Tim Schwerdtner

Background

About Tim Schwerdtner

Software engineering manager specializing in building and leading teams for mobile applications. Extensive experience with multi-national teams (co-located as well as distributed) and different corporate cultures, ranging from Silicon Valley start-ups to mid-size Japanese companies and Fortune 500 corporations. Successfully performed multiple roll-outs of SCRUM development processes that are tailored to the company's specific needs, that cover the full feature life-cycle from inception to roll-out and include industry best practices such as crash analytics, usage analytics, localization, automated unit testing, continuous integration and peer reviews. At Jibe this process reduced the product release cycle from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. Crash statistics are among the best in the industry with only 0.1% of our daily active users encountering a crash. Specialties: • Broad skill set: From end-to-end debugging and coding via customer meetings and strategy planning to running an office • Hands-on coding experience with various mobile platforms (Android, Symbian, Qt, J2ME) • Software design patterns, clean code and refactoring • Self-organizing, structured and capable of driving topics until their completion • Ability to quickly adapt to changing business priorities • Strong communication skills: Translate between Engineering, Customer and Management • Fluent in German (native), English and Japanese