Carl Stolze

Independent Consultant

Eching, Germany

Experience

Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 4 months

Independent Consultant

The Digitalization Architect

  • Support for project management of infrastructure program for IT integration of a retail subsidiary at a systemically important major bank.

  • Project: Support of infrastructure program management for IT integration of a major bank (2022–2023).

  • A systemically important major bank integrates the entire IT of a subsidiary into the core landscape. Provision of the necessary infrastructure for the migration and subsequently for the business case of the orderly decommissioning of data centers on the selling side.

  • Support of infrastructure program management, ensuring timely setup of infrastructure and removal of bottlenecks.

  • Successful provisioning of infrastructure for onboarding customers and products in multiple migration waves including the largest one; preparation of further activities is proceeding as planned.

  • Agile management (especially Scrum) – mostly in non-agile environments.

  • “Traditional” project management.

  • Dedicated test management.

  • Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365 administration, JIRA, Python (with Pandas for data analysis), PHP, C# (.NET), VBA, (T-)SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java (EE).

Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
3 years 7 months

IT Project Manager and Architect

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank

  • Project management for re-internalization of development for a custom development (risk mgmt., banking).

  • Project: Implementation of new regulatory reporting architecture for an ECB-supervised bank (2020–2022).

  • Migration to new version of regulatory reporting software and complete redevelopment of the data delivery pipeline in an ECB-supervised bank.

  • IT project manager for implementation and coordination of resources, partly acting as IT architect.

  • Introduced agile working methods in a non-agile environment, successfully moved the new IT architecture for the delivery pipeline into production, continuously increased data volume, handed over ongoing project to successor as IT project manager.

  • Project: Due diligence on the IT of a bank (retail/SME) & an asset manager (2019 & 2021).

  • IT architect and subproject manager for the IT stream.

  • Opportunity to acquire in one case a bank (focus on retail and SMEs) with its own, considered innovative, software platform and in the other case an asset manager (focus on real estate) from the previous sole owner.

  • IT architect during due diligence from the perspective of potential buyers.

  • Developed IT perspective for decision-making template for the board of the potential buyer.

Oct 2013 - Aug 2018
4 years 11 months

Manager

BCG Platinion

  • Project: Go-live implementation and defect management for the integration of top institutions of a German banking group (2017).

  • Full integration of two ECB-regulated top institutions of a German banking group.

  • Support for client project manager with end-to-end testing and go-live management.

  • Designed go-live management concept (supporting the coordination of external service providers) as well as concept, etc.

  • Completed IT integration on time and successfully.

  • IT architect and subproject manager for the IT stream in due diligence project (2015).

Dec 2010 - Sep 2013
2 years 10 months

IT Consultant and Managing Director

Strategion GmbH

  • Alongside PhD position.

Lecturer

International School of Management (ISM) and Hamburg Distance University (HFH)

London, United Kingdom

Programming and IT Development

  • Several roles in programming and IT development (Lotus Notes, websites, PHP, etc.).

Summary

Making digital simple – IT on a clear foundation

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

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PhD in Business Informatics · Business Informatics

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Diploma in Business Informatics · Business Informatics

Certifications & licenses

ITIL Foundation

PRINCE2 Foundation