Project Manager

Crisis management in a digitalization project within a procurement project for a major automotive manufacturer.

Inventory assessment, multilateral coordination with stakeholders, identification of the way forward, reviewing assignments and initiating new ones, stabilizing the project team, further planning with the client and bidding consortium.

• Project: ORCA/myTools
• Industries: Automotive, IT supplier
• IT environment: Office, Jira, Confluence
• Domain: Software for inventory of machine tools, integration into the corporation’s procurement process, orchestration of initial inventory, support of various processes for recording, identifying, assigning and storing tools (>150k) worldwide, coordination with asset accounting and tax

Planning, alignment and organization of various omnichannel projects in a captive banking environment. Managing implementation projects with different service providers, cross-coordination and communication.

• Project: Digitalization projects
• Industries: Banking, automotive, consulting
• IT environment: Cloud, Office
• Domain: Steering and execution of eCommerce projects in banking. Frontend strategy with introduction of a new backend (CMS). Migration and integration. Strategic alignment, setting up and monitoring requirements management, establishing and stabilizing the (domain) architecture, management of multiple service providers and reporting to stakeholders (C-level).

• Product Owner Online Sales (05/2020 – 03/2021):

• Introduction of an online sales strategy for captive banking in automotive. Stakeholder alignment, vendor management, requirements management, project leadership.

• Industries: Automotive banking

• IT environment: Cloud, Confluence, IT architecture, Torque-ITS

• Domain: Aligning requirements with markets, developing and steering EU-wide online strategy for online finance, areas: online, analytics, disclaimer, legal, professional, asset & finance product management, customer data handling, cloud, architecture

• Project Manager POS Rollout (05/2020 – 07/2021):

• Rollout of a point-of-sales system (Torque ITS) with credit check in a new market for automotive financing and leasing.

• Planning, architecture, coordination with the vendor and management.

• Industries: Automotive banking

• IT environment: Office, Confluence, IT architecture, Torque-ITS

• Domain: Planning the introduction of a POS system in a newly built IT landscape in AT market. Integration into existing CMS. Requirements analysis and management, process flow analysis, vendor management, corporate coordination, defining requirements of surrounding systems (SAP, DWH, risk etc.), preparing possible RFI/RFPs.

Digitalization of core processes at Telefonica Germany.

• Project: Digital Transformation
• Industries: Telecommunications
• IT environment: Jira, Confluence, Office, waterfall and agile methods
• Domain: Consulting and active support of program management up to board level, active shaping of delivery and test processes and ensuring quality requirements, monitoring via milestone tracking and workshops.

Supporting the department with various complex tasks. Conducting international workshops for requirements analysis for a new business model.

• Industries: Financial services, automotive
• IT environment: Office, Project
• Domain: Marketplace for C2C or B2C transactions including procurement, logistics and customer analytics. Creating business concepts for various extensions to a central web presence including dynamic calculation of cyclical loads for the user.

Representing the department in all matters regarding the BMW Global FS project. Coordinating requirements, aligning with international markets, channeling requirements into the agile (offshore & onshore) vendor team, creating and enforcing project plans, advising on execution, testing, rollout, cut-over, operations, restart/rebuild after delays and broken trust with vendor.

• Project: BMW Global FS Calculator
• Industries: Financial services, automotive
• IT environment: Office, JSF, JAVA, ORACLE, GlassFish, HP Quality Center, SharePoint
• Domain: Aligning with various financial services departments. Coordination/(de-)escalation/mediation between vendor and multiple BMW FS divisions, reorientation of the project.

Coordinating business requirements for integrating BMW Bank into the BMW.Digital project. Continuing requirements for multimarket rollout. Supporting/coaching the BMW Bank “Global” project for a central calculation core for various markets.

Leading a project team and conducting SCRUM sprints as Product Owner.

• Project: BMW.Digital
• Industries: Automotive, financial services
• IT environment: JSF, JAVA, ORACLE, GlassFish, HP Quality Center, SharePoint
• Domain: Coordination with marketing & sales and financial services departments. Consolidation of requirements from central and regional divisions (markets). Responsible for representing requirements of individual divisions (financial services) in the project.

BMWnext overall project replaces all BMW.xx websites worldwide with a unified platform including new WCMS and new vehicle configurator. Also implementing complex personalization strategy and SSO via new service integrations.

Focus: part of IT design team mediating between business requirements (marketing) and technical implementation (IT build/run). Conducting workshops to clarify multilateral requirements from various subareas, supporting/coordinating external vendors in creating business/IT concepts.

Switching the project to SCRUM, conducting SCRUM sprints as Product Owner.

• Project: Global relaunch of BMW internet site including backend and vehicle configurator integration worldwide
• Industries: Automotive
• IT environment: JSF, JAVA, Flash, ORACLE, GlassFish
• Domain: Coordination with marketing & sales. Consolidation of requirements from central and regional divisions (markets). Responsible for representing requirements of individual divisions (financial services, MINI) in the project.

• Strategy consulting / consulting (introduction of new dealer frontend system for BMW Financial Services, 10/08 – 04/09):

• Establishing training concept, planning and managing manual creation in combination with market-specific training preparations. Planning and conducting tests for print documents.

• Aligning and introducing integrated user management within BMW AG datacenter guidelines (S-Gate, Siteminder). Coordinating vendors and aligning offers and implementations for domain accuracy.

• Industries: Automotive, banking

• IT environment: XML, XPATH, J2EE, HP/Mercury Quality Center, Siteminder

• Domain: Financial products (definition, flexibilization), calculation cores, country-specific nuances, application and offer design, user management

• Strategy consulting / consulting (business concept phase of new BMW configurator eCom Next, 08/08 – 04/09):

• Supporting and reviewing business concept for new BMW configurator. Incorporating BMW FS relevant elements, driving detailed clarifications between business areas, vendors and project team.

• Industries: Automotive, banking

• Domain: Vehicle configurator, feasibility, financial products (definition, flexibilization), calculation cores, country-specific nuances

• Strategy consulting and rollout management (connecting BMW configurator eCom to new dealer frontend system, 10/08 – 04/09):

• Planning and strategy for redesigning interface between BMW B-C car configurator and new dealer frontend system based on new calculation core (msg.pm). Coordinating rollout projects, vendors and markets.

• Establishing test strategy and rollout in three pilot markets. Aligning and mediating between project goals of various stakeholders.

• Industries: Automotive, banking

• IT environment: Project, Doors, J2EE, Oracle, HP/Mercury Quality Center

• Domain: Vehicle configurator, feasibility, financial products (definition, flexibilization), calculation cores, country-specific nuances.

Concept and development of BMW Bank’s own remarketing solution. Workflow-based J2EE application with dynamic integration of various vendors for optimized end-to-end process from non-performing contract in receivables management through logistics and supply chain to optimized remarketing strategy and billing.

Integration of multiple internal banking systems, coordination of various external providers.

Managing the business department, selecting an IT vendor, coordinating the vendor as interface between business and IT vendor.

• Project: Automotive Remarketing Platform
• Industries: Automotive, banking
• IT environment: J2EE, MS Project, Oracle, SQL, Mercury Quality Center, Mercury QuickTest Pro.

Realignment of project, review and re-estimation.

Overhaul of architecture model (J2EE, BEA, Oracle, Filenet, DB2, IMS-DB). Responsible for introducing uniform sizing and stable estimation classes. Using COCOMO II for valid estimation under complex conditions. Presenting portfolios to board level for scope and complexity reduction.

Technology consulting, supporting and organizing expert estimates.

• Project: Reengineering and migration of a building society system.

Client: Bram Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

End-to-end from concept to rollout.

Business consulting for marketing methods and required IT systems (J2EE on Oracle) for such solution operation. Requirements gathering with QA and consolidation, hosting concepts, coordinating connected suppliers (POS systems, lettershop etc.), process modeling and detailed concept. Training call center and administrative staff. Ongoing support and further development.

• Project: Introduction of customer card with bonus solution for luxury retail company in Luxembourg.

Client: DG Verlag Group Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany)

Full concept and modeling of membership benefits program for cooperative banks. Introduction of COUPER loyalty program (Oracle-J2EE) with integration to external systems and connected CMS.

Defining interfaces (Oracle) and workflows. Coordinating subcontractors (CMS, design) and hosting provider (NTT/Verio).

Client: EBV AG / Avnet Inc.

Analysis, study and roadmap for migration from proprietary HP system landscape to modern open client/server solution.

Developing migration concept with business-IT alignment. Selection and decision preparation of system architecture, hardware platform and technical implementation. Preparing and presenting solutions and approach to US parent company.

Building an eBusiness department.

Introducing process modeling tools with central integration and documentation repository. Optimizing processes, moderating workshops for strategic alignment, realigning project goals and coaching individual project managers.

Establishing enterprise architecture based on Oracle and J2EE.

Personnel responsibility for >25 employees.

Client: wwnet, Munich (Munich, Germany)

Marketplace for IC components: concept for startup.

Implementing commission sales or stock clearance of IC inventories on an internet system. Integrating complete warehouse, ERP system and implementing complex billing and pricing logic.

Conducting interviews and workshops for specification. Building full process model with functional hierarchy. Reconciling process model with relational data model and creating quality reports.

Client: sd&m Munich, Daimler-Chrysler AG Stuttgart (Munich, Germany and Stuttgart, Germany)

Support for framework architecture: design support for Java GUI framework.

Beyond design support, delivering documentation and training to client.

Consulting on creation of Java framework for major customer. Supporting with workshops and training in Java, architecture and distributed systems.

Client: IBEX AG, Augsburg (Augsburg, Germany)

Internet portal with free PC rental concept. Renting PCs including ISP via portal. Storing and analyzing user profiles in a central data warehouse for loyalty and 1:1 marketing.

Client: Siemens AG, Munich (Munich, Germany)

Supplier evaluation system: design, concept and implementation of intranet-based supplier rating system for procurement at an international high-tech corporation.

Client: Giesecke & Devrient AG, Munich (Munich, Germany)

IPS: Interactive personalization system for ID card personalization control and management in central Oracle database.

Analysis, design and implementation of system controlling personalization equipment under Windows NT with Oracle 7.2, Designer/2000, SQL-Forms 4.5.

Extending the system for personalization control; applying UNICODE, porting SQL-Forms 4.5 to C++ (MFC), performance analysis, optimizing C++ access layer; introducing C++ CASE technology (UML).

• Activities: Application programming, CASE consulting, DBA, data modeling, design, C/S application design and development, network project design and implementation, methodology consulting, technical project management
• Knowledge: C++ with MFC, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle RDBMS 7, Oracle SQL*Net 2, SCSI/IDE disks, TCP/IP, Together C++, Windows NT

Client: Siemens AG, Munich (Munich, Germany)

Hierarchy module: universal tool for hierarchical visualization of arbitrary data structures from any source with interaction.

Extending standard functionality of a C/S development tool under Windows for hierarchical data visualization. Supporting development of C utility libraries under Windows 3.11.

• Knowledge: C

Client: SBS Munich, German Patent Office Berlin (Munich, Germany and Berlin, Germany)

German central authority for industrial property: developing order entry system as C/S application. HP-UX with Oracle 7.2 as server, WFW3.11 with Oracle Forms 4.0 as client.

Designing and implementing user exits (embedded SQL in C) for SQL*Forms 4.0 to connect archiving systems to UNIX server with Oracle 7.

• Activities: Application programming, network project design and implementation, software engineering
• Knowledge: C, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle SQL*Net 2