Senior executive with track record in business leadership, product development, strategy and operations. I am energetic, enthusiastic and focused to build value for the customer.

My strengths are summarized as follows
- Creating vision, strategy and make them operational and measurable.
- A demonstrated ability to interpret technology and market trends as a foundation for technology and product planning.
- Expert in technology and product development of online systems (web, mobile, data, IoT). Ability to innovate based on emerging technologies in the online industry.
- Successful agile product development transitions and continuous improvement. Passionate about Kanban, DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
- Track record in creating and operating high available and scalable systems
- Comfortably move between highly varying levels of abstraction within business and product strategy, technical design and implementation
- Applied organizational and process know-how from large organizations with the entrepreneurial spirit to run an enterprise.
- Experience at running enterprises from a managing director/executive board role overseeing strategy and finances.
- Successful execution of merger and acquisition

Specialities: business strategy, innovation, product development, marketing, leadership, culture, m&a, agile, kanban, devops, continuous deployment, technology management, architecture, mobile, ios, android, data science, big data, kafka, hadoop, scaling, high availability, it operations, software development, process management, budgeting, fraud management, online industry, media, gambling, matchmaking, performance marketing, advertising, finance, insurance, retail, auditing, auction, marketplace

Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
Master's Degree Business Informatics
2007-2009
IT Management, IT Strategy
Project Management (including preparation for PMI, PRINCE2 certification)
Enterprise Resource Planning, SAP/Navision (including preparation for MS Navision certification)
Systems Engineering and Systems Integration
Mobile Business
Business Process Management (including preparation for certification)
IT Infrastructure Management (including preparation for ITIL, COBIT certification)
IT Security (including preparation for CISA or CISM certification)
IT Controlling
Consulting
Business Intelligence

Beijing Normal University
Modern China Studies for Scientists and Economists
2007-2007

Fudan University
Modern China Studies for Scientists and Economists
2007-2007

Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
Bachelor's Degree Information and Communication Services
2004-2007
Engineering (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Development, Information Systems and Services, Cryptography and Coding Theory, Telecommunications, Information Management, Embedded Systems)
Business and law (e.g. Business Administration, Introduction to the Austrian Legal System, Organizational Development, Leadership, Human Resources Development, Process and Quality Management, Project Management)
Languages and soft skills (e.g. Team Training, Presentation Techniques, Business Ethics, Engineering Ethics, Scientific and Engineering Practice)

Hak Hetzendorf

1997-2000
Editor for school magazine “The Check” at the International Business College Hetzendorf (1998-2000)

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Business Administration
1997-2000

Mentor
Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator
4/2013
Coaching startups in area’s of technology, product, marketing and business models

CTO, Executive Board
Zanox AG
11/2012
Help publishers to monetize and advertisers to drive sales. I am driving this with a platform to work effective together, independently benchmark and track success.
Responsible board member for Product & Technology for the Zanox Group (Zanox Network, Affiliate Window, Metrigo, EProfessional). Leading Product & Technology of Zanox (Product Management UX, Engineering, IT Operations, Office IT, Network Quality), 100 people.
• Increased gross profit by improved tracking technologies (fingerprinting).
• Increase of platform performance and availability by optimizations
• Reduction of licensing cost by consolidation of servers and switch to open source
• Start Data Science Team to leverage data of Zanox network
• Governance of all tech units of the Zanox group. Standardizing reports and steering.
• Setup of Kanban to reduce lead times
• Change to customer centricity in all areas (IT, Product, Development)

CTO / CIO
PARSHIP GmbH
9/2011-10/2012
Responsible for Product Management, Scientific Research and IT (Engineering, QA, Operations, Delivery Management).
- Delivering major product enhancements (e.g. relaunch of mobile web to increase activity of user, Enhancement of Profile to drive quality, setup of conversion initiative to increase sales, leveraging gamification to drive activity)
- Improving Time-To-Market by Continuous Deployment
- Setup of agile organization driven by Delivery Management based on transparency applying Scrum, Kanban and Agile Product Management to speed up development time and quality
- Improving availability by ITILv3 and DevOps approach
- Optimization of operation cost while increase flexibility utilizing hybrid cloud approach

CTO
Immobilien.net (Today Immobilienscout24)
7/2010-8/2011
Responsible for Product Management and IT (Software Development, Dwh, System Operations and System Administration)
- Leading Agile Vision-Strategy
- Target Alignment Process incl. KPI’s
- Implementing Scrum as business driven software development process
- Introducing ITILv3 (System Operation)
- Datacenter Outsourcing
- Defining Enterprise Target Architecture Process
- Innovation with Partners within Cloud Computing
- Setting Software Development Maturity (Process, Guidelines, Continuous Build, etc.)
- Publishing case study with Microsoft to prove scaling from onsite service to the cloud

Section Head Development
bwin
3/2008-6/2010
Functional & Disciplinary Leadership for 6 Software Development Teams (Portal, CMS, Core Services, CSM, Mobile, Community), 37 international people
• Setup of near shoring location in Romania
• Delivering more than 100 software releases in time/scope/budget
• Improving velocity by 25% by increasing code quality (continuous build, security, etc.)
• Ensuring 99,8%+ availability of delivered services
• Successful recruitment and relocation of staff from east Europe
• PCI certification for mobile applications
• Achieving regulatory compliancy in France and Italy for web and mobile products
• Major reduction of onboarding time across 3 locations by setting up training process for Dev

Consultant
Iphos
9/2001-4/2008

Team Leader Software Development
bwin
10/2005-2/2008
Functional & Disciplinary Leadership for 1 and later 2 teams (New Distribution Channels and Core Services), 10 people
• Introduction of Scrum at bwin in Wireless Team. Later supporting to scale Scrum to the complete IT.
• Development of the mobile internet portal servicing all products deeply integrated with mobile operators (e.g. Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange)
• Development of mobile messaging platform allowing to place bets via SMS and interactive large-scale SMS promotions
• Development of mobile transaction API enabling 3rd parties to build games based on bwin account
• Setup of Core Services team delivering the core transaction, customer and authentication components
• Ensure knowledge transportation to scale on organizational level and manage the truck factor

Software Developer
bwin
7/2001-9/2005
• Insourcing the software development and migrating the VB applications to .net
• Relaunch of sportsbook product for world cup and continuous improving to ensure user experience / performance while scaling
• Development of a flexbile scalable high available ad technologie enabling cooperations with affiliates and partners to aquire customers. In 2009 several billion adverts per month
Main technologies: Html, Javascript, Xml, Asp.net, C#, MSSQL

Software Developer
Active Agent Holding AG
6/2000-9/2001
• Developing ad technology
• Creating media trading platform MatchMaker
• Implementing innovative ajax adverts and delivering them for major campaigns
Main technologies: Perl, PHP, Asp, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, html, JavaScript

CEO
Iphos - Internet Production
10/1997-9/2001
Founder, CEO and Developer
Sold company 2000 and stayed as consultant until March 2009
Projects (excerpt)
• Allianz, Online portal and insurance calculator
• Bawag, Online shop with payment method DirectPay
• Gastroweb, Web and mobile online guide for restaurants
• Webauditorium GmbH, Unique Measurement Technology and Statistic Engine
• DealAssist, Reverse Auction focused on European Union
• Observer - Media observation, Enterprise solution
• MCN – Large portal system incl. content management system
• Further on exciting e-commerce and web solutions (e.g. One, Scienceweek, Linguaviva, Perpedes, Ars, etc.)
Main technologies: Perl, PHP, Asp, VB6, Mod_Perl, C, .net, MSSQL, MySQL, html, JavaScript

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