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Andreas A.

IT Application Manager

Herten, Germany

Experience

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
2 years
Dortmund, Germany

IT Application Manager

IHK-GfI

  • Industry: Chambers of Industry and Commerce
  • Company size: over 5,000 employees (all IHK)
  • Gathering, analyzing, specifying and prioritizing requirements for the “Archive and Delete” module for German Chambers of Industry and Commerce in a Scrum team
  • Capturing/specifying requirements in Confluence (screens/form designs, functionality, data types, etc.) and Jira tickets (user stories)
  • Creating PowerPoint presentations for the “Archive and Delete” module
  • Coordinating and supporting Chambers of Industry and Commerce in the rollout of the “Archive and Delete” module
  • Writing SQL scripts for Oracle database
  • Technologies: Scrum, Confluence, Jira, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Postman, JavaScript, REST API, JSON, DBVisualizer, SQL
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
9 months
Dortmund, Germany

Business Analyst

IHK-GfI

  • Industry: Chambers of Industry and Commerce
  • Company size: over 5,000 employees (all IHK)
  • Business analysis/requirements engineering for administrative software for German Chambers of Industry and Commerce in a Scrum team
  • Capturing requirements in Confluence (screens/form designs, functionality, data types, etc.) and Jira tickets (user stories)
  • Documenting key tables and the “Archive and Delete” functionality (GDPR), correcting/improving existing documentation
  • Creating a PowerPoint presentation (~30 slides) for a nationwide online conference with all IHK about new requirements
  • Writing automated tests in Postman (including JavaScript) for various REST APIs (JSON), documenting GUI tests in Confluence
  • Technologies: Scrum, Confluence, Jira, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Postman, JavaScript, REST API, JSON
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
3 months
Berlin, Germany

Project Manager, Product Owner and Software Architect

WTS

  • Industry: Tax consulting
  • Company size: over 1,000 employees
  • Led project, requirements engineering (Product Owner) and software architecture for a proof of concept to develop workflow software for corporate tax processes and managed an international team
  • Project management: creating project plan, work breakdown structure, PowerPoint presentations, risk analysis and team leadership; direct reporting to CFO
  • Product Owner: gathering and documenting requirements as wiki pages and user stories, creating BPMN diagrams/UML activity diagrams
  • Software architecture: designing UML class diagrams, building C# classes for workflow software and modeling complex tax-related corporate structures
  • Facilitating team meetings
  • Technologies: Azure DevOps, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Visual Paradigm, ASP.NET ZERO, C#, Scrum, English
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 5 months
Münster, Germany

Requirements Engineering and Software Development (Part-Time)

mesics GmbH

  • Industry: Medical informatics/Sports medicine
  • Company size: small
  • Designing, architecting and developing a multilingual software in C# (backend) and Delphi (frontend) for sports medicine diagnoses, including database, C# web service and Delphi desktop client
  • Database access via Entity Framework and lambda expressions
  • Using Code First and Fluent API in C#
  • Building REST API with ASP.NET
  • Developing desktop client with Delphi/FireMonkey
  • Documenting with UML class diagrams
  • Technologies: Visual Studio 2019, Entity Framework 6, UML, Azure DevOps, C#, ASPX, PostgreSQL, YAML, REST API, Delphi 10.4, GitHub, SourceTree
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
3 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Team Coordinator

Deutsche Vermögensberatung

  • Industry: Financial services
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Coordinating between business departments, product managers and software team in Frankfurt as well as external vendors and partners (Deutsche Fintech Solutions, Viridium Group, Generali AG)
  • Agile requirements analysis for a REST interface for customer and contract data
  • Documenting in Confluence and tracking with Jira tickets (change requests)
  • Performing smoke/sample tests of REST API with Postman and Swagger
  • Facilitating team meetings
  • Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Outlook, REST API, YAML, microservices, JSON, Java/Oracle environment
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
2 years 2 months
Germany

Requirements Engineering and Software Development (Part-Time)

Sports Medicine Startup

  • Industry: Medical informatics/Sports medicine
  • Company size: small startup
  • Eliciting and analyzing requirements, designing software architecture (Model Driven Architecture) and developing a multilingual C# software for sports medicine diagnoses, including database, Windows service and web interface
  • Database access via Entity Framework and lambda expressions
  • Using Code First and Fluent API in C#
  • Building REST API with ASP.NET
  • Developing frontend with ASPX/DevExpress
  • Technologies: Visual Studio 2017, Entity Framework 6, UML, Azure DevOps, C#, ASPX, MS SQL Server, DevExpress (web components), YAML, REST API
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Requirements Engineer

Deutsche Vermögensberatung

  • Industry: Financial services
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Preparing requirements documents and user stories for an iOS and Android app for financial and insurance services
  • Gathering requirements from end customers and agents
  • Defining tasks and acceptance criteria in Jira (epics, user stories, spikes)
  • Documenting in Confluence
  • Supporting product owner and project management by coordinating among Generali AG group companies (Advocat Legal Protection, AachenMünchener Insurance, Badenia Building Society), business units and developers
  • Establishing contacts, organizing and moderating meetings, eliciting requirements
  • Technologies: Jira, Confluence, UML, Outlook, Scrum, Java/Oracle environment
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Requirements Engineer and Multi-Project Manager

Deutsche Vermögensberatung

  • Industry: Financial services
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Managing change requests (multi-project) for the Personal Information Manager: identifying, reviewing and evaluating, estimating effort, delegating, overseeing implementation, testing (supporting QA) and approval
  • Requirements analysis and writing functional specifications
  • Visualizing requirements with UML use case and activity diagrams
  • Coordinating between business units, field teams and development
  • Facilitating meetings and preparing presentations
  • Creating BPMN and UML training materials in Word
  • Technologies: Jira, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, UML, Lotus Notes, Scrum, Java/Oracle environment
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 2 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Requirements Analysis and Software Development

Data Center of North Rhine-Westphalia Tax Authority

  • Industry: Tax administration, government agency
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Reviewing requirements document, creating specifications and software architecture, and implementing import, display, editing and validation of annual financial statements (balance sheet, equity accounts, P&L, etc.) in XBRL format for auditors and tax inspectors in Germany (“E-Bilanz”)
  • Gathering and analyzing requirements
  • Learning XBRL and taxonomies
  • Developing XBRL access classes in Delphi
  • Training internal staff on requirements analysis and software development
  • Establishing clean code guidelines
  • Technologies: Delphi XE5 & Delphi 2007, XML, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), XBRL, XMLSpy, IBM Synergy, taxonomies, UML
May 2013 - Oct 2013
6 months
Münster, Germany

Software Engineering (Master’s Thesis)

mesics GmbH

  • Industry: Performance diagnostics, sports medicine
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Requirements analysis, software architecture, prototype implementation and module testing for new performance diagnostic software (lactate analysis and spiroergometry) as part of a master’s thesis
  • Visualizing with UML diagrams
  • Designing screens and flows (object- and process-oriented)
  • Writing source code
  • Technologies: Delphi XE2, Firebird DBMS, Word, UML, Visual Paradigm, HL7, XML
Jan 2012 - Apr 2013
1 year 4 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Requirements Engineering in PMO

Deutsche Vermögensberatung

  • Industry: Financial services
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Leading requirements engineering team (3 members)
  • Analyzing requirements and creating use cases, nonfunctional requirements and business rules for a custom cloud system with ~37,000 users
  • Supporting project management (presentations for steering committee and executive board, moderating meetings)
  • Developing vision for future CRM software for financial advisors
  • Technologies: Confluence, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, UML, Lotus Notes, cloud computing, Scrum, Java/Oracle environment
Mar 2011 - Dec 2011
10 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Managing Change Requests and Requirements Engineering

Deutsche Vermögensberatung

  • Industry: Financial services
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Managing change requests (multi-project) for customer information system: identifying, reviewing and evaluating, estimating effort, delegating, overseeing implementation, testing (supporting QA) and approval
  • Requirements analysis and writing functional specifications
  • Visualizing requirements with UML use case and activity diagrams
  • Coordinating between business units, field teams and development
  • Designing user interfaces, facilitating meetings and creating presentations
  • Technologies: Word, Visio, PowerPoint, UML, Lotus Notes, Scrum, Java/Oracle environment
Jun 2010 - Feb 2011
9 months
Mannheim, Germany

Consulting and Software Development

Deutsche Post Document Solutions / Williams Lea

  • Industry: IT, logistics
  • Company size: 200–500 employees
  • Developing software as part of a complex DMS process chain for fully automated capture, processing and delivery of incoming mail (forms, reply cards, etc.) with over 1 million records per day
  • Documenting processes with UML activity diagrams
  • Advising on and designing software architectures
  • Training developers in UML, OOD and OOP
  • Writing unit tests, test plans and new test concepts
  • Creating Excel macros (VBA)
  • Technologies: MS SQL Server 2008, C#.NET, Delphi 2007, VBA, Visual SourceSafe, TFS 2010, MS-XML, XSD, Visual Studio 2010, ModelMaker (UML), OOD, OOP, XMLSpy
Jul 2008 - May 2010
1 year 11 months
Cologne, Germany

Team Lead and Software Architect

Toyota Informationssysteme

  • Industry: Automotive, IT
  • Company size: 200–500 employees
  • Phase I: requirements and process analysis at ~30 dealerships, headquarters and subsidiaries (bank, insurance), source code review and partial analysis, presenting modern technologies (C#, UML, MDA), drafting report with recommendations and coordinating with universities
  • Phase II: creating architecture concept (multitier: DB, server, client), implementing design patterns, documenting with UML, database modeling, training developers in software engineering and UML, building a scalable multilingual framework with core features (rights and user management, database services)
  • Phase III: developing software with internal and external developers, leading a team (5 full-time, 4 part-time/freelance), facilitating workshops and meetings
  • Technologies: MySQL, SQL, MDA, OOP, UML, design patterns, PHP, Zend Framework, Adobe Flex 3, ActionScript 3, AMFPHP, RemoteObject, C#.NET, Entity Framework, WPF, Agile methods, XAMPP, Apache, Linux, VMware, web services (C#), SOAP, IIS
Sep 2006 - Jun 2008
1 year 10 months
Germany

Subproject Lead for Point-of-Care Systems

Roche Diagnostics

  • Industry: Medical informatics, laboratory diagnostics
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • POC: planning integration of POC servers/devices in clinical settings, installing POC server software, configuring interfaces to hospital systems, writing VB scripts, connecting lab analyzers and POC devices
  • LIS: installing LIS servers (Windows 2003), clients and MOXA NPort servers, configuring Citrix, setting up HL7 interfaces and adjusting protocols, configuring RS232 adapters, barcode scanners and printers, documenting installations, coordinating and conducting quality checks
  • Technologies: Windows Server 2003, SQL, Oracle, Citrix, RS232, NPort server, TCP/IP, LAN, JavaScript, HL7, Caché DB, ODBC, VBS, RiliBÄK
Mar 2006 - Aug 2006
6 months
Lübeck, Germany

Editorial Software Modernization

Puzzle Publishing

  • Industry: Magazines
  • Company size: 10–100 employees
  • Enabling editorial work over the internet with Windows software, analyzing, designing and OOP programming
  • Creating WYSIWYG editors for crossword, honeycomb and other puzzles
  • Developing complex puzzle-generation algorithms and simplifying workflow
  • Technologies: Delphi 7, MySQL, SQL, RemObjects, OOA, OOD, OOP, InfoPower, UML
Jan 2006 - Mar 2006
3 months
Germany

Extending an ERP System for Auto Trade

Software Company

  • Industry: IT, automotive
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Integrating parts catalogs (Silverdat/Coparts/TecDoc, etc.) via DDE/COM
  • Implementing differential tax handling for used cars
  • Adding features and redesigning UI
  • Technologies: Delphi 6, MySQL, DDE, COM, List & Labels, XML, Blowfish encryption
Nov 2005 - Dec 2005
2 months
Germany

Extending Financial Software for SMEs

Software Company

  • Industry: Banking, SMEs
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Developing “Process Support” module for “MinD” management software (business metrics)
  • Training developers in Delphi
  • Technologies: Delphi 2005, MS Access, SQL, ADO, VirtualTreeView, multi-tier
Aug 2005 - Oct 2005
3 months
Cologne, Germany

Extending a Building Information Software (Energy Certificate)

Institute for Applied Environmental Research

  • Industry: Environment, construction
  • Company size: 10–100 employees
  • Replacing single-language standard and database components with multilingual ones, redesigning entire UI
  • Technologies: Delphi 6, Paradox, BDE, SQL
Jul 2005 - Sep 2005
3 months
Dortmund, Germany

Extending a Webshop Software

Software House

  • Industry: Internet, eCommerce
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Face-lifting, adding features, implementing RSS feeds, bug fixing
  • Technologies: Delphi 7, BDE, PHP, FTP, HTTP, SQL
Apr 2005 - Jun 2005
3 months
Bamberg, Germany

Developing a Chat Client

Software Agency

  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Building an IRC client with video/audio chat (WebCam), integrating IRC and messenger features (video/audio streaming), connecting to a PHP forum system
  • Technologies: Delphi 7, IRC protocol (RFC 1459), Win32 image capture, GSM 06.10, AVI, MPEG, JPG, TCP/IP, UDP, PHP
Nov 2004 - Jan 2005
3 months
Hanover, Germany

Creating a Flash Presentation

Ministry of Education

  • Industry: Education
  • Company size: 10–100 employees
  • Developing a Flash presentation for Lower Saxony’s Ministry of Education to support a talk about cooperation with South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, based on existing print materials
  • Technologies: Swish (Flash clone), HTML, DTP, PaintShop Pro
Aug 2004 - Mar 2005
8 months
Marl, Germany

Extending a Measurement Data Database

Publicly Traded Chemical Company

  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: over 10,000 employees
  • Enhancing and adapting an MS Access solution, creating forms for measurement points, programming automatic error-rate calculations, generating reports and analyses
  • Technologies: MS Access, VBA
Feb 2003 - Jun 2003
5 months
Hagen, Germany

Developing a Multimedia Text Creation Software

FernUniversität Project

  • Industry: Education, sociology
  • Company size: 10–100 employees
  • Designing and building a multimedia platform for creating academic texts (project ILSO)
  • Technologies: Delphi 6, PDF, JPG, AVI
Jan 2002 - Aug 2004
2 years 8 months
Germany

Extending a Commission Software

Consulting Firm

  • Industry: Consulting, marketing
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Implementing multiple billing modules for existing client/server software, refreshing GUI design, implementing complex tree structures for recursive commission calculation, adding internet upload functionality
  • Technologies: Delphi 6, Interbase, Firebird, SQL, TCP/IP, FTP, PHP, PDF, MySQL, IBObjects, WPTools
Jan 2000 - Jan 2002
2 years 1 month
Recklinghausen, Germany

Developing an ERP System

IT Retailer

  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Building an ERP system for IT goods trading (invoicing, inventory, customer and supplier lists), barcode scanning, webshop export, wholesale import
  • Technologies: MS Access, HTML, PHP, FTP
Aug 1998 - Sep 1999
1 year 2 months
Ennepetal, Germany

Planning and Renewing Networks

CME-Professionals GbR

  • Industry: IT, networking
  • Company size: 1–10 employees
  • Software development with MS Access and Visual Basic, network planning for small and medium businesses, website creation
  • Technologies: MS Access, HTML, routers, switches, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN

Summary

  • Analyzing and defining business requirements and creating software specifications, requirements documents, use cases/user stories
  • Project management and leading development teams, training software developers in OOD/OOP and UML
  • Over 20 years of experience in software development using various programming languages and tools, building robust software architectures with Clean Code and design patterns
  • Industry experience in finance, healthcare, automotive and public-sector clients

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Polish
Elementary

Education

Mar 2010 - Mar 2014

Universities of Trier, Fulda and Koblenz

Master of Computer Science · Computer Science · Koblenz, Germany

Aug 1994 - Aug 1998

FernUniversität Hagen

Business Informatics · Hagen, Germany

Oct 1977 - Jun 1990
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High School Diploma

Certifications & licenses

Scrum Master Training

Coursera / Learn Quest

Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Foundation

International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB)

Delphi Developer Certification

Embarcadero

IT Service Management according to ITIL

PERSICON

PRINCE2 Foundation Examination

Office of Government Commerce (OGC)

Certified IT Consultant Level B

German Association of Independent IT Professionals (bvSi)

COBAS IT 1000 Training

Roche Diagnostics

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