About me (CV)

About me

Michael Schindler

Getting things done

What I do

Project Management
Product Management
E-Commerce Consultant

Location

Berlin, Germany

Follow me

2017 / Today

Senior IT Project Manager

Episerver

Onboarding Project Manager for Episerver Customer-Centric Digital Experience Platform EMEA & DACH and owner of technical onboardings and support for Episerver Personalization DACH (Machine-Learning engine).

Owning the onboarding phase of the customer journey
Coordinating between internal and external stakeholders
Managing dependencies and risks within onboarding projects
Offering consulting for technical implementation and personalization strategies
Working abroad 1 month to train teams in Boston, USA

2015 / 2017

Senior Solutions Consultant & Sales Engineer

Peerius, Berlin

Leading technical onboardings for DACH and shaping the Machine-Learning solution as member of Product Board. In addition supporting Sales extensively with Sales and Pre-Sales activities as well as Marketing initiatives including exhibitions like DMEXCO, Neocom & Internetworld. Actively responsible for building up the company from ground up to become successful and well established on the German market that lead to the acquisition by Episerver.

Establish brand and market presence
Rockstar Sales team with extremely high winning rate
Technical onboarding
Shaping product
Optimizing processes for highest efficiency
Hands-on, "getting things done" menthality
This winning team was the best time of my life so far

2014 / 2015

Senior Solutions Consultant

Peerius, London

Founding member of Peerius Germany, that later became Episerver Personalization. Working in London HQ for 1 year to prepare German market entry. Creating new and optimizing existing processes, restructuring teams and defining technical implementation. Helping develop the solution together with the CTO. Supporting Sales and Marketing activities for UK and technical onboardings of international and UK clients.

Reporting to CEO
Developing product together with CTO
Defining onboarding processes
Preparing solution for DACH market entry
Working 1 year abroad in London, England

2013 / 2014

Product Manager

eKomi

Managing further product development and designing & planing of new features that helped us to stay well ahead of the competition.

Planning and executing product milestones
Managing deadlines
Sprint meetings
Agile product development
Managing internal and external stakeholders and technology partners

2012 / 2014

IT Project Manager

eKomi

Managing technical implementations of product review solutions and APIs as well as highly customized and white label products. In addition supporting Sales and Pre-Sales with technical consultancy and finding solutions to specific client scenarios and use cases.

Specialized in managing key account projects
International team
Managing between internal development teams, clients and partners
Finding creative solutions outside-the-box
Sales support

2008 / 2012

Web Developer, Web & Print Designer, Photographer

Fit4Style

PHP/MySQL Web Development, XTCommerce, Drupal, Magento & Wordpress Development, Linux Server Administration (Suse, Apache, openEMM), Windows Server Network Administration, Layouts, Templating, Flyers & Catalogues (Print), HTML/CSS/JS, Product Photography (Macro), Photoshop Editing & Retouching (Products & Model shots)

Involvement in all E-Commerce processes
Backend Development
Frontend Development
Working with partners and solution providers (shipping, payment etc.)
Hands-on, agile menthality
Professional product photography and retouch

2001 / 2008

Web Developer, Web Designer

Freelancer

HTML/CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL, ActionScript, Lingo, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Cinema4D, IT Security

Development of my own lightweight CMS Framework
Wordpress Plugins & Themes
JS & Flash Games
Bulletin Boards
Research into IT and web security

Best of all worlds

I'm an e-commerce expert and Senior IT Project Manager with 15+ years experience.
I offer a very unique combination of:

technical knowledge from developer view,
business processes and needs from client perspective,
project management from service provider side,
understanding for highly successful sales & pre-sales and
working in agile, international environments.

I offer a hands-on "getting things done" mentality and don't support having superfluous meetings to talk about things that "could be done if...". Let's save everyone's time to concentrate on the things that really matter.

Technical

I'm a certified Web Developer, Graphics Designer and IT nerd who has worked on numerous frontend, backend, web and print projects, either as freelancer or full-time employee. I've also been Product Manager for a SAAS provider and Member of Product Board for Peerius Personalization Machine-Learning engine.
Business

Founding member of Peerius Germany, that later was aquired by Episerver. I've been actively responsible for building up the company from ground up to become successful and well established on the DACH market. Before I was employed at an online shop and therefore know very well what it takes to run an online business successfully.
Project

Senior IT Project Manager responsible for all aspects related to the technical integration of EMEA key players in e-commerce. From large, well-known fashion brands, to heavy weights in consumer goods, telecommunications, banks and B2B.
Sales

Extensive Pre-Sales and Marketing activities, driving the Peerius GmbH Sales success rate to more than 90%.
International

Day-to-day working with international teams, located across the globe.
In addition I was working abroad: 1 year London, England and 1 month Boston, USA.