Thomas M.

Consultant, Systems Administrator, IT Analyst for TM-IT Services clients

Lautertal, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
8 months
Lautertal, Germany

Consultant, Systems Administrator, IT Analyst for TM-IT Services clients

Thomas Martini IT-Services

  • Analysis/audit of the current situation in-house or at clients
  • Planning IT infrastructure
  • Advising on new hardware purchases and migration plans
  • Planning and managing the IT budget
  • Configuring and supporting IT hardware on Windows 7, 8.x, 10, and macOS
  • Reviewing and updating documentation with GDPR in mind
  • Analyzing and, where needed, expanding the technical and organizational measures required by GDPR and BDSG
  • Training staff
  • Training in AI assistant consulting
  • Cybersecurity with AI
  • Recording the current state
  • Planning the target state
  • 2nd/3rd level support C/S/N
  • Technical environment: Exchange Administration, Active Directory, MS Server 2016 R2, MS Server 2022, MS SQL Developer, MS SQL, Visual Studio 2013+, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Remote, TeamViewer, weclapp CRM Solution, RA-Micro, IT Compliance, Citrix, Ultra Edit, SCCM, Windows XP-11, Office 2010-M365, VPN Solutions, Lexware Solutions, OKI Management Solutions, LogMyTime, SAGE systems
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
6 months
Mömbris, Germany

Project Manager, Business Analyst

Combustion Technology GmbH

  • Windows 10 to Windows 11 migration – project management
  • Planning and coordinating user audits to capture the hardware and software landscapes
  • Carrying out audits followed by evaluation, consolidation, and analysis of software components
  • Gathering and analyzing business requirements to ensure compatibility between applications and the new operating system
  • Analyzing and documenting compatibility issues and resolving them on Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • Creating business impact analyses to prioritize critical applications and systems
  • Responsible for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level support during the migration phase
  • Developing and implementing a deployment and rollout plan in line with the bank's strategic planning
  • Managing the project flow using agile methods with Jira, including ticket management and logistics coordination
  • Regular reporting to stakeholders and coordination with IT leaders and business units
  • Technical environment: business analysis, Jira, Confluence, incident, request, and change management, Active Directory, QNAP server systems, UltraEdit, SCCM, Windows 10/11, Microsoft 365, TeamViewer, wende.interactiv systems, agile methods (Scrum/Kanban), ITIL-based processes
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
5 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Business Analyst (primary), subproject lead (secondary)

Commerzbank AG

  • Requirements analysis and survey of the current system landscape to identify standardizable hardware and software components
  • Conducting and evaluating user audits to capture technical and functional requirements
  • Deriving functional and non-functional requirements for the nationwide IT rollout
  • Consolidating and standardizing the software landscape considering regulatory requirements and IT compliance
  • Creating functional designs and migration strategies in collaboration with business units and IT
  • Carrying out and supporting user acceptance tests (UAT) in branches and back office
  • Analyzing and documenting issues on Windows 10 and developing sustainable solutions
  • Close coordination with inclusion teams to integrate accessible IT solutions
  • Responsible for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level support during the rollout phase
  • Team and resource planning in line with the overall rollout schedule
  • Managing the project with agile methods using Jira, including ticket management and logistics coordination
  • Contributing to the identification and implementation of AI-based automation solutions in the rollout process
  • Technical and methodological environment: business analysis, Jira, Confluence, incident, request, and change management, Active Directory, Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 R2, MS SQL Server, Visual Studio 2015+, Tivoli Monitoring & Remote, HP Service Manager, IT compliance, Citrix, UltraEdit, SCCM, Windows 10, Office 365, Oracle, Unix, agile methods (Scrum/Kanban), ITIL-based processes, AI automation
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
3 years 3 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Senior Application Operations Manager, Compliance Application Specialist, Business Analyst

Commerzbank AG

  • Compliance application operations – international operations (Actimize, Microsoft PDW)
  • Responsible for stable and high-performance operation of complex compliance applications in an international environment (NICE Actimize, Microsoft PDW)
  • Conducting requirements analyses in close cooperation with business units (e.g., securities compliance) to optimize existing applications and processes
  • Functional and technical support of the Actimize modules (AML, SAM, CDD, WLF, KYC, CTF)
  • Collaborating on the further development of compliance applications while meeting legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., MaRisk, BaFin, FATF)
  • Creating technical designs for migration and optimization projects, including feasibility checks and effort estimation
  • Operating, maintaining, and migrating Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) in a compliance context
  • Analyzing and documenting operational incidents and deriving sustainable improvement measures
  • Managing and continuously improving operational processes based on ITIL processes (incident, problem, change)
  • Acting as interface between application operations, infrastructure, and business units to ensure regulatory compliance and efficiency
  • Supporting audits and internal/external reviews in the context of IT compliance
  • Technical and methodological environment: business analysis, NICE Actimize (AML, WLF, CTF, SAM, CDD, KYC), Microsoft PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse), Active Directory, CyberArk, Windows Server 2012 R2, MS SQL Server, Visual Studio 2015+, Tivoli Monitoring & Remote, HP Service Manager, IT compliance, change management, Citrix, UltraEdit, UC4 (Automic), SCCM, Windows 7/10, Microsoft Office 2010/365, Factiva, Oracle, Unix, ITIL
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 1 month
Frankfurt, Germany

Authorization Management Consultant

Commerzbank AG

  • Analyzing, designing, and implementing finance business processes as part of defined projects and subprojects (national and international)
  • Acting as a link between business units, IT, and compliance – supporting the development of processes and applications
  • Enhancing and maintaining SAP authorization management with a focus on security requirements, especially for corporate audit and compliance guidelines
  • Introducing a new role-based entitlement model based on job functions (instead of the previous cost center logic)
  • Conceptual support and implementation of the SAP OM entitlement model within organizational management
  • Supporting internal and external audits (including cybersecurity topics)
  • Establishing system and process responsibilities within the finance area
  • Technical environment: SAM Jupiter, SAP OM, role concepts for file servers & applications, Tivoli, Office 2010, PowerPoint, change management, Scrum, Windows XP/7
Jan 2010 - Dec 2024
15 years
Florstadt, Germany

Consultant, System Administrator, IT Analyst for clients of SiNetCon GmbH

SiNetCon GmbH

  • Analysis / audit of the current situation in-house / at clients
  • Planning IT infrastructure
  • Consulting on new hardware purchases and migration planning
  • Planning and managing IT budget
  • Configuration and support of IT hardware on Windows 7, 8.x as well as 10 and Mac OS
  • Checking and updating documentation also with regard to GDPR
  • Analyzing and, where necessary, expanding the technical and organizational measures required by GDPR and BDSG
  • Training employees
  • Recording the current state
  • Planning the target state
  • 2nd/3rd Level Support C/S/N
  • Cybersecurity
  • Technical environment: ADDISON, Exchange Administration, Active Directory, SBS 2011, MS Server 2008 R2, MS Server 2016, MS SQL Developer, MS SQL, Visual Studio 2013+, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Remote, TeamViewer, weclapp CRM Solution, RA-Micro, IT Compliance, Citrix, UltraEdit, SCCM, Windows XP-11, Office 2010-2019, VPN Solutions, Lexware Solutions, OKI Management Solutions, LogMyTime
May 2008 - Dec 2014
6 years 8 months
Bad Homburg, Germany

Windows 7 rollout, 2nd/3rd level support, bank migration, Service Control CSI, employee training

Hewlett Packard GmbH

  • End customers: Commerzbank AG, EON
  • Project management
  • 3rd level support
  • Support in a global migration of the client operating system from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit
  • Support in implementing a central management solution as a global software distribution tool
  • Increasing virtual applications
  • Testing international applications on Windows 7
  • Sub-project work on ThinClient implementation in the New Work concept
  • Escalation management
  • Analyzing and reporting on the implementation of escalation measures, as well as escalation and de-escalation management of incidents and requests – New Work concept
  • PullPrint rollout
  • Support for real-time trading systems (Reuters 3000 extra / Dealing, EBS, Bloomberg, Front Arena, Eurex / Xetra)
  • Troubleshooting hardware and software errors, supporting users with issues on IT components and IPC phones
  • Ordering, testing, acceptance and documentation of software packages
  • Organizing and executing moves as a relocation coordinator
  • Training internal employees
  • Active Directory (AD) user support
  • Technical environment: incident, request and change management, Active Directory, MS Server 2003, MS Server 2008 R2, MS Office 2003-2010, Tivoli, Logistics, Murex, Reuters, Xetra, Clearstream, Datev, Bloomberg, HP JetAdmin, Citrix Management Console, Citrix, VMWare, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, ITIL, Rumba, Host Mainframe, SharePoint, escalation management, HP Service Manager, HP Service Center, Remedy, MS SQL
Nov 2005 - May 2008
2 years 7 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Windows XP migration, CommWin IB rollout

Commerzbank AG

  • Preparation / planning of user audits
  • Conducting user audits to capture the hardware and software used
  • Consolidation of the software in use
  • Setting up and cabling of test workstations in trading
  • User acceptance tests in trading and back office including documentation and remediation of issues occurring under XP
  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support
  • XP and subsequently SP2 rollout
  • Upgrading PC hardware (memory, graphics cards, burners, SCSI, second hard drive)
  • Setting up trader PCs with up to 9 monitors each, including configuration of Way keyboards
  • Setting up and maintaining video switch PCs
  • Creating extensive documentation, instructions, tables and reports
  • Troubleshooting hardware and software
  • Installing software that was not packaged; setting up home office PCs and notebooks for VPN dial-in
  • Technical environment: incident, request and change management, Active Directory, MS Server NT-2003, MS Office 97-2003, Tivoli, Logistics, Murex, Reuters, Xetra, Clearstream, Datev, Bloomberg, Windows NT, Windows XP, ITIL, Rumba, Host Mainframe, escalation management, CedCom, PC Anywhere, Perigrine Service Center, Access DB, SQL, Way keyboards, multi-monitor systems.

Summary

  • Business analysis: requirements analysis, functional design, process modeling (BPMN, UML), use cases, gap analysis, stakeholder management

  • Project management: classical (waterfall) & agile (Scrum, Kanban), project planning, milestone tracking, risk management, reporting

  • Compliance & regulation: IT compliance office – AML (Anti Money Laundering), CDD (Customer Due Diligence), KYC (Know Your Customer), WLF (White Label Fraud), CTF (Counter Terrorism Financing), SAM (Security Access Management)

  • Authorization management & IT security: role and entitlement concepts, least privilege, recertification, audit preparation, access control models (RBAC, ABAC)

  • Change & escalation management: change requests, release cycles, incident & problem management, communication with business units and audit

  • Authorization & access management: SAP (incl. SAP OM), HPSP, SAM Jupiter, Active Directory

  • Process modeling & analysis: ARIS, Signavio, Visio, BPMN 2.0, UML

  • Project & task management: JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Trello, Azure DevOps

  • IT service & change management: ITIL, Tivoli, Remedy

  • Databases & BI: MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PDW, Power BI

  • Operating systems & Office: Windows (3.1 – 11), Office (2.0 – M365), PowerPoint, Excel (incl. Pivot, VBA), SharePoint

  • AI & automation: initial experience integrating AI tools in compliance and audit (e.g. ChatGPT, CoPilot, automation of audit processes)

  • Compliance (CDM, PDW, AML, SAM, WLF, CDD, CTF, KYC)

  • IT, analysis and support

  • Escalation management

  • Compliance authorization management

  • Project management business analyst

Languages

German
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