Carola Bischoff - Subproject Lead/Test Management

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

Feb 2022 - May 2022

4 months

Subproject Lead

.msg Systems

As-is vs to-be analysis of the initial setup
Coordination with stakeholders PROITK, BMI, and classified security
Supporting the individual services into a homogeneous structure within a VS-NFD environment
Tracking georedundant environment setup and the changes
Escalation management
Monitoring the budget
Supporting and developing the system and network architecture
Developing and maintaining the work breakdown structure (WBS)
Monitoring completion of individual work packages
Tools / methods: Office 365, Skype for Business, Project, moderated meetings, presentations

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

5 months

Project Lead

Bayer AG Weimar

Project management
As-is vs to-be analysis of the migration situation
Analysis of database functions in Lotus Notes and creating functional specifications for migration and support by external partners
Concept and design of SharePoint
Creating field mappings
Gathering and aligning requirements with application owners and external contractors
Coordinating external partners
Coordinating and executing the migration to SharePoint
Developing alternative solutions outside of SharePoint
Active test management in SharePoint: designing functional test scenarios, conducting tests, test documentation
Implementing SharePoint and supporting acceptance
Project documentation
Tools / methods: SharePoint, Lotus Notes, moderated meetings, Teamstudio, Office 365, presentations

May 2020 - Sep 2020

5 months

IT Consultant

Berufsständische Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts

Conceptual work for a procurement procedure
Economic feasibility analysis
Cost calculation and development of strategic recommendations
Planning and conducting the procurement process and creating the service specification
Tools / methods: Lucidchart for design, Merlin Project

Sep 2019 - Jun 2021

1 year 10 months

Project Lead

Brandenburgischer IT-Dienstleister / ZIT-BB

Project management
As-is vs to-be analysis of the IT situation at the client and service provider
Coordination and requirements management with application owners and administrators
Designing, planning, and moderating technical meetings
Initiating and managing the change for hardware procurement
Technical design for migration preparation
Designing individual test scenarios in coordination with the client
Coordinating application installation
Project documentation
Project lead for introduction of a remote support software: as-is vs to-be analysis, technical design, initiating the change for hardware procurement, developing test scenarios, active test management, coordinating the software deployment, planning and moderating project meetings
Tools / methods: coaching, moderation, project management, Merlin Project

May 2016 - Oct 2017

1 year 6 months

Project manager

Public administration

Project management
Designing and planning the project
Creating cost-benefit analyses
Incident management during the implementation phase
Coordinating incidents within escalation
Crisis and escalation management
Performing daily scrums and retrospectives alongside traditional project management
Designing communication measures for users in collaboration with the service desk
Designing and moderating alignment meetings with stakeholders
Coordination of claims
Project documentation
Project manager for the introduction of the Marvel client: Preparing cost-benefit analyses, planning the migration approach, managing the cross-department migration, developing communication measures for the service desk
Tools / methods: Confluence, Jira, Lotus Notes, Marvel, moderated meetings, project management

Jun 2015 - Mar 2016

10 months

Project manager

Public administration

Project management
Designing and planning the project
Creating cost-benefit analyses
Planning the migration approach
Designing communication measures for users in collaboration with the service desk before and during migration
Requirements management in collaboration with users and operations teams
Cross-functional coordination with stakeholders
Project documentation
Tools / methods: Confluence, Lotus Notes, Remedy, Solaris, Windows servers

Jun 2013 - Jun 2019

6 years 1 month

Team leader

Public administration

Leading the Notes administration team
Employee reviews, conflict discussions, moderated meetings
Promoting employee development, writing performance appraisals
Developing security concepts
Process analysis and restructuring
Committee work
Implementing software to ensure security
Reporting to senior management team
Tools / methods: Greylisting, Linux, Lotus Notes, Postfix, Remedy, Solaris

Jan 2001 - May 2013

12 years 5 months

Administrator

Public service

Administering Lotus Notes clients and servers from version 3 to 8
Managing malware using iqSuite SMTP mailing and greylisting
Administering the intranet literature system
Planning, designing, and supporting several Lotus Notes migration projects

Nov 2000 - Dec 2000

2 months

OS/2 Administrator

DIS AG

Administering OS/2 servers
Providing client support in a banking environment

Sep 1998 - Oct 2000

2 years 2 months

IT Recruiting and System Administration

Time&More Personalmanagement

IT recruiting
System administration of the OS/2 operating system in a banking environment

Aug 1996 - Mar 1997

8 months

Owner of a tobacco shop

Self-employed

Running a tobacco shop

Summary

Practical expert for multi-project management with both classic and agile approaches, stakeholder management, and team leadership.

Focus areas include implementations, updates, transitions, and migrations in software and hardware contexts within corporate environments.

Experience and knowledge have been gained and constantly expanded in the banking, public administration, pharmaceutical, and IT services sectors.

Skills

Requirements Management For Business Concepts, It Applications, It Infrastructure
Risk Management, Escalation Management, Quality Management
Implementation Management, Test Management
Change Management
Cost-benefit Analysis, Project Controlling
Technical Support In Implementing Service Architectures
Support For Data Center Relocations, Development Of Security Plans
New Software Rollouts, Migrations, Software Transitions And Version Upgrades
It Security
Lotus Notes / Notes Domino
Windows Server Architecture
Team Leadership
Unix, Linux Redhat, Solaris
Windows Server 2007 / 2008 / 2012 / 2016
Lotus Notes 3 - 8
Ibm Notes 9
Ms Project
Iqsuite
Julia Mail Office
Postfix