Frank D.
Sole Managing Director and Head of My Own Company and Consultant for Corporate Clients and Start-ups
Experience
Jan 2010 - Present
16 yearsDarmstadt, Germany
Sole Managing Director and Head of My Own Company and Consultant for Corporate Clients and Start-ups
FAIRMAR GmbH
- Sole Managing Director and Head of My Own Company and Consultant for Corporate Clients and Start-ups.
- Highlights of the Last 2 Years:
- Built a global IT platform for a large logistics company to run local IT infrastructure (applications not cloud-enabled) – Project Manager.
- FINOPS project for the multi-cloud environment of a large logistics company to significantly reduce cloud costs – Project Manager.
- Prepared the AWS cloud migration for a medium-sized company (global provider of aftermarket data in the automotive sector) – Project Manager.
- AWS cloud migration preparation for a medium-sized company (book wholesale) – Project Manager.
- Cloud migration preparation and execution for an insurance company (database technology change – Kubernetes cluster) – Project Manager.
- Evaluation project: cloud vs. local in-house operation for an insurance company (database technology change – Kubernetes cluster) – Project Manager.
- Highlights before 2023:
- AWS cloud migrations – Project Lead.
- Third Party IT Risk Vendor Management – Governance & Reporting.
- IT infrastructure performance management.
- Continual service improvement (CSI) according to ITIL.
- Start-up consulting (partially subsidized).
- Clients: Deutsche Bank, DEVK, DB Schenker, First Data, various medium-sized companies and start-ups.
Jan 2001 - Dec 2010
10 yearsLondon, United Kingdom
Managing Consultant with Own Consulting Team in Frankfurt
Sutherland Consulting GmbH
- Worked as a Managing Consultant with my own consulting team in Frankfurt.
- The German GmbH was at that time a 100% subsidiary of Sutherland Consulting Ltd, UK, which is part of the French Altran Group.
- Focus Areas:
- Project management / PMO in banking projects.
- Project governance, project finance including business case.
- Europe-wide data center consolidation and migration for a global bank.
- Business case for merging two payment systems.
- Highlights – Continued:
- Merger/outsourcing for a transaction bank.
- Analysis and re-engineering of a securities settlement platform.
- Project to close audit findings in Italy.
- Clients: Deutsche Bank, European Transaction Bank, SEB, DB Consortium Italia.
Jan 2000 - Dec 2001
2 yearsHong Kong
COO of an E-Commerce Online Payment Provider and Transaction Processor
Payment Group PLC
- Worked in Hong Kong, PR China, as COO of an e-commerce online payment provider and transaction processor.
- Highlights:
- Deputy to the CEO.
- Reported directly to investors and business angels.
Jan 1981 - Dec 2000
20 yearsReutlingen, Germany
Head of Operations (COO)
Baden-Württembergische Bank AG
- Started as a trainee.
- Later worked as deputy branch manager at the main branch in Reutlingen.
- Then served as Head of Operations (COO) in the overseas branches in Guernsey (Channel Islands) and Hong Kong (PR China).
Summary
Consultant with 19 years of experience in the banking sector and another 22 years in consulting. I have worked on global large-scale projects, mainly in the IT area of banks, financial service providers, logistics companies and medium-sized businesses.
Since 2010, I have been the sole Managing Director of FAIRMAR GmbH in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. The company offers its clients business and IT consulting as well as service management. Our focus areas are project management, cloud consulting and migrations. FAIRMAR's clients include, among others, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, the European Central Bank, EIOPA and the European Patent Office. We have also carried out projects for DEVK Versicherung and DB Schenker.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedCertifications & licenses
AWS Architectural Certificate (Advanced)
AWS
Trainer (IHK)
IHK
Banking Specialist
Celonis EMS – Process Mining
Celonis
EMS Technical Expert
Celonis
Google Certified
ITIL (F)
PRINCE2 (P&F)
Solution Creation Expert
Celonis
Value Assessment Expert
Celonis
Value Realization Expert
Celonis
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