IT Technical Program Manager

12/2018 – 1/2024

• Overall accountable for the connectivity IT deliverables towards customers.
• Define the strategic approaches, and objectives for all project and delivery management activities.
• Proactive identification and resolution of potential challenges during project delivery.
• Engaging and managing cross-functional teams ranging from 20-100 resources per project, depending on the complexity.
• Working in parallel on multiple projects ranging between 3 and 20.
• Technical leadership and coordination of project software teams: development, QA, architecture, hardware, operations, security, performance.
• Planning of software tasks related to requirements, resources, time, and quality.
• Managing company-client relationship both on project level but also with their product and business managers.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide quality standards for managing client's expectations.
• Ensuring the full implementation lifecycle of the CRs by raising the change requests, getting the impact assessment from the solution architecture team, getting the costs from the delivery teams, approving, and managing the timelines for the delivery and the successful integration in the live environment.
• Working according to SAFe methodology having both our internal Release Management processes in Jira and Change Management processes in USMS.
• Report on delivery processes and delivery performance, ensuring successful outcomes for various transformations within the organization.
• Ensuring planning and reporting excellence, professional escalation and incident management and lessons learned processes.
• Implement solutions, best practices, and frameworks to improve service management.

Management (allg.)

4/2015 – 12/2018

• Point of contact between local and onsite Delivery Center
• Point of contact for IBM-Amdocs Delivery Center
• Release management for the Fulfilment and Inventory software (Comptel)
• QA Provisioning Delivery Lead for Integration and Automation testing
• DevOps Lead for Provisioning solution:
- Definition and validation of the infrastructure matrix (connectivity matrixes) required for the test environment integration: northbound with Amdocs environments, southbound with network elements
- Preparing and deploying our framework and components on standalone and high availability environments both on our local and Vodafone labs
- Deploying and configuring Logic libraries, Lookup tables, Network element interfaces and all necessary configurations.
- Installing certificates for NE authentication
- Deploying RSA keys
• System Integration Test Strategy development and implementation
• System Integration Test Plan development and implementation
• Review and support the work done by team members
• Workshops for the Amdocs SIT team with the newly integrated functionalities
• Project, cost and resource planning
• Defect triage and management
• Daily test status reports
• Test Summary Report at the end of each release
• Provide mentorship for all the team members
• Customer facing roles:
- Reporting
- Defect triage
- Escalation point

Bedarfsplanung, Testautomatisierung, Testmanagement / Testkoordination (IT), Demand Management

12/2014 – 12/2014

FPK (Free Programmable Cluster)
• testing VAGs (VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat Group) product, instrument cluster (full digital dash), by analyzing requirements, creating test cases – with requirement traceability, manipulating simulation software with a sequential programming method (uTAS - United Test Automation sequencer) therefore improving efficiency (automatization) for numerous functionalities.


Graphic Modeling Tool
• I was involved as a coordinator in a new automation project. This required modeling the cluster as HMI in GMT (graphic modeling tool developed internally), creating reference pictures of the display in GS (graphic simulation tool developed internally) based on the customer graphic specification that were compared pixel by pixel with actual pictures captured from our clusters during automated test by the FrameGrabber (FPGA physical tool created internally).
• the modeling team was formed of 5 people, 3 developers and 2 system test engineers.
• this required from my side to create scripts in C# using GMTs APIs to create reference pictures generated by GS, adapting the existing automation to support FrameGrabber screenshots, handling DBs and modeling tool resources.
• our most important achievement consisted in creating fully automated warnings language tests, and comparing more than 20k screenshots, saving time and reducing human error by cutting out a tremendous amount of manual work.
• the effectiveness of our solution conducted to it being presented, sold and implemented in other Continental projects.

Testautomatisierung, Testdesign (IT), Technisches Testing