Senior Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

1/2015 – offen

Senior Business Analyst of the adidas Marvin Digital Asset Management system.
Role, duties and responsibilities:
- Being the main liaison of the development team and the stakeholders;
- Requirements gathering, identification of user needs;
- Defining and writing specifications and specifying acceptance criteria;
- Making decisions for the product strategy;
- Handling and analyzing issues concerning confidential content (image leaks) and defining path forward (invisible watermarking);
- Guidance and coordination of team members; tutoring of junior analysts;
- Responsible for the transition of the team from a waterfall to an agile model;
- IT champion of project Mockshop in Visual Merchandising.
Marvin is a digital asset management web application that contains all adidas group product images; it is in the center of the group’s landscape serving a variety of applications as e-commerce sites, reporting tools and graphic designers.

Scrum, Agile Methodologie, Requirement Analyse, Management (allg.), Führungssysteme, Visual Merchandising, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, E-Commerce

7/2012 – 1/2016

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Product Owner of the multimillion IUCLID project.
Role, duties and responsibilities:
- Being the main liaison of the development team (20 persons) and the stakeholders;
- Requirements gathering, identification of user needs;
- Defining and writing specifications (use cases and user stories) and specifying acceptance criteria (JIRA, Word, Visio, Balsamic mockups);
- Organizing workshops;
- Making decisions for the product strategy;
- Guidance and coordination of team members; tutoring of junior analysts.
- Backlog management (JIRA);
IUCLID is specialized IT application for the collection and storage of chemical information for chemical substances used or produced in the EU. It is also one of the primary means to prepare submissions (dossiers) that comply with the REACH and BPR legislations.
Business or sector: ECHA (European Chemical Agency, Finland)

Scrum, Agile Methodologie, Requirement Analyse

5/2006 – 6/2015

Owner of IT and Publishing Company in Athens, Greece.
Role, duties and responsibilities:
- Managing company’s projects:
o Ecommerce sites and corporate websites;
o Over 150 small and larger projects of book publications with teams of 3 to 7 persons.
- Product owner of inhouse project Labyrinth CRM & ERP, defining roadmap and strategy, performing business analysis, system design and development.
- Managing most of the company’s advertisement and social media campaigns.
- Organizing numerous cultural events with great success (book presentations, concerts, theatrical plays, etc.).
Business or sector: Publishing, IT consulting and Software development

System Design, It-Beratung, Management (allg.), Business Analysis, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Indesign, E-Commerce