Klaus-Dieter Pfenning-Freelance Consultant / Manager, Interim Manager
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Freelance Consultant / Manager, Interim Manager
Freelance
Managing Director
PG Consulting GmbH - winball.de
- Responsible for business strategy and business plans
- Accountable for all technical matters
- Designing new products and providing personal customer support
- Project focus: WordPress websites and hosting, complex WooCommerce shops
Head of IT & New Media
Jahr Top Special Verlag
Defining the publishing strategy in New Media (internet, mobile, video)
Designing, planning, and implementing New Media projects (magazine apps, setting up a production line for pubbles and hartcore-Angler)
Reporting to the Managing Director/Shareholder, supervising 5 employees
Introducing and executing a company-wide training strategy
Establishing company-wide management and controlling tools
Relaunched magazine websites
Rolled out all magazine apps
Restructured the IT department and the New Media department and modernized the data center
Management Consultant for group-wide IT strategies and projects
TDMi Holding
Advising the Group Executive Board on all IT strategy issues and providing hands-on support for all internal IT projects
Preparing internal technical due diligence reports as a basis for acquiring other companies
Reporting to the Group Executive Board
Successfully completed the group-wide pilot project for a unified ERP system within 6 months
Planning and leading 5 individual projects
Project lead for the "Fit4SBS" project, which established a central IT and business service unit across the group
Director of Professional Services (previously Regional Manager North)
Inforsacom Informationssysteme GmbH
Overall responsibility for customer projects and services in the banking, insurance, and telecommunications sectors
Reporting to the CEO, managing 60 employees
Company-wide responsibility for employee training and development
Representing the company in legal matters
Personal account management for major clients such as Helaba and Arcor with an annual turnover of around €9.5 million
Implementing processes and methods for project planning and tracking
Director Sales & Services EMEA
Quark Media House Sàrl
Responsible for areas: customer projects, support, training, and sales of enterprise products, especially editorial systems in EMEA
Administrative and personnel responsibility in EMEA (excl. Switzerland)
Personal account management of all major clients in EMEA such as Gruner+Jahr, Burda, Ringier, VNU (UK), etc.
Reporting to the CEO, 80 employees Europe-wide
Restructuring in the UK, France, and Germany
Migration of development and support from Europe to India
Founder, Shareholder, Consultant, and Supervisory Board Member
Buchungsmaschine AG
Design and implementation of a booking interface to Sabre, DCS, and Start Amadeus
Development of a travel database with over 23 million travel records
Building a customer base of up to 3,500 travel agencies and portal clients like expedia.de
Establishment of the independent company, sale to Travel24.com
Founder, Managing Director, Board Member (CTO)
HEXMAC Software Systems AG
Responsible for areas: Research & Development, customer projects, support, training, IT
Development of business strategy and business plans
Personal account management of major clients such as DGZ, DekaBank, Focus Digital AG, AOK Bayern, Detroit News, Aftonbladet
Managing international distributors in the USA and Europe
Reporting to the supervisory board, 60 employees
Implementation of new IT products from idea to packaged software
Support and preparation for the IPO planned in October 2000 (canceled), sale to Focus Digital AG (Burda Publishing) in 2001
Project Manager
Axel Springer Verlag
Planning, design, and execution of the project in collaboration with the editor-in-chief and publishing management
Overall project management of all technical aspects for the editorial department
Creating a multilevel training concept, planning and conducting the training sessions
Programming of extensions
Reporting to the editor-in-chief, 2 employees
Step-by-step conversion of all eight production sites with over 300 employees to the new electronic editorial system
Setting up the digital production workflow at international locations (e.g., Mallorca)
Trainer
Systematics GmbH
- Conducting training sessions for Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Axel Springer Verlag, Gruner+Jahr
Research Assistant at the Institute of Physical Chemistry
University of Hamburg
- Development, design and implementation of a control system for transporting analysis samples that were radioactively irradiated
- Training apprentices in computer science at the Institute of Physical Chemistry
IT Trainer
IT Trainer
Training sessions and seminars for: MS-DOS, MacOS, MS Word, MS Excel, Aldus PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Aldus FreeHand, RagTime
Training on development software: Omnis 5, AppleScript, Userland Frontier
One-on-one training for key clients and train-the-trainer seminars
Creating training and course concepts as well as participant materials
Acquisition of major clients such as Axel Springer Publishing and Gruner+Jahr
Trainer, Programmer
BISO GmbH
Designing and delivering training for Volksfürsorge, Lufthansa, Spiegel Publishing, and GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH
Collaborating on the development of the SQL-based database and CBT application "Introduction to IT" for the HR department at Volksfürsorge
Assisting with the database-driven production of print catalogs for Volksfürsorge and Apple Germany
Trainer
PG Consulting GmbH
- Preparation and delivery of IT courses for the German Employee Academy Cologne
- Development of program examples in Turbo Pascal for preparatory courses for the IT clerk exam at the IHK Cologne
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Experienced in Information Technology, Professional Services, Media and Entertainment, Education, Tourism, and Banking and Finance.
Business Area Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Strategy, Project Management, Research and Development, and Sales.
Summary
30 years of project experience in IT, training, and internet projects of all kinds have given me a broad base of expertise. My key focus is on turning business process analyses into project requirements and even into operational concepts after successful implementation. In doing so, I often serve as a system architect and act as a bridge between business needs and application development through to solving implementation issues. My technical expertise includes strong knowledge of IT architecture, software development, and interface technologies, as well as backend and frontend of ERP, CMS, and e-commerce systems and related technologies. In addition to many years of experience in executive management and leading editorial, IT, and development departments, I also have experience in project management.
Skills
- Ms Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Ms Project
- Sap/R3
- Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Pagemaker)
- Quarkxpress
- Html
- Css
- Javascript
- Php
- Mysql
- Linux Administration
Languages
Education
University of Cologne and University of Hamburg
Chemistry · Hamburg, Germany
Stadtgymnasium Köln-Porz
High school diploma · Secondary school · Cologne, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SAFe 6 Agilist
SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
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