Michael B. - Freelance Management Consultant / Interim IT Manager

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Bonn, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present

1 year 9 months

Bonn, Germany

Freelance Management Consultant / Interim IT Manager

Advising companies on IT management in general and software licensing / IT asset management (ITAM/SAM) in particular

Jan 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 3 months

Cologne, Germany

Director IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM)

TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbH

Setting up & further developing the ITAM / SAM business unit
Advising German mid-sized and large customers on setting up, running, and optimizing their ITAM / SAM, focusing on ITAM / SAM governance
Service management / customer retention
Business development and new customer acquisition

Oct 2019 - Dec 2021

2 years 3 months

Bonn, Germany

Key Account Manager Software Asset Management (SAM)

AnglePoint (Group) Deutschland GmbH

Setting up the German subsidiary for AnglePoint
Advising German large customers on setting up, running, and optimizing their Software Asset Management (SAM)
Service management / customer support
Sales and new customer acquisition

Mar 2019 - Sep 2019

7 months

Bonn, Germany

Freelance Management Consultant / Interim Manager

Advising companies on IT management in general and software licensing / IT asset management (ITAM/SAM) in particular

Oct 2018 - Feb 2019

5 months

Heilbronn, 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 (SMEs) with customers in 82 countries worldwide)

Feb 2015 - Sep 2018

3 years 8 months

Ulm, Germany

Practice Leader Managed SAM (IT Service Manager)

Axians IT Solutions GmbH (formerly Fritz & Macziol)

Rebuilding and strategic development of the Managed Service Software Asset Management division; including product/service development and marketing
Sales; i.e. acquiring new clients, maintaining existing clients at executive/chief level, and enabling account management
Project leadership for Managed SAM implementation
Service management for ongoing Managed SAM operations (including point of contact for clients, staffing, budgeting, controlling, etc.)
Key achievements: built a completely new service in a very short time and won and retained long-term clients (approx. 30 clients with around 1 million euros revenue per year)

Jul 2010 - Jan 2015

4 years 7 months

Bonn, Germany

Managing Partner, Principal Consultant

BTP BohlenTechPartner GmbH

Consulting companies in IT management in general and software license/asset management (SAM) in particular
Business setup and management; business planning, marketing, resource, delivery and partner management, financial management
Sales to acquire new clients and maintain existing clients
Key achievements: founded and established a startup focused on consulting in the niche area of SAM with successful client acquisition and services at well-known companies in Germany

Jan 2008 - Jun 2010

2 years 6 months

Bonn, Germany

Group Operations License Manager / Overall Project Manager; Vice President IT Management Group Headquarters & Shared Services

Deutsche Telekom AG

Operational management of the group-wide software license management of Deutsche Telekom Group; virtual organization with approx. 50 (international) employees across the group
Control and monitoring of software license management for all strategic business units in the group and service providers
Full transformation/project management for designing, building and rolling out the group license management (about 20 project staff, budget: approx. 5 million €)
Key achievements: achieved compliance for the group with key software vendors resulting in cost savings of approx. 30 million € per year
Responsible for IT and voice infrastructure support for GHS; i.e. classic telecommunications, voice-over-IP and mobile communications for GHS employees (approx. 22,000) and senior executives in all business units in the group (approx. 2,900)
Budget responsibility: approx. 35 million €
Personnel responsibility: approx. 70 employees
Key achievements: nationwide roll-out of voice-over-IP, introduction of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), standardization of IT workplace systems

Apr 2005 - Dec 2007

2 years 9 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Vice President International Procurement Systems

T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Headquarters Procurement

Responsible for the procurement systems of T-Systems (national and international; especially SAP SRM & MM), multi-project management
Budget responsibility: approx. 10 million €
Personnel responsibility: 5 employees + technical leadership of distributed procurement system employees (8 national, 10 international)
Key achievements: international roll-out of the standard eProcurement system (SAP SRM), international standardization of procurement systems, establishment of eSourcing

Feb 2003 - Apr 2005

2 years 3 months

Bonn, Germany

Associate Partner

Deutsche Telekom AG, Inhouse Consulting (ICT)

Consulting internal clients on e-business and IT topics
IT strategy, potential analyses, concept and implementation support, business process (re-)engineering, (re-)organization, project management

Apr 1999 - Dec 2002

3 years 9 months

Düsseldorf, Germany

Principal Consultant

PricewaterhouseCoopers Unternehmensberatung GmbH

Service Unit Financial Services; especially banks
E-Procurement (especially SAP SRM Enterprise Buyer Professional); cost-benefit analysis, selection, design and implementation
SAP module MM (purchasing)
document and workflow management systems
business process (re-)engineering, project management

May 1997 - Mar 1999

1 year 11 months

Düsseldorf, Germany