Agile Coach / Scrum Master / Transformation Coach

January 2022 – now Freelance Lead Scrum Master / Agile Coach - Zwilling J.A Henckels Digital Services, Solingen
·      Support building up a digital unit for a world renowned kitchen utensils supplier
·      Coaching of (C-Level) management in agile frameworks with focus of agile leadership
·      Zwilling wide agile coachings (non IT-Departments) in agile methods and best practices
·      Hands on support of newly formed, cross functional scrum Teams
·      Hands on coaching of new Product Owners
·      Roll out of OKRs for the Digital Unit 
·      Introduction of Design Thinking / Sprints for the development of new hardware (connected devices in kitchens)
 
September 2019 – January 2022 Senior Agile Coach and Scrum Master,   Ernst and Young, Berlin
·       Coaching new and existing Scrum Masters, development teams and management for one of the largest health insurance companies in Germany applying the scrum framework and agile best practises  
·       Internal Ernst and Young workshops (Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban, agile leadership) aiming to create an agile organisation whilst strengthening the agile mindset. 
·       Design Thinking coach and moderator. 
·       Conducting SAFe workshops. 
·       Support for customer facing non-IT Projects by implementing a variety of agile tools and best practises (“agile setup”). 
·       Regularly conducting both internal and external project retrospectives and lessons learned. 
·       Providing support to the internal ernst and young dev team (distributed software development) as a scrum master. 
·       OKR-Master for internal and external teams and projects. 
 


January 2019 –  August 2019 Head of USA for HelloBody (interim), Greater Los Angeles Area, West Hollywood
·       Definition and implementation the marketing strategy for the US market: building upon current successes and expanding them 
·    Responsible for revenue development of the US market
·    Analyse results of marketing campaigns and adapt them continuously
·    Building, leading and motivating an energetic and result-oriented team of 7 people
·    Managing social media campaigns on Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Snapchat etc. 
·    Developing suggestions and concepts for process optimization 
·    Budget responsibility of 2 Million USD
 
 
November 2015 – Dezember 2018 Founder and CEO Bestcruiter.com
·       Founder of first recommendation platform for headhunters
·       Responsible for Product and Marketing (eg. SEO, usability)
·       Definition of market entry strategies and their execution
·       Management of a team of 4 employees
·       Speaker on conferences and meet ups
 
June 2015 - Oktober 2015 Product Owner MyLorry/ Food Express, Berlin
·       Bridge between the team and their stakeholders
·       Definition and design of product features
·       Prioritisation of features according to the current business value 
·       Testing and approval of new features
·       Gathering feedback from users and customers

Nov 2013 –  May 2015 Scrum Master / Agile Coach, AS ideAS Engineering an Axel Springer Company, Berlin 
·      Direct Support of two international scrum teams 
·      Introduction of agile methodologies and mindset 
·      Advocate for Discovery Workshops, Design Thinking and MVP approach 
·      Stakeholder coaching (Axel Springer-wide)
·      Planning, roll out and optimization of agile metrics and happiness index 
2010 – 2013 Immobilien Scout GmbH, Berlin 
Scrum Master in Product Development 
·       Agile transition within the organisation, including non IT departments 
·       Strengthening of agile principles and mindsets 
·       Transparency towards management and teams 
·        Support and organisation of work of external scrum teams 
·        Process optimization and agilisation of international projects 
·        Mentor @ you-IS-now (start up incubator) 
Scrum Master in IT Security 
·         Composition of a security organization within IS24 
·         Support for the work of the security team 
·         Coordination of the auditing of platform services 
·         Planning and roll out of a company wide security campaign 

EDUCATION
2002 - 2008 University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 
Business Administration (Diplomkaufman) 
Specialization: Organization and Management; Taxation and Auditing 
1998 - 2002 First Private College, Czestochowa, Poland
1990 - 1998 Primary School, Czestochowa, Poland 
 
SKILLS
Trainings: Conflict Management, Communication techniques, Creativity techniques, Visual Facilitation, Presentation, Intercultural Training, Management / Leadership training, Moderation. 
Hard :Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, Google workspace, Mural, 
Soft: Kaizen, Scrum, Kanban, MVP-approach, Discovery Workshops, Design Thinking, Value Streaming, Happiness Index, agile Metrics, Transparency, Story Mapping…