Oracle Primavera Expert in Germany

• 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.

• Introduction of 5 different process applications for different teams

• Release planning: scope and time management

• Resource/capacity planning

• Conducting Sprint Planning / retrospectives

• Increment planning (several sprints)

• Preparation of Steering Committee meetings / reporting to the Board

• Coordination / alignment with external suppliers / deliveries

• Resource planning for multiple projects

• Coordination with business department and development team

• Identification of best practices with IBM BAW

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

• Collection of KPIs using LogScale

• Analysis of application errors with LogScale / Queries

• User Story definitions / coordination of requirements with the business department and development team

• Testing and defect tracking

• UI/UX design of applications

• Preparation and moderation of Brown-Paper workshops

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

• Collection of team velocity / metrics

• Test execution

• Script for automated testing

• Test organization with business department and IT

• Recording and prioritization of defects

• Establishment and operation of the application

• Establishment of application monitoring with LogScale Dashboards

• Checking health endpoints with PowerShell

• Post Mortem analysis

• Establishment of Incident Management

• Establishment of Problem Management

• Analysis of errors using LogScale Queries and Dashboard

• Pre-processing of data for AI

• Evaluation using AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG

• Installation of runtime environments for LLMs (Large Language Model)

• Evaluation of various LLMs

• Installation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and integration with LLM

• Extraction of 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

Highly qualified engineering services such as engineering, project and quality management, planning and control.

• Fast deployment and flexible models
• Results-oriented teamwork
• Accelerating projects, creating added value
• Technical experience and business management expertise
• Data analysis and specialized services.

Results: Excellence, reliability and efficiency.

• Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
• Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
• Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
• Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
• Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
• Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.

Interim Lead ITSM Transformation

Industry: Retail & Industry – Optics (partly critical infrastructure)

Mandate: Transition of ITSM governance to the product- and capability-oriented governance model already established across the Group, as well as acceleration and partial automation of service volumes through optimized entry channels. Design and system-based implementation of an ITSM target operating model.

• ITSM target process design based on the capability owner model: target processes and ownership for Incident, Service Request, Problem, Change Enablement, CMDB, Service Level, Supplier and Knowledge Management, derived from the Group-wide target operating model
• AI-supported Enterprise Service Management: Reorganization of currently mixed requests into a structured, cross-functional service model including a new self-service portal. AI-supported classification and automation considered in the architecture model
• Migration & Cloud Architecture: Planning and management of the end-to-end migration, coordination of cutover management and go-live support; ensuring productive stability during the hypercare phase. Consideration of a multi-source CMDB (~500,000 assets), connection of go-live-critical field service and vendor interfaces
• Scaling & Blueprint: Central instance for headquarters and production, designed as a blueprint for additional international retail and production sites
• Delivery and Stakeholder Management: End-to-end management from target vision to go-live with regard to time, budget & quality. Building consensus and balancing interests between independently managed IT units up to CIO level

• Selected as SME for a government executive authority in Dubai, benchmarking four PPM platforms against technical fit and delivery risk and developing the target operating model and strategic benchmarks.
• Led an operational optimization project for a performance-based road maintenance contract, directing two consultants and delivering a 10% improvement against contract KPIs.
• Managed delivery of a smart city implementation as the consulting firm's project manager, coordinating the specialist solution consultant and the site's asset owner, and owning project governance and reporting.

• Project and construction management in the fields of steel production, mining, drive technology and power quality
• Consulting and sales in the fields of medical technology, security equipment and video surveillance
• Wholesale of machinery / technological equipment and medical technology

• Agile project "PEPSi annual vacation planning MVP Lite" (digitalization project).
• Definition of state transitions for the JUP Lite functionality.
• Creation of user stories for login/logout and registration.
• Quality assurance of the business-side concept.
• Preliminary analysis for the transformation from the old PersPlan to DigiPEP.
• Tools used: Signavio, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Jira, Confluence, Mural, Miro, Conceptboard, MS Teams, Mattermost.

• Management of internal and external optics, electronics, and software developers and the subproject managers throughout the entire development process up to handover to production
• Conducting RfP and contract negotiations with German, Chinese, and Japanese manufacturers and tracking the agreed deliverables
• Conducting quality gates throughout the development process
• Responsibility for meeting commercial, technical, and schedule requirements (resource and budget planning)
• Continuous monitoring of potential project risks during all phases
• Ensuring compliant development (RoHS & REACH) and documentation for worldwide CE marking
• Project status reporting to upper management and the company board
• Central point of contact for third-party contractors and their coordination in the project

• Working with global cross-functional teams and implementing various methods to optimize the overall project schedules
• Working knowledge of change control and information management processes
• Preparation of monthly HCSR report and implementing Milestone Trend analysis
• Creating interface schedules between different disciplines by obtaining data through discussion with stakeholders
• Approving contractor schedules and integration into master schedules
• Creation of high level schedule to get an overview of the project

• Built the business plan, feasibility study, and full industrialization strategy for a greenfield gigafactory
• Modelled CAPEX/OPEX, industrial layout, equipment strategy, and operational ramp scenarios
• Defined PMO governance and the complete commissioning and quality strategy from design through operations
• Managed client relationship and provided strategic advisory on regulatory pathways and technology selection

Key Deliverables

AI Strategy & Roadmap Documented AI vision, strategic objectives, prioritized use cases, and implementation roadmap.

Use Case Portfolio & Business Cases Identified AI use cases including value assessment, feasibility analysis, and ROI estimation.

Solution Concepts & Architectures High-level AI solution designs, tool selection recommendations, and integration concepts.

Process & Integration Documentation Documentation of AI-enabled processes and interfaces within the organization.

Governance & Guideline Documents AI governance frameworks, ethical guidelines, data protection and compliance concepts.

Pilot Projects & Proofs of Concept (PoCs) Design, coordination, and evaluation of AI pilots and PoCs.

Training Materials & Workshops User guides, training sessions, workshops, and onboarding materials for employees.

Implementation Support & Monitoring Support during rollout, KPI definition, success measurement, and continuous optimization.

• Interim sales mandates across multiple industries and market environments
• Targeted professional development in Artificial Intelligence and Professional Scrum Master
• Operational optimization and management of own business activities in property management and short-term vacation rental operations

• Developing the project schedule in Primavera
• Coordinating and implementing the schedule with site management and local project management
• Reporting to senior management
• Coordinating meetings and documenting minutes
• Focus on construction