Melanie Kontonikolaou

I’m a consultant with 7+ years of experience helping businesses drive digital innovation and sustainable growth. I lead projects across industries, focusing on the intersection of business, technology, and sustainability. Key Areas: - Project Management: Leading projects from concept to delivery. - Innovation: Building data-driven, sustainable business models. - (IT) Transformation: Helping businesses adapt organizationally and through IT upgrades.

Sr. Venture Manager at Bitrock Digital Partners, an independent digital business builder specializing in developing new digital and sustainable business models and products for and with established companies - from idea generation to market success.

Freelance IT consultant bridging the gap between business and IT. Launching new products and ensuring high-quality operations by eliciting business requirements and translating them into technical requirements. - Successfully launching an innovative advertisement product by eliciting the requirements of the technical interfaces of 5 different systems to the existent booking tool Salesforce Sales Cloud - Enabling the launch of two programmatic advertising products

Internal product lead for innovation and digital transformation. Subproject manager of an innovation project for one of Germany’s leading marketers in digital media. - MVP definition and piloting of the award winning user study “Deep Dive User Experience”, an app-based, ethnographic approach to accelerate innovation processes - Multi-departmental requirements elicitation and integration of 7 IT-systems, thereby enabling market launch of a new digital product

Executive Assistant for the Swiss CEO and Sales Leas for Southern Europe. Responsible for Event Management in Switzerland. - Launch of UNESCO-awarded diversity network “StrongHer” in Switzerland - Increasing 2018 plan of a business group by 40% by conducting market and industry analysis in close collaboration with sales team - Identification of project redundancies of 10 Mio. € in Salesforce by qualitative interviews and quantitative data analysis

In the course of the three-year education, phases of academic studies and practical work alternate in three-month intervals ensuring both, theoretical knowledge and its application on the job. Working with Alcatel-Lucent as a Global Innovator in telecommunication market I could gain valuable experiences carrying out projects in the following departments in Germany, Switzerland and Australia: Bids & Proposals, Project Management, Solutions & Marketing, Business Operations and Sales