Saood Y.

Senior Application Owner

Cologne, Germany

Experience

Nov 2024 - Sep 2025
11 months

Senior Application Owner

International energy company

  • Further development of the application landscape for planning, forecasting, and pricing

  • Communicating with internal stakeholders to harmonize the application landscape across all companies

  • Optimizing vendor management

  • API and batch processing

  • Creating operating concepts

  • Ensuring compliance requirements and operating processes are met

  • Contributing to solution design as well as the implementation and further development of new applications and services

  • ServiceNow

  • Virtual Machines (Windows / Linux)

  • M365 products

  • Azure DevOps

  • Web applications

Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 10 months

Application Manager

Europe's leading provider of gates, door systems, and drives

  • Gathering software requirements from business units

  • Enhancing the "Workplace" software

  • Implementing Windows 11 – client design and development

  • Updating and lifecycle management for applications and middleware

  • Managing server and workstation clients

  • Software deployment, updates, lifecycle management, patch management, access rights management, and maintenance

  • Handling incidents, service requests, and changes (2nd & 3rd level support)

  • Developing concepts and participating in projects

  • Creating and updating technical documentation

  • SCCM

  • MECM

  • (Windows) Virtual Machines

  • M365 products

  • PM software

Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
5 months

Technical sub-project manager (Corporate Services)

Fifth-largest energy supplier in Germany

  • Project management in corporate applications

  • Requirements analysis and project evaluation through to the detailed concept

  • Leading migrations and operation of applications

  • Stakeholder management (customers, service managers, developers, vendors, project managers, project leaders)

  • Planning and coordinating application migration schedules

  • Questioning existing IT services, providing ideas, and identifying ways to optimize

  • Creating questionnaires (assessments)

  • Leading knowledge transfer and planning knowledge transfer sessions

  • Supporting process management

  • Miro Board

  • Trello

  • JIRA

  • MS Office including MS Project

Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
5 months

Technical project manager (Application Services)

Regional energy supplier

  • Project management for Azure application management services

  • Leading and performing migrations and operation of applications (including in cloud infrastructures)

  • Leading the project team (application manager, developers, database specialists)

  • Budget, resource, and schedule planning; project risk analysis

  • Monitoring the project structure plan and the work packages it contains

  • Monitoring defined goals and tasks in service level management

  • Supporting the transition to operations processes

  • Identifying and monitoring risks

  • Technical documentation

  • JIRA

  • Confluence

  • On-prem environment (data center)

  • Cloud environment (Azure)

  • Applications with interfaces to SAP, Linux, MS SQL, Windows Server, VMs (Hyper-V)

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
3 years 1 month

Senior Application Manager (Chemical Services)

Large chemical company in the NRW region

  • Migrating, transitioning, and taking over the operation of customer applications

  • Evaluating applications for compatibility, complexity, and deployment method

  • Operating, maintaining, configuring, further developing, and optimizing the applications in use

  • Handling service requests, changes, and incidents

  • Stakeholder management: business units, end users, external IT service providers, product owners

  • Processing customer tickets in ticketing systems

  • Coordinating infrastructure change management and infrastructure ITSM processes, including critical incident management, problem management, firewall change request management, and vulnerability management

  • Managing the ongoing development of an Access DB application (subproject)

  • Close collaboration with service managers and other specialist teams

  • Training staff and leading user training sessions

  • Documentation management (extensive as-is analysis, transition manual, Confluence, detailed and clear descriptions of problem solutions in ticketing systems)

  • relational databases (Oracle)

  • Tomcat

  • Active Directory

  • VMs (Linux and Windows Server)

  • SAP and non-SAP

  • VPN

  • Citrix

  • Office 365 collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint)

  • Ticketing systems (HPSM, ServiceNow, JIRA)

  • Confluence

Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
2 years 4 months

Technical Subproject Manager

second-largest food company in Germany

  • Interface between the logistics department, development, and system operations

  • Supporting and managing staff at logistics sites

  • Creating test cases and performing (acceptance) tests

  • Maintaining business processes in e-commerce and logistics

  • On-site user training and ensuring the operation of deployed products

  • Third-level support and assistance with operational processes

  • Coordinating the provisioning and commissioning of IT infrastructure

  • Handing over complex support cases to the appropriate specialist team

  • Ticketing systems (ZenDesk, JIRA)

  • Confluence

  • Databases via e-commerce apps

  • MobiControl (remote management of mobile devices)

  • Google Workspace

  • Zoom

  • Slack

Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
3 years 2 months

Technical Consultant

one of the world's largest information technology companies

  • Test, change, incident, and project management

  • Handling incoming service requests

  • Taking over customer applications as application owner (support in operations)

  • Creating operational manuals

  • Reporting to project and service managers

  • Ticketing systems (HPSM, Remedy)

  • MS SharePoint

  • Updates and patches on Linux and Windows

Feb 2011 - Oct 2013
2 years 9 months

IT Analyst

a leading provider of innovative digital services

  • Windows rollout coordinator on-site at the client (including international assignments)

  • Windows client supporter (on-site at the client)

  • Network and system administration

  • Installing and configuring workstations

  • Installing and configuring common software products

  • Managing test and production environments

  • Deploying successfully tested applications

  • Software distribution

  • 1st and 2nd level support

  • MS Office

  • SCCM

  • VMs

  • Windows Server 2008 (permission assignment and user management)

Summary

  • IT consulting
  • Project management
  • Project leadership
  • Service Management (ITSM)
  • Application Management
  • Incident, change & problem management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Release management
  • Application migration & transition
  • Cloud (Azure)
  • Virtualization
  • Server and client operating systems
  • Monitoring
  • ITIL, IPMA
  • Atlassian (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor of Science · Communication & Information Technology · Düsseldorf, Germany

Max Ernst Comprehensive School, Cologne

Abitur · General higher education entrance qualification · Cologne, Germany

Certifications & licenses

IPMA® Level D – Certified Project Management Associate

ITILv3® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

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