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Andreas Merveldt
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
10 months

Project Manager Office Building Modernization

Large Reinsurance Company

  • Rollout of AV media technology in meeting rooms for board members
  • Selection, commissioning, and management of subcontractors
  • Implementation of an operating concept for service & maintenance
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
8 months

Head of Networks Germany

Internet Service Provider

  • Managed an organization of 24 employees
  • Carried out backbone planning
  • Ensured rollout in municipalities
  • Integrated another team from a merger with another ISP
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
11 months

Project Manager Public Safety Sector

BDBOS

  • Prepared and executed a network modernization with over 4,000 TETRA sites
  • Planned possible nationwide rollout scenarios
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
1 year 6 months

Project Manager Public Safety Sector

Hesse State Police

  • Executed a network rollout and modernized the access network at over 500 sites in Hesse
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
1 year 10 months

Project Manager IT Management

Health Care Sector

  • Standardized IT requirements
  • Multi-project management
  • IT services for dialysis centers
  • Rolled out IT for over 70 medical care centers
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
4 months

Project Manager Supply Management

IT Cyber Command of the German Armed Forces

  • Standardization of IT requirements
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
9 months

Project Manager Crisis Management

Data Center Operator

  • Rebuild of a virtualized storage solution under high time pressure (€8M volume)
Jun 2016 - May 2017
1 year

Project Manager 3rd Level

Large ISP

  • Development and implementation of ticket reduction measures in IT operations
  • Optimization of order processes in the DSL product area to increase the rate of automated order processes
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
6 months

App Developer Customer Loyalty App

Development Project

  • Development of an app for customer retention between grocery retailers and manufacturers of reverse vending machines
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 4 months

VP Services CEE

Tomra Systems Germany GmbH

  • Leading an organization with 240 employees
  • Ensuring rollout and operation of an installed base of approx. 28,000 reverse vending machines
  • Increasing service revenue by 10% to €66M
  • Defining the digitalization strategy in service and introducing a predictive maintenance concept
Oct 2013 - May 2014
8 months

Product Expert and Crisis Manager

Offshore-Windpark-Projekt

  • Relaunch of the PMR rollout project
  • Setup, commissioning, training, and implementation of 24/7 operations after the radio system failure (penalties of nearly €200k per day)
Jan 2013 - Present
13 years 1 month

Owner

Quaestur

  • Development of a managed services portfolio for mission-critical communications and security solutions for IT threat scenarios
  • Interim mandates in industry, trade, and ICT focusing on management and project leadership (Fire Fighting)
Aug 2009 - Dec 2012
3 years 5 months

Director Programs & Customer Care

Cassidian Communications GmbH

  • Analysis of the organization for technical services at more than 60 high-security data centers and winning a bid for a €14 million contract
  • Development of new business areas (offshore wind energy, smart grid) with an addressable market of €200 million
  • Portfolio cleanup, sale of the analog radio segment (~€5 million revenue), and a 15% increase in efficiency
  • Secured a million-euro project for radio integration at an airport in Berlin
  • Consolidation of service operations for Bavarian control centers and securing maintenance contracts in the six-figure range
  • Restructuring from 9 to 3 regional offices, reducing management overhead by 25%
  • De-escalation of large projects (€12 million, €100 million) and successful turnaround of a 4,500 base station rollout project
  • Profiling the presales and service segments and implementing prequalification for better RfQ management
Jan 2004 - Jun 2009
5 years 6 months

Senior Manager Project & Service Management Retail Germany; Member of the Supervisory Board

Verizon Deutschland GmbH

  • Responsible for project delivery and account management of new and existing business for multinational major corporations
  • Revenue responsibility for project and service business (€200 million)
  • Leadership of two organizational units with 51 employees
  • Implementation of customer segmentation (stratification) and Satmetrix customer satisfaction analyses to improve efficiency and service quality
Apr 2001 - Dec 2003
2 years 9 months

Manager Technical Consulting Corporate Accounts Germany

MCI Deutschland GmbH

  • Responsible for presales business with sales support and order intake planning (€30 million–€40 million)
  • Management of the sales engineering department with regional teams (32 employees)
Jan 2000 - Mar 2001
1 year 3 months

Senior Bid Manager Corporate Accounts

Worldcom Deutschland GmbH

Jul 1998 - Dec 1999
1 year 6 months

Team Leader Bid Management

Nortel Dasa Network Systems GmbH & Co. KG

  • Successful handling of large RfQs (€20M–€150M)
  • Compilation of technical and commercial data
  • Addressing USPs and increasing win probability through prequalification
Mar 1997 - Jun 1998
1 year 4 months

Specialist Operations

Nortel Dasa Network Systems GmbH & Co. KG

Summary

Interim project as responsible head of department / project manager / program manager for a mid-sized company / a subsidiary of an international company with B2B focus in the ITC / technology / crisis management environment

Seasoned sales-focused manager from the information technology and telecommunications (ITC) industry with proven expertise in rollout, operations management, transformation, and business development

  • 36 years of professional experience and 30 years of leadership responsibility in cross-functional / international organization at leading ITC companies (e.g., member of executive board, supervisory board)
  • 21 years of experience as project manager, extensive know-how in restructuring companies to solve troubled projects (7 years) or to adapt to current or future market situations
  • Expert in developing and structuring presales-postsales and project service processes, also for international ITC / outsourcing projects (€10M - €100M)
  • Strategically acting decision-maker with strong business and technical expertise, responsible for large budgets, order intake and revenue (€50M - €200M)
  • Customer oriented and trust-building with 'hands-on' mentality, large personal network in industry and public sector

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate

Education

Nov 1996 - Present

University GH Paderborn

Diploma in Business Administration, specializing in Marketing and Business Psychology · Paderborn, Germany

Jun 1986 - Present

Telecommunications Training Company 811

Officer career, HF radio telegraphy · Wuppertal, Germany

Jun 1982 - Present

Cusanus Gymnasium Erkelenz

General university entrance qualification · Erkelenz, Germany

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