Senior Technical Project Manager | Program & Delivery Manager
Aktualisiert am 24.09.2026
Profil
Freiberufler / Selbstständiger
Remote-Arbeit
Verfügbar ab: 01.12.2026
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 100%
Programmmanagement
Projektmanagement
Delivery Management
PMP
Agile Softwareentwicklung
Scrum
Telekommunikation
English
native
Afrikaans
native
German
B2, Goethe-Zertifikat

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Munich (+50km)
Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

9 Monate
2026-01 - heute

technical end-to-end deployment

Senior Technical Project Manager (EMEA) |
Senior Technical Project Manager (EMEA) |
  • Direct end-to-end technical program delivery of cloud-native (CNF) Voice Core IMS solutions for multiple MNO, MVNO and IoT customers across EMEA
  • Own the full delivery lifecycle from NPI and HLD/LLD design through integration, customer acceptance and post-live service lifecycle management (SLM)
  • Lead multi-vendor integration, aligning delivery across competing roadmaps and technical priorities
  • Chair customer security governance discussions, presenting CVE mitigation plans and remediation schedules to technical and executive stakeholders
  • Serve as primary customer SPOC across 6 concurrent engagements, owning escalation management, risk mitigation and issue resolution
  • Manage concurrent VoLTE delivery programs for Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica and MVNOs, leading 10+ engineers against a multi-million euro budget
  • Building PMO frameworks, delivery standards and program governance processes in a scale-up environment
  • Contribute to RFP/RFQ responses and solution design for new EMEA customer engagements
  • Deliver weekly C-level status reporting, both customer-facing and internal, to steer executive decision-making
  • Mentor junior project managers, strengthening delivery capability and succession across the EMEA team
on request
Germany
11 Jahre
2015-01 - 2025-12

Modernization of the voice core network

Senior Customer Project Manager
Senior Customer Project Manager
  • Delivered Deutsche Telekom's ?35M Voice Core modernization program, migrating the platform from bare metal to a cloud-based architecture with a 40+ engineer delivery team
  • Delivered a CNF Telephony Application Server (TAS) Proof of Concept for Deutsche Telekom Voice Core
  • Led the Software Lifecycle Management (SLM) program for Deutsche Telekom Voice Core, delivering 20 release cycles across a live network with ~40M active subscribers
  • Delivered infrastructure capacity upgrade programs for the Deutsche Telekom Voice Core network
  • Delivered an end-to-end network optimization program for Deutsche Telekom spanning radio and core domains
  • Delivered new radio feature introduction projects for Deutsche Telekom
  • Delivered a multi-year network optimization program that won Germany's CONNECT test three consecutive years, alongside the CHIP industry benchmark
  • Managed technology pilots for LTE900, LTE800, Carrier Aggregation and 4x4 MIMO for Deutsche Telekom
  • Delivered a CS Fallback analysis and optimization project for Telefonica Germany
  • Delivered a PMO-based resource demand optimization program across EU services projects
  • Supported multiple RFP/RFQ offer creations for Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany
  • Interviewed, onboarded and performance-managed 50+ internal and subcontractor delivery resources
Nokia
Germany
6 Jahre 7 Monate
2008-06 - 2014-12

Single-RAN modernization program (SRAN)

Project Manager
Project Manager
  • Delivered a Single RAN (SRAN) modernization program for Vodacom South Africa spanning 2G, 3G, LTE and Core
  • Delivered a network design program for Nextel Argentina covering radio, transmission and RF model tuning
  • Delivered a radio network optimization program for MTN Nigeria addressing performance KPIs and capacity
  • Delivered radio network swap-out programs for Cell C South Africa and Vodacom Tanzania
NSN, Ericsson
Multiple Countries
9 Jahre 1 Monat
1999-06 - 2008-06

Wireless network planning

RAN Engineer
RAN Engineer
  • Selected as one of 20 students nationwide for the Nokia Young Professionals Program, completing 18 months of theoretical and on-the-job training in radio network planning
  • Delivered radio network planning, design and optimization projects across Africa, the Middle East and the United States, including nominal cell planning, RF model tuning and KPI optimization
Siemens, Nokia, NSN
Multiple Countries

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Electrical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology

CERTIFICATIONS
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Nokia certified in Lean Six Sigma, Network Implementation, and Network Planning & Optimization

Position

Position

Senior Technical Project Manager | Program & Delivery Manager | Cloud, IMS & VoLTE Telecom Delivery

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Programmmanagement Projektmanagement Delivery Management PMP Agile Softwareentwicklung Scrum Telekommunikation

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

PROFILE
Senior Technical Project Manager with 27 years of international, customer-facing experience in technical program delivery, including 18 years in project management and 9 years in engineering. EU Permanent Resident, fully authorized to work across the EU without sponsorship. Proven track record delivering complex, multi-vendor technical programs valued between ?2M and ?32M for Tier 1 operators including Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica, spanning IMS, VoLTE, VoNR, IoT and cloud-native (VNF/CNF) voice core transformation. Recognized with four Nokia Germany Project Management awards for outstanding project delivery. Skilled in program governance, risk and change management, multi-vendor and multicultural team leadership of up to 50 engineers and specialists, PMO framework design, and C-level stakeholder alignment across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery models.

CORE COMPETENCIES
  • Program & Project Delivery: 
    • Project & program governance, PMO framework design, risk & issue management, change control, scope & budget management, resource planning & demand forecasting, critical-path analysis, project baselining, RAID logs, WBS & milestone planning, delivery assurance, project closure & lessons learned
  • Methodologies & Quality: 
    • Agile project management, Waterfall, hybrid delivery, Scrum, sprint planning & retrospectives, DevOps practices, continuous improvement, release & version management, test automation, root cause analysis (RCA), compliance audits, documentation governance (JIRA, Salesforce, SharePoint)
  • Cloud, Telecom & Migration: 
    • IMS, VoLTE, VoNR, cloud-native architecture (VNF/CNF), OpenStack, OpenShift, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, SW/HW integration & validation, benchmarking, service lifecycle management (SLM), network & subscriber migration, software upgrade & versioning strategy, security compliance & CVE mitigation
  • Stakeholder & Commercial Leadership: 
    • C-level & executive stakeholder management, SPOC coordination, vendor & contract negotiation, RFP/RFQ support & solution design (HLD/LLD), customer acceptance & invoicing, KPI & steering board reporting, cross-cultural team leadership, mentoring & capability development
  • Tools & Platforms: 
    • ?MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, SharePoint, SAP, Power BI, advanced Excel, PCUBE

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Munich (+50km)
Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

9 Monate
2026-01 - heute

technical end-to-end deployment

Senior Technical Project Manager (EMEA) |
Senior Technical Project Manager (EMEA) |
  • Direct end-to-end technical program delivery of cloud-native (CNF) Voice Core IMS solutions for multiple MNO, MVNO and IoT customers across EMEA
  • Own the full delivery lifecycle from NPI and HLD/LLD design through integration, customer acceptance and post-live service lifecycle management (SLM)
  • Lead multi-vendor integration, aligning delivery across competing roadmaps and technical priorities
  • Chair customer security governance discussions, presenting CVE mitigation plans and remediation schedules to technical and executive stakeholders
  • Serve as primary customer SPOC across 6 concurrent engagements, owning escalation management, risk mitigation and issue resolution
  • Manage concurrent VoLTE delivery programs for Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica and MVNOs, leading 10+ engineers against a multi-million euro budget
  • Building PMO frameworks, delivery standards and program governance processes in a scale-up environment
  • Contribute to RFP/RFQ responses and solution design for new EMEA customer engagements
  • Deliver weekly C-level status reporting, both customer-facing and internal, to steer executive decision-making
  • Mentor junior project managers, strengthening delivery capability and succession across the EMEA team
on request
Germany
11 Jahre
2015-01 - 2025-12

Modernization of the voice core network

Senior Customer Project Manager
Senior Customer Project Manager
  • Delivered Deutsche Telekom's ?35M Voice Core modernization program, migrating the platform from bare metal to a cloud-based architecture with a 40+ engineer delivery team
  • Delivered a CNF Telephony Application Server (TAS) Proof of Concept for Deutsche Telekom Voice Core
  • Led the Software Lifecycle Management (SLM) program for Deutsche Telekom Voice Core, delivering 20 release cycles across a live network with ~40M active subscribers
  • Delivered infrastructure capacity upgrade programs for the Deutsche Telekom Voice Core network
  • Delivered an end-to-end network optimization program for Deutsche Telekom spanning radio and core domains
  • Delivered new radio feature introduction projects for Deutsche Telekom
  • Delivered a multi-year network optimization program that won Germany's CONNECT test three consecutive years, alongside the CHIP industry benchmark
  • Managed technology pilots for LTE900, LTE800, Carrier Aggregation and 4x4 MIMO for Deutsche Telekom
  • Delivered a CS Fallback analysis and optimization project for Telefonica Germany
  • Delivered a PMO-based resource demand optimization program across EU services projects
  • Supported multiple RFP/RFQ offer creations for Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany
  • Interviewed, onboarded and performance-managed 50+ internal and subcontractor delivery resources
Nokia
Germany
6 Jahre 7 Monate
2008-06 - 2014-12

Single-RAN modernization program (SRAN)

Project Manager
Project Manager
  • Delivered a Single RAN (SRAN) modernization program for Vodacom South Africa spanning 2G, 3G, LTE and Core
  • Delivered a network design program for Nextel Argentina covering radio, transmission and RF model tuning
  • Delivered a radio network optimization program for MTN Nigeria addressing performance KPIs and capacity
  • Delivered radio network swap-out programs for Cell C South Africa and Vodacom Tanzania
NSN, Ericsson
Multiple Countries
9 Jahre 1 Monat
1999-06 - 2008-06

Wireless network planning

RAN Engineer
RAN Engineer
  • Selected as one of 20 students nationwide for the Nokia Young Professionals Program, completing 18 months of theoretical and on-the-job training in radio network planning
  • Delivered radio network planning, design and optimization projects across Africa, the Middle East and the United States, including nominal cell planning, RF model tuning and KPI optimization
Siemens, Nokia, NSN
Multiple Countries

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Electrical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology

CERTIFICATIONS
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Nokia certified in Lean Six Sigma, Network Implementation, and Network Planning & Optimization

Position

Position

Senior Technical Project Manager | Program & Delivery Manager | Cloud, IMS & VoLTE Telecom Delivery

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Programmmanagement Projektmanagement Delivery Management PMP Agile Softwareentwicklung Scrum Telekommunikation

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

PROFILE
Senior Technical Project Manager with 27 years of international, customer-facing experience in technical program delivery, including 18 years in project management and 9 years in engineering. EU Permanent Resident, fully authorized to work across the EU without sponsorship. Proven track record delivering complex, multi-vendor technical programs valued between ?2M and ?32M for Tier 1 operators including Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica, spanning IMS, VoLTE, VoNR, IoT and cloud-native (VNF/CNF) voice core transformation. Recognized with four Nokia Germany Project Management awards for outstanding project delivery. Skilled in program governance, risk and change management, multi-vendor and multicultural team leadership of up to 50 engineers and specialists, PMO framework design, and C-level stakeholder alignment across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery models.

CORE COMPETENCIES
  • Program & Project Delivery: 
    • Project & program governance, PMO framework design, risk & issue management, change control, scope & budget management, resource planning & demand forecasting, critical-path analysis, project baselining, RAID logs, WBS & milestone planning, delivery assurance, project closure & lessons learned
  • Methodologies & Quality: 
    • Agile project management, Waterfall, hybrid delivery, Scrum, sprint planning & retrospectives, DevOps practices, continuous improvement, release & version management, test automation, root cause analysis (RCA), compliance audits, documentation governance (JIRA, Salesforce, SharePoint)
  • Cloud, Telecom & Migration: 
    • IMS, VoLTE, VoNR, cloud-native architecture (VNF/CNF), OpenStack, OpenShift, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, SW/HW integration & validation, benchmarking, service lifecycle management (SLM), network & subscriber migration, software upgrade & versioning strategy, security compliance & CVE mitigation
  • Stakeholder & Commercial Leadership: 
    • C-level & executive stakeholder management, SPOC coordination, vendor & contract negotiation, RFP/RFQ support & solution design (HLD/LLD), customer acceptance & invoicing, KPI & steering board reporting, cross-cultural team leadership, mentoring & capability development
  • Tools & Platforms: 
    • ?MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, SharePoint, SAP, Power BI, advanced Excel, PCUBE

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