Project Leader

• Development of NLP (AI) products for public administration, considering the increased security requirements
• Administrative assistant with chatbot and help composing emails and invitations
• Intelligent search across parliamentary inquiries with keywords, text highlighting, and links to further information
• Leading a team to create prototypes to test product ideas from the NLP/AI field
• Company-wide contact person for NLP (AI) products
• Establishing processes for internal product development
• Creation and implementation of quality gates
• Supporting an agile team as Scrum Master
• Building scalable structures according to SAFe (Scrum of Scrums, Problem Solving Workshop, Single Source of Truth)
• Building and shaping the team (kick-offs, pulse checks, retros)
• Facilitating SoS, kick-offs, standard meetings, and PL/SM workshops
• Supporting and coaching an inexperienced Product Owner

• Leading a project within the OZG implementation for a federal solution as an EfA (One-for-All) project with a 3 million euro budget
• Successfully made the team agile, including internal staff and the public authority client
• Guiding 10 federal states in an agile approach to translate state and federal laws into a user-friendly solution

• Managing the vendor of a new portal for a large user association and monitoring costs in a fixed-price environment
• Forming and supporting a team of stakeholders for requirements and testing
• Introducing a project management standard with risk and stakeholder management using O365
• Taking responsibility for the project towards the steering committee of CIOs from major German and Austrian companies

• Project management for the launch of a new credit protection insurance product
• Organizational support for the subject matter expert through all project phases
• Conducting quality gates
• Scheduling and monitoring work progress in Jira
• Budget tracking and financial planning control

• Managing 2 to 5 projects simultaneously
• Bid management for Microsoft solutions (SharePoint, O365, CRM) in the financial sector
• Portfolio management for Microsoft solutions in Frankfurt
• Business analysis and process consulting for IDV

Selected projects:

• Product Owner/project lead for digitizing a bank's field force in a portal based on O365
• Forming an agile team from the client's business unit and development
• Introducing agile methods like backlog management, iterations, planning poker, and agile testing
• Strict risk management and execution of measures
• Monitoring and reporting of the budget with weekly remaining effort estimates
• Consulting on bug fixes and implementation options after a BAIT audit at a leasing company
• Leading a project to manage high-risk Excel files in MS SharePoint at an Austrian financial company
• Consulting on MaRisk and IDV process requirements
• Managing a fixed-price project for a billing portal at a regional physicians' association
• Product Owner for a portal for direct distribution of leasing contracts in Microsoft Dynamics with rollout in 17 countries

Additional training in communication, crisis management, team building, and rhetoric as part of a therapy training

• Managing large projects under 1 million euros
• Consulting on ECM topics

Selected projects:

• Managed a 3 million euro project for a SharePoint/FAST search solution
• Managed a team of 40, including an offshore team in India
• Reviewed legal requirements for email archiving

• Building a team for enterprise content management at the Frankfurt office
• Project management and change management for introducing a requirements management process at Deutsche Bahn for 60,000 users
• Direct reporting to the CIO
• Developing a change management strategy