Stefan Becker

Curriculum Vitae

Stefan Becker (born 1965) is a computer scientist and has worked in the IT industry since 1987. His professional career as a software developer, architect and project manager led him via user and consulting companies to the management of a listed system house. His professional activities focus on the development of IT strategies and IT architectures in large companies, among others as development manager of one of the largest Java-based software development projects in Germany. Stefan is a certified SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC5), Scrum Master and Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner and regularly conducts employee coaching sessions and management briefings on relevant innovations in the IT area.

Skills and focus areas

• Scaled Agility
• Project Management
• IT Strategy
• IT Architectures
• IT Organization and Management
• Technology Consulting 

Project experiences (selection)

IT service provider for social insurance carriers (Germany) - data quality and data management for an industry solution

• Project management for technical conception, development, test, migration of inventory data and introduction
• Release Train Engineer and Scrum Master

IT service provider for social insurance carriers (Germany) - Support of the service manager of an industry solution

• Coaching of the service manager for an individually developed industry solution in an ITIL-certified company organization with regard to the integration of the process worlds from ITIL and RUP

IT service provider for social insurance carriers (Germany) - Conversion of an industry complete solution to SEPA

• overall project management for technical conception, development, test, migration and introduction (mandate management, direct debit procedure, conversion of bank interfaces)

IT service provider for social insurance carriers (Germany) - Introduction of a complete industry solution

• Project management for the commissioning of the complete industry solution for 9 clients
• Conception of the commissioning schedule, survey of the activities within the schedule together with the clients, execution of dress rehearsals, control and execution of the productive commissioning (specialist areas members & contribution)

IT service provider for social insurance carriers (Germany) - development of a complete industry solution

• Development management for a complete industry solution with coverage of the specialist areas members & contribution, performance, occupational medicine and safety service, recourse, finance
• Budget responsibility approx. 30 Mio €, team strength up to 150 persons

Transaction banking (Germany) - IT architecture

• Development of a medium-term development plan for the core application system of the transaction bank

Social insurance carrier (Germany) - Redesign of the entire IT infrastructure

• Actual analysis, redesign and implementation planning of the entire IT infrastructure in the run-up to the introduction of a new application system (replacement of Token Ring, Introduction of Ethernet)

Paper manufacturer (Austria) - IT strategy

• Development of an IT/eBusiness strategy for a leading European group in the paper industry
• Assessment of the current situation, evaluation, strategy development, derivation of recommendations for action

Internationally active telecommunications company (Germany) - Audit of technical infrastructure

• Evaluation of the technical infrastructure (computer centre, network, service provider)
• Analysis of the current situation, evaluation, recommendations for action, implementation planning

National energy supplier (Germany) - Development of IT architecture topic complex

• Contents, organizational and technical structure of an architecture team
• Process and organizational design, implementation support

IT service provider in the financial sector (Germany) - Various projects

• Design of organizational and operational structures in the context of mergers
• Concept and implementation of process optimizations
• Crisis management and restructuring of application development
• Concept and development of a group-wide user help desk

Insurance company (Germany) - Expert opinion

• Audit of a standard software introduction at an insurance group under methodical, technical and organisational aspects

Financial service provider for an automobile group (Germany) - IT organisation

• Conceptual design of the European IT services

Sparkasse (Germany) - Introduction of a money and foreign exchange trading system

• Technical and IT design of the application system
• Introduction planning and migration of inventory data