Designing and implementing change management processes
Designing and implementing the IT organization and workflows
Selecting and managing IT providers, including contract negotiations
Calculating required FTEs for proper, service-oriented on-site support at all three training centers for the coming years
Consulting, reporting and preparing decision templates for management
Coaching IT staff
Introducing a ticketing tool (TopDesk)
Subproject lead “Device as a Service” in project DONSI
Support and management consulting in the Office 365 subproject
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
2 months
Germany
Service Delivery Management consulting (SDM)
Signal Iduna Lebensversicherung
Advising project leads and management on team organization
Running process workshops on service delivery management and requirements management
Process design for requirements management
Developing a concept to operationalize requirements management
Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
1 year
Germany
Project lead “FutureFon” (Teams telephony rollout and phone system decommissioning)
Basler AG
Project lead (budget responsibility)
Needs assessment
Negotiations with providers
Implementation
Setting up and launching the support process
Aug 2022 - May 2023
10 months
Germany
Project lead “SLAs and framework agreements with strategic partners”
Basler AG
Negotiating and operationalizing framework agreements with strategic IT partners according to ITSM standards
Developing, negotiating and operationalizing service level agreements (SLAs) with Basler AG’s strategic IT partners
Jul 2022 - Nov 2023
1 year 5 months
Germany
Subproject lead IT in the large “New Building” project
Basler AG
Responsible for IT equipment in the new building (infrastructure, network and workstations)
Responsible for moving the data center to the new building
Project organization (hybrid)
Escalation management
Managing service providers
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
4 months
Germany
Team member in “New ITSM Tool” Jira Service Management project
Basler AG
Process design for incident, change and request fulfillment
Gathering requirements
Customer portal
Communication with stakeholders
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
5 months
Germany
Interim head of IT Infrastructure team
Basler AG
People management (7 staff)
Technical leadership
Interviewing candidates
Escalation management
Strategic consulting
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
1 year 1 month
Germany
Supporting the Head of IT in introducing operational processes and strategic management consulting
Basler AG
Interim head of service desk
Implementing ITSM (incident, change, problem management)
ITSM tool evaluation
Partner management (managing providers)
Coaching
May 2021 - Nov 2021
7 months
Berlin, Germany
Interim head of infrastructure (CIO)
BKK VBU Berlin
Reorganizing the department, introducing operational processes per ITSM (ITIL 4.0) standards, reorganizing and redefining the technology subproject within People/Space/Technology
Subproject lead for technology in the People, Space, Technology (MRT) project
Setting up operational processes (incident, change, problem management)
Strategic consulting
Operational partner management: drafting and negotiating SLAs with IT providers, managing providers
Disciplinary leadership
Cost center responsibility
Developing cloud strategy
Department restructuring
Agile working
Apr 2021 - May 2021
2 months
Hanover, Germany
Supporting the CIO in reorganizing IT OPS (IT operations)
itsc GmbH Hannover
Project lead
Change management
Running management workshops
Strategic consulting
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
8 months
Berlin, Germany
Service desk optimization
BKK VBU Berlin
Reorganizing the service desk; updating and introducing practices based on ITIL 4 (incident, change, service request management)
Process design
Process implementation
Process training
Operational responsibility
Coaching and enabling
Management consulting
Improving collaboration with external providers, revising and optimizing provider and customer service contracts
Advising
Revising and renegotiating contracts with providers (SLAs, framework agreements, service descriptions)
Interim head of service desk
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
11 months
Hanover, Germany
IT service management concept (based on ITIL)
itsc GmbH Hannover
Designing and operationalizing incident, problem, change, business continuity management; reorganizing service desk
Project lead
Process design
Process implementation
Process training
Operational responsibility
Coaching and enabling
Management consulting
Designing and building customer care (service level management, service management)
Project lead
Concept design
Operationalization
Training and staff enablement
Setting up client-provider contract management
Advising
Creating templates for SLAs, framework agreements, service descriptions
Management workshops for restructuring IT operations
Coaching
Training
Support
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
2 months
Hanover, Germany
Interim CIO
itsc GmbH Hannover
Interim head of IT operations division
Staff management
Overseeing day-to-day operations
Strategic consulting
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
3 months
Germany
Project lead: Rollout of four security features
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
Organizing and managing the rollout of various security features (disk encryption, multi-factor authentication, device control, network access control)
Project management and organization
Managing the Indian outsourcing partner, provider management
Contract management
Management consulting
Quality assurance and control
May 2019 - Aug 2019
4 months
Germany
Project lead / management, building problem management
GDV DL GmbH
Setting up and operationalizing the problem management process
Process design for problem management
Operationalizing the problem management process
Organizing and running ITSM workshops
Support and consulting in service management
Nov 2018 - May 2019
7 months
Germany
Project lead building service management
GDV DL GmbH
Designing and building the service management department and system
Advising and designing processes for ITSM in business development
Creating problem management processes (ITIL) for quality control of IT services, defining KPIs and reporting for quality control
Operationalizing service management
Gathering requirements from business and IT departments, creating guidelines for service teams (e.g., staging concept, end-to-end ownership, minimum requirements for providers and development partners, SLA standards)
Creating processes for building and maintaining a unified service catalog for IT services
Designing a service catalog concept
ITSM tool selection (needs analysis, procurement)
Oct 2018 - Present
6 years 11 months
Partner
iSibocs – IT Service Brokerage für moderne Unternehmen
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
6 months
Germany
Subproject lead “Logistics Buffer” in TransIT program
Hermes Fulfilment GmbH
Taking responsibility for logistics applications “Logistics Buffer”
Organizing the handover
Contract negotiations with suppliers, providers and business
Designing and drafting SLAs
Liaison between client and contractor
Advising on process design and workflows
Management training and consulting
Provider management
Designing and updating support processes (ITIL)
Coaching process owners and management
Running strategy workshops
SLA negotiation and drafting
Supporting and organizing the IT operations rollout
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
11 months
Germany
Subproject lead “Support Chain KR/TR” in TransIT program
Hermes Fulfilment GmbH
Taking responsibility for logistics applications KR/TR
Organizing the handover of KR/TR
Contract negotiations with suppliers and providers
Designing and drafting SLAs
Liaison between client and contractor
Advising on process design and workflows
Management training and consulting
Provider management
Designing and updating support processes (ITIL)
Coaching process owners and management
Running strategy workshops
SLA negotiation and drafting
Supporting and organizing IT operations for KR/TR
Assisting in ITSM tool selection
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
9 months
Germany
Supporting “Helpdesk sourcing interface”
Talanx AG
Project goal: transition of an internal help desk to an external provider
Advising Talanx management
Liaison between client and provider (ComputaCenter)
Optimizing collaboration between provider and client during sourcing
Change support
Provider management
Negotiations with client and provider
Running management workshops
Defining KPIs and performance metrics
Defining, implementing and establishing governance
Feb 2015 - Oct 2018
3 years 9 months
Partner
GreenSocks Consulting GmbH
Jan 2014 - Mar 2016
2 years 3 months
Germany
Project lead “1st-Level Support AMOS/MOVEX”
Hermes Fulfilment GmbH
Taking responsibility for logistics applications AMOS and MOVEX
Organizing the handover
Contract negotiations with suppliers, providers and business
Designing and drafting SLAs
Liaison between client and contractor
Advising on process design and workflows
Management training and consulting
Provider management
Designing and updating support processes (ITIL)
Coaching process owners and management
Running strategy workshops
Initial drafting of a service agreement document (SLA/OLA)
SLA negotiation and drafting with provider and business
Supporting and organizing IT operations for AMOS/MOVEX
Designing and operationalizing provider management
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
4 months
Germany
Optimizing service processes in Talanx AG IT service desk
Talanx AG
Project goal: optimize service processes in the internal IT service desk and stabilize availability and resolution rates in first-level support
Interim management
Staff management
Provider management
Improving and ensuring availability/resolution rates in the front office
Gap and process analysis
Designing and implementing service request management process
Provider management
Ensuring service desk availability and resolution rates per defined KPIs
Enabling help desk management
Running strategy workshops
Organizing daily service desk operations
Introducing shift and break schedules
Developing a training plan for agents for onboarding and ongoing training
Running workshops for team and department leads in the service desk
Jan 2013 - Present
12 years 8 months
Hanover, Germany
Owner and managing director
O-KON-SALT
May 2011 - Dec 2012
1 year 8 months
Hanover, Germany
Head of Service Control
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Overall responsibility for ITSM
Technical and disciplinary staff responsibility
Budget responsibility
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
1 year
Hanover, Germany
Founder of ITSM Academy TUI InfoTec
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Voluntary seminar-style internal training on IT service management and ITIL
Project initiator
Project sponsor
Budget responsibility
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
1 year
Hanover, Germany
Program lead / operational responsibility for IT service management
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Responsible for developing and optimizing ITSM processes at TUI InfoTec GmbH
Conducting audits and certifications (new and recertifications)
Ensuring compliance with data security laws (security management)
Managing service delivery using KPIs and SLAs
Leading staff (internal/external, onsite/offshore) and a management team
Contributing to strategic customer relationship development
Drafting (contracts), implementing (organizational, technical) and monitoring (scope, cost) service delivery concepts with external partners, provider management
Reporting to top management (KPI reporting, continuous improvement)
Planning and controlling performance and costs of the profit center under cost center responsibility
Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
1 year
Hanover, Germany
ISO 20000 certification
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Initiator and project lead for ISO 20000 certification
Achieved successful ISO 20000 certification in September 2010
Jan 2009 - Apr 2011
2 years 4 months
Hanover, Germany
Head of Service Centers
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Technical and disciplinary staff responsibility
Budget responsibility
Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
1 year
Hanover, Germany
Project lead: improving customer relationships
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Establishing processes for continuous service improvement based on SLAs and KPIs
Developing and implementing measures to increase customer loyalty
Service design
Contract management
Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
1 year
Hanover, Germany
Problem management reorganization
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Introducing an effective problem management process for the entire TUI InfoTec organization
Process redesign
Process implementation
Process controlling
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
2 years
Hanover, Germany
Head of Incident Management and Service Desk
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Technical and disciplinary staff responsibility
Budget responsibility
Jun 2005 - Dec 2006
1 year 7 months
Hanover, Germany
Head of Incident Management
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Technical and disciplinary staff responsibility
Budget responsibility
Jan 2004 - Dec 2004
1 year
Hanover, Germany
Project lead: building and establishing a trilingual international service desk in 24/7 operation
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Project initiator
Project lead
Concept design
Budgeting
Process design
People management
Operational management and control of the service desk (staff and budget responsibility)
Jan 2002 - May 2005
3 years 5 months
Hanover, Germany
Head of UHD (User Help Desk)
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Technical and disciplinary staff responsibility
Budget responsibility
Jan 2001 - Dec 2001
1 year
Hanover, Germany
Team lead UHD
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Oct 1998 - Dec 2000
2 years 3 months
Hanover, Germany
IT hotline specialist
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Jan 1998 - Sep 1998
9 months
Hanover, Germany
Student assistant
TUI InfoTec GmbH
Summary
Management consulting
Interim management (CIO, CEO, dept head, team lead)
Project management
(IT) service management (ITSM / ITIL)
HR management
Outsourcing
Provider management
Change management
Service desk (setup, organization and optimization)