IT project management and project consulting

1/2008 – offen

Position: Senior Consultant, Senior Project Manager
Nationality: German

Main Focuses:
• Project management and project consulting for transition and transformation (T&T),
migration- and outsourcing projects
• IT-/Cloud Strategy and IT-Governance Consulting/ Advisory
• Solution and Conceptual Consulting in Multicloud environments
• Support in the areas of data protection, data security as well as adoption and change management
• Consulting on Microsoft 365 migrations in complex and large corporate structures
• Development of technical concepts, architectures, documentations incl. presentation to the customer, realization of workshops

Languages:
• German: native speaker
• English: business fluent

Certificates:
• PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PRINCE2 Foundation
• ITILv3 Foundation

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RECENT PROJECTS:
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Since Q2 2021, lobby association >8000 user
Modernization of on-Prem IT infrastructure, introduction, migration/transition to and adoption of
Cloud Services
- Project management and project consulting
- Consulting on IT/cloud strategy, adoption and change management
- Definition of technical scope per phase/milestone
- Consulting on IT security and data classification to ensure data protection and data security (conditional access, retention policies)
- Consulting and review of solution designs, execution of workshops
- Execution of security checkup
- Planning of licensing concept
- Adoption and change management, setting up Champions program
- Implementation MS Teams, execution of pilot
- Planning of rollout waves on Windows and iOS clients for own and partner organizations
- Setting up processes and framework for support organization
- Control of manufacturers and partners
- Creation of decision templates for management board

December 2020 to Q2 2021, managed service provider for statutory health insurance >1400
employees
Implementation of Hashicorp Vault, replacement of PKI
- Project management and project consulting

Q3 2020 to Q2 2021, system supplier for mobility and information technology >3000 employees
Introduction of MS Cloud Services, development of hybrid infrastructure
Introduction of MS Cloud Services, development of hybrid infrastructure
- Project management and project consulting
- Definition of technical scope for phase 1: Setup and implementation of Azure AD Connect and hybrid Exchange infrastructure, introduction of MS Teams for the pilot group
- Consulting on IT/cloud strategy, adoption and change management
- IT security consulting and data classification to ensure data protection and data security
- Consulting and review of solution designs, implementation of workshops
- Implementation Security Checkup
- Planning licensing concept
- Implementation Results Security Checkup
- Implementation and acceptance of ADFS, AD Connect and Exchange Hybrid environment
- Evaluation of the privacy IDEA MFA connection
- Implementation Veeam PoC
- Evaluation Lifesize connection
- Implementation MS Teams, Execution Pilot
- Control of manufacturers and partners
- Creation of decision templates

August 2020 to Q2 2021, European financial authority >3500 employees
Introduction of MS Teams, introduction and connection of whiteboard and governance solution for
entire organization
- Project management and project consulting
- Definition of technical scope: introduction of MS Teams, introduction and connection of MIRO Whiteboard, AvePoint Backup Solution, AvePoint Governance Solution, connection of 3rd party Identity Management System
- Support for evaluation and implementation of interfaces to OpenText system
- Consulting solution design, implementation of workshops#
- Implementation PoC and pilot
- Establishment of 2nd - 3rd level support for support from rollout onwards
- Planing of rollout waves on Windows and iOS clients
- Management of manufacturers and partners
- Evaluation of automation (Hashicorp Terraform, Desired State Configuration)
- Joint Terraform parallel project: verification of synergy effects

July 2019 to September 2020, public service broadcaster >1500 employees
Adoption of Office 365, cloud proxy/CASB and multi-cloud architecture as part of creating a modern
workplace environment.
Focus on IT Infrastructure Readiness for Multicloud Scenario: Office 365, MS Azure, AWS and Google
Cloud Project
- Organizational coordination of the project participants and stakeholders from the specialist department, staff council, IT security management, data protection and procurement
- Data protection and data security: preparation and technical consulting for protection needs assessment, protection needs analysis, coordination and technical review for contracting with service providers
- Definition, coordination and monitoring of work packages
- Conduct of project meetings, preparation and follow-up
- Definition of milestones
- Responsibility of technical design
- Stakeholder identification
- Creation of project plans
- Identification of synergy effects in parallel projects
- Advisory for a cloud architecture board

Since Q3 2019, public broadcaster >8000 employees
Advisory Multicloud Strategy and Architecture (Hyperscaler, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Advisory for a cloud architecture board
- Development of Multicloud Strategy
- Development of Multicloud Architecture
- Presentation Hashicorp Terraform

Q3 2018 to Q1 2019, public broadcaster >8000 employees
Initialization Office 365 rollout in the role of technical project manager
- Review and adjustment of the customer's internal project application
- Adoption: consulting on technical and organizational change management for overall organization and training concepts
- technical consulting / support in the area of data protection and data security, data classification
- Execution of discovery/ due diligence, creation of checklist of topics:
- Office 365 Core Configuration
- Licensing
- Identity Management
- WAN connection
- Backup
- Load Balancer (LB)
- Proxy
- Mobile Device Management
- Exchange Online
- Skype for Business
- OneDrive for Business
- MS Teams
- Employee Enabling

- Creation of HLD for the introduction of Office 365 in the following topics:
- Current mode of operation (CMO)
- Operation model
- Core Services
- Value-added services
- Security & Compliance
- Migration
- User Enablement
- Office Pro Plus Rollout / mobile Rollout
- Admin and user training

Q2 2018 to Q4 2018, Holding of public utilities <1800 MA
Introduction of Office 365 and pilot operation
- Project management and project consulting
- SWOT Analysis
- Use Case Analysis
- Advice on data security
- Implementation of use cases
- Pilot Rollout
- Continuous support of the pilot group,
- Completion of pilot, handover of mass rollout

2017-2019, Financial services >1100 employees
Evaluation of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams, execution of a proof
of Concepts and Pilot Operation
- Project management and project consulting
- Preparation, follow-up and implementation of project meetings
- Organizational coordination of project participants and stakeholders from specialist departments, works council, CISO office and management
- Solution Design O365, ADFS, AD Connect, Exchange Hybrid, Client Connectivity
- Maintenance of risk inventory
- Preparation and support BAFIN notification
- Management of external service providers
- Planning and control of technical workshops and training courses
- Perform service implementations and tests
- Connection of third-party solutions, such as .B backup of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and OneDrive
- Creation of decision templates
- Planning and implementation pilot rollout
- Structure 2nd – 3rd level support
- Planning of rollout waves for entire organization

Professional career:
November 2017 – Senior Consultant
June 2021 Controlware GmbH Kommunikationssysteme
- Conception and management of (multi) cloud projects in the M365, Azure, AWS and GCP
- environment
- Requirements engineering
- Strategy and IT consulting, implementation of IT projects incl. assessments and workshops
- Analysis and optimization of IT processes
- Business development of innovative technologies (focus: cloud services) as well as their
- professional use by customers
- Support of sales and presales, customer and sales workshops

August 2012 – Today
Freelancer Project Management and Project Consulting
- Data center migrations for strategic redesigns, mergers and carve-out
- Cloud transition

January 2013 – May 2016
IT Engineer, Project Manager
Fujitsu Central Europe
• project management and technical management/ workstream lead for transition and
outsourcing projects in the DACH region and internationally
• Operational / professional management of employees of several legal entities of
Fujitsu as well as external partners and service providers
• Creation of technical designs, migration concepts, coordination with customers,
responsibility for transition, cross-divisional coordination, workstream lead
• Coordination and evaluation of the technical solution taking into account commercial
aspects with the Solution Design Architects, responsibility for solution
implementation
• Staff unit between customers, CAB, specialist departments and service management
• Responsibility for developing an enterprise standard for SAP vHANA Infrastructure
• Joint development of a new project department
• execution of workshops
• Operational responsibility for data center services and managed infrastructure for all
customers, storage and server virtualization, clusters and operating systems
• Presales/sales support in the preparation of quotations and successful business deals
• Support of professional contract drafting
• Support in the acquisition of large and medium-sized customers
• Development of new portfolio elements
• Responsibility, coordination and implementation of Proof of Concepts (PoC)
• Carrying out inventories for transition at customers (due diligence, discovery)

September 2008 – August 2012
IT-Consultant
ELKOM-PLAN
• Advisory/ consulting of medium-sized customers, medical and public institutions
• Responsible for project planning, implementation and documentation
• Responsibility for more than 30 heterogeneous IT infrastructures of customers
• AD and Exchange migration projects, integration of industry software
• execution of workshops and user training courses

Since 1996
IT-Management for family-owned company
• Management of AD / Exchange servers, network infrastructure and clients

Education/Studies:
September 2008 – Dual training as IT specialist / system integration
January 2012 OSZ Teltow
• Degree grade: "good"
• Documentation final project and defense grade: "very good"

Active Directory, Cloud (allg.), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, Projektmanagement (IT)