Carola Bischoff - Subproject Lead/Test Management

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Palm-Mar, Spain

Experience

Jun 2022 - Dec 2023

1 year 7 months

Subproject Lead/Test Management

msg Systems

Building the test team
Managing and coordinating test components
Developing team members
Planning and executing the test strategy
Ensuring quality measures
Implementing individual subprojects in an external test environment
Monitoring the budget and initiating measures
Monitoring and ensuring completion of individual test components
Planning, coordinating, and conducting an overall test with stakeholders
Supporting the go-live
Coordinating the remaining tasks
Tools/methods: Office 365, Jira, Confluence, Scrum, Aris, facilitated meetings, presentations, XML

Feb 2022 - May 2022

4 months

Subproject Lead

msg Systems

As-is vs. to-be analysis of the initial setup
Coordinating with individual stakeholders (PROITK, BMI, classified information protection)
Guiding individual services into a homogeneous structure within a VS-NfD environment
Tracking the geo-redundant environment setup and changes
Escalation management
Monitoring the budget
Supporting and developing the system and network architecture
Developing and maintaining the project structure plan (PSP)
Monitoring completion of individual work packages
Tools/methods: Office 365, Skype for Business, Project, facilitated meetings, presentations

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

5 months

Project Manager

Bayer AG Weimar

Project management
As-is vs. to-be analysis of the migration situation
Analyzing database functions in Lotus Notes and creating functional specifications for migration and ongoing support by external partners
Designing and planning SharePoint
Creating field mappings
Gathering and aligning requirements with application owners and external contractors
Coordinating external partners
Coordinating and executing migration to SharePoint
Developing alternative solutions outside of SharePoint
Active test management in SharePoint: designing functional test scenarios, actively testing the adopted functions, and documenting tests
Implementing SharePoint and supporting acceptance by customers and departments
Project documentation
Tools/methods: SharePoint, Lotus Notes, facilitated meetings, Teamstudio, Office 365, presentations

May 2020 - Sep 2020

5 months

IT-Consultant

Professional public-law institution

Conceptual work on a procurement procedure
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Cost calculation and deriving strategic recommendations
Planning and conducting the procurement process and preparing the statement of work
Tools/methods: Lucidchart for graphic design, Merlin Project

Oct 2019 - Aug 2020

11 months

Project Manager

Brandenburg IT service provider / ZIT-BB

Project management
As-is vs. to-be analysis of the IT situation
Technical design for migration preparation
Initiating change for hardware procurement
Developing test scenarios, active test management
Coordinating and controlling application deployment
Designing, planning, and moderating project meetings
Project documentation
Tools/methods: coaching, project management, Merlin Project, facilitation

Sep 2019 - Jun 2021

1 year 10 months

Project Lead

Brandenburg IT Service Provider / ZIT-BB

Project management
As-is/To-be analysis of the IT situation at the client and provider
Coordination and requirements management with application owners and admins
Design, planning, and moderation of technical meetings
Initiation and control of changes for hardware procurement
Technical design for migration preparation
Design of individual test scenarios in coordination with the client
Coordination of application installation
Project documentation
Tools/Methods: Coaching, Moderation, Project Management

Feb 2017 - May 2017

4 months

Project Lead

Public Administration

Project lead
Project design and planning
Creation of cost-benefit analyses
Planning the migration approach
Managing the cross-department migration
Developing communication measures for the service desk
Project documentation
Tools/Methods: Confluence, Jira, Lotus Notes, Marvel, moderated meetings, Project Management

May 2016 - Oct 2017

1 year 6 months

Project Lead

Public Administration

Project lead
Creation of cost-benefit analyses
Project design and planning
Incident management during execution
Coordination of incidents within escalation
Crisis and escalation management
Conducting daily scrums and retrospectives alongside traditional project management
Designing communication measures for users in close cooperation with the service desk before and during migration
Designing and moderating coordination meetings with stakeholders
Coordination of claims
Project documentation
Tools/Methods: Confluence, Jira, Lotus Notes, moderated meetings, agile methodology, Project Management, Remedy, Windows Server 2012

Jun 2015 - Mar 2016

10 months

Project Lead

Public Administration

Project lead
Project design and planning
Creation of cost-benefit analyses
Planning the migration approach
Designing communication measures for users in close cooperation with the service desk before, during, and after migration
Requirements management in collaboration with users and operations teams
Cross-functional coordination meetings before and during migration with stakeholders
Project documentation
Tools/Methods: Confluence, Lotus Notes, Remedy, Solaris, Windows Server

Jun 2013 - Jun 2019

6 years 1 month

Team Lead

Public Administration

Team lead for Notes administration
Leadership tasks: employee reviews, conflict talks, moderated meetings, fostering staff development, writing evaluations
Creating security concepts
Process analysis within the team and restructuring
Committee work
Software deployments for security
Reporting to senior management
Tools/Methods: Greylisting, Linux, Lotus Notes, Postfix, Remedy, Solaris

Jan 2001 - May 2013

12 years 5 months

Administrator

Public Sector

Administration of Notes clients and servers from Lotus Notes 3 to Lotus Notes 8
Management of malware via iqSuite SMTP mailing and greylisting
Administration of the intranet literature system
Planning, design and support of multiple Lotus Notes migration projects

Nov 2000 - Dec 2000

2 months

OS/2 Server Administrator and Client Support

DIS AG

Administration of OS/2 servers
Client support in a banking environment

Sep 1998 - Oct 2000

2 years 2 months

IT Recruiting and OS/2 System Administration

Time&More Personnel Management

IT recruiting
OS/2 system administration in a banking environment

Aug 1996 - Mar 1997

8 months

Tobacco Shop Owner

Self-Employed

Management and operation of a tobacco shop

Dec 1985 - Jul 1996

10 years 8 months

System Administrator

Sietec Systemtechnik

Administration of BS2000 hosts, VMS, Windows and OS/2 clients and servers
Troubleshooting, general system administration, user support and consulting

Summary

Hands-on expert in multi-project management with both traditional and agile approaches, stakeholder management, and team leadership.

Focused on introducing, updating, transitioning, and migrating software and hardware within business environments.

Experience and knowledge have been gained and continuously developed in the banking, public administration, pharmaceutical, and IT service industries among others.

Key areas, often in combination with Lean Six Sigma, Scrum, and SAFe, include:

Requirements management for business concepts, IT applications, and IT infrastructure
Risk management, escalation management, quality management
Implementation management, test management
Change management
Cost-benefit analyses, project controlling
Technical support in implementing service architectures
Support for data center relocations, development of security concepts
New software implementations, migrations, software rollouts, and version changes