Cloud, Security and AI Consultant

Project Assignments & Roles

10 months - Project Manager and Coach
for the global migration and rollout of a digital platform
Giesecke & Devrient, international technology provider with > 11.000 employees, Munich - Germany

Description of the company & program:

Leading international technology provider based in Munich that provides banknote and securities printing,
smart cards, and cash handling systems.

The program was focused on the modernization and global rollout of a new digital production platform for
(e)SIM personalization.

My responsibilities and values added to the project:

* Established a migration factory to migrate all legacy platforms to a new platform: 10 locations, 400
customers and thousands of products to the new platform in two strategic locations

* Defined processes and activities for ensuring smooth, high-quality migrations

* Set up of a migration tracking tool based on MS SharePoint, including automated analysis in MS Excel and
automated reporting in MS PowerPoint/Think-Cell

* Initiated the migrations and delivery of the pilot migrations

* Coached the head of quality & testing

* Improved QA processes (review, optimization and automation)

* Established agile processes (Scrum)

* Increased level of test automation to reduce duration of test cycles

* Stakeholder management, reporting to C-level executives, global migration planning, issues & risks
management, and definition of migration success factors

Technologies, tools and methods:

Agile project management, Scrum, migration, Enterprise Tester, MS SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, ITIL

for the re-location of e-commerce platforms
Allianz, insurance company with >140.000 employees, Munich - Germany

Description of the company & program:

German financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance
and asset management. It is one of the world's largest insurance companies.

Global program to outsource, consolidate and transform all global data centers to one service provider.

My responsibilities and values added to the project:

* Lead of a re-location strategy and project for the e-commerce platform of one of the most important
operating entity

* Successfully migrated a very complex platform with around 500 servers in 4 staging environments

* Staffing, scope management, requirements management, issue & risk management, project & milestone
planning and tracking

* Stakeholder management and reporting to C-Level board

Technologies, tools and methods:

Project Management according to customer standards, IT-strategy, migration, ITIL

for the development of a data center strategy and data center migration
Giesecke & Devrient, International technology provider with > 11.000 employees, Munich - Germany

Description of the company & program:

Leading international technology provider based in Munich that provides banknote and securities printing,
smart cards, and cash handling systems.

The program was about the definition of a data center strategy and the first consolidation of data center.

My responsibilities and values added to the project:

* Project lead and conception of a data center strategy for the worldwide production of master data for
eSIM, SIM and subscription management

* Initiated a project for relocation of one of the master data production sites to another European location

* Budget planning & sourcing, staffing, scope management, requirements management, issue & risk
management, project and milestone planning and tracking

* Assessed the IT-service management processes with an external auditor. Definition of measures for
achieving higher maturity levels

Technologies, tools and methods:

Project management according to customer standards, IT-strategy, business-case, migration, ITIL