Moritz N.
Recovery Lead / Interim Project Lead
Experience
Recovery Lead / Interim Project Lead
- Stabilized a project portfolio (delivery & operations) and restored control
- Conducted recovery assessments (scope, risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, critical path)
- Re-planned and prioritized including stop/start decisions and realistic commitments
- Restructured governance & communication
- Stabilized the operations organization (roles & responsibilities, handovers, quality & release routines)
- Results: stabilized go-lives of redesigns; cleared backlog of escalations and updates; closed unprofitable customer projects; sustainably stabilized project implementations, resource allocation, and operations
PMO Lead / Project Manager
- Developed and operated the service portal including registry integration and form automation & development
- Defined and improved program governance (control logic, decision paths, reporting cadence)
- Owned controlling & reporting (budget, forecast, KPI traffic light logic)
- Managed performance records & invoicing in a B2G context
- Established stakeholder & risk management
- Built scalable PMO structures, standards, and toolchain
- Enabled a PM team within the project context
Project Lead
- Prototype development of an interactive B2B business insight platform (news crawling and automated analysis/preparation via AI agents)
- Scoping and structuring the end-to-end workflow (ingestion → processing → insight output)
- Coordinating tech delivery (crawling/data pipeline, agent/prompt logic at PM level) including release-oriented prototyping
- Stakeholder alignment, prioritization, and defining documentation & quality standards for reproducible results
Team Lead & Subproject Lead / Product Owner
- Built and operated a collaborative, cloud-based open-source collaboration tool for public administration
- Led two DevOps teams (messaging/audio/video and infrastructure-as-code/cloud infrastructure)
- Structured and prioritized requirements, conducted refinements, and aligned stakeholders
- Ensured operational readiness and handovers (documentation standards, support/ops processes, IaC/cloud governance)
- Managed the interface between engineering, operations, and compliance/security requirements (BSI IT baseline protection)
Subproject Lead Rollout Stream
- Rolled out and migrated M365 in an enterprise environment including software and hardware components
- Managed subproject control and planning, alignments, risk and issue handling
- Coordinated between business units, IT operations, and technical implementation teams
- Project-side rollout planning including communication and change aspects in stakeholder alignment
Summary
Project manager with 5+ years of experience in consulting, leading, steering, and recovery of complex IT and digitization projects in software development and IT operations. Combines strong project methodology skills (traditional, agile, hybrid) with deep delivery context in cloud, AI, and software environments. Specialized in project governance, scoping, requirement structuring, cross-functional team coordination, and transparent, solution-focused stakeholder communication at eye level. Works independently on an hourly basis, remotely, with own technical setup. Projects, management, digitization.
Skills
It Project Management (Traditional, Agile, Hybrid)
Pmo Conception & Project Governance
Software Delivery Coordination (Cloud & Ai Workflows)
Requirement Structuring & Milestone Planning
Project Health Checks / Project Rescue
Risk & Dependency Management
Program Management & Portfolio Control
Vendor & Cross-functional Team Coordination
Budget, Timeline & Quality Management
It Service & Devops Management
Process Optimization & Consulting
Project & Planning: Atlassian Tooling (Jira, Confluence, Atlas), Kanban/scrum/hybrid Planning, Tempo Planner
Delivery Context: Gitlab / Github (Pm Level), Documentation Standards, Aws Project Know-how, Api & Ai Delivery (Openai Pm Level), Cloud Delivery Context
Communication & Collaboration: M365, Jitsi/teams/regular Meetings, Mattermost, Figma
Leadership & Coordination Skills
Stakeholder Communication
Understanding & Processing Complex Issues
Workshop Facilitation
Languages
Education
University of Hamburg
Socioeconomics, Business Administration with a focus on Finance · Socioeconomics · Hamburg, Germany
University of Göttingen
Management, Corporate Strategy, Controlling & Digital Business Models · Management · Göttingen, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Ireb
Professional Scrum Product Owner & Practitioner
Professional Scrum Scrum Master
Aws Certified Foundation + Cloud Practitioner
Itil 4 Foundation
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Peoplecert
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