Manuel Schnitzer

Experience

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  SUSE

  Sept 2013 - now

  * Managing a diverse, multi-national team of engineers for software maintenance. This includes hiring, training, doing performance reviews, and driving career development plans. My team is responsible for coordinating & releasing software updates to SUSE's customers & users.* Leading by example and fostering a culture of open-minded people by empowering the employees, by being a role model, by mentoring, by coaching and by giving my staff responsibility and opportunity to grow.* Coordinating with quality engineering team leaders, project managers on test coverage and delivery in line with agreed key performance indicators.* Ensuring that team deliverables are on time and of highest quality. Show less * Coordinating and driving of internal cross-organizational projects and initiatives* Promoting new ideas and processes that improve performance and productivity of releasing software updates* Improving processes and adapting infrastructure to ensure high quality and short delivery time of software updates* Helping development teams to provide high quality maintenance that serves the needs of our customer base* Supporting engineering teams that develop products using leading edge technologies to ensure maintainability at an enterprise level* Representing the Maintenance Coordination team and its needs across departments by communication with several other project managers, team leads, and department leads* Engaging in the planning phase of new products and product changes* Delivering maintenance for SUSE's products with a lifetime of up to 13 years Show less

  • Engineering Manager

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Technical Project Manager

    Jul 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Maintenance Release Coordination Engineer

    Mar 2018 - Jul 2021

  • Web Application Developer (Ruby on Rails)

    Jul 2016 - Mar 2018

  • Education as an Application Developer (Trainee)

    Sept 2013 - Jul 2016
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  Verosent

  Jun 2018 - now

  CEO

  Chief Executive Officer