KAI-DIETRICH SCHEPPE

Leadership competence, technical integration, system integration, strategic architecture planning, product development, IT security, strategic investment planning, process optimization, quality management.

• Member of the extended board
• Led technical execution of the merger with Eijsink GmbH
• Integration of the POS software into existing systems
• Member of the Technical Architecture Board of Metro AG
• Product development of B2C SaaS (DISH platform) and business support systems (CRM, ERP, HR, finance)
• Managed all Metro-facing systems (data warehouse, HR, payroll via SAP)
• Ensured IT security and compliance

• Successfully integrated and launched POS software in France and Germany
• Defended against two global cyberattacks on Metro
• Generated target architecture for joint backend systems of Dish and Eijsink
• Initiated a product roadmap for strategic investment
• Harmonized the customer lifecycle process
• Achieved ISO 27001 recertification

Leadership competence, IT organizational management, SaaS product development, IT security, quality management, performance optimization, cost management, test management, knowledge management, enterprise architecture, process optimization.

• Member of the extended board
• Member of the Technical Architecture Board of Metro AG
• Took over the IT organization from the CEO
• Oversaw SaaS product development with 17 teams, business support systems, IT security, and cloud infrastructure
• Led recertification of the company according to ISO 27001

• Stabilized the DISH platform, achieving a 4x performance improvement
• Reduced costs in the DISH Order product by 66%
• Introduced load tests and an integration test platform
• Secured development knowledge by hiring senior developers and reducing reliance on external consultants
• Brought in an enterprise architect to design the enterprise target architecture
• Improved product quality through targeted measures with new senior developers
• Optimized the Scrum process, accompanied by personnel changes

IT organizational development, system integration, cloud program management, team coordination, data center and cloud migration, site reliability engineering (SRE), platform development, cost reduction.

• Building a new internal IT organization to merge StepStone Continental Europe and TotalJobs Group
• Integrating two technology landscapes into a common IT platform for IT product management and marketing
• Leading cloud program management for the StepStone Group
• Coordinating collaboration of over 70 product teams, providing AWS cloud and data center infrastructures
• Planning and executing the migration from a Belgian data center to the cloud

• Fully integrated IT operations within 3 months
• Introduction of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Successful deployment of a platform for product development for 1000 employees
• Reorganized and improved collaboration of 70 product teams
• Provided new AWS cloud infrastructure with 50% cost reduction over 3 years
• Standardized processes including the ticket process with over 3000 tickets per month
• Successfully planned and managed the data center migration
• Reduced employee turnover to 3%, 20% below the industry average

• Regular business trips to Warsaw, Poland, every two weeks
• Occasional business trips to Brussels, Belgium
• Occasional business trips to the United Kingdom

Organizational management, product development, hybrid cloud management, cloud migration, IT security concepts, release management, E-commerce optimization, test automation, compliance (GDPR), error reduction, problem-solving ability.

• Took over the entire organization from the CTO to enable him to focus on the group
• Led product development with 26 teams
• Managed operations in a hybrid cloud and data center environment
• Completed the cloud migration by converting a lift & shift platform into a cloud-native platform
• Developed and implemented a new cloud-specific security concept

• Increased the number of releases by 400% through the introduction of a one-click deployment process
• Established several thousand service releases per year by delegating to the teams
• Expanded the E-commerce platform with self-service features, increasing revenue from approx. €1 million to €10 million
• Built an automated test framework for CI/CD with approx. 800 test cases running in 45 minutes
• Implemented and enforced GDPR
• Successfully implemented a new cloud-specific security concept with semi-automated continuous control
• Reduced production errors by 99.95% through the introduction of error reduction sprints
• Resolved major issues between product management and IT by improving mutual understanding

• Regular business trips to Warsaw, Poland, every two weeks
• Occasional business trips to Brussels, Belgium
• Occasional business trips to the United Kingdom

IT organizational development, IT infrastructure management, service-oriented architecture, IT service delivery, data management, agile software development, app development, platform modernization.

• Set up IT for a new business unit with 17-20 international development teams
• Introduced a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to modularize the monolithic legacy software
• Provided IT services for the entire StepStone Group
• Implemented a central data warehouse for improved data analysis and management
• Established agile software development processes based on Scrum and Kanban
• Further developed native apps for iOS and Android in 14 variants
• Modernized the feed platform for automated insertion of approximately 1500 feeds covering 70% of the content

• Regular business trips to Warsaw, Poland, every two weeks
• Occasional business trips to Brussels, Belgium

Portal development, high availability systems, customer satisfaction, infrastructure optimization, configuration management, project management, Scrum, streaming platform development, e-commerce, requirements management.

• Developed and optimized the largest high-availability, general-interest portal in Europe, consisting of up to 30 sub-portals, with 26 million customers and 4.5 billion page views per month

• Increased availability from 99.9% to 99.99%
• Improved customer satisfaction by 48%
• Reduced necessary infrastructure by 33% through the use of high-performance delivery servers (Varnish)
• Developed configuration options that allowed 80% of software development to be carried out by non-developers
• Executed large projects with up to 8000 person-days through Scrum
• Built one of the first streaming platforms (Videoload) and an Erotic Lounge with specially protected content
• Implemented an e-commerce portal for software products (SoftwareLoad)
• Built an integrated requirements management system based on Confluence and Jira

Standardization of web technologies, integration of mobile and desktop content, human-machine interaction, representation at international conferences, development of web standards, introduction of new technologies, monetization of innovations.

• Represented Deutsche Telekom AG in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for the standardization of web technologies
• Participated in panel discussions at global conferences as a representative of one of the largest ISPs in Europe (T-Online)
• Contributed to the creation and development of web standards such as XForms, POWDER, HTML 5, and CSS
• Introduced new technologies and methods at T-Online, focusing on their monetization potential

System analysis, collaboration with external developers, quality assurance, requirements management, process standardization.

• Conducted a successful analysis of the existing CMS system to populate T-Online portals, which was then used for another 10 years
• Implemented all development tasks in collaboration with external developers
• Built automated quality assurance
• Set up a requirements management system and a change request board to efficiently prioritize requirements for about 25 portals
• Standardized processes in development and quality assurance