Broad experience in the leadership of agile, cross functional engineering environments, covering start-up as well as matured situations including near- and offshoring teams. An innovative, flexible and results-driven leader able to communicate effectively with people at all levels in cross-cultural environments.
Managing Director @ Leading Product Development of an e-commerce platform. From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Hamburg Area, GermanyDirector Engineering @ Leadership of a cross functional, agile software development department in an e-commerce environment. From January 2014 to January 2015 (1 year 1 month) Hamburg Area, GermanyHead of Application Management @ - Functional and disciplinary leadership of IT - responsible for Release, - Project, - Quality Management, Development, Testing, Business Analysis, Application Operations, Data Warehouse and Billing. From February 2012 to January 2014 (2 years) Austria, ViennaSection Head IT Casino & Games @ - Functional and disciplinary leadership of the IT Department (28 staff) of a P&L Business Unit at bwin.com, creating around 90Mio Euro of GGR yearly. End to end responsible for product development (software development & QA) and related centrally managed IT infrastructure services. From September 2010 to February 2012 (1 year 6 months) Team Leader Project & Service Management @ - Leadership of 7 ITIL process managers and 2 project managers working on internal IT projects.
- Monitoring and improvement of existing ITIL processes, IT policies and procedures. Introduction of new processes and standards (e.g. ITIL Service Level & ITIL Configuration Management Process). From December 2009 to September 2010 (10 months) Team Leader Delivery Management @ - Building up and leading the Delivery Management team, responsible for the company’s full release cycle (10 – 15 releases monthly). The team managed 150+ IT professionals (developer, tester) working in 15 releases teams in a 24x7, high performance, high transaction volume focused environment.
- Develop and introduce a company-wide agile release process, based on Scrum.
- The process won the 3rd place of the ESI Award for Process Excellence 2010. From February 2007 to September 2010 (3 years 8 months)
Master, Business informatics @ Technical University Vienna From 1995 to 1999 Hans Gruber is skilled in: Agile, Scrum, ITIL, Software Development, Online Gaming, Agile Methodologies, Quality Assurance, Certified Scrum Master..., Business Process, Business Analysis, Release Management, Project Management, Management, Online Gambling, Gambling, Software Project..., IT Strategy, E-commerce, Agile Project Management, SDLC, IT Management, Data Warehousing, IT Service Management, Service Management, Integration, Requirements Analysis, SOA, Mobile Devices, Enterprise Architecture, Leadership, Project Portfolio..., Business Intelligence, Project Delivery, Solution Architecture, JIRA, UML, Test Driven Development