Kolja I.

Project Manager Service & Operations of the Sectoral IDP

Barcelona, Spain

Experience

Mar 2025 - May 2025
3 months

Project Manager Service & Operations of the Sectoral IDP

Barmer Ersatzkasse

  • Ongoing improvement of the project
  • First point of contact for contract terms and breaches
  • Coordination of the IDM project with 3 sister projects at Barmer
  • Reporting to the steering committee
  • Communication and conflict management with internal teams and vendors

Service:

  • Analysis of monitoring and comparison with contract terms
  • Crisis talks with vendors such as T-Systems

IDM software operations:

  • Incident management for existing sales software
  • Ticket creation, sprint, release, and hotfix planning
  • App monitoring and performance reporting to management
  • Data preparation and setup of business intelligence tools
  • Implementation and coordination of the new framework agreement
  • Management and optimization of test processes and interface management
  • Process optimization and setup of the intranet with Atlassian products

Vendor management:

  • Coordination with T-Systems and Verimi
  • Implementation of contractual terms and Gematik requirements

Technology and software:

  • Software: Jira, Confluence, BPMN
  • Technology: AWS Cloud, interfaces, SharePoint
  • Processes: GDPR, data protection, IT security, IT architecture, KRITIS, Gematik
  • Documentation: User stories, epics, release notes, operations manual
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
6 months

Project Manager ERP Development

Peter Döhle Schifffahrts KG

  • Introduction of project structures and agile mindset
  • Creation and categorization of program risks
  • Validation of existing and introduction of new software tools like X-Ray and Cypress
  • Leadership of 9 internal and 2 external teams
  • Reporting to 2 steering committees and executive management
  • Communication, conflict management, and team building
  • Workshops on IT processes

Release Management:

  • Design and implementation of the release process
  • Setup of release monitoring in the Atlassian suite with X-Ray
  • Setup of the automated release workflow and data governance

Cutover Management:

  • Planning and implementation of migration and synchronization from the current ERP system
  • Planning the go-live periods
  • Planning and coordination of change and training processes

Monitoring of relevant processes:

  • Setup of ITIL incident management and test automation
  • Auditing the project status
  • Creation of project closure documentation

Technology and software:

  • Software: Jira, Confluence, X-Ray, Cypress, BPMN, Asana, Miro
  • Technology: Azure Cloud, interfaces, SharePoint, M365, public key, TBM
  • Processes: GDPR, data protection, IT security, IT architecture, DORA, Power BI, migration
  • Documentation: user stories, epics, release notes
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
7 months

Release Manager, Cutover Manager

Mainova – Stadtwerke Frankfurt

Release Management:

  • Creation of a release concept for 16 teams
  • Setup of release monitoring in the Atlassian suite with X-Ray
  • Setup and communication of the automated release workflow
  • Workshops on IT processes

Cutover Management:

  • Detailed planning of customer data migration from SAP IS-U
  • Integration of the SAP general ledger with the new system
  • Organization, execution, and monitoring of go-lives
  • Leading kick-off, requirements, and information workshops
  • Coordination with 20 company-wide departments and visualization of tasks and dependencies
  • Creation of decision-making materials for program management
  • Management of project risks and issues in energy sectors like customer service, market communication, and IT security

Monitoring of relevant processes:

  • Setup of ITIL incident management
  • Creation of test automation with Tosca
  • Leading documentation efforts

Vendor management:

  • Coordination with TAP Gesellschaft and Accenture
  • Collaboration with Atlassian vendor Communardo

Technology and software:

  • Software: SAP, Salesforce, MuleSoft, Jira, Confluence, X-Ray, Tosca, Powercloud
  • Technology: Azure Cloud, interfaces, SharePoint, M365, public key, TBM
  • Processes: GDPR, data protection, IT security, IT architecture, DORA, Power BI, migration
  • Documentation: user stories, epics
Jan 2023 - Aug 2023
8 months

Sales Software Requirements Manager

E.ON Energie Deutschland

Sales software operations:

  • Incident management for existing sales software
  • Ticket creation, sprint, release, and hotfix planning
  • App monitoring and performance reporting
  • Implementation and coordination of the new framework agreement
  • Management of test processes and interface management with systems like SAP EDM
  • Handling a data protection incident
  • Setup of an intranet for management with Atlassian products

Requirements management for new sales software:

  • Leading kick-off, requirements, and information workshops
  • Coordination of requirements across the group (15 departments)
  • Creation of the requirements profile and decision-making materials for custom software
  • Workshops on IT process optimization and stakeholder management

Process definition and implementation:

  • Database migration
  • Coordination of GDPR-compliant processes with KPMG, EDG-IT, and EDG data protection
  • Creation of an operations manual for archive software and data governance

Vendor management:

  • Communication with software vendors

Technology and software:

  • Software: SAP, Salesforce, AEins, Miro, Natuvion, BPMN, LeanIX
  • Technology: Azure Cloud, interfaces, SharePoint, M365, TBM
  • Processes: GDPR, data protection, IT security, IT architecture, DORA, Power BI, migration
  • Documentation: user stories, epics, operations manual, deletion concept
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
11 months

Project Manager Identity Management

msg group / AOK Systems

Requirements management:

  • Coordination of requirements with stakeholders like AOK Systems management and IT architects
  • Creation of user stories and epics

Software development:

  • Prioritization and creation of tickets and releases
  • Leading scrum meetings with the offshore team in India
  • Optimization of Atlassian products for project and release management

Release and test management:

  • Planning and leading the release process
  • Coordination of test teams
  • Optimization of test processes and creation of data governance

Vendor management:

  • Coordination with software operators and incident management
  • Coordination of Gematik requirements

Technology and software:

  • Software: Atlassian suite, Miro, KeyCloak
  • Technology: Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, DMS, SharePoint
  • Processes: GDPR, data protection, IT security, IT architecture, DORA
  • Documentation: tickets, user stories, epics
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
1 year 1 month

ERP Change Manager

Fliesen Profi Lucas

  • Conducting a company audit and optimizing processes
  • Introducing a new ERP software (ReyBex)
  • Optimizing IT processes
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
1 year 7 months

Project Manager for Custom Web Applications

Finanz Informatik – Sparkassen

Production Setup:

  • Introduction of a new bank card technology combining debit and credit card functions
  • Compliance with PCI DSS regulations
  • High availability testing
  • Setting up new data centers for credit card operations

Supplier Management:

  • Communication with the software vendor

Operations Manual:

  • Creation of an operations manual for the new product

Technology and Software:

  • Oracle databases, Lotus Notes

Documentation:

  • User stories, debit and MasterCard operations manual
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
2 months

Product Manager for Artificial Intelligence

Udacity

  • Responsible for training AI models
  • Implementing a health project focused on radiological diagnostic models

Summary

  • Creative pragmatism

  • Always smiling

Languages

English
Advanced
Serbian
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Oct 2007 - Sep 2009

Nürtingen University

Project Management · Nürtingen, Germany

University of Stuttgart

Technical Business Administration / Computer Science · Stuttgart, Germany

Certifications & licenses

IHK Trainer Qualification

Conflict Manager and Moderator

Robert Bosch

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

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