Experience

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  SAP

  • Head of Developer Experience

    • Aug 2023 - Present

    Providing SAP's development organization with the best-possible environment to collaboratively deliver the world's #1 enterprise applications to customers including methodology, technology and workspace...

  • Location Co-Lead and Chief Product Owner for Intelligent Hospital

    • Aug 2018 - Present

    Getting the Newport Beach location started, hiring and aligning the first local teamPushing the vision with the team, SAP internal stakeholders and external partnersEstablishing co-innovation with local hospitals and an academic research program

  • Chief Expert - Global Lead for Business Model Innovation in Development

    • Apr 2016 - Present

    Responsible for implementing and scaling BMI in SAP's global development organization and applying BMI practices to strategic innovation projects; training content, train-the-trainers and trainer mentoring

  • Development Project Expert

    • Mar 2014 - Present

    Internal development project consultant with a focus on product and business model development* Business Model Design Expert* Design Thinking Expert* Lean/Agile/Scrum Mentor* Continuous Improvement Expert* BIKABLO Visualization Trainer

  • Chief Development Expert - Industry Cloud Collaboration Model

    • Nov 2019 - Aug 2023

    Eureka is an SAP S/4HANA incubation unit headquartered in Newport Beach, CA (USA). As part of the S/4HANA group we are building new industry cloud products based on best of class technologies and team collaboration culture. We co-innovate with customers and actively engage with universities.Tobias is heading the global Industry Cloud Collaboration Model as part of development operations.

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  University of Mannheim, Business School - Fakultät BWL

  • Mannheim Area, Germany

  • Honorary Professor - Business Information Systems

    • Sep 2019 - Present
    • Mannheim Area, Germany

    Teaching information systems development, agile software engineering, design thinking and business model innovation around enterprise cloud systems. Supervising and graduating Master and PhD students in information systems development. Heading the joint PhD research program with SAP.

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  University of Mannheim, Chair of Information Systems I - Prof. Heinzl

  • Mannheim Area, Germany

  • Associate Lecturer and Researcher

    • Jan 2009 - Sep 2019
    • Mannheim Area, Germany

    Lectures and research on large-scale agile software engineering, design thinking and business model innovation around enterprise software as well as globally distributed software development projects

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  SAP

  • Senior Development Project Consultant

    • Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

    Internal development project consultant with a focus on customer co-innovation and design thinking* SAP Fashion Management project with Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, Luxottica and Giorgio Armani* Content, training and piloting within SAP's global Design Thinking implementation program

  • Development Project Consultant

    • Aug 2011 - Jan 2013

    Internal development project consultant with a focus on SAP's strategic investments* Implementation of lean product development in SAP's eleven strategic investment areas* Pilot project combining lean/agile development and design thinking togeth with customers

  • Program Manager & Quality Specialist

    • Jan 2009 - Jul 2011

    * Program management for the global implementation of lean software product development at SAP* Lean/Agile/Scrum mentor and continuous improvement expert for product development groups* Implementation of process scorecards in major product development areas

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  University of Mannheim

  • Germany
  • Research Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant Professor

    • Sep 2008 - Jan 2009

    Lecture; project management and research fund raising; personnel training and acquisition; publication of research results; department management tasks.

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    • Mar 2008 - Aug 2008

    Project management and research fund raising, personnel training and acquisition, publication of research results, department management tasks.

  • Researcher and Doctoral Candidate

    • Jul 2004 - Mar 2008

    collaborative, inter-organizational, and distributed software development within the financial service industry (research project funded by the state government)

  • Graduate Assistant

    • Nov 2000 - Jun 2004

    * Lecture conception for component-based software engineering with Java (Enterprise)* Implementation of prototypes* Publish and present research results

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  UC Irvine

  • Irvine, CA, USA

  • Visiting Researcher

    • Aug 2006 - Nov 2006
    • Irvine, CA, USA

    Visiting researcher with UCI computer science department and Institute for Software Research (ISR). Primary advisor: Professor David F. Redmiles.