Dimitry Kirschner - Rollout Expert

Munich, Germany

Experience

Mar 2025 - Present

11 months

Germany

Rollout Expert

Everience Germany GmbH

Project: Mazars Windows 11 rollout: responsible for the Windows 11 rollout at the Mazars client
Understanding customer-specific requirements (hardware compatibility, application dependencies, Microsoft AD group policies)
Implementing hardware logistics at customer sites
Coordinating IT, business unit, security, and compliance teams
Updating infrastructure
Performing driver and firmware updates
Automating the rollout using scripts
Notifying users, providing FAQs, change logs, and support contacts
Technologies: Baramundi Management Center, AD, Azure AD, Intune, Office 365, OpenProject, RDP, Topdesk, MS Teams, PowerShell

Sep 2024 - Nov 2024

3 months

Software Developer

UAB IT Servisas Benamukas

Project: implementation of cryptocurrency payments (ERC20 tokens) on an Ethereum-based blockchain
Integration with Java backend using Ethers
Integration with React frontend using Wagmi and Viem
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Solidity, Hardhat, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Ethers, React, Wagmi

Sep 2023 - Jul 2024

11 months

Munich, Germany

Project lead in IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault environment

Bayerische Versorgungskammer

Secret Server project: responsible for the POC and introduction of IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault at the client
Project planning including creation and maintenance of all relevant project plans
Requirements management
Leading and coordinating the infrastructure team in collaboration with IBM consultants and the DevOps team
Planning and managing release activities related to IT concept creation and POC implementation
Managing risks and troubleshooting issues in scope, schedule, and quality of deliveries
Assigning work packages to project team members for implementation and monitoring progress
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, MS Teams, Bitbucket, Rancher, Kubernetes, IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault

May 2022 - Dec 2022

8 months

Munich, Germany

DevSecOps architect and technical project manager

Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG

Galaxy CI/CD project: setting up a CI/CD environment for Ericsson 4G and 5G telco applications
Defining CI/CD architectural patterns
Aligning architecture decisions with software architects, IT security, DevOps team, and network engineers
Project planning including creation and maintenance of all relevant project plans
Creating work packages, including their ongoing development and monitoring
Coordinating and assigning work packages to project team members
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, GitLab, Nexus, Kubernetes, Ansible, BMC Remedy, MS Teams

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021

1 year

Munich, Germany

DevOps architect

SIP Syncpilot Software GmbH & Co. KG

KymaDevOps project: concept and setup of a dev environment with CI/CD in MS Azure Cloud and INT environment in SAP Kyma Cloud
Gathering and aligning technical requirements
Designing and implementing the IT infrastructure setup in MS Azure Cloud and SAP Cloud
Creating deployment pipelines
Advising on best practices for MS Azure DevOps
Managing roles and permissions in Azure DevOps
Advising on microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and Elastic Search
SonarQube rule set configuration and consulting
Technologies: 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

Aug 2020 - Apr 2024

3 years 9 months

Munich, Germany

Technical Project Manager in Customer Portals Environment

Bayerische Versorgungskammer

Responsible for the technical coordination of building and go-live of BVK customer portals
Project planning as well as creating and maintaining all relevant project plans
Capturing and aligning new requirements with operations and development
Creating release plans and work packages including continuous updates, monitoring, and reporting
Prioritizing requirements and tasks together with project and development management
Reviewing requirements and implementation for data protection (GDPR)
Assigning work packages to project team members
Participating in meetings in an agile software development process
Coordinating with change management and data center operations
Aligning architecture decisions with software architects, developers, IT security, DevOps team, and operations
Administrative tasks in Jenkins and JFrog
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, MS Project, IBM ICP, Rancher, Terraform, Git, Draw.io, SharePoint, JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins, Grafana, Elasticsearch

Oct 2019 - May 2020

8 months

Munich, Germany

Solution Architect

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG

Project Customer Portal: Building a customer portal in Azure Cloud
Capturing and aligning new requirements with operations and development
Prioritizing requirements together with project management
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
Designing and implementing the solution design with an external provider
Assigning work packages to project team members
Participating in agile software development processes
Coordinating with security, change management, and data center operations
Aligning architecture decisions with software architects, infrastructure architects, IT security, DevOps team, and operations
Integrating application and infrastructure security into Agile and DevOps processes
Managing risks and troubleshooting scope, schedule, and quality
Advising on Azure DevOps best practices and Git branching strategies
Technologies: 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

Apr 2019 - Sep 2019

6 months

Munich, Germany

Project Manager

Brainloop AG

Project IX Global: Building the iX platform in the US data center (Staging, Demo, Prod)
Leading and coordinating the infrastructure teams (US and Germany)
Negotiating, planning, and managing release activities
Preparing presentations and participating in steering committee meetings with C-level management
Preparing workshops with sales and support colleagues from the USA
Managing risks and troubleshooting scope, schedule, and quality
Go-live activities including executing deployment plans and checklists
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Webex, ProjectLibre, GitLab CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes, Rancher, VMware, CEPH, Couchbase, Terraform, Helm, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Golang, MS Project

Mar 2018 - Feb 2019

1 year

Frankfurt, Germany

Program Release Manager

Deutsche Bank AG

Project Anti-Financial Crime E2E Processing (DBCRISP): Responsible for the release management lifecycle in the AML program
Planning, coordinating, and controlling releases for multiple applications (SIT, UAT, PROD)
Setting up the IT release calendar in collaboration with program and IT project managers
Supporting the management of projects and interdependencies to meet milestones
Managing risks and troubleshooting scope, schedule, and quality
Coordinating release scopes and efforts based on the service request backlog
Communicating the release roadmap, rollout plans, and changes to stakeholders
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
Participating in CAB meetings
Technologies: Bitbucket, Jira, Jama, Confluence, MS Project, TeamCity, HP ALM, ServiceNow, Enterprise Architect, WebLogic12, OpenShift, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Java 8, Oracle 12c, Tableau, IBM UCD, Veracode

Oct 2016 - Mar 2018

1 year 6 months

Munich, Germany

Technical Project Manager, IT Architect, and DevSecOps Expert

NTT Data Deutschland GmbH

Project CASA (BMW ConnectedDrive): DevSecOps tasks: deployments, setting up Jenkins pipelines, process optimization, preparing for data migrations and the switch to a microservices architecture, creating deployment gates, central builds and source code analysis, SonarQube rule sets
Project PostgreSQL Migration: Technical project leadership and architecture design for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL, liaising with BMW stakeholders, migration planning, and technical consulting
Project Claudification: Documenting the cloud architecture, preparing for transitions to OpenShift cloud solutions
Project Callisto: Creating a high-level concept for migrating an SAP Web Dynpro application to Java Liferay Portal Server and PostgreSQL, conducting requirements analysis, concept documentation
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, HP ALM, Remedy, Jenkins, Grafana, Elasticsearch, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Project, Java 7, Jackson, Jersey, PostgreSQL, Payara, Liferay Portal 7, Arquillian, Swagger, Spring Boot, DBeaver, MQ Client, Docker, Ansible, OpenShift, AWS

Nov 2015 - Jul 2016

9 months

Munich, Germany

DevOps Expert

E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH

ESP project: innovation audit of the platform via online questionnaire, release management with semantic versioning, contribution to platform architecture
setting up the DevOps environment for CI/CD: creating Docker images, Jenkins chains, test automation (unit, UI, interfaces), merging/branching with GitFlow, SonarQube integration and configuration, deployment to Artifactory, VM provisioning in Azure Cloud via automation scripts
onboarding project team members to DevOps tools
advising on Git branching strategies and creating deployment gates
further development and support of the agile management tool
Technologies: 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

Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

2 months

Ingolstadt, Germany

IT Architect, Release and Environment Manager

NTT Data Deutschland GmbH

AUDI Connected Car Center project: analysis of external interfaces to the AUDI Modular Backend Kit (MBB), reviewing interface contracts
contributed to architecture requirements for NTT Com's private cloud solution for AUDI
release and environment management using MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint
monitoring milestones, coordinating technical staff in problem solving, organizing internal project meetings
technical support for project management in environment setup with Chef, application packaging with Docker and virtualization with VMware
Technologies: Java 1.6, Tomcat, Chef, Ruby, Docker, LDAP, Oracle 11g, Git, Jenkins, CentOS 7, VMware, Shell, Confluence, Jira Agile Plugin, MS Project

Nov 2014 - Jul 2015

9 months

Munich, Germany

Subproject Leader, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Java Software Developer and DevOps Engineer

MVI Solve IT GmbH

GCDM transition phase project: takeover of build and DevOps topics during the provider change
China Hub setup: effort estimations, requirements documents, project structure plan, resource planning, communication with BMW staff, coordination and control, Jenkins jobs, SonarQube integration, customer consulting, rollout preparation
GUI software development in a Scrum team: developing new AngularJS directives and integrating Talend web services, further development of the dealer locator service (Mapsstraction Geocoding API, Google and Yandex), migration from GlassFish 2 to 3, switching from Java Struts to AngularJS, system integration tests
Technologies: Java 1.7, Eclipse, Mockito, IntelliJ, WebStorm, AngularJS, Jasmine, Protractor, Talend, jQuery, SonarQube, Crucible, GlassFish 3.1, Nagios, Siteminder, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Jira, Confluence, HP QC, Remedy, PISA, ITSSP, CMDB, MS Project

Skills

Technical Competencies: Requirements Analysis With Uml, Design
Qualifications: Implementation, Maintenance, System Analysis, Devsecops
Project Management: Agile Project Management With Scrum And Kanban, Itil, Jira, Jama, Confluence, Ms Project, Hp Alm, Enterprise Architect
Programming Languages: Java J2ee (Spring Boot, Ejb, Jsp, Jsf2, Gwt, Rmi, Ibatis, Hibernate, Eclipselink), Python, Jython, Groovy, Javascript (Angularjs, Jquery), Html 5, Pl/sql
Operating Systems And Cloud: Windows, Linux, Mac Osx, Unix, Openshift, Kubernetes, Ms Azure, Amazon Aws, Google Gcp
Application And Web Servers: Ibm Websphere, Oracle Weblogic, Glassfish, Tomcat, Jboss, Apache
Databases: Oracle, Postgresql, Db2, Ms Sql, Mysql, Mongodb, Redis, Flyway, Liquibase
Devsecops: Gitlab, Bitbucket, Github, Jenkins, Helm, Artifactory, Sonarqube, Ansible, Black Duck, Veracode