Christoph H.-Project Manager
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Project Manager
Versicherungskammer Bayern
- Technical project management for a new policy administration and quotation management tool in the area of personal insurance, large commercial business and specialty insurance
- Extension of an established standard solution with dedicated line-of-business modules for industry and public institutions
- Establishment of project structures, teams, organization and communication processes
- Integration of the solution into the existing insurance ecosystem and connection to various surrounding systems
- Stakeholder management and classic project management (on time, in scope, within budget)
- Responsibility for the project budget and delivery
- Initiation, planning, implementation, testing and go-live
- Tools used: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, Xray
Project Manager
Versicherungskammer Bayern
- Cross-functional coordination of the technical integration of a new legal expenses insurance tariff into all sales systems
- Management of ten teams to ensure implementation on schedule
- Coordination with clients for a time-critical time-to-market milestone
- Management of dependencies and adherence to a challenging schedule
- Synchronization with Product Owners and cross-team coordination of testing and communication
- Commissioning and management of subcontractors throughout Germany
- Agile project in a partially agile environment
- Tools used: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, Xray
Project Manager, Business Analyst, Interim Head of IT Consulting
Bültel International Fashion Group
- Replacement of the financial accounting solution Microsoft Dynamics AX with eGecko (cloud-based, SaaS) and revision of all relevant interfaces
- Definition of requirements and moderation of the design of all financial processes (accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, reporting)
- Design of reporting, periodic consolidation, cost-of-sales accounting and cost accounting, including documentation of pseudocode
- Integration of automated OCR invoice capture and posting, implementation of the signature policy and invoice verification process
- Training employees in the invoice verification process
- Documentation of the main financial accounting processes in BPMN 2.0 and handover to process owners
- Design and implementation of service processes and ensuring compliance
- Trainer for ISO, compliance and governance (ISO 27001)
- Subject matter analyst for data governance of master data; coaching and establishment of an IT consulting department
- Introduction of a new cash register system in national and international stores
- Establishment of project portfolio management and integration into company processes
Process Consultant for IT Governance & Compliance, Project Manager
Investment division of a DAX30 company
- Establishment of a process framework for governance, compliance and standardization (software development, cloud integration, ISO 27001, IT security, data protection)
- Embedding processes in the organization (tool: Adonis)
- Consulting on Green Tech, sustainability and sustainability information for investments
- Consulting project managers, department managers and executives
- Optimization and simplification of internal software development processes
- Design of project portfolio management
- Project management of a Minimum Viable Product for calculating and providing yield curves based on Python and C++
Head of IT, Senior IT Consultant and Manager
Company in southern Germany
- Overall responsibility for IT architecture, client & server, implementation, testing and rollout
- Interface to business departments and management of all IT-related topics
- Test management (Unit Test, System Integration Test, User Acceptance Test)
- Implementation of source code in Swift (iOS), Java (Android), PHP and MySQL
- Monitoring, risk management (Risk Assessment, risk analysis, mitigation) and threat modeling
- Tools: Postman, Swift, Xcode, Eclipse, Android Studio, Command One Pro, MySQL Workbench, Microsoft Teams
- Project methodology: (Semi-)agile project with sprints, Planning Poker, backlog, Kanban and Scrum
Senior IT Project Manager
Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality
- Technical hardware and software upgrade of a central risk management system
- Provision of a new global risk model and business as well as technical integration into seven underwriting systems
- Change of the technical interface from SOAP to REST
- Creation of business requirements based on software version changes
- Coordination of all IT workstreams (architecture, infrastructure, development, testing, training)
- Monitoring, risk management and stakeholder management in a diverse international environment
- Tools: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Adonis, SharePoint, ServiceNow, JBoss Fuse, Jira, Jenkins, HP ALM, Risklink, SOAPUI, Postman
Senior IT Project Manager
Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality
- Establishment of a new technical layer in the global IT architecture for risk management
- Roll-out of the technical layer and connection of all relevant underwriting systems to two risk management tools
- Creation and implementation of the roadmap, target architecture and IT application landscape
- Coordination of all IT workstreams and onboarding of IT resources
- Test management, training and coaching of Junior Test Managers
- Definition and implementation of the service process
- Management of risks, dependencies and issues as well as stakeholder management
- Tools: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Adonis, SharePoint, JBoss Fuse, Jira, Jenkins, HP ALM, Microsoft Teams, JSON, DevOps
Program Manager Digitization of the international SME insurance business
AIG
Project result: The AIG.digital program was successfully set up and handed over as planned to the internal Program Manager. Tasks
- Responsibility for managing the AIG.digital program
- Cross-project management of the individual projects within the program.
- Setup of the AIG.digital program.
- Setup and definition of the approaches and methods within the program.
- Advising senior management on restructuring the organization and its underlying IT systems
- Management of the international project teams and the Operational Executive Board
- Coordination with the Steering Committee in Germany, England and the USA
- International stakeholder management, including committees.
- Program size > 200 people
- Responsibility for implementation
- Transformation of the company from a traditional insurer into an Insuretech company The international AIG.digital program is the logical and consistent continuation of the AURORA+ project, which I successfully completed as Project Manager in December 2015 with a strong team. AIG.digital is the subsequent program for transforming the analog and manual insurance business into a digitized and automated insurance business for the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Consumer, Marine, Transport and Financial Lines segments. The AIG.digital program focuses on the technical and process automation of the insurance business based on the BiPRO industry standard. The technical and process framework is being established. Specifically, technical products are being implemented that are connected via BiPRO web services and various types of frontends to comparison portals, brokers, broker pools, aggregators, broker software, etc. The underlying fully integrated policy management system, together with the organizational processes for quotation, contract, claims and cancellation, is also being revised. In addition, the AIG.digital program focuses on transforming the business operations organization. This means that automatically incoming business must be processed appropriately within the organization. The new organizational structures required for this must be defined and established through successful organizational change. Tools used: Microsoft Office and Apple iWork, mind mapping tools, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPM), MS Sharepoint, BiPRO, X4, MS Sharepoint, MS Project, ICIS, Chatter, Lync, Adonis Project methodology: Agile project
Overall Project Manager “AURORA+” for the introduction of BiPRO and revision of 10 insurance products in an international
AIG
Role: Senior Project Manager / Project Manager / Overall Project Manager Project result: All 10 insurance products (personal and commercial) were successfully revised and newly introduced. The BiPRO standard is used throughout the entire value chain (quotation, contract, claims) for all products. Through the BiPRO standard, all products were successfully connected to typical broker management systems. Tasks
- Project management of the global project to digitize the insurance business and its processes
- Coordination of sponsor requirements
- Test management
- Management of the international project teams
- Coordination with the Steering Committee in Germany and England
- International stakeholder management
- Project size > 50 people
- Responsibility for implementation
- Overall project responsibility
- Budget responsibility in the millions
- Benefit responsibility in the high double-digit millions
- Risk management, management of dependencies and issues
The international project comprehensively introduces the BiPRO standard at the customer, revises approx. 10 personal and commercial insurance products, technically connects leading broker policy and broker management systems, and implements the organizational changes required for the service processes for back office, claims handling, telephony, printing, etc. Tools used: Microsoft Office and Apple iWork, mind mapping tools, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPM), MS Sharepoint, BiPRO, X4, MS Sharepoint, MS Project, ICIS, Chatter, Lync, Adonis Project methodology: Agile project
Business Analyst for new insurance products, claims remediation and broker connection systems
AIG
Project result: The business specification was successfully developed together with the Business Team. Through the IT-oriented description of the requirements documents, IT was able to create the technical detailed specification easily and with few ambiguities, implement the products technically and introduce them successfully.
Project descriptions:
- Business Analyst for new insurance products
- Creation of the business concept in close coordination with various business units.
- Creation of the technical concept in dialogue with IT and the business units.
- Advising the business unit on creating complete concepts
- Determining the optimal implementation technologies (e.g. BIPRO standard)
- Creation of acceptance criteria and test cases (use cases)
- Test management (functional tests, Business Scenario Tests, UAT) Tools/standards used: Microsoft Office and Apple iWork, mind mapping tools, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPM), MS Sharepoint, ICIS, BiPRO, Adonis
Business Process Consultant, Process Designer and Trainer in an international Unified Communications (IPT) project
Allianz
Project result: The operating processes for telephony were successfully transferred to the “VoIP world”. All training sessions were successfully conducted and led both to easier use of VoIP telephony and supported the “change process”, as employees confirmed greater acceptance of the new telephony system. Project languages: German and English Project description: At an international German insurance company, all networks and the services and processes based on them are being consolidated worldwide for 150,000 employees. The project replaces the current fragmented global networks with a group-wide data and voice network and also provides the basis for the following areas: data center consolidation, rollout of group-wide IP telephony, global HD video conferencing, optimization of cross-site presence and collaboration. The previously globally heterogeneous network is being transformed into a standardized network with state-of-the-art services such as globally accessible MPLS clouds, VPNs, managed DSL clouds, Wifi (Wlan), centrally organized "Remote Access Platforms", Public BGP Peering, global compliance and governance standards, Green IT and much more. Responsibilities: Business Analyst, Process Manager, Reporting, Process Architect, subject matter consulting and trainer in the areas of networking, telephony and Unified Communications. In the areas of telephony (Phone), as well as WAN and LAN services, the existing operating processes had to be analyzed, combined with new requirements and migrated.
The tasks included:
- Analysis of the existing operating processes
- Gathering business requirements for IMACD processes
- Business requirements for all reporting requirements
- Design of the operating processes
- Commissioning, monitoring and controlling the company’s internal IT service provider
- Coordination with the business departments and IT
- Testing the new tools for the operating processes
- Business acceptance of the requirements Combining national and international interests (business, political and technical)
- Trainer: Development and delivery of training for telephony devices, software tools and operating processes (throughout Germany at approx. 15 locations). From employees to executive board level (German- and English-language training) Tools used: Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), Sharepoint, Adonis, SAS, Cisco Jabber, mind mapping tools, screencasting software Camtasia 2, WebEx
Project Manager for a global Business Intelligence project
Allianz
Project result: The project was successfully transferred into production and is now one of the customer’s central DataWarehouses. Project language: English The aim of the project was to establish an international cross-divisional Data Warehouse in the insurance sector as a platform for globally standardized BI services. The customers of the service are the local companies of the insurance group. Specifically, reports, dashboards and Predictive Models are developed based on a central database and provided as a service to approx. 60 local companies. The project budget is in the seven-figure range. The project is one of six projects within the insurance company’s largest global executive board program. Responsible for
- Internal project coordination (Head of PMO, “right hand” of the overall project manager)
- Responsible for the project plan
- Business modeling (coordination and consulting for modeling the services based on SAS)
- Business modeling of regional and global DWHs and key figures in the areas of property, life, health and banking
- Process modeling (modeling of business processes and processes within the project; UML, BMPN)
- Claims reporting
- Claims monitoring
- Claims controlling
- Controlling (project budget, external costs,…)
- Prizing (management of service pricing)
- Risk management (risk analysis, risk avoidance, risk treatment, risk monitoring)
- Staffing (interviews, coordination of external service providers, coordination with internal units) Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), SAS Suite, Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), UML, Projectron BCS, HP Quality Center, Qlikview, SQL Developer, Oracle, OWB, Oracle BI
Business Analyst for the development of Reporting & Analytics DataMart CIDM (for primary and reinsurance data)
Allianz
The aim of the project was to establish a cross-divisional datamart. For this datamart, business requirements from the property, life, health and banking divisions of the insurer had to be consolidated and homogenized for the DataMart. The particular challenge was to combine 4 different sets of business requirements into a useful and high-performance data basis. This task was successfully completed in numerous workshops with the business departments and with the involvement of IT and is now one of the highlight projects in the insurer’s market management and claims area. Tools used: Oracle, MS Office, DB2, SAS 9.x, SAS BI, SAS Analytics, Adonis
Business Intelligence Project Manager for the development of standard reporting in the transport insurance division
esa cargo & logistics (Allianz Lebensversicherung AG, Stuttgart)
As part of the redevelopment of a customer-centric insurance policy administration system, the transport division was integrated into this administration system. The data relevant for analysis had to be identified and captured from the administration system and made fully automated available to the customer’s reporting system via the analysis layer. In addition, the relevant standard reports were to be created and tested. The project was carried out part-time.
Tasks:
- Management and coordination of the Business Intelligence project stream
- Coordination and technical leadership of up to 8 employees
- Analysis of business requirements
- Coordination of the identification of the data required for reporting and data modeling of a datamart
- Design of the ETL (Extraction, Transforming, Loading) of the data into the analysis layer (dispositive system)
- Mapping of the relevant business data
- Design of the ETL of the data for dedicated reports and analyses in Qlikview
- Provision of reports in the areas of contract management and claims
- Coordination with relevant stakeholders Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), SAS 9, Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Projectron BCS, HP Quality Center, Qlikview, SQL Developer, Oracle, OWB, Oracle BI
Strategy Consultant for education in the Business Intelligence area
München
The customer had previously decided on a single-tool strategy for analyses, dashboards, scorecards, etc. The choice fell on the provider SAS Institute GmbH. The task was to develop, introduce and establish a training strategy and a training program. The aim was to support the successful introduction of SAS at the customer through the training sessions. The result was a training program tailored to the BI provider, through which more than 1500 employees at two locations were successfully trained. Since then, SAS has been successfully introduced throughout the company (now even globally in 60 countries). Due to its success at Allianz, SAS itself recognized the training I developed and its content as an official SAS Training Curriculum.
Responsibilities:
- Development of a training program for employees from IT and the business departments of the insurance company
- Creation of the training documentation and delivery of the first 5 basic training sessions, then handover to and induction of the trainers
- Coordination with internal customer units, training sessions and trainer education
- Coordination with the training department of SAS Institute GmbH to ensure the professional quality of the training sessions
- Training consulting for individual customers to avoid incorrect training of employees
- Regular optimization processes to improve employee training and motivation Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), SAS 9.x, Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Projectron BCS
Process Consultant for the Development, Establishment and Certification of Standardized Processes according to CMMI V1.2
metafinanz Informationssysteme gmbh
The task was to develop, introduce and establish standard processes according to CMMI within the company. The goal was formal CMMI certification. Result: The processes were introduced in the company in compliance with CMMI. In addition, the introduced processes were successfully confirmed in a certification procedure (appraisal). The project was carried out partly on a part-time basis.
- Process consulting
- Certification of company processes (CMMI V.1.2, Level 3)
- Development, implementation and monitoring of external management processes
- Institutionalization of processes within the company
- Reporting to the management
- Developing the company into a self-learning organization Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), SAS 9, Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Projectron BCS, UML, BPMN
Subject Matter Project Manager for the Development of Reporting for Executive Management
metafinanz Informationssysteme GmbH
Subject Matter Project Management
- Interface between business and technical topics
- Project Management Office Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Projectron BCS, SQL Developer
Software Audit Project Manager
Allianz Global Assistance
Audit to assess the current status of VoIP software. The task was to thoroughly review and evaluate VoIP software from a business and technical perspective. The successful result was a detailed audit with a management summary and recommendations for action.
- Project management
- Audit planning, execution and evaluation
- Project Management Office Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Projectron BCS
Strategy Consulting, Project Manager Business Scorecard/Dashboard Study
Allianz SE
Conducting a study on tools for developing business scorecards for management reporting. The goal was to prepare a well-founded analysis of commonly used Business Intelligence suites in order to evaluate which suite was best suited to the customer's requirements. The BI suite market was scanned and, based on the customer requirements, the four best- suited suites were analyzed and evaluated in greater detail. The successful result was a study with recommendations for action and a suite recommendation for the customer.
- Project management
- Coordination of the business analysis, weighting and evaluation parameters
- Process facilitation
- Preparing and delivering management presentations
Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project), Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Projectron BCS
Project Manager and Head of Data Warehouse Department
Directline (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Responsible Project Manager for the Introduction of New Databases and Business Intelligence Solutions
Project management
Target / actual analysis of the Data Warehouse
Concept development (technical, business)
Coordination with internal customers (business departments) Tools used: Microsoft Project (MS Project),, Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook), Microsoft SQL Server 2005, MS Reporting Services, IBM DB2
Head of Data Warehouse Department / Team (4 employees)
Responsible coordination and planning for all Data Warehouse-related tasks
Coordination with business departments, central contact for Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence topics for contract management, claims management and other customer-related service processes
Introduction and migration of new BI software products
Development of ETL jobs
Development of data cubes and reports
IBM DB2, SQL Server 2000
Data Warehouse Sub-Project Manager Introduction of a new Data Warehouse, introduction of a Data Warehouse for new insurance products
Responsibility for revenue in the mid six-figure range (euros)
Project languages: English and German
- Analysis and evaluation of the existing Data Warehouse
- Developing the concept for the new Data Warehouse (business, technical)
- Supporting the business departments in preparing the business requirements
- Supporting the implementation of the Data Warehouse, including testing
- Development of reports, cubes and other DB objects (IBM DB2, SQL Server)
- Transition of the Data Warehouse to line operations
- Introduction of general Data Warehouse and testing processes
- Carrying out all organizational tasks related to the sub-project (effort planning, monitoring project progress, responsibility for the sub-project vis-à-vis the overall project manager)
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Experienced in Insurance, Information Technology, Fashion, and Banking and Finance.
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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Human Resources, and Accounting.
Summary
As a technically minded PMP-certified program and project manager and consultant with a hands-on mentality, I offer 24 years of project and program management experience in medium-sized and large companies, along with 21 years of management experience leading up to 200 employees.
Many written references available.
Further (earlier) projects available on request.
Skills
I Offer Professional Consulting With A Focus On...
- Pmp-Certified Program And Project Management - Nationally And Internationally In Agile, Hybrid And “Waterfall” Projects
- Digitalization Of Businesses, Processes And Organizations
- In-Depth Business, Technical And Process Knowledge Across The Entire Value Chain For Clothing Manufacturers And Marketers, Distribution And Logistics, As Well As Primary And Reinsurance (Quotation, Contract, Claim)
- Business Analysis And Solution Design, It Infrastructure And It Security Consulting
- Consulting At The Interface Between Business Departments And It
- Business Processes
- Coaching And Training (More Than 2,000 Participants Trained)
- Design, Implementation And Updating Of Custom Software And Standard Software
Areas Of Focus
- Financial Services, Primary Insurance And Reinsurance, Banks, Clothing Industry, Retail
- Corporations, Medium-Sized Companies
- Software Projects (New Development, Migrations, Updates / Upgrades)
- Company-Wide End-To-End Processes And Their Interdependencies
- Digitalization (Holistic, Purposeful)
Languages
Education
Fachhochschule Augsburg
Computer Science
Certifications & licenses
Project Management Institute
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
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Christoph is based in Augsburg, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Christoph speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), French (Intermediate), Croatian (Elementary).
Christoph has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Christoph has worked in at least 18 different roles and for 14 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 1 month. Note that Christoph may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Christoph would be well-suited for roles such as: Project Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Interim Head of IT Consulting, Process Consultant for IT Governance & Compliance, Project Manager.
Christoph's most recent position is Project Manager at Versicherungskammer Bayern.
In recent years, Christoph has worked for Versicherungskammer Bayern, Bültel International Fashion Group, and Investment division of a DAX30 company.
Christoph is most experienced in industries like Insurance, Information Technology, and Fashion. Christoph also has some experience in Banking and Finance.
Christoph is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Business Intelligence. Christoph also has some experience in Quality Assurance, Human Resources, and Accounting.
Christoph has recently worked in industries like Insurance, Fashion, and Banking and Finance.
Christoph has recently worked in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Accounting.
Christoph holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Fachhochschule Augsburg.
Christoph has 1 certificate: Project Management Professional (PMP)®.
Christoph will be available full-time from December 2026.
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