Expert digital projects and products

7/2024 – offen

Expert digital projects: IT project manager for the downstream business division, multiple projects.
• Leading and managing large initiatives set-up (combined value >7 Mn), including tendering process,
contractual definition (with over 30% negotiated from initial quotation), vendor management, as well
as overarching responsibility for the program scope detailing, governance design, system architecture
definition, cross-divisional operating model and execution methodology.
• Leading full software application development of B2B web-based application with over 10k active
concurrent users in the digital mobility and pricing domains, from ideation to full launch. +300%
customer engagement and enablement of cross-up selling opportunities for sales team.
• Steering the eMobility app development (value 2+ Mn) with iterative delivery, from ideation to full
MVP launch and country-by-country roll-out.
• Group-wide agile business coach member supporting professionals in shaping product management
skills, along with SDLC and release management knowledge.

Tender Manager (Ausschreibungsmanager), Adaptive Software Development (ASD), Agile Methodologie, Softwareanforderungsanalyse, Product Owner, Projektmanagement - Vertragsmanagement

11/2020 – 6/2024

IT project manager of Salesforce global services for Sales Area.
• Management of the Salesforce global service within Allianz Group with set-up and implementation of governance framework for over 70 decentralized instances.
• Lead of Salesforce efficiency team with about 15% productivity gains (>1.5 Mn/year).
• Ideation, definition and launch of the global Salesforce Center of Excellence to leverage economies of
scale and reduce technical discrepancies.
• Salesforce admin of small “umbrella” instance for CoE commercial reporting.

Project manager of core insurance domain agile transformation.
• Co-definition of the new IT delivery and operating model blueprint of core insurance system divisions, based on DevOps framework and scaled agile principles.
• Comprehensive handbook and roadmaps for the 4 functional area to transition towards the new operating model (transition to target).
• Overseeing implementation of the new E2E delivery model in the Sales Area (12 different applications and about 300 FTEs) with set-up of new delivery processes, from demand definition to production release and operations.

(Senior consultant) Product Owner of the IT Release Management service cross-countries
• Led the definition and implementation of the core insurance system release management across 6 different roll-out programs, about 60 engineers directly impacted.
• Set-up a new practice with revamped processes that led to overarching reduction of release time by 55-28% depending on customer ́s solution architecture (6-digit figure per project, per release, saved)
• Increased deployment automation by enhancing CI/CD pipeline and introducing orchestrator tool.
• Levelled up existing CoP with 18 RMs to standardize processes and spread knowledge.

(Consultant) Lead of DevOps stream, core insurance system roll-out
• Led infrastructure migration of software development technology (inc. virtual machines, tooling provision, etc.), from on-prem to cloud.
• Coordinate the installation and configuration of various technologies such as Dynatrace, Grafana, XL
Release, Sonarqube and different functional application components.
• Led process improvement measures to ensure faster change cycle (i.e., DB changes from 2ww to 3dd).
• Redefinition of testing and production deployment strategy to ensure high software quality and reduction of incidents (95% drop in production incidents after deployment).

Adaptive Software Development (ASD), Agile Methodologie, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Improvement Manager, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Organisationsentwicklung, Product Owner, Projektmanagement, Release-Management

11/2018 – 10/2020

(Junior consultant / analyst) Project coordinator for core insurance roll-out.
• Supported project set-up and localizations ensuring cross-team collaboration by applying SAFe framework as well as upskilling staff with tailored Agile principles.
• Set-up of project delivery workflow, creation of productivity KPIs and detect improvement potentials.
• Identify and manage cross team dependencies by coordinating planning and “task-forces”.
• Ensure portfolio reporting and risk management.
• Direct and close support to senior management (e.g., report generation, monitoring, etc.).

Adaptive Software Development (ASD), Agile Methodologie, Jira, PMO, PMO (IT), Projektmanagement, Technische PMO