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Project & Program Management
- Certifications: PRINCE2 Practitioner, ISTQB Certified Tester, ITIL v3.0 Foundation
- Managed large-scale, multi-national programs with budgets exceeding €45M across 15 countries
- Program Management Office (PMO) leadership for mission-critical card processing systems
- End-to-end project steuerung from business case development through implementation and migration
- Successfully delivered €21M cost reduction initiative (30% savings) for Germany’s largest direct bank
- Led €7M processing system implementation for leading corporate card provider (Germany, UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic)
- Managed migration of 15 million cards, 60,000 POS devices, and 10,000 ATMs across multiple platforms
- Business case development, benefit realization, cost-benefit analysis (5-year projections)
- Team leadership across borders, cultures & disciplines in structured and unstructured environments
- Vendor selection, RFP/RFI creation and evaluation, contract negotiation
- Target Operating Model (TOM) definition and implementation
Quality Assurance & Test Management
- ISTQB-certified Test Engineer with 8+ years specialized testing experience
- System integration testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing
- Defect management and resolution coordination with internal and external stakeholders (Apple, Visa, Mastercard, Finanz Informatik, Thales)
- Test strategy development, test case design (300+ test cases), and execution
- Load & performance testing, certification management for PCI DSS compliance
- Tools expertise: Jira, Confluence, X-Ray, Apple Radar, Thales Ticketing
- Developed European-wide quality program with 82 quality criteria for Mastercard
- Created mystery shopper evaluation system for card acceptance excellence
- Best practice guideline development for acquirers and merchants
Compliance & Risk Management
- PCI DSS, SAS70, RAMP compliance implementation and auditing
- MaRisk, EBA Guidelines, regulatory adaptation for multiple card schemes & markets
- Credit monitoring, risk assessment, customer service excellence
- Certification and authorization processes for banking systems
- DEK encryption key management for 30 million cards authorization systems
Methodologies & Frameworks
- Agile methodologies, Sprint planning, Scrum participation
- Waterfall project delivery for large-scale banking transformations
- Business process mapping (Level 1 and Level 2)
- Stakeholder management at board level, business sponsor, and operational teams
- Change management and organizational transformation
- Requirements engineering and business analysis
International Project Experience
- On-site consulting and project delivery in: USA, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Great Britain, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Russia
- Multilingual project teams (German native, English fluent)
- Cross-cultural team building and leadership
- Multi-national program coordination across 15+ countries simultaneously