Professional Experience
Since 01/2018
Project Manager / Business Analyst
ERGO Group AG, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Project Manager and Business Analyst as in-house consultant in the life insurance sector
- Successfully completed multiple IT-related projects involving legal, tax, accounting, and actuarial topics
- Coordinated cross-departmental projects in close collaboration with departmental management and senior project leadership
- Managed a cross-location and cross-departmental team of 20 internal and external employees as part of the largest German migration project for life insurance
- Led, analysed, conceptualized, and managed testing for BaFin-relevant migration preparations in an agile environment
- Business Analyst for the development of a robotic application for process automation
- Preparation and presentation of decision-relevant documents and analyses
05/2015 – 12/2017
Project Manager / Business Analyst
HSBC Deutschland, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Project Manager and Business Analyst as in-house consultant for an international bank
- Participation in and leadership of national and international projects for process optimization & digitalization, regulatory requirements, cybersecurity, IRM
- Analysis, further development, and optimization of existing IT processes and systems
Education
2011 – 2014
Doctoral candidate, PhD degree
University of Leicester, UK
- Development of a novel microfluidic implementation resulting in the grant of a patent
- Setup of a microscope and data analysis with self-written software
- PhD thesis on “Development of Single-Molecule Methods for RNA Splicing”
2004 – 2010
Diplom-Physiker (MSc in Physics)
Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- Specialisation in Biophysics and Computational Physics, minor in Computer Science
Training & Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
- Hybrides Projektmanagement (Inhouse, 2 days)
Core competencies
Communication
- Frequent communication with internal and external stakeholders during all project stages
- Solution-oriented mediation between different departments and interests to consolidate divergent views
- Effective and goal-oriented leadership in project meetings, ranging from daily meetings to steering committee meetings
- Conducted workshops and training sessions
- Preparation and presentation of high-quality decision-relevant documents
Teamwork
- Committed and efficient cooperation ranging from small project groups to transnational project teams
- Leading project teams across departmental and divisional borders
- Successful and effective work in interdisciplinary research groups
- Regular participation in competitions with the volleyball team
Analytical skills
- Quick familiarisation with a wide range of complex banking and insurance topics
- Detailed development of comprehensive requirement analyses
- Repeated structured presentation of complex issues and development of suitable solutions as part of functional specifications
- Effective evaluation of large amounts of data
Languages
- German as native speaker
- English fluent in spoken and written
- Spanish with basic knowledge
Software
- Comprehensive experience with Confluence, Jira, Swift, Trello, CA Clarity PPM, Micro Focus ALM and Quality Center and various other in-house project management tools
- Extensive knowledge of msg.Life Factory, Windows, MS Office, MS Teams, C#, GitHub, GitLab, and SQL
Other interests
- Programming; including development and publication of an Android app
- Volleyball; club player, captain, and team manager
- Chairman of the Düsseldorfer Turnverein von 1847 e.V., ~ 1,500 members