Peter F.

Microsoft 365 Transformation

Walpertskirchen, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
1 year 4 months
Germany

Microsoft 365 Transformation

NN / Automotive Industry (Automotive)

Deputy project manager and solution architect for integrating highly regulated countries such as China and South Korea into a company-wide M365 tenant. Technical contact for integrating special requirements for the executive board and German subsidiaries subject to BaFin compliance requirements.

  • Subproject management
  • Aligning requirements within the overall architecture
  • Designing the use of DLP features in Microsoft Purview
  • Designing special access restrictions via Entra ID Conditional Access
  • Supporting the design for provisioning Teams teams and SharePoint sites with enhanced compliance needs
  • Technical support for implementing information classification with sensitivity labels for SharePoint Online and Teams
  • Technical support for the subproject to introduce CoPilot for M365

Skills: M365, Purview, DLP, Entra ID, Sensitivity Labels, CoPilot, Teams, SharePoint Online

Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
4 months

M365 Tenant Review and Usage Optimization

NN / Healthcare

Supported a client in the healthcare sector by reviewing their M365 configuration from a best practices and compliance perspective. Identified licensing needs and introduced basic governance processes for using M365.

  • Reviewed M365 tenant (security, licensing needs) against best practices. Created a security profile.
  • Reviewed client-side security settings for Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (best practices, BSI recommendations).
  • Documented findings and next steps.
  • Defined governance rules for the lifecycle of SharePoint and Teams sites as well as for guest invitations.

Skills: IT security concepts, M365, GPO, M365 Cloud Policy

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
6 months

Developer Workstations Concept

NN / Public

Supported a public sector client with the architecture and design of a solution for developer workstations where developers have only limited access to the internet and admin roles. This reduces risk in the general Office IT infrastructure.

  • Designed a secure work environment for software developers
  • Created a dedicated network segment to reduce risk
  • Prepared the organization for current and future information security topics (NIS-2)

Skills: IT security concepts, BitBucket, Bamboo, VMWare

Feb 2022 - Dec 2024
2 years 11 months

Requirements Engineering

NN / Mechanical Engineering

Supported a manufacturer of industrial electric motors and gearboxes with requirements engineering to integrate new products into the tools used in sales and on the website (online product configurator).

  • Captured requirements from the business department
  • Translated requirements into a concept
  • Coordinated and communicated between the business department and IT
  • Assisted the Scrum Master in introducing agile processes

Skills: Azure DevOps, Scrum

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
2 years
Germany

Microsoft 365 Transformation

NN / Automotive Industry (Automotive)

As part of a large-scale outsourcing and transformation program at an internationally active German car manufacturer, Microsoft 365 was rolled out to more than 270,000 workstations worldwide.

  • Aligned cloud access architecture using Unified Endpoint Management (Intune), Azure Conditional Access, and Netskope
  • Coordinated M365 topics with the company's risk management process
  • Validated Exchange Online migration planning
  • Supported SharePoint Online migration planning and architecture
  • Supported the concept for replacing Nintex workflows with Power Automate during the SharePoint migration
  • Designed and provided technical support for the Teams rollout
  • Defined and developed the process for continuous change management of the Microsoft environment (Evergreen) to include relevant stakeholders
  • Clarified and found solutions for technical questions between the end client and the IT provider/general contractor
  • Coordinated with the works council on the company-wide M365 agreement
  • Created a DPIA for M365 in collaboration with internal data protection
  • Supported a global IT outsourcing

Skills: Microsoft Azure, Netskope, Microsoft 365, Intune, Exchange Online, AIP, Teams, SharePoint Online, ITIL, Power Automate

Oct 2021 - Present
3 years 11 months

Freelancer

Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
2 months

Implementation of Home Office Solution

NN / Finance and Insurance

Design and rollout of a home office solution for a real estate and financial brokerage office.

  • Requirements gathering and analysis
  • Technical coordination with the software vendor
  • Development of alternative solution concepts and business analysis
  • Implementation and rollout
  • Employee training

Skills: Microsoft Azure, VPN, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Assfinet ams.5, Windows 11

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
5 months
Munich, Germany

Microsoft 365 Implementation

Munich Airport GmbH

Pre-project for the introduction of Microsoft 365 at a company with around 5000 clients. The pre-project ensured proper sizing for the actual project as part of the annual business planning. Special focus was on support measures for employees in enabling and training, as well as governance topics and IT security.

  • Tendering for service providers and joint development of the solution concept
  • Identifying paths from perimeter security to a zero-trust approach together with the security team
  • Coordinating stakeholder requirements (IT security, works council, data protection)
  • Aligning solution alternatives with management
  • Developing a reliable effort estimate as a basis for business planning
  • Implementing and validating a proof of concept in the integration environment
  • Designing the Microsoft Teams migration

Skills: Microsoft 365, Azure AD, MS Endpoint Manager, ADFS, Boxcryptor, Teams

Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
2 years
Munich, Germany

Digitalization initiative 'Airport 4.0'

Munich Airport GmbH

Member of the interdisciplinary working group 'Airport 4.0' aiming to identify and implement digitalization topics in the Munich Airport Group. Worked in the 'Work and Culture' subteam to shape future workplace concepts, considering the necessary change.

  • Developing and evaluating digitalization concepts around workplace and cultural change
  • Presenting digitalization initiatives to management
  • Providing technological impulses and IT strategy in the working group

Skills: Microsoft 365, mobile devices, Microsoft SharePoint

Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
2 years 3 months
Munich, Germany

Implementation of Employee App (Social Intranet)

Munich Airport GmbH

Introduction of an employee app at a company with nearly 10,000 employees in the group, with a high share of blue-collar staff who could only use the old intranet in a limited way and without authentication. Implementing the idea of a social intranet for better networking and engagement of all employees.

  • Providing technical (integration) requirements during product selection
  • Creating technical requirements in the tender document
  • Supporting the tool selection and vendor selection
  • Developing a decision template on-premises vs. cloud
  • Aligning solution architecture for authentication and user directories with the vendor, internal IT, and HR contacts in the group
  • Identifying optimization potentials in employee on-/offboarding processes
  • Coordinating the implementation of the user directory and connection to IAM

Skills: Coyo App, SAMBA/LDAP, SecuIAM, MobileIron MDM

Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
7 months
Munich, Germany

Migration of Legacy Applications in C++

Munich Airport GmbH

Migration of customer-specific legacy applications for flight traffic handling from Solaris 10 to Solaris 12 and Oracle 12 using a current C++ compiler.

  • Identifying and evaluating possible migration paths
  • Updating the build environment
  • Migrating and testing core software components
  • Coordinating the migration of the remaining software
  • Developing a rollout concept and supporting the rollout in a mission-critical environment.

Skills: Oracle C++, Solaris, Oracle Database

Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
3 years 4 months
Munich, Germany

Head of Solution Management Infrastructure & Office

Munich Airport GmbH

Responsible as a team leader for 14 people and overall responsibility for the solution strategy for infrastructure and office and for the lifecycle of the deployed solutions at the operating company of Munich Airport with about 9,000 employees in the entire group and an IT department of about 220 people for the development and operation of a wide range of IT solutions for the airport as a "small city."

Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
5 months
Munich, Germany

Implementation of Enterprise Architecture Management

Munich Airport GmbH

Implementation of EAM in a company with a wide range of solutions of varying criticality.

  • Aligning and finalizing the detailed concept with the service provider
  • Agreeing on the definition of use cases for EAM questions in infrastructure
  • Developing a phased plan for documentation
  • Ensuring and reviewing the documentation

Skills: AdoIT (BOC Group)

Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
7 months
Munich, Germany

Definition of Patch Management Policy

Munich Airport GmbH

Reviewing lifecycle and patch management as part of a 'Secure IT' program. Defining patch management policy and revising the lifecycle process for client software that is only deployed occasionally in an otherwise highly regulated company (KRITIS).

  • Deriving specific requirements from ISO 27001
  • Developing and agreeing on the policy
  • Implementing the new policy for the upcoming KRITIS audit

Skills: ISO 27001

Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
7 months
Munich, Germany

Mobile Work Concept

Munich Airport GmbH

Developing the concept, cost-benefit analysis and proof of concept for using Microsoft RDS for mobile work scenarios, with special focus on IT security issues and the heterogeneous application landscape at Munich Airport.

  • Requirements analysis
  • Developing and evaluating solution alternatives
  • Validating the results in a proof of concept with various departments
  • Providing input on necessary licenses for the cost-benefit analysis

Skills: Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, VDA, Citrix Netscaler

Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
1 year 8 months
Munich, Germany

Chief Workplace Solutions

Munich Airport GmbH

Functionally responsible for the strategic development of the workplace (Windows/IOS) and the collaboration solutions in use.

Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
2 years
Munich, Germany

Organizational Development Project "Move IT"

Munich Airport GmbH

Reorganization of the corporate IT and review of the areas customer, products/services, processes, staff qualifications and organizational structures for their strategic future viability and economic sustainability. Introduction of bimodal IT.

  • Ensure employee communication
  • Design of an employee portal based on Microsoft SharePoint
  • Stakeholder representative for application development and solution strategy
  • Coordination with HR and the works council

Skills: ITSM, ITIL, Microsoft SharePoint

Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
1 year
Munich, Germany

Migration SharePoint 2013

Munich Airport GmbH

Migration to SharePoint 2013 to update workstations from Office 2010 in a SharePoint farm that was used by about 1500 users. Deployment of Office Web Apps Server and SharePoint Workflow Manager.

  • Ensure technical know-how transfer as input for the project manager
  • Coaching on project management tasks
  • Connecting the project manager with relevant stakeholders
  • Adaptation of the software development process (CI/CD) and concept for developer workstations

Skills: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office WebApps, Microsoft SharePoint Workflow Manager

Aug 2015 - Jun 2016
11 months
Munich, Germany

Migration Office 2013

Munich Airport GmbH

Migration to Office 2013 to update workstations from Office 2007 and roll out to around 3500 workstations in an environment with about 800 other Windows applications.

  • Ensure technical know-how transfer
  • Coaching on project management tasks
  • Connecting the project manager with relevant stakeholders
  • Coordination of service provider tender

Skills: Microsoft Office

Jul 2013 - Aug 2015
2 years 2 months
Munich, Germany

New Brand Identity

Munich Airport GmbH

New brand identity (corporate identity) for a mid-sized group. Adaptation of the logo, company font, colors etc. in a variety of Office templates and IT solutions.

  • Concept for the deployment of the new Office templates
  • Coordination with the technical service provider on central Office macros
  • Coordination of changes in various customer-specific solutions
  • Implementation in Java-based applications in web and Swing environments

Skills: Microsoft Word/PowerPoint, Web, Java

Mar 2013 - Jul 2013
5 months
Munich, Germany

Integration of SharePoint Collaboration in Clarity Projects

Flughafen München GmbH

Synchronization between Microsoft SharePoint and the Clarity PPM tool for project metadata including team members. Providing relevant Word templates for the necessary project documents and mapping the project phases.

  • Coordinating requirements gathering
  • Developing solution concept/architecture
  • Monitoring and coordinating software development
  • Supporting rollout

Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft SharePoint, Clarity (Itdesign), Oracle

Jun 2012 - Mar 2013
10 months
Munich, Germany

Proof of Concept Microsoft Project Server

Flughafen München GmbH

PoC to map the company's own project management method 'MapIT'.

  • Developing solution concept/architecture
  • Coordinating software development and infrastructure
  • Preparing management decision (IT-side input)

Skills: Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft SharePoint

Aug 2011 - Jun 2012
11 months
Munich, Germany

Increasing Transparency of Employee Tasks

Flughafen München GmbH

Mapping employee tasks in Microsoft SharePoint with access through different views ('own', 'project', 'team') and preparing them for regular status meetings to increase transparency.

  • Coordinating requirements gathering
  • Developing solution concept/architecture
  • Coordinating software development

Skills: Microsoft SharePoint

May 2011 - Aug 2012
1 year 4 months
Munich, Germany

Development of Standardized Applications for Airports

Flughafen München GmbH

International project between several European airports and a major travel booking service provider aiming to standardize and market airport-specific software solutions.

  • Preparing and sharing process know-how
  • Sharing information about the current solution architecture
  • Deriving joint requirements from different commercial airports

Skills: C/C++, Java, CORBA, Oracle DB

Jun 2010 - Mar 2011
10 months
Munich, Germany

Introduction of SharePoint 2010 as a Strategic Platform

Flughafen München GmbH

Introduction of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to support collaboration at Munich Airport. Building an operations and development team for the new platform and coordinating content for employee training by the Airport Academy.

  • Developing solution architecture and sizing
  • Coordinating with stakeholders (works council, IT security, data protection)
  • Selecting and hiring staff for the operations and development team
  • Integrating subsidiary companies via federation
  • Developing a custom Outlook add-in to sync with a SharePoint document library
  • Designing and building an ADFS infrastructure for authentication
  • Ensuring employee communication and training
  • Defining the technical baseline for solutions on this platform
  • Creating a concept for developer workstations and the CI/CD process

Skills: Microsoft SharePoint, VSTO, C#, .Net, ADFS, SAML2, CI/CD

Feb 2010 - Jun 2010
5 months
Munich, Germany

Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Finalization

Flughafen München GmbH

Revision of Microsoft licensing as part of concluding the first Enterprise Agreement and a multi-year plan for optimal and cost-effective license usage. Achieved savings in the millions.

  • Refine IT strategy with roadmap aspects for Microsoft products
  • Identify alternatives to license procurement
  • Develop a Microsoft-focused roadmap for optimal license usage
  • Prepare economic alternatives and decision proposals
  • Prepare and support the tender process together with group purchasing

Skills: Microsoft products

May 2005 - Dec 2016
11 years 8 months
Munich, Germany

Head of Competence Center Application Development

Flughafen München GmbH

Responsible for a team of 15 employees. Provided central class libraries for software development and consolidated Microsoft-related expertise.

Apr 2004 - Oct 2004
7 months
Munich, Germany

ITIL Implementation

Flughafen München GmbH

Project team member in the core group and advocate for the software development area during the introduction of ITIL processes and the subsequent ISO 20000 certification.

  • Help shape ITIL processes and map them in the tool landscape
  • Represent the interests of the software development area, especially in defining change and release management

Skills: ITIL, Remedy

Mar 2002 - Apr 2005
3 years 2 months
Munich, Germany

Head of Application Development Support

Flughafen München GmbH

Responsible for 4 people and the central provision and further development of class libraries, tools, and development methods for C++ and Java.

Oct 1994 - Mar 2002
7 years 6 months
Munich, Germany

Software Architect/Project Manager

Flughafen München GmbH

Started as a software developer and later served as a software architect and project manager for various air traffic support solutions.

Sep 1991 - Feb 2010
18 years 6 months
Munich, Germany

Software Developer/Architect, Project Manager

Munich Airport GmbH

Project work and later served as software architect and project manager on a variety of airport-specific software solutions for the scheduling and planning of flight handling events

  • Requirements gathering
  • Software development and solution architecture
  • Project management

Skills: Java, JSP, JSF, Tomcat, C/C++, CORBA, Solaris, OSF/Motif

Summary

  • 30 years of IT experience – from software developer to Microsoft specialist.
  • Empathetic leader with many years of experience coaching and developing teams of up to 15 employees.
  • Seasoned authentic communicator who brings along all stakeholder groups (users, works council, data protection, IT security, ...) and harmonizes their interests.
  • Well versed in the requirements and practices of the public sector.
  • Many years of experience rolling out collaboration and workplace technologies like SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft 365 to up to 270,000 workstations.
  • Special expertise in Microsoft licensing and implementing cost-saving measures.
  • Over 16 years of experience as an information security officer and in successfully preparing and supporting (KRITIS) audits.
  • Experience in ITSM and in implementing and applying ITIL.
  • Successful project manager of numerous software projects and background as a software developer and software architect with C/C++, Java, and C#.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 1991 - Jun 1994

Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart

Diploma in Business Administration (Cooperative Education), Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany

Oct 1983 - Jun 1991

Anne Frank Gymnasium Erding

Science Track · Erding, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Netskope Security Cloud Introductory Online Technical Training (NSCIOTT)

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (ai-900)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (az-900)

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals (pl-900)

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

PRINCE2 Foundation Certification

ITIL 4 Foundation Certification

Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Certification (ms-900)

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