) is a highly selective, world-class training program and network for outstanding founders, leaders and innovators who are or want to be startup CEOs, and be connected to a global network. SLP Fellows are in their early-20s to mid-30s and have founded over 100 breakthrough startups.
• Chosen as a fellow in 2012. Selected as a Program Leader for the 2013 chapter in San Francisco.

Nov 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · BeforeWeDo.com

• BeforeWeDo empowers sexually active individuals to active singles understand and manage their sexual health. Through its applications, it delivers personalized, location and time-sensitive health information to its users and makes it incredibly convient to follow up with screening. Its first commercial offering HIVTestSubscription.com caters to men who have sex with men and delivers HIV home test kits directly their home in regular time intervals.
• The company has been founded in January 2013 and is undergoing the Founders Institute and Startup Leadership incubation programs.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Startup to develop an interactive and social Point of Sale Systems for restaurants.
• Initial Market Analysis
• Planned a development path based on lean startup methodology
• First experiment and MVP design
• Developed the MVP using JQuery Mobile and deployed it in a local restaurant in Berlin. Very early deployment of first experiments after days of Implementation.
• Metrics / Feedback analysis and feedback into
• Managed backlog and finances
• Eventually discontinuation of the project due to different vision/objectives amongst the founders.

Nov 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr · San Francisco, USA

• Consulted Atlassian by supporting their enterprise strategy in a total of three projects:
• JIRA Migration Cookbook from IBM ClearQuest (Q1, 2012) describing strategies to start an internal migration project from IBM ClearQuest to JIRA including business, technical and process considerations.
• Failover Guide for JIRA (Q2, 2012) to discuss various implementation strategies to increase availability of JIRA systems.
• Enteprise Guide Creation (Q3, 2012) to cover the topics of sizing, Scaling, reporting, Virtualizing and Federating JIRA.

Mar 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Alliance Manager: Identified, acquired and negotiated partnership agreements with individuals and companies in Europe and the United States. Wrote standard partnership model and contracts.
• Development/Consulting: Concept, design and development of usage metrics and inventory reports.
• Sales Support: Prepared and presented functional and technical topics at sales meetings.
• Collaborated with new CEO on strategy. Designed and implemented new HR structure and governance.
• People responsibilities: 1 full time employee for project assistance and QA.
• Technical skills: Oracle PL/SQL, Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, Pentaho BI and Jasper iReport.

Jan 2007 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Part of project engagement team, led estimation process wrote Statements of Work / Terms&Conditions.
• Managed multiple concurrent internal and external projects based on agile methodology. Provided Single Point of Contact for clients while serving as the Scrum Master internally. * Project sizes ranged from 30,000 - 1,200,000 USD , all delivered successfully. Outstanding achievement includes the development and delivery of the first BizSphere version in time for the client’s global sales conference.
• Built a QA and support team and implemented ITIL compliant processes. Successfully exceeded support SLAs in a productive environment of over 20,000 users.
• Product Development: Wrote close to 200 requirements based on internal innovation and new client requests, managed backlog for productive BizSphere and prototype stage MySphere (life portal)
• Consulting: Assisted clients to build and optimize information taxonomies for marketing and sales content. Assisted customers to design and implement a content governance.
• Built system to handle development, PM, bug tracking, requirement engineering and support.
• People responsibilities: Managed a QA team of two full-time testers and one intern.
• Technical skills: Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, MS Excel, Requirement Engineering, Wireframing.

Mar 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Shanghai, China

• Joined the SAP EBP Support project and performed incident investigation and application monitoring.
• Transferred knowledge from the German to the Chinese team.
• Initiated and implemented processes and tools to improve quality in customer communication.
• People responsibilities: Built and coached a team of 12 interns out of ~50 candidates.
• Technical skills: Functional consulting in SAP SRM 4.0; SAP XI and BW monitoring; MS Excel

Sep 2004 – Feb 2005 · 5 mos · Shanghai, China

• Assisted on international project engagement for package software (e.g. SAP) support services and built German-capable resource pool
• Joined a crisis team, took over and turned around around a red-flag SAP EBP support project.
• Bachelor Thesis: “Intercultural Challenges of Knowledge Management Implementation in China”

Mar 2003 – Jul 2003 · 4 mos · Shanghai, China

• Prepared market entry/expansion strategies with focus on the automotive supply market and conducted an industry park analysis in the Yangtze River Delta
• Initiated internal management change in the area of Knowledge Management
• Gained profound knowledge about the Chinese business environment.
• Improved my intercultural sensitivity and Chinese language skills

Aug 2002 – Sep 2002 · 1 mo

• • Facilitated collaboration among the Jini Developer Community by creating an overview about content and activity of all Jini projects and bringing together projects which worked on similar developments

Jun 2000 – May 2001 · 11 mos · Shanghai, China

• Performed my mandatory civil service (alternative to military service) at the IT department of the Freiburg University Hospital.
• Worked in a team of four members to administrate the hospital's computer network
• Developed an helpdesk application to handle service requests to our departments which greatly improved our service quality

May 2000 – Feb 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Founded a webdesign company in High School with a friend. Started with developing static webpages but quickly expanded our service portfolio to Flash and web application development (PHP/MySQL).
• • Developed part of the room booking system for the black forest tourism industry