Marco Z.

Product Owner IT Services / Solution Architect

Wiesbaden, Germany

Experience

Jan 2023 - Present
2 years 8 months

Product Owner IT Services / Solution Architect

BWI

Product Owner IT Services up to SECRET:

  • Create product vision
  • Assign Scrum teams
  • Coordinate and align with stakeholders
  • Harmonize processes across initiatives

Solution Architect for central service delivery up to SECRET:

  • Create security concept for classified data
  • Plan service changes to underpinning services
  • Design secure infrastructures
  • Requirements management
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 2 months

Project Manager Migration Lotus to Exchange (on-premise)

Deutsche Bundesbank

  • Manage and direct tasks
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Quality assurance
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
9 months

Project Manager Migration Lotus to Exchange Online (O365)

Fiducia GAD/Atruvia

  • Define and document approach towards migration
  • Manage and direct tasks
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Quality assurance
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 10 months
Switzerland

Lead System Architect / Senior Architect

Swiss Army – Command Support Base / Cyber Command

Lead System Architect for military endpoint:

  • Create security concept for clients
  • Develop ITSM process landscape
  • Create architectural foundation for a military managed endpoint for use in all operational scenarios
  • Plan the different releases based on implementation level of requirement groups
  • Map capabilities to the NATO C3 taxonomy

Senior Architect in the New Digital Platform project:

  • Provide architectural oversight for all disciplines in rebuilding a federal IT organization
  • Coordinate the included subprojects

Create and refine various reference and system architectures as well as architectural building blocks in a military context:

  • Consideration of Swiss federal guidelines
  • Following the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF)
  • Considering the Federated Mission Network (FMN)

Create naming policy:

  • For a fully automated distributed, degradation-resistant data center network
  • Including the entire new client environment for deployment
  • Including the network

System Architecture CI/CD:

  • Develop architectural foundation for data center automation and orchestration
  • Map capabilities to the NATO C3 taxonomy
  • Coordinate in the context of extensive organizational and change projects
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
1 year 3 months

Project Manager

Deutsche Lufthansa

Project setup "DLP Data Loss Prevention" (September 2019 - 03/2020):

  • Plan a project to create the detailed plan for company-wide DLP implementation

Project management "EndPoint & Mobile Security" (January 2019 - 03/2020):

  • €4.3M budget
  • Full project management within the SHIELD cybersecurity program
  • RFI, RFP
  • Security requirement management
  • Threat management
  • Risk management
  • Drafting documents within the ISMS policy framework
  • Planning and implementing security measures
  • Advising on mobile security
  • Project controlling and reporting
  • Presenting results to C-level
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 3 months

Project Manager "Domino Upgrade & Security Hardening"

BASF Group

  • €3.7 million budget
  • Full project management
  • RFP
  • Requirements creation
  • Ensuring data protection according to GDPR, HIPAA, etc.
  • Ensuring IT security according to the ISMS, BASF security framework and findings from external risk & security audits
  • Planning security measures in the context of the existing ISMS according to ISO 27000
  • Conducting risk assessments with the business for their applications
  • Architecture consulting regarding application integration and migration according to TOGAF 9
  • Managing external providers
  • Planning external risk and security audits
  • Project controlling
  • Creating and reviewing documentation, especially the solution design document and security concept
  • Analyses and reports
  • Time and budget planning
  • Presenting results up to C-level
Jul 2012 - Nov 2017
5 years 5 months

Staff Consultant, Interim Team Lead Client Management, Project Manager, Consultant, Product Owner

Fresenius Group

Advisory role to the division management and the departments of the division (June 2014 – November 2017):

  • Service Operations & Infrastructure division
  • Receiving and evaluating requirements from the business
  • Coordinating the project charter with other divisions
  • Coordinating budget planning
  • Creating concepts
  • Integrating the division into the newly established architecture management
  • Integrating the division into the ITSM toolset ServiceNow
  • Representing the division's concerns in governance committees
  • Process consulting and design for internal division processes
  • Developing an automation agenda for the division's services
  • Representing the SO&I division in SAP digitization projects

Interim Team Lead Client Management (June 2017 – November 2017):

  • Ensuring production operation after losing 80% of FTE
  • Staffing external support
  • Integrating new team members
  • Documenting client management systems/processes for ISO 27000 certification
  • Documenting client management systems/processes for transitioning the company into a service organization
  • Realigning and expanding the project portfolio in coordination with ongoing strategy programs
  • Project management Windows 10 migration (Prince2)
  • Project management Application Portfolio Management (Prince2)
  • Presenting the topic in governance committees following COBIT 5
  • Project management of Empirum migration to MS SCCM (Prince2)
  • Project management Client as a Service (global hardware and client software provisioning) (Prince2)
  • Presenting the topic in governance committees following COBIT 5
  • Project management of setting up a test center for client computing (including test procedure definition) (Prince2)
  • Endpoint protection for clients
  • Patch management

Migration and functional enhancement of room booking systems and meeting rooms (April 2017 – November 2017 Consulting):

  • Extending the existing room booking systems
  • Planning the migration of room booking systems from IBM Domino to O365
  • Integrating room electronics into the booking process (e.g., touch panels for access control)
  • Integrating open space architecture concepts into the new systems

Project management for introducing Atlassian Confluence & JIRA in the SO&I division (March 2017 – November 2017):

  • Following Prince2
  • Defining the functional scope
  • Creating a value hypothesis
  • Designing the lifecycle model
  • Organizing workshops and commissioning interactive training content
  • Conducting Agile and Lean training for leadership

Project management IAM (Identity & Access Management) (January 2017 – April 2017):

  • Expansion (IBM ISIM)
  • Expanding the organizational scope from 7,000 to 40,000 users
  • Taking over service ownership
  • Designing SLAs
  • Rebuilding an IAM system based on IBM ISIM
  • Developing an IAM strategy
  • Creating project requirements
  • Creating a security concept
  • Conducting a risk analysis (actual vs. target)
  • Presenting the topic in a security governance committee according to COBIT 5
  • Presenting the topic to employee participation committees
  • Aligning with other strategy projects
  • Integrating into existing SAP HR and ServiceNow systems
  • Managing the project in all aspects during the initiation phase except procurement
  • Following Prince2

Consultant: Designing test management for mobile infrastructure (October 2016 – January 2016):

  • Presenting the topic in governance committees following COBIT 5
  • Presenting the topic in governance committees following COBIT 5

Consultant for shared department processes as a template for the SO&I division (September 2016 – November 2017):

  • Identifying which processes should be standardized
  • Prioritizing which processes to standardize and when
  • Discussing with all stakeholders what has already been done with what tools, and which processes to address next
  • Developing a synthesis of these approaches in terms of processes and tools
  • Implementing common processes and tools
  • Reviewing for rollout across the entire division

Project management enterprise fileshare with Microsoft SharePoint integration (June 2015 – July 2016):

  • Meeting the additional security requirements against the planned Office 365 solution
  • Presenting the topic in governance committees following COBIT 5
  • Evaluating storage solutions for very high security needs (M&A, patents, classified data)
  • Following Prince2

Migration of MDM system from Good to MobileIron (July 2015 – December 2016):

  • Automating the migration of about 6,000 users
  • Involving global mobile infrastructure support

Product Owner: Distributed modern application platform (2014 – November 2017):

  • Building a platform for marketing applications based on an externally developed framework using Node.js, CouchDB, and Neo4J
  • 3,000 users across 4 applications
  • Project approach: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban

Connecting apps to the enterprise SAP environment with Fiori (2014 – November 2017):

  • Planning the pilot project
  • Initiating and coordinating the second attempt with a successful integration into the SAP environment
  • Identifying, gathering, and coordinating subsequent activities with SAP colleagues

Consultant migration of ordering processes for EMM services to ServiceNow (2014 – November 2017):

  • Requirements engineering and process definition
  • Test management including designing test scripts and test cases

Project Manager building global support mobile infrastructure (2013 – 2017):

  • According to ITIL Service Operations
  • Establishing communication across continents and time zones
  • Creating and coordinating an international collaboration framework with all relevant stakeholders (e.g., works council)
  • Following Prince2

Project management/consultant improving internal mobile infrastructure processes (2013 – 2017):

  • Setting up enterprise wikis on Atlassian Confluence
  • Setting up a Kanban board for work control
  • Implementing simple processes based on email and Atlassian JIRA
  • These processes have since been recognized as the standard for use across the entire division

Consultant: Developing mobility topics at two DAX corporations (2012 – November 2017):

  • Advising on governance according to COBIT 5 and processes based on ITIL and Prince2
  • Advising in service management on service design, service transition, service operations, and continual service improvement
  • Advising on IT security for the mobile platform being developed
  • Creating a security concept (SeCon) for mobile service
  • Evaluating systems to improve IT security
  • Creating and updating the documentation required for ISO 27000 certification of the mobile service for the new ISMS
  • Creating various documentation for mobile services from business requirements to operational and service billing descriptions
  • Advising on the evaluation of EMM products
  • Idea, specification, and project management of user management via the product API (Afaria, Good for Enterprise, Good Dynamics, MobileIron)

Working on building the application development platform for mobile devices (2012 – November 2017):

  • Advising on evaluating development platforms
  • Participating in SAP SUP/SMP pilot projects
  • Project management for Mocana and Samsung Knox evaluation
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
1 year

Lotus Notes/Domino Consulting

Fresenius Netcare GmbH

  • Project management and development of an ITSM application (ITIL incident process, Prince2 methodology)
  • Adjusting incident process according to ITIL
  • Further development of various Lotus Notes applications
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
2 months

Consultant

Deutsche Bahn AG

  • Testing various applications
  • Further development of the Winter Service application
  • Further development of the prequalification app for service providers
Jul 2008 - Sep 2011
3 years 3 months

Program Management

Bayer Business Services

  • Program management of a complex international CRM application on IBM Domino
  • Simplifying service operations
  • Planning and expanding complex interfaces with SAP and Microsoft SSIS
Jun 2008 - Jul 2008
2 months

Migration Consultant

E-Plus

  • Preparation of a migration from Lotus Notes to MS Excel
  • Creation of an application catalog
  • Automation of application complexity analysis
  • Identification of functional gaps between base and target architecture
Jun 2007 - Jun 2008
1 year 1 month

Lotus Notes/Domino Development

Deutsche Boerse

  • Extension of MySAP CRM for offline capability using Lotus Notes
  • Lotus Notes/Domino development of complex applications
  • Developing interfaces with mySAP CRM and SAP HR
May 2005 - May 2007
2 years 1 month
Switzerland

Team Leader Notes Development / Project Lead / Program Management

Julius Bär

  • Team leader of Notes development for private banking (4 employees)
  • Project lead for SAP BW project (Sales MIS)
  • Program management of a family of CRM applications
  • Project lead and development of a project management solution for fund projects with Lotus Notes/Domino, MS SQL Server
  • Migration of various CRM Notes databases to Siebel
  • Migration of applications to an Outlook/Exchange environment
Jan 2004 - Apr 2005
1 year 4 months

Project Management and Development

DVAG

  • Project management and enhancement of requirements database
  • Project management and enhancement of change request database
  • Implementation of SCRUM project management database
  • Development of applications using Lotus Notes/Domino, DHTML, and Java
Aug 2003 - Dec 2003
5 months

Head of Groupware Department

Alno AG

  • Leading the Groupware department within the company with tasks in administration, coordination, planning, software development, and maintenance (3 employees)
Jul 2001 - Jul 2002
1 year 1 month

Project Lead

Credit Suisse

  • Project lead for setting up a sales information system for mobile users using Notes/Domino R5
  • Complete setup of a Notes/Domino infrastructure
  • Training server management and the user help desk in Notes/Domino
Jul 2000 - Jun 2003
3 years

System Administrator

Deutsche Börse

  • Reengineering and automation of administrative processes in Notes/Domino
  • System administration of Lotus Notes/Domino 4.6 and R5
  • Set up a section of a user help desk
  • Migration projects (products, operating systems, versions)
  • Consolidation of the hierarchical naming system
  • Implementation of various interfaces (LEI, LotusScript, Java, COM) to DB2, SAP, Oracle, ...)
Feb 1999 - May 2000
1 year 4 months

Project Lead / Team Lead

GVP

  • Project lead and development of billing software for financial services sales using MS FoxPro 6.0 (1999-2000)
  • Team lead (4 employees)
Jan 1999 - Dec 1999
1 year

Developer

Abbot

  • Further development of a database for drug approval
Aug 1998 - Feb 2000
1 year 7 months

Subproject Lead

Westdeutsche Immobilienbank

  • Subproject lead and collaboration in creating a workflow application for account management
Jan 1996 - Dec 1996
1 year

IT Specialist

Westdeutsche Immobilienbank

  • Migration from Novell Netware to Microsoft NT
  • Development of log-in scripts using Kixtart
Jan 1994 - Dec 1998
5 years

Working Student / Freelancer

Systemforum CMCS

  • Development of a CMS for a client with Lotus Domino
  • Logistics databases for roll-out projects
  • Cross-domain address book synchronization
  • Enhancement of an inventory system to include asset accounting functionality
  • Hardware roll-out projects
  • Telemarketing

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Latin
Advanced
Italian
Elementary

Education

Oct 2003 - Jun 2010
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Diploma in Computer Science, focus on information and communication management · Computer Science

Oct 1992 - Jun 2001
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Physics · Seattle, United States

Gutenberg School

High school diploma · Wiesbaden, Germany

Certifications & licenses

ITIL V4 Managing Professional

ITIL Intermediate MALC (Managing across the Lifecycle)

ITIL V3 Expert

ITIL Intermediate CSI (Continuous Service Improvement)

ITIL Intermediate SD (Service Design)

ITIL Intermediate SO (Service Operations)

ITIL Intermediate SS (Service Strategy)

ITIL Intermediate ST (Service Transition)

CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional)

CISSP (Certified Informations System Security Professional)

Data Protection Officer according to DSC standard

TOGAF 9 Certified

ITIL 2011 Foundation

PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)

PMI

CTFL Certified Tester Foundation Level ISTQB

PMP (Project Management Professional)

PMI

CPRE Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (IREB)

SAP Solution Architect ERP – Integration of Business Processes with my SAP ERP (C_TERP10_05)

NLP Master Practitioner

(Principal) Certified Lotus Professional R4-7 System Administration

Principal Certified Lotus Professional R4-7 Application Development

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