Leon Sczepansky

Leon Sczepansky

Product Owner in Stuttgart, Germany

About

Professional IT Product Owner with more than 14 years experience in system & project management, process & test automation and an absolute passion for intra- & entrepreneurship, coding and open source. I am always keen on sharing knowledge and coaching people passionate for IT. If you are looking for a self-starter and autodidact: Let's get in touch.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Senior IT Expert / Product Owner at Bosch Rexroth AG
Stuttgart

Migration from a legacy Manufacturing Execution System to SAP Digital Manufacturing and integration of Industry 4.0 solutions into the IT landscape for production.

  • Leading a project team with internal and external SAP developers

  • Development of a CLI tool for automation and regression tests

  • Collaborating with stakeholders to analyze business and user requirements and design effective solutions

2022 — 2023
Senior IT Architect at Mercedes-Benz AG
Stuttgart

Development of architecture guidelines for the transition of legacy applications and infrastructure into a cloud native environment.

  • Onboarded product teams to a centralized logging, monitoring and tracing stack

  • Migrated a Docker Compose-based application to Kubernetes

  • Set up a CI/CD pipeline for a microservice-based application

  • Evaluation of a C# / .Net Library for replacing a proprietary machine communication protocol with OPCUA

2021 — 2022
Sabbatical
2019 — 2021
Expatriate Specialist IT at Daimler Greater China & BBAC
Beijing

As technical expert for MES systems, I worked in the local IT team for production control.

  • Planned and executed weekly technology and business related trainings for Chinese colleagues

  • Developed an API-backed tool for regression testing of the MES system

  • Developed a smartwatch prototype for the MES system

  • Rolled out the production control system in Beijing/Shunyi

2014 — 2019
Project Manager & System Coordinator at Mercedes-Benz AG
Stuttgart

System expert for the MES in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Beijing

  • Supplier-, Incident-, Change-, Problem-, Release- and Test Management

  • Led various projects in the MES area ensuring the production readiness of the plant in Beijing for new car and engine models

  • Developed a machine simulator in Python to reproduce production issues in the lab

2012 — 2014
IT Performance Manager at Mercedes-Benz AG
Stuttgart

IT internal controlling and reporting of KPIs.

  • Drove and supported financial reporting and planning within the IT organization for Sales, After Sales and Financial Services in Europe & USA by introducing an Excel-based planning tool & automation technologies

  • Supported development of cross-country benchmarking, operative planning and SLA Management

2009 — 2012
Dual Study Programme at Daimler Financial Services AG
Berlin, Stuttgart, Bangkok
  1. Internship: IT Performance Management at Daimler

  2. Internship: IT Project Reporting at Mercedes-Benz Vertrieb Deutschland

  3. Internship: Risk Management at Daimler Financial Services

  4. Internship: Controlling at Mercedes-Benz Leasing Thailand

  5. Internship: Project Support for rolling out a budget planning tool at Daimler

  6. Internship: Bachelorthesis - Entwicklung eines Incident-Management-Konzeptes für Cloud Umgebungen bei der Daimler TSS GmbH

Volunteering

2021 — 2022
Inspirer / Mentor (Python, HTML, JavaScript) at Hacker School gGmbH
Leipzig & Remote

Education

2009 — 2012
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Berlin School of Economics and Law
Berlin

Business Informatics