IT Financial Services Industry: Senior IT Management, Interim Management, Project Management, Regulatory Topics, Software Development, IT Services
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Programmmanagement
Enterprise Architect
Vait
BAIT
ZAIT
PRINCE2
SAFe
ITIL V3
Datawarehouse
Regulatory Reporting
IT-Betrieb
Managementberatung
IT-Strategie
Softwarearchitektur
Business Intelligence
Englisch
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Deutsch
Muttersprache

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Munich (+300km)
Deutschland, Österreich
The location is a question of frequency on-site, travel accomodation and cost. Aside this, any location is feasible if feasible from a tax point of view
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2 years 1 month
2022-06 - now

Programme Manager Regulatory Projects

Programme Manager Python PowerFlow PowerBuilder
Programme Manager
  • I manage a team of both internal and external professionals to achieve full regulatory compliance (VAIT/VAG) and VDA/Tisax certification by the end of 2023. For this, I use my comprehensive understanding of the regulatory universe (EIOPA, BaFin, VDA, ISO) and its implications on the IT organization to establish IT services and operations aligned with the ITIL governance framework and security management alongside ISO 27001. My responsibilities include the analysis of requirements, assessment of gaps and provide guidance as to how these shall get addressed. This includes board level alignments and close cooperation with the group?s legal unit.
  • In parallel, I managed a project to migrate the entire IT services of Real Garant to Zurich Group via means of outsourcing, covering the full ICT scope, including the introduction to the group IT governance framework. Furthermore, I serve as the SPOC for the group-wide key risk indicator reporting (similar to orange book conformity) and main contact for the internal and external audit activities in this area.
  • My responsibilities did also include the project administration, configuration and management using Jira and MS
  • Planner and various MS Sharepoint implementations and automations for document management purposes. I also
  • used Python and Excel/Power BI for board level project status reporting purposes.
  • Programme Manager VAIT Compliance
  • Programme Manager IT Service Migration & Outsourcing
  • Programme Manager Core Archiving Solution
  • General Consulting for the Zurich COO
Atlassian JIRA SharePoint Workspace
Python PowerFlow PowerBuilder
Real Garant AG (Member of Zurich Group)
remote Denkendorf, Köln
7 years 3 months
2017-04 - now

Perform C-Level consulting and interim management

General Manager & Owner
General Manager & Owner
  • Perform C-Level consulting and interim management mainly for financial institutions with a focus on efficient and effective IT organisations, maintaining regulatory compliance and realizing digitalisation related IT initiatives
on Request
1 year 2 months
2021-08 - 2022-09

IT-Stream ? Payment Services License Acquisition (BaFin)

Project Manager
Project Manager
  • I managed the establishment of the technical and organizational basis within the IT, compliance and audit to ensure full regulatory compliance which is mandatory for HTS for being granted the BaFin license for rendering payment services on the German market. For this, I assessed Regulatory Requirements (ZAIT/ZAG) and authored multiple regulatory documents and guidelines. I defined and set up the IT organization using ITIL structures and established a BaFin-compliant IT outsourcing approach. 
  • In this role, I also served as the interface between external legal counsels, internal legal and the IT organization of the group with the objective to establish a fully compliant organizational and service structure. Leveraging on my extensive KYC experience, I defined and set up appropriate AML/KYC processes and managed the implementation of a centralized identity service and the related compliance platform. This also included the definition and implementation of the regulatory reporting platform and challenging tasks like the authoring of an internal auditing guideline.
  • Aside this, I provided technical support to establish, configure and manage the project management platform using Jira, Sharepoint and MS Planner. Using Excel/PowerQuery I implemented a number of automation interfaces, a platform for outsourcing management and an IAM tool.
on Request
Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Mannheim
5 months
2021-04 - 2021-08

German Edge Cloud

Programme Manager Schulportal des Landes Hessen
Programme Manager Schulportal des Landes Hessen
  • With GEC as the data center provider and Hess. Kultusministerium as the client, I restructured the project to implement and maintain the ?Schulportal? as the central communicaton platform for pupils and teachers to share important information and lectures during the pandemic and later on.
  • As part of project, I introduced and established an agile project approach using SCRUM and implemented and configured a project management solution using Open Project, the standard solution of the state of Hessen. For this, I first assessed the status quo, completed a skill inventory comprising of both teachers and external programmers and completed a project plan to prepare Hessen for the expected Covid-challenges in winter 2021/22.
  • As programme manager I provided detailed management reporting to the Kultusministerium and ensure proper project controlling using the Projektron project management & controlling solution, for which I became the first user within GEC?s data center operations.
  • I used extensive Excel/PowerQuery programming for the project reporting and monitoring purposes.
Hess. Kultusministerium
Frankfurt, Wiesbaden
3 years 11 months
2017-05 - 2021-03

various Projects

Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Architect, Head of Digital Unit, Vendor Manager and Programme Manager
Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Architect, Head of Digital Unit, Vendor Manager and Programme Manager
  • In my various interim roles, I supported the development of the enterprise IT strategy and drove its implementation with a focus on the digitalization of the sales channels, specifically the digital onboarding, advisory services (= robo advisor) and mid- and back office processes. As FodB focuses on the B2B business, the emphasis of my activities was on the establishment of modern APIs for our business partners as a supplement to their own technical solutions.
  • I also designed and implemented an AML compliant KYC solution and provided architectural guidance to a team of internal and external, near-shored specialists at various geographical locations during the implementation. With my vast experience of different technical options and organizational structures, I was in involved in a number of highprofile IT due diligence assessments for Fodb?s M&A and outsourcing activities, including the takeover of AXA Bank as part of my role as CTO (ad interim) of the bank.
  • I acted as a sponsor and manager for the implementation of a robo-adviser which was developed for one of FodBs main business partners. Being first mover in their market segment when it comes to regulatory compliance with MiFID II, I designed and managed the implementation of an ex-ante and ex-post cost information system and the related regulatory reporting platform vis-à-vis BaFin.
  • I also served as programme manager and architect for the PSD2 API solution of FodB and project manager of the IT activities of the MIFID 2 project, where I became technical liaison to the legal department and handled the direct alignment with BaFin with respect to MiFIR Art. 26 reporting requirements.
  • Slightly off the above, I introduced Jira & Confluence as the central project management platform for the bank, acted as system administrator for a period of two years, implemented(coded) a sales reporting platform for one of FodBs major partners using SQL, and a static data management interface for regulatory reporting purposes..
Fondsdepot Bank GmbH
7 years 3 months
2010-02 - 2017-04

design, implement and operate a variety of software solutions

Global Head of Markets Intelligence & Repositories
Global Head of Markets Intelligence & Repositories
  • I managed a globally distributed team of specialists to design, implement and operate a variety of software solutions with a focus on cross-business data management and analytics, CRM, data warehouses, regulatory reporting and fraud prevention. Services got rendered using the groups ITIL framework implementation.
  • As part of this, I designed a group wide data warehouse for the global trading business of UniCredit in order to establish a central and comprehensive basis for virtually any reporting and analysis requirement arising in this area. This started off with the need to implement a fraud prevention solution in the trading area.
  • With a distributed team of internal and external developers residing in Sofia, Malaga, Warsaw and Munich designed and implemented this data warehouse that currently ranges in the area of 120 TB. It is (still!) being used for most of the regulatory reporting purposes imposed by BaFin and is also used to steer trading activities through statistical analysis. It is also used for monitoring crucial (and banned) short-selling activities as well as real-time exposure monitoring across UniCredit.
  • Furthermore, I introducted state-of-the-art BI and ETL solutions, including a proof-of-concept for a Hadoop-based Big Data solution, whih got rejected in favour of an XML based database solution for performance reasons. Furthermore, I held responsibility for the global CRM system (Siebel), various data warehouses in Italy and Germany, global service platforms like UniCredit ?onemarkets? and the global research platform (UniCredit Research), which are provided as a SaaS to our clients.
  • Smaller, but as crucial solutions like the electronic orderbook and a number of AML/KYC solutions completed my area of responsibility. Amongst these, I also managed the implementation and operation of HVBs P&L explanation engine.
  • All of these activities got serviced by my team of approx. 70 personnel in Warsaw, Milan, Rome, Malaga and Munich.
UniCredit
Munich, Warsaw, Milan
1 year 1 month
2009-01 - 2010-01

implement a global eTrading solution for FX and FX derivatives

Global Head of eTrading
Global Head of eTrading
  • With a proven track-record of being able to turn-around unsuccessful operations, I took over a malfunctioning department and project to implement a global eTrading solution for FX and FX derivatives. After two months my team had successfully stabilized the DevOps environment and we were able to establish a fortnightly delivery schedule for this highly exposed environment, which is still being used as uctrader.eu.
  • After assessing the status quo, introducing proper (project) management approaches and reatructuring the entire team of approx.. 25, I managed this a low-latency trading, auto-trading and auto-hedging platform until maturity, serving as provider manager and client service manager for a pan-European user group.
  • In parallel, I continued to serve as a member of the Global Management Team of ?UBIS? (UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions).
UniCredit
London
11 months
2008-02 - 2008-12

charge for the market data platform

Global Head of Infrastructure Optimisation
Global Head of Infrastructure Optimisation
  • During this period, in which I was also in charge for the market data platform of UniCredit, I was tasked to reduce the infrastructure cost of the overall environment of approx.. 50%. For this, I got additionally introduced as a member to the global team of architects in Milan which are in charge for the IT architecture of the entire group
  • Defining the general architectural pre-conditions with this team and by managing my own department for the actual implementation, we successfully reduced the overall infrastructure cost of the Markets environment as targeted by Management [Name auf Anfrage] approx. 50% down to roughly 10m EUR. This was achieved by identifying 4 main areas for which I managed a significant number of due diligence assessments in order to identify realistic opportunities
  • As part of this, I spearheaded the introduction of a 16.000+ core computational grid, desktop virtualization for the trading floor, the consolidation of the global market data platform universe and various data center optimisations, including energy efficient cooling systems
UniCredit
Munich, London, Milan
2 years 4 months
2005-10 - 2008-01

managed all infrastructure (ICT) related topics

Global Head of Infrastructures/Head of Architecture Board
Global Head of Infrastructures/Head of Architecture Board
  • With a team of approx. 160 specialists, I managed all infrastructure (ICT) related topics for the Markets business(=trading), including the operation of the global helpdesk, server-, database- and desktop operations and the development environment.
  • My main achievements were the merger of the IT of HVB and UBM (UniCredit Banca Mobiliare), the sale of IndexChange to BGI, where I single-handedly managed the IT side and the establishment of ITIL compliant services for BGI, and the (IT) merger of UniCredit with Capitalia, where I served as lead consultant for the IT.
  • As a member of the management team of the then HVB Information Services I had the pleasure of working globally and managing distributed teams of specialists in the highly demanding trading environment of HVB/UniCredit
UniCredit
Munich, London, Milan
1 year 1 month
2004-05 - 2005-05

eCommerce (=FX eTrading) platform

Global Head of Architecture, SW Development & eCommerce
Global Head of Architecture, SW Development & eCommerce
  • In an interim capacity, I managed a team of 25 specialists in London und Dusseldorf who developed and operated the main trading system (Summit), the eCommerce (=FX eTrading) platform and the electronic orderbook.
  • Additionally, I served as the Head of Architecture and had the opportunity to develop the IT strategy of the trading business of WestLB (Virtual Trading Floor).
WestLB
London, Dusseldorf
1 year 11 months
2002-06 - 2004-04

Various Assignments

  • During this period I provided strategic market consulting to an international IT consultancy within the financial services industry, performed a due diligence of a regulatory project of a UK-based TelCo and managed the requirements engineering for the collateral management of a bank
2 years
2000-07 - 2002-06

responsibility to establish a new SaaS business unit providing valuation services for structured derivatives

Member of the Management Team, Head of Shared Services
Member of the Management Team, Head of Shared Services
  • As a member of the management team I held responsibility to establish a new SaaS business unit providing valuation services for structured derivatives, targeting at smaller financial institutions and insurance companies
  • As part of this, I established a team of approx. 10 developers, took responsibility for the system design and handled the sales process to win the first client as lighttower project.
Value & Risk AG
Bad Homburg
10 months
1999-09 - 2000-06

responsibility for the restructuring of the market positioning

Member of the Management Team, Head of Consulting
Member of the Management Team, Head of Consulting
  • As a member of the management team I held responsibility for the restructuring of the market positioning of Interface AG and the related consulting organization
  • This included the general management of that organization, supporting the consultancy sales activities and the management of the sales activites related to a joint venture with Océ.
Interface AG
Unterhaching
1 year 11 months
1998-07 - 2000-05

country manager for Germany and Austria

General Manager, Global Head of Client Services Northern Europe
General Manager, Global Head of Client Services Northern Europe
  • Initially serving as country manager of Germany and Austria for Infinity, I subsequentially managed the merger of Sungard?s and Infinity?s companies and businesses in Germany at the end of 1998 and took full management responsibility for the German and Austrian business as General Manager
  • In this role my team and I successfully extended the customer base, ensured a consistent revenue of approx. 20m p.a. and established a global client services organization which I managed across Northern Europe, comprising Germany, Austria, Scandis and Iceland
  • During this period, customer satisfaction improved significantly, especially for the Infinity and Panorama software suites, which previously hadn?t had any local service organization in Germany and many of the other countries
Infinity ? A Sungard Company
Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Zurich
8 years 4 months
1990-03 - 1998-06

Various Projects

Software Specialist, Senior Developer and Business analyst
Software Specialist, Senior Developer and Business analyst

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1 year 8 months
1988-08 - 1990-03

University of Georgia ? Athens, GA USA

MA Business Administration (GPA 3.89)
MA Business Administration (GPA 3.89)

1 year 1 month
1988-08 - 1989-08

Full-time Scholarship

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DaaD), Bonn
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DaaD), Bonn

4 years
1984-08 - 1988-07

Vordiplom Wirtschaftswissenschaften (BA) (2.0)

Universität Bielefeld ? Bielefeld
Universität Bielefeld ? Bielefeld

Position

Position

  • Programme Manager VAIT
  • Programme Manager IT Migration

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Programmmanagement Enterprise Architect Vait BAIT ZAIT PRINCE2 SAFe ITIL V3 Datawarehouse Regulatory Reporting IT-Betrieb Managementberatung IT-Strategie Softwarearchitektur Business Intelligence

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

I am an accomplished technology leader and team builder in global corporate environments of the highly regulated financial services industry, excelling in designing, building and managing business oriented, sustainable solutions and services. I achieve this by leveraging on my business acumen, my quick comprehension of interrelationships between demand and IT and my technical expertise to serve as a translator between business demand and innovative technological solutions by effectively steering large teams of individuals across multiple geographically distributed locations in order to achieve short- to long-term objectives. In the course of my career, I have been able to maintain a high level of hands-on technical expertise allowing me to stay close enough to technical details in order to ensure realistic programme planning and delivery cycles of state-of-the-art solutions in both traditional as well as agile environments. By being aware of cultural diversity I find it easy to build international teams focused on common goals.


Areas of Expertise

  • Programme Manager
  • Chief Technology Officer 
  • Enterprise Architect 
  • Regulatory Compliance Expert
  • IT Mergers&Acquisitions 
  • Head of Software Development 
  • Head of Infrastructures 
  • Operations of SaaS and PaaS Solutions
  • Product-Led Software Development using Agile Project Approaches
  • IT Operations using ITIL in line with regulatory guidelines like BAIT, ZAIT and VAIT
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • SCRUM, Prince II and variations

Branchen

Branchen

Financial Service (Insurance & Banking)

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Munich (+300km)
Deutschland, Österreich
The location is a question of frequency on-site, travel accomodation and cost. Aside this, any location is feasible if feasible from a tax point of view
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2 years 1 month
2022-06 - now

Programme Manager Regulatory Projects

Programme Manager Python PowerFlow PowerBuilder
Programme Manager
  • I manage a team of both internal and external professionals to achieve full regulatory compliance (VAIT/VAG) and VDA/Tisax certification by the end of 2023. For this, I use my comprehensive understanding of the regulatory universe (EIOPA, BaFin, VDA, ISO) and its implications on the IT organization to establish IT services and operations aligned with the ITIL governance framework and security management alongside ISO 27001. My responsibilities include the analysis of requirements, assessment of gaps and provide guidance as to how these shall get addressed. This includes board level alignments and close cooperation with the group?s legal unit.
  • In parallel, I managed a project to migrate the entire IT services of Real Garant to Zurich Group via means of outsourcing, covering the full ICT scope, including the introduction to the group IT governance framework. Furthermore, I serve as the SPOC for the group-wide key risk indicator reporting (similar to orange book conformity) and main contact for the internal and external audit activities in this area.
  • My responsibilities did also include the project administration, configuration and management using Jira and MS
  • Planner and various MS Sharepoint implementations and automations for document management purposes. I also
  • used Python and Excel/Power BI for board level project status reporting purposes.
  • Programme Manager VAIT Compliance
  • Programme Manager IT Service Migration & Outsourcing
  • Programme Manager Core Archiving Solution
  • General Consulting for the Zurich COO
Atlassian JIRA SharePoint Workspace
Python PowerFlow PowerBuilder
Real Garant AG (Member of Zurich Group)
remote Denkendorf, Köln
7 years 3 months
2017-04 - now

Perform C-Level consulting and interim management

General Manager & Owner
General Manager & Owner
  • Perform C-Level consulting and interim management mainly for financial institutions with a focus on efficient and effective IT organisations, maintaining regulatory compliance and realizing digitalisation related IT initiatives
on Request
1 year 2 months
2021-08 - 2022-09

IT-Stream ? Payment Services License Acquisition (BaFin)

Project Manager
Project Manager
  • I managed the establishment of the technical and organizational basis within the IT, compliance and audit to ensure full regulatory compliance which is mandatory for HTS for being granted the BaFin license for rendering payment services on the German market. For this, I assessed Regulatory Requirements (ZAIT/ZAG) and authored multiple regulatory documents and guidelines. I defined and set up the IT organization using ITIL structures and established a BaFin-compliant IT outsourcing approach. 
  • In this role, I also served as the interface between external legal counsels, internal legal and the IT organization of the group with the objective to establish a fully compliant organizational and service structure. Leveraging on my extensive KYC experience, I defined and set up appropriate AML/KYC processes and managed the implementation of a centralized identity service and the related compliance platform. This also included the definition and implementation of the regulatory reporting platform and challenging tasks like the authoring of an internal auditing guideline.
  • Aside this, I provided technical support to establish, configure and manage the project management platform using Jira, Sharepoint and MS Planner. Using Excel/PowerQuery I implemented a number of automation interfaces, a platform for outsourcing management and an IAM tool.
on Request
Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Mannheim
5 months
2021-04 - 2021-08

German Edge Cloud

Programme Manager Schulportal des Landes Hessen
Programme Manager Schulportal des Landes Hessen
  • With GEC as the data center provider and Hess. Kultusministerium as the client, I restructured the project to implement and maintain the ?Schulportal? as the central communicaton platform for pupils and teachers to share important information and lectures during the pandemic and later on.
  • As part of project, I introduced and established an agile project approach using SCRUM and implemented and configured a project management solution using Open Project, the standard solution of the state of Hessen. For this, I first assessed the status quo, completed a skill inventory comprising of both teachers and external programmers and completed a project plan to prepare Hessen for the expected Covid-challenges in winter 2021/22.
  • As programme manager I provided detailed management reporting to the Kultusministerium and ensure proper project controlling using the Projektron project management & controlling solution, for which I became the first user within GEC?s data center operations.
  • I used extensive Excel/PowerQuery programming for the project reporting and monitoring purposes.
Hess. Kultusministerium
Frankfurt, Wiesbaden
3 years 11 months
2017-05 - 2021-03

various Projects

Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Architect, Head of Digital Unit, Vendor Manager and Programme Manager
Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Architect, Head of Digital Unit, Vendor Manager and Programme Manager
  • In my various interim roles, I supported the development of the enterprise IT strategy and drove its implementation with a focus on the digitalization of the sales channels, specifically the digital onboarding, advisory services (= robo advisor) and mid- and back office processes. As FodB focuses on the B2B business, the emphasis of my activities was on the establishment of modern APIs for our business partners as a supplement to their own technical solutions.
  • I also designed and implemented an AML compliant KYC solution and provided architectural guidance to a team of internal and external, near-shored specialists at various geographical locations during the implementation. With my vast experience of different technical options and organizational structures, I was in involved in a number of highprofile IT due diligence assessments for Fodb?s M&A and outsourcing activities, including the takeover of AXA Bank as part of my role as CTO (ad interim) of the bank.
  • I acted as a sponsor and manager for the implementation of a robo-adviser which was developed for one of FodBs main business partners. Being first mover in their market segment when it comes to regulatory compliance with MiFID II, I designed and managed the implementation of an ex-ante and ex-post cost information system and the related regulatory reporting platform vis-à-vis BaFin.
  • I also served as programme manager and architect for the PSD2 API solution of FodB and project manager of the IT activities of the MIFID 2 project, where I became technical liaison to the legal department and handled the direct alignment with BaFin with respect to MiFIR Art. 26 reporting requirements.
  • Slightly off the above, I introduced Jira & Confluence as the central project management platform for the bank, acted as system administrator for a period of two years, implemented(coded) a sales reporting platform for one of FodBs major partners using SQL, and a static data management interface for regulatory reporting purposes..
Fondsdepot Bank GmbH
7 years 3 months
2010-02 - 2017-04

design, implement and operate a variety of software solutions

Global Head of Markets Intelligence & Repositories
Global Head of Markets Intelligence & Repositories
  • I managed a globally distributed team of specialists to design, implement and operate a variety of software solutions with a focus on cross-business data management and analytics, CRM, data warehouses, regulatory reporting and fraud prevention. Services got rendered using the groups ITIL framework implementation.
  • As part of this, I designed a group wide data warehouse for the global trading business of UniCredit in order to establish a central and comprehensive basis for virtually any reporting and analysis requirement arising in this area. This started off with the need to implement a fraud prevention solution in the trading area.
  • With a distributed team of internal and external developers residing in Sofia, Malaga, Warsaw and Munich designed and implemented this data warehouse that currently ranges in the area of 120 TB. It is (still!) being used for most of the regulatory reporting purposes imposed by BaFin and is also used to steer trading activities through statistical analysis. It is also used for monitoring crucial (and banned) short-selling activities as well as real-time exposure monitoring across UniCredit.
  • Furthermore, I introducted state-of-the-art BI and ETL solutions, including a proof-of-concept for a Hadoop-based Big Data solution, whih got rejected in favour of an XML based database solution for performance reasons. Furthermore, I held responsibility for the global CRM system (Siebel), various data warehouses in Italy and Germany, global service platforms like UniCredit ?onemarkets? and the global research platform (UniCredit Research), which are provided as a SaaS to our clients.
  • Smaller, but as crucial solutions like the electronic orderbook and a number of AML/KYC solutions completed my area of responsibility. Amongst these, I also managed the implementation and operation of HVBs P&L explanation engine.
  • All of these activities got serviced by my team of approx. 70 personnel in Warsaw, Milan, Rome, Malaga and Munich.
UniCredit
Munich, Warsaw, Milan
1 year 1 month
2009-01 - 2010-01

implement a global eTrading solution for FX and FX derivatives

Global Head of eTrading
Global Head of eTrading
  • With a proven track-record of being able to turn-around unsuccessful operations, I took over a malfunctioning department and project to implement a global eTrading solution for FX and FX derivatives. After two months my team had successfully stabilized the DevOps environment and we were able to establish a fortnightly delivery schedule for this highly exposed environment, which is still being used as uctrader.eu.
  • After assessing the status quo, introducing proper (project) management approaches and reatructuring the entire team of approx.. 25, I managed this a low-latency trading, auto-trading and auto-hedging platform until maturity, serving as provider manager and client service manager for a pan-European user group.
  • In parallel, I continued to serve as a member of the Global Management Team of ?UBIS? (UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions).
UniCredit
London
11 months
2008-02 - 2008-12

charge for the market data platform

Global Head of Infrastructure Optimisation
Global Head of Infrastructure Optimisation
  • During this period, in which I was also in charge for the market data platform of UniCredit, I was tasked to reduce the infrastructure cost of the overall environment of approx.. 50%. For this, I got additionally introduced as a member to the global team of architects in Milan which are in charge for the IT architecture of the entire group
  • Defining the general architectural pre-conditions with this team and by managing my own department for the actual implementation, we successfully reduced the overall infrastructure cost of the Markets environment as targeted by Management [Name auf Anfrage] approx. 50% down to roughly 10m EUR. This was achieved by identifying 4 main areas for which I managed a significant number of due diligence assessments in order to identify realistic opportunities
  • As part of this, I spearheaded the introduction of a 16.000+ core computational grid, desktop virtualization for the trading floor, the consolidation of the global market data platform universe and various data center optimisations, including energy efficient cooling systems
UniCredit
Munich, London, Milan
2 years 4 months
2005-10 - 2008-01

managed all infrastructure (ICT) related topics

Global Head of Infrastructures/Head of Architecture Board
Global Head of Infrastructures/Head of Architecture Board
  • With a team of approx. 160 specialists, I managed all infrastructure (ICT) related topics for the Markets business(=trading), including the operation of the global helpdesk, server-, database- and desktop operations and the development environment.
  • My main achievements were the merger of the IT of HVB and UBM (UniCredit Banca Mobiliare), the sale of IndexChange to BGI, where I single-handedly managed the IT side and the establishment of ITIL compliant services for BGI, and the (IT) merger of UniCredit with Capitalia, where I served as lead consultant for the IT.
  • As a member of the management team of the then HVB Information Services I had the pleasure of working globally and managing distributed teams of specialists in the highly demanding trading environment of HVB/UniCredit
UniCredit
Munich, London, Milan
1 year 1 month
2004-05 - 2005-05

eCommerce (=FX eTrading) platform

Global Head of Architecture, SW Development & eCommerce
Global Head of Architecture, SW Development & eCommerce
  • In an interim capacity, I managed a team of 25 specialists in London und Dusseldorf who developed and operated the main trading system (Summit), the eCommerce (=FX eTrading) platform and the electronic orderbook.
  • Additionally, I served as the Head of Architecture and had the opportunity to develop the IT strategy of the trading business of WestLB (Virtual Trading Floor).
WestLB
London, Dusseldorf
1 year 11 months
2002-06 - 2004-04

Various Assignments

  • During this period I provided strategic market consulting to an international IT consultancy within the financial services industry, performed a due diligence of a regulatory project of a UK-based TelCo and managed the requirements engineering for the collateral management of a bank
2 years
2000-07 - 2002-06

responsibility to establish a new SaaS business unit providing valuation services for structured derivatives

Member of the Management Team, Head of Shared Services
Member of the Management Team, Head of Shared Services
  • As a member of the management team I held responsibility to establish a new SaaS business unit providing valuation services for structured derivatives, targeting at smaller financial institutions and insurance companies
  • As part of this, I established a team of approx. 10 developers, took responsibility for the system design and handled the sales process to win the first client as lighttower project.
Value & Risk AG
Bad Homburg
10 months
1999-09 - 2000-06

responsibility for the restructuring of the market positioning

Member of the Management Team, Head of Consulting
Member of the Management Team, Head of Consulting
  • As a member of the management team I held responsibility for the restructuring of the market positioning of Interface AG and the related consulting organization
  • This included the general management of that organization, supporting the consultancy sales activities and the management of the sales activites related to a joint venture with Océ.
Interface AG
Unterhaching
1 year 11 months
1998-07 - 2000-05

country manager for Germany and Austria

General Manager, Global Head of Client Services Northern Europe
General Manager, Global Head of Client Services Northern Europe
  • Initially serving as country manager of Germany and Austria for Infinity, I subsequentially managed the merger of Sungard?s and Infinity?s companies and businesses in Germany at the end of 1998 and took full management responsibility for the German and Austrian business as General Manager
  • In this role my team and I successfully extended the customer base, ensured a consistent revenue of approx. 20m p.a. and established a global client services organization which I managed across Northern Europe, comprising Germany, Austria, Scandis and Iceland
  • During this period, customer satisfaction improved significantly, especially for the Infinity and Panorama software suites, which previously hadn?t had any local service organization in Germany and many of the other countries
Infinity ? A Sungard Company
Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Zurich
8 years 4 months
1990-03 - 1998-06

Various Projects

Software Specialist, Senior Developer and Business analyst
Software Specialist, Senior Developer and Business analyst

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1 year 8 months
1988-08 - 1990-03

University of Georgia ? Athens, GA USA

MA Business Administration (GPA 3.89)
MA Business Administration (GPA 3.89)

1 year 1 month
1988-08 - 1989-08

Full-time Scholarship

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DaaD), Bonn
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DaaD), Bonn

4 years
1984-08 - 1988-07

Vordiplom Wirtschaftswissenschaften (BA) (2.0)

Universität Bielefeld ? Bielefeld
Universität Bielefeld ? Bielefeld

Position

Position

  • Programme Manager VAIT
  • Programme Manager IT Migration

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Programmmanagement Enterprise Architect Vait BAIT ZAIT PRINCE2 SAFe ITIL V3 Datawarehouse Regulatory Reporting IT-Betrieb Managementberatung IT-Strategie Softwarearchitektur Business Intelligence

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

I am an accomplished technology leader and team builder in global corporate environments of the highly regulated financial services industry, excelling in designing, building and managing business oriented, sustainable solutions and services. I achieve this by leveraging on my business acumen, my quick comprehension of interrelationships between demand and IT and my technical expertise to serve as a translator between business demand and innovative technological solutions by effectively steering large teams of individuals across multiple geographically distributed locations in order to achieve short- to long-term objectives. In the course of my career, I have been able to maintain a high level of hands-on technical expertise allowing me to stay close enough to technical details in order to ensure realistic programme planning and delivery cycles of state-of-the-art solutions in both traditional as well as agile environments. By being aware of cultural diversity I find it easy to build international teams focused on common goals.


Areas of Expertise

  • Programme Manager
  • Chief Technology Officer 
  • Enterprise Architect 
  • Regulatory Compliance Expert
  • IT Mergers&Acquisitions 
  • Head of Software Development 
  • Head of Infrastructures 
  • Operations of SaaS and PaaS Solutions
  • Product-Led Software Development using Agile Project Approaches
  • IT Operations using ITIL in line with regulatory guidelines like BAIT, ZAIT and VAIT
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • SCRUM, Prince II and variations

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Financial Service (Insurance & Banking)

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