About Me
Welcome to the Specialized Generalist
Life long learner. Outside of comfort zone worker. Outside the box thinker.
Who Am I
Specialized Generalist that renowned companies entrust with highly complex tasks.
Starting as a bank clerk in 1996, evolving to a controlling business administrator in 2000, mastering computer science / neural information processing and statistics in 2006 and shining in consultant shark tanks since then, I constantly challenged and developed myself.
Successful freelancer by heart since 2011.
Father of three school kids.
My Mission
Helping you to advance and excel. Growing maturity of your business and projects.
I get things done. Smart. In time and budget.
What I Do
- Strategy Consulting
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Data Analysis
My 6-D Process
01.
Discover
Together, we assess your current situation (interviews), what you want to achieve (requirements gathering) and what’s missing so far (gap analysis).
02.
Define
Setup project targets, layout project plan, calculating business case,…
03.
Design
Deriving high level solution designs from definition together with (Enterprise) Architects, Subject Matter Experts and Business Managers.
04.
Develop
Accompany Dev-Teams as product owner, subject matter expert or business analyst, optimize business processes, help/conduct UAT, provide decision support for acceptance
05.
Deploy
Smoke tests, roll out process implementations, organize user workshops
06.
Deliver
Final tests, parallel runs, handover documentations, (top) managment presentation
Why Choose Me?
Jack of all trades
- Banking, Financial Services
- Global Banking Groups
- Savings Banks
- Direct Banks
- Cooperative Banks
- Customer credit card issuer
- Telecommunication
- Broadband or Mobile
- Provider or Reseller
- German, Greek or Croatian
- Retail
- Confident negotiator with the ability to articulate and demonstrate the value of alternative options
- Competent translator between multi-functional teams
- Understand cultural differences within global organizations
- Careful observer
- Curious lifelong learner
- Objective and aware of own and others biases
- Introspective
- Analytical thinker (can’t stop)
- Determining relevance
- Using inference instead of assumptions
- Compassion and empathy
- Humility (esp. intellectual)
- Willing to change the status quo
- Open-minded
- Aware of common thinking errors
- Good creative thinker
- Effective communicator
- Active listener
Due to my multifaceted education as
- Banker
- Business Administrator Controlling (Bank)
- Master Computer Science
along with relevant work experience I understand the needs and pains of both sides, know processes, working habits and boundaries and speak both languages.
- No historical debts, no organizational or hierarchical dependencies
- ho hidden agenda, no spearhead or lighthouse or foot in the door
- “Thanks and recommendation”
- “strongly recommended”
- “recommended without reservation”
- “not only a talented and skilled Business and Data Analyst but also a valuable and reliable project manager”
- “excellent choice, very happy to entrust again”
- “can make a real difference with your project”
Some Numbers
Satisfied Clients
Projects Completed
OutstandingReferences
Working Experience
Would you like to start a project with me?
Call me. Write me via eMail/LinkedIn/Xing/Gulp/Freelance.de and we will find out, if it’s a match. Together!