Kossi Adjamah
Project Manager
Experience
Project Manager
HahnAir
Officially, the New Distribution Capability (NDC) is a technical standard developed by the international airline association IATA to give airlines better options to sell their offers. To stay fit for the future, Hahn Air is taking new paths and building a sales platform for the airline industry that gives travelers more comfort when booking add-ons, mobility outside the airport, and more.
Analyze, identify, assess, and implement customer requirements and needs up to project and implementation readiness and decision readiness
Align business requirements
Create the work breakdown structure
Develop the project plan and phase plan
Set up meeting structures and weekly status meetings
Organize the project kickoff
Align target model including technical design
Agree project scope with stakeholders
Plan and implement epics/user stories including acceptance criteria with IT department
Run weekly status meetings & track project progress
Report project status regularly
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management
Team size: 15 people
Demand Manager
Atotech
Central demand management is organized in a unit reporting directly to company leadership. This structure ensures easier alignment of project investments with business strategy, consolidation and coordination of project requirements/ideas, and governance. Standardizing processes, methods, and approaches creates synergies and efficiency gains.
Analyze, identify, assess, and implement customer requirements and needs up to project and implementation readiness and decision readiness
Support business units in capturing and detailing IT requirements
Ensure all information for smooth communication between departments
Facilitate processes and assign tasks to responsible departments in a targeted, solution-focused way
Define responsibilities clearly to support management in assessing needs with expertise
Precisely document internal processes to ensure complex processes are handled and customer wishes are met
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management
Team size: 30 people
Finance Performance & Portfolio Manager
Deutsche Bank
Perform analysis and monitor the program portfolio and report to various management levels to improve financial decision-making in IT and show multiple views of total IT costs.
Monitor project portfolio based on defined KPIs to identify issues in portfolio structure, costs, risks, interdependencies, and impact on ongoing operations
Support building the 2022 annual portfolio
Ensure quality and accuracy of project status reporting and compliance with Global Program Portfolio Management guidelines
Plan, manage, and control agreed roadmaps in close coordination with regions and countries
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management
Team size: 75 people
Head of Program Management Office
Barclaycard Bank
For further digitalization of Barclaycard, offering credit-backed ordering via the Amazon portal was key. Projects cover all Barclaycard products and services, e.g., installment loans and buy-now-pay-later.
Establish and lead the PMO
Oversee 4 subprojects/sub-PMOs
Handle stakeholder and escalation management
Represent overall project leadership internally and externally to customers
Plan projects and conduct project and management reporting
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management
Team size: 45 people
Scrum Master
Landesbank Berlin AG
Goal was to enable end customers to order credit card offers from co-brand partners (like Amazon or ADAC) online, by phone, by mail, or in a branch via the application system.
Support and advise various departments on overarching review, planning, and retrospectives; organize and moderate regular integration team meetings
Ensure agreed rules and processes are followed
Ensure teams deliver software at required quality and follow all standards
Ensure team discipline for agile project execution
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management
Team size: 80 people
Software Release Manager
Deutsche Bank
Goal was to coordinate releases for 8 applications (about 35 releases/year) and ensure smooth execution.
Create annual release schedule
Synchronize, plan, and coordinate cross-application deployments and releases
Ensure dependencies to other systems
Plan deployments and create transparency around dependencies
Define an overall timeline for development packages across systems
Agree release scope with all stakeholders
Plan change and back-out with the change coordinator and relevant CAB members; analyze change planning
Provide consistent, timely communication to all stakeholders
Perform governance to ensure successful software deployments and track version states
Manage transport requests using Solution Manager to centrally handle software changes in the SAP landscape
Coordinate weekly business/IT sync meetings for cross-status reporting
Release the change implementation plan and review post-implementation results (PIR)
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management (waterfall/agile)
SAP CML
SAP BA
Oracle
SAP Solution Manager (SolMan)
Team size: 30 people
Subproject Manager
Deutsche Bank
Implementation of a reporting platform as part of a BI program: the project aimed to merge and harmonize two different reporting platforms.
Work closely with IT interfaces, procurement, solutions teams, and operations
Define project management methods and processes (e.g., project controlling, risk management, change request management)
Handle operational project management tasks
Continuously track project status and create reports
Plan and check quality of project deliverables
PMO processes
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management (waterfall)
Jedox
DB2
SAS
Team size: 20 people
PMO Lead
Deutsche Bank
Implementation of a Basel II-compliant loan approval and logging system: based on an existing implementation in Italy. Due to different processes, systems, and EU regulation implementations in the Netherlands, significant changes and app enhancements were needed. The system used Basel II-compliant IT systems (IRB approach). Data quality was key for proper loan lifecycle handling.
Coordinate various stream reportings
Project planning and status reporting
Trend analysis for development and testing dashboard
Monitor defect management
Documentation
Business concept design
Communication
Reporting
Presentation
Project management (waterfall)
COBOL
CICS
DB2
SAS
Java
C++
PHP
Notes
Tibco
Team size: 13 people
Process Analyst
Telekom
Development of a new corporate portal system: within Deutsche Telekom, many departments ran their own portal platforms with apps and services. Over 20 portals provided departmental services. The new "MyPortal" platform addressed this by integrating existing portals and offering central services via a unified access mechanism. The application concept broke existing apps into services or combined them, then delivered them through MyPortal.
Lead the "Governance & Compliance" stream
Coordinate the integration process
Conduct workshops with departments
Define SLAs
Track status & reporting
Documentation
Business concept design
Communication
Concept design
Presentation
Project management
ITIL
SAP NetWeaver
LDAP
Team size: 25 people
Subproject Manager
Deutsche Bank
Service and staffing process modeling of a pooling concept using Jira: after acquiring Postbank and integrating SAP technology, Logica, as strategic vendor, managed external staffing. This involved pre-selecting and training candidates for assessments to build a resource pool.
Create project initiation document
Plan & report
Staff team members
Customize Jira
Documentation
Business concept design
Communication
Concept design
Presentation
Project management (waterfall)
MS Office
MS SharePoint
JIRA
Team size: 10 people
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Reporting of secured loans for balance sheet statistics: Loans needed marking for bank statistics as secured by real estate or other collateral. Monthly reports were created and sent to the German Bundesbank via XML.
Manage internal and external service providers
Project and budget planning, control, and documentation
Quality management
Test management
Documentation
Business concept design
IT coordination
Communication
Concept design
Presentation
Project management (waterfall)
MS Office
MV Host
MS SharePoint
Team size: 12 people
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Reporting of loan sales and purchases: as of 31.12.2009, the Bundesbank required extensive reporting on loan sales to and purchases from non-MFIs and securitization transactions with and without balance sheet exit.
Lead and control the project
Manage collaboration with the customer
Conduct workshops and presentations at management level
Provide process consulting and create business concepts
Requirements analysis
Documentation
IT coordination
Communication
Concept design
Presentation
Project management
Banking
MS Office
MV Host
MS SharePoint
Team size: 8 people
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Rollout of a compliance system to ensure all MiFID regulatory requirements: coordinate integration steps of global data feeds (China, India, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Italy) and manage controlling and holdings info in a compliance system to meet bank supervision rules.
Design and coordinate business acceptance
Manage internal and external service providers
Manage offshore partners
Coordinate activities of global delivery units during integration
Requirements analysis
Business concept design
IT coordination
Communication
Concept design
Presentation
Cognos
MV Host
MS Office
MS SharePoint
Team size: 12 people
Business Analyst
Deutsche Bank
Development of a securities indicator index reporting system: to fulfill performance promises to investment clients and maintain high advisory quality, a securities indicator index (WBI) report was developed. This indicator lets region heads spot advisory issues early and take corrective action.
Requirements analysis, design, testing, and acceptance of software developments
Select, manage, and control third-party vendors and offshore units
Create business concept documents
Requirements analysis
Concept design
Presentation
Project management
MV Host
MS Office
MS SharePoint
Team size: 8 people
Business Consultant
Mundipharma
Redesign of an annual rolling revenue planning with IBM Cognos TM1: the annual rolling planning (at least three cycles) was redesigned and implemented in TM1, greatly reducing prep effort. Planning results and reports are immediately available to product managers and unit heads without manual consolidation.
Design and implement the data model
Map business logic
PMO
Requirements analysis
Documentation
Business concept design
Project management
Workshops
MS Office
IBM Cognos TM1
SAP R/3
Team size: 12 people
Business Analyst
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Implementation of an integrated planning and management instrument: Controlling and finance at EnBW VSG started the PLANEO project in 2005 to implement an integrated planning and management tool.
Build the data warehouse: create and customize DTS packages
Create dimensions and planning frontends
Business concept design
MS Office
MS PowerPoint
MS SQL Server
MIS ALEA and MS Excel integration
Citrix Server
MIS Alea
MIS Decision Studio
Team size: 8 people
Business Analyst
T-Systems
Implementation of a DSL ordering system: Project Harmony delivered various pre-service products. Harmony communicates with partner systems to provide services and with T-Online internal systems to process orders.
Create business concept documents for app development
Data privacy concept
Coordinate developers
Monitor progress
Requirements analysis
Documentation
Business concept design
Concept design
MS Office
SUN Solaris 8 (server side)
Database: Oracle 9i
Team size: 8 people
Market Analyst
T-Systems
Market research in IT and telecom service markets: support market intelligence by analyzing IT and telecom service markets by country, customer, and industry segments. Also perform competitor and SWOT analyses, track trend topics (e.g., SCM, CRM, mobile business), and analyze economic data.
Conduct specialist and cross-functional analyses for strategy projects
Perform SWOT and gap analyses and support big-deal analyses
Document and evaluate business processes
Create market analyses, competitor and company profiles
Requirements analysis
Documentation
Customer analysis
MS Office
Web-based databases
Team size: 15 people
Summary
- Many years of project experience in IT project management, transition and transformation projects
- IT project lead in highly complex, international large IT projects in big system landscapes
- Good knowledge of agile and waterfall IT methods
- Requirements analysis, aligning feasibility with internal and external stakeholders
- Management of international offshore projects, virtual multi-vendor teams (up to 40 people) with cultural differences
- Creation of project cost estimates and definition of project KPIs
- Preparation and facilitation of workshops and project meetings on site with clients
- Creation of and participation in presentations for (top) management
- Interface between incident management, change and problem management, reporting, knowledge management and complaint management based on ITIL standards
- Optimization and further development of incident and problem management processes
- Analysis & integration of change request management for efficient handling of change requests using SAP SolMan
- Rollout management and change management coordination
- Capturing and documenting interfaces to external and internal systems
- Hands-on mentality and service-oriented
- Strong goal orientation, fast learner
- Analytical and pragmatic work style
- Team player with assertiveness
Languages
Education
University of Freiburg
Diploma in Economics, focus on Business Informatics & Econometrics · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified ITIL V3 Foundation
Certified Prince2 Foundation PM
Certified Prince2 Practitioner PM
Certified SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager
Conflict Management
Scrum Master (Training)
Six Sigma Green Belt
Steinbeis-certified Business Process Manager
Steinbeis
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