Tobias Rudolph
M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical Integration Manager
Experience
M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical Integration Manager
Sandoz
I am supporting several M&A projects (Eire, Sunshine-C, Coral) in the role of Cross-functional Technical Integration Manager and Project Manager. Responsibilities:
- Preparation and maintenance of Project Charter and Project Plan
- Weekly project status report
- Preparation of Decision Papers and Steering Committee slidedecks
- Risk & Issue Management
- Tracking and managing activities, dependencies and deliverables across all functional IT domains
- Blueprint documents
- Master Data list
- Requirement list
- Application Inventory
- Data Migration (planning and execution)
IT Project Manager M&A
TÜV Rheinland Group
TÜV Rheinland is acquiring a lot of small/midsize companies (worldwide) to enhance their service portfolio. I was working as IT Project Manager to plan and coordinate the PMI (post merger integration). Responsibilities:
- Identifying potential M&A targets as well as strategic partnerships and cooperations
- Due Diligence of companies potentially to be acquired
- Planning and Coordination of post-merger integration M&A projects
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk & Issue Management
Projektmanagement-Büro
Novartis
Providing services to bee IT-consulting GmbH for its customer Novartis AG.
Novartis started the M&A program “Orbit” to do a strategic re-view and plan execution for carving out its Generics division Sandoz. I was working in the workstream for ERP separation (“An-dromeda”) primarily supporting the Project Manager. Responsibilities:
- Coordination of strategic concept paper for separation and migration to AWS cloud data center
- Project Charter preparation and submission
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk & Issue Management
- Preparation and support of RFP process for selecting ex-ecution vendor
- Preparation and tracking of Decision Papers
IT Process Integration Lead
Arxada
Providing services via iTrust Partnering Limited to Arxada AG.
In the M&A carve-out project "PoP" to separate Arxada from Lon-za I was responsible for coordinating the separation and migra-tion of the SAP PO landscape and all interfaces from Lonza to Arxada. Responsibilities:
- Coordination and planning activities to build new SAP PO landscape in Azure / SAP RISE cloud data center
- Migration of all interfaces to new SAP PO landscape
- Stakeholder Management
- Cutover planning
- Governance of execution vendor and milestone deliverables
- Quality gateway (review quality of deliverables, check compliance, ensure documentation)
Service Transition Manager / Service Manager
Mercedes-Benz Deutschland
Providing services to bee IT-consulting GmbH for its customer Infosys Ltd.
Daimler decided to outsource IT services to Infosys. In the "TAF" program for transitioning the operations of Data Centers (incl. assets, contracts, services and FTE) from Daimler to Infosys I was working as Service Transition Manager and Service Manager for plant Rastatt, acting as the „one face to the customer“. Responsibilities:
- Service Transition of IT services from Daimler to Infosys for plant Rastatt
- Service Management representing Infosys at plant Rastatt for all IT services
- Service Portfolio Management
- Escalation Management
- Demand Management
Projektmanagement-Büro
Novartis
Providing services to bee IT-consulting GmbH for its customer Novartis AG.
In the M&A "Helix IT" program I was working in PMO, coordinating multiple separate projects within this program. Responsibilities:
- Risk & Issue Management
- Escalation Management
- Status Reporting
Solo-Selbständiger / Einzelunternehmer
Tobias Rudolph - Coaching & Consulting
I started my own consulting business and am happy to offer my services e. g. as project manager or workstream lead for IT projects.
Tollgate Manager / Team Lead Data Extraction
Novartis
Providing services to bee IT-consulting GmbH for its customer Novartis AG,
In the M&A “JEDI” program to carve-out Alcon from Novartis I was responsible for Tollgate Management for the separation of key Enterprise Asset ERP applications as well as leading the data extraction team ("Books & Records"). Responsibilities:
- Coordination, preparation and execution of project toll-gates
- Deliverables Management (in time, in quality)
- Leading activities to select right amount of business data for extraction
- Alignment with Legal and ISEC departments
IT Project Manager
Novartis
Evaluation and implementation of NextLab´s “Dynamic Authorization Management” for M&A use-cases. Responsibilities:
- IT Project Management
Domain Lead Service Management
Novartis
Holzkirchen, Germany
In the Novartis ERP organization I was managing the services of the "Technical Services & Architecture" team. Responsibilities:
- IT Service Management for Infrastructure, Basis and Inte-gration (ITIL-based)
- Service Portfolio Management
- Offshore Vendor Management
- Escalation Management
- Definition and Monitoring of KPIs and SLAs
- Costs and Budget Management
- People Management (2 direct reports based in USA and Malaysia)
Team Lead Technical Integration Management
HEXAL AG
In the ERP Competence Center of Sandoz I was responsible for the technical integrity and stability of the global SAP landscape. Responsibilities:
- Transport Management
- Incident Management
- Downtime planning
- Upgrade planning
- Disaster Recovery / Failover / Regression test planning
- Application / Interface Monitoring
- People Management (1 direct report based in Germany)
Development Team Lead / Lead Technical Services
Sandoz Inc.
Sandoz was running a global SAP rollout program “SHAPE”. For country USA I was the onsite team lead for developments. Responsibilities:
- Planning and coordination of all development activities in SAP ECC and SAP XI
- Milestone tracking
- Quality gateway (review quality of deliverables, check compliance, ensure documentation)
- Managing team of 30 developers
- Reporting to project management
After successful go-live, I was onsite responsible for building the support organization for Technical Services. Responsibilities:
- Build and ramp-up ERP support organization in USA
- Operations of all SAP developments and interfaces for region America
- People Management (2 direct reports based in USA)
SAP XI Architect
Hexal AG
Sandoz was running a global SAP rollout program “SHAPE” in 30+ countries. In the central Global Layer organization, I was supervis-ing and consulting projects with focus on interfaces in SAP XI (GxP, SOX, CSV). Responsibilities:
- Defining global interface strategy for Sandoz
- Defining SAP XI development guidelines
- Consulting all projects in the area of interfaces
- Quality gateway (review quality of deliverables, check compliance, ensure documentation)
- Operations of productive interfaces in SAP XI
Senior Consultant SAP Netweaver
Plecto AG / sd&m AG
At my primary customer Hugo Boss, I was responsible for the area of Interfaces and Integration. Responsibilities:
- Operations of productive interfaces in SAP XI
- Design and implementation of new interfaces
- Problem Management
- Escalation Management
- Coordination with SAP Support
- Planning of SAP XI upgrade rollouts
IT Consultant
USU AG
At my primary customer Infineon AG, I was responsible for the area of Interfaces and Integration. Responsibilities:
- Operations of EAI platforms IBM WebSphere MQ, web-Methods, openFT and Tibco Rendezvous
- Management and coordination of 24x7 global opera-tions team and processes
- Establishing connectivity to external business partners
- Implementation of new interfaces
- Design and development of support tools in Perl
- Plan and conduct training for global team members