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Daniel Schaaf

Business and IT Consulting

Daniel Schaaf
Offenbach am Main, Germany

Experience

Oct 1999 - Present
26 years 4 months

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
Jan 1997 - Sep 1999
2 years 9 months

Management Consultant Strategic Marketing

Detecon Marketing Consulting GmbH

Jan 1992 - Dec 1996
5 years

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

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1994 - Jun 1996

FernUniversität Hagen

Business Administration · Hagen, Germany

Oct 1987 - Jun 1992

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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