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Consultant for Engineering Transformation and Leadership Alignment
with over 16 years of experience in the technology and IT industry
My professional career covers the entire product development lifecycle:
- over 2 years as aSoftware Developer
- over 5 years as aProduct Owner
- over 8 years as aScrum MasterandAgile Transformation Coach
Through this diverse experience, I work at theintersection of technology, product strategy, and organizational leadership.
Today, my focus is onscaling high-performing engineering organizations, strategically aligning leadership teams, and designing organizational structures that enable sustainable product innovation.
My approach combinesExecutive Coaching,operational transformation experience, and adeep understanding of modern product development. Through my experience in various roles – from developer to Product Owner to Agile Coach – I understand the challenges of product development from diverse perspectives.
This holistic view enables me tobridge the gap between business strategy and technical implementationand to support organizations not only in adopting agile methods but also in establishing the necessaryleadership structures and cultural prerequisitesfor sustainable success.
Proficient in the following tools:
- Atlassian Jira & Confluence
- Agile Hive
- Azure DevOps
- Miro
- Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint)
- Zoom
- Google Docs
Certifications:
- Certified Business Coach
- Augment MBA Program (in progress)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
- Professional Scrum Master Advanced (PSM II - planned 05/2026)
- Kanban Management Professional (KMP I)
- SAFe practitioner
- Leading SAFe
- AgilityHealth Facilitator
- Lean Change Management
- Management 3.0
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Slovenian
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Fluent
Croatian
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- ENBW GmbHScrum Master / Agile CoachENERGY AND UTILITIESOctober 2023 - Today (2 years and 8 months)Karlsruhe, Germany
- Supporting the organization in implementing Scrum
- "Servant Leadership" for the Scrum Team and for the wider organization
- Moderating/Facilitating Scrum Events and other meetings
- Coaching the development team and the wider organization regarding Scrum values and agile principles
- Supporting the development team in removing impediments
- Empowering the development team towards self-organization and ownership
- Coaching individual Scrum Team members on understanding Scrum and supporting them in solving individual problems
- Promoting good communication between different Scrum Teams
- Implementing process and tool improvements to increase efficiency and value creation (program-wide/cross-team)
- Designing and managing several cross-organizational initiatives to increase the operational security of the system landscape and reduce operating costs
- ÖBB / RailCargo Austria GmbHScrum Master | Agile Coach (SAFe)TRANSPORTATIONJanuary 2022 - May 2023 (1 year and 4 months)Wien, Austria
- Supporting the organization in implementing Scrum in the SAFe environment
- "Servant Leadership" for the Scrum Team and for the wider organization in achieving (PI) objectives and delivering value to the customer
- Moderating/Facilitating Scrum Events and other meetings
- Coaching the development team and the wider organization regarding Scrum values and agile principles
- Supporting the development team in removing impediments
- Empowering the development team towards self-organization and ownership
- Coaching individual Scrum Team members on understanding Scrum and supporting them in solving individual problems
- Promoting good communication between different Scrum Teams
- Implementing process and tool improvements to increase efficiency and value creation (program-wide/cross-team)
- Supporting the organization of (SAFe) Events (program-wide)
Supporting and coaching the Product Owner on:-> understanding Scrum-> prioritizing and maximizing value delivery for customers-> collaboration with the Dev Team-> product management and planning-> stakeholder management - Deutsche Telekom AGAgile Coach (SAFe)TELECOMMUNICATIONSNovember 2019 - February 2020 (3 months)Bonn, Germany
- Coaching development teams in the introduction of SAFe (role-specific at team level)
- Accompanying and coaching teams in the implementation of PI Events
- Role-specific coaching of the Release Train Engineer
- Collaborating with the Leadership Team to remove impediments and optimize the value delivery of Dev Teams
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Education
- M.Sc. Computer Science and InformaticsFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer science, University of Maribor2011- Programming (C, C++, C#, Java) - Software Development Processes and Methodologies - Information System Design - Project Management - Basics of Economics - Technical and Business English - Mathematics and Physics
Certifications
- Certified Business Coach (in progress)ICF, EMCC