Ole Himmel
Project Manager Post Merger & Digitization
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
7 months Alsdorf, Germany
Project Manager PMI
4JET Group
- Advising on the creation of the new target organization of the new company.
- Developing an integration plan with defined integration priorities.
- Identifying, implementing and monitoring cost savings and efficiency gains.
- Assessing the IT landscape and deriving implementation proposals for integration.
- Ensuring a seamless transition without disrupting ongoing business.
- Clear and transparent communication with employees and executives.
- Managing resistance and cultural challenges.
- Identifying and managing risks.
Dec 2024 - Present
8 monthsProject Manager IT Sourcing
Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft
- Revising the market analysis for RPA applications.
- Creating the “RPA Introduction” roadmap.
- Preparing tender documents in coordination with specialist departments, procurement and contracting.
- Aligning RPA use cases with business units and selected executives.
- Publishing the RPA tender, including communication with vendors.
- Developing a criteria-based evaluation schema and evaluating submitted proposals.
- Decision on tool and IT implementation partner.
Oct 2024 - Present
10 monthsERP Consultant
BTE Stelcon GmbH
- Familiarizing with customer-specific customizations of the MS Dynamics 365 installation/configuration.
- Detailed planning of task areas in consideration of the overall project timeline.
- Conducting key-user training sessions and workshops.
- Supporting the creation of test cases.
- Planning, managing and supervising test phases (module and full integration).
- Stakeholder management.
- Introducing a “Community of Practice,” providing learning materials and establishing a support structure.
May 2024 - Present
1 year 3 monthsIT Project Manager / CRM Consultant
value AG
- Defining the scope regarding process domains.
- Project planning and execution of process capture/optimization workshops.
- Stakeholder management.
- Building and managing an agile implementation backlog.
- Executing sprints through technical configuration of Dynamics 365 (views, dashboards, workflows, roles & permissions).
- Testing and acceptance of backlog items.
- Training and communicating new functionalities.
- Introducing a “Community of Practice,” providing learning materials and establishing a support structure.
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
7 monthsStrategic Consultant PMI
TX Logistik AG
- Establishing a project organization including regular meetings, project plan and reporting.
- Defining and aligning work packages with clear delineation of the scope of work.
- Analyzing structures, processes and costs per department / work group.
- Hypothesis-based work to develop initial revenue, efficiency and cost targets.
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
9 monthsIT Product Manager
DB Fernverkehr AG
- Requesting and reviewing proposals for content and formal aspects.
- Monitoring the development of two system components (vehicle information system and reservation system), including test planning and commissioning on the train.
- Coordinating incident & problem management between internal departments and the vendor.
- Documenting operations and development processes.
- Risk and change management: creating change requests and serving as central point of contact.
- Creating annual roadmaps and aligning budget approvals with client decision-makers.
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
9 monthsIT Project Lead
ROPEX Industrie-Elektronik GmbH
- Analyzing and documenting processes for invoice receipt/dispatch and logistics data storage (data flow analysis and documentation).
- Creating a list of requirements derived from the concept of the old DMS application.
- Conducting market research and shortlisting five potential DMS applications.
- Developing the project plan down to work‐package level.
- Designing a test environment and executing the migration.
- Coordinating with the service provider and accepting functions.
- Planning training and rollout.
- Providing hypercare/support after go-live.
- Conducting an initial workshop for the BI application with controlling, management and IT.
- Aligning roles and permissions.
- Capturing a backlog of existing and new reports with detailed descriptions of required data/visualizations.
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
5 monthsStrategic IT Consultant
Ginkgo Management Consulting GmbH
- Mapping current tasks to the IT strategy.
- Presenting tasks by team, including planned resources.
- Preparing, conducting and documenting workshops with team leaders to review the developed mapping.
May 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 8 monthsIT Project Lead
ROPEX Industrie-Elektronik GmbH
- Analyzing past project activities and deriving measures for a project turnaround.
- Project initialization including development of project structure and organization.
- Gathering requirements for the four subprojects: ERP, processes, data cleansing and tools.
- Managing and monitoring project status.
- Steering process capture in core process departments.
- Advising on process planning.
- Conducting as-is process capture and documentation.
- Strategic end-to-end process workshop with management.
- Advising on optimizing selected processes.
- Coordinating IT department on ERP implementation (migration, IT landscape and data flow analysis).
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
7 monthsIT Project Manager
Julada GmbH
- Planning and implementing a retail merchandise management system (including migration and labeling).
- Integrating the existing POS system with the merchandise management system.
- Creating an initial process map.
- Developing a semi-automated reporting system for accounting.
- Building the shop system and integrating it with the merchandise management system (including customization via coding and linking to a logistics provider).
- Planning and piloting an e-commerce marketing campaign.
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
5 monthsSenior PMO SAFe
DB Netz AG
- Planning and executing agile program management.
- Conducting and documenting all meetings at the interface between value teams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
- Managing interfaces.
- Responsible for overarching risk and dependency management.
- Stakeholder management.
- Administering the Jira instance for 500 users.
- Leading the “Jira” Community of Practice.
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
7 monthsIT Product Manager
DB Fernverkehr AG
- Planning and executing agile project management.
- Documenting the product roadmap.
- Developing and aligning the concept with stakeholders during a reorganization.
- Preparing reports.
- Allocating budget including internal proposal/contract structuring.
- Aligning business requirements with the technical product owner of development.
- Creating implementation planning.
- Accepting deliverables using test facilities.
- Supporting test planning.
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
5 monthsIT Rollout Project Manager
Jungheinrich AG
- Executing agile project management including project planning.
- Planning, conducting and documenting Scrum‐typical ceremonies.
- Coaching the co-project manager in agile and traditional project management.
- Preparing, conducting and documenting steering meetings.
- Planning and supporting pilot rollouts at two sites.
- Creating a project plan template per site for subsequent rollouts.
- Planning the rollout schedule for all 36 sites.
- Preparing tender documents for hardware procurement.
- Developing a communication plan for rollout project stakeholders.
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
10 monthsLead Consultant
collaboration Factory AG
- Gathering tool templates and best practices through interviews, workshops and group discussions on existing artifacts.
- Prioritizing and updating artifacts to current technical standards.
- Conducting process capture in project management.
- Defining and agreeing on process adjustments.
- Designing quality criteria and approval processes for quality gates.
- Organization-wide documentation and communication of final changes in project management.
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
1 year 10 monthsIT Project Manager
Continental AG
- Conducting agile project management including project planning.
- Planning, conducting and documenting backlog grooming.
- Introducing agile methods in development and acting as Scrum Master and partially Product Owner.
- Analyzing existing requirements in the form of user stories with business units.
- Creating overall project reports and decision papers.
- Aligning IT increments during development and final acceptance.
- Preparing and supporting go-live.
- Executing migration steps.
Nov 2014 - Oct 2017
3 yearsProject Manager / Change Manager
DB Netz AG
- Taking over rollout management for the Northern region.
- Ensuring team qualification.
- Developing the project plan for the five plants in the Northern region.
- Scheduling rollout coordinators per plant.
- Quality assurance of training content for process, IT and change formats.
- Planning and conducting change workshops.
- Providing feedback to regional and central management on rollout obstacles.
May 2014 - Sep 2014
5 monthsSenior Consultant
DB Schenker Logistics
- Conducting structured interviews with all project managers in the Europe region.
- Selecting and aligning possible evaluation criteria.
- Assessing the existing project portfolio.
- Creating project fact sheets.
- Deriving recommendations for each project.
- Developing a PMO handbook.
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
3 monthsSenior Consultant
DB Services
- Participating in regional status meetings to ensure project progress.
- Introducing and tracking strict task lists.
- Conducting expert workshops and documenting project feedback.
- Developing improvement proposals in the form of high-level concepts.
- Participating in and communicating regional feedback in project sessions.
- Preparing decision and implementation proposals.
May 2013 - Dec 2014
8 monthsSenior Consultant
DB Regio
- Extracting relevant core and support processes.
- Identifying volume drivers per process via structured interviews and workshops.
- Supporting the creation and evaluation of a questionnaire.
- Redesigning processes for production-related departments.
- Creating role, team and function descriptions.
- Assisting in drafting decision papers and an organizational directive.
Apr 2012 - Mar 2013
1 yearSenior Consultant
DB Station & Service
- Reviewing and structuring initiatives in procurement of services.
- Developing additional measures for cost savings.
- Evaluating initiatives based on saving potential.
- Preparing fact sheets for all relevant initiatives.
- Drafting a high-level concept for the top five cost-reduction initiatives.
- Developing and validating concepts with the service provider.
- Creating an implementation plan and piloting selected initiatives.
Jan 2011 - Mar 2012
3 monthsConsultant
S-Bahn Hamburg
- As-is analysis of existing stabling areas.
- Identifying potential new stabling areas.
- Evaluating using life-cycle costing and prioritizing via utility analysis.
- Determining conversion/construction costs and producing technical drawings.
- Managing and analyzing ownership structures.
- Preparing fact sheets for potential stabling facilities and a rough implementation roadmap.
Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
6 monthsConsultant
DB Netz AG
- Querying the database for existing facilities and planned construction projects.
- Processing and merging raw data.
- Validating results through expert interviews.
- Developing calculation logic for future funding needs.
- Validating and optimizing logic in workshops.
- Supporting the derivation and evaluation of negotiation strategies.
Oct 2008 - Jun 2011
2 years 9 monthsSystems Engineer
WABCO Development GmbH
- Requirements management: drafting and aligning requirements.
- System test management: test specification and automated test environment.
- Responsible for functional testing and prototype commissioning at the client.
- Leading a software subproject including developer coordination and programming an interface between PC and CAN bus.
May 2007 - Sep 2008
1 year 5 monthsDevelopment Engineer
IAV GmbH
- Developing new workflows for the product development process (cross-brand).
- Implementing new workflows in vehicle projects.
- Training stakeholders on new technology.
- Creating process artifacts to support line organization.
- Serving as representative on the Change Control Board.
Summary
Ole Himmel has supported his clients for more than 14 years in strategic, organizational and transformational corporate initiatives. In the process, he has become acquainted with corporate structures from start-ups to medium-sized businesses and international corporations, advising them on complex issues in strategic transformation projects, post-merger integrations (PMI) and the implementation and optimization of business processes.
With enthusiasm, clear goal orientation, strong empathy, extensive communication and a high degree of structuring, he provides his clients with stability and confidence in volatile times of upheaval.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Certifications & licenses
BPMN 2.0 Basics
Signavio
Business Rhetoric
HPS
Certified Negotiator
HHL
Certified SAFe5 Agilist
Scaled Agile
Competitive Strategy
LMU
Introduction to Design Thinking
HPI
Fundamentals of Data Engineering and Data Science
HPI
PMP Certificate
PMI
Product Owner (PSPO1)
Rhetoric and Dialectic
Kirchner-Seminare
Scrum Master (PSM1)
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