Dr. Thorsten Volz

Dr. Thorsten Volz

Address: Amselweg 1, DE-71394 Kernen i. R.

E-mail: thorsten@volzonline.de

Phone: +49 7151 480 350

Cell: +49 176 47270351

Professional info

Professional software development with high responsibility for economic success is my offer. Based on a profound education and versatile experiences in following fields:

  • stakeholder management
  • requirements management
  • risk management
  • solution management
  • team management
  • project management
  • software architecture
  • object oriented analysis and design

Work experience

Founder and Managing Director

October 2013 - Now

THORTEC Software GmbH, Kernen im Remstal
Webapp "Sankey Flow Show"
Sankey diagrams Workflow diagrams BPMN 2.0 diagrams UML diagrams P&ID Circuit diagrams Technical diagrams Other diagrams

  • Idea, requirements management and realisation of the webapp "Sankey Flow Show"
  • Company founding
  • Business development

Self employed, Generalist

January 2014 - December 2016

  • Idea, Requirements management, Development of a new web app (Online Sankey diagram maker) and more

Sabbatical

August 2013 - December 2013

Senior Director Software Development
(Product Sustainability)

January 2003 - July 2013

PE INTERNATIONAL AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen rebranded as thinkstep AG
GaBi Software
Core responsibility in building up the world leading software system GaBi for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and its development team (GaBi = Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung, holistic balancing). Starting from a one man show as part of a team of LCA engineers on the basis of my doctoral thesis, ending with a development team of 10 persons and a seven-digits yearly turnover.

  • Scrum Product Owner and team lead
  • Organization of and driving force in the build-up of a professional in-house software development
  • Project management
  • Design and development of the GaBi Software System and associated tools
  • Consultancy to industry mainly in the field of software solutions around the GaBi Software System.

Freelancer

May 2002 - December 2002

AMA Systems GmbH, within a Project for Daimler AG, Pforzheim, Sindelfingen

  • Development of a client server system for product flow monitoring
  • Object oriented analysis, design and development of new features for an existing system on client side as well as on server side (real-time requirements).
  • Integration into a productive system at a Daimler site in Sindelfingen.

Subcontractor within a project of the European Commission

September 2000-April 2002

Ingenieurberatung Dr. Volz Enhancement to the software system GaBi to support Life Cycle Working Time (LCWT) Assessment

  • Project management
  • Object oriented analysis and design
  • Software development

Freelancer

May 2000 - August 2000

PE Europe GmbH (later PE INTERNATIONAL AG)

  • Project management, design and development of a strategy and a solution for the internationalization and localization of the GaBi software system

CFO and Owner with 3 Partners

April 1999-April 2000

Consulting & Development AG

  • Financial and technical company management
  • International project management (Japan)
  • Java-Trainer

Scientific Officer

July 1994 - April 1999

IKP, Institute for polymer testing and polymer science, University of Stuttgart

  • Doctoral thesis (mathematical basis of the software system GaBi)
  • Project management, OOA, OOD, software development, development of a sales and distribution organisation (GaBi 3.0, from multi-client project to a public available standard software system)
  • OOA, OOD, software development within a multi client project (GaBi 2.0, until 1996)

Freelancer

April 1994 - July 1994

Hewlett Packard

  • Software development

Student Assistant (60 to 80 hours per month)

1992 - April 1994

Fraunhofer Institute for Product Automation, IPA

  • Software development
  • Education (Lectures at a German university of cooperative education, BA)

Freelancer (ca. 60 hours per month)

1991 - 1992

Waidner GmbH

  • Software development

Student Assistant (40 to 60 hours per month)

1990 - 1991

Fraunhofer Institute for industrial engineering and organisation, IAO

  • Database oriented software development

Education

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

February 2012

it-agile GmbH

Dr.-Ing.

July 1994 - April 1999

University of Stuttgart, Institute for polymer testing and polymer science
Doctoral thesis (translated, original in German):"Integration of systematic analysis and forecast into Life Cycle Assessment - Instruments for computer based modelling"

Dipl.-Inf.

September 1988 - April 1994

University of Stuttgart

  • University studies: Information technology
  • Main focus: human-machine communication
  • Minor subject: Business Administration

Languages

German (mother language)
English
French, Italian (just basics)

Communication skills

Very good team work and intercultural skills

  • Working in a globally present company with a multicultural tradition
  • Manifold complimentary engagements in a sports-club: e.g. VP of the volleyball division (>300 members), team leader, trainer, referee, press agent, announcer in "1. Bundesliga Volleyball"
  • Active team player for more than 25 years

Computer skills

JavaEE, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, SVG, C, C++, C#, Delphi, SQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, SQLite, Paradox, Access, ODBC, XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, TCP/IP, Winsock, Jira, Mantis, SVN, Tortoise, several Profiling tools, Windows, Unix derivates