Core competencies:

• Project management , PMP
  complex projects in the banking and software industry
  Interims-Management, IT-Management Consulting, IT-Strategy, Project Reviews, IT Infrastructure Consolidation, Testmanagement, Release Management
• Business consulting
• in payments and market data
  Business Process Management, Business Process Monitoring, Outsourcing, Enterprise Architecture, Specification Design
  
  - Positive and always willing to help
  - Extremely efficient and able to motivate a team
  - Works well across multiple business groups
  - Able to wear many hats
  - Communicates effectively with colleagues, customers and vendors

Experiences

• Application Management
  incl. corporate & project governance, incident- and release management
• Vendor management
  contract design and negotiations, consultancy in software industry, key account managment, development strategy and process incl. configuration management, deployment and release management
• Sales & marketing
  especially strategic selling and improving, customer satisfaction while increasing customer profitability

Sample Application Manager

• The Application Manager Payments is responsible for ensuring that the company’s payment application architecture supports the critical business information processing requirements. He ensures that all applications are correctly integrated with the bank’s agreed architecture to meet the business requirements in a cost effective and efficient manner. Therefore he links between business departments and system administration/developers/external suppliers.

Tasks

• tracking of project plans and milestones
• co-operation with software vendors
• coordination and execution of all IT tasks around payment solutions
• support of the internal management teams, e.g. Incident /Change /Investment management, IT SLA management (ITIL), IT Controlling & Purchasing, Audit, Security
• providing current projects in market data and payments (SOA project)
• review of project applications regarding feasibility, standard and effectiveness
• Set-up blue prints and technical concepts
• analysis and implementation of change requests
• customising, enhancements and maintenance of applications
• support and coordination of test activities

special knowledge

• domestic payments, especially germany, austria, belgium
• foreign payments with SWIFT, SEPA, TARGET, EBA, STEP2
• special subject European STP-payments
• market data mit Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg

applications:

• client-server applications on windows and unix. With standard data bases, cluster-solutions, in firewall- and data center environment, Java-applications,     data transmission, SWIFT gateways, core-systems PARIS mainframe and SAP
• GEVA, Asset Control, TLM Corona, SWIFT, WebSphere MQ, MERVA, ARIS
• SAP FI, CML, BCA, interfaces to FI and BCA-Online, multicash/electronic bank statement

business experience

• payments, markt data, merger, true sales, portofio splitting (bad bank), mortgage loan, public finance, cash management, reconciliation, Illiquid bonds, ECB-fixings, price validation, syndication, regular reporting, property developer, retail loans, treasury operations, swaps, nostro accounting

• interfaces: Web-Services, FTP, SFTP, Connect Direct, WebSphere MQ, data transmission

  

• operation systems: Windows, MVS-Host, Unix: AIX, Linux, SUN- Solaris
• databases: Oracle, DB2, MS Access, VSAM
• program languages: Cobol, Java

Project Samples

2009

• Group Wide Market Data System with Asset Control
• Merger, integration of the payments infrastructure and nostro reconciliation

2008

• SEPA
• X/EASY euroZV 2.2
• ECB exchange rates, validation and distribution via integration solution

2007

• SAP Payments: integration of SWIFT payments
• Riskline-P (market data): validated market data supply to the inhouse systems
• electronic funds transfer in the developer business
• automated posting of all payments between several subledger
• ZV statistics of the German Federal Bank
• target 2 with implementation of SWIFTNet InterAct and file act

2006

• application move into new dta centre using ESX servers and virtual machines with VMware
• scope analysis new it bank architecture
• upgrade release X/EASY euroZV 2.0 and connection to the SWIFT provider via WebSphere MQ

2005

• NPL II-IV (true sales) with automated forwarding of payment
• SAP interface for retail loans
• Front Arena interface for treasury payments
• Merger Dublin --> Stuttgart, integration international real estate financing

2004

• Merger with gradual integration of payments, automated account exchange of the receiver account numbers
• start of RTGSplus with X/EASY euroZV 1.0 in three banks