Erik S.

Project Manager, Subproject Manager, PMO

Bonn, Germany

Experience

Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
4 months

Project Manager, Subproject Manager, PMO

Martinswerk GmbH / Huber Advanced Materials

In this project assignment, a short-term staff shortage was covered. Several projects were continued, backlogs in documentation were worked off and the support team was introduced to agile methods (self-organization, task prioritization, etc.) alongside.

Project management, PMO, team agile coaching.

  • Project control
  • Communication interface between tech, users and project owners
  • Stakeholder management
  • Agile coach
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 9 months
Germany

Subproject Manager, Technical Process Owner

Landespolizei NRW

Development and operation of an interrogation solution. In this project, a centralized interrogation system for audiovisual recording of interrogations was developed from hardware and software and put into operation. Details confidential.

  • Developing concept based on user stories and legal requirements
  • Supporting the software vendor in development
  • Evaluating hardware
  • Preparing tender documents
  • Implementation on the client's platform
  • Creating an operations concept
  • Creating a BCM concept
  • Managing rollout
  • Supporting pilot with consulting for individual departments
  • Creating a support concept
  • Training support and operations teams
  • PMO
  • Participating in creating the DPA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) according to GDPR
  • Participating in creating a security concept
  • Advising the client on implementing agile methods within the project
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
4 months
Germany

Service Level Engineer

Vodafone GmbH

Service Level Engineer MCCM pilot project. In this project, a pilot for modern payment options was tested. Details confidential.

  • Creating the support model for system operations alongside the project. (Defining needed support, stakeholder management, commissioning services, preparing related documents)
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
6 months
Germany

Service Level Engineer

Vodafone GmbH

Service Level Engineer Omnichannel Payment Provider Dunning. In this project, dunning was switched to the new payment provider introduced in the main project and the underlying interfaces and processes were developed.

  • Creating the support model for system operations alongside the project. (Defining needed support, stakeholder management, commissioning services, preparing related documents)
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
5 months
Germany

Service Level Engineer

Vodafone GmbH

Service Level Engineer Comsafe 6a. In this project, the on-premise solution for commission calculation was migrated to a service provider hosted cloud solution due to end of life.

  • Creating and delivering the support model for system operations alongside the project
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
5 months
Germany

Service Level Engineer

Vodafone GmbH

Service Level Engineer Webticket 2.0 TED. In this project, a dashboard for outage overview was added to the self-service portal for business customers and the backend was reworked.

  • Creating the support model for system operations alongside the project. (Defining needed support, stakeholder management, commissioning services, preparing related documents)
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
7 months
Germany

Solution Integration Manager

Vodafone GmbH

Solution Integration Manager Enterprise Liable. Project to introduce new marker SOCs for authentication in KIAS for employee liable customers as employees of business customers. In this project, employee authentication towards Vodafone was developed as an automated and recurring process, triggering automatic setting and removal of SOCs.

  • Role as Solution Integration Manager (SIM) to accompany and control the implementation (development, testing, handover to operations) in the BSS release.
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
7 months
Germany

Solution Integration Manager

Vodafone GmbH

Solution Integration Manager Employee Liable SIM Swap. In this project, a manual workaround for replacing SIM cards when onboarding an enterprise liable customer by partner companies was replaced by an automated process.

  • Role as Solution Integration Manager (SIM) to accompany and control the implementation (development, testing, handover to operations) in the BSS release.
May 2017 - Jan 2018
9 months
Germany

Subproject Manager

Vodafone GmbH

Subproject Manager Environment/QA LoginB. The migration of a system cluster to a virtual infrastructure as well as the migration of all connected hardware (>50000 units). Due to increased security requirements, the platform was implemented geo-redundantly on virtualization clusters.

  • Responsible as Subproject Manager for environment for the test platforms, both in-house and at the client
  • Responsible for developing communication relationships (KMatrix)
  • SPOC for network engineering and system operations
  • PMO management
  • Coordinating QA measures and staff responsible for creating test cases
  • Creating the disaster recovery concept for the production system
May 2017 - Aug 2017
4 months
Germany

Tester

Vodafone GmbH

Tester PoC OnNet/OffNet functionality Enjoy More. In this proof of concept, charging/billing and the underlying functionality to separate valued data volume for OnNet/OffNet based on added flat rates was successfully demonstrated.

  • Role as tester and coordinator for hardware compatibility
  • Live network tracing
  • Trace analysis
  • Coordinating 3rd party suppliers for configuration changes
  • Generating test traffic for each tested app/flat
  • Documenting test procedures and results
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
4 months
Germany

Tester

Vodafone GmbH

Tester VoLTE Interconnect Phase II. In the VoLTE Interconnect project, interoperability of network operators for pure 4G calls without fallback to 2G was developed and tested.

  • Role as end-to-end tester for hardware compatibility and general function of 4G calls
  • This included test calls, live network tracing and trace analysis, and collaboration with testers from other involved providers.
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 3 months
Germany

Tester

Vodafone GmbH

Tester VoLTE Interconnect. In the VoLTE Interconnect project, interoperability of network operators for pure 4G calls without fallback to 2G was developed and tested.

  • Role as end-to-end tester for hardware compatibility and general function of 4G calls.
  • This included test calls, tracing and trace analysis.
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
7 months

Subproject Manager

Vodafone Group Plc

PreSales. The migration of a system cluster to a virtual infrastructure and the migration of all connected hardware (>50000 units). Details confidential.

PreSales activities with clients, suppliers and internal project stakeholders. These include:

  • Requirements analysis
  • Drafting project structure documents
  • Estimating efforts
  • Personnel planning
  • Writing parts of the proposal
  • Project cost calculation (sections)
  • Schedule planning
  • Client consulting
Nov 2013 - Feb 2016
2 years 4 months
Germany

Project Manager, Environment Manager

Vodafone GmbH

Vodafone VIP Labs. Activities in various roles (project manager, subproject manager, environment manager) in the test operations of Vodafone Germany.

  • As project manager responsible in the client area Environment (VIP Labs) for planning and executing internal and external projects, and representing the department as Environment Manager/Subproject Manager in major projects.
  • Also advising internal and external clients on the IN services, interface function to other service providing groups and people in the department, and documenting the IN services.
  • Troubleshooting and incident management in projects and regular operation of IN systems.
  • Support for type approvals and test projects as environment manager.
  • Also responsible for operating the IN (Intelligent Networks) systems, as well as contracting the external service provider for maintenance, incidents, entering work orders from TTWOS and patches.
  • Developing the service description for the IN systems and IN services in the VIPLab.

Technologies / methods:

  • BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite
  • BMC Remedy Service Desk
  • Change Management
  • Incident Management
  • PMO Management
  • Intelligent Networks (IN)
  • ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
  • Mobile networks
  • Next Generation Network (NGN)
  • Project leadership
  • Project management
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
4 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Associate

NRW.Bank

Project Office. Project support in the 'Workplace 2014' project at the client NRW.Bank in Düsseldorf.

  • Supporting project managers and subproject managers in the AP2014 project.
  • Personnel planning and staffing
  • Tracking needed resources
  • Preparing and presenting project documents
  • Setting up a project structure in SharePoint
  • Preparing client meetings and processing/analyzing data.
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
5 months
Germany

Rollout Coordinator

Thyssen Krupp

Rollout coordination at various sites for the client Thyssen-Krupp TKI.

  • Leading and coordinating a rollout team of 8-12 technicians at different sites in Germany.
  • Asset management and scheduling in client systems.
  • Responsibility for different rollout stages in the client's IT.
  • Escalation management, process adjustment.
Apr 2011 - Dec 2013
2 years 9 months
Germany

Workplace Manager

Bayer Business Services GmbH

Workplace Manager on temporary assignment at the client Bayer BBS. As service coordinator, independently managing a client area with around 4500 employees.

Focus areas were:

  • Controlling and correcting IT service delivery
  • Interface function to service providing departments
  • Process management
  • Asset management
  • PMO management
  • User management
  • SLA reporting with clients and service delivery managers
  • Escalation management
  • Project control
  • Advising and selling IT services of BBS to the client area.

Technologies / methods:

  • Change Management
  • HP OpenView Service Center
  • HP OpenView Service Manager
  • Incident Management
  • IT Service Management (ITIL V3)
  • ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
  • Project leadership

Summary

Mr. Schmalz has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and has been working in consulting since 2013 in various roles. His focus areas include planning, preparation and execution of different types of projects.

With his long history in various industries and positions, and his training as an IT systems electronics technician plus several internal and external trainings, Mr. Schmalz quickly learns new processes and organizations and always works solution- and goal-oriented.

He has been deployed at his clients in different roles and departments, both in project management and in quality assurance and service topics, as well as in product development.

Languages

German
Native

Education

Sep 2000 - Present
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Certifications & licenses

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PRINCE2 Foundation Level

ITIL V3 Foundation

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