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Release Train Engineer at Mercedes-benz.io

CologneNorth Rhine-WestphaliaGermany🇩🇪
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Sixteen years of international experience spanning Product Management, Agile delivery as Scrum Master and RTE, Project and Program Management Professional  with an Electronics Engineering foundation. Recently focused on AI-assisted development, within his own delivery role and across multi-disciplinary teams. Active in the wider Agile and AI communities as an Agility Community AI Ambassador. SAFe Release Train Engineer at Mercedes-Benz.io, currently on his second Agile Release Train, with scope ranging from 6 to 10 teams and 90 to 115 members (excluding stakeholders).

Career: 9

Mercedes-benz.io

Stuttgart

Apr 2023 - Present

- Supports Mercedes-Benz.io's Amaze and Ignite Agile Release Trains, currently on his second ART, with scope ranging from 6 to 10 teams and 90 to 115 members (excluding stakeholders), developing the welcome points of Mercedes-Benz’s Online presence. - Supported the Checkout and Fulfillment ART in the context of a major backend transformation that involved establishing a future-proof micro services architecture for very complex payment and reservation systems that operate across the globe. - Organizes and runs PI Planning events; manages risk and clarifies cross-team dependencies for smooth, on-time delivery. - Aligns Product Management, Architecture and external partners on strategic and operational goals. - Analyzes product/performance metrics (Jira, Agile Hive, Structure, EazyBI, Power BI) and drives data-based continuous improvement. - Scales Agile and Lean principles company-wide; trains ART teams and active on the Communities of Practice. Leadership coaching and mentoring on Agile and Lean topics, tooling and frameworks. - Holds a SAFe Release Train Engineer 6.0 (RTE) certification.

Mercedes-benz.io

Stuttgart

Aug 2022 - Apr 2023

- Applied Agile principles and fostered continuous improvement (Kaizen/Lean); removed impediments through empathetic team leadership. - Partnered with Product Owners and stakeholders to improve checkout usability, performance and conversion rate. - In the scope of Mercedes-Benz Online Store supported the transition from a monolithic to a domain-driven micro-services architecture.

CGI Group

Cologne e Região, Alemanha

Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

- Scrum Master on an Agile development project for a major telecom client, inheriting a project at risk and stabilizing it within 6 months; also served as Scrum Master on a large retail client's Agile project with an international off-shore team. - Epic Owner in an Agile telecom context, owning epic lifecycle end-to-end, defining value/benefits/risk with stakeholders, and supporting release forecasting. - IT Project Manager on a geo-information visualization project and a Data Warehouse implementation for large telecom clients, coordinating requirements across on-shore/off-shore and cross-departmental stakeholders.

Lead Consultant

CGI Group

Cologne e Região, Alemanha

Feb 2020 - Oct 2021

Yazaki Corporation

Cologne Area, Germany

Jun 2016 - Dec 2019

- Led development and mass-production projects from RfQ to SOP for High-Speed Data cables, Airbag Squibs, Header, Optical Fiber and custom sensor housings. - Led cross-functional project teams (PMT) against milestones; reported via Yazaki PMS (YPMS, PMI-based); managed stakeholder, customer and supplier communication.

Yazaki Corporation

Cologne Bonn Region

Mar 2014 - May 2016

- Technical support for commercial-vehicle customers (Scania, MAN, Volvo, DAF, TATA); requirements analysis, - BOM creation and RfQ-driven project delivery.

Sanofi (Portugal)

Ovar, Portugal

Sep 2010 - Mar 2014

- Wiring-harness design and prototyping for OEMs (Mercedes-Benz, GM, VW, Toyota, Fiat, AvtoVAZ) - Kaizen/Lean (NYS, TPS based) improvement work, including two award-winning QCC - Quality Control Circles teams.

Optieng

Greater Aveiro Area

Oct 2008 - Sep 2010

- Industrial automation (PLC/DCS programming, SCADA) for pulp & paper and liquid-fuel terminal clients.

Instituto de Telecomunicações

Aveiro, Portugal

Jan 2008 - Jul 2009

- Writing the Master thesis "MAC protocol for Location Systems" under project "LoPes" - Localização de Pessoas / People Localization. - The Paper "Implementing the FTT-L protocol with ZigBee" presented at ICECS 2009 explores the use of ZigBee to implement a master/multi-slave protocol named FTT-L - Flexible Time Trigger for Localization to support an indoor localization system.

Skills: 65

Other

5SAgente de mudanças organizacionaisAgilidadeAgilidade de negóciosAmazon Web ServicesArcGISAutomaçãoAutomação industrial
AutomotiveC++CADClaude CodeClaude da AnthropicCoachingCoaching executivoComputação em nuvemContinuous ImprovementCoordenação multidisciplinarDesenvolvimento de liderançaDesenvolvimento de produtosDesenvolvimento de softwareEletrônicaEngenhariaEngenharia automotivaGestão ágil de projetosGestão de stakeholdersGestão LeanGISIA responsávelIndústria automobilísticaIndústria de papelInteligência artificialInternet das CoisasIoTKaizenKanbanLean ManufacturingLiderançaLiderança ágilManufacturingMelhoria de processosMetodologia PMBOKMetodologias ágeisMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft ProjectPensamento LeanPesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D)Planejamento de projetosPMO (Escritório de projetos)Product OwnerProdutos eletrônicosProject ManagementProtocolos de encaminhamentoRF (Radiofrequência)Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)ScrumSIG (Sistema de informação geográfica)Sistema Toyota de ProduçãoTelecomunicaçõesTrabalho em equipeTransformação digitalvibecodingWindows Azure

Publications: 2

MAC protocol for location systems

Universidade de Aveiro

Jul 2003

Implementing the FTT-L protocol with ZigBee

ICECS 2009 - Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 2009, Tunisia

Jul 2003

Credentials: 22

The AI Ethics Course 2026:Work with AI Responsibly

Udemy

Aug 2026
Jun 2025

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Project Management Institute

Jun 2020

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist

Scaled Agile, Inc.

Mar 2022

Management 3.0

Udemy

Jan 2023

ITIL® 4 Foundation CPD

AXELOS Global Best Practice

Apr 2020

Scrum Fundamentals Certified

SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile;Download Free Scrum Body of Knowledge(381 pages)

Oct 2019

Project Management Excellence 2 by Johannes Zohner-Nassi (Crisis, Profitability and CRM)

Tiba Managementberatung GmbH

Mar 2018

Project Management Excellence 1 by Falko Graf (Requirement and Stakeholder Managemnet, Controlling)

Tiba Managementberatung GmbH

Dec 2017

Building Leadership Foundations by Corina Milek

Hemsley Fraser

Nov 2017

Project Management Fundamentals 2 by Yilmaz Kizilirmak (Risk, Change Control and Finance Management)

Tiba Managementberatung GmbH

Mar 2017

Project Management Fundamentals 1 by Yilmaz Kizilirmak

Tiba Managementberatung GmbH

Jan 2017

Education: 1

Master

2003 - 2009

• Object Oriented Programming (C++, Java) • Telecommunications • Electronics • Waveguide Propagation • Optical communications • Control Systems • Computers Architecture • Signal Processing • Telecommunication Networks

Awards: 2

Yazaki QCC Activity '12

Sep 2012

Team Leader of the QCC winning team for the PTC Yazaki QCC Competition ’12 “The Improvers” with the theme “Optimize wire compensation on non-standard connectors”. Access to the European Yazaki QCC Competition taking place in Marocco in Nov. '12.

Yazaki QCC Activity '11

Sep 2011

Team Leader of the QCC winning team for the PTC Yazaki QCC Competition ’11 “The Improvers” with the theme “Optimize the Analysis of the Components to use on Waterproof Joints by W/Harness”. Access to the European Competition taking place in Bursa, Turkey in Dec. '11.

Languages: 3

Alemão(Native or bilingual)
Inglês(Native or bilingual)
Português(Native or bilingual)

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