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Last update: 28.11.2022

Product Owner, Project manager

Company: L&S applications SARL
Graduation: Computer Science
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Limited professional) | French (Limited professional)

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Attachments

Ludwig-Schweikl-en_281122.pdf

Skills

Web and app enthusiast with an IT career spanning over 25+ years.

I have a passion for new emerging technologies and extensive knowledge of agile project methodologies.

My focus lies on the development and in-life management of web portals and mobile applications in coordination with internal and external partners with a passion for usability.

Originating from Munich, Germany I am now based in France
on Lake Geneva.

Project history

06/2012 - Present
Head of IT
VEHNS GROUP GmbH (10-50 employees)
Consumer goods and retail
VEHNS GROUP focuses on the production and distribution of innovative products with international partners
on various B2B and B2C selling platforms for over 30 years.

Responsibilities:
  • Overall IT responsibility and management of the development team in collaboration with external partners
  • Continuous optimization of IT infrastructure and processes in sales, supply-chain, procurement, product
    management, logistics, customer service and accounting
  • Administration of Azure, Linux servers, Windows servers, Active Directory, Exchange, SAP B1, Akeneo,
    Shopware, Wordpress, UC eBanking prime
  • Intranet evolution and maintenance
  • Coordination of product certificates according to CE, RoHS, etc. in the international import of goods
  • Design of print products with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop

Milestones:
  • Cloud migration into Azure
  • Shopware and Wordpress relaunch
  • Coordination of a full AMAZON EDI connection
  • Continuous optimization of a B2B trading feed containing over 1.000.000 SKUs from over 300 suppliers
05/2018 - 05/2019
Product Owner
SafeToNet Ltd (10-50 employees)
Internet and Information Technology
The mobile applications of SafeToNet help parents to protect their children on smartphones. Using innovative
approaches on AI, unsafe messages and pictures are identified

Responsibilities:
  • Product Owner for mobile applications, backend and artificial intelligence coordinating a team of over 30
    people
  • Scrum Master
  • Release management
  • Interface between management, product management, development and quality assurance
  • Administration of backend components
  • Coordination of Microservice APIs, load and penetration testing
  • Creation of the support guidelines

Milestones:
  • Go-Live of version 1.0
  • Full backend relaunch into MS Azure
  • Significant reduction of running costs per user per month through analysis and optimization of backend
    utilization
  • Migration of the server-side AI into an embedded model in the app
06/2011 - 09/2018
Project manager mobile apps
anfema GmbH (10-50 employees)
Internet and Information Technology
Digital agency with focus on mobile applications

Responsibilities:
  • Project lead of mobile applications and web portals
  • UX Design
  • Coding for mobile apps in Android / iOS and Web

Milestones:
  • Coding of an Android App for the sales team of HairHaus (hairdressing wholesaler)
  • Launch of a custom web shop for HairHaus
  • Catalogue website and iOS app for Thomas Sabo
  • Integration of a vehicle configurator into an iOS Tablet App for Audi
11/2009 - 06/2018
Entrepeneur
L&S applications UG (< 10 employees)
Internet and Information Technology
Development of Android applications starting with the very first Android Beta SDK

Milestones:
  • Release of Alarmania, an innovative alarm clock ( > 30.000 downloads)
  • Realization of Android apps for Wetter.net, undSparen.de, Gutscheinbuch.de
04/2017 - 05/2018
Product Owner
LOKATO GmbH (10-50 employees)
Internet and Information Technology
The Pingonaut Kidswatch was s a smartwatch for children with built-in mobile phone and GPS module.

Using a mobile application and a web portal, parents were able to contact their children at any time and track
the location of their child.

Responsibilities:
  • Project management for the further development of the mobile application and the web portal
  • Head of Customer Service
  • Creation of the support manual and FAQs

Milestones:
  • Launch of the web portal 1.0
  • Onboarding of a 3rd party customer support service provider
08/2015 - 03/2017
Vice President of Applications
Carnectiv Labs Ltd (10-50 employees)
Internet and Information Technology
Carnectiv Labs focuses on applications for connected mobility.

Responsibilities:
  • Overall project management
  • Management of the development team
  • Development of UI concepts

Milestones:
  • Creation of mobile applications for BOSCH in conjunction with a CAN bus module (with SIM card and GPS) for visualization of real-time data of a vehicle fleet.
  • Integration of voice authentication
  • Design of new innovative user interfaces for on-board computers
09/2007 - 05/2010
Online Shop & eCare Manager
Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG (1000-5000 employees)
Telecommunications
Product Manager responsible for the future development and in-life management of services and content on
www.o2online.de. This included the result oriented conception, coordination and realization of customer selfcare
innovations with internal and external partners.


Responsibilities:
  • Overall project management for customer self-care, o2 premium bonus program, o2 help and support
  • Management of the development team
  • Development of UI concepts

Milestones:
  • Launch of the customer support forum
  • Relaunch of the o2 premium bonus program
  • Integration of the o2 web frontend into a new company wide IT stack

Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
2022
Machine Learning Specialization
Coursera
2022
Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning
Coursera
2022
Advanced Learning Algorithms
Coursera
2022
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
Coursera
2022
AWS Machine Learning Foundations
Udacity
2022

Local Availability

Only available for the countries France
Verfügbar ab Januar 2023
80% Remote wenn möglich
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