Coach (Jan 2022 - present)
Avagasso Coaching Community
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avagasso.com
coaching
Engineering Manager FinTech (Jan 2021 - current)
bol.com
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Utrecht, Netherlands
E-commerce
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Train and coach
on topics related to Agile, Liberating Structures, Coach Leadership presence, coaching methods, IT skill progression, Diversity and
Inclusion, etc.
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Lead, manage, inspire and coach
IT professionals.
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Support, facilitate, and stimulate
personal and craft development of IT professionals.
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Enable and monitor
performance of IT professionals (share expectations, give feedback, represent in calibration, monitor, and adjust remuneration)
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Create
a safe working environment built on our company values (passionate, together, trust, responsibility, sincerity, and
grounded).
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Build
teams, including fitting skill-sets to team purpose, recruitment, and onboaring of internal and external IT professionals.
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Enable, guard, and improve
team and cross-team collaboration.
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Set up
teams for success by stimulating a culture of autonomy, entrepreneurship, and continuous improvement.
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Co-lead
product development and delivery.
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Responsible for
the IT innovation and technical operation (you build it, you run it, yu love it, compliancy, security, operational
quality, and other non-functional requirements) of the product.
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Contribute
to business results while ensuring technology advancements (eg. to manage technical debt) are also incorporated in the
product.
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Be
a sparring partner for business and clients/partners (stakeholder management) ensuring expectations and goals are clear.
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Manage
vendors of both software/SaaS-vendors and suppliers of external contractors.
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Manage
both personnel and non-personnel budget.
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Lead, manage, or coordinate
the implementation of IT wide initiatives and/or one or more IT-projects.
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Active and supporting
role in IT wide strategy development.
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Negotiate and influence
inside and outside bol.com (management).
2021 2022
Utilized Technical
Skills
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Leadership, Individual/Group Coaching, Trainings, Workshops, Presentations, Agile methodologies, Liberating Structures
2021 2022
Research and Development Team Lead / Agile Coach (Jan 2019 - Dec 2021)
Onetrail
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Zeist, Netherlands
EDI supply chain, data logistics
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Lead
an internal research and development multifunctional software development team.
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Lead
projects internally and externally as a project manager / Scrum master depending on the project structure.
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Introduced
internally and to external companies an agile way to lead teams.
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Train
all people in the organization (including external partners) in Agility and Scrum.
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Coach
Onetrail through a complete agile transformation including coaching for product owners, Scrum masters, development teams,
stakeholders, and
leaders.
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Facilitate
company meetings (both in person and remote) weekly using a vast array of Liberating Structures.
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Develop
team leadership applications using MS Flow and PowerApps and Trello Butler.
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Developed
a project management automation application based on project type templates using Trello and Jira integration features.
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Led
the Civity Customer Project team to improve project time estimations, continuously automate, and improve as they work while
simultaneously delivering high-quality project work on time.
2019 2020 2021
Utilized Technical
Skills
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Leadership, Scrum, Agile methodologies, Liberating Structures, MS PowerApps, MS Flow, Office 365, modern SharePoint, slack API, Jira API, Trello
API/Butler
2019 2020 2021
Mission Critical Software Engineer (Aug 2016 - Dec 2018)
Schuberg Philis
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Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands
infrastructure management, DevOps enabler
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Designed / developed / migrated
an internal team connecting integration automation platform.
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Designed / developed
an internal Chef automation test framework.
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Installed / trained
the test framework for Moneyou.
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Developed
on a Backend MidLayer for the MoneYou Mortgage application.
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Created
an internal facilitation team (focus on Liberating Structures).
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Organized / Facilitated
a Schuberg onsite Liberating Structures meetup.
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Presented
at a CodeMotion conference.
2016 2017 2018
Utilized Technical
Skills
- MS PowerApps, MS Flow, Office 365, MS Graph, MS SharePoint Designer, modern SharePoint, slack API, PowerShell, Chef 12-13, Ruby, Perl, Gitlab
CI, Selenium, Java8, Spring, SOAP, Jenkins, Scrum, Agile methodologies, Liberating Structures
2016 2017 2018
Senior Software Engineer (Oct 2015 - Jul 2016)
Woodwing
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Zaandam, Netherlands
Digital asset management
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Developed
on the Backend of the Elvis DAM (digital asset management) cluster product.
2015 2016
Utilized Technical
Skills
- AWS EC2/S3/kinesis/CLI, Java8, Scala, Spring, big data, elasticsearch, jwt.io, Swagger, Bash, jQuery, Javascript, Angular, Linux, ANT, Maven,
Gradle, git, Scrum, Agile methodologies
2015 2016
CEO and Software Engineer (Apr 2010 - Oct 2015)
Avagasso GmbH
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Maschwanden, Switzerland
software and internet
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Founded
companies: "Sarah Gruneisen Software Solutions" and
"Avagasso GmbH".
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Created / implemented
business plans.
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Managed
on all levels including people, marketing, sales, resources, project management, and administration.
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Responsible
for all phases of the software development lifecycle including requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, debugging,
testing, and support.
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Designed / developed / trained / supported
SharePoint implementation of intranet and tools for a nuclear energy company, BKW Energie (3 consecutive 1-year contracts).
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Designed developed
Intranet Parent Web application for a daycare, KITA Forsthaus.
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Consulted / demonstrated
a school information system for the International School of Zug.
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Designed / built
a web shop for a clothing retail company, Carousel.
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Utilized Technical
Skills
- Scrum, MS SharePoint 2010, MS InfoPath 2010, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, XSL, XML, MySQL, SQLServer, Linux, AWS EC2/Route 53/Elastic
Beanstalk, Ruby on Rails, Fedenaa, WordPress
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Head of Software Engineering / Architect (Jan 2008 - Jul 2010)
smarcom AG (DIMOCO Vending AG)
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Bern, Switzerland
computer hardware and micro electronics integration solutions.
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Member of the
management team and reported directly to company CEO.
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Led
multifunctional software team and software development activities.
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Designed / owned / executed
the software development processes ( Software Release Process, Software Requirement / Specification Templates, Change Management
Process, etc)., the company Resource Management process, and the company Competence ( skill ) Management process.
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Designed / developed
the
sM2Mart
Framework (one framework enabling high professional and remote
coordination, survey, support, and update for machine
management, mobile payment for public and private vending,
logistics, emergency devices, and operations).
sM2Mart
:
smarcom machine to machine architecture
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Designed / implemented
the smarpay service built upon the sM2Mart framework (pay Vending machine product
by
mobile).
sM2Mart
:
smarcom machine to machine architecture
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Responsible for
formulating customer requirements / technical
specifications.
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Designed
BdB Vertera Teller Cash Recycler Test Strategy / Plan for Talaris.
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Implemented
automated test scripts for testing scenarios.
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Installed / setup / supported
the internal wikipedia.
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Install
hardware device software updates and tested M2M devices via HyperTerminal and machine understood commands (ATD, Text, and Data
uploads).
2008 2009 2010
Utilized Technical
Skills
- Java (Servlet, Spring, JSP, Apache Ant), EVA-DTS Vending Machine Interface, Assembly, TwikiWiki, JavaScript, PHP, DHTML, XML, XSL, CSS, PL/SQL,
MySQL, Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, Perl, Bourne/Korn Shell (ksh), Linux, Scrum
2008 2009 2010
Senior Software Architect (Oct 2007 - Oct 2008)
MondayCoffee AG
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Adliswil, Switzerland
software and internet
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Analyzed
customer requirements,
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Formulated
project specifications.
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Created
technical plans for projects.
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Maintained
architecture designs and diagrams.
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Implemented
SharePoint WSS and MOSS project solutions for both internal and external customers (templates, application customizations, custom
web-parts).
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Designed / implemented
an advanced reusable server-side solution that automates site creation for customers and allows site super-users to administer site
users without giving customers or super-users administrative rights.
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Upgraded
from WSS to MOSS and downgraded from MOSS to WSS.
2007 2008
Utilized Technical
Skills
- Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), MS Office SharePoint Server ( MOSS ), C#, MS Office SharePoint Designer 2007, SQL Server Management Express
Studio, MS Visual Studio2005, SQL Server, Perl, Active Directory, STSADM, MS IIS, ASPX
2007 2008
Product Lifecycle Manager (Oct 2005 - Sep 2007)
TDC Switzerland AG (now Sunrise Communications AG)
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Zürich, Switzerland
telecommunications
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Responsible for
all relating to the Service Assurance Monitor product (IP Traffic and Network Device Statistic Reporting).
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Managed
change requests and designed / implemented proper change request management.
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Designed / implemented / exercised
proper change request management.
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Proactively responded
to stakeholder concerns and needs and maintained the product roadmap.
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Initiated
projects to ensure the roadmap was a reality.
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Created
documentation, architecture diagrams, interface
diagrams, TOM
), and improvement strategies describing OSS / BSS
fulfillment, assurance, and billing.
TOM
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Telecom Operations Map
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Published
product newsletter and hosted Question and Answer user forums.
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Provided
technical expertise to service development and customer projects.
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Initiated
the OSS Assurance Application team, enabling managers to use the same processes to increase efficiency and improve system design.
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Managed
product related projects (Split SAM into recourse monitor and
service monitor. SAMiala: SAM Inventory Adapter log file analyzer, SAM 4.4 Upgrade)
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Initiated / designed / implemented / maintained
a web application to display service statistics visually, also used for troubleshooting and showing messages to the customers.
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Trained
internal employees throughout Switzerland.
2005 2006 2007
Utilized Technical
Skills
- Netcool/Proviso 4.1-4.4, Silverstream Server, Solaris 9, Oracle 9i, Perl, Linux, SNMP, PHP, MySQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, BourneShell
2005 2006 2007
Application and System Engineer (Apr 2001 - Oct 2006)
Alcatel Schweiz AG (now Nokia)
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Zürich, Switzerland
telecommunications
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Primary role: Sofware Engineer/Developer although hold many versatile positions
depending on the needs of Alcatel's customers: as a Product Lifecycle Manager, Network Engineer, and Project Manager
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Responsible for
all phases of Sofware Development Lifecycle (for customers: Swisscom Mobile, Swisscom Fixnet, Sunrise, Orange, Betti Bossi, internal)
including requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, debugging, testing, and support keeping in mind the set of Alcatel
values: Customer First, Innovation, Teamwork, Respect, and Accountability.
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Single point of contact for
all product-related projects, issues, and change requests,
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Initiated and led
internal projects (Test Case Manager, Management by Objectives, Unhappy Hedgehogs)
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Technically led for
specific implementation projects.
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Utilized Technical
Skills
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Netcool/Proviso 4.1, Silverstream Server, Solaris 8-9, Oracle8i-10g, Perl, Bourne/Korn Shell, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Apache Server, MS IPTV 1.1, MS
Server 2000, Portal 7.0, Infranet 6.1-6.5 (BMR), TIBCO Bus, Perl TK, Rational Unified Process, XML, XSL, CSS, Apache Ant, Java (Swing, SOAP), Advanced
MS Excel Functions, MS Excel Macros, C/C++, PL/SQL, BSCS, extreme programming, Agile methodologies
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Software Engineer Consultant (Jul 2000 - Oct 2000)
Cambridge Technology Partners
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San Mateo, California, United States
software and internet
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Designed a wire-frame for a customer front-end application.
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Designed the "Partner Portal" for Agilent Partners.
2000
Utilized Skills
- front-end design patterns
2000
Software Engineer Intern (Jun 1999 - Sep 1999)
Alcatel USA (now Alcatel-Lucent)
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Petaluma, California, United States
telecommunications
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Designed and implemented the Bug
Review Automation Tool
1999
Utilized Skills
- Oracle 8i, Solaris 8, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Web Alchemy, Web-DB, Continuus, Perl
1999
Civil Engineering Department Web Master (Apr 1998 - Jul 1999)
University of California, Davis
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Davis, California, United States
education
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Developed the Civil Engineering department web page.
1998 1999
Office Assistant (Jan 1997 - Dec 1997)
University of California, Davis
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Davis, California, United States
education
Conference Assistant (Jun 1997 - Sep 1997)
University of California, Davis
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Davis, California, United States
education
Lab Assistant (Oct 1995 - Jun 1996)
University of California, Davis
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Davis, California, United States
education
Cashier (Checker) (Apr 1994 - Sep 1995)
Holiday Quality Foods
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Redding, California, United States
food