expertise
Over the years, we have not only accumulated a comprehensive knowledge of the IT sector, but also in the Manufacturing and Transportation Industries.
Some of the successful leadership and consulting engagements are outlined below, such as:
- Change Management and Communications engagements at Energy & Manufacturing Clients in Germany and the Netherlands.
- Organizational Development with an Austrian SME in the Insurance sector
- a European Merger in the Finance Industry in Switzerland
- a Transition & Transformation of one of Germany’s largest banks in Asia
- a central Account Project Management Office in Switzerland
- enablement of a US-based company’s IT Outsourcing Project Business in Finland and the Baltic states
- participation in a global Account PMO for Hewlett Packard’s biggest LifeScience Industry in Switzerland
- management of a Global IT Service Desk
- Management of Change Initiative at a German Energy Client.
expertise & relevant project experience
comprei Reinraumdienstleistungen
Region: Austria
Role: Business Analysis & Event Management
SPS Global (Zurich, CH)
Region: European Account, Swiss headquarter
Role: Transformation PMO
Description: Value Stream Management
Top Leader (Vienna, AT)
Region: Austria
Role: Project Manager
Description: Product Development and Top-Radar Relaunch
franz² (Traunkirchen, AT)
Region: Austria
Role: Organizational Development
Description: Brand Relaunch
UBSS (Vienna, AT)
Region: Austria
Role: Change Management Consultant
Description: Claim Process Re-Engineering
Gross Versicherungsmakler (Vienna, AT)
Region: Austrian Insurance Broker
Role: Organizational Development Consultant
Description: Supporting the family-owned business to identify and overcome growth-related challenges and issues.
Philips (Eindhoven, NL)
Region: European Account, Dutch headquarter
Role: Pursuit Team Member and Management of Change & Communications (MoC) Lead
Description: The newly signed Agile Contract for Philips Managed Workplace focused on enabling program initiatives, Epics and its activities with a goal of consistently achieving a client satisfaction (CSAT) score of 8+ and introducing automation as well as user experience (UX) measurement and governance throughout the entire agile adoption. To enable these goals, Change Management (MoC) was established as part of the full-service life cycle facilitating agile innovation and adoption, where permanent MoC roles were embedded at a regional level to ensure a closer reach and rapid turnaround of local service issues and service enhancements.
DXC Pursuit (Vienna, AT / Amsterdam, NL)
Region: European Account, headquartered in the Netherlands
Role: Deal Support for Management of Change
Description: AkzoNobel – a leading global paints and coatings company – was looking for productivity improvements in their factories to stay ahead of the competition. As part of the DXC.technology team, we participated in this Request for Proposal (RfP) to deploy the Performance Portal in 15+ sites during 2020.
BMW (Munich, DE)
Region: European Account, headquartered in Bavaria
Role: Change Management & Communications Lead
Description: As part of Reset! activities in the End-User Computing contract as delivered by DXC with BMW and reporting to the Account General Manager, the Management of Change & Communications (MoCC) team designed a Change Agent Network, owned all communications to identified stakeholder groups and handled all project and team communication, supporting BMW Middle Management stakeholders in managing and driving change top-down to impacted operational employees.
Orchestrating the IT provide's praised representation at the manufacturer's single biggest annual client event - the BMW IT fair in Munich - was one of the team successes. In addition to providing End-User Readiness Assessment and Change Impact Analyses, all contractual milestones prior to and during the team’s involvement were successfully completed and signed off.
Uniper (Duesseldorf, DE)
Region: European Account, headquartered in Germany
Role: Project Stream Lead: Management of Change & Communications
Description: As part of the Energy Client’s “Digital Workplace” Agenda, the service provider contract in the “MyDevices” category required manage of a major hardware refresh and Windows10 migration program. In this context, a separate workstream for Management of Change was created where Markus lead the Change-related communications projects together with a client counterpart. Despite a number of challenges due to the organizational structure, the management team expressed its satisfaction with the professional work of the communications team, supporting the migration project.
Syngenta (Basel, CH / Manchester, UK)
Region: Global Account, headquartered in Switzerland
Role: Account Project Services Leader, Program Manager
Description: As a key member of the Global Account Project Management Office (APMO) Team, reporting to the Global Operations Director, this leadership role focused on ensuring successful Project Implementation in accordance with client KPIs.
After working closely with the Service Release Managers and Solution Architect Leads on governance and multi-million USD worth of annual change projects at the time, Markus lead a Transition & Transformation Program in which the Client Support Model was partially shifted to a new delivery center in Malaysia.
HP (Vienna, AT)
Region: Austria / Switzerland
Role: Project Services Leader
Description: In these national interim roles, Portfolio and Key Account Management was established for numerous HP clients in the region before handing the ongoing support and development over to a successor.
total contract valuesIn this context, the Project Services Department was responsible and accountable for regular changes and Non-Standard Service Requets (NSSRs) with 7-digit USD total contract values.
Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, USA)
Project: Transition & Transformation, Data Center Migration
Industry: Consumer Goods Role: EMEA Transformation Project ManagerDescription: Following the contributions to the development of the Integrated Transition & Transformation Plan for this Global Customer Scope Enhancement, the primary responsibility focused on Initiation and Planning of the cross-border Data Center (DC) Migration Project in Europe while aligning these efforts with the Infrastructure Tower and the parallel Asian DC Migration Project as well as overall Monitoring & Controlling, and Execution & Closedown of the EMEA Mainframe Decommissioning in the Brussels Data Center.
Commerzbank (Frankfurt, DE)
Project: Transition & Transformation, Workplace Services / IT-Outsourcing
Industry: Financial ServicesRole: Transition & Transformation Lead for Asia, Account PMO Support
Description: After the bank’s merger with Dresdner Bank, a five-year contract for International Workplace Services included a transition and transformation of the bank’s worldwide services – including the Eurohypo Brand. As the previous Project Manager moved on, the finalization of the planning as well as the implementation of both central services in a Singapore Data Center & the setup of the bank’s decentral services in several locations throughout China, Japan, and Singapore was required. In addition, support to the overall Project Management Team in Europe and the Account Project Management Office was provided.
Berner Kantonalbank (Berne, CH)
Project: IT Contract Management
Industry: Financial ServicesRole: Third Party Contract Management
Description: In the course of a general contract renewal, thorough analysis of existing processes and contracts had to be effected along with Change Management to align the previous strategies and routines with current optimized IT service provider processes - including onsite support and leadership.
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, DE / Zurich, CH)
Project: Lufthansa & Austrian Airlines SOA Program
Industry: Transportation
Role: Program Manager – Lufthansa Release
Description: Development, completion and enhancement of Lufthansa's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a middleware, messaging and security platform that allows the airline to interface, interoperate and integrate with their business partners and other global airline systems through open standards. Lufthansa utilizes the platform to optimize data exchange between the airline's new inventory system and existing applications and extends it to Ticketing and Departure Control.
EDS (Austria & Spain)
Project: “EDS Way for Employees” Courses
Role: Trainer
Description: This course provided new, transitioning, and existing employees with an overview of the corporate culture, values, organization, and business strategy through a variety of interactive learning activities, including a dialog with a senior corporate or regional leader.
earlier engagements
Saab (Stockholm, SWE)
Project: Saab GM Integration
Industry: Automotive (at the time)
Role: Business Analyst & Implementation Management
Description: Support General Motors Europe (GME) in operations based on harmonized business processes and utilization of unified systems capabilities throughout the GME markets by implementing those in Saab’s main market Sweden.
EDS (EMEA)
Project: Multi Year Plan – Corporate Reengineering
Role: Program Office
Description: Improvement of End-to-end process for taking on MYP-initiatives into the region in connection with the Concept-to-Offer Process, with particular initial emphasis on the Build-to-Deploy Phase.
EDS (Vienna, AT)
Project: Sales Bid Support
Role: Business Analyst, Translation Services
Description: Participation in the development of bid offers & presentation material for EDS internal and Market-driven bids.
Chevrolet Europe - General Motors Europe - Opel (DACH-Region & France)
Project: Order Fulfillment Optimization and Integration
Locations: Rüsselsheim (D), Vienna (A), Biel (CH), Paris (FR)
Industry: Automotive
Roles: Business Process Support, Supply Chain Consultant, Trainer
EDS (Vienna, AT)
Project: Business Development
Industry: Automotive & IT
Role: Contributing Team Member
Description: Sales Development initiative for European deals in Automotive.
Opel Powertrain (Vienna, AT)
Project: Customer Relationship Management
Industry: AutomotiveRole: Business Analyst
Description: Customer Interface. Analysis of Customer Requirements including Contract & Project-Setup.
Austrian Airlines (Vienna, AT / Washington DC, USA)
Project: Operations
Industry: Transportation
Role: Passenger & Ramp Handling Agent, Sales Intern
Description: Airport Passenger Handling, Customer Interface, Sales & Network Projects, Flight Disaster Emergency Response Team
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