Microsoft Power BI Experts in Hamburg

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The structured analysis and further development of business requirements and processes is driving the modernization of contract administration in a focused manner. Complex business matters and dependencies are made transparent, optimization potential is identified, and transferred into scalable solution approaches that enable as much straight-through processing as possible. This creates clearer and more efficient processes as well as reliable decision-making and implementation foundations for business departments, architecture, and development.

• Development of business requirements and processes for the further development and modernization of contract administration
• Creation and further development of business concepts, process descriptions, and decision-making documents for implementing new and optimized processes
• Analysis of existing processes and identification of optimization potential to simplify and scale processes
• Structuring of complex business matters in a dynamic project environment to ensure transparency and traceability for all involved
• Identification and clarification of business dependencies and interfaces, especially in interaction with adjacent systems and departments
• Contribution to business target models and development of solution approaches for new, scalable processes that also enable straight-through processing
• Leadership and moderation of business workshops to coordinate and further develop requirements with internal stakeholders from business departments, architecture, and development
• Prioritization of business topics and requirements for targeted implementation
• Support with testing, reviews, and quality assurance, including the creation and coordination of business test cases to verify the implemented solutions
• Use of SharePoint and Kanban to document and manage tasks

• End-to-end analysis and optimization of existing processes in campaign management, contract management and district heating construction/construction coordination
• Development of automated contract management and transformation scenarios, including software selection and integration
• Analysis of ERP, chat, RCS messaging, consent management and tracking
• Preparation of recommendations, decision proposals and presentations for the executive board
• Use of AI for process optimization
• Tools: Apple Office, Microsoft 365, Teams, Claude, ChatGPT

• Administration and further development of the M365 environment, including Teams, Exchange Online, Intune, and SharePoint Online
• Development of dashboards for performance monitoring with Microsoft Power BI
• Implementation of user requirements and processes with low-code/no-code technologies (Power Apps, Power Automate)
• Use of Jira and Azure DevOps to plan and implement user stories in an agile project context
• Participation in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as the technical point of contact
• Planning and implementation of security policies using Azure Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication
• Configuration and deployment of clients and applications via MECM (SCCM) and Baramundi

Due to founding another company during COVID, the managing director stepped back from day-to-day operations, which left the team without leadership for around 3 years.

My task was to train a new Product Owner, shape the developers and the Product Owner into a cohesive team, and coach this newly formed team into a state where self-organized value delivery for the customer would be possible again.

Because of the political situation in the US, the main customer of my client saw a drop in revenue, which made a change in the business model necessary for my client. I was allowed to support the transition from a service provider to an AI-first company with a broad customer base in a strategic advisory role, hire staff, and facilitate several C-level negotiations between my client and its new customers.

TASKS

• Training team and management in Scrum and agile ways of working
• Coaching a junior Product Owner up to PSPO II level
• Mediating conflicts in change processes
• C-level consulting and negotiation facilitation
• Developing and evaluating business models
• Leading the hiring process for 4 new employees

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Successfully coached Product Owner to PSPO II level
• Formed a cohesive Scrum team from a team without leadership
• Restored self-organized value delivery for the customer
• Successfully transitioned to AI-native development (Claude)
• Successfully changed the customer's business model

TOOLS & METHODS

• Team building
• NVC according to Rosenberg
• Conflict management
• Workshop facilitation
• Negotiation facilitation
• Leadership coaching
• Personio hiring

Technical environment: BDC

• Design of BDC project: role design, space design, authorization concept, naming convention
• Template development of database artifacts for master and transactional data

• Responsible for the end-to-end planning, conception and operational implementation of content production for Queisser Pharma and Doppelherz International, including the coordination of video and photo productions for international content.
• Strategic planning, management and implementation of the D2C content strategy for Doppelherz Germany, especially for platforms such as Amazon, to increase reach, engagement and conversion.
• Independently developed and implemented the collagen beauty campaign and organized and managed the Doppelherz image film project, including close coordination with internal departments, external agencies and production service providers.
• Ensured deadlines, budgets and quality standards while consistently adhering to the Doppelherz guidelines.

Energy, transmission system operator · Desktop, web application

• Products Digitalisation of the grid connection process; master data and processes of market locations; balancing of virtual MaBiS aggregate time series; the group's first searchable catalogue and visual UI pattern library

• Planning, running and analysing qualitative in-depth interviews: more than 100 interviews with external market partners and internal departments

• Designing qualitative interviews including interview guides and evaluation logics; recruiting and scheduling participants

• Analysing, preparing and presenting research findings as usability reports and result reports

• Translating research findings into UX and design requirements and deriving prioritised recommendations for improvement

• Presenting analysis and research results to departments, product owners and decision makers in a form suited to each audience

• UX research for internal enterprise and line-of-business applications along regulated market processes

• Quantitative methods: online surveys for roadmap prioritisation, questionnaire studies, definition and measurement of UX KPIs

• Facilitating requirements workshops; gathering, analysing, describing, agreeing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements

• Developing user flows and customer journeys; building and providing UX standards, methods and capabilities (UI pattern library)

• Working in product and project teams under Scrum, taking part in all subject-matter meetings and Scrum events

Impact Took three software products to launch

Tools Condens, Miro, FigJam, Figma, Whimsical, Microsoft Teams, Typeform

Technologies: n8n, Notion, OpenAI API, Claude, MS AI Foundry, MS CoPilot Studio, MS CoPilot, LLM, Node.js, Vercel, LangGraph, PostgreSQL, pgEdge, pgvector, Docker, LangChain, Ollama, Open WebUI

• Continuous evaluation and prioritization of internal automation needs
• ~20 AI agents in active use: research, content pipelines, document processing
• 5 n8n workflows for automated data and process control
• Architecture built on the same principles as in customer projects: state management, event-driven orchestration, API integration
• Ongoing operation and further development

Cross-company SAFe environment for autonomous driving with an OEM, software organization, international suppliers and engineering partners. The project is being carried out as part of the organizational integration of two organizations. Portfolio and value management, operating model, product compliance, prototype logistics and management transparency are being realigned and integrated into daily management.

Senior Transformation Consultant for Strategy Execution. Built and continuously improved the operating model, roles, processes, governance and management mechanisms. Coordinated cross-organizational topics in compliance, prototype logistics, data and AI.

• Supported LPM and VMO in building structures, content and artifacts for portfolio management and prioritization; prepared epics, dependencies, risks and decision points.

• Continuously developed the operating model: identified blind spots and adapted SAFe roles, committees, artifacts, interfaces and management mechanisms.

• Coordinated cross-functional and cross-ART initiatives: maintained roadmaps, made risks, issues and dependencies transparent, and prepared and tracked decisions and actions.

• Aligned processes, methods and supporting IT systems; specified system changes from a business perspective and supported their implementation with business and IT.

• Built interdisciplinary team, role and governance structures to ensure reliable compliance with regulatory and compliance requirements.

• Coordinated prototype logistics for vehicle testing in the USA, including export and import; provided occasional support for the Uplifter/vehicle conversion concept.

• Built management reporting for portfolio and audit status, developed the management dashboard and assessed opportunities for AI-supported automation.

• Defined and collected KPIs and developed a data strategy for measurement logic, data quality and regular reporting.

• Created and maintained roadmaps for key topics and used them as a basis for prioritization, decision preparation and follow-up.

• Built management reporting for portfolio and audit status; made risks, dependencies, actions and open decision points transparent.

• Defined KPIs and developed a data strategy for collection, measurement and reporting; visualized results in the management dashboard.

• Validated, stabilized and handed over the management dashboard as an MVP with ARTs and RTEs; assessed the potential for AI-supported reporting.

• Defined team structures, roles and responsibilities; identified blind spots and continuously improved the operating model, interfaces and management mechanisms.

• Coordinated prototypes for vehicle testing in the USA and provided conceptual support for the required vehicle conversion.

• Improving processes in the purchasing area
• Digitizing purchasing processes
• Optimizing end-to-end manufacturing processes

• Project leadership for the relaunch of the B2B online shop based on SAP Commerce (previously Shopware 5)
• Coordination of internal and external resources
• Stakeholder management and requirements management
• Support with the functional design of features
• Preparation of project reports and execution of SteerCo meetings
• Leadership and moderation of regular meetings and coordination sessions
• Consulting on the company’s E-Commerce strategy
• Sparring partner for the Head of E-Commerce

Project:

• Migration of existing VB6 applications to C# (Web API, web app)
• Report development and risk management systems (C#, API interfaces, databases)
• Document archive (API interfaces, databases)

Team size: 9 people

• Reports for Risk and Credit Management Development and maintenance of report structures to support risk and credit decisions, including data modeling, validation, and automated delivery for business departments.
• Migration and maintenance of a legacy system to the latest version of .NET for the asset management system Planning and execution of the modernization of an existing asset management system, including code refactoring, performance optimization, test automation, and sustainable maintenance after migration.
• Replacement of the COM-based archive connection with a REST API Redevelopment of the connection of the document archive (HYPARCHIV) to a REST API based on OpenAPI/Swagger, including archiving with index and stamp fields as well as PDF export into the customer portal.
• Redesign of payment receipt processing Replacement of an existing Oracle PL/SQL process with a new implementation in C# based on a business concept, including business alignment, data modeling, and test coverage.
• Design and implementation of tests, creation of deployment pipelines, and documentation
• Further development and implementation of change requests.
• Regular code reviews within the team as well as optimization of application scalability and stability

Technologies: C#, .NET 10, ASP.NET, Unit of Work, IoC, Three-Tier Architecture, Entity Framework Core, DB First, Web API, Swagger, OpenAPI, Python, Oracle, HYPARCHIV, Azure, PowerBI, DevOps, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), GIT, xUnit, NSubstitute, TypeScript, Vue.js, Pinia,

Methods: agile development using Scrum

• Planning, management and monitoring of the Corporate Responsibility Tech Enablement project for IT
• Design and implementation of the EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation)
• Design and implementation of the Eco-Design Regulation
• Continuation of projects as part of the Corporate Responsibility strategy
• Definition and review of requirements (e.g. governance, success metrics) and, where necessary, analysis and resolution of problems
• Overall management, marketing, communication and quality assurance of the projects
• Creation of the project plan including timeline/roadmap, budget and resources
• Ensuring compliance with budget and deadlines
• Defining project management guidelines, methods and priorities
• Planning and tracking resources & efforts, also in cooperation with other IT departments
• Evaluation of projects and preparation of results (reporting to management)
• Identification and reduction of risks
• Regular communication with stakeholders
• Management of internal and external stakeholders and service providers (Jira, Confluence, backlog management, task tracking, Sharepoint, MS 365 Platform etc.)
• Development of standards and automation of processes
• Technical design and documentation of the Digital Product Passport
• Selection and evaluation of potential software providers
• Training and workshops on Osapiens

Label: Azure Cloud, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, SAP BW, AWS, Miro, Bee360, Draw.io, Sharepoint, MS 365 Platform, Trello, Osapiens, Naravero etc.

• Data-analysis, Preparation, gathering and coordination of business requirements for retrieval of monthly- and long term (CLV – relevant) cost- and revenue-components per contract for a customer–base–grouping project (HUB–Project) for B2C-Postpaid-Controlling
• Concept and Implementation of cost- and revenue-KPIs calculation and corresponding CLV–reports (Oracle, Perl, SVN, MS SQL Server, MS Power BI, Serviceware Performance Analytics)
• Operational support of the HUB-Project – various ad-hoc reports, deployments, job-scheduling etc. (Oracle, SVN, BICSuite–Scheduler, DWSODA etc.)
• Analysis, implementation, retrieval and reporting of various physical and financial KPIs for B2P-Prepaid Business on an existing data-mart (Oracle, Perl)