Michael M.-IT Project Manager / Scrum Master / Product Owner / Head of IT

Implementation of legal requirements for electronic data exchange relating to Hybrid DRG. The goal was to integrate the new billing and process requirements into the health insurance fund's existing systems on time and in compliance with the law, while ensuring stable operations.

Responsibilities as IT Project Manager: Ensuring project objectives are met / Ensuring compliance with resource and budget limits / Regularly reporting project progress to management, the project sponsor, and the steering committee / Preparing and aligning project requests and project change requests with the project sponsor, steering committee, and Project Portfolio Committee / Coordinating discussions with business units / Managing the cross-functional team of internal IT, internal business units, internal architects, and external application developers

Responsibilities as Scrum Master: Planning and facilitating backlog refinements / Planning and facilitating sprint planning / Planning and facilitating Daily Scrum meetings / Planning and facilitating sprint reviews / Planning and facilitating retrospectives / Coaching the internal Product Owner / Product Manager

Technical environment: Bitbucket, Confluence, DB2, DBeaver, GIT, Java, Jenkins, Jira, MS Office, MS Planner, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, MS Teams, MS Visio, RPA, SQL

Led an agile team of 3 COBOL and 8 JAVA developers and 3 Product Owners. The team was responsible for delivering IT requests and ensuring operational stability. The team consisted of internal and external IT staff and was tasked with supporting internal IT during a restructuring project.

Responsibilities as TEAM LEAD: Ensuring availability and planning the required capacity / Reporting to management / Coordinating discussions with internal business units / Coordinating discussions with internal IT / Incident management / IT service management

Responsibilities as SCRUM MASTER: Planning and facilitating backlog refinements / Planning and facilitating sprint planning / Planning and facilitating Daily Scrum meetings / Planning and facilitating sprint reviews / Planning and facilitating retrospectives / Coaching team members (Product Owners, developers) on Scrum

Responsibilities as PRODUCT OWNER: Responsibility for the areas EESSI, Anschluss-Reha, Erörterungsverfahren, Hybrid DRG / Liaison between business units and developers / Prioritizing tasks in coordination with business units / Creating epics and user stories / Scheduling tasks with developers (effort / story points)

Technical environment: Bitbucket, Confluence, DB2, DBeaver, GIT, Java, Jenkins, Jira, MS Office, MS Planner, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, MS Teams, MS Visio, RPA, SQL

Implementation of statutory requirements as part of an update to electronic data exchange in the context of EESSI (Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information) between European health insurance funds. The aim was to implement Europe-wide communication standards in compliance with the law and integrate the relevant processes and interfaces into the health insurance fund's existing system landscape.

Responsibilities as IT Project Manager: Ensuring project objectives are met / Ensuring compliance with resources and costs / Regularly reporting project progress to management, the project sponsor and the project committee / Preparing and coordinating project and project change requests with the project sponsor, project committee and Project Portfolio Committee / Coordinating consultations with business departments / Managing the interdisciplinary team of internal IT, internal business departments, internal architects and external application developers

Responsibilities as Scrum Master: Planning and conducting backlog refinements / Planning and conducting sprint plannings / Planning and conducting daily Scrum meetings / Planning and conducting sprint reviews / Planning and conducting retrospectives / Coaching the internal Product Owner / Product Manager

Technical environment: Bitbucket, Confluence, DB2, DBeaver, GIT, Java, Jenkins, Jira, MS Office, MS Planner, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, MS Teams, MS Visio, SQL

• Migrated a broker and commission rate management system to Java (implemented in several phases).
• Planned the project (time, resources, costs) and prepared the project proposal.
• Ensured compliance with objectives, deadlines, costs and quality requirements.
• Managed stakeholders (internal and external) and reported to management.
• Planned and conducted weekly project reviews, sprint reviews, backlog refinements and sprint plannings.
• Conducted project closure, including the project closure report.
• Analyzed and documented technical requirements in Confluence and Jira.
• Coached Product Owners in analyzing and documenting business requirements.
• Prepared architecture and technical design documents.
• Created epics, requirements and work packages (user stories and Definition of Done / acceptance criteria) together with the Product Owners.
• Planned and conducted workshops with business and technical contacts.
• Acted as the interface between IT and the business department.
• Scheduled and monitored testing and bug fixes.
• Created test case templates, test cases and test plans for technical tests in Jira.
• Coached Product Owners in creating test case templates, test cases, test plans, bugs and incidents in Jira.
• Technologies: Bitbucket, Confluence, C++, Delphi, Git, IBM DB2, Java, Jira, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Teams, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio, MS Word, Samos (msg nexinsure), SAS / SAS Excel, Squirrel, Skype, TortoiseGIT, XMind, XML.

• Preliminary study for modernizing broker and commission management systems and migrating commission calculations for individual business areas to the customer's target systems.
• Led the broker management subproject and reported to overall project management.
• Prepared rough estimates of the effort and costs involved in modernizing broker management.
• Supported overall project management in preparing decision documents and recommendations for management.
• Conducted a high-level analysis of business and technical requirements and business processes.
• Conducted a high-level analysis of future interfaces between the target system and its users in collaboration with the architecture team.
• Coached the other subprojects on broker and commission rate management.
• Technologies: C++, Delphi, IBM DB2, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio, MS Word, Samos (msg nexinsure), Squirrel, XMind.

• Implementing and enhancing intermediary management and commission management systems, as well as interfaces to dependent / consuming systems.
• Implementing business and technical requirements, as well as technical in-code documentation.
• Creating unit tests and conducting developer tests.
• Planning and conducting workshops.
• Analyzing and documenting business processes and technical requirements.
• Creating epics, requirements and work packages.
• Creating test case templates, test cases and test plans in Jira.
• Conducting technical tests and coaching users during functional testing.
• Technologies: Confluence, C++, Delphi, Git, IBM DB2, Java, Jenkins, Jira, Samos (msg nexinsure), Subversion, TortoiseGIT, TortoiseSVN, SQL, Squirrel, XML.

• Developing a new generation of autopilot for ships based on Windows CE embedded.
• Developing drivers for serial interfaces, Ethernet and CAN bus (embedded).
• Developing encoders / decoders for NMEA, CAN and course bus protocols.
• Developing modules to analyze incoming data from various devices (e.g. compass, ECDIS).
• Analyzing requirements and specifying modules based on Telelogic Doors.
• Data modeling based on Microtool Objectif.
• Developing automated test applications based on cppunit.
• Performing quality assurance based on PC-Lint.
• Preparing technical documentation using Doxygen.
• Technologies: Boost, C++, C#, CANAlyzer, cppunit, Doxygen, Microtool Objectif, MS Visual Studio, MS Windows CE embedded, PC-Lint, QT, Subversion, Telelogic Doors.

• Adaptation and further development of an online sales software system for calculating life insurance rates.
• Development of an input interface for user, rate, personal data, and health questions.
• Implementation of application output and pre-policy issuance.
• Integration of the COR product server / calculation engine.
• Development of functions to save, load, and display quotes, applications, and pre-policies.
• Transfer of data to the core systems.
• Design and development of a web interface for entering contract data.
• Testing of calculation results.
• Preparation of technical documentation.
• Technologies: COR Life, Eclipse, Java, Javascript, Java Server Pages, HTML, XML, CSS, CVS.

• Development of a new SCADA system for monitoring wind turbines.
• Development of applications for client/server communication, a reporting system, a real-time system, and an executor for scheduled reporting.
• Development of components such as Connection Manager and Login Manager (WibuKey).
• Migration of the application for East Asian languages (China).
• Development of the SCADA Reporting and Scheduled Reporting systems.
• Specification and selection of development tools in collaboration with engineers.
• Documentation of functional and technical requirements.
• Conducting developer tests, unit tests, and technical functional tests.
• Technologies: Delphi, MS SQL Server, Reportbuilder Server Edition, TMS Component Pack, Teechart Professional, VCL, Wibu Key.

• Further development of computer-aided damage valuation (based on MS Access) for mobile use on site.
• Analysis of Year 2000 compliance.
• Implementation of change requests and fixing bugs in the existing software.
• Conducting developer and technical tests.
• Technologies: MS Access, MS Access Developers Toolkit, MS Word.

• Developed an application to manage the entire direct sales customer base (approx. 250.000 customers).
• Recorded and analyzed processes such as sending information materials, quotes and applications.
• Connected the quote system via a DDE server/client connection.
• Redesigned the application in 2004 to integrate a new quote system.
• Implemented customer and process management and designed the database tables.
• Analyzed and documented business and technical requirements.
• Created business, technical and architecture concepts.
• Planned and carried out developer tests and supported business testing.
• Created user documentation.
• Technologies: Borland C++ Builder, Borland Delphi, C++, Delphi, MS Visio, MS Word, MS SQL Server, PVCS, Turbopower Essentials, VCL, XML.

• Developed HS Lizenz, a license management system for controlling and licenses.
• Created modules for planning, estimating licenses and invoicing license charges.
• Implemented target/actual comparisons and interfaces to mainframe systems for data import/export.
• Created a flexible contract module for individual partner agreements.
• Analyzed and documented business requirements.
• Created the technical concept and carried out developer and technical tests.
• Supported business testing and fixed bugs.
• Created user documentation and online help.
• Technologies: Basic, Crystal Reports, Formula 1 Grid Control, Help Magician Pro, MS Access, MS Visual Studio.

• Development, maintenance and support of various applications for internal and field staff (e.g. Titan II quotation system, point-of-sale system).
• Development of subprojects such as company pension schemes, fund management system, annuity calculator and policy administration.
• Integration of the calculation engine into quotation systems and POS systems.
• Planning and conducting workshops with business contacts.
• Preparation of business and technical specifications.
• Conducting developer and technical tests and supporting user acceptance testing.
• Preparation of technical in-code documentation and user documentation.
• Technologies: Borland C++, Borland C++ Builder, Borland Delphi, Borland Visual Dbase, MS Excel, MS SQL Server, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio, MS Word, OWL, Paradox, PVCS, Sybase Anywhere, Sybase Enterprise, VCL, XML.

• Support in PC user services.
• Development of small tools, such as a fax server for sending faxes through an email system.
• Technologies: Borland Pascal, Dbase, IBM OS/2, Lotus Symphony, Word Perfect, OCP Mail.

• Support in PC user services.
• Development of the RHW Personal application for recording and managing personnel, including host interfaces.
• Development of the ASG (Article Selection Group) application for managing semiconductor data and assigning number codes.
• Development of PCBS to record hardware equipment, installed software and hotline incident reports.
• Development of FDH (Funktionalitätstest DH) to evaluate test results from the test lab.
• Development of QDH (Qualitätssicherung DH) to record and graphically evaluate technical data on transistors and sensors.
• Technologies: Borland Pascal, GEM, HP9000 Basic, Lotus Symphony, Lotus 1-2-3, Open Access, Word Perfect.