Ronald Foerster
IT Consultant & Professional Training
Experience
IT Consultant & Professional Training
Various Small Projects & AI Training
- Development of several websites for small businesses (6)
- SEO/SEM
- Business consulting (implementation of ERP systems (Fresha / MS Dynamics))
- AI tooling, prompting & coding
- GenAI chatbot (GPT 4.0)
- Creating a phone agent (NLP services, Twilio, Python, Azure Services)
- Python coding, report & dashboard creation
- Stakeholder management and consulting throughout the project lifecycle
Further Training and Certifications in AI:
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- Develop Gen AI Solutions with Azure Open AI Service
- Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
- Artificial Intelligence for the Business Professional
- Generative AI for the Business Professional
- Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner
Demand Manager & Process Owner
Daimler Trucks
- Setting up demand management within an international project organization
- Capturing, analyzing, and quality checking requirements for the application and system landscape
- Customer management, coordinating and managing work packages in the after-sales logistics process
- Automating and optimizing processes and reporting
- Setting up and integrating controlling
- Process modeling and process mining
- Establishing and optimizing test management
- Process ownership for system implementations for global hub delivery
- Documentation
IT Business Analyst - GDPR
Native Instruments
- Capturing, analyzing, assessing, and implementing EU data protection regulations
- Capturing, analyzing, and quality checking requirements for the application and system landscape
- Capturing, analyzing, and quality checking processes
- Reporting and controlling
- Stakeholder management and project organization
- Interviews with business units
- Creating a process register
- System and data warehouse consolidations
IT Consultant
Webconsultant & Webdevelopment
- Gathering requirements, designing and implementing an online presence with PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, MySQL
- Using Adobe Photoshop
- SEO/SEM design, UX/UI
- Test management
- AI tooling & prompting
- Stakeholder management throughout the project lifecycle
IT Business Analyst
Commerzbank / Questax
- Co-responsible for the development of the central order management system in trading and implementation of a new trading system
- Requirements management, project and task coordination
- Performing compliance and audit tasks
- Security requirements analysis, change and release management
- Cross-departmental stakeholder management
- Planning and implementing user stories and backlog
- Documentation, setting up and optimizing test management
- Process capturing and process mining
- Creating relevant audits in LKSG and IT risk management
IT Product Manager
DVAG AG
- Responsibility for the further development of the central asset management system
- Requirements management, coordination, and organization of emerging topics
- Change and release management
- Business unit and service provider stakeholder management
- Quality gate management for microservices
- Planning and implementation of user stories
- Process management and application ownership for all contract management systems
- Application management and Salesforce migration
IT Project Management Consultant
PVS Fulfillment-Service / Maersk
- Integration of MS Dynamics 365 and system integrations
- Technical requirements management and process definitions
- Definition of project increments and deliverables
- Change and release management
- Project coordination and stakeholder management
- Facilitation of regular meetings at the business unit level
- Project communication, organization, and reporting
IT Business Analyst
Daimler Bank – Questax
- Participation and partial leadership of a 6-member team in Romania
- International rollout and further development of the online leasing management platform
- Specifications, change and release management
- Project coordination and stakeholder management
- Setup and optimization of test management
- Requirements management and process documentation
- CRM migration, Azure readiness checks and setup, data warehouse consolidations
IT Project Manager / Product Owner
VTB Bank – Vicoland / Coocmore
- Further development of the marketing website
- Change and release management
- Leadership of an 8-person Scrum team
- Project coordination and stakeholder management
- HR contracting and facilitation of regular meetings
- Project communication, organization, and reporting
- Requirements engineering, planning and implementation of user stories, and backlog management
- SEO audit and implementation
- Resource planning and budgeting
- Setup and optimization of test and quality management
- Project documentation and UX/UI coordination
IT-Web Consultancy & Fortbildung
- Creation of 2 web presences (online store & website)
- Requirements engineering, organization, programming, and configuration of an e-commerce platform and a content management system
- SEO/SEM and best-fit consulting
- Further training to become a certified Product Owner and Microsoft Cloud Architect & Designer
- Work with Kubernetes, Docker, containers, VMs, PowerShell/Azure Cloud Shell, security hardening
- Linux Bash, Postgres/Oracle/Azure SQL/MongoDB/Cosmos DB
- Microservices, service-oriented architectures, data fabrics, Pureview
- Setup of data pipelines and data modeling
Business Analyst - FS
Toyota Kreditbank
- Introduction of an EU-wide leasing management system
- Ensuring requirement consistency at the top level of local branches
- Supporting, reviewing, and approving requirements
- Coordinating technical support
- Securing project goals and vision through open communication between headquarters and local branches
- Strategic-level reporting on status and probability of success
- External risk assessment and feedback to the project team
- Monitoring the requirements engineering process between business, consultants, and internal departments
- Facilitating regular meetings, project communication, and organization
- Process mining and process documentation
IT PMO & Test Manager
Mercedes Benz AG
- SAP development and integration project in the SC/WTO division
- Coordinating the internal test team on the business side
- Test planning, strategy, and management
- Project coordination between IT and the business unit
- Facilitating regular meetings at the business unit level
- Project communication, organization, and test progress reporting
Business Analyst & Test Manager
ING Bank
- Implementing PSD2 compliance
- Test documentation and optimizing test concepts
- Preparing compliance documents
- Executing the new customer product process
- Creating board presentation materials
Project Management Consultant & Business Analyst
Itscare - AOK
- Implementing an insurance-wide order platform (Shopify)
- Replacing a service management platform (ServiceNow)
- Requirements engineering: identifying, analyzing, and evaluating system requirements
- Stakeholder management and building the backlog
- Preparing project management deliverables (planning, controlling, organization)
- Capturing and documenting processes
IT PMO & Project Management Consultant
Daimler AG
- Digitalization projects in the legal tech field
- Portfolio and multi-project management
- Project controlling and budgeting
- Supporting GDPR projects (reporting & controlling)
- Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating business and system requirements
- Establishing PMO and service processes
- Setting up automated cross-functional reporting
Lead Business Analyst
Carnival Maritime / AIDA
- GDPR governance and compliance implementation
- Identification, analysis, and evaluation of business and system requirements in systems and data warehouse
- Conducting interviews and workshops
- Analysis of systems, data, and content (Data Fabrics, Pureview)
- Creation of process inventories (DPR)
- TOGAF architecture analyses
- Process capture and documentation
- Preparation of relevant SOx and PCI audits
Experienced Analyst
Frogdesign / Allianz
- Short-term assignment to identify, analyze, and evaluate requirements for a prototype of software set for international rollout
- Backlog design
- Agile product development, UX/UI, and design thinking
- IT product management
IT Project Coordinator
Airbus / Premium Aerotec / Cimpa
- Requirements management and implementation of IT and business processes
- Definition and coordination of subprojects and DevOps team
- Stakeholder management and process analyses
- Status reporting and deviation reports
- Quality management, project and release planning
PMO – Financial Markets & Private Banking
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
- Implementation of a core banking system
- Project organization and resource management
- Definition of project-specific processes
- Ensuring alignment and approval of IT and business concepts through a standardized workflow process
IT-Consultant – E-Payment Solutions
Paydirekt GmbH
- Database development and enhancement
- Creation and maintenance of reporting
- Process optimizations at the operational level
- Merchant onboarding and technical integration
- Stakeholder management with banks, merchants, and merchant aggregators
IT-Project Management Consultant
Daimler AG / Braincourt GmbH
- Support for multiple SAP projects
- Project and quality management according to HoustonIT
- Quality gate management
- Project organization, communication and planning
- Test management and compliance audits
- Requirements engineering and IAM
Technical Interface Consultant
tepOver GmbH
- Restructuring service management according to ITIL V3
- Requirements engineering and product documentation
- Test management (agile testing, test automation, test planning, test analysis, test execution, test documentation, black box/white box, unit testing)
- Presales and post-sales support
Developer – IT Consultant
Mantuano Design GmbH
- Planning, design and implementation of a web presence
- Business consulting and support in the context of SCM startup architecture
- UX/UI
Academic Project Manager Trainee
FDM Group Ltd.
- Training in professional communication & team leading skills, SQL, Excel, VBA, project support office
- Prince2 certification, ISEB Business Analysis certification, ITIL V3
- Training in Financial Industry Awareness
IT-Developer
SYS - Softwarehaus GmbH
- Development of hybrid mobile apps with PhoneGap
- Mobile travel management extension
- Requirements engineering, project planning and architectural design of the application for clients like IBM
Junior Project Manager / Project Lead
Fischer Software Entwicklung
- Project planning and leading a Scrum team (5–6 people)
- Project organization, controlling, and documentation
- Stakeholder management
- Project accounting for backend solutions at Deutsche Bahn
Team Lead
BS Management GbR
- Planning and executing rollout projects
- Team leadership (5–8 people)
- Field service as well as 1st and 2nd level support in government institutions
IT Assistant
Human Internet Consult AG
- Planning and executing rollout projects
- Field service as well as 1st and 2nd level support in government institutions
Internet Assessor & Ad Assessor
Lionbridge Technologies Inc.
- Evaluation and assessor activities for the Bing search engine
Dual Student in the M2M Area
T-Systems International
- Connected Car project in the Diagnostic & Solutions department
- Implementation of the internal project management software tool Polarion
- Test management for a TTL web platform
- Technical documentation of a prototype product for OBD vehicle diagnostics
- Frontend design and development of a native app for vehicle diagnostics
- Competitor analysis, market reports, and development of product portfolios in the telematics market
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (8 years), Automotive (4.5 years), Banking and Finance (3.5 years), Government and Administration (1.5 years), Professional Services (1 year), and Insurance (0.5 years).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (11.5 years), Project Management (8 years), Quality Assurance (6 years), Product Development (4.5 years), Business Intelligence (3.5 years), and Supply Chain Management (1.5 years).
Skills
Project Management, Business Analysis: Planning, Reporting, Communication, Investigation Techniques, Stakeholder Analysis & Controlling, Risk Management, Budget/cost Management, Organization, Resource Management, Modeling Business Systems, Business & Financial Cases, Documenting & Managing Projects, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Requirements Engineering, Multi-project Management
It Product Management, Software Engineering & Project Management, Software Systems, Tools: Ms Office, Ms Project, Ms Visio, Sap (R3/co/s4hana/gt, Mm, Pp, Qm, Pm, Hr, Fi, Co), Ms Navision, Ms Access, Ms Sharepoint, Adobe Worksuite, Jira, Sas, Hp Alm, Doors, Eclipse, Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Servicenow, Ms Dynamics Business Central, Leanix, Aws, Tableau, Azure Ai Cloud Services, Data Fabrics
It Management (S.t.op.): It Compliance, It Governance, It Risk Management, It Security, It Service Management, It Strategy, Business Intelligence
Business Process Management, Core Technologies: Cmmi, Tqm, Bpmn 2.0, Tom, Uml, Process Mining, Ms Power Automate, Zapier, Signavio, Bizagi
Programming Languages & Web Technologies: Java, Javascript, Php, Perl, Asp.net, Vbscript, Vb, Css, Sass, Html, Xml, Json, Xslt, Bootstrap, Mysql, Postgresql, Data Warehouses, Python, Rest Apis, Microservices, Genai, Llms
Compliance: Psd2, Marisk, Money Transfer Regulation, Mifid, Sepa, Open Banking, Sox, Pci, Gdpr, Iso 27001
Test Management: Agile Testing, Test Automation, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Test Documentation, Black-box/white-box Testing, Unit Testing
Soft Skills: Conflict Management, Team Building, Agile Leadership
Languages
Education
International Business Hogeschool Fontys
Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration · Business Administration · Venlo, Netherlands
FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics & Management
Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany
Certifications & licenses
AI-Consultant
AI-Engineer
Artificial Intelligence For The Business Professional
Business Analysis / ISEB BA
Cehv10-Cybersecurity
Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner
Designing And Impl. A Microsoft Azure AI Solution
Develop Gen AI Solutions With Azure Open AI Service
Financial Markets
Generative AI For The Business Professional
Generative AI Practioner
ITIL V.3
MS Azure Architect & Designer
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
PRINCE2
Product Owner
SAP R/3
Scrum Master
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