Marcus Alt

Emphatic Senior Business Leader | build high-performance teams delivering business success | people centric | digital transformation | software dev. & cloud expertise | consulting background | get-things done attitude

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

๐ŸŒŸ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—บ I am a ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ with nearly ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ of ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ in a number of roles, around the following key areas: ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜, ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐—œ๐—ง and ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€/๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜. I bring 15 years ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ with broad knowledge around software development as well as ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ including ๐—”๐—ด๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ and ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜€. ๐ŸŒŸ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ I lead with ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† and ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป, allowing me to build ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐˜€ that ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ while having fun. I ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† in everything I do and have kept myself a ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€-๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†. ๐ŸŒŸ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ includes โ€ข Developing Microsoft Technology Center from a niche player into the best performing worldwide MTC. My team and I supported hundreds of customers in the fields of digital transfromation, cloud architecture, data strategy, AI, ... enabling them to successfully implement their business digitization strategy โ€ข Integration and business development of Germanyโ€™s Executive Briefing (EBC) in 2018 โ€“ 100% growth of Executive Briefings and more than 100% growth of related revenue โ€ข Brought a huge investments to Germany and was responsible for the conceptual vision, design and construction of "Experience Center EMEA", aligning 30 stakeholders worldwide. Microsoft successfully opened the most modern center worldwide in spring 2023. ๐ŸŒŸ ๐—ฆ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐˜€ ๐—œ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ โ€ข smart on extracting focused solutions from complex topics โ€ข business development strategies for services and product business โ€ข broad sales and technical sales experience with profitable increase of revenues โ€ข transformation of business and organizations โ€ข digital transformation โ€ข software development expertise โ€ข project management experience โ€ข cloud computing โ€ข Microsoft products expertise โ€ข hands-on mentality โ€ข broad intercultural experience with teams/projects (Europe, US, India) โ€ข practical cultural transformation experience โ€ข build high efficient teams โ€ข P&L responsibility โ€ข get things done - attitude

Experience

  • CTO | Head of R&D at SimonsVoss Technologies GmbH | Allegion
    Jan 2024 - Present ยท 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Microsoft (17 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director Microsoft Technology Center and Executive Briefing Center
      Jul 2018 - Dec 2023 ยท 5 yrs 6 mos

      Integration and business development of Germanyโ€™s Executive Briefing (EBC) into one organization together with the Microsoft Technology Center in 2018 โ€“ 100% growth of Executive Briefings and more than 100% growth of influenced revenue. Enabled a huge investments into a regional Center for Germany. From German side responsible for the conceptual vision, design and construction of "Experience Center EMEA", working with 30 stakeholders worldwide in the project. Microsoft successfully opened the most modern center worldwide on 3.000 sqm in spring 2023.

    • Director Microsoft Technology Center
      Nov 2016 - Dec 2023 ยท 7 yrs 2 mos

      Leading Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Germany , enabling digital transformation for our customers. With a great team of senior architects we help our customers with use case definition through early stage design thinking, enlightening technical strategy, defining architecture till even jointly doing rapid prototypes. I developed the MTC Germany from a niche player into one of the best performing worldwide MTCs. A profound strategy combined with a number of directional changes as well as strategic hiring and team building was foundational for this success.

    • Director Sales Excellence and Licensing
      Oct 2015 - Nov 2016 ยท 1 yr 2 mos

      Leading our Sales Excellence and Licensing teams in Germanys Enterprise business, including process stewardship, pipeline and forecast responsibility, running the rhythm of business and ensuring compliance. Responsibility for achieving budget and ensuring a healthy 4-quarter rolling pipeline.

  • Team Manager | .NET Consulting & Development, Methodology & Project Management at TRIA IT-solutions AG
    Feb 2004 - Mar 2006 ยท 2 yrs 2 mos

    Successfully led a consulting team including financial team success and presales. Very early adoption of agile software development in my teamโ€™s projects leading to driving broader agile adoption at TRIA and the dcreation of new cosultiung sercvices around agile methodologies for our customers.

  • Business Owner at TMN-Systemberatung GmbH
    1995 - 2004 ยท 9 yrs

    Successfully built a consulting and training company with focus on Microsoft VIsual FoxPro, positioned among the top 3 in Germany and implemented large, sometimes multi-year individual software projects. Key to success was early strategic investment in object-oriented training/development as well as broad community engagement.