Kronberg im Taunus, Germany Experience
Nov 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years
- Developed NLP (AI) products for public administration with enhanced security requirements
- Administration assistant with chatbot and support for drafting emails and invitations
- Intelligent search for parliamentary inquiries with keywords, text highlighting, and linking additional information
- Led a team to create prototypes for testing product ideas in the NLP/AI area
- Companywide contact for NLP (AI) products
- Established processes for internal product development
- Created and conducted quality gates
- Supported an agile team as Scrum Master
- Built scaled structures following SAFe (Scrum of Scrums, Problem Solving Workshop, Single Source of Truth)
- Formed and shaped the team (kickoff, pulse checks, retrospectives)
- Moderated SoS, kickoffs, regular meetings, and PL/SM workshops
- Supported and coached an inexperienced Product Owner
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
11 months
- Advised on selecting a provider for archiving GMP-relevant data from SAP at a pharmaceutical company
- Prepared relevant documentation for a pharma industry company
- Led the project to install the target platform and migrate the data
Mar 2021 - May 2022
1 year 3 months
- Led a project under the OZG implementation for a federal solution as an EfA (One for all) project with a 3 million euro budget
- Successfully agile-transformed a team of internal staff and client (authority)
- Guided 10 federal states in an agile approach to map state and federal law in a user-friendly solution
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
2 months
- Coached a project manager
- Set up project planning for a large public administration project in MS Project
- Reviewed work packages, resources, and dependencies
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
11 months
- Managed the provider of a new portal for a large user association and monitored costs in a fixed-price context
- Formed and supported a stakeholder team for requirements and testing
- Introduced a project management standard with risk and stakeholder management using O365
- Held project responsibility toward the steering committee of CIOs from major German and Austrian companies
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
6 months
- Verified optimization potentials
- Developed key requirements for a collaboration platform and conducted benchmarking
- Presented alternatives and cost/benefit analyses
- Supported vendor selection for SaaS solutions
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
5 months
- Managed the launch of a new product in credit protection insurance
- Provided organizational support to the subject matter expert through all project phases
- Conducted quality gates
- Planned and monitored work progress in Jira
- Monitored budget and financial planning
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
2 monthsFeb 2016 - May 2018
2 years 4 months
- Managed multiple projects (2 to 5) simultaneously
- Bid management on Microsoft topics (SharePoint, O365, CRM) in the financial sector
- Portfolio management for Microsoft topics in Frankfurt
- Business analysis and process consulting for IDV
Selected projects:
- Product Owner/led a project to digitize a bank’s field service in a portal based on O365
- Formed an agile team from the client’s business area and development
- Introduced agile methods like backlog, iterations, planning poker, and agile testing
- Maintained strict risk management and executed measures
- Monitored and reported budget with weekly remaining effort estimation
- Advised on bug fixes and implementation options after BAIT audit at a leasing company
- Led a project to manage high-risk Excel files in MS SharePoint at an Austrian financial firm
- Advised on MaRisk and IDV process requirements
- Led a fixed-price project for a billing portal in a medical association
- Product Owner for a portal for direct sales of leasing contracts in Microsoft Dynamics, rolled out in 17 countries
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
10 months
- Managed multiple projects (up to 3) simultaneously
- Consulted on and implemented SAP archiving projects
Selected projects:
- Developed a product strategy to expand the portfolio
- Led a large project with 4 focus areas
- Coordinated the global replacement of scan clients
- Migrated SAP archives from OpenText to KGS
- Led the replacement of OpenText and migration to KGS Content Server in Azure
- Created an operations manual
Feb 2014 - Mar 2015
1 year 2 months
- Continued education in communication, crisis management, team building, and rhetoric as part of a therapeutic training
Aug 2011 - Feb 2014
2 years 7 months
- Responsible for initiating an MS SharePoint 2010 platform project
- Led a 5-person OpenText LiveLink team
Selected projects:
- Pre-study for SharePoint introduction with business case and cost/benefit analysis
- Set up a SharePoint team and operations
- Change management for Microsoft rollout
- Managed SharePoint projects for DB Netz, long-distance transport, and vehicle maintenance
Apr 2010 - Jul 2011
1 year 4 months
- Led large projects under 1 million euros
- Consulted on ECM topics
Selected projects:
- Managed a 3 million euro project for SharePoint/FAST search solution
- Oversaw 40 staff, including an offshore team in India
- Reviewed legal requirements for email archiving
Nov 2009 - Mar 2010
5 months
- Advised a large insurance broker on Documentum implementation
- Conducted workshops on requirements management
Jul 2008 - Oct 2009
1 year 4 months
- Built a team for enterprise content management in Frankfurt
- Led project and change management for introducing a requirements management process at Deutsche Bahn for 60,000 users
- Reported directly to the CIO
- Developed a change management strategy
Dec 2004 - Jun 2008
3 years 7 months
- Executed customer projects for EMC Documentum implementations
- Managed international projects with under 1,000 PT and over 1 million USD in EMEA
Selected projects:
- Introduced a knowledge management system in Bahrain and Kuwait
- Led a multinational team across 5 countries
- SAP archiving with scanning solution for an English city administration (PRINCE2)
- Introduced a collaboration platform in Switzerland
Aug 2001 - Jun 2004
2 years 11 monthsNov 1999 - Jul 2001
1 year 9 months