IBM Lotus Notes Experts in Hamburg

• 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, creating 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, creating business requirements and aligning 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 lead 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 managers regarding overarching goals and requirements; reporting to internal and external committees and stakeholders; coordinating with dependent projects and programs

• Project management/PMO: interim project management, stand-in for project managers, resource planning, budget and cost management, general PMO tasks

• Disciplinary and professional leadership of the IT and service team
• Definition and documentation of the Current Mode of Operation (CMO) in Confluence: application landscape, infrastructure, networks, backup & storage
• Development of the Future Mode of Operation (FMO) including process analysis & stakeholder interviews with all departments using BPMN and flowcharts
• Optimization of license management: reduction of ongoing software costs by approx. 17% p.a.
• Introduction and establishment of Jira as the central tool for project and service management
• Introduction and rollout of the HR software MindKey to digitize HR processes
• Introduction of a VoIP solution with Microsoft Teams incl. PSTN connection to replace classic telephony
• Introduction of the production and planning software OptiControl to digitize operational processes
• Rollout of Intune as a Mobile Device Management solution for Windows, iOS and Android
• Build-up of Power BI dashboards for machine park monitoring and financial reporting
• Planning and execution of the IT consolidation of two locations for 170 users
• Introduction of automated penetration testing with Pentera
• Coaching and mentoring the team in agile methods & project management
• Operational support in day-to-day business: administration, incident & change management
• Management of external service providers and assurance of the quality of outsourced IT services
• Responsibility for the IT budget incl. planning and controlling
• Direct reporting line to management with regular management reports on IT KPIs, budget and project status

• Financial accounting / general ledger
• VAT
• EC sales list reports
• Z4 reports
• Z5a reports
• Intercompany reconciliations

• Led project management for over 150 validation and verification projects for medical ceramic implants (hip, knee, shoulder, spinal and dental) across international production sites, including presses, mills, turning, grinding, milling, polishing, proofing, laser, washing and packaging equipment, as well as cleanrooms
• Managed the validation team and overall planning of validation activities, including creation of application specifications, equivalence analyses, risk classifications and validation plans (VP/DP/IP/OP/PP/FAT)
• Performed FATs at suppliers, and prepared FAT and final reports for regulatory submissions to authorities and customers
• Participated in internal, regulatory and customer audits
• Senior project lead for SAP PS-BAU at a leading Frankfurt bank: led the development team, coordinated external service providers, acted as single point of contact for the business unit, and supported design phase and test management
• Provided consulting and conducted trainings and workshops on quality, validation and regulatory requirements for international equipment manufacturers and system integrators
• Provided consulting and project leadership in supply chain, logistics and procurement for international clients

• Development and implementation of strategies, concepts, and methods for problem solving
• Company management (management & leadership), sales, business development, operations
• Project management, change management (transformation), business process and process optimization

• Creating a new test strategy for AXA Deutschland
• Analysis of the existing strategy and identification of current pain points
• Creating a survey to determine the status quo of current testing activities for each application system in the group
• Building a business case as a decision template for the executive board
• Building a roadmap and the related capacity planning for implementing the new test strategy
• Optimizing internal planning processes with regard to test capacities
• Coordinating offshore activities and acting as the interface between the onshore team and offshore experts

• Analyze and select system components for the web front end

• Create an IT concept

• Consolidate the database in the backend

• Implement the web application with HCL Domino Leap

• Coordinate the setup of two-factor authentication

• Testing and deployment

• Using the low-code development environment HCL Domino Leap, a working web application was developed in a short time.

• The read permission concept was supported without additional coding.

• Authentication for the web application was implemented using OAuth and Google Authenticator.

• Responsibility for testing and quality assurance of application processes
• Creation and execution of test cases based on defined acceptance criteria
• Documentation of deviations and analysis, as well as initiation of necessary corrective actions
• Ensuring the flow of information within the team and with other specialist departments
• Maintenance and further development of test automation
• Adapting Selenium-based automation to every release and sprint change
• Extending test automation with new processes
• Performing security tests
• Identifying typical vulnerabilities (e.g. XSS, SQL injection, insecure headers) through automated tests in the CI/CD flow
• Use of technologies Selenium (including integration with security scanners such as OWASP ZAP), Unix/SQL environments and optionally Cypress, SAP, C#, Java, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, REST API, Postman, HP-ALM, SSI, Octane, WinSCP.

• Analysis of calculations in the legacy system (Cobol), reconciliation with specification and checking differences in the new system
• Managing change requests with Jira
• Basis for compare reconciliation: XML formats for further processing in Dopix (business: VS certificate, customer info, contribution statements)
• Automated XML comparisons via TWS jobs in various test systems
• Reviewing and documenting related utility programs and interface calls
• Reviewing legacy programs in terms of content, technology, and business logic
• Creating and extending JCLs for regression tests host <> decentralized
• Analyzing error cases and comparing with specifications for correctness
• Creating Jira tickets as requests or bug fixes for the Java programs

Technical environment:

• COBOL
• TSO/ISPF
• DB2/SQL (Spufi, QE2)
• IMS-DB/DC application development
• JCL, TWS (Tivoli), EJM Beta48 (AIX)
• Changeman (Extended Release Option)
• Citrix environment
• MS Office
• Ticket management with Jira
• Agile development

• Renovation, refurbishment and construction of two houses in Southern Europe.
• Organization and management of the trades, including hands-on tasks.
• Project management, coordination, documentation and execution.
• Preparation and execution of the sale of the land and buildings.

• Pilot testing local AI environments to explore local AI use cases and cloud-based AI solutions
• Evaluation of AI tools and techniques
• Use of local AI tools with own data sovereignty
• Prompt engineering
• Creation of example environments for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video

Tools: Grok, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Elevenlabs, Github, Ollama, HuggingFace, Open WebUI, Faster Whisper, LibreTranslate, WSL, Docker Desktop, Shotcut, Audacity, Sound eXchange, Ffmpeg, Coqui TTS, Pinokio, Stable Diffusion Web UI, ComfyUI, OWL, Void Editor

• Support for the relocation and rebranding of all 16 affected branches
• Implementation of the outsourcing project for the Wire & Cable Solutions division
• Member of the carve-out IT team
• Outsourcing of various areas

• Planning of projects and consulting services: professional, technical and commercial, focusing on transformation for public transport
• Identification and assessment of project risks with development of measures and recommendations for risk minimization and avoidance
• Evaluation of projects and reporting
• Execution of projects and delivery of consulting services on time, with required quality and within budget
• Project, hardware and consulting services forecasting
• Disciplinary and professional staff management
• Team development and coaching
• Resource planning across various locations
• Stakeholder management
• Client management with service and support
• Development of contingency plans

• Developed and extended Fiori UI5/WebApps for areas such as general ledger, asset accounting, and others.
• Implemented backend logic and OData services for a new S/4 HANA system
• Analyzed the current state of SAP GUI transactions and derived suitable standard and custom developments
• Designed technical concepts and implemented custom UI5 apps in the Fiori Launchpad
• Automated OPA tests, extended and adapted standard Fiori apps
• Documented and created developer manuals in the wiki
• Conducted code reviews, approved and delivered software units via GitLab and SAP transports