Daniel Ludwig

DANIEL LUDWIG Team Leadership and Agile Coach / Scrum Master I am a bilingual (English / German - native) Venture Creation builder and agile coach with 6-year work experience in the US, UK and UAE specialised in Design thinking, Scrum and team leadership training. PERSONAL DETAILS Name Daniel Ludwig Phone E-Mail Country Birthdate --Germany- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1/2019 - 5/2019 Senior Venture Creation Associate / Scrum Master - Dubai, Sharjah, UAE Sheraa Entrepreneurship Centre Sheraa contains Idealab to Series A programs to unleash a generation of entrepreneurs who will build a better future for our societies and beyond locally and internationally. ● Implementing Scrum methodology for sustainable, cost reduced and efficient fast prototype development in the Pre-Seed program ● Creating, facilitating and executing Pre-Seed Build Content for Product-Market Fit for 11 teams with total of 110+ hours ● Improving Team dynamics through implementing Team strength performance metrics (Strong Suits) for startups ● Responsible for budget together with Manager for Startups of over USD 60k / year ● Conducted Scrum Master facilitation tasks throughout entire Pre-Seed Build Program with 11 teams 11/2016 -12/2018 Venture Creation Associate / Scrum Master - Dubai, Sharjah, UAE Sheraa Entrepreneurship Centre ● Prepare Workshop and Training Material Development for IdeaLab and Pre-Seed Build/Launch ● Providing 200+ hours Ideathon Stage Education for 250+ teams ● Provide startup founder with soft skills training (TEDx Presentation training) ● Developing and implementing a Social Entrepreneurship project to enable students and alumni to use Sustainable Development Goals (SDG`s) to build social innovation startups 08/2013 - 11/2016 Co-founder, Lean Agile Coach, Freelance - London, Berlin Social Startup SocialStartup.co aims to enhance cooperates knowledge of social entrepreneurship by applying the power of entrepreneurial, lean business design to social and digital innovations. ● ● ● ● Lead and project manage national and international workshops in London and Berlin with 10 – 30 participants for coperations, NGO`s, Universities and social entrepreneurs. Clients among others: (LAU) Lebanese American University, Sheffield Business University and Mac Millan Cancer support in the UK Managed and coordinated teams and volunteers at Impact Hub community and hackathons for startup workshops Liaised with the relevant internal sales, marketing and accounts personnel of each organisation to ensure understanding of and the smooth delivery of the design school workshops with the focus on value proposition canvas, design thinking tools and SDG`s (Sustainable Development Goals) Outlined the short term objectives and goals and conducted online meetings 04/2015 - 11/2016 Lean Agile Consultant, Growth Hacker, Freelance - London, Berlin Lean Advantage Lean Advantage helps to create & scale digital businesses to develop products that make a difference. ● ● ● Mentoring and facilitation of workshops with focus on customer discovery and growth metrics Support in setting up platforms for digital practices to agile product development, lean start-up applied to large enterprise context, rapid prototyping, agile roadmap management, lean data-driven growth, agile teamwork, effective remote collaboration Outlined the short term objectives to understand customers, stakeholders and UX of products and business models. This includes lean metrics and analytics, agile business growth, and agile teamwork 01/2014 - 01/2018 Web Design and Global Outreach, Freelance - London, Berlin TEDxEastEnd TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. ● ● ● ● ● Collaborating with top Universities and co-shared workspaces in MENA and US for hosting live stream interaction hubs for their students, members and local TEDx communities Building a tailor-made list of contacts for research, speaker acquisition and marketing Creating local themes together with speakers to transform their discussed topic into local inspiration and change Assisting on the development and delivery of memberships, meeting rooms and events space strategies Providing sponsorship packs for each location to finance each event 05/2015 – 08/2016 Digital Project Developer - Berlin Pretzlaw Communications GmbH ● ● ● Developing digital campaigns for Webdesign and print advertisements Managing and co-ordinating of national and international website projects Designing Project scope, work plans, deliverables and transition plannings for Website projects 04/2011 – 05/2014 Event Technician - London, New York Concise Media Design Concise is an award-winning interactive media design agency with offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, which specialises in fully managed iPad interactive audience engagement solutions for global conferences and events. ● ● ● ● ● ● Lead conferences with 200 - 750 delegates for Fortune 500 clients such as (J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Unilever, Toyota) Responsible for the technical planning, logistics and implementation of interactive app solutions for leadership forums, conferences, seminar and live events (including breakouts) and roadshows. Events contained be-spoke interactive app solutions including realtime voting, speaker profiles, conference schedules, feedback, voting, PDF viewer, Venue Information, ask a question Liaised with the relevant internal sales, marketing and accounts personnel to ensure understanding of and the smooth delivery of the requirements for each conference, specialized in B2B Worked closely with technical and client-serving teams as well as event departments (Deputy and Event Manager) in the US, UK, EUROPE UAE and Asia (Dubai and Seoul) Responsible for U.S. Market for technical Planning, Analysis and Project Oversight PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION 12/2018 Professional Scrum Master PSM I Scrum.org 12/2018 Professional Scrum Product Owner I Scrum.org 09/2018 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) MBA Essentials, strategic environment, financials, human element 04/2018 StrongSuits for High Performing Teams - Practitioner and Facilitator 04/2018 The Future of Digital Agile Leadership (with M3.0 Certification) (8/2011 – 8/2012) Postgraduate Certificate Film and Event management (Theory, Culture und Industry) University of Westminster, London, UK (10/2009 – 3/2010) Filmmaking Course NYFA (Media management and Directing) Universal Studios Hollywood NY Film Academy, Los Angeles, US (08/2007 – 08/2009) Media Technology Basic Study (TV und Event Production) Fachhochschule St. Pölten, Austria Professional training includes courses in communication skills, project management and problem solving techniques, Professional Competence Workshop, University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten (Vienna) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Mother Language Other Languages Driving License Further details German English fluent (12 years living and work abroad) B2 IT-Knowledge: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Trello, MS Project, Basecamp Jira, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Photoshop CC, MS Office Suite, Mac OSX 10.7+