Steffen Scherle

Product & Engineering Consultant

Neovaro GmbH

Automation Specialist • CEO • Founder • Consultant

TIM Solutions GmbH

• Leading product & quality management, and software engineering teams
• Driving new innovations to accelerate sales and strengthen market position against competitors
• Fostering sustainable business relations to technology partners to extend
business areas
• Monitoring and analyzing performance of projects 
• Building trustful relationships with customers to discuss market situation,
opportunities, and innovation
• Hiring, onboarding, performance appraisals, people development, mentoring, and coaching

Head of Product

• Consulting on how to scale software products (strategy, processes, methodologies, documentation, roles, resources, team setup, and more)
• Requirements Engineering for a future B2B Sales CRM product

Strategy, Product Management and Development Workflow Consultant

NextGuest

Responsible for the Engineering department. Reporting to the Managing Director. 

• Leading 13 people in two agile Scrum teams 
• Introduction of DevOps mindset and tools to optimize automation of deployment, testing and monitoring targeting shorter time to market and increase efficiency and quality 
• Playing a key role in product strategy to ensure company growth
• Initiated new portfolio management with themes, epics, features, and PBIs
• Planning and coordinating migration of tools, data, and pipelines
• Demand management based on qualification assessments and product roadmap
• Crisis management in relation to the coronavirus pandemic
• Hiring, onboarding, performance appraisals, people development, mentoring and coaching

Director Of Engineering

NextGuest CRM

Responsible for the Engineering department. Reporting to the Managing Director. 

• Leading 13 people in two agile Scrum teams
• Inspiring and leading the change of the company from a traditional waterfall-based and bureaucratic mindset to agile & lean – creating a mindset and culture that fosters innovation
• In pursuit of technical excellence, playing a key role in the improvement of architecture, tech stack and best practices 
• Improved release management and decreased release cycle from 6 months to fortnightly releases through introducing build, deployment and test automation
• Initialized a structured product management with a ranked product backlog and educating a transparent feature lifecycle process
• Cost & price calculations, competition analysis, and trend research
• Launch of platforms to support cross-team collaboration and knowledge transfer across team members and teams (Community of Practice, Tech Talks, Lunch & Learns, All-Hands, and Meetups)
• Communication and coordination of external consultants, freelancers, and professional trainers
• Hiring, onboarding, performance appraisals, people development, mentoring and coaching

Development Team Lead (Department Lead)

Design, specification and development of multiple applications and frameworks. Reporting to the VP Product. 

• Technical lead of the innovation project “next generation CRM” and implementing a new in-house framework to replace legacy applications 
• Research, architecture, implementation and third-level-support
• Inspiring the team to introduce state-of-the-art technology and frameworks
• Internal trainings and documentation of technologies, tools, and processes

Senior Software Engineer

Serenata IntraWare GmbH

Development and maintenance of multiple applications and frameworks. Reporting to the Development Team Lead. 

• Development, maintenance and manual testing of the CRM suite with focus on the email handling module for marketing campaigns & transactional emails
• Research, analysis, requirements engineering, and conception of the next generation of the CRM suite

Software Engineer

Self Employed

• Web development, design and editorial duties for numerous customers 
• Management, marketing and realisation of events in large nightclubs with up to 1.5k guests 
• Graphical design of flyers, posters, and brochures
• Portrait and product photography

Universität Ulm

Administration, Einrichtung und Pflege der Internetseite der Fachgruppe EMISA der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (CMS: Wordpress)

Werkstudent

Airbus Defence and Space

Projekt-Support für den Manager Online Media bei dem Relaunch des weltweiten Intranets sowie bei dem Relaunch der Corporate Website im Internet (CMS: FirstSpirit)

Univerität Ulm

Vorbereiten und Durchführen einer Einführungsveranstaltung für Studenten der Informatik in die Nutzung der Anfordungssoftware IBM Rational DOORS®

Tutor

Interested in working with us?
Check out our website ᴡᴡᴡ.neovaro.com to book a meeting or text me via LinkedIn.

► PROFILE
Creative, highly structured and empathic communicator with a passion for designing high-performance agile organizations and delivering superior products. 
Strong in observing processes to rethink and optimize them.

► SKILLS
• Agile Methodologies & Mindset
• Business Development Strategies
• Product & Portfolio Management
• SDLC & DevOps
• User & Customer Experience (UX/CX)
• Process Optimization & Automation
• Quality & Risk Management
• Market Assessment & Trend Analysis
• Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Team Leadership & People Management

► SELECTED LEARNINGS
• MBA in a Box • Udemy
• Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Develop Agile Leaders • Jurgen Appelo
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable  • Patrick Lencioni
• 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process • Interaction Design Foundation

► TRIVIA
• Piano player since over 20 years
• Via ferrata & mountain hiker
♥ I believe in positivity, equality, people, and society


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