Michael B.
Freelance Management Consultant / Interim IT Manager
Experience
Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 5 monthsBonn, Germany
Freelance Management Consultant / Interim IT Manager
- Advising companies on IT management in general and software license / IT asset management (ITAM/SAM) in particular
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
2 years 3 monthsCologne, Germany
Director IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM)
TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbH
- Set up & further develop the ITAM / SAM business unit
- Advise German midmarket and large customers on building, running and optimizing their ITAM / SAM, focus on ITAM / SAM governance
- Service management / customer retention
- Business development and new client acquisition
Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 3 monthsBonn, Germany
Key Account Manager Software Asset Management (SAM)
AnglePoint (Group) Deutschland GmbH
- Established AnglePoint’s German subsidiary
- Advised German large customers on building, running and optimizing their software asset management (SAM)
- Service management / customer support
- Sales and new client acquisition
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
7 monthsBonn, Germany
Freelance Management Consultant / Interim Manager
- Advising companies on IT management in general and software license / IT asset management (ITAM/SAM) in particular
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
5 monthsHeilbronn, Germany
Global Business Solution Owner SAMSimple (IT Service Manager)
SoftwareONE Deutschland GmbH
- Global IT management with service product responsibility for “SAMSimple” (standardized SAM service for small and medium enterprises SME with customers in 82 countries worldwide)
Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
3 years 8 monthsUlm, Germany
Practice Leader Managed SAM (IT Service Manager)
Axians IT Solutions GmbH (formerly Fritz & Macziol)
- Built and strategically expanded the managed service software asset management area; incl. product/service development and marketing
- Sales; i.e. new client acquisition, key account management at executive/chief level and account management enablement
- Project lead for Managed SAM implementations
- Service management for ongoing Managed SAM operations (incl. customer contact, staffing, budgeting, controlling etc.)
- Key achievements: Launched a completely new service in record time and gained and retained long-term clients (approx. 30 clients with approx. €1M revenue per year)
Jul 2010 - Jan 2015
4 years 7 monthsBonn, Germany
Managing Partner, Principal Consultant
BTP BohlenTechPartner GmbH
- Advising companies on IT management in general and software license / asset management (SAM) in particular
- Building and running the business; business planning, marketing, resource, delivery and partner management, financial management
- Sales for new client acquisition and customer retention
- Key achievements: Founded and established a startup focused on the niche of SAM consulting with successful acquisition and services for well-known companies in Germany
Jan 2008 - Jun 2010
2 years 6 monthsBonn, Germany
Group Operations Licence Manager / Overall Project Lead; Vice President IT Management Group Headquarters & Shared Services (GHS)
Deutsche Telekom AG
- Operational management of the group-wide software license management for Deutsche Telekom Group; virtual organization with approx. 50 distributed (international) employees
- Management and monitoring of software license management for all strategic business units and service providers in the group
- Full transformation/project management for the design, setup and roll-out of group license management (approx. 20 project staff, budget: approx. €5M)
- Key achievements: Achieved compliance for the group with major software vendors, saving approx. €30M p.a.
- Responsible for IT and voice infrastructure for GHS; i.e. classic telecom, VoIP and mobile communication for GHS employees (approx. 22,000) and executives across the group (approx. 2,900)
- Budget responsibility: approx. €35M
- Personnel responsibility: approx. 70 employees
- Key achievements: Nationwide roll-out of VoIP, introduction of enterprise architecture management (EAM), standardization of IT workplace systems
Apr 2005 - Dec 2007
2 years 9 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Vice President International Procurement Systems
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Headquarters Procurement
- Responsible for procurement systems of T-Systems (national and international; especially SAP SRM & MM), multi-project management
- Budget responsibility: approx. €10M
- Personnel responsibility: 5 direct reports + functional leadership of distributed procurement system staff (8 national, 10 international)
- Key achievements: International roll-out of the standard e-procurement system (SAP SRM), international standardization of procurement systems, establishment of eSourcing
Feb 2003 - Apr 2005
2 years 3 monthsBonn, Germany
Associate Partner
Deutsche Telekom AG, Inhouse Consulting (ICT)
- Advising internal clients on e-business and IT topics
- IT strategy, potential analysis, concept and implementation support, business process (re-)engineering, (re-)organization, project management
Apr 1999 - Dec 2002
3 years 9 monthsDüsseldorf, Germany
Principal Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Service unit financial services; especially banking
- E-procurement (esp. SAP SRM Enterprise Buyer professional); cost/benefit analysis, selection, concept and implementation
- SAP MM module (procurement)
- Document and workflow management systems
- Business process (re-)engineering, project management
May 1997 - Mar 1999
1 year 11 monthsDüsseldorf, Germany
Consultant
INTEGRATA Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Document and workflow management
- SAP SD module (sales)
- Business process (re-)engineering
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
ElementaryFrench
ElementaryEducation
Oct 1991 - Jun 1997
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Diploma in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Münster, Germany
Aug 1988 - Jun 1991
GAD Gesellschaft für automatische Datenverarbeitung eG
Data Processing Clerk · Münster, Germany
Certifications & licenses
ISO/IEC 19770-1 Practitioner
ITAM Forum
Certified Software Asset Manager
IATAM International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, Inc.
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Scrum.org
FlexNet Manager Suite
Flexera
Certified Microsoft Licensing Microsoft Professional (MLP) Trainer
Microsoft
PRINCE2 Foundation
Microsoft Certified Technology Microsoft Specialist: Designing, Assessing, and Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM)
Microsoft
ITIL V3 Foundation
TÜV Süd
Certification: SAP R/3 Application Consultant Module SD
SAP, Walldorf
Certification: Operational Data Protection Law
University of Münster
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