Rollout Expert

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

• Understand client-specific requirements (hardware compatibility, application dependencies, Microsoft AD group policies)
• Implement hardware logistics at customer sites
• Involve IT, business, 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 rollout of IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault at the client.

• Project planning, including creating and maintaining all relevant project plans
• Requirements management
• Leading and coordinating the infrastructure team in collaboration with IBM consultants and the DevOps team during the POC and rollout of the Secret Server
• Planning and managing all release activities related to IT concept development and POC implementation
• Managing risks and resolving issues related to scope, schedule, and quality of IBM deliveries
• Assigning work packages to project team members to implement and monitor progress

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.

• Gathering and aligning technical requirements
• Designing and implementing IT infrastructure in MS Azure Cloud and in SAP Cloud
• Creating deployment pipelines
• Advising on best practices for using MS Azure DevOps
• Managing roles and permissions in Azure DevOps
• Advising on microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and Elasticsearch
• Configuring SonarQube quality rules and providing guidance

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 building a customer portal in Azure cloud.

• Capturing and aligning new requirements from the internal client's operations and development
• Prioritizing the requirements and tasks together with project management
• Independently coordinating the IT infrastructure and IT security workstreams in the Azure Cloud Platform implementation project
• Strategic advice on selecting the cloud platform for the bank
• Independently designing and implementing the solution design with an external vendor
• Assigning work packages to project team members for execution and monitoring progress
• Participating in meetings as part of an agile software development process
• Coordinating and aligning with other organizational units such as security, change management, and data center operations
• Initiating and agreeing on 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
• Providing project and consulting services and setting up the cloud environment with the external service provider
• Independently coordinating various internal and external stakeholders
• Managing risks and resolving issues related to scope, schedule, and quality of deliveries
• Advising on best practices for working with Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Role and permission management in Azure DevOps
• Advising on Git branching strategies

Jira, Confluence, Webex, MS Azure, Azure AD, Azure DevOps, Azure Key Vault, 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, coordinating and controlling releases for multiple applications in the DBCRISP program. Releases include application updates, operating system patches and security enhancements. Responsible for managing release processes for deployments across SIT, UAT and production environments. Also responsible for setting up the IT release calendar in close collaboration with program and IT project managers from various DBCRISP applications. Supporting project and interdependency management to ensure milestone compliance and measure version integrity.

• Managing risks and resolving issues related to scope, schedule and quality of deliveries
• Coordinating release scopes and efforts based on the service request backlog
• Communicating release roadmaps, rollout plans, vendor commitments and changes, including schedule and scope changes, to project stakeholders and the business
• Managing business relationships and coordinating work between different teams at different locations
• Conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews and business go/no-go reviews
• Ensuring quality management of delivered release packages
• Advising on Git branching strategies
• Leading weekly deployment meetings and status reports in Confluence
• Negotiating, planning and managing all release activities
• Maintaining the release schedule for all DBCRISP services; ensuring alignment with key partners and vendors
• Continuously improving 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, WebLogic 12, 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 necessary tool-supported development processes for internal projects. Training project staff in using the DevOps tools. Support in building the DevOps environment for continuous integration and continuous deployment:

• Creating Docker images
• Creating Jenkins pipelines
• Integration of test automation (unit, UI, interfaces)
• Merging/branching with GitFlow
• SonarQube integration and configuration of rule sets
• 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
• Advice 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 when changing providers, I was responsible for taking over build and DevOps topics. After the transition phase, I was responsible for setting up the China Hub and GUI software development with the following tasks:

• Setting up the China Hub:**

• Effort estimates, creating requirement documents at levels 1 and 2 for China Hub projects

• Creating work breakdown structure for the hub setup

• Resource planning with task assignment for the hub

• Communication with BMW internal staff regarding change and incident management

• Coordination and management of the setup as project lead

• Participated 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 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

• Migration from GlassFish 2 to GlassFish 3 in the cockpit project. Migration from Java Struts to AngularJS

• Wrote 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