Principal Transformation & Change Advisor | Senior Program Manager | Strategy to Execution

5/2022 – 3/2023

Aufbau von IT-Strukturen, Architektur und Geschäftsmodellen.
Entwicklung von Produktvisionen, Prototyping und strategischer Ausrichtung mehrerer digitaler Produkte.

Agile Methodologie, It-Beratung, Geschäftsfeldstrategie, Design Thinking, Digitale Transformation, Digitalisierung, IT-Strategieberatung, Produktmanagement, Unternehmensberatung

4/2022 – 3/2023

Scope: Establishment of an IT company for e-mobility solutions
• Conception of the IT company structure (defining and shaping
company processes, organizational structures, organizational
culture, etc.)
• Definition and development of the business model (including cost-
effectiveness analysis)
• Conducting market and potential analyses (with a focus on Europe
and North Africa)
• Designing the IT architecture (technology selection, infrastructure
decisions, etc.)
• Creating the product vision for multiple (logistics-related) products
and services
• Rapid prototyping of minimum viable products (MVPs) to test
selected technologies and assess the feasibility of product visions
• Designing a SaaS logistics platform with real-time vehicle and goods
tracking and optimized routing tailored for electric vehicles
• Coordinating with the project team and providing support in
development, acting as a coding product owner
• Assisting in defining an operational approach model for agile
application development and operation

Agile Methodologie, Digitale Transformation, Geschäftsfeldstrategie, IT-Berater, Lean Startup, Product Owner

11/2021 – 3/2022

Scope: Core banking Transformation
• Establishment of the digitalization program consisting of three
projects (transformation, carve-out, and migration)
• Project initiation, including creating the business case, time and
budget planning
• Building the program organization
• Establishing program monitoring and progress tracking
• Setting up program and project processes (based on PMI standards)
• Increasing the project management maturity level for the client
• Assisting in the creation of Master Service Agreements
• Supporting the development and implementation of organizational
change management
• Supporting the definition of the Target Operating Model (TOM)
• Program size: 25+ FTE, ~42 Mn€ over 4 years

Carve-Out, Change Management, Digitalisierung, IT-Berater, IT-Outsourcing-Konzepte, IT-Projektleiter, Programm-Management, Systemmigration

9/2021 – 1/2022

Document-Management-Solutions (DMS) Takeover
• Designing the transition phase and knowledge transfer of three core
systems
• Defining team roles and responsibilities
• Staffing the delivery team
• Planning and executing the transition phase
• Defining knowledge transfer objectives
• Defining the communication plan and organizing collaboration
• Monitoring the execution of knowledge transfer
• Facilitating knowledge transfer workshops
• Handing over to service management for maintenance activities after
the transition phase
• Developing the concept for standardizing existing document
management systems
• Project size: 4 FTE, 250 k€ over 4 months

Change-Manager, IT-Projektleiter, Change Management, Transition Management

2/2020 – 6/2020

Scope: Cloud based state-of-the-art Credit Solution
• Facilitating design thinking workshops
• Defining the new (automated) end-to-end process
• Applying the "Event Storming" approach for process optimization and
as a basis for domain-driven architecture
• Managing a highly distributed team and customer environment
• Leading the agile development project (proof of concept)
• Conducting technical and business feasibility studies
• Project size: 5 FTE, 300 k€ over 3 months

Design Thinking, Agile Methodologie, Anforderungsspezifikationen, Cloud-Services, Digitalisierung, IT-Projektleiter

1/2014 – 3/2022

Verantwortlicher Projektmanager für strategische und regulatorische IT-Projekte im Banken- und Finanzsektor, Implementierung von Change Management während der Digitalisierung und Transformationsinitiativen, Entwicklung strategischer IT-Konzepte, Leitung von Übergängen, Durchführung von Geschäftsanalysen und Gestaltung von Lösungen.

Scrum-Master, Agile Methodologie, Kanban, Design Thinking, Change Management, Digitale Transformation, Digitalisierung, It-Beratung, Leiter Digitale Transformation, Programm-Manager, Projektmanagement, Transformation Management

1/2014 – 11/2021

Scope: Multi year Strategic partnership in domestic and non-domestic payments
• Coordinating multiple IT teams (20+ members) during a long-term
strategic partnership (7+ yrs) with the client
• Responsible for systems of the IT teams, included domestic
payments, international payments, booking, customer receipts,
investigations, AML (Anti-Money Laundering), legal reporting, etc.
• Leading regulatory projects such as PSD2 Pillar II/III, FATCA, SWIFT,
PAIN, Rulebook (3/6), TARGET2, etc.
• Leading strategic and innovation projects such as virtual accounts,
instant payments, etc.
• Managing various automation, upgrade, and stabilization projects
(including database migrations)
• Designing and overseeing transitions of system responsibilities
to/from competitors
• Designing a fallback scenario for the core banking transformation of
the payments landscape
• Facilitating workshops (e.g., business analysis, design thinking, etc.)
• Conducting business analysis and feasibility studies on various
topics (e.g., "right-to-be-forgotten," software and system selection,
etc.)
• Account size: at peak 250+ members, ~60 Mn€ p.a. | end stage 40+
members, ~12 Mn€ p.a.

Agile Methodologie, Carve-Out, Change-Manager, Change Management, Design Thinking, Digitale Transformation, Digitalisierung, IT-Projektleiter, Programm-Management, Scrum, Scrum-Master, Test Management

8/2011 – 3/2012

Scope: Point-of-Sales Software Replacement
• Introduction of a new centralized point-of-sale and store
management system for 30 locations
• Decommissioning and archiving of the old point-of-sale and store
management system
• Coordinating with the supplier regarding necessary changes to the
standard software
• Developing the project plan
• Defining new processes
• Conducting training for employees at the sales points on the new
application
• Configuring and setting up the new software
• Providing support during the software implementation process
• Project size: 6+ members, 6 months

Administration von Datenbanken, ERP-Projektleiter, IT-Projektleiter, Systemmigration, Schulung / Coaching (allg.)