International Project Manager

Project Manager Migration Project (Phase-2 Frontendswitching)
Wirecard AG Graz / Munich
Project Manager Frontend Switching

Technical project management of a project for the migration of frontened legacy systems to a new system environment (10,000 customers in Austria / Germany / CEE)

- Project Management / Controlling
- Project planning
- stakeholder communication
- Coordination of sales, support and software development teams
- Organization of customer communication
- Organization of trainings
- Coordination with other projects (PSD2 / 3 DS2.x introduction)

Qualifications:

Financial Services (Payment Service Provider & Bank)
Agile Development (SCRUM / SAFE)
Project management and reporting
Risk management
PCI / DSS
PSD2 / 3D Secure 2.x.

Project Manager Social Manager / Digitalisation EU Research Project "FLOODSERV" 

1) Requirements Management
2) Management of developers 
3) Ensure quality of deliverables 
4) Workpackage Management 
5) Riskmanagement 
6) Presentations, Workshops with customers and partners

Technical project management of a project to migrate the software from legacy systems to a new system environment (16,000 customers in Austria / Germany / CEE)

- Project Management / Controlling
- Project planning
- stakeholder communication
- Coordination of distributed development teams
  (Austria / Germany / Slovakia)

Qualifications:

Financial Services (Payment Service Provider & Bank)
Agile Development (SCRUM / SAFE)
Project management and reporting
risk management
PCI / DSS
PSD2 / 3D Secure 2.0

Technical Project Manager (E-Commerce)
Hornbach AG
Technical project management in e-commerce / web environment

Functional expansions of a large international webshop in the trading environment around customer configurable products (product configurator).

Introduction of automated testing procedures for these extensions.

- Project planning and controlling
- Reporting
- Risk management
- Supplier control - and control
- Introduction of automated test procedures

Technical environment:

Hybris, SAP, Java, TOMCAT, Jenkins,
Tools: Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, XRAY, Ghostlab, Ranorex

Leading a consortium with 16 international partners and a program with a total budget of 9 million euros. Consortium partners and end users in 10 countries (Austria, Germany, France, England, Spain, Lithuania, Cyprus, Romania, China and Kenya).

The project addressed the use of methods such as digital / new communication channels (social media) for politics and business processes in the city administration. The aim of the software is the automated analysis, evaluation and presentation (visualization) of the social media data, as well as the simulation of impact of decisions. The data are "big data" in the sense of the "3V" definition (Volume, Velocity and Variety), so that in addition to standard components such as web technologies (Apache, Java, Flash, ...) SAP HANA is also a high-performance database was used with appropriate tools. The solution is operated in the cloud and deployed as a software as a service (SaaS) (i.e., browser based).

Tasks:

1) Overall responsibility for the entire SDLC of the product (redevelopment and integration of existing components) and ensuring the quality of the delivery products
2) representing the consortium to the EU and customers
3) Program Management and Controlling
4) Risk management
5) Lectures, workshops at conferences and at customers


Individual components of the project:
- Social Media and their analysis
- Text analysis
- Visualization
- Piloting
- Simulations

Project management of an international IT project in the e-business environment. Technical support of the project (business analysis and scoping) together with partners

Qualifications:
International project management
requirements management
Development of multilingual software
E-business and e-commerce
EDI / UBL

The Federal Computing Center belongs to the Ministry of Finance in Austria. It is the data center of the Austrian government. The procedures developed there contributed significantly to Austria's leading position in eGovernment.

Tasks:
Implementation of European projects in the public sector focusing on finance, state treasury and electronic procurement
  - Project Management
  - Controlling
  - Risk management
   
b) Technical IT process consulting for international customers (data center processes / ITIL)

Projects:

• 2007-2010 Pan European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL):
 National project leader and responsible for the presentation of the project in Europe
 The project included the European-wide introduction of uniform electronic processes for procurement processes of the public sector. Total budget 33 million euros, national budget 4 million euros.
 Single Components: Electronic Catalog / E-Shop, Electronic Ordering and Accounting, Virtual Company Dossier
  
• 2006/2007 PL2004 / IB / FI-05 TL Ministry of Finance, Poland: "Development of a Management Information System in the Polish Ministry of Finance"
  Planning an MIS for the Polish Ministry of Finance

• 2005/2009 CZ02 / IB / FI / 01 State Treasury System in the Ministry of Finance Czech Republic
  Planning and implementation of a budget clearing system for the Ministry of Finance for budgeting and budget execution (
  Analysis of the processes in the IT operation of the Ministry as well as the existing infrastructure and elaboration of recommendations
  
• 2006 - 2008 FP6 / Contract 045472: "Enhancing Western Balkans eGovernment Expertise" (Croatia, Serbia, FYROM, Bosnia)
  Presentation of best practices in the field of e-customs, e-finance and e-justice, exchange of experience workshops and recommendations for the
  improvement

• 2008/2009 HR / 2005 / IB / FI / 02 "Strengthening and Enhancement of the Croatian Tax Administration IT to achieve the EU Standards in the VAT field"
  Supervision of the supplier (IBM) in the project implementation and quality control of the delivery products

• 2008/2009 BG 06 IB FI 01 NSI, Bulgaria "Reorganization of the National Statistical Institute (NSI)"

Advice on the reorientation, restructuring and optimization of the data center operation of the Austrian Federal Railways

Tasks:

a) Implement ITIL compliant processes

b) Consolidation of servers and applications to reduce costs. For this purpose, the SLA customer requirements were re-surveyed and the system landscape was realigned taking into account various IT operating parameters (dependencies, risk, requirement for availability, security)

c) improvement cost control
  Introduction of a new cost transparency system for individual services. The individual partial costs were raised again and a new product catalog with prices was created. On this basis, the RZ benefits received from the individual Group divisions were recalculated.

d) Project preparation / pilot projects for the introduction of new systems for ticketing and alerting, (Remedy, ..)

e) Introduction of SLA management
  Redesign of service level agreements

f) Introduction of a central documentation of the data center infrastructure

Portfolio Manager in the IT Division for a portfolio of private banking and financial advisory applications.
In detail: CRM, CRM Intermediaries, Financial Planning and Adviusory Tools, Trust Management (Offshore Business)

Managing 4 individual teams (3 development teams with about 30 employees and a QM team with 5 employees)
Tasks:

1. Overall responsibility for the development, testing and roll-out of new releases (i.e., for the entire SDLC). In the foreground was the further development of the existing systems (ie no new purchases / tenders)

2. Project portfolio management and monitoring project management of individual projects
  Final responsibility (commercial and technical) towards the end customers in the UBS Group
  Optimization of the application portfolio
  Risk management of the portfolio
  Stakeholder Management

3. Supplier coordination, contract management and final responsibility for acceptance (quality control)

4. Solution Managers: Single Point of Contact for End Users in the various business units of UBS

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Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) is Kenya's largest bank with approximately 5,000 employees. In the course of the project, all systems were examined and measures for improvement were implemented.

Project volume $ 30 million. Team size approx. 45 employees

tasks

1. Overall responsibility to the board both technically and commercially for the entire project implementation
2. Personnel Management (10 Subteams with approx. 45 employees in total)
3. Tendering and evaluation of products (both hardware and software), vendor management
4. Risk management and quality control (final responsibility for the acceptance)
5. Planning measures for the migration of systems and business processes (change management)

In detail:

a) Planning and implementation of the new system environment and the data center
  The existing data center (main data center and failure data center) were re-planned to be well equipped for the expansion of the system landscape.
b) Implement a new network infrastructure (WAN and LAN). The existing network infrastructure has been completely replaced by CISCO routers / switches and upgraded to high speed (100MB / Gigabit).
c) Roll out Office Automation: MS Office and email at all workstations
d) re-tendering of a system for the branches (retail)
  Extensive planning and creation of an RFP for the new system, as well as business process reengineering (modernization) of the bank-technical processes
e) Recertification and implementation of a treasury system including a new infrastructure for the department
f) Recertification and implementation of systems for accounting, payroll and HR
  Specifically, accounting was rolled out for Accounting ORACLE Financials, and a local system was selected for payroll accounting / HR that could best meet the legal requirement.
g) Optimization of existing applications (ATM-ATM, credit card processing, MICR)
h) Reconception of the website and the website

Responsible for the design and implementation of IT systems to produce economic & statistical indicators.

Counterparts were Ministries of Industry, Ministries of Economy and Statistical Offices.

 

28 Projects were implemented with selected member countries worldwide (12  larger, 16 smaller projects in Africa and Asia)

 

The task included:

1. Design of the system including interfaces to feeding systems
2. Implementation of the systems in target countries
3. Procurement of hardware and software
4. Data collection and survey activities

          - Definition of questionnaires and indicators

          - Supervise verification of raw data  

          - Supervision of survey and computer staff

          - Training

      e)   Publication of results

 

The programme with a total value of was 8.6 Mio US$ required project management of multiple projects in different locations simultaneously.

 

Country	Year	Project	Counterpart
Ethiopia	1989-1991	SI/ETH/88/803/11	Ministry of Industry
Tanzania	1991-1993	DP/URT/90/029	National Development Corporation (NDC)
ASEAN (regional)	1993	UC/RAS/93/013	Ministry of Trade and Industries, Central Statistical Offices and Planning Commissions
Namibia	1993	SI/NAM/93/803-02	Ministry of Trade and Industry
Mongolia	1994	SI/MON/94/802	State Statistical Office
Sierra Leone	1994	XP/SIL/94/086	Department of Trade, Industry and State Enterprises
Lesotho	1994	LES/94/005/	Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Labour
Vietnam	1994-1997	DP/VIE/94/019/	Central Statistical Office
Madagasacr	1994-1995	XP/MAG/94/018/	Ministry of Trade and Industry
Congo (Brazza)	1995	XA/PRC/95/609/	Ministry of Industry and Fishing
Benin	1996-1997	DG/BEN/95/004/	Ministry of Trade and Industry
Cambodia	1995-1996	SI/CMB/95/802/	Ministry of Industry, Mining  and Energy
Gambia	1996	XA/GAM/96/624/	Ministry of Trade, Industry and Employment
Erithrea	1997	XA/ERI/97/611/	Ministry of Trade and Industry