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Letztes Update: 20.02.2023

Senior Project Manager | DevOps Lead & Agile Coach | Test Manager

Abschluss: Physik Diplom
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Sprachkenntnisse: deutsch (Muttersprache) | englisch (verhandlungssicher) | portugiesisch (Grundkenntnisse) | spanisch (Grundkenntnisse)

Schlagwörter

Devops Agile Methodologie Test Management Coaching und Mentoring Application Lifecycle Management Microsoft Azure Scrum C# Projektmanagement Microsoft Visual Studio + 29 weitere Schlagwörter anzeigen

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CV-Profile-Eike-Kortz-EN_280123.pdf
CV-Eike-Kortz-DE_200223.pdf

Skills

  • Specialized in Agile and DevOps Coaching, Software Delivery and Project Management, Application Lifecycle Management and Software Quality Assurance
  • Certified Scrum practitioner and Microsoft certified professional developer, cloud developer and DevOps & ALM specialist with over 10 years experience

Management and Coaching Skills
  • Program- and Project Management, Interims Management and Team Lead
  • Software quality and test management
  • Coaching and Training
  • Agile Frameworks and Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Nexus, Less)
  • DevOps
Functional/Technical Skills
  • Delivery Management – Waterfall/Agile
  • Test Management, Test Automation
  • Azure DevOps, VSTS, TFS
  • Application Support
  • NET (C#, F#, ASP:NET, WPF)
  • HP ALM/ HP QC
  • Jira, BigPicture, Tempo etc.
  • Confluence
  • SQL
  • Jenkins, Octopus Deploy
  • ServiceNow configuration und API Development
  • Microsoft Azure (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS)
  • DevOps, CI/CD Implementation
Eike Kortz holds following certificates:
  • Scrum.org Professional Scrum Developer; Professional Scrum MasterI + II, Professional Scrum Product Owner
  • ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager
  • Experienced Scrum Trainer and agile coach
  • Experienced DevOps coach and project lead
  • MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management (Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (70-496); Software Testing with Visual Studio (70-497); Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (70-498))
  • Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532)
  • Programming in C# (70-483)
  • Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (70-516)
  • DevOps Institute® certified
  • Prosci© certified Change Practitioner

Projekthistorie

01/2023 - 01/2023
Project Lead
Retail Enterprises

Project Experience - Extract
Project Lead
Retail Enterprises
The BI and KI IT department of one of the three biggest global retail enterprises, changed their IT
tool set and processes with a dedicated focus on ALM. A part of this change was the optimization and
customization of Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence), the definition and adaption of processes and
workflows, and where suitable, the migration to Azure DevOps.
My field of responsibility included:
* Project Lead for the Atlassian and process definition Workstream (>500 FTE affected)
* Coaching of management team and stakeholders

01/2023 - 01/2023
Agile Coach and Transition support
Retail Enterprises

Retail Enterprises
A global player in retail business moved to agile delivery within a major IT department. As part of
the transition, 'old' department structures were dissolved and cross functional, product and result
focused units were created.
My field of responsibility included:
* Coaching of management team and stakeholders
* Coaching and supporting Scrum Masters and Team leads
* Definition of new processes with dedicated focus on cross team collaboration and integration

01/2023 - 01/2023
Project Manager, DevOps Lead & Agile Coach

Banking
One of Germany's biggest 5 Banks reorganized the customer segmentation. The new segment for small
and medium business customers launched a new cloud based digital platform and customer experience
program.
My field of responsibility included:
* IT Project management
* DevOps and agile coaching for all teams, roles, and stakeholders
* Accountability for the entire DevOps and automation solution
The project won the independent "Digital Innovation Award - Digitale Welt" for disruptive, modern IT
and project realization!

01/2023 - 01/2023
Project Coordinator & Program QA Lead

Insurance
A global industry insurance enterprise was reorganizing the global IT landscape by replacing local
and country specific IT solutions with a global platform. My responsibilities included:
* Planning of a test factory and enterprise-wide QA strategy including the definition and
implementation of new agile delivery approaches
* Managing the central QA team and test activities in several sub-programs
* Adapting existing QA strategies to fulfill the needs of new agile delivery frameworks

01/2023 - 01/2023
Workstream Lead, Agile ALM

Public sector (ministry of education)
The ministry of education was extending and maintaining the key software solution for country wide
school management.
As part of new agile ALM processes and new delivery models, existing QA and test strategies had to
be adapted.
My responsibilities included:
* Workstream lead and Scrum master
* Trainer and coach for customer's testers and test management staff
* Process definition and adaption for new product focused agile delivery

Test Lead
Insurance
Overall goal of the project was the merger of a foreign subsidiary of an insurance company in Spain
with the head office in Germany and the founding of a Spanish branch. Both, organizational and IT
merger topics were part of the project.
My responsibilities included:
* Support for project managers in adapting processes and planning of QA
* Coaching for testers and managers to improve quality, reporting and transparency of testing
activities.

01/2023 - 01/2023
Release Manager / Development Lead

Banking
A private enterprise bank migrated the development team for a global banking application from legacy
ALM products to TFS. My responsibilities included:
* ALM process optimization and/or redesign
* Release management for multiple global releases
* Planning and deployment of TFS infrastructure
* Migration of source code, documentation, and automation solutions
* Training and coaching for developers, release managers and test teams
* Customization of TFS work items and process templates

01/2023 - 01/2023
ALM and automation engineer
Pharmaceutical & Medical Products

Pharmaceutical & Medical Products
A new platform for hearing aids, including device drivers, configuration software as well as
audiological fitting software was developed. As a member of the ALM Scrum team I was responsible
for:
* Definition and implementation of an ALM concept (Changing from V-Model to Scrum)
* Planning and development of automated tests
* Coaching and enablement of developers and testers
* Test planning
* Preparation for, and planning of, a migration to TFS 2010 including workshop preparations for
the customer
* Customization of TFS work items and process templates

01/2023 - 01/2023
Trainer & consultant

Chemicals/Electronics and High-Tech
Migration of multiple software projects from Perforce to TFS, including setup of hardware and
training of the development teams. My responsibilities included:
* Assistance and coaching for project leads and team members
* Customization of process templates, artefacts and check-in rules and branching concepts

01/2023 - 01/2023
Senior Student Partner
Microsoft Deutschland GmbH

Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Area manager for the university student collaboration program that brings future employees into the
current technology and industry at Microsoft.
* Collaborated with several universities taking part in the afore-mentioned program within
Germany
* Organizing and conducting technical workshops about current hot topics within the Microsoft
technology spectrum of agile and ALM
* Conducted and planned road shows for the current Microsoft technology being promoted

12/2011 - 08/2018
DevOps/Agile Lead DACH
Avanade Deutschland GmbH

As a member of the extended leadership of Avanade in the DACH region, I have been responsible for
the modern engineering work stream within the area. Aside from growing the department, I managed the
training program for agile and DevOps and sometimes supported as a trainer myself. People
management, internal consulting, project reviews and offering reviews were my main responsibilities,
to mention a few.
Customer facing project roles (detailed on page 2 & 3) included:
* Banking: Project lead, QA lead, DevOps lead, agile coach
* Public sector: Workstream lead, agile coach
* Insurance: Project coordinator, Program QA lead

01/1998 - 12/2002
Product Manager Assistant
Overkott + Keil GmbH; Krüss GmbH

Krüss GmbH
Supporting product management in the further development of laboratory instruments, through:
* Custom software development and configuration
* Research & technical design
* Conducting training workshops with customers to analyse customer needs and/or training the
customers in using the solutions developed

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