IT Consultant in Cologne

• Automation of the database major / minor releases for the TKeasy project

• Concept for database major / minor release automation

• As-is analysis

• Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionality

• Concept creation

• Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeller, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence

• Skills: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases

The Helaba ATLAS project aims to modernize core systems and make them future-proof. As part of the subproject, the existing legacy system for international payments is being replaced by a modern web-based application.

• Analysis of functional and technical requirements
• Analysis and optimization of business processes
• Process modeling
• Preparation and facilitation of workshops
• Defining project scope and prioritizing requirements
• Business process management (analysis, modeling, and optimization)
• Specification of user stories
• Designing business and authorization concepts
• Testing and acceptance
• Designing mockups in Figma
• Creating the UI/UX style guide for web applications Approach: Scrum (agile) Technologies: Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, Conceptboard, Java, Vaadin, Figma

• Responsibility for the Individualization Initiative to develop and implement a new travel product category
• Setting up the cross-functional organization at strategic, tactical and operational levels
• Aligning the initiative with the company's strategic goals (OKRs)
• Preparing decision papers and recommendations for management and advisory board
• Operational management of the technology work package

• Supporting the DevOps team in Terraform-managed, multi-region AWS infrastructure to achieve environment parity.
• Developed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, automating the build and deployment.
• Maintained pre- and post-deployment scripts to automate critical tasks such as database schema migrations and environment sanity checks.
• Implemented CI/CD flow specifically for hotfixes via separate Git branches, managing back-merge activities from feature branches to release branches to ensure code integrity through automated conflict resolution.
• Deployed a dedicated, lightweight sanity check application hosted cost-effectively on Azure Container Apps to run automated health and basic functional checks as a post-deployment activity triggered via pipeline.
• Investigated production incidents through code changes and AWS CloudWatch logs.
• Coordinated integration of Dynatrace APM and its APIs for monitoring purposes.
• Full stack QA strategist for a high-traffic e-commerce platform built on a layered architecture for the back-end testing of core platform services, especially the order management system in Zed and Glue layers.
• Managed automation activities, testing process, and refactoring practices.
• Responsible for framework migrations, setup, and training for new automation frameworks.
• Promoted a shift-left approach within the QA team and created the test concept.
• Participated in meetings with IT managers, business owners, product owners, and team members.

• Spearheaded strategic and operational oversight of IT infrastructures to accelerate innovation and ensure audit-proof delivery.
• Acted as key liaison between management, business departments, and engineering, actively engaging in coding, cloud architecture, and CI/CD to resolve critical path challenges.
• Engineered and implemented an AI Governance Program to manage risks and ensure compliance with the EU AI Act, reducing AI use-case approval times from 8 to 3 weeks.
• Delivered and deployed secure AI systems into production (RAG-based knowledge platforms), resulting in a 35% decrease in standard support ticket volume.
• Established robust security standards and governance frameworks for APIs (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS) and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) to guarantee compliance and system integrity.
• Hardened cloud infrastructure by implementing Zero Trust principles and a comprehensive observability stack (logging/alerting), achieving 99.9% availability in a 24/7 on-call environment.

• Created as-is network documentation for a Bechtle customer
• Analyzed existing configurations and adjusted them
• Advised on Fortinet and Check Point products
• Troubleshot complex routing, switching and application issues
• Tools: MS Azure, FortiManager, Cisco Nexus & Catalyst, Cisco WLAN Controller, Citrix Netscaler SD-WAN, MS Visio, Checkpoint VSX, Wireshark

• Implementing Scrum Master role, project leadership, project management, consulting
• Logineo.NRW – Schools Online
• Chat and video conferencing solutions
• Requirements management, release and deployment planning, agile coaching
• Coordination and presentations to the Ministry of School and Education of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Project coordination between the Ministry of School and Education of North Rhine-Westphalia, Medienberatung NRW, and service providers
• Products and standards: Jira, Confluence, Xray, Grafana, Redmine, Miro
• Technologies: Jitsi-Meet, Matrix-Synapse, Element-Web, BigBlueButton, Teams
• Infrastructure: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Kubernetes

• Advising entrepreneurs and companies – from practice for practice
• OKR – Objectives and Key Results, the strategy framework by Intel adapted by Google for setting goals and aligning across all levels of the organization

• Consulting on regulatory requirements in IT governance, IT security, KAIT, KAMaRisk & KAGB, ITIL, COBIT
• Development of emergency manuals and a BCM concept according to KAIT requirements, based on the BSI IT-Grundschutz standard 200-4
• Preparation of documents for the PwC audit
• Redesign of access management and risk management according to KAIT
• Administration, user management and setup of RE-VC
• Vendor management
• Establishment of filing structure and naming convention
• Change management including communication plan

• On secondment to REWE digital GmbH
• Agile team coach for a brick-and-mortar retail team
• Coaching, lateral leadership and facilitation
• Establishing agile values and applying agile methods
• Team development and conflict moderation
• Facilitating company-wide strategy workshops
• Technologies: Kanban, Scrum, Microsoft Teams, Liberating Structures, Jira, Confluence, Concept Board, Miro, Test-Driven Development, OOP, DBMS (SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL)

• Development of compliance products
• Senior Cybersecurity Consultant: NIS2: impact assessment, obligations, action planning, roadmaps
• NIS2 · DORA · CRA
• Design of ISO 27001 ISMS implementation project on a fixed-price basis
• Governance consultancy in M&A situations

• QA Management for web application (Pega)
• Coordination of QA activities with stakeholders and other teams

• Developing and implementing IT architectures for business-critical applications, BCM/ITSCM, SAP, BTP and S/4HANA, Azure, interfaces and IT infrastructure according to Uniper security guidelines and compliance policies

• IT cloud infrastructure management: Requirements management and SLA definition for critical SAP and non-SAP applications and infrastructures based on the Key Production Environment algorithm; creating a conceptual target architecture; creating agile project plans for migration; risk management and vulnerability analysis; developing training content and e-learnings; establishing and optimizing risk management processes; creating action catalogs, architectures and ITSCM/emergency plans; identifying and managing internal and external partners

• Developing BCM/ITSCM concepts and IT infrastructure architectures for business-critical applications according to Azure Cloud, SAP BTP and Uniper governance frameworks; documenting and implementing ITSCM/emergency plans in line with disaster recovery patterns; creating training materials and coordinating training sessions; testing, simulating and optimizing BCM/ITSCM plans and IT architectures; ongoing training of management and staff on IT architectures, operating models, SAP BTP as well as BCM and emergency plans

• Technical lead of the SAP services team: Managing and coordinating external vendors, service owners and application managers; developing and implementing ITSM processes (incident, problem, change, SLM, IT security, provider management, ITSCM, asset and configuration management); training internal and external service providers and service managers; optimizing IT service contracts and OLAs; updating the service catalog; communicating and escalating issues; defining responsibilities and monitoring SLA criteria; conducting root cause analysis; partly acting as release manager for SAP ERP releases

• Migration: Requirements management, budget and financial planning; risk management; defining and implementing transformation and migration plans; weekly reporting to Uniper vice presidents and senior management; maintaining project plans and backlogs in Jira and Azure DevOps; managing up to 50 internal and external stakeholders; workshops and meetings; quality assurance: defining quality gateways and monitoring

• Test management: Creating and documenting test plans; evaluating test risks; identifying stakeholders for test plans; documenting test scenarios; defining error categories and quality gateways; coordinating and executing tests

• Developed interfaces to get a comprehensive overview of all CIs in the CMDB