Ole Himmel-Manager Post Merger Integration, Process Management and Digitization (Software)
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Senior Business Analyst IT
TÜV Süd AG
- Support the team in the Scheduling Optimization area of the newly founded Digital Hub to anchor the digitalization strategy.
- Identify, document and create transparency across the group's entire IT application landscape in the scheduling area.
- Conduct market research on scheduling applications.
- Analyze the existing Application Compass and create a sublist of scheduling applications.
- Identify contacts and plan and conduct interviews with five lead IT architects per business unit.
- Plan and conduct around 40 interviews with the identified application owners by priority.
- Technically evaluate the interviews and prepare a management presentation.
- Analyze existing infrastructure data and document results in a logically structured way.
- Technologies: MS Office, MS Outlook.
Migration Project Manager
DB InfraGo AG
- DB InfraGo AG aims to harmonize its project management software for construction projects as part of the IT landscape consolidation.
- A new software based on SharePoint is currently being developed to replace as many legacy applications as possible across the three business units: DB Fahrweg, DB Personenbahnhöfe and DB Energie.
- Took over complete rollout management of this software and steered the migration of three legacy systems with over 3,000 users.
- Ensured system availability while complying with construction operation regulations and coordinated the handover to operations.
- Planned the entire rollout for three legacy systems with over 3,000 users.
- Defined the migration methodology with alignments from external vendors on export, drove the functional mapping and steered implementation planning using Sharegate and PowerShell.
- Involved the communications department and synchronized with the DevOps teams.
- Stakeholder management and creation of the migration concept including testing and soft launch.
- Applied structured interviews, Jira, Confluence, Miro, SAFe and Kanban.
- Roadmap and milestone planning as well as business process mapping.
- Analyzed the IT landscape with a focus on software including data mapping.
- Change management according to Kübler-Ross and Kotter.
- Technologies: MS Outlook, MS Planner, Sharegate.
Post Merger Integration Project Manager
4JET Group
- Led the PMI project after the acquisition of Corning Laser Technologies GmbH by the 4JET Group.
- Managed all workstreams, advised on creating the target organization and actively led the IT workstreams including cutover and change management.
- Supported negotiations with the works council and assisted in preparing the reconciliation of interests and social plan.
- Responsible for the focus area of IT applications including analysis of the IT landscape after the acquisition and selection and implementation of core systems.
- Created an integration plan with defined integration priorities.
- Identified, implemented and monitored cost savings and efficiency gains.
- Ensured a smooth transition without affecting ongoing business.
- Maintained clear and transparent communication with employees and executives and managed resistance and cultural challenges.
- Identified and managed risks.
- Applied structured interviews, Target Operating Model (TOM), PMI frameworks and business process mapping.
- Analyzed the IT landscape including data mapping and change management according to Kübler-Ross and Kotter.
- Technologies: MS Office, MS Outlook.
IT Sourcing Project Manager
Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft (VBG)
- Supported market research and business analysis of IT applications in the area of process automation (RPA) with integration of AI models.
- Managed EU-wide tendering and implementation of an automation platform to address demographic challenges in the workforce.
- Assisted in capturing and coordinating end-to-end processes at levels 3-4.
- Identified, evaluated and formulated use cases from business units and management levels.
- Prepared tender and procurement documents and provided technical support during procurement.
- Revised the market analysis of RPA applications and created the RPA implementation roadmap.
- Aligned RPA use cases with business units and selected executives.
- Published the RPA tender including communication with vendors.
- Developed a criteria-based evaluation scheme and conducted the evaluation of submitted proposals.
- Decided on the tool and IT implementation partner.
- Applied process capture interviews, evaluation matrices and RPA/AI methods.
- Technologies: MS DevOps, WebEx, MS Office, MS Outlook.
ERP Consultant
BTE Stelcon GmbH
- Supported the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations as part of the group-wide IT strategy.
- Responsible for planning, execution and documentation in the areas of training, support, migration and testing.
- Conducted system tests and reported results to the implementation partner.
- Supported change management during all project phases.
- Introduced a Community of Practice and provided learning materials and set up a support structure.
- Learned customer-specific customizations of the D365 installation and configuration.
- Conducted key-user trainings and workshops and created training videos.
- Assisted in creating test cases and managed and supervised the test phases.
- Advised on tailored ITIL and stakeholder management.
- Technologies: MS Dynamics 365 (F&O), MS Teams, MS Office, MS SharePoint, MS Outlook.
IT Project Manager / CRM Consultant
value AG
- Supported the relaunch of the CRM application Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales to optimize and digitize the sales division.
- Captured core processes and set up the application's technical configuration in an agile approach.
- Implemented incremental changes and simple improvements as an MVP.
- Launched a community of practice, provided learning materials, and built a support structure.
- Defined the scope for the process area and ran process capture and optimization workshops.
- Built and managed an agile implementation backlog.
- Configured views, dashboards, workflows, and roles and permissions in Dynamics 365.
- Tested and accepted backlog items, trained users, and communicated new features.
- Managed stakeholders and ran analysis workshops.
- Technologies: MS Dynamics 365 (Sales), MS Teams, MS Office, MS SharePoint, MS Outlook.
Strategy Consultant / Co-Project Manager Post Merger Integration
TX Logistik AG
- Led operational project management and ran the Project Office for the post merger integration of Exploris Holding Deutschland GmbH.
- Advised in production, HR, and IT to support the integration of the new company.
- Set up the initial project and conducted in-depth analysis of departments on the buyer and seller sides.
- Assessed integration readiness after a reorganization and did a detailed analysis of the new entity's operations.
- Managed stakeholders at all levels, from team members to the board, including the Italian owner.
- Established the project organization, including recurring meetings, project plan, and reporting.
- Defined and aligned work packages and clarified the scope of work.
- Analyzed structures, processes, and costs through interviews and workshops.
- Used hypothesis-based methods to set revenue, efficiency, and cost targets.
- Developed a target organization and aligned it with C-level management.
- Technologies: MS Teams, MS Office.
IT Product Manager
DB Fernverkehr AG
- Interim product management for the train information system and reservation system during the transition from project to operations.
- Gathered requirements and reviewed proposals both technically and formally.
- Monitored the development of system components, including test planning and on-train commissioning.
- Coordinated incident and problem management between internal departments and suppliers.
- Documented processes for operations and continuous improvement.
- Handled risk and change management, including creating Change Requests (CR).
- Created annual roadmaps and coordinated budget approvals with decision makers.
- Conducted supplier workshops, process interviews, and applied Kanban methods.
- Technologies: MS Teams, MS Project, MS Office.
IT Strategy Consultant
Ginkgo Management Consulting GmbH
- Implemented the new strategic direction in the IT department of a large automotive OEM.
- Supported an outsourcing project for managing user hardware and software by an external service provider.
- Mapped current tasks to the IT strategy to identify core and peripheral activities.
- Presented tasks by team, including resource planning.
- Prepared, ran, and documented workshops with team leads to align on task mapping.
- Structured and prepared data using MS PowerPoint and MS Excel.
- Applied storytelling, pyramid presentation techniques, and facilitation methods.
- Technologies: MS Teams, MS Office, MS Project.
IT Project Lead
ROPEX Industrie-Elektronik GmbH
- Reset and led turnaround management for a previously halted ERP implementation project.
- Conducted an initial project assessment and aligned and documented all production-related core processes down to level 2.
- Developed the project structure and organization, and gathered requirements for subprojects in ERP, processes, data cleansing, and tools.
- Managed and monitored the project status, and conducted process capture interviews and strategic end-to-end process workshops with executive management.
- Advised on process planning and optimized selected processes.
- Oversaw the IT department on migration, IT landscape, data modeling, and data flow analysis.
- Implemented a DMS application (DocuWare) to replace a deprecated solution, including process analysis for incoming invoices, outgoing invoices, and logistics data storage.
- Researched and selected DMS applications, designed the test environment, and carried out the migration.
- Coordinated the rollout of a BI application (Qlik Sense), including capturing the backlog for reports and aligning on roles and permissions.
- Advised on tailored ITIL and ran requirements workshops.
- Technologies: ERP C3 (Theurer), DocuWare, Qlik Sense, Sycat, MS Project, MS Teams, MS Office.
IT Project Manager
Julada GmbH
- Complete digitization of the inventory management system and connection to an online store for a newly founded retail business.
- Planning and implementation of the inventory management system, including migration and labeling.
- Integration of the POS system with the inventory management system.
- Creation of an initial process map and development of a semi-automated reporting system for accounting.
- Building the online store and integrating it with the inventory management system, including customization via coding.
- Integration with a logistics service provider.
- Planning and piloting an e-commerce marketing campaign and conducting customer training sessions.
- Use of rapid prototyping and coding in Liquid/CSS/HTML.
- Technologies: Shopify, Zettle, Pipedream.com, Meta Marketing Manager, Google Ads, MS Teams, MS Office.
Senior PMO SAFe
DB Netz AG
- Supporting IT departments in the transformation to an agile organization based on the SAFe framework.
- Converting traditionally structured programs into Value Teams (Large Solution) and overseeing pilot programs.
- Introducing development teams to the Scrum framework and forming Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
- Taking over the program management office for a large project.
- Planning and executing agile program management.
- Coordinating interfaces as well as planning, conducting, and documenting all meetings between Value Teams and ARTs.
- Responsible for cross-team risk and dependency management.
- Stakeholder management and administration of the Jira instance for 500 users.
- Leading the Community of Practice for Jira.
- Technologies: Jira, Confluence, AgileHive, MS Teams, MS Office.
IT Product Manager
DB Fernverkehr AG
- Equipping the long-distance train fleet with a high-performance, vendor-independent comfort IT infrastructure.
- Defining the IT infrastructure for the operator area network, including piloting and rollout per train series.
- Supporting the development of custom software for the central computing unit.
- Checking cabling and commissioning display systems on trains using test routines.
- Planning and executing agile project management based on Scrum and SAFe.
- Documenting the product roadmap in Confluence.
- Creating and aligning the concept with stakeholders during a reorganization.
- Preparing reports in Jira, allocating budgets, and setting up contracts.
- Aligning business requirements with the technical product owner.
- Developing the implementation plan including schedules while keeping within budget.
- Accepting deliverables and supporting test planning.
- Technologies: Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, MS Office.
IT Rollout Project Manager
Jungheinrich AG
- Modernizing the entire IT infrastructure, including identity & access management, cloud services, and network technology refresh in 38 sales subsidiaries.
- Conducting capacity planning and creating and updating the project plan.
- Preparing and drafting tender documents for hardware worth over €1,000,000.
- Aligning tenders with specialists and reviewing and evaluating bids.
- Coaching the co-project managers in agile and traditional project management methods.
- Planning and overseeing piloting at 2 locations, including creating a blueprint template for the further rollout.
- Planning the rollout schedule for all 36 sites regarding timing, duration, and staffing.
- Preparing, conducting, and documenting steering meetings and Scrum formats.
- Creating a communication plan for stakeholders.
- Technologies: MS SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Office.
Lead Consultant
collaboration Factory AG
- Introducing project management standards for a growing organization with around 30 consultants.
- Gathering, documenting, and revising existing artifacts like tool templates and processes.
- Conducting workshops and interviews to identify relevant project management artifacts according to Prince2 and PMP standards.
- Defining project phases and introducing quality gates to standardize quality levels.
- Designing quality criteria and approval processes.
- Capturing and documenting processes using BPMN 2.0.
- Conducting rapid prototyping and proofs of concept (POCs) via cplace.
- Communicating the project management updates across the organization.
- Technologies: cplace, Slack, Zoom, MS Office.
IT Project Manager PLM (Low Code)
Continental AG
- Implementation of the PLM/ERP system cplace for the entire product development up to production planning.
- Replacing existing standalone solutions with a highly flexible overall solution.
- Analyzing and documenting requirements and creating a customer-specific backlog.
- Managing the implementation using the Scrum method with IT consultants and external developers.
- Carrying out the go-live, including the hypercare phase.
- Classic project control towards management and agile coaching of the implementation team.
- Introducing implementation reporting with KPIs and regular rescoping.
- Acting as Scrum Master and partly as Product Owner in the development area.
- Advising on and carrying out the adjustment of the data model, including data flow modeling.
- Technologies: cplace, Tableau, Slack, Zoom, MS Office.
Project Manager / Change Manager
DB Netz AG
- Leading the rollout team in the Northern region for the maintenance processes standardization project.
- Transforming all operational staff into a new process and IT landscape with a focus on transparency and efficiency.
- Providing professional leadership to the operational project team, including training, deployment planning, and staff discussions.
- Planning and conducting change workshops for operational managers.
- Implementing and reviewing the milestone plan using the waterfall model.
- Ensuring the quality of training content for process, IT, and change formats.
- Regional stakeholder management and providing feedback to central management.
- Technologies: SAP R3, customer app (Android), WebEx, MS Office.
Senior Consultant
DB Schenker Logistics
- Capturing the current project portfolio for the Europe region to increase transparency across all regions.
- Conducting structured interviews with project managers to uniformly assess ongoing projects.
- Transferring the evaluation methodology into a standardized corporate process.
- Developing a PMO handbook, including status profiles for all projects and detailed five-pagers for the top five projects.
- Creating a high-level concept for a PMO organization and defining communication channels.
- Deriving recommendations for action for each project based on defined criteria.
- Technologies: MS Visio, MS Office.
Senior Consultant
DB Services
- Project management, change management, and process management in the Northern and Southern regions for the implementation of a digital order management system in facility management.
- Ensuring operational staff comply with new processes and KPIs.
- Gathering constructive feedback in expert discussions and communicating it to central project management.
- Conducting expert workshops to narrow down issues and develop improvement proposals.
- Developing hypotheses to optimize the rollout situation.
- Preparing decision and implementation templates for overall project meetings.
- Technologies: WebEx, MS Office.
Senior Consultant
DB Regio
- Supporting the reorganization of indirect areas such as scheduling, fleet management, HR, and finance.
- Conducting a function analysis of existing processes to identify cost-saving potential.
- Extracting process names and identifying volume drivers together with department heads.
- Creating a current state picture using surveys and conducting expert interviews with leaders to identify synergies.
- Creating a transition matrix for the organization's transition and documenting core tasks and new roles.
- Writing optimized role and function descriptions.
- Actively supporting the creation of decision templates and organizational instructions.
- Technologies: MS Office.
(Senior) Consultant
DB Station & Service
- Analyze an extensive facility management contract for cost optimization potentials.
- Identify around 24 potential savings measures based on best practice approaches.
- Develop in detail and validate the 4 most promising measures together with the service provider.
- Formulate implementation plans and pilot the concepts in one regional area.
- Business analysis in billing and stakeholder management between departments and contractors.
- Present the agreed concepts at board level.
- Create brief profiles for all relevant measures and high-level concepts for the top 5.
- Technologies: MS Office.
Consultant
S-Bahn Hamburg
- Create a concept for the workshop environment due to increased vehicle demand from a new transport contract.
- Analyze the impact of the increased fleet on production and operations, focusing on maintenance and storage capacity.
- As-is analysis of existing storage areas and research potential new areas.
- Evaluate areas using a utility analysis, including life cycle cost (LCC) considerations.
- Collect information on infrastructure and properties through expert interviews at subsidiaries.
- Create brief profiles for about 24 analyzed storage areas, including technical drawings and cost estimates.
- Determine ownership structures and create rough implementation schedules.
- Technologies: MS Project, MS Office.
Consultant
DB Netz AG
- Project management and documentation to prepare negotiations for the performance and financing agreement (LuFV 2).
- Verify the number of facilities of all infrastructure companies via database queries (MS Access) and expert interviews.
- Develop a unified calculation logic for the future funding needs of the infrastructure companies.
- Validate and restructure the calculation logics in workshops.
- Support the derivation and evaluation of negotiation strategies.
- Fuse raw data to generate a valid data basis.
- Technologies: MS Access, MS Office.
System Engineer
WABCO Development GmbH
- System development for a multiplex system consisting of up to 9 control units on behalf of EVOBUS.
- Responsible for requirements management, software integration on hardware, and system-wide function testing.
- Prototype commissioning at the customer and leading a software sub-project.
- Test management for system tests: creating test specifications and designing the automated test environment.
- Programming a software interface from PC to CAN bus.
- Development process according to V-Spice, including code reviews.
- Technologies: MKS Integrity Manager, CANoe, CANalyzer, DOORS, MS Project, MS Office.
Development Engineer
IAV GmbH
- Process development and introduction of the new UDS/ODX diagnostic technology in emission-related control units.
- Coordinate technical innovations with control unit manufacturers and adjust internal development processes.
- Support communication between internal departments of different brands and external suppliers.
- Represent the development department in the Change Control Board.
- Introduce new work processes in vehicle projects and train participants.
- Create necessary process artifacts to support the line organization.
- Test and accept the delivered files directly on the prototype vehicle.
- Model and present workflows using swimlanes.
- Technologies: MS Office, MS Project.
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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development, Operations, Quality Assurance, and Business Intelligence.
Summary
Ole Himmel has been supporting his clients for more than 14 years in strategic, organizational and transformational business initiatives. In the process, he got to know company structures from start-ups to medium-sized businesses and international corporations and advises them on complex issues in strategic transformation projects, post-merger integrations (PMI) and on implementing and optimizing business processes. With enthusiasm, clear goal orientation, a lot of empathy, extensive communication and a high level of structure, he gives his clients stability and security in volatile times of upheaval.
Skills
Strategy Consulting: Swot Analysis, Adapted Bcg Matrix, Strategic Planning And Workshops (Board Level), Change Management Framework (Kubler-Ross), Porter'S Five Forces Analysis, Benchmarking, Cost Structure Analysis, Synergy Estimation, Production/It/Hr Due Diligence
Project Management: Classical/Agile Project Management Methods, Full Project Leadership, Multi-Project Management, Product Owner And Scrum Master, Project Planning, Escalation Management, Stakeholder Management, Risk Assessment, Planning/Controlling It Rollouts, Pmo Implementation
Process Management: Functional Analysis Of Processes, High-Level And Detailed Design Of Business Processes, Process Implementation (Raci), Process Reviews/Audits, Process Recording, Process Modeling (Bpmn), Process Documentation/Optimization, End-To-End Processes, Rpa
Software Development Life Cycle: Software Development Processes V-Model/Waterfall/Scrum For Mechatronic Systems And Software Projects, Scoping And Grooming, Code Reviews, Planning/Execution/Documentation Of System Tests, Test Case Design, Management Of (External) Development Teams
Industry Knowledge: Mobility (Rail, Infrastructure), Mechanical Engineering, Logistics (Rail Freight Transport, Intralogistics), Software Manufacturing, Automotive (Passenger Cars And Commercial Vehicles), Facility Management
Applications: Cplace (Low-Code Platform/Plm/Ppm/Erp; Admin, Configurator And Low-Code Developer), Jira/Confluence (Project Management; Admin And Configurator), Hubspot (Crm; Admin And Configurator), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (Crm/Sales; Admin & Consultant), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (Admin And Configurator), Microsoft Project (Admin And Configurator), Docuware (Dms; Admin And Configurator), C3 (Erp; Admin And Configurator), Qlik Sense (Bi; Power User)
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Education
University of Bradford - School of Management
MBA · Business Administration · Bradford, United Kingdom
General Management
University of Hanover
Diploma in Engineering · Electrical Engineering · Hanover, Germany · 1,7
Control engineering, automation technology, energy engineering
Certifications & licenses
Bpmn 2.0 Basics
Signavio
Business Rhetoric
Hps
Certified Merger Integration Manager
Hhl
Certified Negotiator
Hhl
Certified Safe5 Agilist
Scaled Agile
Competitiv Strategy
Lmu
Design Thinking Introduction
Hpi
Basics of Data Engineering and Data Science
Hpi
Itil Foundation & Managing Professional
Mp
PMP Certificate
Pmi
Product Owner
Pspo1
Rhetoric and Dialectic
Kirchner-Seminare
Scrum Master
Psm1
Statistics
Experience
Global Experience
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