Leadership

Leadership is a service you provide, not a title you hold.

Five practices, refined over seventeen-plus years of leading engineers through ambiguity, growth, and delivery pressure.

Servant Leadership

People are an organization’s most valuable asset, not a resourcing line. As Development / Technical Lead at MSQ DX, and before that leading E-Commerce, IT, and Online Marketing at JACOB Elektronik, my role has consistently been to clear obstacles, protect focus time, and make sure the people closest to a problem have the authority and context to solve it well.

Disciplinary & Technical Leadership

From acting Head of Shop Frontend Components at 1&1 Telecommunication SE to full disciplinary leadership across three departments at JACOB Elektronik, to owning technical direction and resource planning as Development / Technical Lead at MSQ DX today. I set direction teams can actually execute against, and stay close enough to the work to earn the trust that leadership requires.

Agile Delivery

Certified as a Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I), with IREB-certified requirements engineering (CPRE) behind that. I’ve used Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and OKRs to keep delivery cadence honest rather than aspirational, across telecom, e-commerce, and agency environments.

Mentoring

Growing engineers into leaders is the highest-leverage work I do. At MSQ DX I mentor and coach up to 46 engineers at a time, in German and English; earlier in my career I trained IT apprentices as an officially recognized trainer at 1&1, and coached working students through both 1&1 and JACOB Elektronik.

Stakeholder Communication

Translating between engineering reality and business urgency is a full-time skill. As the single point of contact for internal stakeholders and external clients (across projects spanning Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, and the USA at MSQ DX), I make sure the right people get honest signal, not sanitized status updates.

Mentoring as a growth engine

Across seventeen-plus years, the throughline has been developing the people who ship the work. I trained IT apprentices at 1&1 Telecommunication SE for three years, deputized for and eventually stepped into the team lead role there, and now mentor and coach up to 46 engineers at once at MSQ DX. Not through formal programs, but through deliberate delegation, honest feedback, and real ownership.

Working with stakeholders who don’t speak “engineering”

Executives, product owners, and clients don’t need architecture diagrams. They need confidence that the right things are happening for the right reasons. I’ve built that confidence across telecom (1&1), e-commerce (JACOB Elektronik), consumer brands (Netzbewegung’s client work), and international agency delivery (MSQ DX), by communicating trade-offs in terms of outcomes, risk, and timeline rather than technology.

“My job is to remove obstacles, grow people faster than the org chart requires, and make sure the people closest to the problem have the trust to solve it.”

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