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Victor Wiedermann

Senior IT Security Project Management (Network, Hybrid Cloud, CMDB, Hardening)

Victor Wiedermann
Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Feb 2025 - Dec 2025
11 months
Ennepetal, Germany
Hybrid

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
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
9 months
Hamburg, Germany

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)
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
4 months
Hamburg, Germany

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
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
9 months

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
Nov 2022 - Aug 2023
10 months

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
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
3 years 2 months

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
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
8 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

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
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
8 months
Oldenburg, Germany

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
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
1 year 3 months
Hamburg, Germany

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
Oct 2015 - May 2017
1 year 8 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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)
Jul 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 3 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
11 months
Frankfurt, Germany

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
Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
1 year 4 months
Hanover, Germany

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
Jul 2011 - Mar 2012
9 months
Ludwigshafen, Germany

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
Mar 2009 - Jun 2011
2 years 4 months
London, United Kingdom

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
Dec 2006 - Feb 2009
2 years 3 months
Pointe-Noire, Congo

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)
Nov 2005 - Nov 2006
1 year 1 month
London, United Kingdom

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
Jul 2005 - Oct 2005
4 months
London, United Kingdom

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
Mar 2004 - Jun 2005
1 year 4 months
Dublin, Ireland

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
Mar 2003 - Feb 2004
1 year
Stuttgart, Germany

System Consultant

CETA GmbH

  • Monitoring, administration, and maintenance of the Windows-based infrastructure
Jun 2001 - Feb 2003
1 year 9 months
Frankfurt, Germany

System Administrator

DIT (Deutscher Investment Trust)

  • Monitoring, administration and maintenance of the Windows-based infrastructure
Feb 2001 - May 2001
4 months
Leverkusen, Germany

System Consultant

Bayer AG

  • Planning and coordination of the relocation of the e-commerce department
Aug 2000 - Jan 2001
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

PL/SQL Database Developer

ASP (Application Service Provider)

  • Development of an online marketplace connected to an inventory management system
Nov 1999 - Jul 2000
9 months
Frankfurt, Germany
Remote

Technical Support Engineer

Deutsche Bank

  • 1st and 2nd level support via phone, email and remote access

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

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).

Energy
Information Technology
Banking and Finance
Professional Services
Telecommunication
Chemical

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

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).

Information Technology
Project Management
Operations
Quality Assurance
Customer Service
Business Intelligence

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

German
Native
English
Advanced

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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Where is Victor based?

Victor is based in Hamburg, Germany.

What languages does Victor speak?

Victor speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Victor have?

Victor has at least 26 years of experience. During this time, Victor has worked in at least 22 different roles and for 21 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 1 month. Note that Victor may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Victor be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Victor would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior IT Security Project Manager (Network, Hybrid Cloud, CMDB, Hardening), Project Manager / Business Transformation, DACH, Project Manager / Carve-out Newport, UK.

What is Victor's latest experience?

Victor's most recent position is Senior IT Security Project Manager (Network, Hybrid Cloud, CMDB, Hardening) at Dormakaba International Holding GmbH.

What companies has Victor worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Victor has worked for Dormakaba International Holding GmbH, Chubb Deutschland GmbH, NEXPERIA Germany GmbH, All for One Group SE, and AKKA Deutschland GmbH.

Which industries is Victor most experienced in?

Victor is most experienced in industries like Energy, Information Technology (IT), and Banking and Finance. Victor also has some experience in Professional Services, Telecommunication, and Chemical.

Which business areas is Victor most experienced in?

Victor is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Operations. Victor also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA), Customer Service, and Business Intelligence.

Which industries has Victor worked in recently?

Victor has recently worked in industries like Energy, Information Technology (IT), and Professional Services.

Which business areas has Victor worked in recently?

Victor has recently worked in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology (IT), and Business Intelligence.

What is Victor's education?

Victor holds a Master in Leading Innovation and Change from York St. John University.

Does Victor have any certificates?

Victor has 10 certificates. Among them, these include: ITIL 2011 V3 Foundation, Associate’s Certificate In Project Management, Certified by PMI in Project Leadership, Management, and and Communication.

What is the availability of Victor?

Victor will be available from March 2026.

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