Thomas Sempf

Responsible for Nindev's consumer and business products. Doing market analysis, strategical roadmap planning, and product specifications. In charge of Nindev's outsourcing activities.

Responsible for project planning and coordination of software projects in the mobile field. Acting as solution architect and product manager for nindev's own products.

Senior product manager for the consumer product line at Nero Managing several product managers to drive the freemium product Nero Kwik Media. Doing market analysis, focus groups, interviews, strategical roadmap planning, and product specification. Acting as product owner inside the SCRUM process incorporating engineering, QA, and the UX department. Managing the consumer product line at Nero as stand-in for the director; taking over full responsibility during vacation and other absence.

Leading, coordinating, and organizing a cross functional team of professionals to develop, maintain, and publish PC applications in the music, photo, and plug-ins area. The department set-up I managed contained product & project management, engineering, and quality assurance enabling it to develop products from the first idea to the final launch. Thereby guided I the different functions to work optimal and to create needed processes. SCRUM was used as the project method inside the department to co-ordinate

Guiding and coordinating a team of world wide distributed developers, driving the development, and ensuring the correct implementation of the product management needs. I introduced SCRUM as development process for the local team in Germany to have a better planning basis with the team and the involved product management. One of the challenges was to co-ordinate the low-level development between the SCRUM team and the external developers which had specific domain knowledges. At the same time I took over user

Development of Nero Mobile a cross-platform media playback software for video & music files running on WinCE, Symbian, and Linux. First major task was the creation of a platform agnostic UI layer providing the same look and feel of the player on all platforms. Afterwards I focused on the implementation of the RTP/DLNA streaming and the design of the multimedia pipeline of the player software. The whole player development was done in C/C++.

Development of a video streaming prototype between a WinCE mobile device and a PC for observation purposes in the industry area. Creation of a quality evaluation framework for VoIP calls with the possibility to change used codecs, bit rates, and to simulate packet loss on the stream.