Interim leadership of the 10-member PreSales team in Managed Cloud Services and Application Services with a focus on SAP, but also MS365 and data center/infrastructure services.
All for One Group SE is a consulting and IT company; the listed AG’s headquarters is in Filderstadt. Its portfolio includes management, process, and IT consulting as well as IT services. With 2,800 employees (2023), it serves about 3,000 mostly midsize clients in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Carried out the duties of operations manager for the global SAP finance system.
Schenker AG is an international logistics provider with about 76,100 employees at over 1,850 locations in 130 countries. The worldwide finance operations run on an SAP ERP system.
Managed the ‘Service Management according to ITIL’ project.
Trafineo specializes in toll and vehicle-related services in Europe. As part of a strategic realignment, the service management in Customer Service & Operations was restructured.
Coordinated cross-service topics in the project 'Prototypical transfer of responsibility from the German armed forces to BWI.'
BWI GmbH is a 100% federal company. As an IT system house, it develops and operates its clients’ information and communication technology. As part of the Bundeswehr IT’s strategic realignment, responsibility for IT application operations was reorganized. Several projects were involved.
Managed IT operations in ERP applications.
MEYER WERFT in Papenburg leads in building luxury liners. As part of an IT strategy shift to SAP as a global ERP solution, the ERP Service Manager role was newly created. Initially filled by an experienced interim manager to define and optimize processes, workflows, and services.
Conducted an audit of service quality in application support on behalf of Sulzer management.
Sulzer GmbH is a midsize, internationally active full-service provider for process and IT consulting. It was contracted to run application operations in telematics for the end customer BMW. A performance audit was carried out for quality assurance.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a UK pharmaceutical company with over 100,000 employees. IT is centrally managed in England, with support mainly based in India.
As Application Manager Germany, I was responsible for smooth IT application operations for German users, including incident, problem, and change management, and supporting projects with German involvement.
Handled operations management for two international SAP finance systems.
The central SAP system collects all global financial data of the group. The main modules are FI and CO. Application support is provided by an international service provider in India.
SAP ECC 6.0, Oracle DB, Linux OS, Intel servers, one central instance for dev/test and three for production, one app server for production
24/7 support across three time zones by Accenture India
Offshore services cover SAP Basis operations and SAP application support (2nd and 3rd level)
30 company codes in 20 countries, including the USA, China, and the UK
Users: approx. 2,500; active users: approx. 1,700
Tickets per month: approx. 600
Led application support and managed the Indian IT provider
Central coordination of operations topics, e.g. between projects, maintenance, Basis, and application support
Represented operations interests in projects for new SAP market rollouts (start-up management)
Responsible for analysis, improvement, and execution of ITIL processes
Contributed to building a product/portfolio management department, including:
Consulting and process design during the architecture phase for introducing 13 ITIL processes
Managed hosting and application support customers from contract signing through the end of the service period
(detailed project list available)
Last role: Team Lead SAP Application Support
Second role: SAP Functional Consultant / Team Lead
First role: SAP Technical Consultant
Project coordination and C/ABAP programming
For over 20 years I have helped international corporations align their IT operations efficiently and effectively. My focus is leading SAP AMS operations and supporting projects aimed at optimizing IT service processes according to ITIL.
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