Sven Pirk
Project Manager for ORCA/myTools project
Experience
Project Manager for ORCA/myTools project
Sulzer GmbH, BMW
- Crisis management in a digitalization project within a procurement project for a major automotive group.
- Status assessment, multilateral coordination with stakeholders, identifying the "way forward", reviewing commissions and initiating new ones, stabilizing the project team, further planning with the client and the bidder consortium.
- Software to inventory machine tools, integration into the group's procurement process, orchestration of the initial inventory, support of different processes to capture, identify, assign, and store tools (>150) worldwide, coordination with asset accounting and tax.
- Technologies: Office, Jira, Confluence.
Rollout Manager for EFAS Online Services in Lower Saxony
Findic, Idest, IT.N
- Rollout of digital application processes in healthcare to additional federal states.
- Coordinating workshops, optimizing usage, aligning necessary changes, setting up technical procedures (SaaS), connecting specialist applications and payment systems.
- Supporting legal requirements (data processing agreement, reuse contract, etc.).
- Familiarizing with each state's requirements, aligning and configuring the application processes according to state-specific guidelines and legal requirements.
- Coordinating between specialist departments, IT departments, data protection, legal teams, and local IT operators.
- Technologies: Office, Jira, Confluence.
Strategic Consultant for Digitalization Projects
Diconium, VW-FS
- Planning, setting direction, and organizing various omni-channel projects in a captive banking environment.
- Managing execution projects with multiple service providers, overall coordination and communication.
- Managing and executing eCommerce projects in the banking sector.
- Front-end strategy with introduction of a new backend (CMS).
- Migration and integration.
- Strategic alignment, setting up and monitoring requirements management, establishing and stabilizing the (business) architecture, managing multiple service providers, and reporting to stakeholders (C-level).
- Technologies: Cloud, Office.
PMO for PMI project
Diconium, CARIAD
- Integrating/merging an independent IT unit into the corporate environment of a major automotive group.
- Supporting individual departments (like legal, HR, IT, etc.), coordination and overall communication.
- Managing and handling the merger into the corporate environment.
- Securing the required corporate decisions, planning the legal steps, coordinating IT with regard to licenses and access, supporting HR and the supervisory board with staff integration.
- Technologies: Cloud, Office.
Product Owner Online Sales / Project Manager for POS Rollout
Toyota Kreditbank
- Introducing an online sales strategy for a captive bank in the automotive sector.
- Aligning stakeholders, managing the service provider, requirements management, project management.
- Developing and directing the EU-wide online strategy for online finance.
- Rolling out a point-of-sales system (Torque ITS) with credit check in a new market for automotive financing and leasing.
- Planning the implementation of a POS system in a newly built IT landscape in the Austrian market.
- Integration into the existing CMS system, process flow analysis, identifying requirements of surrounding systems (SAP, DWH, risk, etc.), preparing possible RFIs/RFPs.
- Topics: online, analytics, disclaimer, legal, profile, asset & finance product management, customer data handling, cloud, architecture.
- Technologies: Cloud, Confluence, IT architecture, Torque ITS, Office.
PMO, Hybrid Customer Program
ERGO / ERGO Direkt
- Merged two fundamentally different insurance groups and unified their marketing and sales processes.
- Introduced SAS MA/MO/ID for NBA/NBO and optimized campaign planning.
- Provided management support to the operational project management, synchronizing with project and program management (both at board level).
- Handled complex coordination with co-determination bodies and group works councils, as well as data protection.
- Clarified strategic, solution-oriented IT architecture and aligned contracts with service providers (SAS) and corporate procurement.
- Organized and led multilateral workshops to produce requirement specifications.
- Supported building a new analytics unit to deliver analytical intelligence at the POS (in-store, online, and direct).
- Technologies: Office, Jira, Confluence, IT architecture, SAS.
Program Management Support, Digital Transformation
Telefonica Deutschland
- Digitalized the core processes of Telefonica Deutschland.
- Advised and actively supported program management up to the board level.
- Actively shaped delivery and testing processes, ensuring quality requirements were met.
- Monitored progress through milestone tracking and workshops.
- Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Office, waterfall and agile approaches.
Requirements Analysis, International Workshops
BMW Bank (Financial Services)
- Digitized the loan application process in the automotive group.
- Provided management consulting for a digitization project along the application path between end customer and bank, involving dealerships.
- Created business proposals (requirement specifications) and coordinated multiple business units to ensure a legally correct and relevant description of a kernel approach.
- Moderated and prepared multilateral workshops, and created arguments and project descriptions.
- Technologies: Office, Project, Scrum.
Business Support, Analysis, International Workshops
BMW Bank (Financial Services)
- Supported the department with various complex tasks.
- Organized international workshops for requirement analysis of a new business model.
- Developed a marketplace for C2C and B2C transactions, including procurement, logistics, and customer analytics.
- Created functional specifications for various enhancements to a central web presence, including dynamic calculation of the cyclical charge for the user.
- Technologies: Office, Project.
UCP-SF Team Setup, Product Owner
BMW Bank (Financial Services)
- The goal was to build an in-house marketing platform for BMW Financial Services (UCP - Universal Car Configurator Platform).
- Supported multiple clients (content, car configurator, etc.) across multiple devices (mobile, desktop, tablet) for all backends (dealer frontends, calculators, etc.) in all markets.
- Built a team, created a backlog, aligned business requirements, and synchronized with multiple client projects (USP, H5VC, etc.).
- Defined and set up the requirements for a new multi-channel platform.
- Coordinated business and architectural requirements with stakeholders from retail, marketing, used cars, etc.
- Technologies: Office, Project, JSF, Java, Oracle, Glassfish, HP Quality Center, SharePoint.
Functional Lead BMW Global FS Calculator
BMW Bank (Financial Services)
- Representation of the business unit in all matters related to the BMW Global FS project.
- Coordination of requirements, alignment with international markets, channeling the requirements to the agile (off- & onshore) team of the service provider.
- Creation and adherence to project plans, advising on approaches for execution, testing, rollout, cut-over, operation.
- Restart and reestablishment after major delays and a broken trust relationship with the service provider.
- Coordination, de-escalation and mediation between the service provider and BMW FS departments.
- Technologies: Office, JSF, Java, Oracle, Glassfish, HP Quality Center, Sharepoint.
Strategy Consulting for Agile Multicountry Rollout
BMW Bank (Financial Services)
- Clarification of multiple functional requirements at both strategic and local-market levels.
- Optimizing the rollout capability of BMW Digital FS.
- Functional support of a new Internet Calculator BMW Global FS for new markets.
- Requirements analysis and coordination as well as functional management of the service provider for implementation.
- Consolidation of requirements from central and cross-regional business units.
- Technologies: Office, Project, JSF, Java, Oracle, Glassfish, HP Quality Center, Sharepoint.
Product Owner Business Services Financial for BMW.Digital
BMW AG
- Coordination of functional requirements for integrating BMW Bank into the BMW.Digital project.
- Ongoing management of requirements for multimarket rollout.
- Support and coaching of the BMW Bank project "Global" for a central calculation core for various markets.
- Leading a project team and running Scrum sprints as Product Owner.
- Consolidation of requirements from central and cross-regional business units.
- Technologies: JSF, Java, Oracle, Glassfish, HP Quality Center, Sharepoint.
Strategy Consulting / Consulting: BMWnext – BMW Website Relaunch
BMW AG
- Coordination of functional requirements for the vehicle configurator part of the BMW website (pilot market Austria).
- Structuring (backlog) and analyzing requirements within the existing processes and technical backend systems.
- Optimizing business and technical processes and restructuring product data supply for better display.
- Developing a new integration for BMW Bank for systematic online connection of the finance calculator (installment calculation).
- Defect, rollout and cut-over management for the go-live.
- Leading a project team and running Scrum sprints as Product Owner.
- Technologies: JSF, Java, Flash, Oracle, Glassfish.
Strategy Consulting / Consulting: BMWnext – BMW Internet Website Relaunch
BMW AG
- Replacing all BMW websites worldwide with a unified platform with a new WCMS and new Vehicle Configurator.
- Implementation of a complex personalization strategy and single sign-on strategy.
- Mediating between business requirements (marketing) and technical implementation (IT build/run).
- Conducting workshops to clarify multilateral requirements.
- Transitioning the project to Scrum and running sprints as Product Owner.
- Technologies: JSF, Java, Flash, Oracle, Glassfish.
Rollout Management / Strategic Consulting for Vehicle Configurator
BMW AG
- Rollout of the new configurator for MINI and BMW in 10 European markets.
- Planning, coordination, and alignment with local contacts in the markets.
- Oversight of multiple software vendors during delivery and implementation.
- Creation and review of test plans, defect management, and production preparation.
- Enhancements to the eCommerce platform; support in defining new features to optimize marketing activities.
- Setting up and monitoring the change management process.
- Technologies: XML, Oracle, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Office.
Strategy Consulting, Rollout Management & IT Project Management
BMW Financial Services
- Introduction of a new dealer frontend system; setting up the training concept and overseeing the creation of manuals.
- Coordination and implementation of an integrated user management process (S-Gate, Siteminder).
- Business concept phase of the new BMW AG vehicle configurator (eCom Next).
- Planning and strategy for redesigning the interface between the B2C car configurator and the dealer frontend system.
- Project management for building the B2C platform (up2drive), including migration from BEA 8 to BEA 10 (cluster).
- Design and development of a remarketing solution; workflow-based J2EE application integrating various service providers.
- Technologies: XML, XPATH, J2EE, Oracle, SQL, Siteminder, Project, Doors, Mercury Quality Center, Mercury Quick Test Pro, Mercury Load Runner.
Project Lead, International Rollout Management
BMW Financial Services
- Rollout of the BMW Bank online finance calculator for France and Italy.
- Planning, coordination, and alignment with over 5 subcontractors.
- Extension of functionality to include complex financing models.
- Setting up automated testing using Mercury Quality Center and Quick Test Pro.
- Developing a guideline for implementing automated tests in the configurator/calculator environment.
- Technologies: .NET, ActiveX, J2EE, Project, Oracle, SQL, Mercury Quality Center.
Self-employed
- Self-employed as a graduate computer scientist (FH).
- Focus areas: digitization, strategy consulting, PMO, project management, process consulting.
Reengineering and Migration of a Home Savings System
Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall / VR Kreditwerk AG
- Realignment, review, and re-estimation of the project.
- Revision of the architecture model (J2EE, Bea, Oracle, Filenet, DB2, IMS-DB).
- Introduction of a uniform sizing framework and use of COCOMO II for valid estimates.
- Project management for integrating peripheral systems into the new home savings system.
- Restructuring from the waterfall model to an iterative process model.
- Initiation of projects in enterprise data warehouse and data management.
- Leading a team of about 35 people in a total project size of over 180 people.
- Technologies: J2EE, Bea, Oracle, Filenet, DB2, IMS-DB.
Implementation of a customer card with bonus solution
Bram Luxemburg
- Designed and rolled out the system for a Luxembourg retail company.
- Advised on marketing methods and IT systems (J2EE on Oracle).
- Gathered requirements, created hosting concepts, and modeled processes.
- Coordinated suppliers (POS systems, lettershop) and trained the call center.
- Technologies: J2EE, Oracle.
Implementation of the customer loyalty solution Couper
VIP Gourmet Club Wien / ECC Publico Wien
- Implemented the club management platform Couper (Oracle-J2EE) for a lobby marketing company.
- Defined interfaces to partners like T-Mobile and Erste Bank Austria.
- Integrated mobile devices for remote voting options.
- Moderated workshops and interviews, trained staff, and handled go-live.
- Technologies: Oracle, J2EE.
Design and modeling of a membership value-added program
Verlagsgruppe DG Verlag Wiesbaden
- Designed and modeled a membership value-added program for cooperative and Raiffeisen banks.
- Implemented the loyalty program Couper (Oracle-J2EE) with integration to external systems.
- Introduced a CMS and coordinated subcontractors.
- Technologies: Oracle, J2EE.
Setup and redesign of a company-wide data warehouse
Verlagsgruppe Weltbild Plus, Augsburg
- Redesigned the data warehouse with custom reporting and master data management (Java).
- Reengineered a DB2 database platform into an internet reporting strategy.
- Implemented terminal services (Citrix) access.
- Specified new business requirements with an international department.
- Technologies: Java, DB2, Citrix.
Migration of a proprietary HP processing environment
EBV AG / Avnet Inc.
- Analyzed and created a plan for migrating to an open client/server solution.
- Developed a migration concept bridging business and IT departments.
- Selected the system architecture and hardware platform.
- Presented the solutions to the US parent company.
Projekt Voran – Introduction of a New Policy Administration System
WWK Versicherung München
- Technical and organizational consulting in selecting a standard policy administration product.
- Moderation of workshops and support for project management.
- Business process analysis and development of a migration concept.
Establishment of an eBusiness Department
Pegas Systemhaus GmbH, Gräfelfing
- Introduction of process modeling tools with a central repository.
- Optimization of processes and coaching of project managers.
- Establishment of a company-wide architecture based on Oracle and J2EE.
- Personnel responsibility for over 25 employees.
- Technologies: Oracle, J2EE.
Relaunch of the Online Presence
Hypovereinsbank München, HVB Systems
- Transparent presentation of the bank's service offering on the internet.
- Project management in the critical rollout phase.
- Architecture review (J2EE/Bea/Oracle).
- Team size over 40, overall project size over 100.
- Technologies: J2EE, Bea, Oracle.
Design of a Marketplace for IC Components
Wwnet, München
- Implementation of sales on consignment and clearance of inventory.
- Integration of inventory management, ERP system and pricing logic.
- Preparation of specifications and development of the process model.
- Alignment of the process model with the relational data model.
Active Points 2 – Incentive System
Core&More, Starnberg
- Design, development and implementation for an ASP service provider.
- Platform for customer loyalty solutions such as customer cards or online bonus systems.
- Redesign (BPR) of the legacy system, technology consulting and architecture design.
Support for a framework architecture
Sd&m Munich, Daimler-Chrysler AG Stuttgart
- Design of a GUI framework in Java.
- Creation of documentation and conducting training.
- Workshops in Java, architecture, and distributed systems.
- Technologies: Java.
Value-added portal for bonus programs
Credigy AG
- Development of an application for eCommerce and retail.
- Technologies: Oracle 8i, Apache, Tomcat, WebDB, JSP/JServlet.
Internet portal with free PC concept
IBEX AG, Augsburg
- Rental of PCs including ISP via a portal.
- Logging profile data in a central data warehouse for 1:1 marketing.
- Technologies: Data warehouse.
SMS redesign for pay TV
Beta-Research GmbH, Unterföhring
- Reengineering of an application system to manage a pay-TV company.
Supplier evaluation system / Stored Application Browser
Siemens AG, Munich
- Design and concept of an intranet-based system for supplier evaluation.
- Creation of a repository-driven interface.
- Technologies: Oracle 8.0, C++, Java.
IPS: Interactive Personalization System
Giesecke und Devrient AG, Munich
- Management of a personalization system for ID cards in an Oracle database.
- Analysis, design, and implementation on Windows NT.
- Implementation of SQL Forms 4.5 into C++ applications (MFC).
- Performance analysis and optimization of the C++ access layer.
- Introduction of C++ CASE technology (UML notation).
- Technologies: C++, MFC, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle RDBMS V7, Together C++, Windows NT.
SAP Basis Installation
Pegas Systemhaus GmbH
- Installation of SAP R/3 V2.1 with Oracle V7 server on Sun Solaris.
- Base installation and maintenance of the R/3 system on Solaris 2.4 (SPARC).
- Technologies: SAP R/3, Oracle, Sun Solaris.
Hierarchy Module Visualization Tool
Siemens AG, Munich
- Tool for hierarchical visualization of arbitrary data structures.
- Extension of a client/server development tool on Windows.
- Development of utility libraries in C.
- Technologies: C, Windows.
OML Porting
SNI, Paderborn
- Design and implementation of an application environment for process management.
- Porting from an object-oriented database to relational systems.
- Recreation of the access layer using Oracle Embedded SQL on Solaris.
- Technologies: Oracle Embedded SQL, Solaris.
Development of an Order Entry System
SBS Munich, German Patent Office Berlin
- Development of a client/server application.
- Design and implementation of user exits for SQL*Forms 4.0.
- Integration of archiving systems with UNIX servers using Oracle V7.
- Technologies: C, Oracle Forms 4.0, HP-UX, Oracle V7.
Electrical industry: consolidated reporting
SNI Paderborn
- Developed client/server applications for a nationwide system.
- Technologies: Oracle RDBMS V7.
Diploma in Computer Science (FH)
Pegas Systemhaus GmbH, Gräfelfing
- Many years of work in software development and project management.
- Expertise in custom software development and IT management.
Jansen Expert Systems, Munich
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Experienced in Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance, Automotive, Manufacturing, and Insurance.
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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Product Development, Marketing, and Operations.
Skills
Professional Qualifications
- Digitalization / Strategy Consulting / Pmo
- Project Manager / Product Owner
- Process Consulting / Optimization
- It Manager For Custom Software Development
Activities
- Project Leadership / Project Management
- Pmo, Project Coaching
- Requirements Engineering
- Drafting Requirements Documents / Rfo / Rfps
- Scrum Coaching / Migration
- Scrum Product Owner
- Project Estimation / Controlling / Costing
- Business Process Analysis / Optimization
- Method Consulting
- Migration Planning And Execution
- Consulting And Organization
- Case Consulting
- Data Modeling And Design
- Data Warehousing, Integration Concepts
- Training / Workshops
- Software (Re-)engineering
- System Configuration
- Team Leadership / Personnel Management
- Presentations
- Workflow Analysis
Skills - Case Tools
- Oracle Designer
- Rational Rose
- Together C++
- Doors
- Casewise Corporate Modeler
- Sybase Powerdesigner
Industries
- Banking And Insurance
- Automotive Industry, Automotive Banking (Captive Banking)
- Industry And Hi-tech Corporations
- Service Providers And Utilities
- Telecommunications
Technical Focus Areas
- Internet And E-business Solutions
- Point-of-sales Systems In Banking
- Vehicle Configurator / Calculator
- Insurance Core Systems
- Building Society And Peripheral Systems
Project Management Know-how
- Digitalization And Its Impact On The Organization
- Introduction Of Agile Or Traditional Project Approaches
- Integrated Cross-department Communication
- Bringing Together Business And It Interests
- Conducting Workshops With Conflict Identification And Resolution
- Organizing And Conducting Multilateral And International Workshops
- Building Sustainable Organizational Structures
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Education
University of Applied Sciences Munich
Diploma in Computer Science (FH) · Computer Science in Business · Munich, Germany
Technical University of Munich
Computer Science with Minor in Business · Munich, Germany
Gymnasium Neubiberg / Asam Gymnasium Munich
Neubiberg, Germany
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