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• Analysis, documentation, and alignment of requirements. Conducting stakeholder analyses, interviews, and workshops for requirements gathering and validation. Carrying out requirements reviews and working closely with business units and development teams.

Techniques & tools: requirements engineering, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, system context modeling, requirements reviews, quality scenarios, Miro, Jira, Confluence

As a project coordinator in development projects (consisting of software and hardware), I was responsible in an advisory role for creating recommendations and organizational framework conditions in the areas of reporting, project scheduling, progress tracking, resource allocation, and results presentation.

• Technology stack: Teams, Azure DevOps, Android
• Keywords: software, hardware, AI, MDM, Kanban, requirements specification, functional specification, SaaS, ergonomics, health, medical device

• Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.

• Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.

• Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.

• Firewall vulnerability analysis.

• Firewall rule approvals.

• Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.

• Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.

• Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5

• Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI

• PMO lead for Security Clearance 2 (SÜ2) cleared
• Reporting to sub-program management GMN
• System maintenance 25+
• Functional control and coordination of Jira setup
• Preparation of decision papers (e.g. project planning, steering model, communication plans, controlling models, role and responsibility matrices)
• Development of program-wide knowledge management using Confluence, creation of Jira concept
• Development of an access concept for all project tools
• Analyzing existing processes, identifying improvement potential, and designing solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness
• Development of a concept for introducing automation approaches in existing tools
• Creating intranet articles as project marketing
• Responsible for project governance through reporting and resource planning in the sub-program
• Agile further development of the project method
• Gathering customer requirements (requirements engineering)
• Preparation and support of contract negotiations (7-year term, budget of over 500 million)

Planning, execution & moderation of crisis communication and reputation management

AQIM is a non-profit organization based in Austria. An association of interim managers from Germany and Austria. Founded in December 2024. Multi-part training with workshops and consulting for preventive crisis communication, in cooperation with the founding members and those responsible for communication. To assess crisis potential for the market entry strategy and ahead of a digital campaign.

The project in a nutshell:

Consulting and training for the purpose of:

• Analysis of crisis potential as a new market entrant and its internet-based communication activities
• Planning and developing crisis communication with targeted measures
• Developing a crisis plan to minimize reputation risks in an emergency
• Conducting training and information sessions

Success:

• What started as a one-time consulting event for preparing an information campaign became a multi-part workshop on preventive crisis communication. This not only gave the organization expertise and confidence in the event of acute challenges, but also gave the participating interim managers new skills for their day-to-day work on assignments
• The workshop enabled those responsible to launch the information campaign that was being prepared at the time and planned for six months, as scheduled at the end of January 2026 on social media
• Careful scheduling and defining how to handle critical voices in terms of terminology and tone, as well as compliance rules, ensured a smooth start and run of a 3-month information campaign

Lead Business Analyst – Analysis and optimization of private banking processes

• Responsibility for the business analysis and further development of business processes in private banking, with a focus on CRM, customer data management, and master data processes

• Carrying out a comprehensive business process analysis to identify optimization potential, business gaps, and improvement opportunities along the customer lifecycle

• Gathering, analyzing, and structuring business requirements in close cooperation with business units, management, IT architecture, and development teams

• Creating and aligning business concepts, process models, user stories, and requirement documentation as the basis for technical implementation

• Analyzing and optimizing existing master data processes with a focus on data quality, responsibilities, and efficient data maintenance

• Designing and further developing CRM customer data processes while taking regulatory requirements and business goals into account

• Planning and moderating workshops with business, IT, and stakeholders for requirements analysis, process design, and solution finding

• Managing requirements and ensuring consistent communication between business and IT

• Using AI-supported analysis tools to help with requirements analysis, structuring information, and improving documentation quality

Sub-project lead in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

• Leading a software development team with 10 employees
• Budget responsibility approx. 3 million euros per year
• Conducting employee and job interviews
• Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
• Digitalization of a web interface
• Regular reporting to customers and stakeholders (C-level)
• Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to guide product development
• Structuring product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
• Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
• Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector incl. knowledge of regulatory processes
• Formulating the sub-project charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
• Controlling service delivery according to the project charter
• Planning and controlling human resources including budget planning for the sub-project
• Ensuring the work capacity of the sub-project participants, e.g. by requesting access rights and documents for the sub-project team
• Planning and control for the respective sub-project (time, scope, budget) including the creation of necessary documents
• Alignment with the business department and Product Owners to plan the sub-project scope and the corresponding implications
• Executing milestone planning according to the agreed process model
• Effort estimation and support of sub-project controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
• Reporting sub-project status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
• Analyzing, preparing, and addressing action and decision requirements
• Escalating sub-project issues to the project management
• Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
• Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (time, scope, and budget)
• Implementation management of the overarching guidelines and requirements in the sub-project, supported by cross-functional roles on the functional and technical side.
• Identifying, managing, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across sub-projects
• Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
• Preparing and managing commissioning including the required documents and protection needs assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the full-stack area (7 people)

• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Implementation of the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown charts), metrics, as well as conducting required training in an agile IT environment
• Preparation of Scrum events such as Daily, retrospectives, Review, Sprint planning, estimation, and refinement (agile way of working)
• Moderation of retrospectives and elimination of obstacles to move the team and product forward
• Preparation of action items and retros via whiteboard and Figma
• Application and improvement of agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
• Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
• Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
• Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creation of filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up cycle time
• Use of Jira & Confluence
• Setting up a progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual efforts for user stories
• Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "velocity", "burn-down chart", "throughput", "costs", "quality", "scope"
• Evaluation of agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
• Communication and moderation know-how
• Methodological competence proven in conflict discussions

• Building and leading an IT consulting and outsourcing company with a focus on AI, app development, and digital transformation
• Acquiring and supporting B2B customers in Germany, including technical project management with offshore teams in India, Pakistan, and Eastern Europe
• Developing and marketing tailored consulting and training packages in the field of artificial intelligence (including EU AI Act compliance)
• Overall responsibility for business development, strategy, marketing, sales, and partner management
• Running webinars and on-site seminars on AI integration in companies

With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.

• Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
• Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
• Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
• Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
• Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
• Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
• Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
• Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
• Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
• Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
• Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
• Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
• Implement the IT concept
• Document the infrastructure

Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot

• Project management of a simplification project to reduce effort for an IT transformation project
• Stakeholder management and preparation of decision papers for top management
• Scoping and PI planning across multiple delivery streams
• Planning requirements for the transformation project
• Creating partner and customer journeys for structured end-to-end capture of requirements
• Designing suitable tracking methods for project progress
• Coordination with IT service providers and transformation project committees

• WiNOWiG extensions (digitalization & organization)
• Project management for the WiNOWiG project (regulatory offenses)
• Process optimization and coordination

Solutions and services around business development, consulting, interim management, customer acquisition, coaching and training

• Project management for software projects in the brake control unit area with a focus on deadlines, costs, and quality.
• Planning, control, and reporting of project progress, risks, dependencies, and work packages.
• Planning and tracking of work packages using PTC Integrity.
• Organizing and moderating customer meetings as well as coordination with internal departments, external suppliers, and third parties.
• Creating and maintaining project documentation according to Automotive SPICE requirements as well as management reporting.