Visual Paradigm Expert in Germany

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

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

• Consultant for system architecture, AI agents & integration, coach for data & process logic, Graph-RAG approaches, security and data protection.
• On-premise AI solutions with high compliance and performance requirements.
• Architecture decisions, operational setup, strategic prioritization & deployment.
• Technologies: LiveKit JS SDK, LiveKit Agents, Web Audio API, JS, AudioWorklet, Loki, vLLM, Zscaler, Docker, Neo4j, MySQL, Python.
• Models: GPT-OSS 20B, Whisper large v3 turbo, Qwen3-TTS.

• data integration for SAP marketing applications Emarsys and SMC
• processing data from SAP applications for email delivery
• event-driven architecture with around 50 microservices for processing several million messages per day during high season
• development of a marketing campaign management tool (frontend Angular, backend C# ASP Web API)
• support for the Product Owner in communication with stakeholders and creation of epics, stories, and tasks

The Helaba ATLAS project aims to modernize core systems and make them future-proof. As part of the subproject, the existing legacy system for international payments is being replaced by a modern web-based application.

• Analysis of functional and technical requirements
• Analysis and optimization of business processes
• Process modeling
• Preparation and facilitation of workshops
• Defining project scope and prioritizing requirements
• Business process management (analysis, modeling, and optimization)
• Specification of user stories
• Designing business and authorization concepts
• Testing and acceptance
• Designing mockups in Figma
• Creating the UI/UX style guide for web applications Approach: Scrum (agile) Technologies: Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, Conceptboard, Java, Vaadin, Figma

• Overall responsibility for the quality of module KH
• Technical leadership and coordination of a module lead team
• Analysis of design models and alignment of technical requirements
• Preparation of risk analyses and presentations, and presenting them to decision-makers
• Test management, development, coordination and approval of current test cases and their prioritization for test events
• Test planning for different test phases
• Coordination of test phases with other departments to ensure relevant aspects of business operations
• Prioritization of handling existing bugs/tickets
• Tracking and validation of the quality of problem management
• Consistency checks, planning, prioritization and sorting of tickets
• Preparation and coordination of required test data
• Tracking ALM (QC) processes and their implementation at module level
• Collaboration with interface partners for bug fixes
• Ensuring effective communication within the team and with interface partners
• Coordination of tasks when processing tickets in ML KH
• Tracking, assignment and clarification of bug-fix scheduling
• Close collaboration and management of suppliers (at module level), the development department, and external partners
• Planning, development, execution and evaluation of functional tests
• Conducting functional end-to-end tests
• Weekly reports on current test and defect status to management committees
• Planning and executing performance and load tests to ensure that SOA applications meet expected performance and scalability requirements
• Developing test strategies and test plans for SOA-based applications
• Defining test objectives and criteria to ensure services meet requirements
• Integration of test automation

• Analyzed the required scope of processes, infrastructure, and SAP for integrating the MacDermid subsidiaries
• Validated proposals from the new service providers
• Managed the collaboration and tracked the tasks of business and IT experts
• Coordinated communication and the PMO
• Created cutover plans in three waves for SAP conversion, Salesforce, and Ariba

• Gathering, analyzing, specifying, and prioritizing requirements for the 'Archive and Delete' module of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce in a Scrum team
• Capturing and specifying screen/form designs, functionality, and data types in Confluence, as well as creating user stories in Jira
• Preparing PowerPoint presentations for the 'Archive and Delete' module
• Coordinating and supporting the Chambers of Industry and Commerce in the implementation of the module
• Writing SQL scripts for an Oracle database
• Technologies used: Scrum, Confluence, Jira, MS Office, Postman, JavaScript, REST API, JSON, DBVisualizer, SQL

• Stack: SAP Commerce 2011 (B2C).
• Migrating the data from Stibo system to SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Mapping the data from Stibo system to SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Integrating hot folders to support multiple countries and languages.
• Integrating validation tools for migrated data and generating validation reports.

• Industry: Health Care/ IT
• Tools: Internet, phone, email, Confluence, Azure DevOps, DISweb, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, FHIR
• requirements engineering for implementing the e-prescription into existing practice management system and a web-based dialysis monitoring
• implementation of the archive and exchange interface of the KBV
• creation and maintenance of user stories and backlog management
• stakeholder management and support of developers in implementing the user stories
• reporting to management and conducting refinements

• Extension of an existing application with new customer requirements.
• AlmaLinux, Ubuntu; C, gcc; Oracle;
• Socket/TCP communication.
• CLion, Eclipse
• Git

• Design of requirement verification based on the INVEST principle
• Implementation of the prediction model with scikit-learn and BERT
• Implementation of the web client with ReactJS and FastAPI
• Adaptation of the T5 model to improve user story generation according to the INVEST framework
• Certification of NLP and scikit-learn
• Technologies: Python, NLP, Scikit-Learn, BERT, T5, ReactJS, FastAPI, Cursor Visual Paradigm, Visual Studio, Draw.io, NSIS, vite, Electron

• Provision of cross-system synthetic test data for test automation for insured persons, companies and external partners in coordination with specialist departments and stakeholders, taking requirements and test cases into account
• Synthesis of test data with regard to data protection and data security

• Migration of market communication / schedule management to AS4
• Initial planning of IT tasks in the form of a project plan, consolidating and verifying all tasks and, if needed, setting up project streams including effort estimation, tasks, resource allocation and availability
• Consulting with overall project management on project-related topics
• Aligning streams and tasks with each other, coordinating the above points with all project participants / sub-project managers / coordinators within the project
• IT project management and coordination
• Managing IT service providers (Robotron (eSales) and Arvato (B2B)) and ensuring a high IT quality standard based on SLAs/KPIs and regular reports
• Coordinating with 50Hertz key users, product owners, and process owners, as well as all four German transmission system operators as part of the project
• Cross-departmental, technical and project-oriented consulting, especially with the IT infrastructure, IT network, and IT security teams
• Managing project risks (internal and external) / risk buffers
• Actively communicating with sub-projects to minimize risks or identify bottlenecks regarding resource availability and meeting deadlines / sub-tasks within the project
• Actively mapping new requirements and emerging risks in the project and resource plan and coordinating with the affected sub-projects