Marcus A. Schürstedt

Started with doing trainings as a student of computer science. Office, Pascal, Linux for NCR/AT&T. Never let training go. Just found my passion. 

Worked as sales rep (we made more than 20 billion turnover with PCs in our team), support specialist, consultant in the business process management area.

I worked as a therapist and NLP coach. 

When working for the small, but global operation BPM vendor, the trainings become global. Europe, USA, Canada, China, Middle East. Lot’s of cultural experience from that time. Started with eLearning quite early and a lot of experience with webinars (always use a pen!). 

As a continuous learner I am interested in the newest trends in training. I am using technology like pen input, but new training styles are very interesting too. With my work for the university I am free to experiment. 

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Per se I am not a planner. So agile thinking was my way always. 

1. Look where you are and where you want to go
2. Make a small step into the direction
3. Stop and evaluate what you learned so far
4. Goto 1

Rule: when you have two similar option choose the one which gives you more flexibility. 

Agile working starting in my very first projects as lead for a software development project for the German Army hospitals. Whil working as a BPM solution provide we worked with the motto: Agile Processes with Adaptive Process Discovery. An agile thinking in the BPM world. 

Recently I formalized this practical know-how in a more formal education and certification in Scum, Design-Thinking, Kanban, Lean Software Development.

This way I can know combine practical know-how with the latest trends and learnings of the agile world. 

A quote from a good friend and colleague: „Marcus has the ability to make 1+1=3. He sees combinations where we normal thinker see just the average.“

Quite amazing, but the Myres-Briggs type system explains a lot of myself: https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality

I see more the drawbacks of this type personally, on the other hand there is a lot of potential I would like to bring in. 

I worked a lot with Moodle, as I speak PHP. Same for WordPress as a LMS system. 

Adobe captivate of course. 

SAP Enable now, a system I really like a lot. So much potential. 

I started with computer science. Know programming from the basics. Speak C#, PHP, Java, Python, Javascript and more. 

My philosophy: if I can understand it, I can program it. 

I have experience in the Windows world, but although in Linux and OS/X. Did some development for Android, less for IOS. 

Databases from Oracle, MS-SQL to MySQL. Some No-SQL as well. 

I did some work in the open-source sector, e.g. in the business open-source context. 

I love to play with the newest things in technology. Own an Amazon Echo since it came out in the US. Did some work with skill development, chatbots etc. 

I own VR equipment, 360° cameras. Love machine learning and AI (one of my hobbies). 

Nowadays I would not consider me a hardcore developer – more someone who knows how it is done. The time of Pizza nights is over :). 

Nevertheless, I can do:

• • *** .net project – transfer Salesforce based support solution into a BPM driven solution Asp.Net web application with ad-hoc live data migration 
  • *** php wordpress based solution – pilot show case for integration of wordpress and Microsoft AI tools – Microsoft QNA Maker and Microsoft Bot tools for automatic knowledge base building
  • *** javascript, node.js – pilot show case – open source kanban board control with mobile phone data entering via web sockets
  • *** .net, javascript – integration of quickbooks accounting software into Ultimus BPM to set up a workflow driven in-house accounting solution

Just to mention a few more recent one. 

Why do I write here about hobbies? 

Because I think you hire a person, not a machine. 

Even I am a lot into AI, machine learning and the philosophy behind it. 

As long term meditation practioner I have some interesting insights how our brain works.