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Christa Fuernkranz

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Last update: 24.04.2008

Project Manager, Senior Business Consultant

Company: SHARK GmbH, Business Consulting & IT Solutions
Graduation: Dipl.-Betriebswirt
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional) | French (Elementary)

Skills

Education: Science of Industrial Management at the University of Economics in Vienna
graduated: Magister rer.soc.oec

Certification: Certified Project Manager
(awarded graduation honors in 05/2006 at the Donau University Krems)
Oracle University in Vienna and Munich for the Modules: Financials, HR, Purchasing and Order Management (2003 – 2004)

IT-Competencies:
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 2000/NT/XP, MVS
DB / Transaction Monitors: DB2 (S390), DB2/UDB (Linux, Windows), Oracle Produktfamilie, DB2/UDB (Linux, Windows, MS-SQL-Server, JDBC, ODBC, SQLJ
Modelling: EBM-Suite, System Engineer, RUP (Rational Unified Process), ADW, IEF, MS Visio Enterprise Edition

ERP-Competencies: Oracle E-Business Suite (Version 11.5.10), Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition:
Modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, Cost Management, Bills of Materials, Configuration, Business Intelligence

Testmanagement-Competencies:
Integration-, Regression-, Mass Tests, User Acceptance Tests, Automated Testing
Standard Test Tools: Mercury Test Director

Specialised Business Branches: Banking, Insurance Business, Social Security, Public Sector, Trading and Industries, Entertainment Business

Methodical Competencies: Because of the long term experience in these business areas, I can call on a wealth of experience and knowledge in the business processes and the needs of specific clients which includes:
• Project Management
• analysis and design of IT architecture
• adjusting existing and integrating new work-flows
• quality assurance by continual feedback and supervision
• definition of quality control criteria
• management and implementation of the criteria into the organisation
• coaching to realise the business processes and make them more effective
• quality review of the results before sign off
• Provision of training sessions and workshops accompanied by the necessary user manuals and documentation
In the course of the business area architecture the human aspect of the business is addressed to include:
• individual tuition
• workshop facilitation skills
• organisation and facilitation of discussion groups
• coaching
• motivation skills
• analysis of team dynamics and personalities
• supervision
• team building
• leadership management
• conflict management

System Analysis and Design:
• OO analysis using UML
• Business Process Analysis using state transition diagrams, swim lanes
• Data Anlaysis using the XML-concepts: XSD-Schemas, XML-Stylesheets with XML-Spy

Project history

The following table is a list of projects I have managed and can be considered relevant in your assessment of my experience. More than a decade of experience within the project management and consultant field has led to me on more than one occasion acting as a trouble-shooter to review and steer projects already within their life cycle:

Client: Social Security Institution for the Industrial Group
Project: Management for the Project B2U (Batch 2 Unix): Transfer of the SVA-specific Batch Application from IBM zOS to UNIX based Server Operation Systems (AIX). The scope of the project also includes automatic code generation and the connection to the control tool for new data processing center (UC4: global)

Client: SONY Pictures & Home Entertainement, SONY DADC
Project: Functional Lead (Project Language English): Design and Implementation of the Testing for the Rollout of an ERP-System (Order to Invoice) in Iberia (Madrid) as well as a trouble-shooting assignment for the Rollout in Germany (Munich).

Client: Social Security Institution for the Industrial Group (SVAdgW)
Project: Automatic Migration of Online Applications: This complex and strategically important project has been awarded to SHARK GmbH as a result of an EU-wide bidding process.
The commonly used software products (CSP und VAG) have been taken out of maintenance by effecting all online administration applications (1600 users nationwide).
Therefore a smooth, efficient and automated upgrade into Java Technology has been successfully performed using a Generator designed and implemented by SHARK GmbH.

Position: Project Manager (including the bidding process)
• Project Management within the Bidding Process
• Project Management within the implementation of a Framework to perform the automatic migration of CSP / VAG Applications into Java including the connection to CICS, Lotus Notes and DB2.
• Test Management: Organisation of User Tests, Regression Tests and Automated Load Tests using a Flodder funcionality.
• Organisation of Training sessions tailored for the specific needs of CSP/VAG turned Java Programmers.
Result: Successful transfer to an up to date, object oriented technology without any manual interference.
The project has been completed successfully within time and budget.

Client: Government of Lower Austria
Projects: WIFFOS Project Family: Automation of the budgets and grants for commercial, tourist and sport promotions of the lower austrian government, including the interface to the specific controlling system of the government.
A turn key project was publicly announced and included business and IT consulting, system analysis and design, system implementation, test management and implementation, training and knowledge transfer.
This success led to a number of follow on projects to provide new functionality, for example: new EU guidelines, the organisation of the EURO change over, technology upgrades.

Client: Association of the Social Security Institutions of Austria
Project: Business analysis for the different social security institutions in order to prepare for the introduction of the chip-card to replace the existing manual system. Brought in during project life cycle to give an ongoing task direction and bring to a conclusion.

GENERALI Versicherung/Generali Service AG
OO-analysis for the connection of an internet platform (EAI – Enterprise Application Integration) for a restricted user group (full insurance administration) involving call centers and main offices. Data analysis and definition of the exchange of date has been performed using the XML-concept.

Client: Wiener Städtische Versicherung, DONAU Versicherung und Volksfürsorge-Jupiter-Versicherung
Project: System analysis and design for the administration of the commercial and general insurances excluding vehicles. A business process model has been designed in cooperation with the key users. The implementation has been performed using the product system developed by SHARK GmbH for another project .

Client: Bank Austria / Creditanstalt Bankverein
Project: Organisation of the implementation of a corporate group wide front End-Dealing-System for the Foreign Exchange Trading Department.
Role: Business Consultant (Project Language English):
• Organisation of the installation
• Training and supervising of the key-users for the head office in Vienna and the branches in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Result: A worldwide connected Real-Time-Front-End-Dealing-System which provides optimal, corporate group wide reaction to market changes.

Client: Bank Austria / Creditanstalt Bankverein
Project/Role: IPOS – International Payment Ordering System: Brought in during project life cycle to review the existing project performance and standing, which led to a change in project organisation and management.

Position: Senior Business Consultant
System analysis and design for the implementation of the international payment ordering system for the CA-BA.
The project was brought back on track and completed successfully within time and budget.

Client: Leading Austrian Pulp and Paper Industry
Project: Implementation of an Enterprise Ressource Planning System (Oracle E-Business Suite) as a Senior Business Consultant:
• Implementation of the Modules Oracle Financials and Purchasing
• Specification of parameters, definition of a reporting system for the management, Project Controlling
The Project Analysis and Documentation has been performed with the EBM Suite by SHARK GmbH:
• The EBM-Suite (Enterprise Business Modeller) covers the complete project-life-cycle and is unique in its complexity and cross functionality. All the processes can also be used in product development and support the full development cycle.

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Only available in these countries: Austria
remote and on-site assignments
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