Sven Schumacher - Multi-project management for standardization of international locations

Bad Brückenau, Germany

Experience

Aug 2023 - Jan 2025

1 year 6 months

Mülheim, Germany

Multi-project management for standardization of international locations

Salzgitter Mannesmann Stahlhandel GmbH

Management of numerous concurrent projects to enforce corporate IT security standards according to group requirements at international sites.
Coordination of internal and external employees at all levels.
Successful implementation of measures to improve security and efficiency.

Jul 2023 - Jan 2025

1 year 7 months

Managing Director

CaaS IT GmbH

Dec 2022 - Jan 2025

2 years 2 months

Mannheim, Germany

Consultant for IT asset management with Lansweeper

PHOENIX Pharma SE

Responsible for the development and expansion of global IT asset management.
Successful initiation, stabilization, and scaling of IT asset management.
Standardization and homogenization of IT asset management in acquired companies.
Comprehensive stakeholder management to meet the requirements of all interest groups.

Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

1 year 1 month

Fulda, Germany

Requirements and rollout manager

tegut... gute Lebensmittel GmbH & Co. KG

Requirements and rollout management for a new logistics center.
Responsible for implementing video surveillance, time and access control, building management systems, and building automation.
Successful execution of measures to ensure smooth operations.

Apr 2022 - Jan 2025

2 years 10 months

Freelance IT consultant

Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

6 months

Stuttgart, Germany

Introduction of Office 365 aimed at document management with SharePoint Online to replace proprietary software

Immobilienverwalter

Requirements analysis and goal definition with the client in on-site workshops.
Deployment, configuration, and securing of the Microsoft tenant.
Migration of mailboxes to Exchange Online, including maintenance of aliases and signatures.
Installation and commissioning of an offsite backup solution including user management.
Automated creation of SharePoint sites with predefined directory structure and Planner for task management.
Automated archiving of account statements in the respective property.
Regular on-site workshops and training sessions for staff.

May 2019 - Jul 2022

3 years 3 months

Schweinfurt, Germany

IT manager

Bauunternehmung Glöckle Holding GmbH

Change projects from traditional paper-based processes to fully digital, semi-automated workflows.
Document management for organizational units using SharePoint Online.
Mobile time tracking with ZMI Time.
Scalable applicant management using AWS serverless services, Azure PowerShell, SharePoint Online, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
Flexible vacation management with SharePoint Online, Microsoft PowerApps, and Power Automate.
Digital construction files with plan management using SharePoint Online, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
Semi-automated driver's license checks with SharePoint Online, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
Introduction of IT service management including building and enabling administrators, as well as implementation of KPIs and standards based on ITIL.
Installation and configuration of Lansweeper: setting up asset discovery and automated reporting.
Installation and configuration of Prometheus and Grafana: monitoring and alerting of infrastructure and process metrics.
Installation and configuration of Zammad: ticketing system with customized SLAs, dashboards and views, as well as automated processes.
Migration of infrastructure from 3-tier servers to a hybrid infrastructure leveraging a multicloud strategy.
Hyper-converged infrastructure with VMware and Docker.
3-tier spine-leaf network, fully redundant with 160 Gbit trunk at the core layer.
Amazon AWS / Microsoft Azure.
Projects focused on IT security to prepare for potential ISO 27001 certification.
End-to-end network segmentation using Fortigate firewall as gateway.
Next-gen endpoint security with SentinelOne.
3-stage CA-based corporate WiFi with Aruba access points and Aruba Central as management.

Jun 2018 - Apr 2019

11 months

Hammelburg, Germany

IT manager

Reifen Müller GmbH & Co. KG

Implementation of a corporate VPN solution with migration of existing ISDN lines to Telekom corporate SIP.
VPN solution details: 46 sites, 4 federal states, 150 voice channels, redundant connectivity.
Firewall migration project from Juniper to Sophos XG.
Firewall cluster details: redundant HA cluster, load balancing across multiple ISPs, segmentation into DMZ, shop zone, internal, and guest clusters.
Migration and expansion of Microsoft servers with AD structures, DHCP strategy, WSUS, SQL Server optimization, and file server structuring based on Windows Server 2016.

Oct 2016 - May 2018

1 year 8 months

Schlitz, Germany

IT project manager

Lampenwelt GmbH

Successful evaluation including risk assessment and rollout of an on-premise enterprise ticketing system for 75 customer service staff, handling 10,000 tickets/day for 15 country-specific shops and B2B channels, to maintain business continuity, in the role of project manager.
Evaluation including IT security assessment to prepare a decision paper on a scalable open source messenger as corporate communications platform for an initial >300 users across 4 locations, followed by rollout. Including integration into the corporate directory via LDAP.
Project manager for the rollout and launch of webshops with a team of 12 plus external contractors using Magento as backend.
Evaluation and configuration of a phonetic search with Elasticsearch across multiple indices.
Reverse engineering of third-party plugins for later native implementation into own webshops. Goal: KPI optimization.

Mar 2016 - Sep 2016

7 months

Schlitz, Germany