Senior Managing Business and ICT Consultant - Project/Program Manager

Management of several OSS migrations based on MyCom PrOptima/EAA. Managing the RFI and PoC for a new cloud based C-SON solution.

IT Integration of 80 Clariant Masterbatches sites worldwide (US, EMEA, APAC and LATAM) into the global network of Avient Corp. after successful acquisition in 2020.

Managing the rollout of upgrades of several network sites of the German Government’s digital mobile radio network all over Germany.

On-boarding of ERV Germany into the global infrastructure programme IISS run by ERGO group. Migration of two local data centers as well as of two international branches in Poland and Italy into a private cloud.

Rollout of Mitel MX-One based UCC solutions across all public authorities in the federal district of Hessen, Germany, on behalf of “Hessische Zentrale fuer Datenverarbeitung” (HZD).

Senior project and vendor management of an overall network modernization program (RAN/LTE, IMS, BSS) run by Djibouti Telecom; cross-department alignment management within Djibouti Telecom.

Analysis of how „data driven“ approaches combined with automation will create new opportunities and benefits for the Telco core business. Market research of current BigData and AI approaches/solutions. Preparation of a position paper for marketing purposes.

Project management consulting in the areas of project planning, quality management, controlling and project reporting in the context of an NGN (IMS based) service (RCSe/Join) migration project.

Cross-functional project and vendor management of large scale infrastructure consolidation projects in the area of NGN (mobile IMS) test and production environments. Major goals/benefits include:  significant Capex and Opex reductions (>6m Euro in 2015-16),  alignment of strategic service deployments (e.g. WiFi calling, IN Evolution, Converged Messaging) as part of the “mobile goes IP” program driven by DTAG product management/marketing,  business process modeling (BPM) based on eTOM framework  quality assurance of commercial services VoLTE and Joyn (RCSe),  future-proof utilization of multi-service IMS platforms. Member of the SVP steering committee (LA) VoLTE.

Lead managing contact (SPOC) for major customers Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany. Managing the deployment of Acme Packets session border controllers (SBC) being an integral part of the key strategic projects  "R4 IP InterConnect" interconnecting NGN/"all-IP" fixed and mobile network domains for HD voice services (DTAG)  „Voice over LTE (VoLTE)“ including first time utilization of virtualized network functionality (NFV, SDN, “Telco Cloud”) (Vodafone Germany)

 Vendor Management across European subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom AG in the context of OSS solutions for radio networks capacity and performance management. SPOC for suppliers and DTAG subsidiaries (NatCos).  Re-engineering of vendor management and business processes (BPMN, eTOM), organization and chairing of international DTAG/MYCOM user forums across several European countries.  RFI / RFP / RFQ preparation, proposal evaluation, vendor assessments.

Project planning, subcontractor- and delivery management in the context of UMTS eNodeB development projects (e.g. OAM, LTE platform, build management)

Functional and technical design of a basic mobile network service in the area of mobile payment. Feasibility studies and market research. Evaluation in cooperation with the “Innovation Board” supported by area and central boards of directors of Siemens AG.