Yusuf D.-Senior Project Manager

A nationwide service provider for occupational medicine, occupational safety and health management, focusing on prevention, health and digital transformation.

• Role: Responsible for establishing and further developing professional project portfolio management in the Digital Transformation & Data area. Managing and supporting strategic IT and transformation projects, as well as supporting the introduction and establishment of project management standards, methods and governance structures.

Key areas:

• Establishment and further development of IT project portfolio management
• Analysis and structuring of business and technical requirements
• Management and coordination of cross-functional IT initiatives
• Stakeholder management at department, management and service provider level
• Introduction and further development of project management methods and tools (including Jira, Confluence, MS Planner)
• Preparation of decision-making documents, target visions and implementation concepts in the context of digital transformation
• Management and coordination of transformation, digitalization and organizational projects
• Preparation of decision templates and management documents for executive committees
• Conducting workshops and stakeholder management with departments and IT teams
• Definition of requirements for dashboards, reporting and KPI management
• Participation in the Wissenskompass project (requirements analysis and MVP concept)
• Analysis and evaluation of AI support opportunities in Knowledge Management
• Investigation of AI use cases to improve knowledge provision and use
• Consideration of AI requirements as part of the Wissenskompass concept
• Coordination with strategic departments to further develop project management standards
• Introduction, configuration and training for Microsoft Planner to support project and task management
• Conducting user training and supporting employees in the introduction of new ways of working and tools

Autobahn GmbH des Bundes is a German GmbH under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport, responsible for planning, construction, operation, maintenance, financing and administration of the motorways in Germany.

• Role: Planning, support, operation and administration of modern software in the company's IT infrastructure & support for 10,000 employees

• Project management, stakeholder communication, quality assurance, ticket resolution using Service Now, training and support, resource planning, requirements gathering

• IT consulting - second-level support

• Process and customer support, ITSM, Cloud and Azure

• Design and integration of service catalog

• ServiceNow Knowledge Management

• Support in the further development and structuring of the service catalog and Request Fulfillment

• Administration – SCCM-Active Directory

• Application implementation

• Planning, coordination and documentation of Service Now, coordination with Change Management to coordinate, structure and maintain folder structures on SharePoint and Confluence

• Interface management and communication with departments, SAP and Cloud

• Incident, Problem, Change Management and Request Management processes in Service Now

• Training and support for end users

• Communication of project procedures, progress and risks

• Communication of decisions required to all involved departments at different levels

• Planning, organization and documentation of events (e.g. kick-offs, milestone reviews)

• Management and coordination of internal teams and external service providers

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Service Now, Microsoft products and Azure, Microsoft project tools, Meisterplan, DevOps, CI/CD

ERGO Group AG: Insurance industry, 15 000 employees (migration and digitalization project)

• Role: Project Manager, Scrum Master & Product Owner/consulting for departments. Digitalization/introduction of new data structures and migration of data and interfaces.

• Scope: The project scope includes integrating optimized business logic into existing DB structures and expanding the existing database, as well as automating the validation and expansion of the SAS portal within the migration strategy

• Team size: Core team consists of 25 employees, several hundred employees from various departments are involved

• Defining and structuring project deliverables and work packages and coordinating them with the client and project participants, roadmap and milestone planning.

• Creating and continuously maintaining a central backlog (TFS)

• Scheduling project deliverables, creating project plans and coordinating planning with stakeholders, recording and documenting in Clarity according to Essenz and Scrum

• Monitoring and managing project deliverables with regard to compliance with agreed deadlines (milestones), agreed quality and agreed budget (Essenz)

• Analyzing circumstances and problems in the project to identify and present project risks (Clarity), professional stakeholder management and reporting

• Consulting and support for implementation systems.

• Developing and evaluating options for action to

• Performing the role of business product owner for risk management applications (IGLOO, Matlab, URE and ResQ), reporting with KPIs and status metrics

• Creation of business concepts and documentation (maintenance), risks and derivation of countermeasures

• Process analysis and process modeling with Innovator and ERWIN

• Modeling processes and planning the business analysis for IT

• Organization and moderation of project meetings and workshops in the project context

• Coordination of the project with all relevant interfaces, resources and systems

• Product manager for IGLOO, MATLAB, RESQ & URE

• Application management and interface management

• Management of internal and external project staff in business and technical implementation

• Moderation of business-level meetings for decision-making

• Coordination, management and communication of project progress and methods at all levels to all interfaces and relevant external and internal service providers

• Implementation of business requirements and support for technical implementation

• Quality assurance measures and risk analysis - risk assessment and required measures, moderation and documentation of meetings

• Maintenance of project roadmap, milestone planning and status dashboards

Project methodology: Agile approach & SCRUM & ESSENZ, open and transparent communication

Tools: Jira, Confluence, ERWIN data modeling, Clarity, TFS & Innovator

Siemens AG: is a German conglomerate focusing on automation and digitalization in industry.

• Role: Consultant.

• Scope: The project scope includes the agile development and consulting of software for internal use by more than 100. 000 employees.

• Team size: Core team consists of several business departments and developers; many several thousand internal employees are involved.

• Project methodology: Classic, brainstorming, workshops, interviews, on-site meetings and presentations.

• Optimization of IT operations processes.

• Requirements management, creation and design of functional concepts.

• Process analysis, modeling of the system architecture and creation of the functional concept.

• Agile (Scrum) software development in Java, SOA and BPM environments.

• IT project management/ business analysis - requirements engineering and quality assurance.

• From the business case through implementation and go-live, supporting all phases of software development.

• Analysis, structuring, specification and documentation of functional and system-relevant requirements.

Tools: Jira, UML data modeling, Office products, Oracle

Megapharm GmbH is a pharmaceutical company that develops medical software for use in practices and clinics and for cross-sector networking.

• Role: Software Developer.

• Scope: Development of the medical therapy planning and documentation software MegaManager for use in practices and clinics and for cross-sector networking.

• Team size: Core team consists of 15 developers and several business departments.

• Project methodology: Object-oriented software development, brainstorming, workshops, interviews, on-site meetings and presentations.

• Planning and implementation of application systems.

• Documentation and testing (JUnit/ HP ALM).

• Requirements analysis, architecture and design of software systems.

• Independent management and organization of projects.

• Analysis and optimization of IT processes and systems.

• Analysis and design of processes.

• Database design and programming.

• Client & server application development.

• Project management – cross-project technology consulting/ sub-project management.

• Customer support and quality assurance, code review and bug fixing.

Tools: Jira, UML data modeling, Office products, Spring, Java and DB, Junit, HP-ALM, Hibernate, GWT, Tomcat, Linux & Windows

Role: Software Developer and Project Manager

Scope: Development, planning, and coordination of a web-based network architecture for accessing and managing students and teaching staff.

Team size: Core team consisting of several developers and specialist departments.

Project methodology: Object-oriented software development, brainstorming, workshops, interviews, in-person meetings, and presentations.

• Project management
• Architecture and OO design & server development
• Parallel programming
• Documentation and test execution
• Database and application development
• Use of object-oriented databases / use of Hibernate
• Migration of OO components to relational databases
• Application development in Java

Tools: Jira, UML data modeling, Office products, Spring, Java, Junit, HP-ALM, Hibernate, GWT, Tomcat, Linux & Windows, PHP, MySQL, Eclipse