Carl Stolze - Independent Consultant

Eching, Germany

Experience

Apr 2022 - Present

3 years 4 months

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

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

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).