Senior Technical PROJECT MANAGER (Waterfall/Prince2, Agile/Scrum-Kanban), RFP Manager, Vendor Manager, Telecommunication, Web, Media, Big Data

Interims Project Management for an important IT transformation project for the replacement of obsolete systems in the Media sector:

• introduction of an unique content identifier for content spread through several Media Asset Management Systems (MAMS)
• selection and prototyping  of a fingerprinting system for automatic generation of content hierarchy
• import of EDL (editor decision lists) from market standard cutting systems

Responsibilities:

project definition and target setting, analysis of alternatives, solution design and architecture, budget management, vendor selection, reporting and management of project team.

Multi-Project Manager for migrating of E-Plus customers to the new a new white label portal built for O2 and Blau:

• leading several project teams with Product Managers and Project Engineers
• managing several parallel streams at different stages
• weekly reporting to the board of directors

Key achievements:

• parallel project streams successfully delivered in time, budget and quality
• handover of the new portal features to the line organization

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Project Manager for strategical multi-million IT projects in the airline industry, participating in the solution design, gaining project acceptance to board of directors and C-level management, and efficiently bringing the projects to the line organization:

• introduction of Big Data technologies into the largest (privately owned) data center in Europe; establishing new computational standards, defining the architecture for all the future Big Data applications with a pilot, and using products like Hadoop, Control-M, Oozie and Arista to build the final solution
• new massive computation and multilevel caching systems to enable “Instant Search” functionality for realtime search results to find and compare fares from the majority of airlines for any known air route
• new Open Java Framework for enabling java backend applications to be combined to legacy server-side C++ applications

Key achievements:

• new technologies successfully introduced, and integrated with the legacy systems
• successful handover of the project outcomes to the line organization

Methodology: Waterfall

Technologies and products:

Hadoop, MapR, Control-M, Oozie, Open Java Framework, Instant Searc

Project Manager for the introduction of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with state-of-the-art Continuous Integration system. A hybrid methodology with waterfall and agile has been used, combining Prince2 and SCRUM/Kanban.

Responsibilities:

• Teambuilding and introduction of Agile methodologies
• Budgeting and overall planning
• Work-breakdown-structure and release planning to interface the team with the line organization; risk and stakeholder management
• Introduction of new quality processes and automated regression tests
• Coordination of incremental deployment in the live system

Key achievements:

• Project delivered in time and with excellent quality
• Successfully delivered to the line organization
• Established a positive and collegial working environment
• Continuous Integration System successfully established
• The new ESB brings a new level of flexibility in the further development of the new SOA IT-architecture

Bid-Manager for the vendor selection of new CRM und OM systems:

• Process-Design, assessment criteria for supplier selection
• RFI, Proof-of-Concept, initial contract negotiations
• Implementation of eTOM as Business Process Framework, and TAM (Telecom Application Map)
• Budget up to ca. 20 Mio €

Main achievement: vendor selection process successfully completed

Project Manager for the development of new interfaces with impact to internal and externals systems (WITA ESS). Methodology: waterfall with incremental prototypes.

Key achievements:

• Project delivered earlier as requested, and with no additional budget
• Excellent collaboration between business and IT

Technologies and products:

Java, Jenkins, GIT, SOAP, Eclipse Scout, JIRA, Oracle, Tibco BM, NetCracker RBM, SMS ICCS Ergon Taifun, BSI CRM, Nagios

Design of privacy-aware automation systems for Online Marketing: the solution implements secure interfaces between partner companies, with strong requirements in terms of reliability, privacy and performance.

Key achievements:

• successfully delivered an high availability and fault-resistant system
• customer satisfaction reached in a very tight timeline

End customers for the project are first-tier German price comparison portals, like: Check24, Scout24, and Verivox.

Technologies and products:

Java, Javascript, PHP, Ajax, Eclipse, MySQL, Selenium

Project Manager and Bid Management for the migration to a new convergent and real-time Billing system for the second mobile operator in Switzerland:

• overall coordination and planning of parallel Billing and Network projects
• bid design, strategy, and coordination
• alternatives analysis, business case
• scoping, requirement management, timeline and budgeting
• vendor management, multi-vendor RFQ
• coordinating onsite proof-of-concepts
• business case development for multi-million projects
• reporting to C-level management and board of directors

Key achievements:

• bid process successfully closed, with high quality in a very tight timeline
• satisfactory cooperation with all the involved departments: Technology, Business, Purchasing, Controlling and Legal

Technologies and products:

Comverse Arbor FX/One; Orga OPSC Classic/Gold; CDRator; Oracle, several network interfaces in 3GPP Rel.12 draft telecommunication standard

Analysis, solution design and development of a browser-based Reporting tool for the
E-Commerce Team for Partner Management. Coordination of internal and external customer interfaces.

Project Manager, Solution Designer and IT Architect for the migration and upgrade of the E-Commerce web shop for the Online Marketing team. Using functional and technical domain expertise in liaising with Business and IT stakeholders:

• problem analysis and solution design
• systems and business analysis
• project initiation, scope, risk, business case, requirement management
• workshops with the vendors
• activity estimation and project planning
• requirement design
• evaluation of alternatives and vendor selection
• project setup with Agile methodology and processes
• technical lead of the project

Additional responsibilities:

• setup of a new online monitoring strategy for web applications
• setup of a new business service for automated online ordering
• business intelligence (BI), business requirements analysis
• leading several IT work streams on different secondary projects
• support continuous improvement

Key achievements:

• project accepted and financed by MD board
• vendor selection successfully closed, service provider identified
• successful coordination of stakeholders in Marketing, Web Development, QA, Operations, Release Management, Data Privacy, Security, Legal, Purchasing, etc.
• cooperation between Marketing and IT vastly improved. Marketing aware of IT infrastructure and processes, IT more aware of Marketing priorities
• system stability extremely improved
• external added-value services attract new business partnerships

Billing development; responsible for a system which generates Retail, Business, and Service Provider customer invoices for Telefónica O2 Germany:

• process design and coordination
• requirement analysis
• database design
• low level design and interface documentation
• development, unit test, and deployment
• DBA tasks and environment support

Technologies and products:

Comverse Kenan/Arbor billing system, PERL, UNIX HP-UX, Shell, Oracle, SQL, Rational tools