Heidi Kühn

Heidi kühn

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Certified Agile Coach & Agile Project Manager Love your job, love people - and everything falls into place.

  • Education

    • Digethic digital business school

      2022 - 2022
      Certified agile coach, agile project manager and new work expert agile organization
    • Royal holloway, university of london

      1991 - 1995
      Ba european studies

      Italian and Management Studies

    • Alma mater studiorum – università di bologna

      1993 - 1994
      Economia e commercio
    • Royal holloway, u. of london

      1988 - 1991
      Bachelor of arts (b.a.) english literature and drama & theatre studies
  • Experience

    • Ikoss van, an atos origin company

      Sept 1997 - Jun 1998
      Marketing coordinator

      Mission: To set up the national and international B2B marketing activitiesTasks:• Developing a marketing strategy and a marketing plan• Selecting and cooperating with an advertising agency• Developing corporate design, logo and product logos, brochures, product flyers, adverts; purchasing promotional material• Planning and implementing the new company website• Positioning the company as well as speakers on local and international trade fairs and congresses • Organizing and coordinating trade fairs and events• Building a trusting relationship with the media• Organizing PR events• Building and maintaining good relations with partners • Preparing and planning sales meetings• Improving internal communication Show less

    • Atos origin

      Jul 1998 - Jun 2005

      Mission: To implement the corporate communication goals at the Aachen site, preparing the carve-out of the Payment Systems BUTasks: • Writing and reviewing texts for the web and the intranet as well as for customer and employee magazines • Writing and coordinating texts for press releases, success stories and other PR documents • Preparing PR for trade fairs• Coordinating corporate employee events on site • Communicating new company developments to employees• Supporting Corporate Communications Management in strategic questions • Member of the management board at the Aachen siteInternal Communications (Part Time as of 02/2004):-Charged with accompanying the carve-out of 2 sites to form one Payment group called Atos Worldline through extensive internal communication with the aim of mitigating any anxieties from staff regarding the new company line-up. This required personal communication, coordinating cross-site staff events, informing staff at the local site of company news, and participating in the regular meetings of the local management board.-Writing articles for the intranet Show less (1.5 years full and 3 years part time):Mission: To successfully position the newly formed French IT Services Provider with the German-speaking daily and trade press in the DACH regionTasks:• Ensuring adequate news coverage on the company in the media• Preparing press conferences and interviews, also at events• Supporting the success of trade fairs by triggering good press coverage in the run up to the events• Writing and editing press releases, case studies, success stories • Monitoring and communicating the success of all press activities internally• Building and maintaining good relations with journalists• Collaborating with external PR agencies• Supporting the Director of Corporate Communications in strategic questions• Closely cooperating with the Direction Communication in Paris Show less

      • Site Communications Coordinator

        Apr 2004 - Jun 2005
      • Press Relations Officer Central Europe

        Jul 1998 - Mar 2004
    • Quickword

      Jan 2005 - now
      Inhaberin

      Freelance technical and business translator

    • Alkuinschule

      Aug 2007 - Jan 2011
      Lehrkraft für englisch

      Mission:Teaching English to children in Years 5-10 and, as a class teacher, introducing a climate of trust and respect in which all children can thrive and realize their full potential.- Discovering and fostering talents in each child- Using teambuilding methods to improve the children's self-worth and self-esteem- Helping children identify what type of group worker they are and encouraging them to take on different group roles- Helping children find strategies for dealing with family crises- Moderating to settle disputes- Liasing with family services for children from difficult family circumstances- Deputy board lead of the English departmentClass teacher, Show less

    • Ni (national instruments)

      Feb 2011 - May 2022

      Coordinator DataPlugin Development Mission: Project management for the development of DataPlugins for NI software DIAdem, SystemLink and LabVIEW from request to delivery Achievements:• Coordinating the development of 60+ DataPlugins and 400+ improvements from the initial customer request to their publication on ni.com/dataplugins. Early adopter of Azure DevOps to significantly improve the coordination process and communication between stakeholders. Role included: • Liaising between developers and customers• Confidential data handling• Incorporating the plugins in the nightly autotest procedure, writing tests, encrypting and testing the finished DataPlugins and posting them to the website• Supporting the transition of DataPlugins to NIs central master data management platform and working on defining and implementing a new product taxonomy (naming, classification, and attribution).Senior Technical Translator German ↔ English Mission: To translate technical documentation and user interface for DIAdem, SystemLink and LabVIEW to and from English Achievements:• Translating html documentation, user interface, customer education manuals, and technical and marketing documents for DIAdem software using SDL Trados Studio and Passolo• Translating CMS content for LabVIEW and SystemLink• Reviewing all types of German and English texts from within NIAdditional tasks for the local site: • Member of the Steering Committee for the organization of the annual NITech Europe developer conference• Interviewing and fostering new talent from local schools, STEM representative Show less

      • Senior Technical Writer and Senior Technical Translator

        Dec 2020 - May 2022
      • Technical Writer and Senior Technical Translator

        Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
      • Senior Technical Translator and Project Manager for DataPlugin Development

        Feb 2011 - Jan 2020
    • Digethic gmbh

      May 2022 - Oct 2022
      Agile coach, new work expert, agile project manager in full-time training at

      Currently in full-time training as Agile Coach, New Work Expert, and Agile Project Manager

    • Rewe digital

      Oct 2022 - now
      Agile team coach
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified agile coach - digethic digital business school,

      Digethic digital business school and quality austria
      Sept 2022
    • Professional scrum master™ i (psm i)

      Scrum.org
      Nov 2022
      View certificate certificate