Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Management and reorganization of the IT-Department from a decentralized to a centralized matrix organization • Creation and monitoring of the global group IT-budget in cooperation with the groups local CFOs • Strategic planning of the global IT-infrastructure • Establishment of a holistic monitoring system for monitoring KPIs & SLAs • Implementation of a uniform domain concept and management of numerous network and domain integration projects • Restructuring and continuous improvement of the group's network security concept • Responsible for the operation and development of the global SAP system landscape • Migration of all central services to highly available private cloud solutions • Project management of numerous international SAP go-lives (Poland, Ukraine, Portugal, India, China, Korea and Vietnam) • Development of a digital roadmap for the PRETTL Group, taking into account the IT requirements of the individual departments (http://tinyurl.com/interviewTB) • Unification and renegotiation of several IT contracts as well as realization of considerable savings (for example SAP / Microsoft / Teamcenter / Salesforce licenses, Internet / MPLS, Telephone, various hosting providers as well as standardized hardware baskets) • Current projects: SAP roll-out Morocco, roll-out Siemens Teamcenter, Domain integartion of the Brazil-Site, roll-out Lync (SfB) Infrastructure and implementation of a global radius concept
• Establishment and management of a globally operating SAP-Team based on a centralized matrix organization • Outsourcing of all programming-activities into low-cost development centers in India and Hungary • Design, set up and operation of a highly available SAP landscape • Creation of a roll-out-capable SAP-Template • Active project management of numerous international SAP go-lives (USA, Mexico, Hungary, Germany) (http://tinyurl.com/SAPTB) • Implementation of an audit-compliant change management (SolMan) and authorization concept
• Project management of internal restructuring projects • Analysis and evaluation of monthly / annual reports • Execution of market and potential analyzes in the context of M&A projects • Functional support within enterprise aquisitions (due diligence) • Representation of the group at foreign sites and numerous exhibitions
• Head of several industrial on-site consulting projects focusing on SAP, Process- and IT-Project-Management in the sectors “insurance” and “plant construction”. Reference project: Project man-agement of a new process design for a large Power Plant Constructor • System administrator of the SAP landscape (IDES) of the Saarland University • DFKI project management of the international research projects Commius (development of flexible process support for SMEs) and SWINNG (development of innovative business models for the software industry) • Preparation and presentation of numerous international conference papers in the areas of business process management and business models (http://tinyurl.com/publicationsTB)
Research Assistant at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)