Interim IT Manager / Interim CTO, Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst and Solution Architect

Conducting the business analysis for battery storage systems and their marketing (BESS).

Analysis of optimization and marketing processes including all supporting processes. End-to-end view covering sales, technical qualification, implementation, optimization and marketing, billing, and operational cross-functional processes.

Designing and conducting workshops with the involved departments, preparing and reconciling requirements, and confirming and anchoring them. Reviewing different development stages of the underlying business model. Transitioning to the solution design phase and mapping requirements and processes to IT solutions.

• Overall management of an implementation project for an IT solution for energy trading and delivery.
• An off-the-shelf product was customized to support various company-specific business processes. The system is meant to replace an existing legacy application and support highly critical 24/7 business processes.
• Joined the ongoing project during a crisis. Developed a long-term strategy and realigned the project. Planned, controlled, and monitored project tasks.
• Optimized the project organization with over 20 members and refocused the project on achieving the agreed goals. Used classic project management combined with agile methods (backlog, dailies, etc.).
• Project planning and control, as well as introduction of dependency and risk management. Defined and agreed on measurable project goals between customer and vendor. Continuously monitored project progress and reported to the steering committee and top-level management.
• Stakeholder management and vendor control: coordinating and communicating in a demanding and challenging stakeholder and vendor environment. Improved communication structures. Increased transparency and measurability of results.

• Support in implementing agile ways of working and agile transformation; especially regarding the agile product and the role of the Product Owner:
• Stakeholder mapping and stakeholder communication
• Backlog creation and management
• Conducting team vision & strategy workshops
• Realignment of product portfolio
• Methods and tools for roadmap management
• Application of design thinking methods
• Working with agile metrics (velocity, burndown)
• Use of agile development practices (e.g., pair programming, continuous integration/delivery)
• Continuous improvement process (CIP) and feedback process (demos, reviews, retrospectives)

• Roadtrip through Europe

• For several mission-critical projects in the areas of:
• Implementation of third-party application systems, including scheduling and nomination in the power sector (Market Access)
• Enhancement of in-house application software
• IT infrastructure and data center projects
• Carve-in and carve-out projects
• Capturing and modeling existing processes and identifying optimization potential. Conducting interviews and workshops with business units and new units to be integrated (carve-in).
• Preparing and documenting requirements. Translating business requirements into technical specifications. Evaluating different solution architectures. Conducting cost-benefit analyses considering regulatory and business requirements. Preparing decision proposals and coordinating decision-making processes.
• Planning, managing and controlling projects using traditional project management methods. Stakeholder management at various levels (business units, external vendors, management). Risk and dependency management, reporting and project governance.
• Coordinating test management and quality assurance (e.g. acceptance and go-live processes).
• Successfully implementing a mission-critical energy trading system in a challenging stakeholder and vendor environment.
• On-time integration of a business unit into the existing IT application landscape, including functional extension of applications for the new processes.
• Establishing processes, communication structures and documentation for collaboration among internal customers, application support and data center for a virtualization solution

• Setting up and stabilizing a new software development team (carve-in).
• Ensuring knowledge transfer and documentation in a short time because most of the old team left the company at short notice. At the same time, building a new team at the new site and developing knowledge and skills.
• Coordinating the further development of the application using Scrum.
• Introducing agile development methods and Scrum, coaching and mentoring in agile methods. Integrating and managing an external vendor as an extended workbench.
• Gathering business requirements and epic management. Translating business requirements into technical specifications and test cases.
• Creating documentation and overseeing the process for accepting new software versions and handing over to operations.
• Rolling out and training for the new software version across the company for all markets (Europe, USA, Asia).
• Setting up and stabilizing the development team at the new site.
• Ensuring knowledge transfer for operations and further development of the systems.
• Developing a new software version of the system application within 6 months in parallel with building the structures, with market-relevant new features and under challenging conditions. Increasing the competitiveness of the product and the company through the new software features.

• Analyzing existing technologies.
• Evaluating different architecture approaches (e.g., agent-based architecture and SOA).
• Designing the application architecture.
• Implementing the main SOA components (e.g., enterprise service bus based on MS MessageQueue; event dispatcher for load-, resource-, and task-based distribution; high availability and system monitoring services; TCP-based communication between distributed components; defining interfaces for services, among others).
• Supervising architecture and design and coaching developers, conducting software reviews.
• Analyzing weaknesses of the existing software system regarding new requirements and creating an architecture concept for a freely scalable and highly available telecommunications application.
• Quickly building a development team for the new application, coaching and successfully introducing new development methods (object-oriented programming), programming language (C#/.NET) and technologies (Microsoft .NET 1.1 technology stack).