Certified Project Manager (IPMA Level C)

• Delivery of various end-customer projects in server and network infrastructure on time, in quality, and within budget.
• Project 1: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall at an automotive supplier.
• Project 2: Migration of file services from dedicated servers at 5 branch locations into a central managed file service, including DHCP, directory, and print services, as well as decommissioning of the old domain controllers.
• Project 3: Renewal of the network infrastructure at the headquarters and branch locations of a logistics company and transition of the LAN, WLAN, and firewall environments into a managed network service.
• Project 4: Network renewal, replacement of the core and access switches at the headquarters of a medical technology company and transition into a managed network service.
• Project 5: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall for a city.
• Environment: ASA and Fortinet firewalls, Cisco network components, ITSM Heat/Ivanti, Confluence.

• Lead Solution Delivery workstream
• Serve as IT Operations Manager ad interim
• Define, implement, and continuously optimize the Target Operating Model
• Design and implement incident and problem management processes
• Develop, maintain, and execute business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including DR testing
• Ensure system availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with SLAs
• Liaise between business stakeholders, SAP Basis teams, managed service providers, and cloud vendors
• Oversee incident, change, and problem management processes per ITIL best practices
• Lead service reviews and vendor performance evaluations
• Coordinate patching, upgrades, and enhancement cycles with SAP AG and application operations teams
• Monitor system health, performance, and security using SAP for Me
• Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, and network teams to ensure system integrity
• Create, track, and manage project-related firewall requests
• Develop, coordinate, and deliver cutover activities for targeted system lines

• Analysis and optimization of goods receipt, storage, inventory management, order picking and shipping
• Documentation of individual business processes

• Scope development and project planning
• Stakeholder management
• Process analysis and adaptation
• Development of reporting structures
• Establishment of joint communication structures
• Training concept
• Order processing and cost tracking

• Responsible for driving digital transformation and aligning country organizations with the Rhenus platform model

• Initiated the digital transformation roadmap for five countries, ensuring alignment with global group strategy

• Built and led a high-performing digital transformation consulting team, expanding delivery capacity from one to three value streams and thereby fast tracking the roadmap from 3 to 2 years

• Acted as strategic advocate for 5 country organizations, ensuring group-wide cross-functional alignment

• Redefined business analysis into an agile approach, reducing time-to-value for platform harmonization by 50%

• Replacement of a RIS and PACS system in combination with three different software solutions, with a focus on redesigning and further developing existing processes.
• Ensuring the interaction of the individual solutions and their integration into one overall solution to provide optimal support for medical staff in their daily work.
• Overall project management including coordination of three service providers.
• Use of technologies and solutions such as RIS, PACS, Smart Reporting, and Artificial Intelligence.
• Leading the RIS & PACS replacement in a hospital.
• Support with the communication strategy.
• Coordination of external and internal resources.
• Stakeholder management.
• Steering of steering committees.

• Responsible as a project manager for several launch projects, including setting up processes and procedures
• Driving existing business

• Leading and managing of three team leads and their respective teams
• Overseeing Global People Operations for 600 EEs in 9 locations on 4 continents
• Deliver consulting and coaching to all leaders and employees with my HR Business Partner team
• Responsible for all hiring activities including employer branding to the business in all locations
• HR Tech and innovation
• Project creation and delivery across the entire organization
• Policy making and labor law
• Sparring partner to C-Level and senior leaders
• Liaison person and employer representation to the Works Council
• Member of the Global HR Leadership team

Implementation of anti-money laundering requirements in accordance with AMLA/KYC for an international large bank in Munich

Services provided:

• Clarification of the assignment, definition of the work package structure for the AMLA/KYC implementation project
• AI-supported project planning using my own AI workflow for project management
• Creation of the project management plan
• Resource and capacity planning
• Development of collaboration structures between IT service provider and bank client
• Alignment of responsibilities (RACI matrix)
• Management of 5 project members (core team)
• Project control, project monitoring, project reporting
• Communication management
• Escalation management
• Stakeholder management (11 stakeholders)
• Permanent member of the steering committee
• Project representation internally and externally
• Project reporting, management of decision-making bodies
• Project volume: 506 person-days (development effort)
• Risk management
• Quality management
• Organization and running of workshops

Methods: PMI PMBOK, EVM, GWG, DORA, BAIT, KANBAN, AML, AMLR, AMLA, GWG, KYC

IT environment: JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Kantata Kimble, AI LLM Copilot, ChatGPT, anti-money laundering systems (in-house developments and SMARAGD)

• Project management for Porsche interior plastic parts
• Ensuring a complete and smooth flow of information between the customer and internal departments
• Creation and monitoring of resource, schedule, and overall project plans
• Active support and independent customer handling
• Coordination of technical discussions and pricing meetings
• Organization, execution, and documentation of alignment meetings with development and controlling
• Handling of quotations with cost specs, analyses, and presentations
• Independent cost negotiations, change handling, and final negotiations
• Carrying out deviation analyses

• Group-wide responsibility for developing new business models, strategic support of corporate start-ups and managing equity in start-ups
• Direct management of 3 employees
• Direct reporting line to executive management
• Business Development: designing and building an information platform on the global machine base and customer sales/margins in the aftersales area based on SAP data, supporting sales planning as part of the budget, advising project teams on profitability calculations
• Digital Ventures: defining terms, developing processes to generate and develop new business models, operational validation of new business models to expand the group's business areas, strategic support of project teams in implementing new business models, cooperation project with Munich University of Applied Sciences, steering and supporting equity investments in start-ups

• Design, authorship and finalization of the IT PROD SEC service catalog with eight standardized security services (S-ID001–S-ID008).

• Development of consistent service components & deliverables, RACI assignments and SLA and KPI definitions for each service.

• Integration of BaFin document requirements under DORA into the service descriptions.

• Coordination with IT, compliance, risk and operations teams to validate all service descriptions.

• Specifically for governance & monitoring: definition of governance cadence, evidence delivery processes, audit support and definition of measurable KPIs and measurement methods.

• Ensuring that all services are standardized, measurable and documented in an audit-proof manner.

• Result: Approved service catalog with eight services as a binding basis for delivery, governance and audits; transparent SLAs/KPIs for each service and DORA/BAIT/MaRisk-compliant documentation with clear responsibilities and evidence trails.

• Technologies and tools: Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Office 365.

• Proceeding what was started in 10/2023, offering data science development skills fulltime to international clients

• Helping companies learn more about their existing (unstructured) data, optimize processes and technical systems, and derive solutions for their problems

• Tools and technology used: Python (sklearn, pandas, numpy, Django, sqlAlchemy, pyTorch), Matlab, Docker, AWS EC2, Lambda, S3, SQL, MySQL, Hadoop & Spark, Machine Learning, DNN, AI, Jira, Confluence, Git, CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins