Daniel Schaaf
Business and IT Consulting
Experience
Business and IT consulting
Business and IT Consulting (freelance)
- Process consulting
- Project management
- Creating and aligning functional and technical specifications
- Portfolio management
- Stakeholder management
- Data cleansing
- Test, quality, and requirements management
- Rollout management
- Financial planning
- Marketing and sales consulting
- IT architecture and strategy consulting
- Trainer for IT, project management, and eBusiness
Management Consultant Strategic Marketing
Detecon Marketing Consulting GmbH
Sales management, sales marketing
Medical Technologies GmbH
Skills
Key Strengths
- "Troubleshooter"; Leading Projects In Especially Challenging Environments
- Communication And Liaison Between Business Stakeholders (And It)
- Change Management Experience And Negotiation Skills; Trainer And Coach
- Project Controlling In Terms Of Budget, Scope, And Timeline
- Strategy Development, Strong Analytical Skills, Data And Business Focus, Translating Complex Issues; Strong Presentation And Communication Skills (Up To Board Level)
- Analytical, Process-, Customer-, And Market-oriented Thinking
- Preparing And Driving Decision-making
- Innovation, Creativity, Assertiveness, And Self-motivation
- Generalist, Numbers Person, Analyst, Communicator
- Innovative, Over Six Ai Deployments In Projects, Including Accounts Receivable, Mailroom, Media Design, Software Generation, And Sales Control
Industry Experience
- Fmcg (Food And Non-food)
- Energy Industry
- Finance
- It And Telecom Product Providers
- Transport, Travel, And Tourism
It Skills
- Broad Overview And Market Knowledge In Saas, Virtualization, Cloud
- Data Lake
- Ebusiness
- Ddd
- Crm
- Scm
- Eai, Soa, Microservices
- Dw, Etl
- Devops
- Communication And Internet Technologies
- Knowledge Of Relevant Products: Sap, Azure, Aws, Gcp, Power Platform, Jboss, Tibco, Cisco, Aspect, Broadvision, Sag, Remedy, Servicenow, Omnitracker, Etc.
- Ai Systems, Llm, Structure Recognition, Media Creation, Rule Engines
- It Architectures (Also Critical Infrastructure Environments)
- Good Sap R/3 Knowledge (4 Years), Especially In Modules Sd, Mm, Fi/co, Is-u, Bo, Eam
- Databases: Oracle, Db2, Mysql, Mariadb, Elastic
- Data Analysis: Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Bo, Anaplan, Etl
- Sql And Excel Guru
- Business Process Modeling Tools: Aris, Visio, Signavio
- It Planning Tools: Alfabet Sitm, Eitam, Adoit, Doors
- Project Tools: Jira, Confluence, Trello
- Ms Project, Rational Rose, Bitbucket, Aiveo
- Testing: Selenium
- Good Knowledge Of Sql And Data Mining (20 Years)
- Basic Programming Skills In Python, Visual Basic, Php (Long Ago)
- It Knowledge Especially In Creating Functional And Technical Specifications, Project Management, And Coordinating Between Business And It
Methodical Skills
- Project Management Methods
- V-model
- Rational Unified Process
- Prince2 (Foundation Cert.)
- Six Sigma
- Agile Methods (Scrum, Kaisen, Safe)
- Itsm/cmdb Products And Processes
- Development And Deployment Methods (Devops)
- Process Modeling And Management
- Organizational And Process Planning
- Program Management And Development Planning
- Stage-gate Methodology
- Systemic Strategies (Luhmann) And Game Theory
- Development Of Integration Strategies
- Quality Management
- Customer-focused Strategies: Empathy Map, A/b Analyses
- Business Cases And Financial Planning, Roi, Cost Calculation, And Controlling
- Competitive And Market Analyses
- Product Selection And Tendering
- Workshop Moderation Techniques
- Sla Definition
- Various Ai Tools And Llms
Aligning A Business Process Plan With Its Objectives
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Quality
- Error Rate
- Speed
- Flexibility
- Innovation
- Standardization
- Diversification
End-to-end Responsibility For Change Initiatives And Projects
In Many Change Projects Of All Sizes, I Was Responsible For Everything From Project Initiation, Aligning Strategy And Goals, Target Group Focus, Business Case, Make-or-buy Decisions, Vendor Selection, Poc, Content, Structural (Method), Formal, Time And Financial Planning, Coordination With Other Initiatives/stakeholders, Overseeing Implementation, Change Management, Controlling, Troubleshooting, Risk Management, Testing, Bug Fixing, Devops, Documentation, Training, All The Way To Intensive Care And Lessons Learned, Ensuring The Initiative's Success.
Personal Strengths
- Analytical, Innovative, Assertive
- It Generalist And Numbers Person
- Creative, Communicative, Trainer, Coach
- Very Quick To Grasp And Learn (Self-learner)
- Quick Onboarding In Specialized Topics
- Planning And Project Management
- Troubleshooter Qualities (I Really Feel At Home Here)
- Building Business Units And Divisions
- Data Junkie
- Specialist In B2c And B2b Business Models
Languages
Education
FernUniversität Hagen
Business Administration · Hagen, Germany
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University Frankfurt
Diploma in Physics, solid-state physics, scientific photography · Physics (solid-state physics, scientific photography) · Frankfurt, Germany · 1,25
Certifications & licenses
Prince2 (foundation cert.)
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