Program manager for update projects for current AML & Sanctions Compliance implementations used by Allianz Subsidiaries:- Negotiation with Allianz subsidiaries and solution supplier on projects' scope, plan & budget;- High-level projects planning and Execution Supervision;- Reporting & budget management.Project manager/Platform Architect for the implementation of a new state-of-the-art platform for Compliance/Anti-Money-Laundering applications:- Developed high-level requirements jointly with business stakeholders;- Supervised various proof-of-concept and demo implementations: - AWS/Databricks-based PoC on unsupervised machine learning; - Internal machine learning pipeline PoC on supervised ML applicability; - Private-cloud-based PoC on cloud performance & implementation efforts;- AWS spark-based PoC on feature extraction performance;- Developed an architecture blueprint;- Developed a business-case for the project.

Built up an autonomous experienced operations team for Solvency II IT Operations (Critical High-Performance Distributed Calculation Platforms for Risk Applications) at Allianz' off-shore captive and transitioned operations: - Developed target team structure & operations model; - Developed a transition approach and plan; - Negotiated an exit agreement with an outsourcing provider; - Prepared a business case and went through internal approval process; - Screened perspective potential candidates; - Executed transition incl. know-how-transfer and operations start; - Established open and effective communication between Munich and off-shore teams.

Led a distributed team consisting of 20+ internal, external and off-shore members to stabilize and industrialize Solvency II IT operations up to the point of having no IT-caused outages by setting up operations processes and training the team: - Ensured sufficient team capacity by setting up shifts; - Eliminated resource scarcity by setting up capacity management; - Implemented proactive issue identification with automated monitoring; - Sped up incident resolution from hours to minutes by setting up incident management process; - Reduced repetitive issues by introducing problem management process; - Reduced the number of emails per month from 2000+ to several dozens by setting up a ticketing system (TRAC) for incident & problem management; - Reduced manual errors by introducing technical operations checklists; - Ensured proper support for incident resolution from other teams and external vendors by setting up communications.

Successfully delivered large-scale international projects incl. migration of a P&C Premium Risk Modeling application (based on stochastic simulation) used by 25+ Allianz subsidiaries worldwide from a desktop application to a cluster-based platform: - Developed requirements jointly with business departments; - Negotiated software functionality and contract conditions with suppliers; - Performed full cycle project management from initiation over design, planning, execution incl. controlling to production go-live; - Staffed and managed project teams (2-4 internals & contractors); - Developed and assessed technical solutions (e.g. adaptation for virtualized remote desktop/Citrix environment, integration with user management systems, implementation of multi-tenancy, performance optimizations etc.); - Prepared and established proper operations processes; - Prepared service agreements incl. SLA and customer-facing processes; - Planned and managed technical roll-outs to Allianz' subsidiaries.

Project manager for a software testing project: - Developed testing requirements with the customer' project team; - Designed test concept, planned and coordinated tests; - Worked with customer' business users and software supplier to implement new requirements discovered during business testing; - Planned and initiated go-live.

- End-to-End Performance Monitoring with HP ALM.

- Research in the area of Software Performance Engineering & Workflow Management; - Designed & implemented an OSGI/Eclipse-based toolkit for rapid software performance prototyping & automated parallelization of business processes; - Supervised diploma students.

- Led a team of 3 developers to successfully implement a workflow management system (XPDL).

- Developed a cross-platform (X Window System / MS Windows) graphics library for two-dimensional vector objects manipulation.- Developed a module transforming PL/I source code into an internal language-neutral representation for a Y2K Software Re-engineering Platform.