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Marco Gau

not available until 09/30/2024

Last update: 03.04.2024

Senior Project Manager (IT/Finance), PSM 1, PSPO 1, Prince2Agile Practitioner

Company: MG Interim
Graduation: M.Sc. Business Computing
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional)

Attachments

CV-Rev-12-052023_090523.pdf

Skills

  • Skilled Communicator
  • 10+ years experience as Manager (mainly payment and mobile industry)
  • Customer Centric
  • Project Manager
  • Program Manager
  • Product Manager
  • Used to work in strongly regulated environments
  • Hands on mentality
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Data driven 
  • Scrum/Kanban 
  • Agile Transition Process
  • OKR Master
  • Prince2 Agile Practitioner 
  • Professional Scrum Master I (scrum.org)
  • Professional Scum Product Owner I (scrum.org)

Project history

04/2023 - Present
Business Analyst HR/Payroll

Client in energy sector

07/2023 - Present
Business Analyst

Client in finance sector

12/2021 - 02/2023
Business Process Consultant / Product Owner
Cremanski & Company GmbH (Internet and Information Technology, 10-50 employees)

  • Capacity Planning
    • Invention of Excel based capacity planning to ensure transparency of team workloads and forecasting (fast short term solution to support faster team growth)
    • Setup of Jira based add on for capacity planning, forecasting and reporting (fully integrated with Salesforce and Clockify)
  • Atlassian Suite
    • Initial implementation of Jira/Confluence (Cloud)
    • Workshops
    • Adjustments based on clients needs - Jira Admin
    • Setup for exernal access
    • Setting up bridge between Salesforce and Jira for automated ticket creation/updates 
  • Product Ownership Salesforce
    • Interim PO for internal Salesforce ORG
    • Building agile team (PO, Dev) to take over full responsibility of internal Salesforce ORG
  • Consulting
  • Individual trainings (project management, active listening, client communication)

12/2020 - 01/2023
Technical Key Account Manager / Product Owner / Process Manager / Scrum Master
shyftplan GmbH (Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)

  • Product Management
    • Requirements engineering
    • Creating use cases
    • Mass export on HR data for usage in SAP HR 
    • Documentation
    • Product ownership  
  • Process Management
    • Create process overview on all product and develpment processes
    • Optimize processes (Scrum, release process, bug process, product refinements)
  • Create product landscape 
  • Scrum Master for two Dev-Teams

02/2020 - 02/2021
Project Manager - Finance
Ratepay GmbH (Banks and financial services, 250-500 employees)

  1. Evaluation of banking partners for further expansion of companies business (including calculation of business cases and pricing negotiations)
  2. Project manager for implementation of Business planning and analytics software (managing internal dev team and external consultancy)
  3. Project lead for chain factoring refinancing solution with 3rd party bank

04/2019 - 12/2019
Head of Program Management (employed)
Ratepay GmbH

  • Strategic product planning
  • Shareholder management 
  • Management of multipe parallel development projects and their dependencies
  • Management of several IT integrations project with other companies (Nets Group)
  • Project planning / budgeting / controlling

07/2016 - 03/2019
Head of Product (employed)
Ratepay GmbH (Banks and financial services, 250-500 employees)

  • Agile Transition of Product and Dev department
  • Strategic product planning
  • Invention of company wide transparent product development process
  • building product management team from the scratch and shaping diffetiation between product management and product ownership
  • agile transition: merge of product management and market teams (Sales and KAM)

01/2014 - 06/2016
Product Manager
Ratepay GmbH (Banks and financial services, 250-500 employees)

  • Country Launches in CH, NL, BE
  • Design of Core Product (secured open invoice, instalment, direct debit)
  • Technical Key Account Management

07/2011 - 12/2013
eCommerce Expert
Several Companies (Internet and Information Technology, 10-50 employees)

  • Setup and optimization of 20+ online shops using Shopware including Payment Integration, UX optimization, Shopdesign
  • Shopware Business Partner

07/2011 - 01/2012
Project Manager - eCommerce
BVC Computerhandels GmbH (Consumer goods and retail, 10-50 employees)

  • Launch of Onlineshop for Hardware Retail including design of an automated wholesale product imported with automated pricing calculation
  • Operational tasks after Launch
  • Payment flows and UX optimizations
Used Shop-System: XT-Commerce

 


06/2008 - 06/2011
Director Operations (employed)
Fox Mobile Distribution GmbH / Jamba (Media and Publishers, 500-1000 employees)

  • Operate Jamba platform (mobile ringtones) in AT and CH 
  • Implementation of mobile billing platform in company owned online dating platform 
  • Design of mobile billing and sign-up flows for german launch of mobile streaming service
  • International Project Management (Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Chennai)

Certifications

PRINCE2 Agile - Practitioner Level
2020
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)
2017
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
2017

Local Availability

Open to travel worldwide
  • prefer remote work 
  • willing to travel but spending weekend in Berlin due to private reason

Recommendations

shyftplan GmbH
Head of Customer Success (Markus Stübing)
"I recommend getting to know Marco.

I have known him for 10+ years and have worked with him in many different settings.

His solution and customer orientation are exemplary.

His attention to detail, his level of creativity as well as his range from strategic thinking to the creation of business cases to the configuration of software make him a "jack of all trades".

He is able to work quickly into new topics to achieve value very quickly in the implementation of time-critical projects."
HR Operations Manager DACH (Dietke Höse)
"I worked with Marco on a complex project for 2 years.
He embraced completely new content and became a trusted expert in minimal time, proved his deep understanding and customer centricity by providing thought through practical solutions that helped to overcome technical challenges.
At any time, he showed full ownership and responsibility and has been a highly reliable and regarded partner, always available and committed - clearly beyond expectations!
I wholeheartedly recommend working with him!"
CTO (Luise Linden)
"Termindruck, fachliche Komplexität, zahlreiche Stakeholder, sich ändernde Requirements, ... Herr Gau behält die Nerven und managt mit Fokus und Diplomatie jedes Projekt. Das Team und ich haben immer sehr gern mit Herrn Gau zusammengearbeitet, er bringt ein breites Spektrum an Fähigkeiten und Wissen mit und geht stets sehr wertschätzend mit allen Kollegen um."
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