Enterprise Application Integration | M&A IT | PRINCE2 Agile, SCRUM, ITIL & AWS certified

11/2021 – 3/2023

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.
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
• Quality gateway (review quality of deliverables, check compliance, ensure documentation)

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), SAP PI

6/2021 – 12/2021

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

Service Management, Transition Management

3/2021 – 6/2021

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

PMO (IT)

9/2018 – 6/2020

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

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT)

9/2017 – 8/2018

Evaluation and implementation of NextLab´s “Dynamic Authori-zation Management” for M&A use-cases.
Responsibilities:
• IT Project Management

Projektmanagement (IT)

1/2015 – 8/2018

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)

ITIL, Service Management

3/2012 – 12/2014

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)

IT Service Management (ITSM), Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), SAP Solution Manager

2/2011 – 2/2012

In the ERP Competence Center of Sandoz 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)

IT Service Management (ITSM), Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), SAP XI

2/2010 – 1/2011

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

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), SAP XI

6/2007 – 1/2012

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

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), SAP XI

7/2005 – 5/2007

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 Service Management (ITSM), SAP XI

7/2001 – 6/2005

At Infineon 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

IT Service Management (ITSM), OpenFT, Perl, webMethods, WebSphere MQ