Questioning and discussion of technical requirements. Coordination of requirements with the team.
Contribution to the objectives of the Digital Transformation Services unit, the sections and groups and the implementation of the objectives. Analyze, specify, update and deliver architecture models to implement digital solutions in line with business, data infrastructure and requirements.
Selecting suitable technical options for application design, considering interoperability, reversibility, scalability, usability, accessibility and security and optimizing the cost/quality ratio. Creation and maintenance of concept documents, architecture models and other technical documentation. Reviewing the services to be provided and other documents for the development of solutions.
Collaboration with the IT Enterprise Architect, the Business Analyst, the Project Manager, the developers, the testers and the process owner in the design and documentation of technical specifications for new and further developments (creation of procurement documents). Communicate and support the concept to the relevant stakeholders. Participating in enterprise architecture activities and establishing a link between enterprise architecture and development/maintenance of the IT product (e.g. ensuring compliance with principles, standards and guidelines). Monitoring compliance with the defined design (at application, solution and enterprise level). Developing and testing existing and new solutions as required Supporting and guiding the development teams in the implementation of new projects, or in the further development and maintenance of existing products, assuming the role of product manager if required. Establish and ensure best practice in relation to implementation, documentation, testing and packaging for distribution purposes.
Contribute to the handling of reported incidents and requests assigned to third level support and take follow-up actions as required according to established work instructions.
Questioning and discussing technical requirements. Coordination of requirements with the team. Support in developing the concepts. Communicating in French with the team and transferring the content into English. Creation of various documentation for software development. End-user documentation (user manual) in French. Documentation hardware and software components. REST API technical documentation. Agile environment Atlassian tools such as Jira, Mosaic+ etc. Re-engineering of the Java Code and structure the source code to make it readable.
Development and integration for an existing tax application for the state Hessen and finance direction (OFD) of Frankfurt, to interface an old Cobol application (Host) to a new environment (MS-SQL and VB.Net), to process a big amount of end user invoices in an automated process using input data form different geographically distributed offices.
Management and Design of a full cycle developed & concept of a brand-new Interactive TV solution based on Samsung's TIZEN OS and Cloud based management for a 4 Star and 5 Star hotel. Managed and liaised between the outsourced Development Team and Designer, end user, supplier and other third parties to assure smooth project flow. Setup documentation and maintenance rules for the end user as well as for Development Team. Led successfully an international team.
Development fully in Open Java (OpenJDK) using Container Technology.
Management of an existing ERP-Solution for the Fashion sector based on a HQ company in Germany with international branches for productions, mainly in China and India. Created and suggested concepts to modernize the old legacy application to a new and modern web-based solution based on existing Business Logic. Agile PM using Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
Consultancy and PM for the project "Replatforming" of eBIS (Mainframe) Solution (SAP-based customization). Application for three main German "Bausparkassen"
Carried out a full analysis and review of the old code (Cobol) and completed missing documentation on a mission critical application, based on VMWare/Veeam, used by +100 users for millions of booking records, accounting and quality control as well as for managing 12 own-owned hotels. Implemented missing functionalities and features in the old Cobol code. Enhanced source code control and management of future versions.
Deputy to the Lead Service Manager and Project Manager for internal TMS tasks. Mission based on very critical context for Treasury Management System of Airbus attached to +100 Servers for Financial applications and +1'500 Servers (Windows and Unix), to be moved from Munich and Paris to Toulouse with no delays. Acted on behalf of Atos France and Germany versus Airbus teams in France and Germany. High demand on multilingual and multicultural aspects for managing tasks and teams. Managed meetings with a team of 10 freelancers on the same project. Reviewed and assessed all existing technical documentation. Collected technical knowledge from current Airbus operational teams and drew up basic operational procedures where documentation was missing or incomplete. Took over the service according to the existing processes and maintained the assets in operational conditions. Operated the work orders raised by the end-users (level 3 support). This involved frequent travel between sites in Germany and France to coordinate projects and teams as well as gathering missing information directly from Airbus.
Led the fast acquisition of all functions and legal aspects of a huge Salary Cobol-program used by thousands of companies in a data center, to assure continuity until end of phase of the application, Worked with the French and German ADP-team on site to speed up integration and recovery of the running environment. Documented and understood existing modules aged 40+ years in order to assure interaction and modifications due to legal aspects as well as debugging. Led a team of 25 from Germany and France to work on site and remote.
Developed the concept of a brand-new Interactive TV solution based on a new Android Set Top Box (STB) and Cloud based management for a 4 Star and 5 Star hotel chain with a minimal development budget within a tight 12-month timescale. Carried out on site testing, debugging and beta run. Managed and liaised between the Development Team, end user, supplier and other third parties to assure smooth project flow. Setup documentation and maintenance rules for the end user as well as for Development Team. Led a team of 5 full time programmers, administration and sales-team.
Worked out of Geneva, Miami and Zürich, to deploy and recover strategic key customers in Europe. Efficiently managed multiple projects for delivery to major customers. Developed and maintained strong business relations with Verio EU and USA.
Led complex outsourcing and hosting projects. Primary customer contact for projects while aiming to win and deploy the bid and attain defined revenue, EBIT and customer satisfaction goals in projects. Conducted risk analysis and consulted customers during pre-sales (TCO, outsourcing design including security issues, HW/OS, DB, applications, etc.). Responsible for RFI/RFP, cost assessment and pricing. Datacenter-Management for VIP colocation customers.
Led and delivered a project, which was in a 'disaster recovery mode', relocating from an existing unreliable and unstable application to a new version based on MS-SQL.
Key contributor in a project to relocate and maintain existing tax-applications from Unisys host to Unix (HP/UX).
Started as a freelance software developer but quickly developed into managed IT services that grew quickly to a multi-national company, with two offices in Switzerland and offices in France, Italy and Morocco, that provided IT Services to clients in the Hospitality (4* and 5*-Hotels) industry. Provided ongoing support for existing ERP and Cobol solution 'LOGO'. Implementation of different interfaces (DTA & EDI) for Payment and Invoicing exchanges thru Banks and dedicated gateway services.
IPTV and Guest's Entertainment Systems, Geneva, Zürich, Rome, Marrakech, Paris, Nice, Frankfurt: Implemented over 40 projects for Guest's Entertainment Systems for 5-star hotels for Locatel, Quadriga, Swisscom, Otrum and other key players, providing turn-key solution from dish reception (SAT) thru networking for TV- and VOD signals, to TV-devices (STB), using IPTV switching technologies (IGMP/Snooping) as well as DRM (Rights Management), QoS and many other technologies related to Interactive TV Systems.
Web based ERP/MIS Application and Intranet
Siebel CRM Implementation
Real Time Reporting
POS Retail/ERP and Production System (SCM)
Customer Care
Development of Project Management Tools
Application Migration
Container Management
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