Microsoft Project Experts in Frankfurt

• Project management for Porsche interior plastic parts
• Ensuring complete and smooth information flow between the customer and internal departments
• Creating and monitoring resource, schedule and overall project plans
• Active support and independent customer handling
• Coordinating technical discussions and pricing discussions
• Organizing, running and documenting coordination meetings with development and controlling
• Preparing quotations with cost specifications, analyses and presentations
• Independent cost negotiations, change handling and final negotiations
• Carrying out deviation analyses

• Independent consulting at the intersection of HR, Finance and IT
• Focus on People Analytics, HR Controlling, Pay Transparency, Compensation & Benefits and HR Transformation
• Analysis of complex HR and business data and development of reliable decision-making foundations for management and HR
• Design of KPI, reporting and BI solutions as well as data-based management models
• Consulting from analysis and concept development through implementation of transformation and optimization projects
• Focus on SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW and Power BI
• ISA = Insight · Structure · Alignment

• Delivery of various end-customer projects in server and network infrastructure on time, in quality, and within budget.
• Project 1: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall at an automotive supplier.
• Project 2: Migration of file services from dedicated servers at 5 branch locations into a central managed file service, including DHCP, directory, and print services, as well as decommissioning of the old domain controllers.
• Project 3: Renewal of the network infrastructure at the headquarters and branch locations of a logistics company and transition of the LAN, WLAN, and firewall environments into a managed network service.
• Project 4: Network renewal, replacement of the core and access switches at the headquarters of a medical technology company and transition into a managed network service.
• Project 5: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall for a city.
• Environment: ASA and Fortinet firewalls, Cisco network components, ITSM Heat/Ivanti, Confluence.

Europe-wide re-platforming & centralization

• Independently created the migration concept and implementation plan for the Europe-wide centralization and consolidation of IT services for around 20 European companies as part of a re-platforming program.
• Migration assessment: analysis of the existing IT, infrastructure, application, and service landscapes of the companies as the basis for the migration strategy.
• Development of the centralized target vision and target architecture based on a modern technology stack, taking platform and containerization approaches into account.
• Design of a highly available central infrastructure in an active-active model across two data centers; consideration of cloud, infrastructure, application, CMDB, and IAM services.
• Development of the migration and transformation roadmap, including defining migration waves, dependencies, requirements, and priorities for the move from decentralized services to the central platform.
• Analysis of technical and organizational dependencies, identification of migration risks, and development of a structured approach for step-by-step migration and centralization.
• Creation of target, solution, and implementation views for each service domain; design of the end-to-end join-move-leave process as a blueprint for the European rollout (Jira/Jira Asset Management).
• Alignment of migration strategy and roadmap with European companies, management, IT, providers, and other stakeholders; presentation of the 12-month roadmap to the Managing Director Europe.

Further development & digitalization of key sales and application processes in a regulated banking environment, including requirements structuring, roadmap development and AI-supported use case assessment

Responsibilities & Impact:

• Management of existing digital products to ensure stable operations (Keep the lights on) amid growing regulatory complexity
• Product vision and development of a consistent, implementable roadmap
• Strategic backlog prioritization based on business goals, dependencies and technical feasibility
• Coordination of release planning, backlog, quality assurance and go-live readiness with business departments, IT, implementation teams and management
• Identification, structuring and assessment of AI-supported use cases at the interface of business departments, IT and the regulatory environment
• Analysis, structuring and translation of complex business requirements into epics and user stories
• Facilitation of team, stakeholder & alignment formats to ensure clarity of objectives, collaboration and decision-making ability
• Transparency on capacities, dependencies, delivery status and KPI/status aspects as a basis for product & management decisions
• Compliance with transparent structures and documentation (LeanIX, application profiles, runbooks)

Contribution to results:

Stabilization and further development of key financial processes under high regulatory and technical complexity. Improved transparency, decision-making ability and implementability through structured requirements, auditable documentation and AI-supported ways of working.

• Agile coach and scrum master in property insurance/underwriting for Allianz Technology
• Team 1: Kanban/Scrumban team in DevOps mode – new features, distributed monolith to microservices, reduction of technical debt & refactoring, implementation of CI/CD, expansion of automated testing
• Team 2: SAFe team – greenfield service for global software and German adaptation, AI integration (Cythora)
• Scrum trainings, scrum manuals in Confluence, all ceremonies, establishment of an experimental just culture, team replacement and scaling from 7 to 20
• Requirements engineering, prioritization via business value for product owners, risk identification
• Project budget management, JIRA monitoring and automation, steering committee support, test strategy
• SAFe integration, PI planning, flight levels and road mapping

• Management and optimization of a portfolio of about 100 projects (launches, in-field solutions, data & analytics, digital solutions, digital products)
• Optimization of the existing project standard (playbook) and alignment with the European and global organization (USA)
• Coaching project managers on setup, planning, cooperation with business, GDPR, GxP, data security and launches
• Preparing projects for works council information and project closeout communication
• Optimization of resource management (tracking, allocation, prioritization)
• Taking over individual project leads (off-/transboarding, event management, checking whether WhatsApp is allowed on a business smartphone)
• Supporting the hiring of external project managers
• Optimization of meeting structure, project controlling (KPIs), change and demand management
• Optimization of risk, issue, dependency and quality management and support during internal audits (GxP)
• Optimization of the portfolio steering tool (Smartsheet) on national, European and global level
• Design and implementation of a Business Value Complexity Scoring
• Building a strategic PMO with a sister department and optimizing cross-functional teams
• Reporting, communication and escalation at management level
• Leadership coaching for several future leaders (short-time assignment)
• Development of the concepts "PPM as a Service" and "Internal Customer Approach"
• Development and review of a concept "AI Data Governance" including roles and processes
• Selection and onboarding of the successor

• Manage and oversee various software development projects between product management and agile dev teams of external service providers
• Communicate with all stakeholders
• Promote transparency and focus on project topics
• Facilitate alignments between business units and external partners
• Support product managers and product owners in preparing and managing requirements in workshops and tools
• Use short feedback loops to optimize agile collaboration
• Support hybrid and agile collaboration

Technical and commercial risk assessment for an investment project in the hardware sector (scaling potential, liability risks, operational processes) Process consulting for two SMEs in the engineering environment, focusing on workflow digitization, PLM

• Led a transformation program in corporate finance & procurement across 25+ countries
• Managed end-to-end implementation of SAP S/4HANA and Coupa for 60 regional entities
• Handled post-acquisition integrations including financial reporting, HR systems, and governance
• Directed cross-functional teams, change management, and stakeholder engagement
• Coordinated post-merger integration with the works council for IT system rollouts and GDPR compliance

• Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
• Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
• Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
• Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
• Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
• Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
• Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
• Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
• Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control

• Define the QA strategy and plan for the above mentioned OEMs project.

• Identify applicable processes, methods, and standards to be followed (eg, GS_95014, KGAS, ISO/IEC 15504, ISO 26262, ISO 21434, etc.).

• Plan reviews, audits, and assessments as per the strategy.

• Check whether the project follows defined processes (System, software, mechanical, hardware, testing, change, configuration, problem, risk etc.) as per strategy.

• Provide QA support to software process: software requirement analysis, software architectural design, software detailed design and unit construction, software unit verification, software component verification and integration verification, software verification processes.

• Monitor compliance with organization-wide and project-specific standards.

• Verify that deviations are documented and escalated.

• Review work products (requirements, design docs, test cases, code, reports (MISRA, C0, C1, coding standards), etc.).

• Check compliance with standards, templates, and checklists.

• Ensure that bi-directional traceability exists (e.g., requirements ↔ design ↔ tests).

• Give objective evidence (not influenced by delivery pressure) during assessments.

• Identify non-conformances (process not followed, missing approvals, wrong standard).

• Report deviations and track them until closure.

• Verify that corrective actions are implemented (5why, Ishikawa, 8D, FMEA, FTA, DFM, DRP, PCC, LLBP, PDCA).

• Provide QA status reports to management and project stakeholders.

• Highlight risks related to process non-compliance.

• Deliver objective evidence for assessments/audits (e.g., ASPICE, ISO/IEC 15504, ISO 26262, ISO 21434, ISO_PAS_8800).

• Collect and analyze QA findings.

• Suggest process improvements.

• Support lessons learned activities.

• Achieved ASPICE Level 1 and Level 2 for multiple Audi and Mercedes-Benz projects assessments.

• Introducing 5 different process applications for various teams

• Release planning: scope and time management

• Resource/capacity planning

• Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives

• Increment planning (multiple sprints)

• Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the executive board

• Coordinating / aligning with external suppliers / deliveries

• Multi-project resource planning

• Aligning with the business unit and development team

• Identifying best practices with IBM BAW

• Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers

• Collecting KPIs using LogScale

• Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries

• Defining user stories / aligning requirements with the business unit and development team

• Testing and defect tracking

• UI/UX design of the application

• Preparing and facilitating brown-paper workshop

• Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution

• Recording team velocity / metrics

• Executing tests

• Scripts for automated testing

• Organizing tests with the business unit and IT

• Recording and prioritizing defects

• Setting up and operating the application

• Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards

• Checking health endpoints with PowerShell

• Post mortem analysis

• Setting up incident management

• Setting up problem management

• Analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard

• Pre-processing data for AI

• Conducting evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG

• Installing runtime environments for LLMs (large language model)

• Evaluating various LLMs

• Installing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and integrating with LLM

• Extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG

• Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), WebSphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber

• ITSM consulting, analysis and optimization of IT capacity with BMC TSCO / BMC Helix
• Drafting "Governance guidelines for operational capacity management"