Project/Program Manager

6/2019 – 5/2020

Managing program for neo bank applocation
Delovery and deployment management
Vendor relationship management
Strategic planning amd review
Governance

Confluence (Atlassian), Jira, Kanban

6/2016 – 8/2018

• Run The Bank (RTB) Lead. Responsible for governance, strategy and overall delivery around the BAU Book of Work (Oversight of over 250 IT projects split between 10 Project Managers who are directly managed by [...]) for Derivatives Utility Business
• Coordinating projects across multiple locations, applications and products and technologies (.NET, Java)
• Resources management (8 direct reports, 66 indirect reports), MIS reporting, Commercials alignment
• Budget monitoring and prioritization decision making in accordance to SLA’s and commercials
• Collisions, Jira Agile and Confluence management
• Standardizing processes and procedures and guiding/training team to adhere to latest standards
• Preparation and evaluation of performance metrics and presentation of data to senior management
• Overseeing of daily operations and leading development departments in daily work
• Troubleshooting of derailed projects

Agile Entwicklung, Confluence (Atlassian), Kanban (Softwareentwicklung), Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Jira, IT-Strategieberatung

6/2015 – 3/2016

Project Manager- Online Banking Solutions (Payments and account opening)
• Analysis of current online platform for offshore wealth clients
• Preparation and implementation of TOM for migration on to new technology platform
• Requirements analysis, terms of reference preparation, strategic solution proposition
• Proposition and enhancements analysis, high level and low level process changes analysis
• Presentation of findings to senior management including workshop facilitation
• Client segments business impact analysis
As a consultant:
• Working on RFI and RFP for Business and IT/Digital related transformation and implementation projects.
• Due-diligence for Tier 2 Bank managed services delivery (SaaS, PaaS)
• Current state assessments
• Gap analysis across business lines
• Heat map developments
• Advisory on IT transition and integration projects
• Design and implementation of business strategies

Projektmanagement - Softwaretool-Beratung, Projektmanagement - Vertragsmanagement, Projektplanung / -vorbereitung

12/2013 – 5/2015

Deutsche Bank, Eschborn
Business Architect/Project Manager
• Working as a business architect in payments MO/BO processing.
• Decommissioning of Mint, implementation of Target 2 Securities, Fast payments (SEPA)
• Assessment of implementations across the BoW, strategic projects alignment

Commerzbank, London, Frankfurt
Project Manager: Delivery and planning Lead for IT Utility Transition (Due Diligence)
• Project planning, analysing scope of applications within the FO-BO cluster of applications (including Rolf & Nolan Recon, Mint, Martini, Calypso);
• Analysis of people (redundancies/retained teams), budget, IT architecture, application landscape enhancement and transformation
• Transition plans preparation for applications across all products both Front and Back office
• Designing Target Operating Model and Application Transition Framework
• Business model (plan) validation

Deutsche Bank: Wealth and Asset Management, Geneva
Project Manager/Lead for BO/FO re-platforming (Strategic IT change including Regulatory change and Compliance)
• Transition to Live Lead for Deutsche Bank Swiss (Renaissance) for Back Office outsourcing and T24/Avaloq migration including interfaces (Command centre lead, runbook preparation, dress rehearsals planning and execution, Data cleansing, enrichment and validation management, Setup for SWIFT handling during Cutover
• Organization of Operations, IT, Compliance and Business teams during the transition to new target operating model compliant to Regulatory requirements (MiFID, EMIR, Reporting)
• Planning, testing and continuously improving the detailed steps that bank will need to perform to enable the successful transition from NPP (T24 UNIX based) to Avaloq (Oracle based)
• Enhancing and preparing Target Operating model for Front, Middle and Back Office
• Documenting the bank's activities, ownership, dependencies, duration, etc. in a project schedule
• Preparing cut-over strategy and related documents (run book, Manual Data migration and enrichment, Data Warehouse handling)
• Incident Management

Software Architektur / Modellierung, Jira, Motivation Projektteams, Projekt-Qualitätssicherung, Projektdurchführung, Projektmanagement

2/2012 – 12/2013

• Engaged in various projects for Front to Back Office Core Banking and Investment Banking applications as team member as well as team lead
• Preparation of Capital Markets training curriculum for near-shore delivery center
• Management of Calypso automated testing tool development
PROJECTS:
Barclays Wealth, Monaco
Project Manager for Avaloq implementation
Test Lead, Test Manager

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), ISTQB, Testing (IT), Testmanagement / Testkoordination (IT), IT-Strategieberatung, Schulung / Training (IT)

8/2010 – 12/2010

Creation of trade input guidelines for Sophis
Multiple pay-off types of derivatives products
Team leading
Deal quality check

Finanzanalyse, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Projekt-Dokumentation, Projektplanung / -vorbereitung, Projektsteuerung (Projektcontrolling)