Company
Dominik Jessen
Basic
Angestellt, Product Manager, Uni-Life
Bis 2020, Management of Innovation, Rotterdam School of Management
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Timeline
Professional experience for Dominik Jessen
Current 2 years and 10 months, since Nov 2019
Product Manager
Uni-Life
Uni-Life is the campus community tool for universities looking to give their students the best possible student experience. Help your students make the best out of the most exciting time of their life - their student life. Uni-Life offers universities a way to understand the social side of studying, by offering a one-stop-shop for campus events, interest analytics to know what gets students going, and a way to monitor and steer student engagement. Want to know more? Email me at dominik@uni-life.nl
Product lead of an RPA product; fully owned the product vision, strategy and roadmap. One of my core responsibilities was empowering my team of engineers and designers to do their best work through different means (e.g. user story creation, requirement refinement, mockup creation). Another key task in my role was to meet with various internal and external stakeholders to figure out what my team needed to build and why we needed to build it.
3 months, Mar 2018 - May 2018
Research Assistant
Lund University
- Researched digital business models and business model strategies across 18 different industries - Created 20 case studies focusing on how different companies use developers and platform strategies to extend their business models - Companies studied include startups like DJI or Stripe as well as big companies like Apple or John Deere
Developed software using AngularJS Created implementation concepts with external project team to align frontend and backend Collaborated with engineers and product owners to integrate new features, discuss user feedback, and plan product roadmap Assisted project manager with sprint planning, work package creation, and effort scoping Assisted designers with UI/UX design to align technical implementation with user requirements Improved code quality by lowering technical debt from 16 to 2 days
Part of an agile team developing a workflow application for the procurement department of a global company Learned Javascript and AngularJS within 1 month, delivering over 50 commits during the internship Created parts of the software by myself as well as in cooperation with other engineers Assisted the project manager with feature testing and backlog grooming in JIRA
4 years and 1 month, Aug 2010 - Aug 2014
Software Tester
Inpro-Soft GmbH
During my time at Inpro-Soft, I was responsible for testing newly developed features for an ERP system. I was tasked with finding any bugs or inconsistencies in new versions and communicate them back to the developers to ensure optimal software quality on release. Additionally, I authored large parts of the online documentation of the software and created tutorial videos for various functions of the ERP system.
Educational background for Dominik Jessen
1 year and 1 month, Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
Management of Innovation
Rotterdam School of Management
Thesis focus on how personality affects the efficacy of Design Thinking.
1 year and 6 months, Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Informatics
Lund University
Semester abroad in Lund, Sweden at the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM).
3 years and 4 months, Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Business informatics
Universität Mannheim
Thesis: Usability Evaluation of a Gaze-based Interaction Method for Smartphones
Languages
German
First language
English
First language