Andrej Schreiner - Senior Product Manager
I'm a product manager who is passionate about creating cutting-edge solutions that meet important client demands. I love to approach complex challenges by mixing logic and creativity since I'm an engineer at heart with a background in electrical engineering.
- Birthday: 13 February 1990
- City: Cologne, Germany
- Degree: M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Economics
- Email: [email protected]
As a product manager, I enjoy empathizing with users and wearing many hats, including geek, designer, marketer, and salesperson.
Throughout my career, I have led and scaled product teams, as well as launched successful SaaS products, by developing and implementing product strategies that align with a clear product vision and business goals.
My ultimate objective is to see the product and its features from the user's perspective and develop an optimum experience that reduces user's pain points and promotes business objectives at the same timeResume
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Professional Experience
Senior Product Manager
2021 - Present
Software AG
- Leading the IoT Edge computing product teams, specializing in industrial IoT solutions for the manufacturing sector and security-sensitive IT environments.
- Launched two new product iterations and formed strategic alliances with hardware OEMs, business manufacturers, and telecommunications firms, resulting in a 125% increase in revenue for IoT edge products in 2021.
- Led the product market fit expansion towards defense & government sector, by launching a new FIPS, and DISA- STIG security compliant IoT product variant.
- Initiated strategic co-innovation projects in IoT for 5G Private Networks with five leading telecom providers in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.
Initiator & Product Lead
2021 - Present
thin-edge.io
- Co-Initiated a collaborative open-source initiative - thin-edge.io which aims to provide a lightweight, cloud-agnostic IoT device enablement framework for embedded Linux devices used in operational technology in automation systems.
- Spearheaded the initial product market fit, feature strategy and roadmap, based on customer and community feedback resulting in 5 co-innovation agreements with early adopters.
- Developed a project vision and governance architecture, and onboarded major industrial firms to support the initiative and establish a community through openly hosted meetups.
Product Manager
2019 - 2021
Software AG
- Responsible for the fastest growing IoT & analytics product at Software AG, Cumulocity IoT Edge & Device SDKs.
- Designed and implemented product roadmap and IoT product strategy with a focus on real-time IoT analytics, device management, and remote monitoring use-cases.
- Led a continuous product discovery & prototyping initiative and introduced product experience tooling, which led to increased customer satisfaction and shorter feature delivery cycles.
- Evolved product towards self-service experience, based on customer interviews, and discovery sessions resulting in 85% shorter onboarding and set-up time for non-IT personas and new IoT product bundles with hardware OEMs.
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Product Manager
2017 - 2019
E.ON SE
- Formed the initial product SCRUM team and created the inaugural Product Process Lifecycle for SaaS energy and asset management platform E.ON Optimum.
- Created a systematic product discovery approach as a continuous practice to evaluate new ideas and reduce risks in product development.
- Piloted and scaled energy analytics & optimization features with integration of more than 20.000 energy meters & building management systems of commercial buildings.
IT Business Analyst
2016 - 2017
Stepping Stone Advertising, New York, NY
- As a Technical Product Owner, I created and verified the product ideas using data from customer & stakeholder interviews.
- Led market analysis and developed pitch to acquire innovation budget investment for first product MVP for 5 early- stage customer projects focused on cloud-based building energy efficiency solutions.
- Led pilot projects on ML model-based building asset control and predictive maintenance for HVAC equipment and disaggregation of load profiles with non-intrusive-load monitoring and pattern recognition, leading to 12% energy savings in 5 commercial office buildings.
Education
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering & Business Administration
2015 - 2016
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
2014 - 2015
National University of Malaysia (UKM)
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Business Administration
2011 - 2014
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Testimonials
Since moving into product management, I was fortunate enough to collaborate with exceptional people and to learn from experienced engineers and product leaders, see below what they have to say about me:
Andrej is a rare breed of highly effective product managers. He focuses on creating value for customers and motivating a team toward a shared outcome. Andrej's strategic thinking, communication, and entrepreneurial spirit set him apart. I worked with Andrej on driving the Edge Computing strategy for the IoT & Analytics business at Software AG. He led the industry's first initiative for an open edge framework for lightweight IoT devices, which soon became a significant strategic growth area for our portfolio. Andrej would be an asset to any product organization.
Manish Devgan
CPO at Hazelcast
Andrej’s customer-centricity approach driven by strong analytical capabilities and thought leadership helped in our successful product launch to the product-market fit and at scale. Over the years I have seen him developing strong product management and deep technical capabilities which are the reasons for his successful product career. Above all, Andrej has been a great team player with genuine empathy towards his team, stakeholders and customers. And by the way, he has a great sense of humour which makes it easy and fun to work with!
Raza Aslam
Head of Product Management at Zalando
I was lucky to work with Andrej at E.ON where he was leading our team as the Product Manager. As a Software Engineer it was always fun and productive to work with Andrej because he was able to understand complex technical problems quickly and could explain the product/customer goals to the engineers. His work was collaborative and outcome driven, always keeping the customer in focus. With structured discovery sessions and strategic decision making he continuously improved our products. Andrej never stopped challenging the status quo and always focussed on solving real problems. I think Andrej is a great addition to every product and customer oriented team and I hope I can work with him again in the future.
Leonard Thiele
Engineering Manager at Klarna
I strongly recommend Andrej, having worked closely with him on the Cumulocity IoT Edge product. Andrej brings in great focus and customer-centricity. He has evolved a very complicated, deeply technical product into a user-centric product with his focus on user experience. Andrej brings in deep technical understanding, expertise in processes, and awesome collaboration skills to help the product team focus on what matters and drive in the right direction. It has been fantastic working with Andrej and looking forward to crossing paths again.
Pavan Daga
Engineering Manager at Google
Andrej's contribution to the product was vast and given the fast evolving product requirements, he had a huge hand in making the product a success. As developers we struggled to translate the high level business asks into end product and Andrej really helped bridge this gap. He was also critical to ensuring the transition to Agile was a successful one, while helping enable a consistent velocity of delivery of product features.
John Regan
Senior Scala Developer
Contact
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