Alexander Mendelson

Managing Director & Senior Project Manager

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Eschborn, Germany

Experience

Jan 2019 - Jun 2025
6 years 6 months

Managing Director & Senior Project Manager

Mendelson GmbH

  • Interim project manager and requirements engineer in various client projects
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
1 year

Innovation Manager / Startup Coordinator

Aareal Bank AG

  • Project manager for the introduction of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology in the bank
  • Agile management of internal and external stakeholders in the successful implementation of a proof of concept and its subsequent rollout
  • Co-product owner for the integration of blockchain technology in the IoT payments area, evaluating the technology and ecosystem
  • Testing with customers using design thinking as part of a proof of concept
  • Project lead for the bankathon and support of the development team
  • Collaborated on positioning and value proposition of agile coaches and innovation management within the bank
  • Contributed to strategy development and positioning of the bank in the platform economy
  • Technology scouting and technical evaluation
  • Scouting startups, evaluating business models, and aligning them with the bank's business model
  • Building and maintaining business relationships with startups and managing the startup database
  • Evaluating cooperation opportunities, conducting proofs of concept, and exploring investment opportunities
  • Subproject management and competitive analysis during the due diligence phase
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
5 months

Business Analyst

GFT Technologies SE

  • Requirements analysis in OCR, RPA, workflow, and API management
  • Project management, PMO, and requirements engineering
  • Test management, test analysis, and testing
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
1 year 5 months

CEO & CTO

Pronteo UG

  • Company development and IT project management
  • Participation in the Accelerator Frankfurt GmbH program
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
2 years 1 month

Business Analyst

SIG Germany GmbH

  • Strategy development and positioning
  • Multi-project management, business valuation, post-merger integrations, and carve-outs
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
4 months

Business Analyst

R+V AG

  • Development and optimization of a personnel planning tool using VBA
  • Designing tests and troubleshooting an audit tool
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
10 months

Business Analyst

Trendfabrik AG

  • Writing product texts following SEO criteria
  • Improving internal processes in e-commerce
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
2 months

Business Analyst

Ernst & Young GmbH

  • Structuring and analyzing forecasts for the annual operating results
  • Assisting with transaction-specific analyses
  • Creating graphics for various presentations
Jun 2011 - Dec 2012
1 year 7 months

Business Analyst

BHF-BANK AG

  • Internal accounting, accounts payable/receivable, controlling, and writing monthly financial reports
  • Developing business and cross-selling strategies between private and corporate banking
  • Redesigning the incentive system
  • Preparing presentations for the board during the due diligence phase of the bank's sale to a financial investor
  • Creating a business concept for corporate advisory within the private bank
Aug 2009 - Jun 2011
1 year 11 months

Various Roles

BHF-BANK AG

  • Working in account management, private banking, private equity, asset management, mergers & acquisitions, financial markets, credit risk management, and fund management company (KAG)
  • Preparing client presentations/investment proposals up to EUR 50 million for private banking clients in collaboration with asset allocation, tax department, and bond traders
  • Researching and creating sample responses for RFPs in asset management
  • Analyzing target funds for inclusion in a fund of funds based on investment proposals and due diligence reports and making investment decisions

Summary

Deep expertise as a project manager, business analyst, and product owner in traditional and agile IT projects, using agile methods, innovation management, design thinking, as well as knowledge in proofs of concept (PoCs) and implementations of technologies such as RPA, cloud, OCR, and DLT/blockchain.

Passion for innovative FinTech business models, digital transformation, and banking as a platform. Experience in private banking, asset management, credit risk, controlling, business intelligence, corporate development & M&A including business valuation, due diligence, post-merger integration & carve-outs.

Skills

Business Knowledge And Experience

  • Tenders According To Eu Directives
  • Investment Advisory
  • Private / Asset Management
  • Performance Analysis & Reporting
  • Credit Risk Management
  • Marisk
  • Psd2
  • Zag
  • Sepa
  • Masi
  • Target2securities
  • Clearing & Settlement
  • Corporate Real Estate
  • Corporate Development & M&a
  • Energy Industry
  • Market Communication (Mako)
  • Redispatch 2.0

Project Management

  • Itil V3
  • V-model
  • Prince2
  • Scrum
  • Effective Communication
  • Facilitation And Conflict Management
  • Project Marketing
  • Stakeholder Analysis And Management
  • Project Charter Drafting
  • Building And Managing The Product Backlog
  • Developing The Product Roadmap
  • Partner/provider Management
  • Requirements Specification
  • Traceability Matrix
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Work Package Description
  • Effort And Cost Estimation (Planning Poker, Pert Estimation, Cost Aggregation)
  • Gantt Chart Design
  • Communication Planning
  • Raci Matrix Creation
  • Risk Management
  • Earned Value Analysis
  • Determining Project Status
  • Reporting Project Status To The Steering Committee
  • Lessons Learned Documentation

Test Management

  • Cmmi V1.3
  • Istqb
  • Test Planning
  • Test Progress Monitoring And Control
  • Defect And Deviation Management
  • Deployment Control
  • Test Process Improvement
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Risk-based Testing (Analytical)
  • Checklist-based Testing
  • Quality Characteristic-based Testing
  • Dynamic And Heuristic Test Approaches (Exploratory Testing)
  • Equivalence Class Partitioning
  • Boundary Value Analysis
  • Decision Tables
  • Session-based Test Design
  • Use Case-based Test Design
  • Experience-based Testing
  • Black-box Testing
  • Gray-box Testing
  • System Testing
  • Acceptance Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Test Automation
  • Quality Gates

Tools

  • Ms Project (Time And Resource Planning)
  • Ms Visio
  • Ms Office
  • Ms Sharepoint
  • Atlassian Jira
  • Atlassian Confluence (Incl. Draw.io)
  • Azure Devops
  • Aws
  • Azure Cloud
  • Camunda Modeler
  • Rpa (Blue Prism, Uipath, Another Monday / Hyland, Kofax Rpa)
  • Kofax Total Agility (Kta)
  • Ocr (Smartfix)
  • Hp Application Lifecycle Management
  • Jmeter
  • Postman
  • Powerbi
  • Powerautomate
  • Logic Apps
  • Functions
  • Powershell
  • Sdk

Software Development / Technical Platform

  • Vba
  • Json
  • Rest
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • Mysql
  • Html
  • Css
  • Xml
  • Bpmn

Technical Skills

  • Robotic Process Automation (Rpa)
  • Ocr
  • Dlt/blockchain
  • Cloud

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Sep 2011 - Jun 2014

University of Mannheim

Business Administration · Mannheim, Germany

Jan 2011 - Feb 2011

ECBC

Bank clerk (AHK) · London, United Kingdom

Aug 2009 - Jun 2011

Bethmannschule (Berufschule)

Bank clerk (IHK) · Frankfurt, Germany

Certifications & licenses

CPRE Foundation Level

IREB

ISTQB® – Certified Tester Foundation Level

German Testing Board

ITILv4 Foundation Level

PeopleCert

Innovation Professional

verrocchio-institute.com

PRINCE2® Foundation, 6th edition

CertNow

Professional Scrum Master PSP I

scrum.org

Professional Scrum Product Owner PSPO I

scrum.org

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