• 20+ years scaling technology operations from startup to enterprise maturity across Europe, USA, and Asia. Former Head of Operations & Agility at Mobimeo, tribe-level leader at Delivery Hero, department coach at trivago.
• Proven in reducing Time-to-Market 30–40 %, lifting Flow Efficiency to 85 %+, doubling Deployment Frequency (DORA), and raising team maturity from 2.1 → 4.3.
• Deep experience in cross-organisational program management, C-level alignment, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring delivery leaders / agile coaches.
• Expereinced Trainer in Lean, Agile Methodologies and Leadership topics.
CORE COMPETENCIES
•Cross-Organizational Technical Programs: Owned tribe-level programs for 8+ squads; aligned engineering/product/business units via PI Planning and value stream mapping.
•Technical Initiative Leadership: Ran multi-team Sprints, roadmap setting, and dependency resolution; deep-dived into unclear areas to identify root causes and guide scalable architectures.
•Stakeholder Management: Engaged C-level, engineering, product, legal, sales, operations, account management; built business cases for prioritization.
•Efficiency Catalyst: Increased cross-team velocity by 25%; codified processes, architectures, choices for repeatability.
•Engineering at Scale: Facilitated ART synchronization, risk mitigation, escalation plans; ensured regulatory compliance and internal policies.
•Metrics & Guardrails: Defined/tracked KPIs (Cycle Time, Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, MTTR); implemented remediation plans when exceeding guardrails.
•Ambiguity Navigation: Simplified complex problems; provided clarity via metrics dashboards and decision frameworks.
•Roadmap Alignment: Integrated organizational roadmaps with technical initiatives; prioritized via OKR/PI frameworks.
•Continuous Improvement: Optimized program management through retrospectives, waste elimination, and team maturity assessments.
Immediately available for permanent roles or interim/contract assignments