Panagiotis Tsiantopoulos
Partner, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender
Experience
IT Manager
XCMG – XFL
IT Manager for the subsidiary of a Chinese construction machinery manufacturer building its leasing business. Accompanying the first two phases 'Initialisation' and 'RfP & Vendor selection', to be followed by Phase 3 'Implementation & GoLive' and Phase 4 'HyperCare' in 2025
- Collection of basic requirements
- Project planning
- Creation of RfP and tender
- Interviews with five vendors
- Review of offers and contracts
- Creation of vendor shortlist based on hard facts (criteria catalog, price, licenses) and soft facts (quality of documents, user experience of software, reputation and references)
Interim Manager
Helaba
ATLAS project - Modernization of IT infrastructure, introduction of SAP core banking system (customer, account, credit), mainframe replacement. SPOC for program management and four IT-related projects (architecture, test & release, mainframe replacement, infrastructure and operations)
- Supporting both program managers and four project managers in planning, coordination, communication and management of scope, risks, tasks, stakeholders, budget, change requests and service providers
- Task force lead for SAP S/4HANA 2023 and TRBK2.0 upgrade
- Task force lead for ensuring migration environment stability
- Leading a team to plan, implement and operate a second SAP line including retrofit and design overarching release management
- Identification and escalation of risks and solution finding
AI Consultant
Thoranet
Be ready for AI project - opportunities and risks. Consulting on AI topics for employees on current state of AI technologies and trends
- Workshops on AI chat bots, prompts, tools, AIops
Lead Technology Manager
Deutsche Bank
UNITY project - Integration of Postbank (data, systems, processes, products, employees, customers) in multiple waves into target landscape
- Responsible for project-specific management of bank-wide acceptance & integration test environment INT++ (E008) and support for migration test environment TMIG
- Participation in overall cutover planning and continuous feedback to senior management on topics around scope, milestones, problem areas and solutions
- Coordination with project teams regarding requirements in preparation and execution of tests, both from migration and regressive perspective
- Coordination with teams outside the project, vendors, support units
- Creation of booking day calendars in coordination with extraction, transformation, load teams particularly regarding detailed planning of test migrations without disturbing daily end-of-day processing
IT Project Manager
DZ BANK
Migration and transformation project / M&A: CarveOut of VR Faktorem Eschborn from VR Leasing to DZ BANK
- Responsible for building new application landscape as first tenant in DZ BANK data center
- Tranche-wise handover and transfer of individual applications to new operating units including hypercare phase after cutover
- Necessary dismantling and ensuring operational stability at selling unit
- Takeover and new planning of last and largest tranche in ongoing project
- Analysis of old and new system environment, creation of delta analysis
- Support and coaching of technical project management, clarification of technical and functional requirements
- Close coordination with stakeholders up to C-level
- Budget planning, milestone tracking, control of external service providers
- Technical ensuring of timely closing
- Script review
- Migration concept from self-managed landscape to new environment to be built
IT Project Manager
DZ BANK
Migration and transformation project / M&A: CarveOut sale of BFL Eschborn from VR Leasing to BAWAG p.s.k. Vienna
- Responsible for carve-out, extraction and handover of BFL data from VR Leasing systems to BAWAG p.s.k. and their service providers
- Necessary dismantling and ensuring operational stability at selling unit including emails, drive contents, reporting, DWH extracts
- Analysis of old and new systems
- Support and coaching of technical project management, clarification of requirements
- Close coordination with stakeholders up to C-level
- Budget planning, milestone tracking
- Technical ensuring of closing, establishment of delivery routes for reporting capability, script review
- Migration concept from very heterogeneous landscape to monolithic standard solution for leasing business for active business
- Support in transformation and introduction of new solution through close coordination with users and service providers
Defect Manager
Commerzbank
Digital strategy project - Securities order (CCB & ROP = WONE); two of bank's largest projects 'Digital Strategy 4.0' and 'Introduction of new securities platform'
- Ensure smooth interaction of end-to-end tests as cross-functional defect manager
- Acting coordinatively from independent perspective considering different methodologies agile vs. waterfall
- Standardizing processes to prevent blocking structures
- Identification and addressing of cluster risks and root cause analysis of defects
- Establishing regular technical reviews and coordination between DEV, IT and business
- Assigning defects from different areas and projects, resolving clarification needs, tracking fixes
- Facilitator and interface between test managers and analysts, business analysts, technical architects, project management, scrum masters, delivery managers, subject matter experts
- Optimization of decision and planning processes around defects
- Ad hoc defect reports for management
- Creating publicly accessible reports and analysis graphics
- Preparation of migration concept from ALM 11 to ALM 12.5
QA Manager
Commerzbank
GEVA-ZV project - Replacement of application in payment transactions area
- Request and archive project documentation
- Create and maintain project plan
- Create and maintain milestone plan
- Create and maintain QA matrix
- Prepare steering committee slides
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Infrastructure modernization project as part of new strategy. One of published goals was to have only four operating systems in use on all servers by 2020. This partly required hardware replacement.
- Subproject management
- Prioritization and planning according to costs and criticality
- Impact analysis
- Coordination of project plans with internal service providers, all affected application owners and vendors
- Regular creation of reports
- Ensuring achievement of KPIs and plans agreed with board
- Early identification and addressing of problems, escalation of risks, stakeholder involvement
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Project stream 'Demand Management' implementing Standard Application Environments (SAE) defined in MITSA 3 contract with vendor IBM. This enabled configuration and ordering of virtual servers and databases with middleware, provided within hours through highly automated provisioning process in cloud.
- Project management (with new internal project manager)
- Planning and production deployment of planned release packages
- Handover to operations teams
- Requirements gathering with requestors
- Deriving requirements for new tools and processes to be established in ServiceNow
- Coordination of project plans with internal service providers and IBM
- Coordination of processes with stakeholders from operations
Business Analyst
Commerzbank
Impact analysis focusing on NoS/DataWareHouse as service for project teams from IT and business departments in various projects from investment banking, finance, credit risk areas:
- Analysis of IT applications and interfaces in heterogeneous IT system landscape with complex processes and dependencies between operational and dispositional systems
- Analysis of business requirements and identification of adaptation needs including process optimization
- Audit-compliant handling of production systems
- Creation of technical documentation
- Management of development team
- Coordination with higher-level test teams from requesting projects, test coordination
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Project management in Change the Bank area. Core tasks included processing audit monitors regarding process conformity in IT development area and preparing implementation of agreed solutions.
- Analysis of business requirements
- Development of implementation alternatives
- Management of two additional analysts
Change Advisory Board Manager
Deutsche Bank
Change Management in Magellan program (formerly RTP). Project migrated Deutsche Bank's core banking applications to SAP, optimized business processes and provided IT infrastructure necessary for Postbank integration. Stages 2013/2014
- Change Manager for core applications SAP, ETL, Quest, FACE/MKx responsible for all production deployments in Magellan context
- Ensuring high degree of dependency checks through end-to-end view of process chains
- Script review
- Conflict resolution
- Requesting missing documents
- Member of Corebanking Change Management Team responsible for all deployments in retail area
Test Environment Coordinator
Deutsche Bank
Test environment coordination in 'Retail Target Platform' (RTP) project. Project migrated Deutsche Bank's core banking applications to SAP Banking, optimized business processes and provided IT infrastructure necessary for Postbank integration. Stage 1: Introduction of SAP-BS (DM+BP), SAP-BA, SAP-BW and SAP-PI.
- Coordination of EDU environment setup (SAP, Quest, FACE/MKblue)
- Coordination of UAT environment setup (HOST, Informatica, SAP, etc)
- Coordination of UAT operations phase
- Member of control center for conversion and operation of UAT
Business Analyst
Commerzbank
Study and implementation of stress test platform for credit risk
- Support in creating technical documentation
- Preparation and management of technical and functional tests
- Analysis of current state and description of target state
- Business process analysis and requirements engineering
- Concept development, architecture design/analysis and documentation
- Creation of preliminary study with recommendations
Project Manager
Commerzbank / EuroHypo
Analysis and implementation of organization, structure and IT landscape focused on newly defined target markets
- Project management responsible for five work packages including complete new development of IT application
- Creation of technical concepts
- Technical and functional test management
- Test execution
- Preparation and organization of releases
Test Manager
Commerzbank
Migration projects in bank merger
- Responsible test manager for functional and technical testing of various applications in 'Growing Together' migration project
- Support for overall project management in analysis of components important for target landscape ('Target Application Landscape')
- Create test concepts
- Monitor test execution and conduct reviews
- Solve problems across tests
Project Manager
Commerzbank
Migration of balance sheet analysis tool to new architecture
- Requirements analysis
- Planning and implementation execution
- Test management
Frontend Developer
Commerzbank
Enhancement of application for determining corporate customer ratings; conversion and transfer to new, unified rating platform during harmonization
- Frontend EL-Rating module
- Knowledge transfer to new development team
- Implement requirements
- Coaching
- Analyze problems and implement with minimal risks
Solution Architect
Commerzbank
New implementation of rating procedure for corporate customers
- Architect and contact for business department in product development and introduction of nationwide used rating procedure for corporate customers according to Basel II on Commerzbank's technical architecture
- Architecture design and documentation
- Coordination with stakeholders
Architecture Consultant
Commerzbank
Consolidation of different architectures and development platforms for rating procedures
- Consultant for cluster management in selection of suitable target architecture
- Create SAP archiving concept
- Intensive collaboration with cluster management
- Architecture comparison
- Conducting workshop for parts of architect team and selected chief developers of rating procedures
Deputy Project Manager
Commerzbank
Product development of nationwide used scoring procedure for business customers according to Basel II on new, XML-based rule engine 'ILOG JRules' using configurative technical architecture of Commerzbank
- Project management controlling and reporting
- Jointly responsible for implementation
- Test support
- Continuous coordination with business department, platform team, test team
- Determine plan and actual figures, consolidate & get approval
- Weekly progress tracking and reporting
- Document management
Lead Developer
Commerzbank
Product development, introduction and maintenance of three globally used Excel-based rating systems for international corporate customers according to Basel II
- Chief developer
- Requirements analysis and development
- Test support
- Implementation of solution in close coordination with business department and test team (including test scope)
IT Consultant
Commerzbank
Collaboration in product development of banking application in area of automated quality assurance of securities price database
- Consulting and development: Implementation of mask changes of mainframe application
- Technical documentation
PMO
Deutsche Börse / clearstream
Project management support for introduction of new German securities settlement model
- PMO, requirements analysis, development, test support
- Tracking of deliverables using self-developed Excel tool
- Creation of templates
- Project plan updates
- Organization of meetings
- Direct support of business manager
- Creation of technical documentation
Developer
adept consult AG
Modernization of legacy applications (Mainframe to Web)
- Requirements analysis, development, test execution, software selection
- Implementation of solution in coordination with management for purpose of applying for funding
- Extraction of COBOL calculation core from existing application
- Connection to modern web interface in PHP
- Preparation of presentable version running on notebook
Developer
Commerzbank
Software maintenance project at Commerzbank with goal of connecting new interface (external data provider)
- Consulting and development
- Changes to business logic of mainframe application
- Connection of external data provider
- Technical documentation
- During analysis and processing, Excel was created showing COBOL-implemented calculation core. This idea then became basis for follow-up project of modernizing legacy applications