Your benefits from my experience

Leadership experience

• 9 years as managing partner of Stumm-Consulting GmbH (Germany) with up to 12 freelance SAP consultants
• 1.5 years as Head of Cross Section Solutions at Helvetia Insurance (Switzerland) with responsibility for staff, budget and operations
• Managing partner of Stumm-Consulting GmbH (Switzerland) since December 2022

Project management

• Project management experience since 1994, primarily in SAP projects
• Over 80 projects (classic and agile), 40+ of them as project or subproject manager
• Largest project or programme with a 10-year duration and a budget of 10 billion euros

Technical project management

• Technical counterpart for the overall project management
• Coordination of all technical subprojects
• Central contact for all functional subprojects
• Central contact for matters of IT organisation

Cutover management

• Development of the cutover strategy, management plan, concept and cutover plan
• Contact for all cutover matters in the project and across the company
• Planning and delivery of the necessary communication
• Accountable for executing the cutover

Data migration

• Accountable for the technical transfer of the data
• Planning, steering and coordination of the data migration
• Processes for building and using migration objects for subprojects and key users
• Planning of the required system environments

Interim management

• Temporary assumption of leadership and steering roles with forecast and tracking responsibility
• Getting up to speed in running structures without lead time, orderly handover to the permanent appointment
• Line and service owner responsibility covering staff, budget and operations

Change manager

• Accountable for all changes to productive systems
• Review and approval of requests for change and deployments
• Chairing the Change Advisory Board and the Emergency Change Advisory Board
• Leading the post implementation review

Service owner

• Fully accountable for one or several IT services
• Alignment with business owner and process owner
• Accountable for the entire lifecycle: service design, transition, operation through to continual service improvement

Data archiving

• Planning of the objects to be archived
• Volume estimates and assessment of the initial archiving duration
• Steering the selection, installation and integration of the archiving system
• Configuration and execution of the archiving

Product owner

• Definition of the product vision
• Gathering requirements and maintaining the product backlog
• Establishing stakeholder management for on-time delivery
• Shaping sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective

Scrum master

• Coaching several Scrum masters and applying Scaled Professional Scrum
• Living and promoting Scrum values and principles
• Protecting the Scrum team and removing impediments
• Supporting team development and increasing productivity

Process consulting CO

• Business consulting on controlling processes
• Alignment with the business units and preparation of the functional design
• Configuration of the SAP system in the CO area
• Support through test, acceptance and hypercare phases after go-live

Process consulting PS

• Business consulting on the processes around SAP PS
• Alignment with the business units and preparation of the functional design
• Configuration of the SAP system in the PS area
• Support through test, acceptance and hypercare phases after go-live

AI-assisted delivery (GenAI)

• Project management and product owner methodology applied to AI-assisted software development, since 2024
• Responsibility for requirements definition, architecture, delivery model and quality assurance; the AI is the implementing instance
• Transferable to AI-augmented delivery in SAP transformation projects
• Two pieces of evidence in detail