IT Program-/Project- & interim Management

Specialised in SAP Implementations, Migrations, Upgrades and Maintenance in international environments, especially collaboration with India (exDirector of SAP Competence Center for Alstom)

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Biography

I launched my career as a consultant in Supply Chain & Manufacturing, focusing on SAP and Supplier Relationship Management at Ernst & Young and Cap Gemini. This role allowed me to develop a deep understanding of industry best practices and client needs.

After over four years in consulting, I joined Bombardier Transportation as a Manager, leading a team of in-house consultants to implement, deploy, and maintain Business Intelligence, analytical, and collaboration applications, primarily focusing on SAP BI, BO, and Portal. Subsequently, I headed a team responsible for implementing and maintaining supply chain applications in procurement, sourcing, inventory/warehouse management, and manufacturing.

Later, I led a team of 20 application managers, overseeing application management, budget planning, license management, and governance of external suppliers globally to provide application services. I spearheaded a program of multiple projects to migrate over 100 applications (including SAP) between data centers and later transitioned SAP systems from an internal DC and Oracle DB to the Azure cloud and Hana DB.

In my most recent position, I led the SAP Competence Center at Alstom, managing a talented team of SAP experts responsible for designing, implementing, and operating SAP solutions to meet Alstom’s business needs. This position allowed me to leverage my expertise to drive innovation and efficiency within the organization.

Project List

  • Program Manager for portfolio of projects to integrate company ERP with different customer systems to support service, supply chain and commercial processes. Implementation of > 30 interfaces for multiple customers.
  • Leading migration of large SAP ERP from on-premise data center and oracle DB to azure cloud and Hana DB.

  • Program Management of different SAP projects for deployments, migration Brexit and archiving.

  • Program Management SAP ERP Template deployment to new sites.

  • Leading transition of SAP operations from internal and existing external support to new outsourcer.

  • Leading program to move Bombardiers SAP (ERP, PI, BI, Portal) systems from outdated HW and OS in outsourced data centres to new and updated environment in a Bombardiers own DC.

  • Leading market evaluation of different eCommerce Solutions for Bombardier Transportation. Selection of product to exchange different logistic information between Bombardier and it’s supplier (orders, schedules, confirmation, deliveries). Responsible for design of system architecture and solution design.

  • Coordination of deployment of Global SAP Template first in the BI, then in Supply Chain and Manufacturing area to several countries works wide (UK, France, North America, China, Denmark).
  • Technical Project Manager for the implementation of a Financial Executive Cockpit to provide a web based reporting cockpit for Bombardier Transportations top level management.
  • Set-up of an off-shoring support organisation for the newly implemented SAP solution used by Bombardier Transportation in UK.
  • As project manager responsible for off-shoring of Bombardier Transportations SAP Portal Develoment and Maintenance Team to India.
  • Technical Project Manager for the implementation of a Logistics (Purchasing, Quality Management, Warehouse Management ) BW system to be rolled out globally for Bombardier Transportation.
  • Technical Project Lead for the roll-outs of the below described eProcurement (EBP) solution to local branches of a global telecommunications company in EMEA (i.e. Netherlands, Spain, UK, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, South Africa) and Japan.

  • Design and implementation of a Core Model for common global Procurement Processes for all 18 European market units with SAP Enterprise Buyer. Integration of these processes with mutiple ERP back-end and HR systems and in a shared service centre concept.

  • Implementation of the SAP R/3 Materials Management-software for a large electricity supplier. Responsibility for the configuration of the purchase-to-pay and invoice verification processes.

  • Conception and implementation of an optimized procurement process and warehouse management for an Austrian producer and supplier of electricity. The result of this project was a centralized warehouse management with low stock level and a decentralized purchasing process.

  • Reengineering of the purchasing process for B- and C-parts in a large consumer products company. During this project the existing purchasing processes were analyzed, new optimized processes were designed and implemented.

My Portfolio

IT Program Management
IT Project Management (Migration, Upgrade, Interface Development)
IT Interim Department Lead
Focus on SAP products
Managing Teams (International, Remote Teams, Off-shore (india), German / English)

Skills

Strong team lead skills including communication and motivation of teams.
Organizational skills, prooven in different roles as department lead for multinational teams.
Excellence in translation between German and English speaking teams as well as between business and IT teams members.
Project Planning, execution and follow up.
Quick learner of new technologies and processes.

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