Rollout Expert

Project: Mazars Windows 11 rollout. Responsible for the Windows 11 rollout at the Mazars client.

• Understand client-specific requirements (hardware compatibility, application dependencies, Microsoft AD group policies)
• Handle hardware logistics at client locations
• Engage IT, business unit, security, and compliance teams
• Update infrastructure
• Perform driver and firmware updates
• Automate rollout using scripts
• Notify users, provide FAQs, change logs, and support contacts

Baramundi management center, AD, Azure AD, Intune, Office 365, Open Project, RDP, Topdesk, MS Teams, Powershell

Project Secret Server: Responsible for the POC and introduction of IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault at the client.

• Project planning, including creating and maintaining all relevant project plans
• Requirements management
• Lead and coordinate the infrastructure team in collaboration with IBM consultants and DevOps team during the POC and Secret Server rollout
• Plan and manage all release activities related to IT concept development and POC implementation
• Manage risks and troubleshoot scope, schedule, and quality issues with IBM deliverables
• Assign work packages to project team members for execution and progress monitoring

Jira, Confluence, MS Project, MS Teams, Bitbucket, Rancher, Kubernetes, IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault

KymaDevOps: Responsible for designing and building a DEV environment with CI/CD in MS Azure Cloud and an INT environment in SAP Kyma Cloud.

• Gather and align technical requirements
• Design and implement the IT infrastructure in MS Azure Cloud and SAP Cloud
• Create deployment pipelines
• Advise on best practices for working with MS Azure DevOps
• Manage roles and permissions in Azure DevOps
• Advise on microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and Elasticsearch
• Configure SonarQube rule sets and provide consultation

Jira, Confluence, MS Azure, SAP Kyma Cloud, SAP BTP, Azure AD, Azure DevOps, Minikube, MS Azure AKS, Ingress, Let's Encrypt, Github, Github Actions, Bitbucket, Draw.io, JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube, Helm, Terraform, Liquibase, ELK

Customer portal: Responsible for setting up a customer portal in Azure Cloud.

• Capturing and aligning new requirements from operations of the internal client and to development
• Prioritizing requirements and tasks together with project management
• Independently coordinating the IT infrastructure and IT security workstreams in the Azure Cloud Platform implementation project
• Strategic consulting in selecting the cloud platform for the bank
• Independently designing and implementing the solutions design with an external provider
• Assigning task packages to project team members for execution and monitoring progress
• Participation in meetings as part of an agile software development process
• Coordination and alignment with other organizational units such as security, change management and data center operations
• Initiating and aligning all possible architecture decisions with software architects, infrastructure architects, IT security, DevOps team and operations
• Integrating application and infrastructure security into agile and DevOps processes by incorporating security tools
• Project and consulting services and establishing the cloud setup with an external service provider
• Independently coordinating various internal and external stakeholders
• Managing risks and resolving issues in scope, schedule and quality of deliveries
• Advising on best practices for using Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Role and permission management in Azure DevOps
• Consulting on Git branching strategies

Jira, Confluence, Webex, MS Azure, Azure AD, Azure DevOps, Azure KeyVault, OpenShift, Ansible, Git, Draw.io, RedHat SSO, RedHat Quay, RedHat Clair, JFrog Artifactory, Veracode

Project Anti-Financial Crime E2E Processing (DBCRISP): Responsible for the release management lifecycle in the DBCRISP AML program. Tasks include planning, coordination and control of releases for multiple applications in the DBCRISP program. Releases include application updates, operating system patches and security enhancements. Responsible for managing release processes for deliveries across SIT, UAT and PROD environments. Also responsible for establishing the IT release calendar in close collaboration with program and IT project managers from various DBCRISP applications. Supporting project and dependency management to ensure milestone compliance and measure version integrity.

• Managing risks and resolving issues in scope, schedule and quality of deliveries
• Coordinating release scopes and efforts based on the service request backlog
• Communicating the release roadmap, rollout plans, vendor commitments and changes, including schedule and scope changes, to project stakeholders and the business
• Managing business relationships and coordinating work among various teams at different locations
• Conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews and business go/no-go reviews
• Ensuring quality management of delivered release packages
• Consulting on Git branching strategies
• Leading weekly deployment meetings and status reporting in Confluence
• Negotiations, planning and management of all release activities
• Maintaining the release schedule for all DBCRISP services; ensuring alignment with key partners and vendors
• Continuous improvement of the release process
• Leading and coordinating go-live activities including executing deployment plans and checklists
• Participating in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and blockers

Bitbucket, Jira, Jama, Confluence, MS Project, TeamCity, HP ALM, ServiceNow, Enterprise Architect, MS Project, MS Word, Weblogic12, OpenShift, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Java 8, Oracle 12c, Tableau, IBM UCD, Veracode

Project ESP: Innovation audit of the platform via online questionnaire; release management with semantic versioning; contribution to the platform architecture; continuous development of the required tool-assisted development processes for internal development projects. Training team members on the use of DevOps tools. Support in building the DevOps environment for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment:

• Creating Docker images
• Creating Jenkins chains
• Integrating test automation (unit, UI, interfaces)
• Merging/branching with GitFlo
• SonarQube integration and rule set configuration
• Deployment to Artifactory
• Creating VMs in Azure Cloud via automation scripts
• Advising projects on using this environment
• Further development and support of the agile management tool
• Advising on Git branching strategies
• Creating automated deployment gates

Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, GitLab, Docker, Chef, Maven, Ant, Azure Portal, CentOS 7, Shell, PHP, Node.js, ReactJS, Java, Scala, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus

Project GCDM: In the transition phase during a provider change, I was responsible for taking over build and DevOps topics. After the transition phase, I was responsible for building the China Hub and GUI software development with the following tasks:

• Building the China Hub:**

• Effort estimation, creating requirements documents at maturity levels 1 and 2 for China Hub projects

• Creating the project structure plan for building the hub

• Resource planning with task distribution for the hub

• Communication with internal BMW employees for change and incident management

• Coordination and control of the setup as project lead

• Participation in implementation (wrote Jenkins jobs)

• SonarQube integration

• Customer consulting on technical questions as lead engineer

• Rollout preparation

• GUI software development in a Scrum team under an agile fixed-price contract in the BMW GCDM environment:**

• Developing new AngularJS directives and connecting Talend web services in the FormComponents project

• Further development of the Dealer Locator Service (DLO) based on the Mapsstraction Geocoding API, Google Maps API and Yandex with Java

• Migrations from GlassFish 2 to GlassFish 3 in the Cockpit project; migrating from Java Struts to AngularJS

• Writing system integration tests

Java 1.7, Eclipse 4.3, Mockito, IntelliJ IDEA 14, WebStorm 9, AngularJS, Jasmine, Protractor, Talend, jQuery, SonarQube, Crucible, GlassFish 3.1, Nagios, SiteMinder, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Jira, Confluence, HPQC (ALM), Remedy (OPTIS), PISA, ITSSP, CMDB, MS Project