Benjamin Thomas Grauer
Software Development & Management
My Motivation
Ever since I discovered programming, I felt the urge to play, craft, create, to shape solutions and to make new things possible, to have an impact on the world with a group of people that I love to share my enthusiasm with.
My Impact
During my years at VirtaMed, I grew as the company did and could apply my skills and strengths on many different levels. From training hundreds medical residents and decision makers at hospitals, conferences and building up awareness for the company and its products to navigating several teams including framework developers, testers, dev-ops engineers as well as UI and cloud professionals in an agile and quickly changing environment from startup to well-oiled machine.
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My skills
Team building & People Leadership
Project management, organization, prioritization
Creative self-learner
Prototyping
3D Graphics
Languages
German (Mother tongue)
English (Proficient)
French (Casual)
Gallup Top 5 Strengths
Individualization – Scan people skills
Ideation – Imagination
Learner – Knowledge seeker
Input – Collector
Positivity
Methods & Achivements
Scrum & Agile
Management 3.0 (2016)
Shift-Up Business Agility and Innovation Leader (2019)
Outsourcing
Cross-culture coordination
Project integration
Building up teams
DevOps/IT/Testing (8 years)
Cloud Development (7 years)
Value Stream driven Teams (10 years)
Digitalization & Change management
Role modeling change
Enhance benefits throughout various business units
Tools
Dev tools & administration
Github/Gitlab/BitBucket – expert
Azure Active Directory – managed
DevOps Engineering
AWS (2 years)
Google Firebase (3 years)
Azure DevOps (2 years)
Jenkins (7 years)
Cloud development
React+Python
.Net+Angular
Hybrid applications
SQL/DocumentDB’s
3D & Graphics
Rendering: Blender/Maya
Game engines: Unity/Unreal/Custom
Video editing: Davincy resolve
Systems management
Linux: Server infrastructure / Gentoo
Development tools
Visual Studio (15 years)
Docker (2 years)
and so much more….
Presentation tools
Google Docs/Sheets/Presentations (12 years)
PowerBI – Data Visualization (2 years)
Coding
What I am looking for
Empower people
Hire the right people for the job, foster their personal development, and raise product and company engagement.
Creativity
I want to be creative. Build new things, try many different approaches and find the best suitable solution. I believe that the development process on code and in science is extremely creative and want to live and work this way.
Project management
Engaging with customers, prioritize the backlog, give motivation to the team from prototype to finished product.
Playful approach
Getting to enjoyable solutions on complex problems that are also quite serious can become really challenging. I thrive from playing with code, engines and tools to get the most out of them.
3D Graphics
Whether creating my own app in React, C++ or texturing and animating using blender, I have been enthusiastically at it since the beginning of the GPU era.
Data, Cloud and Machine learning
I have experience with Azure SQL, CosmosDB and Blob storage containers, I built reports using PowerBI and have a big interest in cloud application (both backend and frontent), IoT and machine learning techniques. The future is here.
Hands on Programming
Working directly and close with the team is important but keeping the overview is key. Areas I love to work on is prototyping new ideas with modern technologies and improving the development process through DevOps tools.
Deployment
The delivery process of any software can be a challenge. I bring a lot of practical knowledge and ideas on how to managing the testing workflows and improve the support and customer experience.
Guiding UX decisions
At the face of every software is its User interface. I bring 10 years of hands-on and managing experience in UX implementation, layout and design. If its about branding towards OEM customers, animating controls or workflows, I like it all.
Timeline
On January 2021 I started a new challenge as the Head of Software at 9T Labs. 9T Labs is a fast growing Startup delivering the new way of 3D printing composites. Read more about them at https://www.9tlabs.com. My tasks will include the organization of the software team, embedding and scaling…
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Shift-up Business Agility and Innovation Leader – workshop by Jurgen Appelo My interest in business ideas and agile models for innovative products was raised and demanded by the Connect Project, that I was leading at the time. Certificate Leading.Digital.Transformation-Certificate-Benjamin.Thomas.Grauer
Management 3.0 2016 – Pragmatic Solutions The management 3.0 course gave me my first deep insights into scalable team organizations. Shortly after this course we reshaped the development team structure a second time into a value-stream driven matrix structure the company still follows today. https://management30.com The matching book is…
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Birth of my Child 2016/03/12 – Arthur Isidor Faehndrich was born. The best day of my life was the birth of my son Arthur. He lights my days and lets me sleep at night :).
Certified Scrum Master 2012 – The Knowledge Hut In a course with two participants we had a chance to talk about much more than the Scrum process. With the gained knowledge of this course I was able to focus my attention on more automation, testing procedures, streamline meetings and help…
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Leading applied 2012 – Rudolf Obrecht AG Management leadership course covering all topics for guiding employees in a modern company. https://www.rudolfobrecht.com
Inventor/Lead of an Open Source Team Project “Orxonox” 2004 – 2007 – ETH Zürich What started as an idea of programming a computer game quickly turned into the development of a learning platform for electrical engineers with a heart for programming, 3D graphics and teamwork. The project went through many…
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My personal interests
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