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Max Fortmeier

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Last update: 27.03.2024

Product Manager | Product Owner | Consultant

Company: Max Fortmeier (Einzelunternehmer)
Graduation: Master of Science in Management and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional) | Spanish (Limited professional)

Attachments

CV-inkl_270324.pdf

Skills

Focus:
As an experienced product manager / owner, I support companies in all challenges around digital product management and agile ways of working. From product strategy and conception to building and further developing digital products & services.

I have been working in the digital and IT sector for more than 8 years, including more than 6 years in digital product management. Before I started working as an independent consultant in 2021, I was working as a product manager and consultant for renowned companies (CHECK24 and PwC).

Skills:
Product Management, Product Owner, agile project management, digital transformation, consulting, workshops, design thinking, agile, Scrum, Kanban

Industry knowledge:
Internet, IT and Services, Software, Web3, NFTs & Blockchain, Banking and Financial Services, Insurances, Energy, Management Consulting

Certificate:
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (2018, scrum.org)

Tools/Methods:
Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Asana, Trello, Notion,
Miro, Figma
MS Office, GSuite, Slack, Zoom, MS Teams, Discord
SQL, HTML, CSS
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking

Project history

04/2022 - 10/2022
Web3, NFT & Blockchain Advisor (Freelance)
Start-up in Web3 & NFTs (Internet and Information Technology, < 10 employees)

  • Advisor for a start-up that aims to launch its own NFT collection and to become one of the central contact points for women in web3
  • Advisory with focus on the topics NFTs, web3 & crypto (especially different blockchains, technical implications, smart contracts, community building etc.)

05/2022 - 09/2022
Product Owner - E-Commerce (Freelance)
Company from the energy sector (Energy, water and environment, 250-500 employees)

  • Responsibility for concept and implementation of an e-commerce funnel and CRM system for the B2C business
  • Leading a product team (> 10 persons) of developers (Frontend, Backend, Microsoft Dynamics), QA, UX/UI designers, and agile coach
  • Collection and translation of requirements, backlog priorization and management, creation and refinement of epics, user stories, and bugs
  • Stakeholder management and agile project management

09/2021 - 03/2022
Product Owner - App (Freelance)
Company from the energy sector (Energy, water and environment, 250-500 employees)

  • Responsibility for concept and implementation of the native app for the B2C business
  • Leading a product team (> 10 persons) of developers (iOS, Android, Backend), QA, UX/UI designer, and agile coach
  • Collection and translation of requirements, backlog priorization and management, creation and refinement of epics, user stories, and bugs
  • Stakeholder management and agile project management

08/2019 - 04/2021
Senior Product Manager
CHECK24 (Internet and Information Technology)

  • Building and leading a product team (> 5 people)
  • Expansion of product strategy and product roadmap
  • Development of features and concepts for several digital products (desktop, mobile, app)
  • Creation, testing and release of new features, bug fixes and technical maintenance tickets
  • Further development of CRM tool and optimization of backend processes
  • Project execution following Scrum and Kanban in close cooperation with IT

01/2016 - 07/2019
Senior Consultant
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) (Other)

Several project assignments focusing on digitization, product management, agile transformation, and crisis management, e.g.:
  • Design and agile implementation of a digital platform and several web-based applications (desktop, mobile) for the private customer business of a major German client (Aug 2017 - Apr 2019)
  • Crisis management and process implementation following an international data leak (Panama Papers) for a globally operating client (May 2016 - Oct 2016)
  • Automation and transformation of customer focused processes for the European private customer business of a globally operating client (Jan 2016 - Apr 2016)

Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
2018

Local Availability

Open to travel worldwide
Spatial availability:
  • Preferably remote
  • On-site project assignments possible by arrangement
  • Travel readiness within Germany (project assignments within Europe possible on a remote basis)
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