Alex Birke

I am interested in clever ways to design organizations, what makes people tick, people-centric change and transformation, psychology, business agility, leadership, coaching.

SUMMARY
I studied computer science and psychology and work as a trainer, coach, and consultant.

I gained experience in organizations by leading teams and projects in large-scale IT initiatives. For the last 10+ years, I have co-created and advised on change initiatives in large companies. I am passionate about designing organizations that enable and engage people to create fulfilling job environments allowing organizations to grow beyond their former limits.

I believe in sharing his deep knowledge and experience as a lecturer both at universities and conferences.

FACT-BASED SUMMARY
• 20 years of IT working experience including 15+ years of experience on large-scale IT projects and organizations
• Strong technology focus within first 10 years on mainly JEE/Java technologies, recent 10 years all technologies but with a primary focus on coaching / consulting and transformation with different agile methods like Lean, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
• Leadership responsibilities reach from project lead over up to 90 people, client account lead for 250 people, transformation lead over several 1000 people, and business unit lead with 150 people.

MORE ABOUT ME
Beyond typical professional work activities, I was engaged as a badminton trainer and university lecturer for technical, management, and soft-skill topics.

I own several trainer and coach licenses as ScaledAgileFramework, emTrace coach, Kanban trainer AKT badminton trainer.

In 2020 I issued together with Henrik Gruber the book Stumbling Across The Obvious – www.stumblingAcrossTheObvious.com.

FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS
• Primary languages: German (native), English (fluent)
• Industry certifications: Holding about 20 certifications in the field of software development, architecture, development, and methodologies
• Public appearances and conference speeches: ~10 written publications and 30 conference speeches on large public conferences as e.g. OOP, JAX, GOTO, Agile World, WJAX, AbIT, ManageAgile