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Curriculum Vitae English

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Language skills

German:

English:

French

Dutch:

Native language

 

 

Capabilities

Slack, Trello, Jira, Git, Axure, InVision, Sketch, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Confluence, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Mindomo, Photoshop, Kanban, Liberating Structures, Working out Loud (WOL), Clean Language.

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master I
Professional Scrum Master
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Leadership Coach
Chief Digital Officer
Business Innovation
Marketing Intelligence

Personal Data

Name:

Rob van Linda

Date of Birth:

10. June 1964

Place of birth:

Heerlen (NL)

E-mail:

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Mobile:

+49 173 217 81 25

Website:

https://robvanlinda.de

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My Strengths

Team spirit, helpful, cooperative, quick to learn, multilingual, customer-oriented, flexible, independent, curious about new topics, communicative, empathetic, self-optimization, success-oriented.

What's important to me

Clear communication, respect, empathy, esteem, team spirit, solidarity, helpfulness, punctuality, faith, friendliness, reliability, trust, sense of responsibility, openness, work, success, goals, staying up to date with the world and continuing to learn, mutual trust.

Hobbies

Fashion, interior design, reading, languages, music & movies, cooking , entertaining guests, blogging, Instagram, digitization, travel, meetups (networking), languages, rhetoric (toast masters) and passion for travel & cultures.

Self Improvement

  • - Rhetoric Masters Berlin (Toast Masters | member of the executive board)
  • - Liberating Structures Lab Berlin
  • - Agile Learning Lab Berlin
  • - The Kanban Club
  • - Agile Co:learning
  • - et al
 

Certificates

Certificate Chief Digital Officer

Chief Digital Officer (Grade: B2 (1,7))

Certificate PSM I

Professional Scrum Master I (95%)

 
Certificate PSM II

Professional Scrum Master II (97%)

Certificate PO I

Professional Product Owner I (97%)

Certificate Leadership Coach

Leadership Coaching (Grade: A+ (1))

Certificate media law

Media Law (Grade: A+ (1))

Certificate Digital Business Innovator

Digital Business Innovator (Grade: A- (1,3))

Marketing Intelligence (Grade: A+ (1))

 

Current Position

Since 01.09.2019
Convivo GmbH Berlin

Product Owner & Team Lead

Tasks:

Responsible for three products. Gaining requirements from the customer during regular meetings, managing the Product Backlog, creating items, epics & user stories, by prioritizing items, facilitating sprint planning with the team. Monitoring the budget, burndown chart and time-to-market with my Scrum Master.

Additionally controlling team working hours and accounting.

 

Career History

17.12.2018 - 21.06.2019
Karriere Tutor
Course Chief Digital Officer

 

 

 

Alongside the course, creating a website for a music producer

Modules:

Digital Business Innovator | Marketing Intelligence | Leadership Coaching | Media Law| Professional Scrum Master I | Chief Digital Officer (als "common thread" throughout the course)

Additional Modules:

Professional Scrum Master II | Professional Product Owner I

Creation of a website (portfolio & shop)

technical aids and appliances:

Joomla | MyMuse (shop component) | Templace creation FlexboxGrid & HTML5. Prototyping with InVision.

Tasks:

Installation and setup Joomla | installation MyMuse | development responsive template | UI/UX/customer travel | advice on legal requirements | connection payment methods | connection server from lawyer to embed legal texts | DSGVO compliant comment function, share buttons, forms, cookie hint and disclaimer | extensive (A/B) testing with key-user (sandbox) | implementation and testing of payment methods.

01.05.2017 - 31.10.2018
Aequitas AG Hamburg

Product Owner

Objective:

To explore new business models (business innovation) in the Digital Labs in the field of electronic commerce.

technical aids and appliances:

Scrum | Confluence | Slack | Productboard | Trello | Skype

Realisation:

  • Research into e-commerce (B2B) needs, regular meetings to share research results and translate them into user stories using Empathy Maps.
  • Based on the results, a product backlog was created and the team selected, developed and implemented which elements were implemented and inserted into the sprint backlog to be realized.
  • Organization and moderation of the events (during the sprint review together with the management, to get feedback).

Result::

A White-Label Multi Vendor Plattform

Career History

01.01.2017-30.09.2017
SNP Berlin (acquisition of Hartung Consult)

01.04.2015-31.12.201
Hartung Consult Berlin

Scrum Master (Hartung Consult) and Product Owner (SNP)

Objective: Implementation of SAPUI5/Fiori Apps and the Fiori Launchpad

Hartung Consult (Scrum Master)

Number of team members: 10

 

Preparation:
Finding suitable tools for setting-up a development environment | assembling the teams (SAP Backend, Fiori Launchpad, Apps) | researching and learning about SAPUI5/SAP Fiori Apps (participation in courses at the SAP Training Center, Walldorf & Open SAP)

 

Chosen tools: 
Scrum | Jira | Confluence | Skype | SAP UI Cloud Platform (SAP Web IDE) | Eclipse | Git

 

Execution:
Introduction to Scrum and the Agile Manifest, setting up accounts at SAP UI Cloud | Jira | Confluence | Installation Eclipse | Cloud Connector | SAP Web IDE personal, creating apps using the demo kit SAPUI5 SDK.

My Tasks:

  • Create an environment in which the team has all the tools it needs and coaching employees and management about working agile.
  • Creating an open, respectful and empathetic working atmosphere
  • Make sure that events like Sprint Planing, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective are adhered to (I wasn't actively involved in the Daily Scrum, but at the beginning I made sure that everyone was on time and kept the time box).
  • The removal of all (technical and non-technical) impediments
  • Communicating with the management (no product owner was appointed) and informing about the possibilities of the new mobile SAP and noting down wishes and demands
  • Inserting the wishes in the product backlog and discussing these wishes with the development team, who then inserted the items they chose in the sprint backlog.

After acquisition by SNP Product Owner

After the takeover of Hartung Consult, the company structure changed and as a Product Owner I was responsible for several teams at different locations.

So I concentrated more on the communication with the stakeholders and noted their wishes and optimized them as product backlog items including user stories.

Career History

April 2006 - May 2015 Berlin

Freelance Consultant Web Applications

Tasks:

  • Consulting on User Interfaces (UI), User Experience (UX), Customer Experience (CX) & Customer Journey Mapping (CJM). Most of the projects were about e-commerce (online shops).
  • Creation of mockups using Axure, Adobe XD, Moqups, Balsamiq
  • Optimization of the template in accordance to the rules of "Mobile First“
  • Advising customers on the choice of software (Magento, VirtueMart, RedShop, Hika Shop, WPShopGermany) including enhancements (e.g. payment methods, forms)
  • Setting up and customizing the system and installation and tailoring extensions
  • Optimization of the page according to the standards of Google Page Speed
  • Training of customers regarding the handling of the software (backend tour, product creation, purchase and invoice management)
  • Extensive tests (sandbox mode) of the site including test purchases
  • Introduction to SEO, Social Marketing and E-Law with recommendation of the appropriate experts.

October 2008
December 2012
Guangzhou, China

Product Owner Company Intranet

Goal:

Installation of an intranet for the Chinese branches of a German company.

Preparation in Germany:

  • Research for organisational tools and software
  • Choice: Scrum, Atlassian (Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket)
  • Typo3 CMS
  • Axure prototyping software, Adobe InDesign

Start:

  • Composition of the teams
  • Introduction to Scrum
  • Workshops with the management to achieve an understanding about agile working
  • Workshops with the team regarding the Scrum Framework
  • Managing and implementing the working environment

Tasks:

  • Responsibility for punctual attendance at events
  • Support in sprint planning and retrospective.
  • Preparation of the retrospective (communication tools and games)
  • Removing obstacles and hurdles
  • Regular meetings with stakeholders to gain requirements and to manage the product Backlog

Career History

April 1988 – June 2004
Switzerland,
United Kingdom, Italy,
France, Germany

Event manager in luxury hotels and restaurants (Michelin & Gault Millau)

Tasks:

  • First contact with the organizers (customers)
  • Planning and organization of the event
  • Regular meetings with the organizers
  • Close cooperation with the departments (e.g. kitchen, housekeeping, F&B management and florist)
  • Implementation of the events with the service team
  • Discussion with the whole team before the event
  • Duty roster for the Service Team
  • Regular training of the service staff
  • Acquiring new customers
  • Measures to retain existing customers
  • Budget Management

Education & Training

12.2018 - 06.2019
Karriere Tutor
Online

Course Chief Digital Officer

2004 – 2006
L4 Institut Neue Medien
(Institute for new media)
Berlin

Organizer new media & content manager

1986 – 1988
Business College
Maastricht

Additional year after Hotel Management School

1982 – 1986
Hotel Management School
Maastricht

Bachelor hospitality

1976 – 1982
Bonnefanten College
Maastricht

Grammar School with small Latinum

My mindset and attitude as a Product Owner

Some proverbs which describe my mindset as a Product Owner. They have been chosen carefully.

An alternative way of writing a letter of motivation.

 

Customers

Customer service is all about feelings. I am of the opinion, that customer service is management of feelings. 

 

Customers may forget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

 

 

Teams

Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... Teamwork can be summed up in five short words: "We believe in each other.

(A group becomes a team, when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.)

Norman Shidle

 

 

Agile

A software system is grown by incremental development, not built

 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

 

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

 

 

Communication

I Speak To Everyone In The Same Way, Whether He Is The Garbage Man Or The President Of The University

Albert Einstein

 

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.     

Neil Gaiman

 

Storytelling is about two things. It's about character and plot.

 

Communication works for those who work at it.

John Powell

 

Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed.

Aaron Goldman

 

 

Empathy

 Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

 

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

 

 

Leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

 

Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.

 

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder

 

Business Model Me

Due to digitization, people are changing. May it be as a customer with new expectations towards verndors, may it be as an employee with new expectations towards employers. To find out what one has to offer as an employee, we have to do some self-reflection. 

Since 2000 here's a great tool to perform such a self-research.It's based on the well-known Business Model Canvas and it is called Business Model You.To find out more about this exciting methodology have a look at the website https://businessmodelyou.com/.

I thought, that it would be a good idea,to put my personal business canvas online, because my expertise is a product which I "sell" to a company which pays me by wages and which sells me to the company's customers. Therefor this imethodology  was developed by Tim Clark. During my participation in a WOL (Working Out Loud) Circle I got down to work.

If you want to see the large version (makes only sense on tablet or desktop due to the size), click the graphic and a new tab will open and you can explore the full size canvas.

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Please. understand that I do not publish my testimonies online

If you are interested and/or are looking for a product owner and want to see my testimonials, please feel free to contact me.

I'm looking forward to your message.

Sincerely yours, Rob van Linda

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