mkbreuning

Project/Program Manager

Global project manager with expertise in Agile product delivery across high-tech sectors and skilled in navigating complex, cross-cultural environments. With a background in smartphone development and manufacturing, I have successfully adapted to renewable energy and Web3 space, fostering collaboration and ownership, confident that my skills are a force multiplier, in any technical field, to make things happen as an impactful project manager.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $132,000

Hourly rate: $120

Nationality: 🇫🇷 France

Residency: 🇨🇳 China


Experience

Project manager / Scrum master
INPUT-OUTPUT (IOG)
2022 - 2024
Product Delivery Consistency: Drove successful transition towards open sourcing of a leading SSI digital identity platform under the Hyperledger Foundation, https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/projects/identus. Accelerated Delivery Efficiency: Spearheaded Agile transformation, reducing cycle time to monthly release and improving predictability by establishing streamlined 3-month product increment planning. Enhanced Global Collaboration: Facilitated frontend and backend cross-functional squads (~20 people), created dedicated metrics on Jira to allow data-driven decisions, leading to improved alignment with leadership, autonomous issue resolution and waste reduction. Strengthened Security Posture: Led external security audit remediation efforts and technical debt reduction of 10% per release, with Jira dashboards monitoring and weekly reports.
Program Manager
FREELANCE CONSULTING
2019 - 2022
I facilitated project management during Covid-19 crisis enabling deliveries, focusing on communication and day-to-day control with Chinese manufacturers (4 international companies: solar energy battery/inverter MAXEON, smartphones CROSSCALL, smart cells DTA, High Performance User Equipment AWC).
Project Manager
VODAFONE GROUP
2008 - 2019
I helmed end-to-end development and delivery of over 30 smartphones across 30+ countries for Europe, Africa, and Oceania. Coordinating multi-site cross-functional teams between group, suppliers and customers. Quality audits and performance evaluation of the Chinese manufacturers.
Project Manager
PHILIPS / NXP Semiconductors
2005 - 2008
Leading a 10-engineer team in charge of the integration of two mobile system (Hardware + Software) platforms targeted at the Chinese manufacturers – up to 40 million units in lifespan were shipped.
Software Project Manager
TCL / ALCATEL
1998 - 2005
For mobile phones, from Software engineer to Software Project Manager leading a 20-engineer team.

Skills

project-manager
english
chinese-mandarin
french