Klaus-Dieter Pfenning
Freelance Consultant / Manager, Interim Manager
Experience
Freelance Consultant / Manager, Interim Manager
Self-employed
Managing Director
PG Consulting GmbH - winball.de
- Responsible for business strategy and business plans
- Responsible for all technical matters
- Designing new products and providing personal customer support
- Project focus: WordPress websites and hosting, complex WooCommerce shops
Head of IT & New Media
Jahr Top Special Verlag
Defining the publishing strategy in the New Media area (Internet, mobile, video)
Designing, business planning, and implementation of New Media projects (magazine apps, building a production line for pubbles and hartcore-Angler)
Reporting to Managing Director/Shareholder, 5 employees
Introducing and implementing a company-wide training strategy
Establishing company-wide management and controlling tools
Relaunching magazine websites
Rolling out all magazine apps
Restructuring the IT department and New Media department, and modernizing the data center
Management Consultant for Group-Wide IT Strategies and Projects
TDMi Holding
Advising the group board on all IT strategy matters and operationally supporting all internal IT projects
Preparing internal technical due diligence reports as a basis for decisions on acquiring additional companies
Reporting to the group board
Successfully completing the group-wide pilot project for a unified ERP system within 6 months
Planning and leading 5 individual projects
Leading the "Fit4SBS" project, which created a central IT and business services unit across the group
Director of Professional Services (formerly Regional Manager North)
Inforsacom Informationsysteme GmbH
Overall responsibility for customer projects and services in the banking, insurance, and telecommunications industries
Reporting to the CEO, 60 employees
Company-wide responsibility for staff training and development
Representing the company in legal matters
Personal management of key accounts such as Helaba and Arcor with around €9.5 million in annual revenue
Implementing processes and methods for project planning and tracking
Director Sales & Services EMEA
Quark Media House Sàrl
Responsible for customer projects, support, training, and sales of enterprise products, especially editorial systems in EMEA
Administrative and personnel responsibility in EMEA (excluding Switzerland)
Personal management of all major clients in EMEA such as Gruner+Jahr, Burda, Ringier, VNU (UK), etc.
Reporting to the CEO, 80 employees across Europe
Restructuring in the UK, France, and Germany
Migrating development and support from Europe to India
Founder, Shareholder, Consultant, and Supervisory Board Member
Buchungsmaschine AG
Designing and implementing a booking interface to Sabre, DCS, and Start Amadeus
Developing a travel database with over 23 million travel records
Building the client base to up to 3,500 travel agencies and portal clients like expedia.de
Setting up the independent company, sale to Travel24.com
Founder, Managing Director, Board Member (CTO)
HEXMAC Software Systems AG
Responsible for R&D, customer projects, support, training, and IT
Creating the business strategy and business plans
Personal client support for major clients like DGZ, DekaBank, Focus Digital AG, AOK Bayern, Detroit News, Aftonbladet
Managing international distributors in the USA and Europe
Reporting to the supervisory board, 60 employees
Developing new IT products from idea to shelf-ready software package
Managing and preparing the IPO planned for October 2000 (canceled), sale to Focus Digital AG (Burda Verlag) in 2001
Project Manager
Axel Springer Verlag
Planning, design, and execution of the project in collaboration with an editor-in-chief and publishing management
Overall project management for all technical editorial issues
Creating a multi-level training concept, planning and conducting the training sessions
Programming extensions
Reporting to the editor-in-chief, 2 employees
Gradual rollout of the new electronic editorial system across all eight production sites with over 300 employees
Setting up the digital production workflow at international locations (e.g., Mallorca)
Trainer
Systematics GmbH
- Conducting training for Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Axel Springer Verlag, Gruner+Jahr
Research Assistant at the Institute of Physical Chemistry
University of Hamburg
- Development, design and implementation of a system control for transporting irradiated test samples
- Training apprentices in computer science at the Institute of Physical Chemistry
IT Trainer
IT Trainer
Training courses and seminars for: MS DOS, Mac OS, MS Word, MS Excel, Aldus PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Aldus FreeHand, RagTime
Training for development software: Omnis 5, AppleScript, UserLand Frontier
Individual training for major clients and train-the-trainer seminars
Preparing training concepts and participant materials
Acquiring major clients such as Axel Springer Publishing House and Gruner + Jahr
Trainer, Programmer
BISO GmbH
Designing and delivering training courses for Volksfürsorge, Lufthansa, Spiegel Publishing House, GKSS Research Center Geesthacht GmbH
Collaborating on the development of the SQL-based database and CBT application "Introduction to IT" for the HR department at Volksfürsorge
Contributing to the database-driven production of print catalogs for Volksfürsorge and Apple Germany
Trainer
PG Consulting GmbH
- Preparing and delivering IT courses for the German Employees Academy in Cologne
- Developing Turbo Pascal sample programs for preparatory courses for the commercial clerk IT exam at IHK Cologne
Summary
30 years of project experience in IT, training, and internet projects of all kinds have built a broad base of expertise. My main focus is on turning business process analyses into project requirements and operational concepts after successful implementation. I often act as a system architect, bridging the gap between business needs and application development, and solving implementation issues. My technical strengths include deep knowledge of IT architecture, software development, and integration technologies, as well as the back and front end of ERP, CMS, and e-commerce systems and related technologies. In addition to many years of executive and management experience in editorial, IT, and development departments, I have project management experience.
Skills
- Ms Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Ms Project
- Sap/r3
- Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Pagemaker)
- Quarkxpress
- Html
- Css
- Javascript
- Php
- Mysql
- Linux Administration
Languages
Education
University of Cologne and University of Hamburg
Chemistry · Hamburg, Germany
Stadtgymnasium Köln-Porz
Abitur · High school · Cologne, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SAFe 6 Agilist
SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
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