Summary:

The Freelancer has been working 10+ years for Essity in its global IT organization in various roles. From his role building up a new RPA team and service offering in 2017 he brings in-depth experience in implementing RPA solutions and scaling operations on global level. His background from software engineering (Java) helped him to establish a solid development methodology for the team. This included principles of modularity in design, testability and maintainability to ensure that the RPA Center of Excellence delivered stable automation processes from the beginning. In this role he was also acting as project manager, solution architect and lead developer, reviewing design and implementations, coaching new team members and supporting troubleshooting.

Previously he has been working as Business Analyst for SAP ERP and project manager for implementation projects in SAP ERP and Microsoft CRM areas with waterfall and agile project methodologies. Besides solid project management skills, he brings a broad experience in IT applications (ERP, CRM, web) and understanding of the related business processes. In his roles communication with stakeholders has been very important. He has also been presenting about the RPA implementations at an external RPA & AI conference in Vienna.

Profile:

• Expert in delivering stable automation solutions with UiPath and Blue Prism covering business analysis, solution architecture and development
• Solid experience in software engineering, business analysis and project management
• Broad experience in IT including core business applications like SAP ERP, MS Dynamics CRM
• Good understanding of business processes

Skills:

• RPA: UiPath, Blue Prism ? expert
• MS Power Automate - basic
• Java, OOP ? expert
• Visual Basic, .NET, Phyton ? basic
• GIT - expert
• DevOps - basic
• SAP ERP (SD) ? expert
• MS Dynamics CRM ? basic
• Business analysis - expert
• Project management: waterfall and agile (Scrum) - expert
• Tools: JIRA ? expert, Azure DevOps (basic)

Working Experience:

04/2023 - today

Role:  RPA Freelancer with focus on UiPath and Blue Prism

05/2017 - 03/2023

Place of Work: Ismaning/Germany

Role: Process Automation (IT Business Analyst and Developer, then IT Manager)

Customer: Essity GmbH

Tasks:

• building up new area and team of developers delivering robotic process automation (RPA)
• building up and continuously improving project and service delivery
• acting as solution architect and lead developer reviewing design and implementations, coaching new team members
• defining best practice, standards, processes and change management to implement these
• developing overall framework for robot configuration, scheduling, monitoring and analytics
• developing templates including reusable components in our overall framework including robot-human interaction, service management integration and library for SAP automation
• establishing technical platform for RPA, license management
• preparing and supporting discovery workshops with departments
• managing external consultants, partnering with other IT teams and stakeholders in GBS and coordination with works council

11/2011 - 04/2017

Place of Work: Ismaning/Germany

Role: IT Business Analyst for Sales & Distribution processes

Customer: Essity GmbH (former SCA GmbH)

Tasks:

• role as Solution Owner for Sales Processing, core technology: SAP SD
• analysis, concept development and implementation of solutions in SAP ERP system; and IT project management responsibilities
• third-level support, pro-active problem management and steering of externally managed service to ensure best delivery of service
• change management and review of new demands to continuously develop the sales processing solution in line with the overall strategy

05/2007 - 10/2011

Place of Work: Consultant, focus on Sales & Distribution processes

Role: Walldorf/Germany

Customer:  SAP Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

Tasks:

• international SAP projects: implementation including process analysis, blueprint, customizing, end user training
• consulting assignments in transformation projects and value engineering to support sales and key account management