Tobias Rudolph
M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager
Experience
M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager
Sandoz AG
I was working for several M&A projects (Eire, Sunshine C, Coral) in the role of IT Project Manager and Cross-functional Technical Integration Manager. via iTrust Partnering Ltd. and Tenthpin AG / Devo Project
- Preparation and maintenance of Project Charters, Project Change Requests and Project Plans
- 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
- Data Migration (planning and execution)
M&A IT Project Manager
TÜV Rheinland
TÜV Rheinland is acquiring many small/midsize companies to enhance their service portfolio. I was working as IT Project Manager to plan and coordinate the PMI (post merger integration). via Page Contracting GmbH
- Planning and coordination of post-merger integration M&A projects across multiple IT teams (Infrastructure, SAP, HR, Business Applications)
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk & Issue Management
Project Management Office
Novartis AG
Novartis started the M&A program “Orbit” for carving out its Generics division Sandoz. I was working in the workstream for ERP separation, primarily supporting the Project Manager. via bee IT-Consulting GmbH
- Coordination of strategic concept paper for separation and migration
- Project Charter preparation and submission
- Project milestone and tollgate management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk & Issue Management
- Preparation and support of RFP process for selecting execution vendor
- Preparation and tracking of Decision Papers
IT Process Integration Lead
Arxada
In the M&A carve-out project "PoP" to separate Arxada from Lonza I was responsible for coordinating the separation and migration of the SAP PO landscape and all interfaces from Lonza to Arxada. via iTrust Partnering Ltd.
- 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
- Quality gateway (review quality of deliverables, check compliance, ensure documentation)
Service Transition Manager / Service Manager
Daimler AG
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 and plant Rastatt, acting as the „one face to the customer“. via bee IT-Consulting GmbH and Infosys AG
- 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
Project Management Office
Novartis AG
In the M&A "Helix IT" program I was working in PMO, coordinating multiple separate projects within this program. via bee IT-Consulting GmbH
- Risk & Issue Management
- Escalation Management
- Status Reporting
Tollgate Manager / Team Lead Data Extraction
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"). via bee IT-Consulting GmbH
- Coordination, preparation and execution of project tollgates
- Deliverables Management (in time, in quality)
- Leading activities to select right amount of business data for extraction
- Alignment with Legal and ISEC departments
Owner, Project Manager
Tobias Rudolph – Coaching & Consulting
IT Project Manager
Novartis Business Services GmbH
Evaluation and implementation of NextLab´s “Dynamic Authorization Management” for M&A use-cases.
- IT Project Management
Domain Lead Service Management
Novartis Business Services GmbH
In the Novartis ERP organization I was managing the services of the "Technical Services & Architecture" team.
- IT Service Management for Infrastructure, Basis and Integration (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.
- 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)
Lead Technical Services
Sandoz Inc.
In the ERP Competence Center of Sandoz I was onsite responsible for building the support organization for Technical Services.
- 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)
Development Team Lead
Sandoz Inc.
Sandoz was running a global SAP rollout program “SHAPE”. For country USA I was the onsite team lead for developments.
- 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
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 supervising and consulting projects with focus on interfaces in SAP XI (compliant to GxP, SOX, CSV).
- 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
- Define and establish technical connectivity with external business partners (using EDI, Seeburger, AS2, SFTP, SOAP)
Senior Consultant SAP NetWeaver
Hugo Boss
I was responsible for the area of Interfaces and B2B Integration.
- 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
Infineon
I was responsible for the area of Interfaces and B2B Integration.
- Operations of EAI platforms IBM WebSphere MQ, webMethods, openFT and Tibco Rendezvous
- Management and coordination of 24x7 global operations 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
Senior Software Developer
Landwirtsch. Sozialversicherung
Software Developer, System Administrator
Landwirtsch. Sozialversicherung
Software Developer
Berner GmbH
Summary
- IT Project Management, PRINCE2 Agile, SCRUM, ITIL V3
- Pharma / Life Science in IT Projects and IT Operations (GxP, CSV, iSec)
- Very good soft skills (integrity, empathy, discreet, well-balanced, trustful, diplomatic)
- Structured, well-organized working style, excellent team player
- Expert in Enterprise Application Integration, M&A IT projects, IT operations processes
Languages
Education
Berufsfachschule fuer Datenverarbeitungskaufleute
Datenverarbeitungskaufmann IHK · Würzburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
AWS Cloud Practitioner
PRINCE2 Agile Foundation
PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
ITIL V3 Foundation
SAP Certified Development & Technology Consultant – SAP XI
Sun Certified Programmer for Java
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