Sebastian Born

Product owner for a mostly remote working development team. Working with various stakeholders to redesign the e-learning platform masterclasses.nature.com . Planning of upcoming projects to open up scientific content for different languages with machine translations and semantic searches

Product owner for an external developer team. Planning, executing, testing and documenting the integration of various data flows between Foodspring services. Especially the data flow between Snowflake, Shopware with Braze by using the iPaaS provider Celigo. Helping with the transition from Magento 1 to Shopware 6.

Working with Richemont, a Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company and various agencies on digital projects for A. Lange & Söhne. Transitioning from brick and mortar business to ecommerce.

- Driving the project to replace the outdated Magento shop with Spryker - Offer guidance for and collaborate closely with product owners, stakeholders and the cross functional scrum teams. - Pushing initiatives to ensure all parties participate to reach short and mid term goals. - Approach challenges with a entrepreneurial mindset, taking initiative to unblock various parties, don’t hesitate to take ownership of critical topics.

- In charge of the customer facing website, shop and payment integrations. - Recruiting, leading and mentoring an international team of developers. - Product ownership of various features. - Data driven decision making: professional analytics with Mixpanel - Tech: React, AngularJS, PHP, Laravel 5, Sass, AWS, PostgreSQL, SOLR, Git - Communication and decision-making between teams and stakeholders.

Consulting and Development of mobile apps. Technologies: AngularJS, Ionic Framework, NoSQL, PHP, Laravel 4, MySQL, REST, Web Services, Amazon AWS, Phonegap, Cordova

Rapid prototyping an MVP for team sport coaches using Ionic Framework. Multilingual App with offline capability and BaaS Kinvey as NoSQL data storage.

Hire and lead a new mobile and innovation team Introduce TDD and mobile engineering Used technologies: PHP, REST, Web Services, Laravel 4, PHPUnit, MySQL

Hire and lead a team for a new online paywall department. Planning and Development of an online payment platform in cooperation with Live Gamer Inc.. Used technologies: PHP, REST, Web Services, Laravel 4, PHPUnit, MySQL, Amazon AWS

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CMS in C# ASP.NET MVC 2 for http://www.rubytuesday.com/. PayPal payment plugin for wordpress to use for http://www.pencilsofpromise.org/. Backend development CakePHP and SQL Server for http://indemand.com/. Anvil http://shirtscan.com/ CMS with CodeIgniter and MySQL. PyroCMS for http://m.airforce.com/. Codeigniter for http://www.rentmoviesondemand.com/.

Clients: Technical University of Berlin, Germany/ J. Gonzalez & Associates – Coral Springs, Florida / 2Go Media – Fort Lauderdale, Florida / MIXX GmbH - Berlin, Germany

Design and development of web-based CRM systems for Mercedes Benz, Smart (multilingual) and Chrysler