Armand Guy (Armand) D.

Looking for projects

Augsburg, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 9 months

Looking for projects

Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
2 months

Project search and self-study in DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) regulation

  • DORA Regulation (EU) 2022/2554
  • DORA Directive (EU) 2022/2556
  • DORA final RTS and ITS drafts
  • Participation: DORA online seminars, online webinars & tool demos
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
9 months

Personal break

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
6 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant: Business Analyst & Expert for Identity & Access Management

LfA Development Bank of Bavaria

Consulting and support: Implementing the IAM system Garancy Suite and access management processes, reviewing and implementing regulations.

  • Consulting and support for the department in implementing and building the IAM system and access management processes according to regulatory requirements
  • Analysing the current state of the access management structure and processes and developing adjustment proposals for role-based access management
  • Reviewing the implementation and compliance with regulatory requirements (ECB, BaFin, BAIT, BSI and GDPR) across access management processes and workflows and making adjustments
  • Creating the service instruction document for identity and access management at LfA with access management processes (access concept, role concept, segregation of duties & SoD matrix, recertification concept, employee identity lifecycle, etc.), coordinating processes with departments and other stakeholders, and publishing
  • Adapting the IDV service instruction
  • Developing, coordinating, and implementing the user management process
  • Defining and implementing the joiner-mover-leaver process
  • Supporting preparation for regulatory audits
  • Supporting IAM system error analysis and resolution with the vendor
  • Analysing the IAM system process architecture and role concept and making suggestions for improvements and optimizations for customization
  • Designing and carrying out customizations with the vendor
  • Developing, implementing, and conducting monthly checks of access requests and IAM system rights usage
  • Contributing to planning and executing the recertification campaign
  • Responsible for implementing the action plan: cleaning up SAP roles at both the SAP IT system level and the IAM system level.
  • Technical environment: IAM system Garancy, Tool Management Cockpit, MS Office, WebEx, Outlook
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
2 months

Looking for projects

May 2022 - Jul 2022
3 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Test Manager/Test Coordinator eLOK / VENDO

Deutsche Bahn/DB Vertrieb GmbH

Project: eLOK / VENDO

  • Responsible for test coordination for the VENDO release train / eLOK sub-system
  • Creating transparency on the status of quality assurance in all systems involved in the version across all test levels (including version level reporting)
  • Contact person for test coordinators involved in the version, removing obstacles and providing test prerequisites
  • Preparing and conducting risk workshops and retrospectives
  • Advising test contacts and stakeholders on optimizing QA processes
  • Coordinating functional and technical tests for the VENDO release train regarding the implementation of requirements (Capabilities) with dependency on the eLOK sub-system
  • Aligning specific test periods between the affected domains in the VENDO release train and the eLOK release train
  • Agreeing on test criteria (test cases and test data) within VENDO and with test coordinators from the eLOK release train
  • Coordinating test data provisioning for all domains and systems
  • Coordinating test execution in the VENDO and eLOK release trains
  • Coordinating testers in the VENDO domains and synchronizing with test coordination for the eLOK system
  • Ensuring environment availability between the VENDO and eLOK release trains
  • Organizing kickoff, sync and status meetings
  • Creating status reports
  • Technical environment: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, Outlook
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
2 years 2 months

Corona-related downtime

  • Child care (homeschooling)
  • Self-study and expanding know-how in:
  • IT/Cyber Security (e.g. access management, IAM, PAM, ITSM)
  • Regular participation in webinar series:
  • IT/Cyber Security topics (e.g. BM, IAM, PAM, ITSM & CCM) by CONET Solutions - Hennef, and
  • Project Management topics (e.g. PM methods & tools, resource management, PMO) by TPG The Project Group - Munich
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
9 months
Hanover, Germany

Test Manager/ IAM System Integration & Acceptance – Consultant PL for Change Management

Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale – Nord/LB

Project KITO: Migration of SAM Garancy IAM system

  • General consulting and support of the department throughout the migration process according to ITILv3 standard
  • Consulting the sub-project lead on the implementation of the change process
  • Developing and agreeing on the technical migration documentation ("BIL Documentation"): master test concept, operations concept, and IT concept of the IAM system
  • Advising project management on communication processes with the service provider TTA and other stakeholders
  • Defining and approving the target test concept for the responsible service provider for the IAM system migration
  • Planning, creating, and agreeing on test cases for the acceptance of the SAM Garancy IM system after migration
  • Executing, evaluating, and documenting acceptance tests of the BPW SAM Garancy IM system after migration, including workflows: role modeling, assignment, revocation, processing, approval processes, user permissions, reporting, etc.
  • Developing a concept proposal for defining and implementing criteria to check, identify, and monitor high privileged rights (HPU) for access management and IT security
  • Technical environment: IM system SAM (SAM Enterprise and SAM Juniper Workflow), MS Office, HPQC/HP-ALM, PowerPoint
May 2018 - Dec 2018
8 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Consultant: Business Analyst: IAM & Access Management Process Management / Access Concept

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Project: Access management concept & implementation of the LBBW IAM system GARANCY

  • General consulting and support for the department in setting up a central access management administration (ZVBM) for role-based access management
  • Analyzing and optimizing access management processes and workflows
  • Reviewing implementation and compliance with regulatory requirements (ECB, BaFin, BAIT, BSI) along the AM processes and workflows
  • Simplifying and adapting the old access concept
  • Developing, agreeing, and implementing/automating a new access concept suitable for LBBW's role-based access management – new world
  • Supporting the evaluation and acceptance of access concepts
  • Conducting an as-is assessment and analysis of the GARANCY IAM system to identify the current state of organizational (structure and operational organization etc.), technical, and process architecture
  • Developing the target concept for completing and further developing the new IAM system: architecture and AM processes
  • Developing the decommissioning and migration concept for the old IDM system and carrying out system replacement
  • Planning the decommissioning process of the old IDM system
  • Developing and agreeing on the onboarding process (technical and functional onboarding, connection and integration) for new IT systems and permission changes
  • Developing and agreeing on the criteria template for MaRisk relevance review
  • Developing and agreeing on criteria for reviewing, identifying, and monitoring high privileged PAM permissions with SIEM/IT security
  • Process support for permission group and role modeling
  • Contributing to the functional and technical implementation of the segregation of duties process (MaRisk and other SoD, SoD matrix) on permission objects and the IAM system
  • QA review of central documents: policies, guidelines, and concepts of the ZVBM
  • Technical environment: IAM system Garancy, tool NEXIS, MS Office, HPQC, PowerPoint
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
10 months

Application/ Project Search

May 2017 - Jul 2017
3 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Professional Training and Certification: MCAS Microsoft Visio/ MS Project/ PP

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG

Jan 2017 - May 2017
5 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Training & Certification: Process Management: ITIL2011 Process Management Expert

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG

Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
2 years 1 month

Consulting and Support, Private Coaching

Research, analysis, market research, and coaching for technical scientific research projects

  • Conducting market research, technical research, and analysis for industry and business
  • Coaching, consulting, guidance, and orientation (technical, methodological, and organizational) for scientific technical research projects
  • Support with evaluation, analysis, interpretation, and documentation of technical data and documents
  • Application/ project search
  • Technical environment: MS Office, PowerPoint, Internet
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
2 months
Munich, Germany

Training & Certification: Project Management PRINCE2® Foundation, PRINCE2® Practitioner

NH IT4ME Training und Consulting GmbH

Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
5 months
Bamako, Mali

Consultant: General Management/ Technical Department

Comité de Régulation des Télécommunications (CRT) du Mali

Planning of the 2014 measurement campaign: QoS audit: Quality of Service Control for Mali's Telecommunications Operators

  • Advising the telecommunications regulatory authority on planning and preparing the 2014 measurement campaign to assess network coverage and QoS for all network operators
  • Inventory: QoS status from the last measurements
  • Defining measurement criteria and services to be measured
  • Defining requirements for measurement systems and making proposals
  • Defining performance and key performance indicators (PI & KPI) for 2G and 3G and recommending target values.
  • Establishing quality-controlled evaluation of measurement data
  • Defining the project framework and objectives.
  • Creating the commissioning concept.
  • Setting the project milestones.
  • Creating the technical requirements specification.
  • Technical environment: MS Office.
Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 3 months

Consulting and Support, Private Coaching

Research, analysis, market research and coaching of technical scientific research projects

  • Conducting market research, technical research and analyses for industry and business
  • Coaching, consulting, support and guidance (technical, methodological and organizational) of scientific technical research projects
  • Support with evaluation, analysis, interpretation and documentation of technical data and documents
  • Technical environment: MS Office
Jul 2011 - Aug 2013
2 years 2 months

Parental Leave/ Childcare and Job Applications/ Job Search

Jan 2011 - Jun 2011
6 months

Process Manager, Liquidator and Contact Person for Authorities

Telsyst Engineering GmbH

Organization and support: insolvency proceedings and audits

  • Filing for insolvency
  • Organizing and supporting all insolvency process activities
  • Organizing and supporting all audit process activities
  • Contact person for authorities and suppliers
  • Organizing and carrying out the liquidation process
  • Deregistration and deletion of the company
  • Technical environment: MS Office
Jul 2010 - Oct 2010
4 months
Lomé, Togo

Consultant/Service: General Management/ Technical Management

Autorité de Reglementation des Secteurs de Post et de Télécomminications ART&P Togo

Project at Telsyst Engineering GmbH / ART&P: Tender: QoS measurements and network coverage for telecommunications in Togo

  • Advising the telecom regulator on the preparation, execution and evaluation of the measurement campaign to check network coverage and QoS for all network operators
  • Preparing the technical tender
  • Setting and defining the measurement criteria and services to be measured
  • Defining the requirements for measurement systems and proposal
  • Defining performance and key performance indicators (PIs & KPIs) and recommending target values.
  • Setting the quality-assured evaluation of measurement data
  • Defining the project scope and objectives.
  • Creating the project concept.
  • Preparing the project schedule.
  • Estimating project resources.
  • Creating the commissioning concept.
  • Defining project milestones.
  • Writing the technical specifications.
  • Supporting the tender process
  • Supporting the acceptance of the measurement campaign
  • Technical environment: MS Office, MS Project
Oct 2009 - Oct 2010
1 year 1 month
Bamako, Mali

Consultant/Service: General Management/ Technical Management

Comité de Régulation des Télécommunications (CRT) du Mali

Project at Telsyst Engineering GmbH / CRT: Tender: QoS audit: Quality control of service of telecommunications operators in Mali

  • Advising the telecom regulator on the preparation, execution and evaluation of the measurement campaign to check network coverage and QoS for all network operators
  • Preparing the technical tender
  • Setting and defining the measurement criteria and services to be measured
  • Defining the requirements for measurement systems and proposal
  • Defining performance and key performance indicators (PIs & KPIs) and recommending target values.
  • Setting the quality-assured evaluation of measurement data
  • Defining the project scope and objectives.
  • Creating the project concept.
  • Preparing the project schedule.
  • Estimating project resources.
  • Creating the commissioning concept.
  • Defining project milestones.
  • Writing the technical specifications.
  • Supporting the tender process
  • Supporting the acceptance of the measurement campaign
  • Technical environment: MS Office, MS Project
Apr 2008 - Nov 2010
2 years 8 months

Managing Director & Team Leader

Telsyst Engineering GmbH

Telecommunications: Network Service

  • General management activities
  • Staff leadership and coaching
  • Negotiations with suppliers
  • Acceptance of test & measurement systems
  • Contact person for authorities and suppliers
  • Acquisition of orders and marketing domestic and abroad
  • Preparation of offers
  • Management of test & measurement campaigns
  • Analysis and reporting: QoS & coverage measurement campaign
  • Conducting business negotiations with mobile network operators (planning/optimization/quality) and the telecom regulator
  • Definition, planning and further development of company services and strategies
  • Technical environment: MS Office, MS Project, ROMESInternet
Apr 2008 - Mar 2009
1 year
Sindelfingen, Germany

Test Manager/System Integration & Acceptance - Project Management Support/Services to the Client at the Contract Site

Daimler AG

MDS Modularization/ARIS BA

  • Supporting the project manager
  • Managing the testing & integration interface
  • Implementing and carrying out the communication process as SPOC for release acceptances, testing, change requests and defect management
  • Defining and specifying the test process and creating test cases (functionality, usability, performance ...) for accepting the ARIS platform according to specification
  • Developing test cases and test plans and coordinating them within the project team
  • Coordination: test execution, evaluation, test statistics, fault management
  • Participation in change management
  • Problem management:
  • Defect and CR management (documentation, communication, analysis, escalation and reporting)
  • Tracking and fixing defects with the supplier
  • Defect statistics and reporting
  • Approval of individual SW modules for integration/production
  • Developing and delivering application training for core project team members
  • Technical environment: MS Office, MS Project, ARIS BA, MDS Mod
Sep 2007 - Jan 2008
5 months
Munich, Germany

Project Engineer/Team Trainer, Motorola-FT Project Team

Eurospace GmbH

E2E tests of new handset devices from Motorola

  • Supporting and coaching the Eurospace test team in planning and conducting E2E testing of handset device features and mobile services at the air interface
  • Supporting the project team in meeting weekly targets
  • Mobile networks know-how transfer and exchange with the team, improving test quality and overall team performance
  • Conducting E2E tests on new portal products from Motorola according to customer specifications and defined test programs
  • Technical environment: MS Office, test center tools, CRM tools, radio trace tools
Mar 2007 - Jul 2007
5 months
Radolfzell, Germany

Program Manager, Occupant Safety Systems Department

TRW Automotive

Program management

  • Creating and revising the overall project plan, including time and resource planning based on the GDPIM development process
  • Organizing and conducting project status reviews
  • Responsible for change management during project development cycles
  • Developing a communication concept and introducing a cross-group communication process and plan for changes
  • Ensuring and optimizing project communication within the project team, other stakeholders, and between development teams
  • Controlling schedules, milestones, and resources
  • Detailing requirements and adjusting project plans in coordination with the respective project leads
  • Regular internal project status reporting
  • Project support during critical phases of system development to ensure achievement of project goals and customer-agreed system delivery dates
  • Technical environment: MS Office, MS Project 2003
May 2006 - Sep 2006
5 months
Munich, Germany

Project Engineer, Telecommunications Department

ESG Elektronik Systeme und Logistik GmbH

Project AIMS (Autonomous Indoor Measurement System)

  • Analysis and research: demand for measurement systems at mobile network operators
  • Evaluation of radio network measurement systems available on the market
  • Assessment of the functionality and usability of the AIMS measurement system
  • Developing optimization measures (HW and SW) and proposals for a competitive AIMS
  • Creating and modeling AIMS report concepts for monitoring, analyzing and presenting radio field data from the air interface and radio field parameters PI and KPI
  • Basic research for AIMS further development
  • Developing an expansion concept (functions, use cases, handling …) for AIMS
  • Developing proposals for a strategic market launch of AIMS
  • Developing a concept to assess the need for installing a UMTS compensator in AUDI production vehicles: component analysis for new vehicles
  • Developing a concept to assess the need for installing a UMTS compensator in AUDI production vehicles: statistical quality and service availability
  • Technical environment: MS Office
Jan 2006 - Mar 2006
3 months

Project manager

Own project: Starting a business

  • Definition of project scope and objectives.
  • Creation of the project concept.
  • Definition of company structure and strategy.
  • Conducting market research and market analysis.
  • Documentation.
  • Creating a business plan.
  • Technical environment: MS Office.
Oct 2005 - Dec 2005
3 months
Munich, Germany

Project engineer: Dept. Network Service Quality/Quality Indicator & Certification

O2 Germany GmbH

Network quality management

  • Quality management tasks for mobile data services (UMTS/GPRS).
  • Quality evaluation of new products and services from the customer’s perspective.
  • Definition of key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Aligning target values for the KPIs with product marketing and engineering.
  • Assessing the measurability and derivation of KPIs from air interface data.
  • Planning tests to ensure quality approval of new products.
  • Conducting or commissioning user tests and field trials.

Personally responsible for designing and planning the project: “Verification of 3G Coverage”. This includes:

  • Definition of project scope and objectives.
  • Creation of the project concept.
  • Creation of the project schedule.
  • Preparation of decision papers.
  • Organizing and leading cross-departmental meetings (project organization and process coordination).
  • Project resource estimation.
  • Developing the commissioning concept.
  • Setting project milestones.
  • Point of contact for external suppliers and contractors.
  • Creation of the requirements specification.
  • Evaluation of offers from suppliers and contractors.
  • Initiating the tendering process.
  • Approval of project execution by external agency.
  • Technical environment: MS Office, UMTS, GPRS, project management tools.
Dec 2004 - Aug 2005
9 months
Ulm, Germany

Technical operations/project manager

Global TCom J.N.

Technical operations/project manager

  • Planning and supervising the implementation of all technical infrastructures.
  • Selecting suppliers and acting as their contact person.
  • Rollout management.
  • System acceptance and logging.
  • Technical documentation.
  • Training employees.
  • Technical environment: project management tools, MS Office.
Nov 2002 - Oct 2004
2 years
Berlin, Germany
Hybrid

Project engineer: graduate coaching: hybrid renewable energy supply systems

FB Energietechnik/TU Berlin

Research

  • Research: hybrid renewable energy supply systems for sensitive systems like BTS and BSC for telecommunications.
  • Technical environment: Microsoft, MS Office, PowerPoint, Internet, simulation & test bench.
Nov 2000 - Aug 2002
1 year 10 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Development engineer: radio network planning/optimization: Dept. of Technology and Development

Vodafone D2 GmbH

Regional network development & optimization

  • Developing network planning/optimization concepts.
  • Organizing and commissioning drive tests, network equipment checks.
  • Analyzing air interface data and network performance (parameter optimization, handover planning).
  • Performing statistical optimization methods.
  • Analyzing and evaluating KPIs, air interface measurement data, drive tests and cell trace, planning and analyzing handovers, drops, interference.
  • Introducing new features.
  • Creating simulations (connections, neighbor relationships, coverage, interference).
  • Creating and maintaining cell parameters.
  • Performing site system checks and documentation (antenna alignment, cabling, mechanical tilt, TMA, comparing actual vs. target with plans and database, photography, etc.).
  • Assisting with frequency, radio and fixed network planning (frequency adjustment, coverage, access planning, etc.).
  • Rollout management: participating in regional swaps and radio network deployment projects.
  • Participating in cross-departmental projects (performance analysis, counters, knowledge transfer and exchange, development of optimization strategies).
  • Technical environment: MS Office, PowerPoint, Internet, network simulation tools, statistical tools.
Jul 1998 - Oct 2001
3 years 4 months
Berlin, Germany

PhD candidate & scientific support for the faculty

Faculty of Energy Technology/TU Berlin

  • Supervision and leadership (technical, methodological and organizational) of research projects in the form of student and diploma theses at TU Berlin

Languages

French
Native
German
Advanced
English
Intermediate

Education

Jul 1998 - Oct 2001

TU Berlin

Doctor of Engineering · Energy and Automation Engineering · Berlin, Germany

Oct 1994 - Jun 1997

TU Berlin

Diploma · Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications Engineering · Berlin, Germany

Oct 1992 - Jun 1994

TU Berlin

Pre-Diploma · Electrical Engineering · Berlin, Germany

Certifications & licenses

MCAS Microsoft Visio/ MS Project/ PP

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Continual Service Improvement Certificate IT Service Management (ITIL®CSI)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Foundation Certificate In IT Service Management (ITIL®F)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Managing Across The Lifecycle Certificate IT Service Management (ITIL®MALC)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Service Design Certificate In IT Service Management (ITIL®SD)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Service Operation Certificate In IT Service Management (ITIL®SO)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Service Strategy Certificate In IT Service Management (ITIL®SS)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL® Service Transition Certificate In IT Service Management (ITIL®ST)

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

ITIL®v3 2011 Expert

New Horizons - Gates training GmbH &Co. KG – Stuttgart

PRINCE2 Foundation

NH IT4ME Training und Consulting GmbH - München

PRINCE2 Practitioner

NH IT4ME Training und Consulting GmbH - München

Measurement System & Software ROMES

ROHDE & SCHWARZ München

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