Yusuf Demirci-Senior Project Manager

Nationwide service provider for occupational medicine, occupational safety, and health management with a focus on prevention, health, and digital transformation.

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

Focus areas:

• Build-up and further development of IT project portfolio management
• Analysis and structuring of business and technical requirements
• Steering and coordination of cross-functional IT initiatives
• Stakeholder management at business, management, and service provider level
• Introduction and further development of project management methods and tools (including Jira, Confluence, MS Planner)
• Preparation of decision bases, target visions, and implementation concepts in the context of digital transformation
• Steering and coordination of transformation, digitalization, and organizational projects
• Preparation of decision papers and management documents for steering committees
• Running workshops and stakeholder management with business units and IT teams
• Definition of requirements for dashboards, reporting, and KPI steering
• Support in the project Wissenskompass (requirements analysis and MVP concept)
• Analysis and evaluation of AI support options 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 business units on the further development of project management standards
• Introduction, configuration, and training of 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 of the federal government is a German limited liability company under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport, in charge of 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 via ServiceNow, training and support, resource planning, requirement gathering

• IT consulting - second level support

• Process and customer support, ITSM, cloud and Azure

• Design and integration of the service catalog

• ServiceNow knowledge management

• Support in the further development and structuring of the service catalog and request fulfillment

• Administration – SCCM, Active Directory

• Implementation of applications

• Planning, coordination, and documentation of ServiceNow, alignment with change management to coordinate, structure, and maintain folder structures in SharePoint and Confluence

• Interface management and communication with business units, SAP, and cloud

• Incident, problem, change management, and request management processes in ServiceNow

• Training and support for end users

• Communication of project progress, milestones, and risks

• Decision needs to all involved areas at different levels

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

• Steering and coordination of internal teams and external service providers

Tools: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, 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 management, Scrum Master & Product Owner / consulting for business units. 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 validation and extending the SAS portal in the migration strategy

• Team size: core team consists of 25 employees, several hundred employees from various business units are involved

• Defining and structuring project deliverables and work packages as well as aligning them with the client and project stakeholders, roadmap and milestone planning.

• Creating and continuously maintaining a central backlog (TFS)

• Time planning of project deliverables, creating project plans and aligning planning with stakeholders, recording and documentation in Clarity according to Essenz and Scrum

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

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

• Consulting and support for the implementation systems.

• Developing and evaluating options for action to

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

• Creating business concepts and documentation (maintenance), risks, and deriving countermeasures

• Process analysis and process modeling with Innovator and ERWIN

• Modeling processes and planning business analysis for IT

• Organizing and facilitating project meetings and workshops in the project context

• Coordinating the project with all relevant interfaces, resources, and systems

• Product manager for IGLOO, MATLAB, RESQ & URE

• Application management and interface management

• Steering internal and external project staff in business and technical implementation

• Facilitating meetings at business level for decision-making

• Coordination, steering, 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, facilitation 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, data modeling ERWIN, Clarity, TFS & Innovator

Siemens AG: is a German conglomerate with a focus on automation and digitalization in industry

• Role: Consultant

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

• Team size: The core team consists of several departments and developers, involved are many several thousand internal employees.

• Project methodology: Classic, brainstorming, workshops, interviews, in-person meetings and presentations.

• Optimization of IT operations processes

• Requirements management, creation and design of business concepts

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

• Agile (Scrum) software development in the environment of Java, SOA and BPM

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

• From business case to implementation and go-live, support in all phases of software development

• Analysis, structuring, specification and documentation of business 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 and for cross-sector networking in practices and clinics.

• Role: Software developer

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

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

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

• Planning and implementation of application systems

• Documentation and tests (JUnit/ HP ALM)

• Requirements analysis, architecture and design of software systems

• Independent support 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 access to and management of students and teaching staff.

Team size: Core team consists of several developers and subject areas.

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 testing
• 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