After finishing my academic career with a PhD in computer science, I decided to join METRO.digital in the
mid of 2018 which. Since then I am pushing my colleagues, our products and myself further! After having more
than five years of experience as professional full stack developer, I became a Product Manager for the 21+ METRO Cash & Carry websites
in the beginning of 2020. Next to that I represent our work and culture on many international conferences in Europa and America.
Since the end of 2021 I am responsible for the apprentice program in METRO.digital.
In my spare time I love to stand in front of my barbecue, take a run and spend time with my family.
April 2024 - now
As Squad Lead, I am responsible for our CRM web platform. It's the home base of our 8000+ users of the sales force organisation who need (or put) information about their customers, profitability, agreement, individual prices and many more, incl. pipelines of the selling processes.
Dec 2021 - now
Coaching, knowledge sharing and helping others to grow is very important to me. I've started to supervise and coach students already during my PhD studies. This is why I am an official IHK certified apprentice instructor and responsible for apprenticesship at METRO.digital. Currently I'm supervising 5 apprentices (08/23).
Dec 2020 - March 2024
As a product manager I am responsible for product vision and strategy in close collaboration with my product team. We steer the personalized web touchpoints of all METRO e-commerce websites in more than 20 countries.
Top 3 Success Stories:
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
METRONOM was sold to an external IT provider. METRO.digital was founded and the most important products have been moved to the new company. Description of this role can be found in the section of METRO.digital
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
After I finished my PhD in computer science, I started as a passionate full stack developer at METRONOM, the internal product service company of the METRO AG. In my everyday job I designed and implemented software, talked to stakeholders or business experts. I participated in technical interviews for new colleagues, started giving workshops on agile principles or public speaking.
Dec 2014 - Jun 2018
During my PhD I was a member of the PhD programme "Online Participation" as well as a board member of the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy. My thesis was about "Dialog-Based Online Argumentation" - that's a novel prototype for bringing structured offline discussions into the web. Thats was the start of my career as a full stack developer. I defended my thesis with magna cum laude in January of 2018.
Oct 2012 - Nov 2014
I finished my Masters Degree with an average degree of 1.1 in December of 2014. My focus was on computer networks, network security, mobile communications as well as peer-to-peer networks. This was also a reason way I got the job for the gematik service. In my Masters thesis I implemented and tested an algorithm for the measuring the end-to-end throughput capacity of mobile networks without having any information from the providers as well as without so called self-induced congestions.
Dec 2013
I had the possiblity to design and implement a prototype for a gematik specification-compliant access service. Gematik lays the foundation for a secure data network with the telematics infrastructure and the introduction of the electronic health card in Germany.
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| Melissa Perri | Escaping the Build Trap | ★★★★☆ |
| Roman Pichler | Strategize | ★★★☆☆ |
| Roman Pichler | How to Lead in Product Management | ★★★★★ |
| Teresa Torres | Continuous Discovery | ★★★☆☆ |
| Jack Phillips | ROI in Marketing | ★★★★★ |
| Frederic Laloux | Reinventing Organizations | ★★★★☆ |
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| Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus | ★★★★★ |
| Dan Ward | F.I.R.E. | ★★★★☆ |
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| Marty Cagan | Empowered | ★★★★★ |
| Nir Eyal | Hooked | ★★★★★ |
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| Robert Kiyosaki | Rich Dad - Poor Dad | ★★★☆☆ |
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| Mary Albright | 101 Biggest Mistakes Managers Make and How to Avoid them | ★★☆☆☆ |
| Marty Cagan | Inspired | ★★★★★ |
| Kim Scott | Radical Candor | ★★★★☆ |
| Dale Carnegie | The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking | ★★★☆☆ |
Trainer for: |
Feedback Skills based on Radical Candor |
| Agile Leadership Principles | |
| Public Speaking |
Product Management ○ Product Discovery ○ Stakeholder-Management ○ People Management ○ Full-Life-Cycle-Recruiting ○ Feedback ○ Coaching ○ Labour Law ○ Conference Speaking ○ E-Commerce ○ Leadership ○ Customer Experience ○ Data Analysis ○ Content Management Systems ○ Business-to-Business (B2B) ○ B2B-Marketing ○ Digitales Marketing ○ Full-Stack-Development ○ Research ○ Architecture ○ Frontend ○ Backend ○ CI/CD ○ DevOps