Panagiotis Tsiantopoulos

IT Manager

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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