About me

Languages

German: Mother tounge
English: Cambridge First Certificate, Business English
Spanish: Basics

Places of work
  • Europe in geografical meaning incl. eastern Europe, Switzerland, United Kingdom, EU work permit holder

previous roles in projects
  • Project Manager (customer facing),
  • Technical Project Manager,
  • Business- and systems analyst (Business and IT-Processes),
  • Solution architect for new processes incotect of Customer Care & Billling or for upgrading and customisationofecisting processes to the state of art
  • Subject Matter Expert: Functional and technical specifications
  • Migrationmanager for largescaledata migrations including ressource planing, timeschedule, teamlead, writing migration documents on all levels (migration strategy, overall migration concept, detailed design)
  • Performance Test Team Lead
  • Head Of Testing (Coordination)
  • Head Of IT (CIO)

Areas of expertise
  • Data Centre Solutions running virtual servers as SaaS (System as a Service)
  • Requierements analyses and documentation
  • Solution architecture
  • Billing and Rating Systems
  • Mediation Systems
  • Customer Care Systems
  • Fraud management and collection sytems
  • large scale data migrations
  • Project Management for SAP S/4 Hana projects

Goals

Whether it is about the introduction of a new IT system or sevice, the conversion to an service-oriented architecture (SOA) or the automation of the business processes, new technologies always bring new requirements to the methodology of work to represent the state of the art.

Platforms are selected and implemented quickly – frequently too quick. Beside a responsible selection of the tools the introduction of the necessary project culture and processes belongs to the successful implemetation of a new system. Changes and restructuring applications are complex, time- and costintensive. As a result the advantages of the centralization of systems or the simplification of structures and processes are well-known as best practice.

Higher efficiency increases the yields and lowers the expenditures on a long-term basis. That way the full capacity of the products and/or solutions can be used, values can be added and costs can be saved.


My work propositions

Analysation

  • Simplification
  • Standarisation
  • Automation
  • Globalisation

All information relevant for an enterprise is recorded and prepared in such a way that consistent data of high quality can be used at any time simultaneous. When structuring these processes I use my experience, expertise and a well-founded specialized know-how.


Some of my strengths
  • Critical view and quick apprehension
  • Problem consciousness from customer view
  • Confidence into the achievement of the team, more about my strategy on teamwork can be found here»
  • Transparent guidance
  • Innovation – I do not stop getting better and accompany changes and ideas actively.
  • Permanent development of the customer-oriented service quality

Scope of Service

Functional and technical: technical analyses and specifications  » read more about my technical services here
Customer facing projectmanagementProject- and programmmanagement » read more about my PM services here


Industrial sectors

In principle, many topics are industry-neutral and independent and can be managed by me for any industry. However, when it comes to industry-specific systems, terminology, or business processes, I have experience in the following sectors:

  • Telecommunications (landline, mobile, internet)
  • Hosting and data centers
  • Chemicals
  • Energy
  • Public sector
  • Payment service provider, banks
Technichal knowledge, methods, frameworks and tools
Operating-Systems
  • HP Unix 10.2 and 11,
  • Compaq Unix Tru64,
  • Windows 95/98/XP/ME/Vista/7 und 8, 10, 11
  • WIN NT/2000,
  • Novell from v. 3.51 to v.5,
  • EMC & NAS storages
  • Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012
Programming-Languages
  • Unix Shell-Scripting, awk & sed
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • HTML, DHTML
  • Visual Basic
  • Delphi
Databases
  • Oracle-SQL, Oracle 10g & 11g
  • Ingres-SQL
  • MySQL
  • MS-Access-SQL
  • MS SQL Server 2008
  • Teradata, Informatica, Cognos
  • All necessary tools regarding Unix and RDBMS
Telco-billing & CRM: Subject Matter Expert for the follwing Out-Of-The Box Systems:
  • CABS2000 (fixed net and GSM)
  • ARAVIS (fixed net for B2B Customers)
  • GENEVA, IRB, RBM (fixed net, mobile and IP-Billing by volume for GPRS and UMTS, cable-TV and utilities)
  • Kenan Arbor
  • Intec Interconnect Billing
  • Watchdog (Fraud Management)
  • DOC1 Formatter
Other applications
  • HP Quality Center
  • Tibco
  • (BCM) Remedy
  • Vantive
  •  Microsoft Sharepoint
Economical know-How
  • Company management in all aspects as company owner
  • Finance and accounting
  • Legal issues and aspects in the telco industry (austrian and german law)
Facility Services
  • Site acquisition
  • technical equipment like false floor, air conditioning, USV, security and alarm systems etc…
Project Management in customer facing projects
  • functional and technical: Customer Care & Billing and products
  • Data center Hosting und SaaS
  • large volume data migrations
  • Ugrades
  • Transitions
  • Migrationes
  • Setup of new system landscapes
  • run-doen of legacy system landscapes
  • Data center and/or landscape consolidations
  • Licence consolidations (i.e. Oracle)
Test Management
  • System Tests, Site Integration Tests (SIT)
  • Performance Tests
  • Site Acceptance Tests (SAT)
  • Business Acceptance Tests (BAT)
  • User Acceptance Tests (UAT)
  • End to End Tests (E2E)
  • Operational Rediness Tests (ORT)