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Stefan Simrock

Business Analyst

Stefan Simrock
Hamburg, Germany

Experience

May 2025 - Present
9 months

Business Analyst

Large municipal utility

  • Conducting business analysis for battery energy storage systems and their marketing (BESS)
  • End-to-end view of optimization and marketing processes including sales, technical qualification, implementation, optimization, marketing, billing, and cross-functional processes
  • Designing and facilitating workshops with business units
  • Preparing, aligning, and anchoring requirements
  • Transitioning to the solution design phase and mapping requirements to IT solutions
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
9 months

Sabbatical

Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
11 months

Overall project manager for an IT project

Uniper

  • Overall management of an implementation project for an IT solution for energy trading and delivery
  • Extending an off-the-shelf product with company-specific business processes
  • Developing a long-term strategy and realigning failing projects
  • Planning, steering and controlling project tasks
  • Optimizing the project organization with over 20 members and introducing traditional and agile methods
  • Implementing dependency and risk management and defining measurable project goals
  • Continuous controlling and reporting to the steering committee and top management
  • Stakeholder and vendor management in a challenging environment
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
5 months

IT Project Manager

Deutsche Giganetz

  • Leading an IT project for strategic fiber expansion and marketing (FTTH)
  • Managing requirements for sales, commercial, and technical construction areas
  • Conducting requirements workshops
  • Creating an IT strategy and coordinating the solution design
  • Aligning with stakeholders, business units, and IT departments
  • Project planning, steering, and reporting to the project office
Jul 2022 - Present
3 years 7 months

Agile Coach

  • Supporting the implementation of agile ways of working and transformation
  • Stakeholder mapping and communication
  • Building and managing the backlog
  • Conducting team vision and strategy workshops
  • Realigning the product portfolio and roadmap management
  • Applying design thinking methods
  • Working with agile metrics (velocity, burndown)
  • Using agile development practices (pair programming, CI/CD)
  • Continuous improvement and feedback process (demos, reviews, retrospectives)
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
2 years 8 months

Team Coordinator Trading Logistics IT (Interim Management) / Product Owner

Vattenfall Energy Trading

  • Leading an international IT team for business-critical applications in energy trading and market access
  • Ensuring the operation of highly critical 24/7 applications and their further development
  • Coordinating transformation projects in Trading Logistics IT and ETRM
  • Developing strategies for consolidating and modernizing the IT landscape
  • Cloudification and migration from on-premise to Microsoft Azure
  • Introducing automated release and deployment processes (CI/CD)
  • Coordinating security and access concepts as well as pen tests
  • Stakeholder and requirements management, resource and budget management
  • Maintaining and prioritizing the backlog to increase the value of the agile product
  • Coaching and team development in agile methods
May 2019 - Nov 2019
7 months

Sabbatical

May 2018 - May 2019
1 year 1 month

Team Coordinator and Operational Management (Interim Management)

Vattenfall Energy Trading

  • Leading an IT team of 5 members for critical 24/7 applications
  • Ensuring operational management and support
  • Knowledge management and skills development (Confluence, internal training)
  • Implementing agile and DevOps practices (pair programming, CI/CD)
  • Coordinating continuous development according to market and compliance requirements
  • Requirements management and interface with business units
  • Budget and resource management
May 2011 - May 2018
7 years 1 month

Business Analyst, Solution Architect and IT Project Manager

Vattenfall Energy Trading

  • Implementing third-party systems (e.g., scheduling, nomination in the power market)
  • Developing in-house software and IT infrastructure projects
  • Carve-in and carve-out projects
  • Process analysis, modeling and identifying optimization potentials
  • Conducting interviews, workshops and documenting requirements
  • Translating business requirements into technical specifications
  • Evaluating solution architectures and performing cost-benefit analyses
  • Preparing decision documents and coordinating governance processes
  • Traditional project management: planning, controlling, risk and dependency management
  • Test management and go-live processes
Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
2 years

IT Subproject Manager / Consultant

Raffinerie Heide GmbH

  • Supporting the company transition through IT carve-out
  • Identifying and documenting affected processes and applications
  • Developing and implementing decoupling strategies
  • Defining work packages for process and system owners
  • Planning, controlling and monitoring the implementation
  • Coordinating and reporting to program managers and steering committees
Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
2 years

IT Project Manager

Yxlon International

  • Set up and stabilize a new software development team after Carve-In
  • Ensure knowledge transfer and documentation
  • Implement Scrum and introduce agile methods
  • Coordinate external vendors
  • Manage epics and translate business requirements into technical specifications
  • Create documentation, acceptance processes, and hand over to operations
  • Train and roll out the new software across Europe, the USA, and Asia
Jan 2007 - Dec 2009
3 years

Software Architect

Shell

  • Develop the software architecture for a globally deployed enterprise application
  • Define guidelines and patterns for object-oriented development in C#/.NET
  • Address SOX and IT compliance requirements
  • Develop a security framework and user authentication concept
  • Lead a 20-member development team
  • Create documentation and conduct user and support training
  • Oversee the transition-to-support process
Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
2 years

Software Architect and Team Lead

Speech Design Carrier Systems GmbH

  • Analyze existing technologies and evaluate architectural approaches (agent-based, SOA)
  • Design architecture and implement core SOA components (ESB, event dispatcher, high-availability services)
  • Supervise and coach developers, conduct software reviews
  • Perform vulnerability analysis and design a concept for a scalable, highly available telecommunications application
  • Build a development team and introduce object-oriented programming (C#/.NET)
  • Enhance competitiveness through new product features

Summary

I see IT transformation as a holistic approach that covers general aspects like processes, methods, technologies, and architectures. These are supplemented by company- and business-specific topics. It's the combination of strong business understanding, broad technical knowledge, and experience in team development and leadership that I use to successfully deliver IT projects.

My background is many years of deep experience as a software developer and software architect in various, technologically demanding and highly business-critical projects. In recent years, I have worked as a business analyst, solution architect, project manager, agile coach, and interim manager in numerous IT transformation projects for leading European companies in the energy, telecommunications, and industrial sectors.

Skills

  • Interim Manager: Leading And Developing Teams Of Up To 20 Members
  • Interim Management Of It Teams: Building And Leading Interdisciplinary Teams
  • Coaching And Mentoring In Agile Methods (E.g., Scrum/kanban) As Well As Classic Project Management Approaches
  • Promoting A Collaborative Team Culture, Conflict Management, And Team Development
  • Ensuring Knowledge Management And Skill Development (E.g., Sharing Tools Like Confluence, Internal Training)
  • Project Manager: Leading Software And Infrastructure Projects – Traditional And Agile
  • Planning, Steering, And Controlling Projects Using Traditional And Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Safe) Methods
  • Taking On Various Agile Roles, Such As Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Or Product Owner (Depending On Project Needs)
  • Risk And Dependency Management, Reporting, And Project Governance
  • Coordinating Test Management And Quality Assurance (E.g., Acceptance And Go-live Processes)
  • Stakeholder Management At Various Levels (Business Units, External Vendors, Management)
  • Agile Product Management And Software Development (Scrum And Kanban)
  • Epic Owner And Product Owner: Creating And Maintaining The Product Backlog And Roadmap, Defining And Prioritizing Epics, Features, And User Stories
  • Working With Agile Metrics (Velocity, Burndown Charts, Definition Of Done/ready) And Continuous Process Improvement
  • Supporting Development Teams In Implementation, Reviews, And Retrospectives
  • Coaching On Agile And Devops Development Practices (E.g., Pair Programming And Reviews, Continuous Integration/delivery)
  • Solution Architect: Analyzing It Landscapes And Developing Solution Approaches (Technical/commercial), Including Business Cases
  • Capturing And Modeling Existing Processes And Identifying Optimization Potential
  • Developing Strategies And Concepts To Consolidate And Modernize It And System Landscapes
  • Evaluating Different Solution Architectures For Technical (Api Design, Cloud/on-premise Integration, Security Requirements) And Economic (Roi, Tco) Aspects
  • Conducting Cost-benefit Analyses And Creating Business Cases For Decision Making
  • Including Regulatory, Security-related, And Market-specific Requirements (E.g., In The Energy And Telecom Sectors)
  • Business Analyst: Requirements Management And Workshop Facilitation
  • Acting As Interface Between Business Units And Development Teams; Analyzing And Documenting Business Processes, Data Models, And Use Cases
  • Structuring And Documenting Requirements (Requirements Engineering) In Tools Like Jira, Microsoft Devops
  • Moderating Requirement Workshops, Interviews, And Joint Design Sessions (Design Thinking) With Stakeholders
  • Process Analysis And Optimization (E.g., Gap Analyses, Creating Delta Concepts, Identifying Efficiency Gains)
  • Translating Business Requirements Into Technical Specifications And Test Cases
  • Preparing Decision Templates And Supporting The Decision Process
  • Creating Clear, Audience-focused Presentations (Powerpoint, Confluence) And Decision Documents (Business Cases, Proofs Of Concept)
  • Coordinating Decision Processes In Steering Committees Or Top-management Meetings, Including Alignment With Sponsors And Executives
  • Incorporating Risks, Dependencies, And Compliance Requirements Into Decision Documents
  • Ensuring Traceability And Documentation Of All Project Decisions
  • Stakeholder Management In A Complex Environment; Interface Between Internal Clients, Development Teams, And Suppliers
  • Defining And Implementing A Communication Strategy For Different Stakeholder Groups
  • Conflict Management Between Business Units, Development, And External Vendors (E.g., Escalation Processes, Solution Workshops)
  • Ensuring A Continuous Feedback Process (E.g., Demos, Reviews, Retrospectives) And Driving Adjustments
  • Collecting And Evaluating Bids, Managing External Partners Regarding Quality, Cost, And Deadlines
  • Change Management And Organizational Development
  • Designing And Supporting Change Processes, Including Agile Coaching And Support For Product Owner Roles
  • Training And Involving Various Stakeholders (Management, Business Units, External Partners) In Transformation And Innovation Initiatives
  • Actively Managing Resistance And Implementing A Comprehensive Communication Strategy
  • Establishing And Promoting A Learning Organization (Retrospectives, Lessons Learned)
  • Introducing And Cultivating Continuous Improvement Processes
  • Cloud And Infrastructure Projects (Azure, Aws, On-premise Migrations)
  • Planning And Coordinating Data Center And Cloud Migration Projects (Data Center Shutdown/move, Cloudification, On-prem To Azure/aws)
  • Coordinating Creation Of Security And Access Concepts, And Conducting And Evaluating Security Audits And Pen Tests
  • Designing And Operating Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Automated Release And Deployment Processes (Ci/cd)
  • Ensuring Stability And Scalability (E.g., Monitoring, Logging, Alerting In Cloud Environments)
  • Working With Common Cloud Services (Container Technologies) And Infrastructure Tools

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

Certified Project Manager (IPMA Level C)

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