Global planning and management of the lT project portfolio and the Business Assurance division's application landscapeResponsibility for the development and implementation of the divisional lT strategy and architecturePlanning and controlling the IT budget of the division and the associated companiesDisciplinary management of the Academy IT department and technical management of all IT employees in the divisionRepresentation of the division within the group on all lT topics

Global IT responsibility of the TÜV SÜD Academy division

Consulting service for the Business Enablement / Quality & Testdepartment.Definition, planning and effective execution of the overall test strategy in an agile environment.

Proficiently overseeing Workplace Solutions and ERP across the Sky DACH region in a DevOps based organization, including operations management, delivery of business requirements and introduction of new enterprise technologies, business relationship management, supplier contract facilitation and budget mgt.Key achievements:Effectively delivered flexible remote working during the pandemic, including MS Teams roll-out, hybrid meeting room experience, remote on-boarding… Show more Proficiently overseeing Workplace Solutions and ERP across the Sky DACH region in a DevOps based organization, including operations management, delivery of business requirements and introduction of new enterprise technologies, business relationship management, supplier contract facilitation and budget mgt.Key achievements:Effectively delivered flexible remote working during the pandemic, including MS Teams roll-out, hybrid meeting room experience, remote on-boarding, Jira/Confluence, up-scaled Citrix infrastructure, security measures like MFA authentification.Successfully improved key metrics through operational excellence and efficient use of resources and processes.Boosted engagement and ownership through motivation, performance, leadership style and a people-first culture. Show less

Successfully building and leading the "Business Engagement" unit, defining IT/business relationship management, helping Sky business areas to innovate and grow.Active role in transforming the IT organization towards a DevOps based approach including up/re-skilling of roles and leading the team actively through the change processLeading the program "Operational Transformation" (100+ initiatives for cost savings in the customer service environment, budget size: 12M€)

Building and leading a team of quality assurance managers and testers, ensuring quality standards as well as constant further development and design of our QA processes and testing frameworks (functional, integration, system and regression tests)Creation of test concepts for complex, multi-territory integration tests.Key achievement:Establishment of a test factory, incuding the introduction of automated regression testing for mobile applications (OTT), CRM (Siebel) and web.

Introduction of quality assurance standards and methodologies as part of the Sky software delivery cycle, inluding introduction of Jira as defect management system and development of a test customer data base.

Development of new test strategies for DRAM module projectsKey achievements:Successful implementation of "Development Excellence" for optimizing internal development processes and project lead timesProject management and development of a "low-cost" DRAM module test system (Savings potential of annual test costs: 3 million euros)

Team lead of a multi-national team responsible for product development and test.Key achievements:Successful development of the test concept for FBDIMM and DELL customized modulesSignificantly reduced production costs and therefore incleased profit marginSuccessful development of a graphical user interface in C++/Qt to run the Qimonda module test system in world-wide production sitesReceived Qimonda "Team of the Month", "Team of the Year 2005" and "Project of the Quarter"… Show more Team lead of a multi-national team responsible for product development and test.Key achievements:Successful development of the test concept for FBDIMM and DELL customized modulesSignificantly reduced production costs and therefore incleased profit marginSuccessful development of a graphical user interface in C++/Qt to run the Qimonda module test system in world-wide production sitesReceived Qimonda "Team of the Month", "Team of the Year 2005" and "Project of the Quarter" awards Show less

Responsibility for development, maintenance and implementation of productive application test programs for DRAM modules. Foundation of the Qimonda central function for productive application test

Development of ATE test programs (Advantest T55xx and Teradyne j97x ) and application tests for DRAM productsKey achievement:Project of the Quarter" award for co-development on the "Continuous Module Production" project