Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof - IT Project Manager

Graz, Austria

Experience

Mar 2021 - Apr 2023

2 years 2 months

Austria

Overall technical responsibility for the new e-commerce digital infrastructure project/program, some 7.500 external person days
Service provider coordination, sub-project coordination, project controlling
Timeline, milestones, and (high level) topic prioritization
Induce system and architecture decisions
Technical coordination of multiple international roll-outs and the replacement of deprecated systems
Systems: SAP Commerce Cloud (with Spartacus), FirstSpirit headless CMS, SAP Customer Data Cloud, SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Integration Suite, SAP ERP, SAP CRM, Cloudflare, Viamedici EPIM, Canto DAM, various 3rd party software (video library, job platforms, prerender.io, redirection.io)

Sep 2020 - Present

4 years 9 months

Austria

Consulting as IT Project Manager and Solution/Software Architect:

Responsible for migrating all media from one digital asset management tool (Adobe) to another (Cloudinary) and ensuring a smooth transition for all B2B/B2C shops and various other sites
Responsible for the integrations of SAP Context-Driven Services (now called Intelligent Selling Services)
Responsible for the switch from one payment service provider to another (Adyen) in multiple B2C shops
Responsible for the webshop interfaces (SAP Commerce) during the switch of the fulfillment partner
Responsible for evaluating (and preparing) the move to the Cloud for the SAP Commerce Systems
Responsible for evaluating SAP Upscale Commerce in comparison to other Shop Systems (SAP Commerce Cloud, Shopify, WooCommerce): presented findings and gave recommendations for potential use cases

May 2019 - Sep 2020

1 year 5 months

Austria

Held the technical responsibility for a greenfield, cloud-based, e-commerce marketplace project (some e 2.5 million) for a customer with more than e 500 million yearly revenue
Prioritized the backlog, outlined technical dependencies, defined milestones, delegated component responsibilities to senior developers, and planned the gradual multi-country rollout
Coordinated and led a culturally diverse and geographically-dispersed team with up to 25 engineers (5 engineers on the customer side) situated in four locations (Berlin, Graz, Zagreb, Belgrade)
Aligned with the product manager of SAP Spartacus about critical upcoming features and handled the implications
Held the responsibility for scoping and specification for the project as well as cost and timeline estimates for additional feature requests which resulted in several follow-up contracts
Built a relationship based on trust and consulted the customer on omni-channel commerce, from project kick-off to go-live
SAP Technologies: Commerce Cloud (with Spartacus), Marketing Cloud, SAP Integration Suite / Cloud Platform Integration, Customer Data Cloud

Additional role and responsibility (Chapter Lead):

Managed up to ten engineers: conducted yearly performance reviews, provided career growth opportunities, handled requests

Feb 2016 - Apr 2019

3 years 3 months

Austria

Integrated SAP Hybris with SAP ERP: Importing of Products & Prices, exporting of Orders
Implemented the backend functionality of a Proof of Concept resulting in the acquisition of a new customer
Resolved a costly recurring problem which affected multiple productive systems by rearchitecting and reimplementing the Message Oriented Middleware
Designed the integration of a customer data management (CDM) system
Demonstrated quick learning ability by being selected to temporarily support another team with a high profile customer (Migros) in order to meet an urgent deadline
Led negotiations – on behalf of my team – with upper management concerning compensation for necessary extra work
Led job interviews and mentored multiple engineers
Contributed significantly to e-commerce platforms of Red Bull and Migros