Project / Program Manager

9/2010 – 7/2013

Project manager for the merger of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Luxemburg and West LB Luxemburg into DEKA Luxemburg.
• Project volume of app. 15 Mio €
• Migration of all customers and their asserts to DEKA Bank Luxemburg
• Migration Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Luxemburg data centre and West LB Luxemburg data centre operation in to DEKA Bank Luxemburg data centre
• Developing the strategy for private banking
• Implementation of new products (credit, futures and options)
• Implementation of a new compliance platform
• Extended legal reporting
• Transfer of staff and their integration into the DEKA organisation and optimisation
• All facility management perspectives and relocation
• All the above activities/goals/projects were met on time within the budget.

Program Manager “IT-Production & IT- Security”
• Migrating the Bank’s IT from Windows NT to Windows 7
• Implementing the BMC Remedy suite for Incident Management, Service Request Management and Change Management
• Implementing a real time surveillances system for IT security threats
• A review of all IT security concepts
• Segmentation of the IT network with several protection zones and detection of non-trusted Hardware (NAC).
Project Manager for the implementing Identity and Access Management (OMADA Identity Suite) for the fulfillment of MaRisk T 4.3.1 Tz. 2, AT 7.2 Tz. 2.
• Identity and Access Management implementation concept
• Access rights concepts for all legacy systems
• Roll models concept and implementation
• Interfaces and reconciliation legacy systems
• Segregation of duty (SoD) concept and implementation
• Recertification access rights, rolls, SoD exceptions

Change Management

10/2006 – 8/2010

Management Consultant PA Consulting Group as a Management Consultant.
• Building of senior business expert team.
• Risk management
• Capital markets
• Cooperate treasury
• Structured finance
• Program- and project- management.

Management Consultant for the Sunrise Program at HSH Nordbank
• Implementing a € 192bn (RWA € 79bn) Credit Default Swap
• Implementing the IT-backbone for the Sunrise transaction
• Setting up the Work Out operational structure

Chairman for IBC Euroforum banking conferences
• Cash Management & Cash Pooling
• Operational Risk
• International Payments
• MiFID, Financial Governance
• Working Capital
• Mobile Payments

Member of the global banking strategies and initiatives group

Programm Management

4/2005 – 5/2006

Management Consultant for HSH Nordbank on global IT-Strategy for the wholesale business.
• Business scenarios
• Business cases
• Vendor analyses
• Project plans
• Board decision papers
• Contract negotiations

Project Manager for the task force Operational Risk in HSH Nordbank Copenhagen

Prozessmanagement

4/2000 – 4/2005

Build a servicer for residential mortgages in an industrial approach.
• Conception Planning, Business Plans, Decision Papers
• Building and running of sales and marketing department
• Building and running of the Consulting department
• Building and running of the IT department
• Implementing of own Data Centre (Unix, Windows, Network)
• Setting up Data Centre Operation
• Implementing IT-Security
• 200+ Employees
• Servicing 200.000 loans for 12 financial institutions

ABAP OO (ABAP Objects), Bankwesen (allg.), Finanzierung, Finanzierungskonzept, Finanzierungsmodelle, Kreditberatung, Kreditfinanzierung, Kreditmanagement, Öffentlich geförderte Finanzierung, Prozesskostenrechnung (PKR), SAP Berechtigung / User Verwaltung, SAP CML, SAP CO, SAP FI, SAP R/3, Vollkostenrechnung

1/1998 – 3/2000

Senior Vice President in the “Central Department of Information Technology Services” as head the of IT for “Investment Banking I and Wholesale International”
• Investment Banking I (Global Treasury),
• Wholesale international (all foreign branches),
• Corporate Finance (Project Financing, Asset Backed Securities, Syndication),
• International Banks,
• Relationship Management,
• International Organization (rules, regulations, procedures and organizational consulting),
• IT landscape for all international units
• Implementation of new branches
• Consolidation of the data centers within the 3 time zones (Europe, Asia, US)
• Implementing of disaster recovery (MaRisk) for the 3 international Data Centers
• Restructured the existing branches
• 460 Million DM budget
• 140 employees in the direct reporting line
• 50 employees in the indirect reporting line
• 100 contractors in average

ABACUS/DaVinci, Aktienhandel, Bankwesen (allg.), Basel II / Basel III, Cash-Flow-Analyse, Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance, Devisenhandel, Finanzierung, ISF Cash-Management, Kondor+, Kreditmanagement, Mehrprojektmanagement, Meldewesen (Bank), MIFID, Murex (allg.), NonSAP Banking, Projektmanagement - Vorstudien / Machbarkeitsstudien, Risikomanagement (Finan.), SEPA, Summit, SWIFT, Treasury