Project Manager

Crisis management in a digitalization project within a procurement project for a large automaker.

Inventory, multilateral alignment with stakeholders, identifying the way forward, reviewing contracts and initiating new ones, stabilizing the project team, further planning with the client and bidder consortium.

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

Planning, directing and organizing various omnichannel projects in a captive banking environment. Managing implementation projects with different service providers, overall coordination and communication.

• Project: Digitalization projects
• Industries: Banking, automotive, consulting
• IT environment: Cloud, Office
• Business environment: Managing and executing eCommerce projects in banking. Frontend strategy with new backend (CMS). Migration and integration. Strategic direction, setting up and overseeing requirements management, establishing and stabilizing the (business) architecture, managing multiple service providers and reporting to stakeholders (C-level)

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

• Implementing an online sales strategy for captive banking in automotive. Aligning stakeholders, managing the service provider, requirements management, project leadership.

• Industries: Automotive banking

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

• Business environment: Aligning requirements with markets, developing and directing EU-wide online finance strategy. Topics: online, analytics, disclaimer, legal, profile, asset & finance product management, customer data handling, cloud, architecture

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

• Rollout of a point-of-sales system (Torque ITS) with credit check in a new automotive financing and leasing market. Planning, architecture, coordinating with provider and management.

• Industries: Automotive banking

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

• Business environment: Planning POS introduction in a newly built IT landscape in the AT market. Integrating into existing CMS. Requirements analysis and management, process flow analysis, managing the provider, corporate alignment, gathering requirements of surrounding systems (SAP, DWH, risk, etc.), preparing possible RFI/RFPs

Digitalizing core processes at Telefonica Germany.

• Project: Digital transformation
• Industries: Telecommunications
• IT environment: Jira, Confluence, Office, waterfall and agile methods
• Business environment: Advising and actively supporting program management up to board level, shaping delivery and testing processes and meeting quality requirements, monitoring via milestone tracking and workshops.

Supporting the business unit in various complex tasks. Organizing international workshops for requirements analysis for a new business model.

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

Representing the business unit for the BMW Global FS project. Coordinating requirements, aligning with international markets, channeling requirements into the agile (off- & onshore) team of the service provider, creating and adhering to project plans, advising on process handling for delivery, testing, rollout, cut-over, operations, restart/setup after delays and trust issues with the provider.

• Project: BMW Global FS Calculator
• Industries: Financial services, automotive
• IT environment: Office, JSF, Java, Oracle, GlassFish, HP Quality Center, SharePoint
• Business environment: Aligning with different FS units, mediation/escalation between provider and BMW FS departments, project realignment

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

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

• Project: BMW.Digital
• Industries: Automotive, financial services
• IT environment: JSF, Java, Oracle, GlassFish, HP Quality Center, SharePoint
• Business environment: Aligning with marketing & sales and FS, consolidating requirements from central and regional units, representing FS requirements in the project

BMWnext overall project replaces all BMW.xx websites worldwide with a unified platform, new WCMS and vehicle configurator. Also implements a complex personalization strategy and single sign-on by connecting new services.

Focus: part of IT design team mediating between business demands (marketing) and technical implementation (IT build/run). Running workshops to clarify multilateral requirements, supporting/coordinating external providers on business/IT concepts.

Switching to SCRUM, running SCRUM sprints as Product Owner.

• Project: BMW website relaunch including backend systems and vehicle configurator worldwide
• Industries: Automotive
• IT environment: JSF, Java, Flash, Oracle, GlassFish
• Business environment: Aligning with marketing & sales, consolidating requirements from central and regional units, representing FS and MINI requirements

• Consulting (new dealer frontend for BMW FS, 10/08–04/09):

• Developing training concept, planning and managing manual creation and market training prep. Planning and executing tests for print documents.

• Aligning and introducing integrated user-management per BMW data center rules (S-Gate, SiteMinder). Coordinating providers and verifying offers and implementation.

• Industries: Automotive, banking

• IT environment: XML, XPath, J2EE, HP/Mercury Quality Center, SiteMinder

• Business environment: Financial products (definition, flexibility), calculation cores, country specifics, application and offer design, user management

• Consulting (business concept for new BMW configurator eCom Next, 08/08–04/09):

• Supporting and reviewing business concept, adding FS-relevant elements, mediating details between units, providers and team.

• Industries: Automotive, banking

• Business environment: Vehicle configurator, feasibility, financial products, calculation cores, country specifics

• Consulting and rollout management (integrating eCom configurator with new dealer frontend, 10/08–04/09):

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

• Building test strategy and pilot rollout in three markets. Aligning and mediating between project goals.

• Industries: Automotive, banking

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

• Business environment: Vehicle configurator, feasibility, financial products, calculation cores, country specifics

Designing and developing a BMW Bank remarketing solution. Workflow-based J2EE app dynamically connecting providers for optimized end-to-end process from default contract to logistics and sales strategy and settlement.

Integrating internal bank systems, coordinating external providers.

Supporting business unit, selecting and coordinating IT provider as interface between business and IT.

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

Reorienting project, reviewing and re-estimating.

Revising architecture model (J2EE, BEA, Oracle, FileNet, DB2, IMS-DB). Introducing uniform size framework and stable estimate classes. Using COCOMO II for valid estimates under complex conditions. Presenting portfolio to executives for scope and complexity reduction.

Technology consulting, supporting and organizing expert estimates.

• Project: Reengineering and migration of a building society system

Client: Bram Luxembourg

Overview from concept to rollout. Business consulting on marketing methods and required IT (J2EE on Oracle). Gathering, validating and consolidating requirements, creating hosting concepts, coordinating suppliers (POS systems, lettershop), process modeling and detailed concept. Training call center and admin staff. Ongoing support and enhancements.

• Project: Customer card with bonus solution for Luxembourg retailer

Client: DG Verlag Wiesbaden

Full design and modeling of member benefits program for credit unions. Implementing COUPER loyalty program (Oracle-J2EE) with external system integration and CMS introduction.

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

Client: EBV AG / Avnet Inc.

Analysis, study and migration plan from proprietary HP environment to modern open client/server solution.

Building migration concept with business and IT alignment. Selecting future system architecture, hardware platform and technical implementation. Preparing and presenting solutions and project approach to US parent company.

Building an eBusiness department.

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

Establishing enterprise-wide architecture based on Oracle and J2EE.

Managing over 25 staff.

Client: wwnet, Munich

Marketplace for IC parts sales: concept for startup.

Implementing consignment or liquidation of IC inventory on internet. System integrates full inventory, special ERP, complex pricing and billing logic.

Conducting interviews and workshops for specs. Building process model with hierarchy. Matching model to relational data model and creating quality reports.

Client: sd&m Munich, Daimler-Chrysler Stuttgart

Supporting framework architecture: designing Java GUI framework. Providing documentation and training for client. Workshops and training on Java, architecture and distributed systems.

Client: IBEX AG, Augsburg

Internet portal with free-PC rental concept. Renting PCs including ISP via portal. User profile data logged in central data warehouse for loyalty and 1:1 marketing.

Client: Siemens AG, Munich

Supplier evaluation system: design and implementation of intranet system for supplier ratings in procurement of international high-tech firm.

Client: Giesecke & Devrient AG, Munich

IPS: interactive personalization system managing ID card personalization in central Oracle DB.

Analyzing, designing and implementing control system under Windows NT with Oracle7.2, Designer/2000, SQLForms4.5. Extending to control systems; applying Unicode; porting SQLForms4.5 to C++ MFC; performance analysis; optimizing C++ access layer; introducing C++ CASE (UML).

• Activities: Application programming, CASE consulting, DBA, data modeling, design, C/S application design and realization, network project design and realization, method consulting, technical project management
• Skills: C++ with MFC, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle RDBMS7, Oracle SQL*Net V2, SCSI/IDE storage, TCP/IP, Together C++, Windows NT

Client: Siemens AG, Munich

Hierarchy module: universal tool for hierarchical visualization of data from any source with interactivity.

Extending standard functionality of C/S dev tool on Windows for hierarchy display. Developing utility libraries in C on Windows3.11.

• Skills: C

Client: SBS Munich, German Patent Office Berlin

Developing order capture system as C/S app. Server: HP-UX Oracle7.2; client WFW3.11 with OracleForms4.0.

Designing and building user exits (embedded SQL with C) for SQL*Forms4.0 to connect archiving to UNIX Oracle7.

• Activities: Application programming, network project design and realization, software engineering
• Skills: C, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle SQL*Net V2