Lucas Weiper

Solution Manager / Architect

Koblenz, Germany

Experience

Oct 2022 - Present
2 years 10 months

Solution Manager / Architect

BWI GmbH

As a Release/License Manager, I maintain, merge, and check the compatibility of software and hardware components. This work goes hand in hand with modeling these components (using Sparx Enterprise Architect) in my role as a Solution Architect.

Mar 2022 - May 2022
3 months

Solution Architect

Saarland

The Saarland launched a tender for a primary school messenger. While working at Sdui GmbH, I led and won the tender. This resulted in an app currently used by all primary schools in Saarland. The app is available in the App Store under the name “OSS Messenger”. For drafting the tender and implementing the OSS Messenger, I applied my skills in capturing, analyzing, and evaluating business processes in the public administration context and managed the development team using agile methods.

Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
7 months

IT Consulting

Mondo Gate AG

Mondo Gate AG is the first German bank licensed by BaFin to manage their customers’ cryptocurrencies. For this client, I redesigned the user interface of the account management portal and designed new features. The features were identified and modeled using the Design Thinking approach. My consulting focused on supporting project management, requirements gathering, and modeling new features with the tool “Miro”, as well as planning the configuration and release management of these new features.

Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
9 months

IT Project Management

Rackow-Schulen Deutschland gGmbH

For Rackow-Schulen, I took over the concept design and project management of the three-person development team. As part of the project, the existing school administration software was migrated from an MS Access implementation to a modern PHP framework (Laravel + Blade) and gradually introduced into ongoing operations, enabled by a planned configuration and release management process.

My tasks included:

  • Designing and gathering requirements for the new software
  • Converting the MS Access data model into a MySQL-based database model
  • Planning workflows and directing the developers
  • Performing editorial work (harmonizing documents, layout adjustments, etc.) for the school management and obtaining ISO-standard software certification with full support of BSI guidelines.
Aug 2020 - Present
5 years
Berlin, Germany

Solution Architect & Project Manager

Fanbaze GmbH

Fanbaze GmbH is an investor-backed company based in Berlin that contracted my company (Iridium Works GmbH) to design and implement their software product. Over approximately two years, I gathered product requirements (using the Design Thinking approach), set up the project (Jira), and hired and managed a six-person team responsible for developing the software.

Additional services provided included:

  • System architecture and requirements gathering, including development of a data(bank) model
  • IT infrastructure planning
  • Creation of work packages
  • Sprint planning (Jira)
  • Monitoring development resources
  • Use of agile project management methods such as Scrum and Kanban
  • UI/UX design of the software using the Adobe suite
  • Configuration and release management for various Fanbaze GmbH customers
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
7 months
Germany

IT Project Management, Requirements Engineering

Invertas GmbH

Invertas operates as an independent insurance and financial advisor in the Frankfurt metropolitan area. To manage the commissions of employees and freelance advisors, I defined and implemented a platform with management, which maps the internal sales structure, distributes commissions over the contract period, and provides each employee with an overview. In this project, I applied my skills in agile project management, requirements engineering, and building the development team to successfully bring the project to completion.

Apr 2020 - Mar 2023
3 years

Solution Architect

Freistaat Bayern, Rheinland Pfalz, Berlin

Under my leadership, a functional concept was developed together with Fujitsu Services GmbH for the clients. For the functional concepts, appropriate open-source technologies were selected, analyzed, and based on these analyses, the concepts were written.

The functional concepts cover detailed elaborations of:

  • System architecture
  • Appropriate database cluster
  • IT infrastructure
  • IT security in line with BSI guidelines
  • Project plan
  • Support plan
  • Patch management / release management
  • Incident management
  • Continuous software support for over 1.5 million users

My tasks included performing editorial work (drafting functional concepts and their content, describing and documenting system landscapes, modeling system landscapes (UML, BPMN, etc.), etc.) using ARIS Cloud.

Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 7 months

Solution Architect & Project Manager

ERO GmbH

Since early 2020, I have supported Europe’s largest wine machine manufacturer in its digitization strategy through Sdui GmbH. In my role, I designed and implemented a system landscape around viticulture through the deployment of machines produced by ERO.

My responsibilities included among others:

  • Requirements gathering and concept design of software systems
  • Setting up and planning the IT infrastructure with AWS
  • Designing the company’s new digital department
  • Recruiting and training new employees
  • Implementing the systems that represent ERO’s new digital product portfolio
  • Setting up software architectures, databases, and frameworks such as NodeJS, Kubernetes, ReactJS, MongoDB, etc.
  • Documentation and reporting with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Adobe Suite, Excel, Jira
  • Continuous configuration and release management
Jan 2020 - Present
5 years 7 months
Koblenz, Germany

Freelancer

Freelancer

As a freelancer, I implement a wide range of customer projects in the IT sector. My clients include medium-sized companies, start-ups, and enterprise customers such as PwC, BWI, Sdui, ERO, and Cornelsen.

Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
2 years
Koblenz, Germany

Co-Founder & CEO

GoContract GmbH

As co-founder and CEO of GoContract, we launched an investor-financed startup for digital contract management and sold it in April 2022. The value of the company lay in the proprietary encryption algorithm.

Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
6 years
Koblenz, Germany

Head Of Services

Sdui Group

Since the company’s founding, I have supported all projects that are not related to the core SaaS solution, including white-labels, custom solutions, and tenders.

Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
2 years 3 months

IT Consulting

SEW Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG

For SEW Eurodrive, I led the team responsible for the global software maintenance of the company’s web presence.

My tasks included:

  • Capturing and resolving incidents with our development team (programming languages: JavaScript, Python)
  • Performing editorial work (harmonizing documents, layout adjustments, etc.) in release management and release documentation/communication

Additionally, I established and implemented a new release process for worldwide CMS-maintained website content, which is still in use today.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
3 years
Koblenz, Germany

Operational Management

Vainplex GmbH

At Vainplex, I experienced and partly managed various projects over a period of 1.5 years. Under my mentor, I learned everything necessary for my later career.

Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
8 months

Project Management, Programming

Audi AG

Prior to my time, Vainplex GmbH had developed a CMS that allowed Audi to transfer its print magazines to the web. My task was to maintain this CMS and implement Audi’s change requests into the system (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript) based on the Design Thinking methodology.

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
1 year
Koblenz, Germany

Account Manager

Particulate Solutions

During my studies, I completed a 3-month internship in sales and conducted a market analysis for a potential new customer base.

Summary

As a freelancer, I implement a wide range of customer projects in the IT sector. My clients include medium-sized companies, start-ups, and enterprise customers such as PwC, BWI, Sdui, ERO, and Cornelsen. With over 6 years of experience in IT projects from startups to corporate clients, I understand the advantages and pitfalls of the IT industry. I carry out projects from concept to scalable rollout and manage the entire software lifecycle. My experience in corporate management and team development completes my profile.

Languages

English
Native
German
Native
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2015 - Jun 2019

Universität Koblenz

B.Sc. · Information Management · Koblenz, Germany

Certifications & licenses

ITIL Foundation

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