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Ronald Foerster

IT Consultant & Professional Training

Ronald Foerster
Stuttgart, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 2 months

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
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
1 year 2 months

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
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
6 months

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
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
3 months

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
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 1 month
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
6 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
3 months
Neckarsulm, Germany

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
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
10 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 9 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
6 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
May 2020 - Jul 2020
3 months
Cologne, Germany

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
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
7 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
3 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
3 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
7 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

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
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
2 months
Munich, Germany

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
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
5 months
Augsburg, Germany

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
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
4 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
3 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
5 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
3 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Feb 2015 - May 2015
4 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
4 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
4 months
Aidlingen, Germany
Hybrid

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
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
6 months
Stuttgart, Germany

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
Jan 2013 - Jun 2014
1 year 6 months
Duisburg, Germany

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
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
2 months
Ludwigsburg, Germany

IT Assistant

Human Internet Consult AG

  • Planning and executing rollout projects
  • Field service as well as 1st and 2nd level support in government institutions
Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
7 months
Waltham, United States

Internet Assessor & Ad Assessor

Lionbridge Technologies Inc.

  • Evaluation and assessor activities for the Bing search engine
Sep 2010 - Jul 2012
1 year 11 months
Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

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

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

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).

Information Technology
Automotive
Banking and Finance
Government and Administration
Professional Services
Insurance

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

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).

Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Product Development
Business Intelligence
Supply Chain Management

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

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

International Business Hogeschool Fontys

Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration · Business Administration · Venlo, Netherlands

Oct 2012 - Jun 2016

FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics & Management

Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany

Oct 2010 - Jun 2012

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University

Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Stuttgart, Germany

...and 1 more

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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Where is Ronald based?

Ronald is based in Stuttgart, Germany.

What languages does Ronald speak?

Ronald speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), French (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Ronald have?

Ronald has at least 13 years of experience. During this time, Ronald has worked in at least 28 different roles and for 30 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 5 months. Note that Ronald may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Ronald be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Ronald would be well-suited for roles such as: IT Consultant & Professional Training, Demand Manager & Process Owner, IT Business Analyst - GDPR.

What is Ronald's latest experience?

Ronald's most recent position is IT Consultant & Professional Training at Various Small Projects & AI Training.

What companies has Ronald worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ronald has worked for Various Small Projects & AI Training, Daimler Trucks, Native Instruments, Webconsultant & Webdevelopment, and Commerzbank / Questax.

Which industries is Ronald most experienced in?

Ronald is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Automotive, and Banking and Finance. Ronald also has some experience in Government and Public Administration, Professional Services, and Insurance.

Which business areas is Ronald most experienced in?

Ronald is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Quality Assurance (QA). Ronald also has some experience in Product Development, Business Intelligence, and Audit.

Which industries has Ronald worked in recently?

Ronald has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT), Banking and Finance, and Professional Services.

Which business areas has Ronald worked in recently?

Ronald has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Quality Assurance (QA).

What is Ronald's education?

Ronald holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from International Business Hogeschool Fontys, a Bachelor in Business Informatics from FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics & Management and a Bachelor in Business Informatics from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University.

Does Ronald have any certificates?

Ronald has 18 certificates. Among them, these include: AI-Consultant, AI-Engineer, and Artificial Intelligence For The Business Professional.

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