Victor Wiedermann
Senior IT Security Project Management (Network, Hybrid Cloud, CMDB, Hardening)
Experience
Senior IT Security Project Manager (Network, Hybrid Cloud, CMDB, Hardening)
Dormakaba International Holding GmbH
- Planning, managing, and executing IT projects in network architecture, hybrid cloud solutions, asset management/CMDB implementation, and system hardening (clients, servers, databases)
- Ensuring all projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards
- Identifying and managing risks and proactively resolving issues
- Collaborating closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure project objectives are achieved
- Defining and tracking KPIs and progress reports for all project phases
Project Manager / Business Transformation, DACH
Chubb Deutschland GmbH
- Taking overall responsibility for digitalization projects in the DACH region
- Outlining required activities to support the business, including system and process changes as well as optimization opportunities
- Working with business and IT leaders to implement system solutions in the DACH region
- Collaborating closely with finance and other operational leaders to identify process optimization and standardization opportunities
- Supporting key stakeholders in consolidating end-to-end finance processes: Procure to Pay, Quote to Cash, Record to Report & FP&A
- Leading regular meetings and steering committee sessions
- Reporting to executive management and the sponsor (AIG Group)
Project Manager / Carve-out Newport, UK
NEXPERIA Germany GmbH
- Taking overall responsibility for the transition and serving as the primary contact for the client
- Leading the IT carve-out process from planning through implementation and handover
- Coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Managing risks and providing proactive solutions
- Planning and executing cut-over activities
- Ensuring a seamless transition of technology, systems, and data
- Leading regular meetings and steering committee sessions
- Reporting to executive management
Project Manager / SAP Transition
All for One Group SE
- Taking overall responsibility for the transition and acting as the primary client contact
- Guiding processes through to handover to the service team and the client
- Identifying project dependencies and risks and developing countermeasures
- Creating status reports and reviewing and continuously monitoring work packages and defined milestones
Project Manager / Integration, Merger: Combining AKKA and Modis into AKKODIS (M&A)
AKKA Deutschland GmbH
- Planning and managing the project, defining the project scope
- Defining the target landscape and applications (SAP, BI, non-SAP, and infrastructure) with business units and company representatives
- Identifying project dependencies and risks and developing countermeasures
- Creating status reports and reviewing and continuously monitoring work packages and defined milestones
- Reporting to senior management
Project Manager / Carve-out in the DSO environment, Hungary
E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
- Project planning and control, defining the project scope
- Identifying project dependencies, risks, and developing countermeasures
- Creating work packages with the specialist departments for LAN, WAN, WiFi & telephony, Base Network Services, Access Rights, AD, Microsoft Azure, DSF File Services, intranet, data migration, hardware asset exchange, SAP and non-SAP applications
- Initiating and monitoring internal CRs, provider CRs, and NCRs
- Test and cut-over planning and execution
- Managing the IT providers (DXC, Infosys, Wipro, TSY)
- Leading the transition to the new external provider and buyer
- Preparing status reports, and reviewing and continuously monitoring defined milestones
- Reporting to senior management
Project Manager / Program for renewing the IT environment
Uniper IT GmbH
- Project planning and control of multiple interdependent projects
- Program coordination with vendors and IT providers
- Monitoring the Windows 10 migration, tracking tasks with Jira
- Identifying project dependencies, risks, and developing countermeasures
- Preparing status reports, and reviewing and continuously monitoring based on defined project KPIs
- Reporting to Uniper senior management
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
BTC AG
- Project planning and control
- Project controlling: time, budget, resources, and quality
- Organizing regular internal and external meetings (workshops, conference calls)
- Responsible for structured communication in the project, both with the project team and the client
- Test and cut-over planning and execution
- Tracking sprints and tasks with Jira
- Preparing status reports, and reviewing and continuously monitoring defined project KPIs in all project phases
- Responsible for client acceptance and handover to operations
Project Manager, SAP Transition
QSC AG
- Project planning, control, and monitoring across all phases of the transition/migration
- Organizing regular internal and external meetings (workshops, conference calls)
- Responsible for structured communication in the project, both with the project team and the client
- Test and cut-over planning and execution
- Preparing status reports, and reviewing and continuously monitoring defined project KPIs in all project phases
- Responsible for client acceptance and handover to operations
Project Manager, Infrastructure
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Responsible for leading strategic IT infrastructure and software projects
- Service management: As Change Provisioning ORR (Operational Readiness) Lead, defining acceptance/handover criteria of the SLAs for services in the service catalog
- Requirements management: Defining business requirements for replacing a tool landscape (E2E area) with the various departments
- Handing over Deutsche Bank's data centers to HPE
- Stakeholder management: HPE and Deutsche Bank
- Preparing status reports, decision papers, and presentations
- Reporting to the IT Director (Service Operations)
Project Manager, Automation & Standardization
Deutsche Bank AG
- Automating manual rework to provide fully automated virtual servers in Service Operations
- Conducting gap analysis and optimizing workflows and processes to improve service and quality control in service delivery
- Supporting the transition phase in the Nucleus Program (outsourcing IT infrastructure and operations to HP)
- Leading meetings and workshops with up to 15 participants
- Issue, risk, change, and problem management
- Process management: implementing processes to improve services
- Assigning tasks to software teams and aligning the backlog with Jira
- Creating status reports, decision papers, and presentations
- Successfully negotiating and reporting to stakeholders
- Preparing cost estimates, realistic budget, and resource plans
Project Manager, Infrastructure
Deutsche Bank AG
- Building a test platform for fully automated deployment of complex virtualized test environments (Test Factory project)
- Developing and implementing a virtualized, automated, and time-shift capable test environment for SAP Core and finance banking system tests with pseudonymized live data (Timeshifting project)
- Taking responsible leadership of the projects
- Initiating projects with regard to the company's strategic direction
- Leading meetings and workshops with up to 15 participants
- Issue, risk, change, and problem management
- Process management: implementing processes to improve services
- Assigning tasks to software teams and aligning the backlog with Jira
- Creating status reports, decision papers, and presentations
- Successfully negotiating and reporting to stakeholders
- Preparing cost estimates, realistic budget, and resource plans
Project Manager, International WAN
T-Systems
- Planning and controlling the WAN rollout in assigned countries (France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Bulgaria)
- Coordinating and managing WAN-specific new orders (non-standard requests)
- Aligning with stream leads for WAN, LAN, voice, and security/remote access
- Coordinating with central and local rollout managers, clients, and suppliers
- Leading and coordinating project teams
- Handing over migrated sites to operations, following internal processes and standards (TSY quality gates)
- Aligning the phased project approach (PPA) process with the client
- Monitoring and logging change requests
- Documenting all extra efforts for billing
- Escalation management
- Risk management
- Quality management and assurance
- Facilitating meetings and workshops
- Preparing progress reports
Project Management Support
BASF
- Planning, coordinating, and executing a strategically important EMEA-wide rollout (65,000 desktops/notebooks)
- Planning, monitoring, and operational control
- Preparing progress reports
- Responsible for the VIP rollout
- Optimizing processes to ensure customer satisfaction
- Acting as the point of contact for rollout coordinators
- Developing processes to manage the rollout provider
- Proactively contributing to risk management
- Collaborating with program management, project management, the architecture board, and the rollout provider
- Project controlling
IT Project Manager
Perenco
- Managing projects through all phases: defining project goals, creating project plans, leading project teams, documentation, quality assurance
- Implementing an electronic document management system (OpenText) in 3 countries, advising during the requirements process with external vendors and internal stakeholders
- Implementing an output management system (StreamServe) for SAP in 6 countries; coordinating with external consultants during development and rollout phases
- Data center migration from Paris to London
- Implementing a new enterprise security solution across the company: evaluating, testing, developing the project plan, and leading the rollout on 2,500 PCs and 300 servers in 16 countries
- Leading various enterprise system implementation and upgrade projects company-wide
- Preparing and presenting project proposals
- Analyzing and assessing project risks
- Regular meetings with the IT department and stakeholders in Paris
Africa IT Manager
Perenco
- Project management, including infrastructure projects: implementation of a new satellite communication system (VSAT) in West Africa to improve bandwidth and rollout of VoIP in offices and onshore/offshore fields (budget $700,000)
- Planning, installation, and commissioning of microwave link solutions (range up to 30 km onshore/offshore)
- Improving IT service and availability by optimizing IT processes and introducing standard IT procedures
- Training of on-site IT staff; establishing incident management
- Responsibility for system and network infrastructure
- Leading a team of 10 employees across 4 countries
- Collaborating with partners, vendors, and contractors to meet contractual requirements
- Monitoring and renegotiating service level agreements (SLAs)
IT Engineer
Perenco
- System administration and 3rd level support
- Responsible for patch management (testing and roll-out)
- Responsible for the virtual test lab
- Administration of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
- Participation in IT projects
- Software evaluation of enterprise solutions
- Acting as IT manager during his absence
Systems Administrator
Capstone Fixed Income
- Building the IT and trading infrastructure for the new office
- Collaborating with the IT department at the head office in New York
- 5-week intensive training in New York for company-specific IT systems and internal processes
Enterprise Technical Support Consultant
Adobe Systems
- Enterprise support for Adobe customers and partners in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
- Involved in system integrations, performance optimizations, security, software product issue resolution, and other technical tasks
- Collaborating with internal teams such as Professional Services, R&D, and sales
System Consultant
CETA GmbH
- Monitoring, administration, and maintenance of the Windows-based infrastructure
System Administrator
DIT (Deutscher Investment Trust)
- Monitoring, administration and maintenance of the Windows-based infrastructure
System Consultant
Bayer AG
- Planning and coordination of the relocation of the e-commerce department
PL/SQL Database Developer
ASP (Application Service Provider)
- Development of an online marketplace connected to an inventory management system
Technical Support Engineer
Deutsche Bank
- 1st and 2nd level support via phone, email and remote access
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Energy (9.5 years), Information Technology (9 years), Banking and Finance (4.5 years), Professional Services (1.5 years), Telecommunication (1.5 years), and Chemical (1 year).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (22 years), Project Management (19 years), Operations (5 years), Quality Assurance (4.5 years), Customer Service (2 years), and Business Intelligence (1 year).
Summary
More than 15 years of experience as an IT project manager and consultant. Extensive experience in implementing enterprise system solutions, infrastructure projects, IT outsourcing, cloud-based services, carve-outs, and migrations. Expertise in IT processes, automation, digitalization, and standardization. Integration of AI solutions into existing IT systems.
Skills
Areas Of Activity
- It Project Management
- It Outsourcing, Carve-outs
- Optimization Of It Processes
- Automation And Standardization
- Leading It Transitions, Migrations, And Rollouts (Infrastructure, Sap And Non-sap Applications)
Tools
- Ms Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote)
- Ms Teams, Sharepoint, Ms Projects, Confluence, Jira, Visio
Industries
- Energy
- Banking And Finance
- Software Industry
- Chemical And Pharmaceutical Industry
- Information And Communication Technology
Personal Qualities
- Organizational Skills
- Customer Focus
- Initiative And Commitment
- Systematic And Interconnected Thinking And Acting
- Sense Of Responsibility
- Communication Skills
- Team Player
- Reliability And Punctuality
Languages
Education
J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Business Informatics · Frankfurt, Germany
York St. John University
Master, Leading Innovation and Change · Leading Innovation and Change · York, United Kingdom
Certifications & licenses
ITIL 2011 V3 Foundation
Associate’s Certificate In Project Management
PMI
Certified by PMI in Project Leadership, Management, and Communication
PMI
Certified by PMI in Risk Management
PMI
Certified by PMI in Managing Projects
PMI
Blockchain Fundamentals Professional Program
University of California, Berkeley
PRINCE 2
SAP NetWeaver Application Server
SAP Solution Manager
VMware Infrastructure
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