Oliver K.

Reorganization of the IT structure and processes at NSI

Hanover, Germany

Experience

Jul 2024 - Present
1 year 6 months
Hanover, Germany

Reorganization of the IT structure and processes at NSI

Niedersächsisches Studieninstitut NSI Hannover (NSI)

  • Project lead FITS
  • Documenting the required IT services for NSI
  • Defining service levels for all IT services
  • 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
7 years 3 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
13 years
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)

  • Organizational setup

  • Restructuring

  • Developing strategic goals

  • People management

  • Recruiting

  • Change management

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Certifications & licenses

ISO 20000 Certification

ITIL® V2 Service Manager

ITIL® V3 Expert

ITIL® V4 Managing Professional

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

ITSM Simulation Trainer Apollo 13

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