Project Manager / Business Analyst / Agile Coach

• Implementation of 5 different process applications for various teams

• Release planning: scope and time management

• Resource/capacity planning

• Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives

• Increment planning (multiple sprints)

• Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the board

• Coordination / alignment with external vendors / deliveries

• Resource planning across multiple projects

• Alignment with business unit and development team

• Determining best practices with IBM BAW

• Cost control and planning for project team and external service providers

• Collecting KPIs using LogScale

• Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries

• Defining user stories / aligning requirements with business unit and development team

• Testing and bug tracking, UI design, test concept, test data, test organization, test execution

• Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards, checking health endpoints with PowerShell, post-mortem analysis, building incident management, building problem management, analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard

• Pre-processing data for AI, performing evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG, installing runtime environment for LLMs, evaluating different LLMs, installing RAG and integrating with LLM, extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG

• Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), Websphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale, Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber.

Combined experience including:

• (01/2019 – 02/2020) Integration management in client / AI platform: requirements management, prioritization, identifying and clarifying dependencies between SAFe Agile Release Trains, moderating alignment meetings and participating in PI planning, reporting and advising on SAFe solution train approaches

• (03/2020 – 09/2020) Integration management for natural language processing on client / AI platform: developing and integrating AI components, analyzing and optimizing prompts, reporting, leading the computational linguistics team, integrating SoundHound NLU, creating test tools, integrating voice/NLU in iOS and Android apps, validating REST APIs

• (09/2020 – 06/2021) Mobile apps SDK & smart home app voice control: integration management of SDK for iOS and Android, supporting external stakeholders, running integration tests, using SAFe, scrum master tasks, ramping up an offshore team in India, validating REST APIs

• (06/2021 – 02/2022) Smart home control using prompt-based language model: analyzing customer prompts, deriving improvements, designing integration of Houndify custom speech recognition patterns and shortlisting-reranking, improving naming concepts, applying scrum and SAFe, planning across multiple SAFe trains, integrative problem analysis, defining requirements, training team members and running integration tests

• Deriving requirements from MiFID II, MiFIR and RTS

• Analyzing and specifying MiFID II off-order-book-on-exchange trade reports / negotiated transactions

• Analyzing pre-trade transparency and pre-trade transparency waivers

• Planning project charter, WBS, reporting, risk register and stakeholder register

• Estimating effort and aligning with IT

• Direct reporting to head of procurement

• Planning and organization using Planview, SAP Solution Manager and program management

• Resource and time planning in coordination with line managers

• Weekly planning meetings with Chinese project managers

• Implementing the project following IBM Ascendant® methodology

• Successfully introducing SAP procurement processes in a Chinese subsidiary

• Team in Germany: 11 people

• Project language: English / German

• Defining templates and processes for project management across the IT division

• Creating templates (project charter, scope statement, WBS, risk register, stakeholder register, reports, acceptance criteria, cost tracking sheets)

• Developing a project handbook and building an IT project management office (PMO) with central authority

• Sharing knowledge and training project managers according to PMI PMBOK (PMP)

• Analyzing strengths and weaknesses in teams and departments

• Direct collaboration with leaders to define and develop new organizational processes

• Creating a project standard including project orders, resource and time planning, and rolling project planning

• Conducting interviews to identify goals and solve IT area problems

• Building processes for a demand management department with weekly reporting directly to the IT director

• Organizational change management, coaching staff and defining requirements for Planview

• Team size: 12+ in an IT division with over 100 staff

• Technologies used: Planview, Excel, MS Visio

• Conducting IBM JRules training

• Advising on optimal use of business rules

• Analyzing requirements and designing solutions for client projects

• Running pre-sales projects

• Aligning contract terms with clients and service providers

• Staffing projects and preparing proposals (up to €2M)

• Project language: English / German

• Longest engagement: Santander Consumer Bank (2008 – 2010)

• Training on using business rules with IBM JRules in banking

• Advising on different use cases

• Creating pilots, prototypes and small applications for various clients (O2, Allianz Global Risk, DC Bank, Hanseatic Bank, RWE, V&M Tubes)

• Designing Java applications, building J2EE apps (EJB, servlets on JBoss), extending Java Swing apps

• Defining and configuring the JRules business object model

• Technologies used: Java/J2EE/Swing, ILOG JRules

• Designing simulation applications for mail center technology in C++

• Controlling and leading the project

• Introducing agile methods (pair programming, automated testing, timeboxing, build & smoke tests)

• Component-based design with a configurable XML rules system and designing a CORBA application in UML

• Technologies used: C++, UML (Together Architect), Microsoft Visual Studio

• Designing and building an archiving system for central user management (ZUM) based on Action Request System 4.5 and C-API

• Considering existing ITIL processes

• Technologies used: BMC Remedy Action Request, Oracle DB

• Developing a web-based ticket system based on existing ITIL processes

• Technologies used: Apache Tomcat, Java/J2EE, BMC Remedy Action Request

• Developing a bank client-server system for customer data management

• Technologies used: Java Swing/J2EE, XML

• Developing a “radiosity” light simulation

• Application design, C++ programming on Unix, GUI development with Qt, implementing algorithms for light distribution, reflection and shadow calculation

• Technologies used: Qt, OpenGL, C++, Unix

• Developing a fast real-time 3D collision detection

• Implementing algorithms for creating 3D objects

• Technologies used: C++, Unix, OpenGL optimizer

• Developing a Java GUI, database design and programming

• Technologies used: Java, MS Access DB, VB