Personal data

• Born in 1952

• Austrian citizen

• Language skills:  German, English, Polish and Russian

• Driving license group B

 

Education

• PhD in Technical Sciences at the Faculty of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland;

• Graduated from Faculty of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland specializing in automation, with very good results

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Experience broken down by industry

• Banks

• Insurance

• Public sector

• Industry

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Areas of specific experience

• Project-related risk management and quality control for large IT projects

• Preparation of IT projects and contracts

• Review of websites and interactive applications

• Change Management and turn-around of projects not achieving their goals (Troubled Projects Turn-Around)

• Project Management

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Advice on technical issues (excerpt)

• Mentoring in the areas of project management and risk management

• Translation of texts from German into Polish and/or English

• Testing the menu navigation and user interface in terms of usability, logical consistency and clear navigation of interactive and web applications.

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Gathered project experiences

Risk management and quality assurance in the preparation of projects, solutions and in the creation of offers for large Austrian and international IT system integration and outsourcing projects.

Main Achievements:

• Elimination or limitation of the most important project risks through change management

• Cost reduction by eliminating or limiting the most important project risks

• Improving the quality and competitiveness of offers

• Increasing the "win rate" of offers at the customer.

These results relate to projects in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, the Czech Republic and the USA.

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Customer negotiations during contract preparation and during the implementation of IT projects.

Main Achievements:

• Resolution of problems reported by the customer that arose during the preparation of the contract or implementation

• Cost reduction and profit increase

• Increased customer satisfaction.

The activities and results mentioned above relate to projects in Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

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Identification of factors leading to the failure of IT projects, formulation of improvement measures and accompanying control during implementation as part of the turn-around of projects that do not achieve their goals (troubled projects).

Main Achievements:

• Through change management, elimination of factors that led to project failures

• Cost reduction or reduction of loss

• Increased customer satisfaction or elimination of disputes with customers and/or improvement in customer trust.

Regard the projects in Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

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Awards, prizes and grants:

• 2019 - Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who in the World

• 2018 - Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who is Who

• 2016 - IBM Engagement Team Award

• 2008 - IBM Country General Manager Sales Team Award

• 2009 - IBM Country General Manager Sales Team Award

• 2008 - IBM Thanks Award

• 2007 - IBM Focus and Passion for Your Work Award

• 2005 to 2007 - Honorable Mentions in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering

• 2004 – Honorable Mention in Marquis Who's Who in the World

• 2000 - IBM Significant Achievement Award

• 2000 - IBM New Blue Focused to Win Award

• 1999 - IBM Significant Achievement Award

• 1985 and 1986 - Senior Fulbright Research Scholarship (USA).

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