Kossi Adjamah
Project Manager
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Migration of the existing Brainloop application to a new infrastructure.
- Control of project activities and stakeholder communication.
- Management of complex relationships with clients, internal departments, IT partners, and external contacts.
- Planning and management of project finances, including cost estimates and financial control.
- Initiation and management of projects with third-party solutions, collaboration with procurement.
- Ensuring compliance with project management methods and quality standards.
- Support of portfolio project delivery processes.
- Regular project status reporting.
- Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management, MS Exchange, MS Outlook.
- Team size: 15 people.
Project Manager
HahnAir
Officially, the New Distribution Capability (NDC) data standard is a technical standard developed by IATA, the international airline association, to give airlines better ways to sell their offers. To stay fit for the future, Hahn Air is exploring new ways and working on a distribution platform for the airline industry that gives travelers more convenience when booking extras, mobility outside the airport, and more.
- Analysis, identification, evaluation, and implementation of customer requirements and needs up to project and implementation readiness and decision-making readiness.
- Alignment of business requirements.
- Creation of the work breakdown structure.
- Creation of the project plan and a phase plan.
- Setup of meeting structures, including weekly jour fixes.
- Organization of the project kickoff.
- Agreement on the target model including technical design.
- Alignment of the project scope with stakeholders.
- Coordination, planning, and implementation of epics/user stories including acceptance criteria with the IT department.
- Conducting weekly jour fixes and tracking project progress.
- Regular project status reporting.
- Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management, MS Exchange, MS Outlook.
- Team size: 15 people.
Demand Manager
Atotech
A central requirements management / demand management is organized in a unit that reports directly to company management. With this structure, aligning project investments with business strategy, consolidating and coordinating project requirements and ideas, and governance can be ensured more easily. By standardizing processes, procedures, and methods, synergies and efficiency gains can be achieved.
- Analysis, identification, evaluation, and implementation of customer requirements and needs up to project and implementation readiness and decision-making readiness.
- Support of business units in capturing and detailing our customer's IT requirements.
- Ensuring all necessary information for smooth communication between departments.
- Moderation of processes, with targeted and solution-oriented distribution of tasks to responsible departments.
- Definition of roles and clear assignment of responsibilities to support management with expertise in assessing demand.
- Precise documentation of internal processes to ensure complex procedures are considered optimally in meeting customer requirements.
- Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management; MS Exchange, MS Outlook.
- Team size: 30 people.
Finance Performance & Portfolio Manager
Deutsche Bank
Conducting analyses and monitoring of the program portfolio as well as reporting to different management levels to improve financial decision-making in IT and provide multiple views on the total cost of IT.
- Monitoring the project portfolio based on defined KPIs to identify potential issues related to portfolio structure, costs, risks, interdependencies, and impacts on ongoing business activities.
- Support in building the 2022 annual portfolio.
- Ensuring the quality and accuracy of project status reporting and compliance with the guidelines and regulations of global program portfolio management.
- Planning, management, and control of agreed roadmaps in close coordination with regions and countries.
- Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management.
- Team size: 75 people.
Head of Program Management Office
Barclaycard Bank
For further digitization of Barclaycard, it was important to offer end customers a credit-financed ordering option through the Amazon portal. The projects involved all products and services from Barclaycard, such as installment loans and installment purchases.
- Setup and leadership of the PMO.
- Responsibility for 4 sub-projects or sub-PMOs.
- Management of stakeholders and escalation.
- Representation of overall project management (internally and externally towards end customers).
- Project planning and execution of project and management reporting.
- Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management.
- Team size: 45 people.
Scrum Master
Deutsche Bank / Landesbank Berlin AG
The aim was to enable end customers to apply for a cobranded credit card (e.g., Amazon or ADAC) via the internet, phone, letter, or at a branch, which is processed through the application system.
- Support and consulting for various business units regarding cross-functional reviews, organizing and moderating planning and retrospectives, and facilitating preparation, moderation, and follow-up of the integration team's regular meetings.
- Ensuring the implementation of agreed rules and adherence to the target process.
- Ensuring that teams deliver the software in the required quality while adhering to all standards.
- Ensuring the necessary team discipline for running agile projects.
- Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management.
- Team size: 80 people.
Software Release Manager
Deutsche Bank
The goal was to coordinate releases of 8 applications (approx. 35 releases/year) and ensure smooth implementation.
- Creation of the annual release plan.
- Synchronization, planning, and coordination of cross-application deployments and releases.
- Ensuring dependencies with peripheral systems.
- Planning deployments and creating transparency of dependencies.
- Setting an overall timeline for development packages across different systems.
- Agreement on the scope of each release in coordination with all stakeholders.
- Responsibility for planning changes and back-out in cooperation with the change coordinator and relevant CAB members, analysis of the change plan.
- Consistent and timely communication to all stakeholders.
- Governance function to ensure successful software release deployments and to present individual version statuses.
- Management of transport requests using Solution Manager to centrally manage software changes and transports in the SAP landscape.
- Coordination of weekly business/IT synchronization meetings for cross-functional status reporting.
- Release of the change implementation plan and review of change results (PIR).
- Skills and technologies used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management (waterfall/agile), SAP CML, SAP BA, Oracle, SAP Solution Manager (SolMan).
- Team size: 30 people.
Subproject Lead
Deutsche Bank
Implementation of a reporting platform as part of a BI program: The project aimed to merge and harmonize two different reporting platforms.
- Close collaboration with IT interfaces, procurement, solutions departments, and operations.
- Definition of project management methods and processes (e.g., project controlling, risk management, change request management).
- Operational handling of project management tasks.
- Continuous tracking of project status and creation of corresponding reports.
- Quality planning and quality review of project deliverables.
- Skills and technologies used: 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 credit granting and logging system: The existing implementation in Italy served as a basis. Due to different processes, systems, and varying EU regulation implementation in the Netherlands, extensive changes and development of the existing application were necessary. The process was based on IT systems that meet the requirements of Basel II (IRB approach). Data quality was an important prerequisite for proper execution of the credit cycle.
- Coordination of various stream reportings.
- Project planning and status reporting.
- Trend analysis for development and testing dashboard.
- Monitoring defect management.
- Skills and technologies used: documentation, domain concept, 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 AG, many different departments operated separate portal platforms with applications and services specific to each department. In total, more than 20 portals provided departmental services and applications. The design of a new corporate portal system ('MyPortal') addressed these issues. In addition to building the new platform and integrating existing departmental portals, central services were also offered through the new portal. The basic idea of the 'application concept' was to break down or group the applications to be integrated from the departmental portals into services. These services were then made available to users in MyPortal through a unified access mechanism.
- Responsibility of the 'Governance & Compliance' stream.
- Coordination of the integration process.
- Workshops with business units.
- Definition of SLAs.
- Status tracking & reporting.
- Skills and technologies used: documentation, domain concept, communication, design, presentation, project management, ITIL, SAP Netweaver, LDAP.
- Team size: 25 people.
Subproject Lead
Deutsche Bank
Service and staffing process modeling of a pooling concept using Jira: During the Postbank acquisition and integration of SAP technology by the bank, Logica, as a strategic vendor, took responsibility for external staffing. This mainly involved pre-selection and training of candidates for individual assessments for the resource pool to be maintained.
- Creation of the project initialization document.
- Planning and reporting.
- Staffing of employees.
- Jira customizing.
- Skills and technologies used: documentation, domain concept, communication, 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 were exclusively labeled for banking statistical reporting to indicate whether they were secured by real estate collateral or other collateral. The balance sheet statistics were prepared monthly and sent to the German Bundesbank via XML file.
- Management of internal and external service providers.
- Project and budget planning, project control, and documentation.
- Quality management.
- Test management.
- Skills and technologies used: documentation, domain concept, IT coordination, communication, design, presentation, project management (waterfall), MS Office, MV Host, MS Sharepoint.
- Team size: 12 people.
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Reporting of loan sales and loan purchases: For the first time as of 31.12.2009, extensive reporting requirements were to be met for loan sales and purchases with non-MFIs (monetary financial institutions) and securitization transactions with and without balance sheet exit.
- Leadership and control of the project.
- Coordination with the client.
- Conducting workshops and presentations at management level.
- Process consulting and creation of business concepts.
- Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, documentation, IT coordination, communication, design, presentation, project management, banking, MS Office, MV Host, MS Sharepoint.
- Team size: 8 people.
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Roll out of a compliance system to ensure compliance with all MiFID regulatory requirements: Coordination of integration steps of various global data deliveries (China, India, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Italy) as well as controlling and stock information into an analytical compliance system to ensure compliance with all MiFID regulatory requirements from banking supervisors.
- Design and coordination of functional approvals.
- Management of internal and external service providers.
- Management of offshore partners.
- Coordination of activities of worldwide delivery units during integration.
- Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, domain concept, IT coordination, communication, 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 the 'performance promise' to investment clients and ensure high advisory quality at Deutsche Bank, a securities indicator index (WBI) report was developed. This indicator allows each regional manager to detect potential issues in investment advice early and take appropriate countermeasures.
- Requirements analysis, design, testing, and acceptance of necessary software new development and enhancements.
- Selection, management, and control of third-party vendors and offshore units.
- Creation of functional specifications.
- Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, design, presentation, project management, MV Host, MS Office, MS Sharepoint.
- Team size: 8 people.
Business Consultant
Mundipharma
Redesign of rolling revenue planning (yearly) using IBM Cognos TM1: The rolling revenue planning (at least three planning cycles per year) was redesigned and implemented in IBM Cognos TM1. This significantly reduced the effort to prepare a planning cycle. Planning results and reports are available to product managers and business unit leaders immediately without time-consuming manual consolidation or formatting.
- Design and implementation of the data model.
- Mapping of business logic.
- PMO.
- Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, documentation, domain concept, 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 tool: The Controlling and Finance department of EnBW Vertriebs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH (EnBW VSG) launched the PLANEO project in 2005 with the goal of implementing an integrated planning and management tool.
- Data warehouse setup: creating and adjusting DTS packages.
- Creating dimensions and building planning frontends.
- Skills and technologies used: domain concept, MS PowerPoint, MS SQL Server, MIS ALEA and MS Excel integration, MS Office, Citrix Server, MIS Alea, MIS Decision Studio.
- Team size: 8 people.
Business Analyst
T-Systems
Implementation of a DSL ordering system: The Harmony project implemented various requirements for providing preliminary products. Harmony is a system that communicates with partner systems to provide various preliminary services and with T-Online's internal systems so that order requests can be processed successfully.
- Creation of functional specifications for application development.
- Data protection concept.
- Coordination of developers.
- Progress monitoring.
- Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, documentation, domain concept, design, MS Office, Sun Solaris 8 (server-side), database: Oracle 9i.
- Team size: 8 people.
Market Analyst
T-Systems
Market research for the IT and telecom service market: Support in market intelligence by analyzing the IT and telecom service markets by country, customer and industry segments. In addition, conducting competitive and SWOT analyses as well as tracking trend topics (e.g., SCM, CRM, mobile business) and analyzing economic information.
- Conducting specialized and cross-functional analyses as a basis for strategy projects.
- Conducting SWOT and GAP analyses and supporting big deal analyses.
- Capturing and analyzing business processes.
- Creating market analyses, competitive and company profiles.
- Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, documentation, customer analysis, MS Office, web-based databases.
- Team size: 15 people.
- Many years of project experience in IT project management, transition, and transformation projects
- IT project lead in highly complex, international large-scale IT projects in extensive system landscapes
- Good knowledge of agile and waterfall IT methods
- Requirements analysis and feasibility alignment with internal and external stakeholders
- Management of international offshore projects and virtual multi-vendor teams (up to 40 people) with cultural differences
- Preparation of project cost estimates and definition of project KPIs
- Preparation and facilitation of workshops and project meetings on-site at the client
- Creation of and participation in presentations for (top) management
- Interface between incident, change, and problem management, reporting, knowledge management, and complaint management according to ITIL standard
- Optimization and further development of the incident and problem management process
- Analysis and integration of change request management for efficient handling of change requests using SAP Solution Manager
- Roll-out management and change management coordination
- Recording and documenting interfaces to external and internal systems
- Hands-on mentality and service oriented
- Strong goal orientation and quick learning ability
- Analytical and pragmatic working style
- Team player with assertiveness
University of Freiburg
Diploma in Economics, Business Informatics & Econometrics · Economics · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Certified ITIL V3 Foundation
Certified Prince2 Foundation PM
Certified Prince2 Practitioner PM
Certified SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager
Conflict Management
Scrum Master
Six Sigma Green Belt
Steinbeis-certified Business Process Manager
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