Panagiotis Tsiantopoulos
IT Manager
Experience
Oct 2024 - Dec 2025
3 months China
IT Manager
XCMG - XFL
- Defining the basic requirements.
- Planning the project and creating the request for proposal (RfP).
- Carrying out the tender process.
- Conducting interviews with five vendors.
- Reviewing the proposals and contracts.
- Creating a vendor shortlist based on hard facts and soft facts.
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
9 months Germany
Interim Manager
Helaba
- Supporting program and project managers with planning, coordination, and communication.
- Managing scope, risks, tasks, stakeholders, budget, change requests, and service providers.
- Leading task forces for SAP S/4HANA 2023 and TRBK2.0 upgrade.
- Ensuring the migration environment.
- Planning and implementing a second SAP line with retrofit and designing release management.
- Identifying risks and finding solutions.
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
6 months Germany
AI Consultant
Thoranet
- Advising on current topics and trends in AI.
- Conducting workshops on AI chatbots, prompts, tools, and AIOps.
Jan 2020 - Jul 2023
2 years 7 months Germany
Lead Technology Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Responsible for project-specific management of the acceptance and integration test environment and supporting the migration test environment.
- Participating in cut-over planning.
- Coordinating with project teams on migration and regression testing.
- Interacting with teams outside the project, vendors, and support units.
- Detailed planning of test migrations without disrupting end-of-day processing.
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
10 months Germany
IT Project Manager
DZ Bank, VR Leasing, VR Faktorem
- Building the new application landscape in DZ Bank’s data center.
- Handing over individual applications to new operating units up to the hypercare phase.
- Decommissioning and ensuring operational stability of the selling unit.
- Planning the final tranche of the project.
- Performing delta analyses of system environments (OLD vs. NEW).
- Aligning with stakeholders up to the C-level.
- Managing external service providers and technically safeguarding project completion.
- Creating and reviewing the migration concept.
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
1 year 6 months Germany
IT Project Manager
DZ Bank, VR Leasing, BFL, BAWAG P.S.K.
- Performing the carve-out and handing over data from BFL to BAWAG.
- Analyzing old and new systems.
- Planning budgets and tracking milestones.
- Implementing the migration concept into a monolithic standard solution for leasing operations.
- Supporting the transformation and rollout of the new solution.
May 2017 - Jun 2018
1 year 2 months Germany
Defect Manager
Commerzbank
- Assigning and tracking defects.
- Coordinating between test managers, analysts, architects, and executives.
- Conducting task force meetings.
- Optimizing defect management processes.
- Regular reporting to management.
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
4 months Germany
QA Officer
Commerzbank
- Requesting and archiving project documentation.
- Creating and maintaining project and milestone plans.
- Developing a QA matrix.
- Preparing LA slides.
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
6 months Germany
Subproject Lead
Deutsche Bank
- Planning and prioritizing projects by cost and criticality.
- Performing impact analyses.
- Aligning project plans with internal and external stakeholders.
- Creating regular reports.
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
8 months Germany
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Planning and producing new tools and processes.
- Coordinating project plans with service providers.
- Gathering requirements and handing them over to operations teams.
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
10 months Germany
Business Analyst
Commerzbank
- Analyzing IT applications and interfaces in complex system landscapes.
- Creating technical documentation.
- Coordinating test teams and optimizing processes.
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
2 months Germany
Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Handling audit findings.
- Coordinating with audit and development teams.
- Managing analysts and developing implementation options.
Aug 2012 - Dec 2015
2 years 5 months Germany
Change Advisory Board Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Ensuring production quality and script reviews.
- Resolving conflicts and improving processes.
- Responsible for end-to-end process chains.
Feb 2012 - Jul 2012
6 months Germany
Test Environment Coordinator
Deutsche Bank
- Coordinating environment setup for training and test systems.
- Member of the control center for migration and operation of test systems.
May 2011 - Jan 2012
9 months Germany
Project Manager
Commerzbank
- Creating functional documentation.
- Managing technical and functional tests.
- Designing architecture and conducting target state analysis.
Sep 2009 - Apr 2011
1 year 8 months Germany
IT Project Manager
Commerzbank
- Restructuring and implementing into target markets.
- Organizing and executing releases.
- Technical and functional test management.
Mar 2009 - Dec 2009
10 months Germany
Test Manager
Commerzbank
- Creating and executing test concepts for mergers.
- Managing issues and supporting the overall project.
Mar 2009 - Oct 2009
8 months Germany
Subproject Lead
Commerzbank
- Analyzing and migrating the balance analysis tool to a new architecture.
- Carrying out comprehensive test management.
- Requirement and implementation planning.
Mar 2008 - Mar 2009
1 year 1 month Germany
Frontend Developer
Commerzbank
- Further developing and analyzing the rating platform.
- Coaching and supporting implementations.
Aug 2007 - Feb 2008
7 months Germany
Architect
Commerzbank
- Designing and documenting the architecture.
- Acting as the point of contact for business units and managing stakeholder relations.
Jan 2007 - Jul 2007
7 months Germany
Cluster Lead Consultant
Commerzbank
- Developing an archiving concept.
- Conducting workshops and architecture comparisons.
Apr 2005 - Dec 2006
1 year 9 months Germany
Project Manager
Commerzbank
- Writing reports and controlling.
- Test management and progress tracking.
- Document management.
Aug 2004 - Mar 2005
8 months Germany
Lead Developer
Commerzbank
- Developing and implementing new rating systems.
- Supporting interdisciplinary testing and implementations.
Feb 2004 - Jun 2004
5 months Germany
IT Consultant
Commerzbank
- Implementing screen changes and technical documentation.
- Consulting and implementation in COBOL.
Apr 2002 - Jan 2004
1 year 10 months Germany
PMO
Deutsche Börse / Clearstream
- Planning and tracking deliverables.
- Creating templates and documentation.
- Organizing meetings and supporting the business manager.
Sep 2001 - Mar 2002
7 months Germany
Senior Developer
Adept Consult AG
- Modernizing mainframe applications.
- Extracting calculation cores and developing interfaces.
Apr 2001 - Aug 2001
5 months Germany
Developer
Commerzbank
- Maintaining software for mainframe applications.
- Developing interfaces and optimizing calculation cores.
Languages
Greek
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
German
Advanced
Education
Technische Fakultät, Univ. Bielefeld
Graduate in Computer Science · Bielefeld, Germany
Similar Freelancers
Discover other experts with similar qualifications and experience