Anti-Money Laundering Experts in Germany

• Private Equity owned precision grinding machines for Auto, Military & Aerospace – 1200 Employees
• Acting as Interim Group CIO / CISO consolidating Global IT back to Europe – M&A consolidation
• Managed major Security event and post event cleanup – Reporting to regulators
• Performed Vendor & Contract Management – full assessment of capabilities
• Guided Infrastructure refresh & Security Hygiene assessments

• Create a tracking concept for Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, including the data layer, events, triggers, and reporting
• Manage the project team (developers, designers, performance)
• Communication interface between stakeholders and digital specialist departments

Fashion Genius was building an AI fashion advisor for online shops. As fractional CTO I:

• Worked with the founder on product and AI strategy
• Found and managed the development company
• Led the build of a Shopify plugin: a chat assistant that looks at a customer's item, gives fashion advice, and recommends matching products from the shop's catalogue
• Designed it as a structured AI workflow, which kept it controllable, fast, and affordable to run

• Own company for Interim Executive Manager mandates; sole shareholder-managing director Denis Dlouhy.
• Positioning: Transformation, Post-Merger Integration, portfolio steering, HR for international corporations and hidden champions.

Strengthening digital operational resilience and strategically and operationally implementing DORA requirements. ICT risk management and governance; DORA-compliant ICT incident processes; digital operational resilience testing; outsourcing and ICT service provider management.

• Consulting, training and coaching in the financial sector on strategy, organization and IT topics

• MorgenFund: Advising the operator of a fund platform on software selection for a sub-ledger "Cash Accounts" based on virtual IBANs (VIBAN)

• Structuring requirements, market screening, preparing RfIs, communicating with vendors and conducting the selection process

• UniCredit/HypoVereinsbank: Workstream Lead "Booking and Customer Reporting" in the payment transformation project "PULS"

• Business analysis, preparing business requirements and coordinating the solution items as part of the functional specification with the bank's IT service providers

• Business analysis of SEPA CT and SWIFT MX (.camt-, .pain- and .pacs- formats), change management, team leadership for a virtual team of fifteen line experts and stakeholder management

• equensWorldline Germany: Program management for three projects of the SWIFT Service Bureau (CBPR+, ESMIG and Euro1Step1 migration) as part of the SWIFT MX migration

• Managing individual project leads with regard to cross-project goals and requirements; reporting to internal and external committees and stakeholders; coordination with dependent projects and programs

• Project management/PMO: Interim project management, deputizing for project leads, resource planning, budget and cost management, general PMO activities

• Objective/Motivation: PAYONE urgently needs a 360° view of its customers. So far, PAYONE has had no company-wide master data strategy. It is not possible to identify customers across all relevant systems.

The organization is to be enabled to identify customers across all relevant systems. Establishing the basis for master data management at PAYONE

• Challenge: Due to company acquisitions, the system landscape is very heterogeneous. The company is highly dynamic and burdened with many system harmonization and integration projects, meaning that resource bottlenecks and changes in project priorities repeatedly create an almost impossible task.

Due to BaFin findings, the project has a central task and role. The first focus is the migration of all customers, including their AML/KYC data, from the master data backend systems to Salesforce. This is intended to resolve one of the largest findings and establish the corresponding ODD/EDD processes.

In addition, customer data must be harmonized in Salesforce. Previous migrations resulted in duplicate customer records in some cases. The aim is therefore to maintain only one customer in Salesforce and, using the relevant information from the backend systems, also be able to identify which products the customer uses and in which processing systems the customer obtains PAYONE services.

Project: ONE Customer

Budget: €1.5 million

Team: 10/30 employees (full-time/part-time); 4 vendors/providers

Integration: 8 (subsystems/interfaces)

Applications: Salesforce; SAP S4/HANA; in-house developments

Tools: MS Office; Jira, Confluence, SharePoint

Methods: Hands-on; Agile (SAFe); Prince2

The online service "Special Use of Streets and No-Parking Zone" was in a partially completed state. The following tasks had to be carried out to reach final completion:

• Preparation of an expert report on the status of the online service, and recommendations for action
• Ensuring that all LEIKAS to be used are available (service catalog / service descriptions of the authorities)
• Creating and aligning concepts for complex IT projects (business/IT concepts, architecture, interfaces, roadmaps)
• Requirements management
• Multi-project management with 3 stakeholders (Police, Dataport, development company)
• Determining resource needs
• Coordination to identify technical requirements through the IT architects
• Creating use cases and test cases
• Creating action items
• Managing external IT service providers
• Coordination and management of all activities
• Conflict resolution / business mediation
• User Acceptance Test (UAT) and acceptance by Hamburg Police (Traffic Directorate, Policy Department, Central Road Traffic Authority)

Technical environment: .NET, EfA minimum requirements, Leikas, Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG), HWG (Hamburg Roads Act), Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office

• Setting architectural standards for Informatica Power Center development teams
• Maintenance-performance-health for DWH (Exadata) environments
• Qlik Sense / BO reports architectural standards
• Implementing best practices in ETL tasks
• Documentation ETL standards on Confluence
• Dynamic Data Masking rules for GDPR/KVKK regulations by using Informatica DDM tool
• DWH Data model Power Designer
• Upgrade Qlik Sense versions
• Merge all Informatica server's repository databases on one Oracle DB

Oracle Project Management and Automation

As part of the project, the operation of an Oracle infrastructure was automated by developing and enhancing Puppet modules and migrating existing Bash scripts to a standardized configuration management solution.

The aim of the project was to standardize and automate administrative processes, improve the maintainability of the Oracle platform, and increase the efficiency and traceability of infrastructure management through the use of Infrastructure as Code.

• Analysis and migration of existing Bash shell scripts to a Puppet-based automation solution
• Development and enhancement of Puppet modules for Oracle environments
• Automation of installation, configuration and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code
• Standardization and optimization of configuration management for Oracle systems
• Creation and maintenance of technical and operational documentation
• Planning, coordination and professional support during project implementation
• Operation and automation of Oracle systems on x86-based Linux server platforms
• Testing and quality assurance of the developed Puppet modules
• Analysis and resolution of technical errors as part of the automation and migration
• Close coordination with specialist departments and infrastructure teams to implement automation requirements

Technologies used: Puppet 7/8, SLES 15, Oracle 19, Oracle Grid, SVN, Windows Server, Confluence, VS Code, Ruby, Bash, Pass

• Founding and development of an asset management company (KVG), particularly for real asset funds and investments.
• Responsibility for the portfolio management division, including system administration, stakeholder management, processes and corporate services.

• Gathered and analyzed User Requirements Documents (URDs), wrote Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), and coordinated the backlog with development and QA teams to keep release scope focused.
• Led gap analysis for EDMS (OpenText, FileNet) and an RPA PoC (UiPath, Blue Prism), projecting 10% cost savings in document handling and improved screening accuracy.
• Monitored sprint progress, presented roadmap updates in technical reviews to C-level executives, and aligned stakeholders.
• Developed user stories and epics to drive project delivery and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Promoted Agile methodologies, improving team collaboration and iterative delivery.

• Project lead
• Coordinated the rollout of 148 firewalls (Palo Alto) for 74 buildings at over 14 locations in EMEA
• Managed the team (8 employees)
• Communicated with Senior Management (local) and Site Managers (EMEA)
• Ensured work packages were completed on time and to requirements, and formally accepted
• Extensive use of relevant Microsoft tools
• Wrike (project management)

• Informing and advising on obligations under applicable data protection regulations
• Reviewing compliance with data protection regulations and the client’s strategies for protecting personal data through own audits
• Advising on and preparing data protection impact assessments as well as data protection notices and data protection guidelines and policies
• Drafting, advising on and negotiating data processing agreements
• Raising awareness among management and staff on data protection by creating training materials and concepts and delivering training sessions
• Industries include: financial services, healthcare, trades, mechanical engineering, recruitment, auditing and tax consulting