René Karges

Freelancer

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Cologne, Germany

Experience

May 2009 - Present
16 years 8 months

Freelancer

Freelance Work

  • Business analysis
  • Requirements management
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Team leadership
Apr 2004 - Apr 2009
5 years 1 month

Team Leader Professional Services

MIDRAY GmbH (formerly debitel Network Services GmbH)

  • Consulting and customizing existing services
  • Developing custom customer solutions
  • Product development
  • Requirements management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Operational planning (budget planning, strategy implementation)
  • Cost center responsibility
  • Concept development
  • Technical and strategic consulting for mobile-related services
  • Multi-project management and program management
Nov 1999 - Mar 2004
4 years 5 months

Project Manager

MIDRAY GmbH (formerly debitel Network Services GmbH)

  • Analysis, design, planning and implementation of complex mobile business projects
  • Forming and leading interdisciplinary project teams
  • Designing system architectures
  • Consulting and supporting business customers
  • Stakeholder management
  • Responsibility for service delivery and change management
Jan 1999 - Oct 1999
10 months

System Administrator

MIDRAY GmbH (formerly debitel Network Services GmbH)

  • System administration Sun/Solaris
  • On-call duty 24/7
  • Responsibility for DNS and domain registration
Apr 1997 - Dec 1998
1 year 9 months
Cologne, Germany

System Administrator

Metronet GmbH & Co. KG

  • System administration Sun/Solaris
  • On-call duty 24/7
  • Responsibility for DNS and domain registration
Jul 1994 - Apr 1997
2 years 10 months
Paderborn, Germany

Student assistant in computer operations

Heinz Nixdorf Institute at the University of Paderborn

Sep 1990 - Jun 1994
3 years 10 months
Paderborn, Germany

Student assistant in computer operations

University of Paderborn, Department of Computer Science

Summary

I am an IT specialist with many years of project management and leadership experience focusing on telecommunications, mobile communications, and the Internet. I am highly self-motivated and assertive, and I know how to ask the right questions. As an interpreter between technicians, business owners, decision makers, and other stakeholders, I convey complex matters in a way that suits the audience.

Skills

It Consulting:

  • Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management
  • Solution, Interface And System Architecture Design
  • Process Design
  • System Integration

Project Management:

  • Leading Interdisciplinary Project Teams
  • Agile Project Management
  • Planning And Monitoring Implementation And Quality Assurance
  • Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management
  • Project Reporting, Controlling, Presentation
  • Multi-project Management, Program Management
  • Risk Management

Interim Management:

  • Team Building, Organization
  • Team Leadership With And Without Personnel Responsibility
  • Personnel Planning
  • Strategic Planning
  • Cost Center Administration
  • Budgeting, Controlling, Resource Reporting

Leadership:

  • Team Building, Organization
  • Team Motivation
  • Team Leadership With And Without Personnel Responsibility
  • Strategic Planning
  • Defining Targets

Organization:

  • Budgeting, Controlling, Resource Reporting
  • Personnel Planning
  • Staffing
  • Cost Center Administration
  • Procurement
  • Reporting

Consulting / Design:

  • Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management
  • Solution Design
  • System Architecture Design
  • Interface Specification
  • Process Design
  • System Integration
  • Technical Contract Management
  • Preparation Of Technical Tender Documents

Project Management (Detailed):

  • Project Planning, Initiation, Control
  • Coordination Of External Service Providers, Vendor Management
  • Agile Project Management
  • Project Reporting, Controlling, Presentation
  • Multi-project Management, Program Management
  • Risk Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • National And International Projects

Industry Experience:

  • Telecommunications, Mobile Communications, Internet, Transport & Logistics, Retail
  • Focus Areas: Value-added Services Sms, Mms, Wap, Gprs, Apn Connectivity, Internet, Subscription Management, Billing, Online Billing, Mobile Tv
  • E-payment, Credit Cards, Pci

Additional Skills:

  • Itil V3
  • Prince2 Practitioner
  • Scrum

Personal Skills:

  • Analytical And Networked Thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Collaboration
  • Assertiveness
  • High Motivation
  • Determination
  • Perseverance
  • Strong Quality Awareness

Management Tools:

  • Primavera P3e
  • Microsoft Project
  • Microsoft Office, Visio
  • Mantis Bugtracker, Consol Cm
  • Pmwiki
  • Absolutebusy, Sqlreports
  • Bmc Patrol, Nagios, Cacti
  • Ontrack
  • Clarity Ppm
  • Jira

Operating Systems:

  • Unix (Sun Solaris, Debian Linux)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Apple Mac Os X

Technologies / Protocols:

  • Sms, Mms, Wap, Apn, Gprs, Umts, Csd
  • Ucp/emi, Smpp, Sm/asi
  • Dmb
  • Radius, Aaa, Ldap, Sso
  • Load Balancing And Content Switching
  • Tcp/ip And Various Internet Protocols
  • Xml, Uml, Bpmn, Soap
  • Middleware, Eai
  • Cloud, Amazon Aws

Applications And Services:

  • Mail Systems (Smtp, Pop3, Imap)
  • Subscription Management
  • Web Services With Apache, Tomcat, Jboss
  • Messaging Services Sms, Mms, Email, Chat, Ivr
  • Directory Services, Aaa, Radius, Ldap, Sso
  • Oracle Database, Mysql
  • Sap
  • Critical Path Sms Server
  • Pisys Conditional Access System (Irdeto), Thales Sapphire
  • Annyway Wap Gateway
  • Sonic Mq Message Broker
  • Veritas File System And Cluster
  • Open Source, Pbind, Cvs
  • Vmware
  • Shell, Perl

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1988 - Mar 1997

University of Paderborn

Diploma in Computer Science · Computer Science, minor in Business Administration · Paderborn, Germany

Aug 1978 - Jun 1987

Reismann-Gymnasium

High School Diploma · Paderborn, Germany

Certifications & licenses

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PRINCE2 Foundation

ITIL V.3 Foundations

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