Jörg Battermann
Jörg Battermann
+49 179 7861273 (mobile)
+49 9131 68765 34 (office)
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+49 9131 68765 34 (office)
+49 9131 68765 33 (fax)
Summary of Qualifications
- IT professional with comprehensive business expertise and a strong technical background in: requirements management, engineering, product management, project management, process improvement, estimating, testing and quality assurance, leading distributed teams.
- Visionary, entrepreneurial spirit with a strong business acumen who enjoys working in an agile, innovative environment.
- Motivated achiever with a strong, analytical and strategic thinking who is able to prioritize and balance customer needs with business strategies.
- Proficient problem-solver, adapts to and identifies changing and emerging markets and technologies quickly, proven track record of bringing products and services from vision to on-time quality releases.
- Pragmatic Can-Do attitude
- Multilingual. Fluent in German, English and French. Outstanding communication skills as a trainer, educator, and motivator.
Areas of Expertise
- Personal interest in, thorough analysis and deep understanding of high tech products and services.
- Creative idea generation for innovative new products and proven track of identifying and gathering market requirements.
- Creation of requirements documents (market, engineering / product and functional) as well as planning and executing tests and product validations.
- Communication with customers and market contacts throughout all levels, collecting feedback, bug reports and feature requests and prioritizing them for future releases.
IT Skills
- Programming Languages: .Net (C#, VB.Net), Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP, Java, C/C++, Visual Basic 6 / Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), HTML, CSS, Javascript.
- IDEs: Visual Studio 2005 & 2008, Eclipse, Netbeans, IntelliJ IDEA, TextMate, VIM.
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Versant, db4objects.
- Application Lifecycle Management: Borland CaliberRM, StarTeam, SilkTest, Estimate Professional, Telelogic DOORS, QA Systems IRqA, Rational / IBM RequisitePro, TestManager & Rose.
- Change Management: Rational / IBM ClearCase, ClearQuest as well as Perforce, Subversion and Git.
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, Symbian.
- Document Management / Office: Open Text Livelink, SAP (EDM, ERP, Netweaver), Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Project.
- Hardware: NAS and SAN Storage Solutions (NetApplications Filer, EMC², Solid State Disks), Load Balancing & High Availability (F5, IronPort), Routing (Cisco, Juniper).
- Additional Skills: see list below
Professional Experience
Software Architect, Product- & Requirements Management
Freelance Consultant, Germany
Freelance Consultant, Germany
June 2002 - Present
- Successfully designed, implemented and evangelized tools-based Requirements and Test Management and Engineering including customization of existing products such as Borland CaliberRM, Rational RequisitePro, IrQA and Telelogic DOORS.
- Introduced and evangelized SCRUM project management methodology into existing processes.
- Identified and defined requirements, architected and co-developed fault-tolerant and distributed systems that increased overall uptime and reliability and reduced calculation times from weeks to minutes.
- Wrote and maintained requirement specifications for multiple products and process solutions.
- Organized and led a team which created a document-centric workflow-solution which minimized downtimes and failures while increasing productivity of engineers and developers constantly.
Clients: Siemens AG Medical Solutions Business Units Computed Tomography, Angiography, Magnetic Resonance, IT Solutions & Consulting; synG4 GmbH; ercas GmbH & Co. KG
Software Quality Manager
Freelance Consultant, Erlangen, Germany
Freelance Consultant, Erlangen, Germany
June 2002 - September 2003
- Designed and wrote test specifications and plans used for performing software and hardware tests on medical devices to ensure increased overall product quality and to exceed FDA regulations.
- Wrote software which automated and optimized testing and test planning solutions based on Microsoft Office.
- Introduced, customized and validated test software based on IBM Rational TestManager to reduce manual, paper-driven tests.
Clients: ercas GmbH & Co KG / Siemens AG, Medical Solutions
Co-Founder, Lead-Developer
Newzbin Ltd., London, United Kingdom
Newzbin Ltd., London, United Kingdom
2001 - 2002
- Co-founder and creator of the original usenet-indexing platform, based on PHP (frontend), Ruby and C/C++ (backend).
- Successfully scaled backend and frontend to maintain a steady growth from 0 to over 25,000 daily recurring visitors in 2 months' time.
- Improved and steadily adjusted marketing to ensure further growth of the community.
Co-Founder, Lead-Developer
StartupX AG, Zurich, Switzerland
StartupX AG, Zurich, Switzerland
September 2001 - December 2002
- Lead developer and project manager of a pre IPO trading platform for start-ups that allowed a steady growth while maintaining a steady uptime of 100%.
- Successfully negotiated with and acquired new companies as customers, maintained a close contact with them, and managed, prioritized and implemented new features.
- Recruited and managed a team of internal developers as well as outsourcing numerous subparts of the platform to 3rd party developers.
Co-Founder, Lead-Developer
dtf networks AG i.G., Munich, Germany
dtf networks AG i.G., Munich, Germany
April 1999 - September 2001
- Lead implementation of a distributed, web-based personalization solution.
- Identified market requirements, co-authored business plan and invented, prototyped and lead implementation of backend.
- Conducted field tests and acquired pre-release customers.
Founder
Personal Project: pricewi.se, Worldwide
Personal Project: pricewi.se, Worldwide
September 2006 - Present
- Wrote requirements specifications for a new comparison shopping engine allowing customers to to find the cheapest overall-price across several products.
- Implemented proof-of-concept, prototype algorithms in C#.
Founder
Personal Project: justBE.com, Worldwide
Personal Project: justBE.com, Worldwide
January 2007 - Present
- Created a social network applying ranking and trust algorithms to social relationships for both, individuals and businesses.
- Successfully implemented algorithms for backend in C/C++.
- Managed and motivated two globally located Ruby on Rails developers.
Founder
Personal Project: reqoon.com, Worldwide
Personal Project: reqoon.com, Worldwide
September 2006 - Present
- Lead Developer of Requirements Management & Engineering solution built upon the Ruby on Rails framework and the Yahoo! UI library to allow small- to mid-size businesses to create, track and trace their requirements easily online.
- Implemented a REST-based API allows 3rd-party developers to interact with the back-end from client-side applications.
Web Developer, Consultant
Freelance Work, Germany
Freelance Work, Germany
December 2002 - Present
- Created and deployed numerous large scale websites for mission critical, financial environments based upon PHP, ASP.NET and Ruby on Rails.
- Created and maintained intranet portals, and websites improving internal productivity and increasing sales and conversion rates.
Clients: Siemens AG, Medical Solutions, Fineco Ltd. & Co. KG, Sontowski & Partner GmbH
Professional Affiliations
Education & Additional Experience
Computer Science
Technische Universität München
Technische Universität München
October 2000 - June 2002
Mathematics
Universität Regensburg
Universität Regensburg
July 2002 - February 2003
International Economics
Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
March 2003 - 2007
Organizer (Un-)Conferences, Germany
StartupCamp, BarCamp, iPhoneDevCamp & Startup Weekend
StartupCamp, BarCamp, iPhoneDevCamp & Startup Weekend
June 1st 2006 - Present
Sole organizer of the first BarCamp that took place in Nürnberg in mid-december 2006. Shortly thereafter planning began for the first BarCamp in Munich in October 2007.
Moreover, an iPhoneDevCamp for Germany is being co-organized by Jörg which will take place shortly after the product's release on the German market.
Additionally, he is co-organizing Germany's first Startup Weeked and Startup Camp.
Project Lead BarCamp, Project Lead Wiki
Open Source Business Foundation e.V.
Open Source Business Foundation e.V.
September 2006 - Present
Active member of the non-profit organization helping individuals and companies in the open source world improving their development efforts and building a lasting business model. Currently serving the project lead for 2 projects: the internal and external wiki and the BarCamp Nürnberg.
Interests
Outdoor sports, music, movies, wine, cooking, traveling, art, conversations and reading an exceptionally good book.
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