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Thomas (C.) Czech

External Consultant to Program Management / SCRUM Master

Thomas Czech
Unterföhring, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Dec 2027
3 years
Mannheim, Germany

External Consultant to Program Management / SCRUM Master

MVV Energie AG / Soluvia IT Services GmbH

Streamline – implementation of S/4 HANA Utilities in cooperation with Accenture

  • Consulting and coaching of program management (OPL)

  • Planning and support in executing all organizational and system technical activities to migrate from SAP IS-U to SAP S/4 HANA Utilities

  • Communication and coordination with involved stakeholders and committees (core team, program management, steering committee)

  • Project and process management

  • Coaching of the stream leads in the main project

  • Requirements management for interface connection of ancillary systems (non-SAP systems)

  • Risk management

  • Resource and capacity planning

  • Consulting the existing migration, test, interface/ancillary system, and training teams

  • Consulting on managing the SAP systems cut-over

  • Planning and management including necessary post-migration activities (e.g., verification, documentation, adjustments)

  • Team coaching & servant leadership: supporting one or more Scrum teams as coach, facilitator, and servant leader

  • Promoting self-organization, personal responsibility, and continuous improvement

  • Facilitation and continuous improvement of Scrum events (daily, planning, review, retrospective)

  • Ensuring adherence to Scrum values, principles, and practices

  • Identifying and actively managing impediments to ensure team productivity

  • Working with product owners, agile coaches, and leaders to resolve structural hurdles

  • Supporting agile scaling in frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus

  • Co-designing agile transitions as part of MVV's digital strategy

  • Building an agile mindset in the organization through training, workshops, and active role modeling of agile principles

  • Collaborating with other Scrum Masters and agile coaches in the company-wide agile chapter

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA Utilities

Jan 2025 - Dec 2026
2 years
Germany

Consultant to SVP & VPs / Interim Solution Management

Siemens Energy AG

  • Building a solution management team in the Grid Technology division following the SAFe standard

  • Managing complex end-to-end solutions for the energy transition, decarbonization, and digitalization of energy infrastructures

  • Developing a solution vision in close coordination with global business units (e.g., Grid Technology, Gas Services, Transformation of Industry)

  • Deriving market- and customer-oriented target concepts for digital and physical solutions in energy generation, distribution, and optimization

  • Creating and maintaining a roadmap to manage multiple ARTs along one or more operational value streams, e.g., in digital grid management, asset performance, or energy-as-a-service

  • Responsible for the solution backlog: prioritizing capabilities and enablers in coordination with product management, solution architecture, and system engineering

  • Acting as interface between business units, customers, system architecture, and operational teams for the economic assessment of market requirements

  • Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders in an international and interdisciplinary environment

  • Contributing to economic decisions using WSJF and lean business cases as well as supporting lean portfolio management

  • Active role in pre-/post-PI planning, solution demos, inspect & adapt workshops, and coordination of cross-ART dependencies

  • Working with the solution train engineer (STE) and enterprise architect team to ensure technical and operational coherence

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP S/4 HANA Utilities, CRM/CPQ: Salesforce, PLM: Siemens Teamcenter, Oracle Agile, PDM: Creo / Windchill

Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
2 years
Quickborn, Germany

Head of Cut-Over Management / Deputy Head of Migration Management

Hansewerk Gruppe / E.ON Konzern

Hanse2X - EAM S/4 United

  • Planning and execution of all organizational and system technical activities for migrating from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4 HANA

  • Ensuring the transition from the old system landscape to the new SAP S/4 HANA systems

  • Responsibility for the technical data migration of all directly related activities

  • Close collaboration with test management and data object owners

  • Interface connection of non-SAP systems through requirements management

  • Planning of cut-over, go-live, master and transaction data migration as well as rehearsal cut-over

  • Creating a detailed cut-over script

  • Managing the cut-over of the SAP systems (SAP S/4 HANA)

  • Cut-over planning for shutting down the old systems and reconnecting all affected ancillary systems

  • Creating the IT change strategy in close collaboration with the business units and monitoring its implementation

  • Consulting the existing migration, test, interface/ancillary system, and training teams

  • Planning and managing necessary post-migration activities such as verification, documentation, and adjustments

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP S/4 HANA

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 year
Germany

External Consultant Product and Portfolio Management

EnviaM Mitteldeutsche Energie AG / E.ON Konzern

Balancing energy, quantity excellence, forecast dashboards, procurement for B2B RLM customers, HPFC/MPFC, dynamic tariffs, and smart meter implementation (iMSys)

  • Analysis of the current state and identification of standardization and optimization potentials in existing energy industry processes

  • Designing new business processes due to changing market conditions in line with the IT strategy

  • IT change management

  • Planning and conducting workshops and interviews

  • Holistic project management as well as stakeholder management

  • Consulting on data know-how including efficient implementation

  • Supporting strategic and procedural approaches

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core (BW), SAP IS-U, SAP Analytics Cloud, procurement: IRM, LEM, forecasting: IFESCA

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
2 years
Augsburg, Germany

External Consultant Management / Sales / IT

Lechwerke AG / E.ON Konzern

  • Consulting on the further development of price adjustment processes

  • Execution of operational process and program management

  • Documenting current processes and developing optimized target processes

  • Identifying weaknesses in current task planning as well as procedural and systemic gaps

  • Initiating and controlling the implementation of new IT requirements for IT systems, reports, and dashboards

  • Process modeling in Signavio

  • Facilitation of workshops and presentation of results in committees

  • Consulting on the further development of legacy systems

  • Consulting on IT service management and IT demand management

  • Advising management on the integration and management of cross-cutting projects

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core (PM, MM, SD, FI/CO, BW, HR), SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, CRM: KISS / SAP IS-U, CPQ: Hector, Enomic, OM: Inspire

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
1 year
Germany

Chief Product Owner (CPO) / External Consultant Management & IT

E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH

  • Advice on further developing legacy systems, especially ER2S

  • Advising management on integrating cross-cutting projects

  • Advising on IT service management and IT demand management

  • Advising on IT change management strategy and communication

  • Setting up and leading project teams to automate processes

  • Coaching and technical guidance of the CPOs

  • Organizational development and change management

  • Taking over, managing, and resolving especially critical issues

  • Setting up and leading multiple task forces to optimize existing systems, processes, dashboards, and tools with maximum automation

  • Organizing and moderating committees

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core (PM, MM, SD, FI/CO, BW, HR), SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, CRM: DSP/Salesforce, ER2S, CPQ: PowerCloud, Hector, Enomic, OM: Inspire

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
2 years
Germany

Program Manager Fiber Expansion FTTH / External Consultant Management

Plusnet GmbH / EnBW Konzern

Advising management and program leadership on implementing the "Leuchtturm" project

  • Process, project, and program management
  • Identifying weaknesses in task planning as well as process and system gaps
  • Initiating and managing new IT requirements for IT systems, reports, and dashboards
  • Supporting the technical subproject for active and passive fiber roll-out
  • Advising on building access and documentation in NE3 and NE4
  • Operational support and firefighting
  • Advising on operationalizing target journeys in the context of network construction, operations, product management, provisioning, and sales
  • Advising on IT carve-outs and integrations/mergers with systems of the parent company EnBW and Netcom BW
  • Creating the proof of concept and supporting carve-out and integration projects
  • Advising on change management for IT strategy and communication
  • Advising on optimizing IT service management (ITSM) in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level support
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
2 years
Germany

Chief Product Owner (CPO) / External Consultant Product & B2C Management

E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH

Overall program and project management in the product management and B2C management area

  • Setting up and leading multiple project teams and task forces as well as defining a roles model and a governance structure

  • Coaching and acting as technical deputy to the team lead for the SPC product model

  • Acting as CPO for product management in the DSP program

  • Advising B2C management on automating IT solutions for portfolio management, energy demand planning, contract management, and pricing

  • Advising B2C management on automating and optimizing sales processes for renewals and procurement processes

  • Initiating and managing new IT requirements for core and CPQ systems, reports, and dashboards for PM & EVP

  • Supporting the implementation phase of the ongoing procurement project to ensure an automated process

  • Advising on contract management, mandatory portfolio, and special contracts

  • Establishing internal SPC process management and carrying out process optimizations

  • Organizational development, change management, and supervision of consultant colleagues

  • Taking over, managing, and resolving especially critical issues

  • Organizing and moderating events, workshops, and committees

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core, SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Analytics, CRM: DSP/Salesforce, ER2S, iSE Legacy, DWE, E.ON AT, CPQ: PowerCloud, B2Compass/Anaplan, Bit2Win, Hector, Enomic, OM: Inspire

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
2 years
Berlin, Germany

External Consultant Management / Operations / IT

Telecolumbus AG

Advising management on implementing the fiber champion strategy

  • Supporting the shift from HFC to GPON and FTTH redesign

  • Advising on implementing the TKG Novelle 2021 (Telecommunications Modernization Act)

  • Representing the interests of the operations/contact center management division

  • Advising on operationalizing target journeys in the context of product management, provisioning, and sales

  • Advising on optimizing IT service management (ITSM), especially in technical incident management

  • Cross-departmental IT demand management and support of epics and user stories

  • Defining and aligning the MVP scope with business and IT

  • Developing measures to achieve strategic program goals

  • Defining the MVP specifications considering technical requirements in fiber expansion

  • Identifying dependencies and risks and monitoring workstream progress

  • Advising management on the consequences of TKG 2021 for Housing Association & Infrastructure sales

  • IT systems: CRM: Salesforce, Amdocs Clarify

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year
Mannheim, Germany

Executive Sales Consulting / Internal Project Lead Sales

MVV Energie AG

Implementation of Dymatrix DMP (Digital Marketing Platform)

  • Analyzing sales requirements with a focus on intelligent metering systems (iMSys) and pricing

  • Analyzing the current process landscape and operational process management

  • Detailing use cases, epics, and user stories

  • Advising on integration into the existing IT strategy and change management

  • Identifying optimization potentials in retail customer sales and campaign management

  • Project management for all topics in the DPM and iMSys area

  • Taking over, managing, and resolving especially critical issues and stakeholder management

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core, SAP IS-U, DMP: Dymatrix

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year
Germany

Senior Project Management / External Consultant PDM/PLM/PIM

Unity AG

Selection of PDM/PLM/PIM systems for the client HOPPE AG

  • Recording and describing the current situation and business analysis of core processes and weaknesses

  • Identifying optimization potential and defining a target state

  • Setting the scope for the RFP (In Scope/Out of Scope for PLM)

  • Identifying functional and non-functional requirements

  • Joint development of an ERP requirements and criteria catalog

  • Defining next project steps, timeline, and budget

  • IT Systems: PDM/PLM/PIM: SAP, PTC, Dassault, Siemens

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 years
Quickborn, Germany

External Consultant / SAP Carve-Out Project Lead TraveNetz GmbH

Hansewerk Gruppe / Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG (E.ON-Konzern)

  • Business project management for the SAP carve-out of TraveNetz GmbH

  • Direct reporting line to the board of Hansewerk Gruppe and SH Netz AG

  • Collaboration with E.ON Digital Technology (EDT) management and license management

  • Project controlling, budget monitoring, and coordination of business units

  • Moderation of status and escalation meetings and acting as a mediation body

  • Coordination of testing and cut-over activities as well as documentation and phase-out

  • IT Systems: ERP: SAP R/3, SAP IS-U

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
1 year
Germany

External Consultant IT & Management / PLM System Selection

s.Oliver Bernd Freier GmbH & Co. KG

  • Consulting on selecting and evaluating PLM software considering cost efficiency and future viability (AI/Machine Learning)

  • Designing decision templates and documentation for the steering committee

  • Requirements engineering and business analysis of critical processes

  • Identifying use cases and data used

  • Iterative evaluation of requirements for process coverage

  • IT Systems: ERP: SAP Core, SAP Analytics, CRM: Salesforce, PDM/PLM: SAP, Centric, Aptos, PTC, CLM: Apttus, SCM: Aptos, Setlog

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
1 year
Germany

External Consultant M&A / IT / Management

Hallhuber GmbH

Consulting on the IT carve-out from the parent company Gerry Weber

  • Coordinating carve-outs for infrastructure, network, ERP, and point-of-sale systems

  • Creating the proof of concept and advising on trends like AI and machine learning

  • Stakeholder management and project administration

  • Evaluating and selecting CRM, ERP, and PLM software

  • Defining IT strategy and software architecture in collaboration with legacy systems

  • Business analysis of weaknesses and critical processes

  • Developing a target process model considering external processes

  • Requirements engineering and IT demand management

  • Advising on optimizing IT service management (ITSM)

  • IT Systems: ERP: SAP (FI/CO), MS Dynamics D365, CRM: Sugar CRM, Dymatrix, PDM/PLM: Koppermann, CLM: Apttus, SCM: Aptos, Setlog

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
1 year
Germany

External Consultant / Interim CTO

Optitrust GmbH

Consulting on the development and restructuring of a data center

  • Interim management of the technology and customer service departments with 35 employees

  • Coaching leaders in IT development and support (1st/2nd/3rd level)

  • Selecting and recruiting new staff and building strategic partnerships

  • Implementing monitoring tools for time tracking and process optimization

  • Business analysis of weaknesses and identification of business-relevant use cases

  • Documenting existing processes and implementing a target process flow

  • Introducing the ITIL process model (Service Strategy, Design, Transition, Operation)

  • Evaluating and selecting software tools for project management and development

  • Introducing a document management system and archiving solution

  • Building an information security management system and supporting ISO 27001 certification

  • IT Systems: ERP: SAP Core, CRM: Salesforce, WMS: ARGOS

Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
2 years
Germany

External Consultant IT / Vice President Business Intelligence

E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH

  • Operational process management and analysis of existing business processes in coordination with departments
  • Identification of use cases and analysis of data structures in databases
  • Documentation of business processes linked to applications
  • Strategy development to optimize business processes
  • Leading key user teams and stakeholder communication
  • Requirements engineering and IT demand management
  • Creating functional specifications, epics and user stories
  • Planning and implementation concept based on cost-benefit aspects
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
2 years
Munich, Germany

External Consultant Board / IT / Business Transformation & Operations

GEMA, Munich Headquarters

Initial assessment after the M&A merger of the Munich and Berlin headquarters

  • Business analysis of existing business processes and applications

  • Identification and stabilization of critical business processes

  • Assessment of scalability and stability of processes and organization

  • Strategy development and target process definition for national sites and international joint ventures

  • Introduction of a new process map

  • Consulting on a proof of concept for the new IT system landscape

  • Project management role in operations management

  • Consulting to optimize IT service management (ITSM)

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core (FI/CO, SD, BW, HR), CLM legacy systems

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
1 year
Germany

External Consultant / Program Management BSA

EWE Tel

Lichtwelle 2.0 - FTTx strategy development

  • Planning of FTTB/FTTH network expansion activities as well as sales and marketing strategy

  • Advising the BSA program management on process optimization and gap analysis

  • Building sales for housing associations / residential sector

  • Technology consulting for NE3 and NE4 (Docsis, GPON, BSOx)

  • Data collection and audit-proof storage

  • Management of network construction contractors and field service

  • Building KPI systems, reporting and incident management

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core, SAP IS-U, CRM: Salesforce, CLM: Apttus

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 years
Germany

External Consultant M&A / IT Program Management oneBSS/OSS

Telecolumbus AG

Supporting the merger of TeleColumbus, Primacom Leipzig and Pepcom Group Munich

  • Advising the oneBSS/OSS/ERP program management with focus on product management, customer service and technology

  • Technology consulting for Docsis, GPON, TAL and BSOx

  • Identification of migration-relevant topics and design of operational processes

  • IT demand management and development of manual workarounds

  • Defining the migration path and supporting testing and deployment

  • Coordination of application training sessions

  • Reporting to the management board and program management

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core, SAP IS-U, CRM: Amdocs Clarify

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
2 years
Germany

External Consultant Process Management / Deputy Director OPM

Telecolumbus AG

  • Consulting on business transformation and strategic design of operational process management (OPM)

  • oneBSS project and process management including requirements management

  • Conducting fit-gap analyses and designing change requests

  • Supporting testing, deployment and application training sessions

  • Tracking synergy realization and coordinating business units

  • Facilitating committees and onboarding teams

  • Reporting to the management board and SteerCo

  • IT systems: ERP: SAP Core, SAP IS-U, CRM: Amdocs Clarify

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years
Germany

External Consultant / Interim EVP Sales & Marketing

doo GmbH

  • Strategic advice to management in sales and marketing
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 year
Germany

Management Consultant Expansion & Marketing

Kanzlei Bauch

  • Consulting on the firm's expansion and marketing
Jan 2013 - Dec 2016
4 years
Germany

External Consultant / Interim Manager

Agency1

  • Sales management and business development
  • Strategic planning and implementation of partner management
  • Project and process management
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
3 years
Germany

External Consultant Marketing & Sales

munich-kits

  • Consulting in marketing and sales
Jan 1992 - Dec 1996
5 years
Munich, Germany

Industrial Electronics Technician Training

Steinheil Optronik GmbH / Siemens AG

  • Training in electronics and electronic development with a focus on device technology

Skills

  • Business: Analyses; Controlling; Development; Project And Process Management; Migration / Integration / Transition / Carve-out

  • Digital Transformation: Crm Systems; Erp Systems; Plm Systems; Clm Systems; E-commerce Systems; Forecasting Systems

  • Fttx: Consulting; Project And Process Management

  • It: M&a Consulting (Carve-outs/mergers); System Selection; Project And Process Management; Service Management (Itsm); Demand Management / Requirements Engineering

  • Industries: Energy; Telecommunications; It Consulting; Retail; Media; Technology Startups

  • Methodical Expertise: Agile Project Management Under Scrum Or Safe; Classic Project Management (Waterfall); Hybrid Project Management Under Scrum

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 2005 - Jun 2007

Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, München

Master of Business Administration & Engineering · Business Administration & Engineering · Munich, Germany · Master thesis: strategic key account management at Kabel

Oct 1999 - Jun 2003

Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, München

Diploma in Industrial Engineering (FH) · Industrial engineering, IT specialization · Munich, Germany · Thesis: company foundation in theory and practice at

Oct 1992 - Jun 1996

Steinheil Optronik GmbH / Siemens AG

Industrial electrician (IHK), device technology specialization · Electronics / electronics development · Munich, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Project manager certification

Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce

SAP Business Software Certification I & II

Munich University of Applied Sciences

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