Program Manager / Program Lead (Contractor)

Project Manager for a Migration Stream within the Unity Program. The Unity program was set up to consolidate the IT platforms for retail and corporate banking in Germany while maintaining the Postbank business model. Successful migration and production go-live of mortgages stream within the planned time and budget.

• Planning and coordination of migration preparation activities in terms of content and timing in close collaboration and coordination between the internal IT and business departments of Deutsche and Postbank as well as external service providers
• Readiness for migration and post-migration activities

Project Manager for a Migration Readiness Stream within the Unity Program. The Unity program was set up to consolidate the IT platforms for retail and corporate banking in Germany while maintaining the Postbank business model.

• Planning and coordination of migration activities in terms of content and timing in close collaboration and coordination between the internal business and IT departments of Deutsche and Postbank as well as external service providers
• Planning and leading of migration workshops to prepare and align data mappings, transformation rules and measures to ensure data quality within the framework of the Extract-Transform-Load migration approach

Development of an all-in-one solution for crypto wallets and payment processing in crypto currencies that enables consumers and businesses to execute transactions with low transaction fees in more than 1,000 different crypto currencies. Integration of external service providers around decentralized finance based on blockchain technology. Successful introduction and setup of Scrum organization and processes within the shortest time.

• Setup and optimization of the project organization and processes
• Planning of timelines, milestones and resources, management and controlling of the product definition and development phases
• Scrum introduction and process optimization with agile methods
• Coaching and support for scrum teams, product owner and management
• Process responsibility and improvement of self-organization and agile working practices in the teams
• Planning and moderation of scrum events: daily stand-ups, sprint planning and refinement, sprint review and retrospective

Development of mobile and web applications for the Deutsche Bank (private banking and wealth management areas). Multi-million program for digital transformation and process adjustments in the investment sector with regards to the regulatory requirements of MiFID II. Successful implementation and production roll-out of several releases of the entire MiFID II program within the planned time and budget.

As project manager responsible for:

• Management of several project teams with up to 40 team members, consisting of UX/UI designers, software developers and testers
• Planning of timelines, milestones, resources and budget, management and controlling of several software development projects
• Setup, implementation and coordination of processes and project organization
• Management of individual phases of the software development life cycle in close cooperation and coordination between business and IT departments: development of UX flows and wireframes based on business requirements, creation of "pixel-perfect" visual designs based on a style guide for mobile and desktop devices, development of frontend applications based on the Javascript framework (React) and integration with the backend layer, as well as support of the SIT (with manual and automated tests) and UAT phases up to release in production

As Scrum Master responsible for:

• Scrum introduction and process optimization with agile methods
• Coaching and support for scrum teams, product owner and management
• Process responsibility and improvement of self-organization and agile working practices in the teams
• Planning and moderation of scrum events: daily stand-ups, sprint planning and refinement, sprint review and retrospective

Functional leadership of eCommerce program for a leading telecommunications company.

• Leading a team of 12 business analysts located onsite and offshore
• End-to-end product management in close collaboration with business stakeholders during complete release life cycle
• Supporting client leads at roadmap planning on the program level
• Continued evolution of the BA function with the ultimate goal of reducing development churn and increasing quality by improved requirements definition process
• Resource management for BAs including BA on-boarding, coaching, assignment expectation management and demand / capacity planning

Team leader and scrum master in a digital transformation program for a global telecommunication corporation:

• Ensuring cross-team coordination
• Responsibility for managing issues and dependencies between teams
• Assisting product owner and other stakeholders in agile practice

Team leader and scrum master in eCommerce program for the largest international cable service provider:

• Managing cross functional teams with more than 20 team members
• Ensuring cross-team coordination
• Responsibility for managing issues and dependencies between teams

Main emphasis:

• Business analysis and functional design
• Business process design and optimization
• Team management

Projects:

• Implementation and integration of eCommerce platform based on ATG for a leading telecommunications company
• Implementation and integration of a web-based customer care and billing system for a leading foreign telecommunications company

Main emphasis: IT project management

Design and development of Internet-based, multimedia and data-based applications, VoIP applications, data processing

Development of multimedia and data-based applications, data processing