Marian N. - Senior PMO

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Sankt Augustin, Germany

Experience

Sep 2022 - Mar 2023

7 months

Senior PMO

Commerzbank AG

The project's goal was to establish a ticketing system (ServiceNow).
Activities: Consulting, project management.
The work within the project included the following tasks:
Implementing and carrying out common PMO and Scrum Master processes such as risk and issue/impediment management
Coordination and tracking of provided services
Monitoring project progress and project reporting as well as maintaining project planning in an agile environment
Creating JIRA dashboards for tracking the sprints
Tracking sprints regarding completion, highlighting risks and impediments
Conducting management retros, developing and following up on action points
Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Microsoft 365, JIRA, Confluence.
Project language: English, German.

Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

6 months

Senior Consultant

Deutsche Telekom AG

As part of an HR program for skill management, a project was managed for the flexible deployment of foreign staff (hosted staff / fluid workforce). The project's goal was to build and establish a process for flexible staff deployment across national borders.
Activities: Consulting, project management.
The work within the project included the following tasks:
Process development to map the use of hosted resources (employees abroad)
Stakeholder support (reporting, preparing documents)
Project management for the rollout of the developed process after completion
Technologies: MS Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft 365, MS Teams, Confluence.
Project language: English, German.

Mar 2021 - Feb 2022

1 year

Scrum Master

Atruvia AG

The project's goal was to establish a Next Best Action engine for sales to address customers at the best possible time with the right product, improving sales efficiency. The individual companies of the financial group provided data science teams that designed various models to integrate into the Next Best Action engine.
Activities: Scrum Master, consulting, project management.
The task was to support 11 data science teams as a Scrum Master with the usual Scrum Master tasks:
Introducing agile ways of working
Facilitating Scrum events (Daily, Planning, Review, Retrospective)
Identifying and removing impediments
Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, JIRA, Confluence.
Project language: German.

Sep 2018 - Feb 2021

2 years 6 months

PMO Lead, Project Manager, Interim Program Lead

Zürich Beteiligungs-AG

The digitalization program for sales included three subprojects: BiPRO, portfolio transfer, and NCCS (New Customer Contract Systems).
BiPRO is an industry institute for process optimization to standardize IT standards and cross-processes. In the program, the 430.x norms (transmission service), 42x (division-specific TAA services), and other cross-services were established to advance automation/digitalization with brokers.
For portfolio transfer, a single-page application including a robotics solution was created to automate the transfer of insurance portfolios. In the second step, the external application was directly connected to the Guidewire backend system.
In the New Customer Contract Systems (NCCS) subproject, an external partner was contracted to establish a new customer contract system.
The work within the project included the following tasks:
Project management: analysis, testing and coordination to create a single-page application including a robotics solution for automated transfer of insurance portfolios
PMO Lead: onboarding the new program lead (interim program lead) and PMO staff; creating top management reports, board reports, status reports, milestone planning, release and budget planning
Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Guidewire, BiPRO.
Project language: German.

Jul 2018 - Sep 2018

3 months

Test and Project Management, Deputy Test Manager

Ergo Group AG

The task was to support the test manager in leading automated test cases in the life insurance environment, as well as to cover for absences.
Technologies: MS Excel (macros), MS PowerPoint, Kanban board.
Project language: German.

Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

4 months

Interim PMO

Zürich Beteiligungs-AG

The project's goal was to introduce a new quotation system for end customers and experts.
Activities: Consulting, budget and project management.
The work within the project included the following tasks:
Creating board reports and status reports
Project and budget planning.
Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Guidewire, ZAS.
Project language: German.

Mar 2015 - Feb 2018

3 years

Subproject Manager, Multiproject Coordinator, Application Manager

Postbank System AG

The project tasks included:
Coordinating audit projects to ensure dependencies within the legacy system landscape and a smooth shutdown
Subproject management to integrate a security source code review team into the organizational structure
Steering and operationalizing a multi-year lifecycle program
Application manager for the Security Source Code Review application
Technologies: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint.
Project language: German.

Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

9 months

Commercial Manager

Vattenfall Europe Windkraft GmbH

Activities: Consulting, budget and project management.
The role as commercial manager included the following tasks:
Preparing, coordinating and tracking planned and ongoing commercial orders for operational operations
After determining the need for spare parts, equipment and other services, service contract requests were made in coordination with various parties
Contract negotiations were conducted in cooperation with central purchasing
The operational units and package managers were advised on commercial and administrative matters
Detailed budget control for package management was carried out in coordination with controlling.
Technologies: MS Excel.
Project language: English, German.

Jun 2013 - May 2014

1 year

Purchasing, Analysis, Consulting, Project Management

Ergo Group AG

In strategic purchasing, a major tender was carried out in the field of call center services. For this, a project-specific company and industry analysis was created as a basis using internal research. The preparation and evaluation of the data were done according to specially developed criteria.
In operational purchasing, in-depth consulting and support of the specialist departments was provided regarding supplier selection and ordering process. Furthermore, orders for marketing services, sponsorship, language services and advertising placements were carried out in daily business.
The work within the project included the following tasks:
Outbound service purchasing
Tender management
Supplier reduction and selection
Project-specific company and industry analysis, board presentations
Technologies: SAP MM, SAP FI, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, ELMAS.
Project language: German.

Apr 2011 - Aug 2012

1 year 5 months

Analysis, Consulting, Project Management, Project Leadership, Training

Deutsche Telekom AG

As part of order management, the technical commissioning of service and work packages for IT projects was carried out. In IT system support and further development, all project managers in the department were supported and trained in using the Cobra-T system, which consolidated all data and planning around IT projects. In addition, improvement and development suggestions for the system were analyzed and advice was given on implementation. Due to a merger of different business units, all already completed IT projects also had to be technically closed in the system. Budget management included planning and execution review of projects in the early phase as well as management and approval of the project budget. Another task was controlling budget prioritization based on information from the prioritization management team and corresponding system checks. In this context, extensive Excel files including macros were also created, which were used for process optimization and data analysis.
The work within the project included the following tasks:
Order management
IT system support and further development
Technical support for project closures
Budget management for the early phase of IT projects and controlling budget prioritization.
Technologies: SAP MM, SAP PS, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, PFM tool, Cobra-T, eBest.
Project language: German.