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Ronald Foerster-IT Consultant & Training

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Stuttgart, Germany

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Experience

Jan 2025 - Present

IT Consultant & Training

Various Small Projects & AI Training

Position Summary
IT Consultant & Training at Various Small Projects & AI Training
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Development of multiple websites for small businesses (6)
  • SEO/SEM
  • Business Consulting (Implementation of ERP systems (Fresha / MS Dynamics))
  • AI Tooling, Prompting & Coding
  • GenAI Chatbot (GPT 4.0)
  • Creation of a telephone agent (NLP services, Twilio, Python, Azure Services)
  • Python coding, report & dashboard creation
  • Stakeholder management and consulting throughout the project lifecycle

Training and Certifications in AI:

  • Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
  • Develop Gen AI Solutions with Azure Open AI Service
  • Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
  • Artificial Intelligence for the Business Professional
  • Generative AI for the Business Professional
  • Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025

Demand Manager & Process Owner

Daimler Trucks

Position Summary
Demand Manager & Process Owner at Daimler Trucks
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Logistics
Quality Assurance
Supply Chain Management
  • Setting up demand management within an international project organization
  • Gathering, analyzing, and quality checking requirements for the application and system landscape
  • Customer management, coordination, and handling of work packages in the after-sales logistics process
  • Automation and optimization of processes and reporting
  • Establishment and integration of controlling
  • Process modeling and process mining
  • Development and optimization of test management
  • Process ownership for system implementations for worldwide hub delivery
  • Documentation
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024

IT Business Analyst - GDPR

Native Instruments

Position Summary
IT Business Analyst - GDPR at Native Instruments
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Gathering, analyzing, evaluating, and implementing EU data protection regulations
  • Gathering, analyzing, and quality checking requirements for the application and system landscape
  • Gathering, analyzing, and quality checking processes
  • Reporting and controlling
  • Stakeholder management and project organization
  • Conducting interviews with business departments
  • Creating a process register
  • System and data warehouse consolidations
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023

IT Consultant

Webconsultant & Webdevelopment

Position Summary
IT Consultant at Webconsultant & Webdevelopment
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
  • Requirements gathering, design, and implementation of an online presence using PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL
  • Use of Adobe Photoshop
  • SEO/SEM design, UX/UI
  • Test management
  • AI tooling & prompting
  • Stakeholder management throughout the project lifecycle
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
Frankfurt, Germany

IT Business Analyst

Commerzbank / Questax

Position Summary
IT Business Analyst at Commerzbank / Questax
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Audit
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Co-responsible for the further development of the central order management system in trading and the introduction of a new trading system
  • Requirement management, project and task coordination
  • Conducting compliance and audit tasks
  • Security requirements analysis, change and release management
  • Cross-departmental stakeholder management
  • Planning and implementation of user stories and backlog
  • Documentation, development and optimization of test management
  • Process capturing and process mining
  • Creation of relevant audits in LKSG and IT risk management
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Frankfurt, Germany

IT Product Manager

DVAG AG

Position Summary
IT Product Manager at DVAG AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Insurance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
  • Responsible for further developing the central asset management system
  • Requirements management, coordination and organization of new topics
  • Change and release management
  • Business unit and service provider stakeholder management
  • Quality gate management for microservices
  • Planning and implementation of user stories
  • Process management and application ownership for all contract management systems
  • Application management and Salesforce migration
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Neckarsulm, Germany

IT Project Management Consultant

PVS Fulfillment-Service / Maersk

Position Summary
IT Project Management Consultant at PVS Fulfillment-Service / Maersk
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Integration of MS Dynamics 365 and system connections
  • Technical requirements management and process definitions
  • Definition of project increments and deliverables
  • Change and release management
  • Project coordination and stakeholder management
  • Facilitation of regular meetings at the business unit level
  • Project communication, organization and reporting
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Stuttgart, Germany

IT Business Analyst

Daimler Bank – Questax

Position Summary
IT Business Analyst at Daimler Bank – Questax
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Participation and co-leadership of a 6-member team in Romania
  • International rollout and further development of the online leasing management platform
  • Specifications, change and release management
  • Project coordination and stakeholder management
  • Setup and optimization of test management
  • Requirements management and process documentation
  • CRM migration, Azure readiness checks & setup, data warehouse consolidations
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Frankfurt, Germany

IT Project Manager / Product Owner

VTB Bank – Vicoland / Coocmore

Position Summary
IT Project Manager / Product Owner at VTB Bank – Vicoland / Coocmore
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Further development of the marketing website
  • Change and release management
  • Leading a Scrum team (8 people)
  • Project coordination and stakeholder management
  • HR contracting and facilitation of regular meetings
  • Project communication, organization and reporting
  • Requirements engineering, planning and implementation of user stories, and backlog management
  • SEO audit and implementation
  • Resource planning and budgeting
  • Setup and optimization of test and quality management
  • Project documentation and UX/UI coordination
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Stuttgart, Germany

IT-Web Consultancy & Training

Position Summary
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Marketing
Product Development
  • Creation of 2 web presences (online store & website)
  • Requirements engineering, organization, programming and configuration of an eCommerce platform and a content management system
  • SEO/SEM and best-fit consulting
  • Training as a certified Product Owner and Microsoft Cloud Architect & Designer
  • Work with Kubernetes, Docker, containers, VMs, PowerShell/Azure Cloud Shell, security hardening
  • Linux Bash, Postgres/Oracle/Azure SQL/MongoDB/Cosmos DB
  • Microservices, service-oriented architectures, data fabrics, Pureview
  • Setup of data pipelines and data modeling
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Cologne, Germany

Business Analyst - FS

Toyota Kreditbank

Position Summary
Business Analyst - FS at Toyota Kreditbank
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Implementation of an EU-wide lease management system
  • Ensuring consistent high-level requirements across country subsidiaries
  • Supporting, reviewing, and approving requirements
  • Coordinating technical assistance
  • Securing project goals and vision through open communication between headquarters and country subsidiaries
  • Reporting status and success probability at a strategic level
  • Conducting external risk assessments and providing feedback to the project team
  • Monitoring the requirements engineering process between business, consultants, and internal departments
  • Facilitating regular meetings, project communication, and organization
  • Process mining and process documentation
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Stuttgart, Germany

IT-PMO & Test Manager

Mercedes Benz AG

Position Summary
IT-PMO & Test Manager at Mercedes Benz AG
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • SAP development and integration project in the SC/WTO division
  • Coordinating the test team on the department side (internal)
  • Test planning, test strategy, and test management
  • Project coordination between IT and the business unit
  • Facilitating regular meetings at the department level
  • Project communication, organization, and test progress reporting
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Frankfurt, Germany

Business Analyst & Test Manager

ING Bank

Position Summary
Business Analyst & Test Manager at ING Bank
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Legal
Operations
Quality Assurance
  • Implementing PSD2 compliance
  • Test documentation and optimization of test concepts
  • Preparing compliance documents
  • Executing the new customer product process
  • Preparing board presentations
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Stuttgart, Germany

Project Management Consultant & Business Analyst

Itscare - AOK

Position Summary
Project Management Consultant & Business Analyst at Itscare - AOK
Industries
Insurance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Implementing an insurance-wide ordering platform (Shopify)
  • Replacing a service management platform (ServiceNow)
  • Requirement engineering: identifying, analyzing, and evaluating system requirements
  • Stakeholder management and backlog development
  • Creating project management deliverables (planning, controlling, organization)
  • Capturing and documenting processes
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Stuttgart, Germany

IT-PMO & Project Management Consultant

Daimler AG

Position Summary
IT-PMO & Project Management Consultant at Daimler AG
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Digitalization projects in the legal tech area
  • Portfolio management and multi-project management
  • Project controlling and budgeting
  • Supporting GDPR projects (reporting & controlling)
  • Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating business and system requirements
  • Establishing PMO and service processes
  • Setting up automated, cross-functional reporting
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Hamburg, Germany

Lead Business Analyst

Carnival Maritime / AIDA

Position Summary
Lead Business Analyst at Carnival Maritime / AIDA
Industries
Tourism
Business Areas
Audit
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
  • Implementing GDPR governance & compliance
  • Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating business and system requirements in systems and the data warehouse
  • Conducting interviews and workshops
  • Examining systems, data, and content (Data Fabrics, Pureview)
  • Creating processing records (DPR)
  • Performing TOGAF architecture analyses
  • Capturing and documenting processes
  • Preparing relevant SOX and PCI audits
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Munich, Germany

Experienced Analyst

Frogdesign / Allianz

Position Summary
Experienced Analyst at Frogdesign / Allianz
Industries
Insurance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Short-term assignment to identify, analyze, and evaluate requirements for a prototype of a software to be rolled out internationally
  • Backlog planning
  • Agile product development, UX/UI, and design thinking
  • IT product management
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Augsburg, Germany

IT Project Coordinator

Airbus / Premium Aerotec / Cimpa

Position Summary
IT Project Coordinator at Airbus / Premium Aerotec / Cimpa
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Managing requirements and implementing IT and business processes
  • Defining and coordinating subprojects and DevOps team
  • Stakeholder management and process analysis
  • Status reporting and deviation logs
  • Quality management, project and release planning
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Stuttgart, Germany

PMO – Financial Markets & Private Banking

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Position Summary
PMO – Financial Markets & Private Banking at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Finance
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Implementing a core banking system
  • Project organization and resource management
  • Defining project-specific processes
  • Ensuring alignment and approval of IT and functional concepts through a standardized workflow process
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Frankfurt, Germany

IT-Consultant – E-Payment Solutions

Paydirekt GmbH

Position Summary
IT-Consultant – E-Payment Solutions at Paydirekt GmbH
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Operations
  • Further developing databases
  • Creating and maintaining reports
  • Optimizing processes at the operational level
  • Merchant onboarding and technical integration
  • Stakeholder management with banks, merchants, and merchant aggregators
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Stuttgart, Germany

IT-Project Management Consultant

Daimler AG / Braincourt GmbH

Position Summary
IT-Project Management Consultant at Daimler AG / Braincourt GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Support for multiple SAP projects
  • Project and quality management according to HoustonIT
  • Quality-Gate-Management
  • Project organization, communication, and planning
  • Test management and compliance audits
  • Requirements engineering and IAM
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Stuttgart, Germany

Technical Interface Consultant

tepOver GmbH

Position Summary
Technical Interface Consultant at tepOver GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Restructuring service management according to ITIL V3
  • Requirements engineering and product documentation
  • Test management (agile testing, test automation, test design, test analysis, test execution, test documentation, black box/white box, unit testing)
  • Presales and after-sales support
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Stuttgart, Germany

Developer – IT Consultant

Mantuano Design GmbH

Position Summary
Developer – IT Consultant at Mantuano Design GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Supply Chain Management
  • Planning, designing, and implementation of a web presence
  • Business consulting and support as part of the SCM startup architecture
  • UX/UI
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Frankfurt, Germany

Academic Project Manager Trainee

FDM Group Ltd.

Position Summary
Academic Project Manager Trainee at FDM Group Ltd.
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Training in professional communication & team leading skills, SQL, Excel, VBA, Project Support Office
  • PRINCE2 certification, ISEB Business Analysis certification, ITIL V3
  • Training in Financial Industry Awareness
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Aidlingen, Germany
Hybrid

IT-Developer

SYS - Softwarehaus GmbH

Position Summary
IT-Developer at SYS - Softwarehaus GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
  • Development of hybrid mobile apps with PhoneGap
  • Mobile travel management extension
  • Requirements engineering, project planning, and architectural design of the application for clients like IBM
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
Stuttgart, Germany

Junior Project Manager / Project Lead

Fischer Software Entwicklung

Position Summary
Junior Project Manager / Project Lead at Fischer Software Entwicklung
Industries
Information Technology
Transportation
Business Areas
Accounting
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Project planning and leading a Scrum team (5–6 people)
  • Project organization, controlling, and documentation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project billing for Deutsche Bahn backend solutions
Jan 2013 - Jun 2014
Duisburg, Germany

Team Lead

BS Management GbR

Position Summary
Team Lead at BS Management GbR
Industries
Information Technology
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Planning and execution of rollout projects
  • Team leadership (5–8 people)
  • Field service as well as 1st and 2nd level support in government institutions
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Ludwigsburg, Germany

IT Assistant

Human Internet Consult AG

Position Summary
IT Assistant at Human Internet Consult AG
Industries
Information Technology
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Customer Service
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Planning and execution of rollout projects
  • Field service as well as 1st and 2nd level support in government institutions
Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
Waltham, United States

Internet Assessor & Ad Assessor

Lionbridge Technologies Inc.

Position Summary
Internet Assessor & Ad Assessor at Lionbridge Technologies Inc.
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Quality Assurance
Research and Development
  • Evaluation and assessor activities for the Bing search engine
Sep 2010 - Jul 2012
Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Dual Student in the M2M Area

T-Systems International

Position Summary
Dual Student in the M2M Area at T-Systems International
Industries
Automotive
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
  • Connected Car project in the Diagnostic & Solutions department
  • Software tool implementation for the internal project management tool Polarion
  • Test management for a TTL web platform
  • Technical documentation of a prototype product for OBD vehicle diagnostics
  • Frontend design and development of a native vehicle diagnostics app
  • Competitor analysis, market reports, and creation of product portfolios in the telematics market

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Professional Services, Government and Administration, and Insurance.

Information Technology
Automotive
Banking and Finance
Professional Services
Government and Administration
Insurance
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Product Development, Business Intelligence, and Supply Chain Management.

Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Product Development
Business Intelligence
Supply Chain Management
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Skills

  • Project Management, Business Analysis: Planning, Reporting, Communication, Investigation Techniques, Stakeholder Analysis & Controlling, Risk Management, Budget/Cost Management, Organization, Resource Management, Modeling Business Systems, Business & Financial Cases, Documenting & Managing Projects, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Requirements Engineering, Multi-Project Management

  • It Product Management, Software Engineering & Project Management, Software Systems, Tools: Ms Office, Ms Project, Ms Visio, Sap (R3/Co/S4 Hana/Gt, Mm, Pp, Qm, Pm, Hr, Fi, Co), Ms Navision, Ms Access, Ms Sharepoint, Adobe Worksuite, Jira, Sas, Hp Alm, Doors, Eclipse, Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Servicenow, Ms Dynamics Business Central, Leanix, Aws, Tableau, Ai Azure Cloud Services, Data Fabrics

  • It Management (S.T.Op.): It Compliance, It Governance, It Risk Management, It Security, It Service Management, It Strategy, Business Intelligence

  • Business Process Management, Core Technologies: Cmmi, Tqm, Bpmn 2.0, Tom, Uml, Process Mining, Ms Power Automate, Zapier, Signavio, Bizagi

  • Programming Languages & Web Technologies: Java, Javascript, Php, Perl, Asp.Net, Vbscript, Vb, Css, Sass, Html, Xml, Json, Xslt, Bootstrap, Mysql, Postgresql, Data Warehouses, Python, Rest Apis, Microservices, Genai, Llms

  • Compliance: Psd2, Marisk, Money Transfer Regulation, Mifid, Sepa, Open Banking, Sox, Pci, Gdpr, Iso 27001

  • Test Management: Agile Testing, Test Automation, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Test Documentation, Blackbox/Whitebox, Unit Testing

  • Soft Skills: Conflict Management, Team Building, Agile Leadership

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

International Business Hogeschool Fontys

Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration · Business Administration · Venlo, Netherlands

Oct 2012 - Jun 2016

Hochschule für Ökonomie & Management FOM

Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany

Oct 2010 - Jun 2012

Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg

Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany

...and 1 more

Certifications & licenses

AI-Consultant

AI-Engineer

Artificial Intelligence For The Business Professional

Business Analysis / ISEB BA

Cehv10-Cybersecurity

Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner

Designing And Impl. A Microsoft Azure AI Solution

Develop Gen AI Solutions With Azure Open AI Service

Financial Markets

Generative AI For The Business Professional

Generative AI Practioner

ITIL V.3

MS Azure Architect & Designer

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

PRINCE2

Product Owner

SAP R/3

Scrum Master

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 30
Experience in Information Technology 8.5 y
Avg length 6 m
Longest experience 1 y 10 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (Germany, United States)
Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles IT Consultant & Training, Demand Manager & Process Owner, IT Business Analyst - GDPR
Main industries Information Technology, Automotive, Banking and Finance
Main business areas Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor
Certifications earned 18

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Ronald is based in Stuttgart, Germany.
Ronald speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), French (Elementary).
Ronald has at least 13 years of experience. During this time, Ronald has worked in at least 28 different roles and for 30 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 5 months. Note that Ronald may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Ronald would be well-suited for roles such as: IT Consultant & Training, Demand Manager & Process Owner, IT Business Analyst - GDPR.
Ronald's most recent position is IT Consultant & Training at Various Small Projects & AI Training.
In recent years, Ronald has worked for Various Small Projects & AI Training, Daimler Trucks, Native Instruments, Webconsultant & Webdevelopment, and Commerzbank / Questax.
Ronald is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Automotive, and Banking and Finance. Ronald also has some experience in Government and Administration, Professional Services, and Insurance.
Ronald is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Quality Assurance. Ronald also has some experience in Product Development, Business Intelligence, and Audit.
Ronald has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Professional Services.
Ronald has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Business Intelligence.
Ronald holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from International Business Hogeschool Fontys, a Bachelor in Business Informatics from Hochschule für Ökonomie & Management FOM and a Bachelor in Business Informatics from Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg.
Ronald has 18 certificates. Among them, these include: AI-Consultant, AI-Engineer, and Artificial Intelligence For The Business Professional.
Ronald is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
Ronald's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.
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