Graz, Styria, Austria
Senior Program Manager (Software Development) at AVL and Process Owner of the Agile Software Development Process within the Business Area “Testing Solutions”. Background in software development; SAFe Practice Consultant and Certified Scrum Master.
Program-level responsibility for coordinating a large-scale software development setup with approximately 20 teams using SAFe to develop and deliver software for AVL testing systems. Program-level preparation, facilitation, and follow-up of Program Increment (PI) Planning and Inspect & Adapt (I&A). Supporting PI execution through coordination at program level, including alignment on risks and dependencies across teams and organizational units. Process Owner for the Software Development Process since 2021, including responsibility for interfaces to product development and release processes as well as continuous process improvement.
Contributed to the introduction of a platform strategy focused on software components as product building blocks. Part of the team transitioning the organization to scaled agile software development to address challenges posed by concurrent sequential development projects. Supported program-level changes to foster a more efficient product development environment.
Contributed to the development and implementation of Styria Media Group AG's digital strategy, focusing on mobile, traffic management, marketplaces, and IT.
Leading and actively contributing to software-intensive projects, risk assessment of software systems of potential web company acquisitions. Introduced a corporate-wide web analytics solution across over 50 portals in 4 countries.
Lecturer of Wissenstechnologie (Knowledge technologies), a lecture on technologies for the Semantic Web and for Web 2.0, in winters terms 2006/2007 and 2007/2008
Researcher and software developer (Java) within the APOSDLE project. Work package leader of APOSDLE work package IV - Integrated Knowledge Structure, dealing with software architecture and integration, user profiling and privacy, expert recommendation and information retrieval.
Involvement in various R&D projects as project manager and software developer with technologies such as ASP.net, C#, JavaScript, Java, PHP.