Axel K.
Project Manager
Experience
Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 5 monthsRegensburg, Germany
Project Manager
Automobilzulieferer
- ERP selection project to choose a successor system for an in-house legacy solution
- Interviews with business departments
- Workshop to create the criteria catalog, etc.
- Workshop organization
Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 6 monthsJena, Germany
Project Manager
Forschungsinstitut
- ERP selection project to choose a successor system for SAP R/3
- Interviews with business departments
- Workshop to create the criteria catalog, etc.
- Workshop organization
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
8 monthsMannheim, Germany
Senior Consultant
Industriedienstleister
- Support for the implementation of proALPHA and replacement of XPPS
- proALPHA 9.0
Jan 2022 - Present
3 years 8 monthsFrance
Project Manager (with a colleague)
Fahrzeughersteller
- Roll-out of proALPHA 7.2 to additional production and service sites in Germany and France
- proALPHA 7.2d
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
7 monthsGermany
Senior Consultant
Hersteller v. Aluminium-Strangpressprofilen
- Second-level support for user issues
- List & Label form design, etc.
- proALPHA 6.2e
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
8 monthsHalle, Germany
Senior Consultant
Industriedienstleister
- Support for migration from proALPHA to the SAP ERP corporate solution
- proALPHA 6.2d
- SAP
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
1 year 1 monthFrankfurt, Germany
Senior Consultant
ERP-Hersteller
- Advising a US ERP software vendor on building a PreSales organization in Europe
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
6 monthsHeidelberg, Germany
Interim Project Manager
Hersteller von Schreibgeräten
- Project management for the new introduction of proALPHA 7.2
- proALPHA 7.1
- proALPHA 7.2
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
4 monthsTimișoara, Romania
Senior Consultant
Kathrein Broadcast S.R.L.
- Go-live support and change management for ERP roll-out in Romania
- Industry: manufacturing, broadcast antennas
- proALPHA 7.1
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
8 monthsProject Manager
LEMKEN GmbH & Co. KG
- ERP selection project to choose a successor system for Oxaion 7.1
- Industry: manufacturing, agricultural machinery
- Workshop organization
- Creation of the criteria catalog, etc.
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
10 monthsSenior Consultant
LEMKEN GmbH & Co. KG
- Introduction of business process management to prepare for a new ERP selection
- Industry: manufacturing, agricultural machinery
- BPM
- BPMN
- AENEIS
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 10 monthsViersen, Germany
Senior Consultant and Specialist for Product Configuration, Analyzer, Reports, …
HUECK Rheinische GmbH
- Migration from proALPHA 5.2d to proALPHA 6.2e including reorganization of various business processes
- Industry: manufacturing, pressed sheet metal
- proALPHA 5.2d
- proALPHA 6.2e
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
2 years 6 monthsReichshof, Germany
Senior Consultant
Schroedahl GmbH
- Replacement of AP+ ERP system with proALPHA 6.1
- Industry: special valves
- proALPHA 6.1d
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
11 monthsHeilbronn, Germany
Project Manager
Karl Marbach GmbH
- ERP selection project to choose a successor system for Oxaion 7.0
- Industry: punch die manufacturing
- Interviews with business departments
- Requirements specification and development of a functional matrix
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
9 monthsGüglingen, Germany
Senior Consultant
AFRISO Euro Index GmbH
- Project to analyze and optimize master data quality as preparation for SAP implementation
- Industry: measurement and control technology
- Diaprod ERP
- SAP
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
9 monthsAscheberg, Germany
Senior Consultant
Anlagenbau
- Optimization of the current system
- Standardization of processes and master data
- Evaluation of additional modules
- proALPHA 5.2d
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
6 monthsStadthagen, Germany
Senior Consultant
Anlagenbau
- Pre-project for a release upgrade and activation of unused modules
- Process analysis and documentation
- proALPHA 5.2f
May 2015 - Dec 2015
8 monthsViersen, Germany
Senior Consultant
HUECK Rheinische GmbH
- Preparations for a new client and introduction of a project management system
- Industry: manufacturing, pressed sheet metal
- proALPHA 5.2d
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
3 monthsHamburg, Germany
Senior Consultant
Olympus STE
- Project to analyze and optimize master data quality as preparation for SAP implementation
- Industry: medical technology
- Baan
- CIM Database
- SAP
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
10 monthsBerlin, Germany
Interim IT/ERP Manager
Zett-Group
- Preparation for introduction of MS Dynamics NAV 2013R2 at four sites in Germany and one abroad (Czech Republic) during a restructuring and transformation phase until handover to a full-time project manager
- Industry: lighting technology, production and trade
- MS Dynamics NAV 2013R2
- MS SharePoint 2013
- MS Project
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
5 monthsLorsch, Germany
Senior Consultant
Elektronik, Handel
- Optimization and further development of the proALPHA ERP system
- Analysis and optimization of business processes
- proALPHA 5.2d
Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
6 monthsMunich, Germany
Technical Project Manager
ASM Pacific Technology
- Technical project management, organization and documentation
- Project to introduce a Master Data Repository to unify master data and drawings at sites in Munich, Singapore and Hong Kong
- Industry: SMT technology, pick-and-place machines
- Oracle Agile 6.1
- SAP MS-SQL
- MS Project
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
3 monthsDülmen, Germany
Senior Consultant
HAZEMAG & EPR
- Creation of queries and reports in controlling
- Consulting on production controlling and cost accounting
- Industry: mechanical engineering, assembly technology
- proALPHA 5.2f
Jul 2012 - Jun 2013
1 yearGermany
Project Manager, external IT consultant
Waffel Meyer
- Optimization and further development of the proALPHA ERP system
- Industry: food industry
- proALPHA 5.2d
Jun 2012 - Dec 2019
7 years 7 monthsViersen, Germany
Senior Consultant
HUECK Rheinische GmbH
- Optimization and further development of the proALPHA ERP system
- Definition of customizations
- Development of configuration rules (product configurator)
- Process analysis and optimization
- Industry: manufacturing, pressed sheet metal
- proALPHA 5.2d
Mar 2011 - Jul 2012
1 year 5 monthsChina
Senior Consultant
SIEMENS Transformers E T TR
- Roll-out of Oracle's CADIM/Agile PLM system at Chinese Siemens transformer sites including gap analysis, development of functional designs, and training
- Industry: manufacturing, transformers
- Oracle Agile 6.1
- SAP R/3 (PP, MM, PS)
- MS Visio
- MS Project
- MS SharePoint
Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
1 yearSiegen, Germany
Project Manager, IT Manager
Bergrohr GmbH
- Selection process for an ERP system
- Needs analysis and workshops, creation of requirements specification and criteria catalog to evaluate vendors, benchmarks with SAP and other ERP providers focusing on variant configuration capabilities
- Industry: manufacturing, large-diameter pipes
- HP servers and storage systems
- VMware vSphere 4.0
- Windows Server 2003 and 2008
- Nagios, …
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
2 yearsHilchenbach, Germany
Project Manager
Aventum GmbH
- ERP implementation replacing legacy IKIAS with bäurer industry, capturing relevant business processes, analysis and implementation in the new system, project management, design and implementation of customizations for high-bay warehouse integration, container control, JIT processing with Porsche, LLZ processing with Daimler, EDI processing according to VDA 4905, 4906, 4908, 4913, 4915 (4916) and EDIFACT, MES/BDE integration. Project at Wilhelm Schuhmacher GmbH, Hilchenbach
- Industry: manufacturing, automotive supplier
- Windows Server 2003
- SLES 10 Linux
- VMware ESX 3.5
- Nagios
- Oracle 10g
- Sage bäurer industry
- Böhme & Weihs CAQ
- Schwer & Kopka BDE/MDE
- AVENTUM EDI
Jan 2005 - Dec 2008
4 yearsUnna, Germany
ERP Team Manager
Purem Abgassysteme GmbH (now Eberspächer Unna GmbH)
- ERP implementation and enhancement of the in-house ERP system based on proALPHA 4.3, development of various extensive customizations in collaboration with proALPHA, especially for EDI processing (VDA 4905, 4906, 4908, 4913 and 4915) and logistics control (KANBAN), preparation for intercompany coupling between Unna and Detroit, MES/BDE integration
- Industry: manufacturing, automotive supplier
- proALPHA 4.3
- Diamant FiBu
- Babtec CAQ
- tisoware BDE
- AMC MES
- Progress 9 DB
- Windows Server 2003
- SLES 9 Linux
- Seeburger BIS
- Intrexx
Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
4 yearsMarl, Germany
Ass. Product Manager, Business Development and Consultant (PreSales)
Maxdata Computer GmbH
- Various customer projects, ERP user SAP R/3 SD, MM, PP; sales of Maxdata and Hitachi Data Systems servers and storage systems; building a channel market for storage products; maintaining configuration data in SAP variant configurator; support for existing and new customers, proposal preparation, training and presentations for resellers and end customers
- SAP R/3 (SD, MM, PP)
Jan 2001 - Dec 2002
2 yearsAachen, Germany
Project Manager
Impella Cardiotechnik AG
- ERP implementation (further) introduction of the infor.nt 5.3 ERP system with integration to CAQ (Babtec), BDE/MDE (infor.time) and accounting (varial)
- Windows NT Server
- infor.nt
- Babtec
- varial
- infor.time
Jan 2000 - Dec 2001
2 yearsHagen, Germany
System Administrator
Westfa GmbH
- Infrastructure projects: design of structured building cabling for two sites, modernization of the server farm
- Windows NT Server
- Solaris
- SuSE Linux
- MEGA
- Time Navigator
- AEINEIS
Jan 1996 - Dec 1999
4 yearsProject Manager (Subcontractor)
Infor AG
- On behalf of Infor (as a subcontractor) project management or subproject management in over 20 client projects. In several projects focus on variant configuration (automotive suppliers, cable assemblies, awning manufacturing and others)
- Novell NetWare 3.x
- Windows NT Server
- Btrieve and Oracle databases
- VPPS 4.5
- infor.NT
- Seeburger WinElke
Jan 1995 - Dec 2000
6 yearsWuppertal, Germany
System Administrator / IT Manager
H.Spelleken Nachf. Lufttechnik GmbH
- ERP introduction replacing the old PPS system Comet (System 8870) with Infor's VPPS 4.3/4.5, module-by-module rollout over several years, development of a configurator logic for industrial fans
- Novell NetWare 3.12
- Btrieve database
- VPPS 4.3/4.5
- Custom-built variant configurator
Summary
- Worked with ERP systems since 1992, involved in over 50 ERP projects as project manager or team member
- Self-employed since 2011
- International experience in the USA, France, China, Romania and Singapore
- Experienced, resilient and motivated
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
ElementaryFrench
ElementaryEducation
Siemens Nixdorf
Industrial Clerk
Siemens Nixdorf
UNIX System Administrator
Certifications & licenses
Certified Business Economist
IHK
Certified Business Process Manager
FH Münster/Coesfeld
Certified Project Manager
IHK
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