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Gerald D.GD

Gerald D.

RTE / Delivery Manager / Agile Coach

€1,000/day
Dortmund, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Gerald

I make complex IT projects and transformation initiatives manageable and create transparency, clear structures, reliable processes, and operational relief for effective control and informed decision-making. I achieve this through robust planning processes, effective standards, control-relevant transparency, and clear, binding communication across all project, coordination, and control levels.

As a freelance IT Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and RTE, I bring 12 years of experience in IT project and program management, digital product development, and ERP and CRM implementations. I support companies particularly in building and stabilizing scaled agile project organizations, with PI and iteration planning, reporting, risk and impediment management, and improving delivery and flow. I combine operational execution strength with clear structure, robust control, and secure communication across teams, departments, and management. I have industry experience in energy, e-commerce, HR tech, media marketing, and healthcare.
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Dortmund (up to 50km), Berlin (up to 100km), Hamburg (up to 100km), Düsseldorf (up to 100km), Köln (up to 100km), München (up to 100km)

Experience

  • Nebenberufliche Unternehmensgründung
    Co-Founder
    MEDICAL
    July 2025 - Today (11 months)
    Dortmund, Germany
    Development of a healthcare concept to reduce supply bottlenecks in medically underserved regions.
    • Process design and documentation for a healthcare platform as a basis for piloting and scaling.
    • Derivation of software requirements and development of a delivery roadmap.
    • Negotiation and operationalization of the pilot with market partners (regulatory review).
    Entrepreneurship Strategy Business Development
  • E.ON SE
    Agile Coach
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    November 2023 - June 2025 (1 year and 7 months)
    Hamburg, Germany
    SAP S/4HANA transformation program according to SAFe with approx. 20 agile teams in the ART / Support of 5 teams / Introduction and further development of SAFe standards at Release Train and Solution level / Support of 2 Go-Lives

    *Release Train:Setup and operation of a structured iteration planning process including central events (PI Planning, Review, Inspect & Adapt, etc.) for 5 iterations. Significant increase in transparency and planning reliability.

    *Release Train:Conception and introduction of agile program reporting. Enabling progress measurement, outcome steering, and data-driven decision-making.

    *Release Train:Introduction of a structured ROAM risk and impediment process including escalation logic. Sustainable reduction of blockers and re-planning.

    *Release Train:Moderation and execution of overarching regular meetings and strategic workshops with product management, program management, and POs.

    *Teams:Support of five agile teams in establishing and further developing agile working methods with a focus on flow optimization, backlog management, and cross-team collaboration.

    *Teams:Coaching of Scrum Masters and Product Owners in their leadership role within the teams and regarding their roles in the scaled agile environment.
    Release Train Engineer SAFe Program Management Agile Coach Leadership
  • Otto GmbH & Co KG
    Senior Product Owner / Delivery Manager
    E-COMMERCE
    June 2022 - July 2023 (1 year and 1 month)
    Hamburg, Germany
    Content and technological development of customer benefits (discounts) on the otto.de marketplace / Management of a team as PO / Delivery coordination of 15 teams

    • Leadership of an interdisciplinary, international (India) product team (BA, Dev, Arch) as Product Owner in scaled agile product development.
    • Stabilization of the overarching delivery of approx. 15 agile teams in the customer benefits context as Delivery Manager (dependencies, alignment, roadmap/release management).
    • Strategic and conceptual further development of customer benefits, including timely completion of the products responsible for.
    • Stakeholder management / project reporting / results presentations / decision coordination / backlog management / documentation.
    Product Owner Delivery Management Scaled Agile Digital Product Development Product Management

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Education

  • Diploma in Economics
    Georgia Augusta University Göttingen
    2009
    Außenhandel und Makroökonomie • Unternehmensführung • Mittelstandstheorie

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