Benjamin Auer
Program / Project Management
Experience
Nov 2024 - Present
1 year 3 monthsMulti Project Manager
Trading Company
- Set up a new Data Warehouse (Budget ~15 million 2025 – 2026)
- Backend modernization project (Budget ~5 million 2025 – 2026)
- Standard software rollout with custom programming (Budget ~9 million 2025 – 2026)
Sep 2023 - Present
2 years 5 monthsManaging Director
OGMA GmbH
- Set up and led the company
- Continuous revenue growth
- Workforce growth by 150% (09/2025)
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 1 monthProgram Manager / Senior IT Project Manager
Trading Company
- Implementation responsibility for the Online Shop Replacement program (white-label solution)
- 3 projects
- 2 project managers
- ~160 employees in the program (local and nearshoring)
- Reporting to the executive board (Austria)
- Partial budget responsibility (shared with divisional management ~30 million 2022 - 2024)
- Implementation of project processes (deployment, testing, bug fixing, scope and throughput speed)
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
8 monthsSenior IT Project Manager / Scrum Master
UNIQA IT Service GmbH
- Partially responsible for the agile transformation at UNIQA
- Implementation of an automated deployment process
- Implementation of a "system" team in an agile environment
- Implementation lead for international migration and integration projects
Jul 2019 - Present
6 years 7 monthsSelf-employed
Benjamin Auer, MSc e.U.
- Led national and international projects and programs
- Mentoring in project implementations
- Industries: financial services, insurance, e-commerce, retail
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
3 years 3 monthsSenior IT Project Manager / SCRUM Master
nbfl
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
3 years 4 monthsSenior IT Project Manager
UNIQA IT Service GmbH
- Overall responsibility for implementing the ECM IT project in Austria: ~6500 users
- Integration of ~80 applications
- ~200 employees in the project (local and nearshoring)
- 4 – 6 sub-project managers
- Budget responsibility for implementing the ECM IT project in Austria (~€37M project duration (2018-2023))
- Implementation responsibility for deploying the capture solution at group level (10 countries with 9 scan centers)
- Reporting to program management & executive board (Austria)
- Managing external product partners
Mar 2014 - Jul 2018
4 years 5 monthsIT - Project Manager
Canon Austria GmbH
- Interface between departments in the company
- Overall responsible for executing software projects in custom software development (100 – 800 man-days)
- Overall responsible from tendering to acceptance
- Planning project resources, external and internal (10 – 25 employees)
- Implementing the project management process for software projects in the company
- Establishing project documents (requirements specification, controlling, etc.) in the company
- Internal coaching for project managers in project management for custom software development
- Facilitating process and consulting workshops
Jul 2011 - Dec 2013
2 years 6 monthsDeputy Project Manager
TEAM Communication Technology Management GmbH
- Project: Vorlaufstrecke Unterinntal ÖBB
Jul 2010 - May 2011
11 monthsTechnical Inspector - Construction Supervision
TEAM Communication Technology Management GmbH
- Project: Vorlaufstrecke Unterinntal ÖBB
Jan 2009 - Apr 2010
1 year 4 monthsDepartment Head Sitesharing & Construction Coordinator
Nokia Siemens Networks
- Project: Caldera
Apr 2007 - Dec 2008
1 year 9 monthsSitesharing & Construction Coordinator
Nokia Siemens Networks
- Project: Netco
Oct 2006 - Apr 2007
7 monthsConstruction Supervisor
Siemens AG
- Project: Netco
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
FH Campus Vienna
Master's in Technical Management, IT specialization · Technical Management · Vienna, Austria · completed with good results
Oct 2012 - Jun 2015
BFI Vienna University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor's in Project Management and IT, specialization in Project Management · Project Management and IT · Vienna, Austria · completed
Oct 2008 - Jun 2009
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Master's in Business Administration (50 ECTS) · Business Administration · Vienna, Austria
...and 1 more
Certifications & licenses
Professional Scrum Master™ I
SAFe 5 Scrum Master
ITIL V3 Fundation
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