Interim Enterprise Architecture Manager (LEAD, extern)

Key figures 2023:

• €3.6 B revenue, 4,400 employees, 30 countries, 150 entities
• Strategic IT consulting
• Enterprise Architecture Management
• Designed a global EA strategy for the entire BayWa r.e. group with 150 national companies
• Aligned strategy with all stakeholders, top management, holding and corporate functions (Cyber Security, Information Security, Data Protection, ITSM)
• Coordinated strategy with business units (Wind Projects, Solar Projects, Services, IPP Asset Management, IPP Energy Trading, Solar Distribution, Energy Solutions)
• Analyzed, designed, and consolidated varied target landscapes into a consistent overall vision
• Reduced IT risks, standardized and harmonized the application landscape
• Implemented a cloud-first strategy and evolved or replaced strategic systems
• Led selection process, contractual negotiations, and implementation planning of a new EA tool (LeanIX)
• Operational responsibility for the EA team, daily operations, and hiring new members
• Reference letter attached

For “AS-IS analysis of IT landscape and identifying improvement potential”

• Analyzed entire IT landscape
• Designed a capability model and derived enhancements
• Business units: central and decentralized power generation, energy sales, trading, smart metering, smart cities
• Digitalization, Industry 4.0, customer journey
• TOGAF
• Enterprise Architecture Management
• Mapped complex IT environment across units
• Created business capability model for core areas and startups
• Identified standardization potential
• Consulted on follow-up project phases
• Project management: planning, organization, execution
• Facilitated workshops with business and subcontractors
• Project controlling

Led IT division of SDAX group, 2016: €476 M revenue, 2.4 M customers, ~50 entities

• Managed IT operations / infrastructure / data centers
• Led finance and support applications
• Led development / CRM
• Managed 35+ staff, €15 M p.a. budget
• Digitalized the company
• Identified market and tech trends
• Designed target architecture (EAM)
• Selected process integration platform (SOA)
• Customer digital experience / journey / case management
• Introduced agile methods (SCRUM) and nearshoring provider
• Post-merger integration
• Consolidated data centers
• Harmonized and standardized technologies
• Improved ITIL service processes (1st–3rd level)
• Outsourcing contract negotiations, defined services, SLAs, KPI reporting
• Led web launch of PŸUR brand, new webshop
• Integrated Amazon AWS via web services
• Built security architecture, performed security scans, set up processes
• Established IT controlling / dashboard for management communication and IT performance measurement
• Reference letter attached

For test planning and software testing

• Software development
• Test management
• IT security
• Business process management
• Coaching
• Sample process documentation
• Designed functional, process, and integration tests
• Conducted workshops and training

For strategic positioning and direction of the group

• Industry 4.0 / IoT
• Project management
• Conceptual and methodological advice on introducing cyber-physical systems
• Ran internal and vendor workshops
• Developed strategy paper with recommendations

For IT strategy development / operations / controlling

• IT strategy
• BPM / EAM
• Project management / staff training
• Designed IT strategy and reorganized department
• Identified and scored key IT initiatives
• Gap analysis of current vs. target state: operations, ITIL processes, service levels, systems consolidation
• Prepared for SAP S/4HANA (AS-IS / TO-BE)
• Staff training and coaching
• IT standards and controlling
• Compliance and risk management
• Defined necessary actions and project designs
• Selected project methodology and process organization
• Defined system development methodology
• Systems: SAP PP, SAP S/4HANA

For SAP rollout on largest subprojects Finance and logistics in one of Europe’s biggest software projects (> €450 M)

• PM, quality, change management
• BPM
• Set quality assurance guidelines and managed deliverables review
• Led PM and controlling
• Designed quality and change request management
• Coordinated vendors
• Initiated cost and resource optimization measures
• Systems: SAP ERP FI/CO/MM/SD/SolMan, Software AG ARIS

For IT infrastructure migration and HR planning system rollout for Financial Services and Sales units

• BPM / business analysis
• EAM and quality management
• IT project management
• AS-IS / TO-BE analysis of processes, systems, interfaces
• Optimized processes via gap analysis and prioritized improvements
• Defined process-oriented EAM target architecture for global sites
• Migrated current IT landscape to planned environment
• Coached staff on new architecture
• Systems: Software AG ARIS, Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Planning

• Led setup of business divisions
• Strategic and operational consulting for corporate, process and IT architectures, Industry 4.0
• Designed and implemented complex IT systems
• Project and quality management up to ~€450 M
• Author / co-author in publications
• Built teams and defined product & marketing strategy
• Hired and trained staff
• Designed and launched services:
• Strategic BPM, EAM, IT management, I4.0
• Process documentation and implementation
• Business/ITSM (CObIT, ITIL)
• Demand management / requirements engineering
• Governance and compliance
• Sales and CRM
• Reference: former Braincourt GmbH website

For project review of SAP R/3 FI/CO rollout

• PM and IT project management
• BPM
• Technical and business project review
• Reviewed planning, process docs, technical specs, system specs
• Validated effort estimates
• Identified optimization potential
• Developed decision templates

To introduce BPM

• BPM
• Project and change management
• Energy trading, spot markets
• Designed BPM and process map
• Mapped all trading processes
• Implemented compliance
• System: ARIS Business Architect

For functional and technical rollout of workflow and management info systems

• MIS cockpit design
• Gap analysis, feasibility study
• Functional specs and requirements
• Coordinated vendors
• PM and change management
• Systems: Business Process Platform, MS BizTalk Server

For former DAX company

• Corporate compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley)
• Drug safety
• ITSM and BCM
• Process analysis, modeling, optimization
• Implemented processes technically and organizationally
• Built internal controls
• Developed reports and interfaces
• Built MIS
• Systems: Software AG ARIS Toolset, ARIS Audit Manager, Tomcat, OpenText Livelink, Microsoft VBA

For MIS, enterprise portals, and ECM rollout

• Integrated corporate units
• Integrated archival systems
• MIS: SAP R/3 FI/CO with SAP BI
• Strategic and functional consulting for departments and management
• Requirements and process analysis, specs, budgeting
• System selection, contract negotiation, vendor coordination, team leadership
• Customizing, integrating existing systems, operations
• Systems: mySAP Enterprise Portals, SAP R/3, SAP BI, NetWeaver, EASY Archive

• Software localization for international use
• Process analysis
• Process modeling and optimization
• Effort estimation and budgeting
• Consulting

Mainly for MIS

• MIS for Black-Scholes based asset valuation of METRO real estate
• Custom software for real estate and broker management
• Model-based, object-oriented client/server apps on Windows and AS/400
• Requirements analysis and specs
• Process and data modeling
• Implementation and testing
• Coaching and support
• Systems: SYNON/2E, CA Advantage Plex, Oracle, iGrafx, Visio, Corel Draw

• Training and sales support
• Management consulting, knowledge transfer, IT advising