Gabriele Pawlitzek

leading the enterprise and solution architecture function, in charge of guiding, reviewing and approving all solution architecture and design proposals prior to their offshore implementation; leading the (independent) verification and validation function, in charge of inspecting, walking through and independently reviewing all system and software delivery artifacts; establishing a system and software engineering support function, in charge of planning, automating and executing functional and performance

leading the application delivery unit and portfolio comprised of several delivery teams specifying and developing the entire spectrum of corporate applications for different lines of business; leading up to 10 staff and up to 100 onshore and offshore contractual agents as well as managed services and firm fixed price projects provided through two offshore vendors; acting as line manager of the staff, in charge of their appraisals and professional development

- leading the Operations Support Unit, including Information and Communication Technologies and Facility Management and Logistics - establishment of the EMSA ICT Policy, Strategy, and Architecture - provision of all corporate ICT Services and Infrastructure - supervision of Business Process Analysis and Automation Projects, e.g. Document Management and Workflow System, Event Management System - supervision of the development of several major European Maritime Applications

- leading the Technical Support Division, covering ground segment engineering support and corporate information technology - establishment and implementation of the IT Strategy and Roadmap, including development of all corporate applications - provision of corporate IT Services, including introduction of ITIL and related service catalogues, service level agreements and processes - managing the specification and procurement of high security and high availability ground segment systems and applications

- project and configuration management support for Application Development Projects - requirements engineering support for Application Development Projects - object oriented analysis and design support for Application Development Projects - leading the software engineering tool lab and infrastructure

- establishing a competence and profit center providing computer aided software engineering support and infrastructure to aerospace and ground segment projects - provision of state-of-the-art system and software engineering services, processes and tools covering the complete system and software life cycle from requirements engineering, architectural and detailed design, implementation, verification and validation, to deployment - acquisition and management of external and internal clients and projects

- establishment of a team and of the infrastructure for performing independent software verification and validation, including code inspection, static and dynamic source code analysis, and software test automation

- specification, design and implementation of a real-time test data generator, using structured requirements engineering, analysis and design methods and tools - supervision of the implementation, verification and validation by external contractors - deployment and operations preparation support

- Computer Science - Software Engineering