Senior Manager, Banking and Financial Services

10/2010 – offen

• Personnel responsibility with established targets for budget and revenue
• Partnership contract negotiations
• Spearheading marketing initiative (Whitepapers, Lunch & Learn sessions with customers, Trade and Career fairs,…)
• Project Management for Market Conformity Check System
• Business-Analysis for Independent Price Verification Process
• Overseeing the Separation of Systems and Applications during a Bad-Bank-Split-off
• Project-Management and Consulting for Financial Institutions in the area of Front-to-Back Solutions
• Extending and modifying functionality within Front Office and Risk Management Solutions
• Overseeing system selection process with responsibility for RFI/RFP handling and vendor management
• Establishing in-house training for Risk Management and Compliance
• Performing Object-Oriented design and programming

SQL Entwickler, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Python, Management (allg.)

7/2006 – 2/2007

• Leadership of Product Management Team for Solutions in Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Enterprise Risk Management.
• Established Product Roadmaps to ensure mid- and long-term viability of the SAS Risk Management solution package.
• Negotiated and controlled Field Requirements in order to include common needs into the roadmap and ensure a reasonable implementation approach.
• Participated in Risk Conferences
• Supported Pre-Sales Events by managing product demonstrations and giving presentation to the upper management hierarchy.

Management (allg.)

8/2003 – 5/2006

• Took responsibility for the simultaneous management of multiple implementation projects
• Covered assignments in Europe, Middle East and South Africa
• Restructured the Project Planning cycle by utilizing established project management procedures and methodologies
• Resourced the projects according to the established project plans; established priority rules for balancing the needs of multiple projects
• Reported on the status of various implementation efforts to create awareness for progress, priorities and obstacles in-house as well as to attain maximum customer satisfaction
• Created Governance-Structures and Escalation-Procedures involving representatives of client and own management to provide sufficient transparency and high maneuverability
• Served as the central relay for Sales, Engineering, Management and Client to ascertain high level and focus of communication
• Created Risk-Assessment documents at regular intervals based on input from project managers, team members and customers to enable smooth shift of priorities
• Maintained well-structured Incident-Management process based on an online incident-tracking solution – enabling accurate reporting on the status of all incidents throughout all involved levels - from programmer to client
• Provided regular as well as ad-hoc Project-Status Presentations to the client’s upper management
• Performed Crisis-Management – coordinated efforts to swiftly and effectively meet the demands of changed circumstances preventing them from turning into roadblocks.

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement (IT), Postsales, Management (allg.)