Project management of a data warehouse project for a large automotive manufacturer in Munich (team size 10 people), budget ~1 million EUR; Project management activities, including internal and external status meetings; Planning using MS project and week based planning, Work package tracking using Kanban, financial controlling, issue resolution, earned value analysis (EVA), staff planning, usage of members from remote locations

Project management for getting Software (~2000 items) and IT Services (~100 items) ready to be migrated from previous MS windows operating systems to Windows 7 for national and international locations, and about 18.000 end users

Project management for creation, delivery and rollout transition of IVR/ACD/IN solution, including concept phase, implementation phase (hardware setup, software development, configuration, testing), data migration phase, trainings, lifecycle transition; Build-up of various data centres in Germany (Hannover (2 locations), Eschborn, Frankfurt, Offenbach, Munich, Nuremburg); Management of various suppliers, internal client resources and external consultants; Demand management, order control and delivery management as well as supplier management; included transition support; Key challenges: a) complex supplier structure (>5 large companies + additional subcontractors), b) line management culture vs. project needs, c) ?bulldozer? mentality required to deliver according to plan, d) many outside events such as organizational changes, or changes in systems & processes, e) active support needed for lifecycle transitioning; Budget of entire engagement 20 mio?, for the own area of responsibility 9.2m?

Working together with all teams to understand team specifics and particular implementation of scrum processes (pre-release); Implementation based on Scrum, usage of scrum of scrum to scale up (2 x feature teams, infrastructure team, a dedicated testing team); Embedding of agile project within waterfall oriented organization ; As a tool, implemented an Excel/VBA based solution to allow for rapid calculation of cost and how user stories can be mapped to sprints without exceeding known bottlenecks and defined capacity

Managing supplier software deliveries, including planning of releases, tracking of change requests and collecting / distributing relevant communications like status overall status reports; Preparation of project plans, getting suppliers aligned with planned dates, tracking of the project plan and capturing of changes (suppliers included Siemens, T-Systems, Fraunhofer, IBM); Automation of project plan generation; automation of time tracking process; Enhancement of release planning process.

Managing of government projects for ministries of varying size using industry standard processes based on PMBoK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). Examples include RFP process management, management of 3rd party suppliers for software development projects, or implementation of COTS based solutions.

Performing current state analysis, target state planning and requirements specification with the final goal of preparing business requirements for an investment services system that is suitable to manage assets according to target thresholds. Facilitation of all client interviews, iterative creation of current state analysis including capturing of all relevant processes and reports. Facilitation of joint planning sessions to collaboratively design future state processes, involving future investment system and reports. Documentation of future business processes and business requirements for an investment services system Preparation of requirements for inclusion into an RFP document for soliciting supplier responses

Planning and conducting stakeholder interviews to identify business drivers, pain points, fears/uncertainties/doubts and opportunities for current website/eCommerce solution. Planning and facilitating joint stakeholder workshop sessions to create alignment on business requirements, prioritization of requirements, and roadmap for different implementation phases.; Leading business analyst team to create business requirements documentation.

As a business consultant, on a change management project for a major Canadian financial institution his responsibilities included: Capturing of business requirements and processes for a change initiative. Conducting client interviews and joint requirements sessions with stakeholders from other locations

Orchestration of a two phase re-launch of a banking and insurance portal. Team included up to 20 FTE, high degree of risks (e.g. minimal ramp-up time, many and changing contractors, 2 resources in Bangalore/India, very tight timeline, large numbers of suppliers). Facilitation of a joint stakeholder workshop (3 days) to drive decision making process, and to create alignment on requirements, vision (complete re-design, improved user-experience), prioritization and long term roadmap).

Managing delivery of a blog & community portal for the client?s client; re-negotiating and documenting requirements with client; translating requirements into working language; high degree of risks. Performing technology selection process and providing recommendations to client to select a system. Performing software development supplier selection process to request proposals and negotiating contract with Belarusian Company. Kicking off delivery process, supplier management, management of additional third party, management of change control processes, and handing over to IT operations for installation in the production environment. Facilitation of all interviews and workshops. Key challenges: a) requirement to immediately turn around the project setting (unknown scope, fixed timeline, fixed budget), b) requirement to re-negotiate scope, c) requirement to put a lot of daily pressure on offshore partner to deliver high quality software very fast

Conducting stakeholder interviews and workshops to capture requirements and write detailed business requirements documentation including sign off process for a project that allowed web based calculation of network coverage using web services from Germany. Providing support in the integration phase of the solution with respect to sales and non sales processes. Interacting with people from IT, marketing and a technology partner in UK, Russia (offshore IT services provider) and Germany (T-Mobile headquarter). Facilitation of interviews and workshops to drive requirements and create stakeholder alignment