John Meister

Consultant. Lecturer. Trainer.

John Meister
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Experience

present

Dataport

Head of Digital Municipality Operations.
Transforming municipalities to digital smart cities.
Consulting Public Sector.
Projects. Tech. Business Processes.

University of Applied Sciences Hamburg

Lecturer.
Public Management.
Service Design Thinking.
Diversity Management.

past

Hamburg Senate Chancellery

Digital First Ambassador.
Portfolio management.
Creating digital public services which match user needs.
Innovation for users.

Hamburg Authority of Finance

Head of Infrastructure.
Project Manager.
Records Management.
Digital Transformation of the Authority of Finance.

Hamburg Authority of Labour, Social, Family Affairs and Integration

Specialist Advisor.
Expert for medical care systems for refugees and migrants.
Manager for the debt counselling units in the City of Hamburg.
Financial Management & Controlling.

German Bundestag

Personal Advisor
for the media-policy spokesperson of the
FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.
Specialist for Internet & Social Media.

Education

present

University of Library Studies and Information Technologies Sofia

PhD candidate.

past

University of Hagen

Master of Arts.
Governance (Political Science).
Received the Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium).

University of Applied Sciences Hamburg

Bachelor of Arts.
Public Management with
Minor in Economics. 

Skills

  • Leadership program "Leader Into The Future" (KGSt)​
  • Certified Project Management Associate (IPMA)​
  • Working in project management and dev teams - agile & traditional
  • Service Design Thinking - as trainer, lecturer und creator (certified in e.g. IBM Enterprise Design Thinking)
  • UX Design (Axure RP, Adobe XD, Sketch/Invision)​
  • Professional Scrum Master I (Scrum.org)​
  • Workshops - with citizens and public administrations
  • Digital Marketing (Google future lab)​
  • Keynotes & panel discussions​
  • Practical experience in Office 365, TFS, Jira, Confluence, HTML5, CSS, PHP7, WordPress (e.g.)

Me

Proud dad of daughters.
Sport boat driver’s license (sea & inland).
Qualified fitness trainer (C license).

John Meister, c/o Dataport, Normannenweg 27, 20537 Hamburg