Matthias Kurth

Product Owner, Product Manager, SAFe Program Consultant

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area

About

I have worked in IT consulting for 12 years. During this time, I have brought numerous international projects to a successful conclusion in various leading project roles within different industries (e.g. aviation, transport & logistic as well as financial service industry). My professional passion is product management in connection with agile development frameworks. In accordance with my motto - “Value matters most” - I support the team as a “Servant Leader” in achieving the greatest possible benefit for the product, but also for themselves as a team, with joy, perseverance and passion. Specialties: SAFe, Scrum, Product Management, Directed Discovery, User Experience Design, Design Thinking, Prototyping, User Story Mapping, Usability Testing, Multi-variant Testing, Project Management, Requirements Engineering & Management, Test & Quality Management In my free time I am addicted to freeletics, mountain biking and hiking.

Experience

  • Product Owner at Lufthansa
    Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Product Owner of the Lufthansa Group for Business Portal

  • CGI (Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
    • Executive Consultant
      Jan 2019 - Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      # PRODUCT MANAGER of a SAFe based program for the migration and further development of the online portal of a German airline company # LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST of a Scrum based program for the IT infrastructure migration of a German multinational investment and financial services company

    • Senior Consultant
      Jan 2015 - Dec 2018 · 4 yrs

      # PRODUCT OWNER of a scrum team for redesigning the mobile booking platform of a German airline company # BUSINESS LEAD for the implementation of personalised offer presentation on the online booking platform of a German airline company # PROJECT MANAGER for the implementation of an online booking cockpit of a German airline company

    • Lead Consultant
      Jan 2012 - Dec 2014 · 3 yrs

      # SUB-PROJECT MANAGER & REQ. ENGINEER for the implementation of optimisation measures in ticket machine maintenance (German railway company) # REQUIREMENTS ENGINEER for the migration & re-implementation of a CRM-System (Intl. food industry company)

  • Consultant at Logica Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Oct 2009 - Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    # TEST MANAGER for the migration of the recipe system of an intl. food industry company # TEST MANAGER for the development of the web order entry system of an intl. telecommunications company

  • Student at DB Systel GmbH
    Oct 2005 - Sep 2008 · 3 yrs