Martin Van Lessen

is looking for freelance projects and jobs. 🔎

Bis 2019, Program Manager and Test Manager, FirstData GmbH from fiserv
Berlin, Germany

Skills

IT-Management
card payment
Scrum
SAFe
Software Testing
Management
Project Management
Software Development
Information technology
Jira
English Language
Test Management
Consulting
German
Program Management
Software Project
MS Office
KANBAN
Requirements Engineering
Technical project management
Test method
Tosca
Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Confluence
GEFEG
Polarion ALM
HP Quality Center

Timeline

Professional experience for Martin Van Lessen

  • 7 months, Jun 2023 - Dec 2023

    Payment IT Project Manager

    Card Payment Business

  • 3 months, Aug 2022 - Oct 2022

    Business Analyst and Test engineer

    Bank IT Provider

    Project was developing an investment advisory software, SAFe, Scrum

  • 1 year and 2 months, Aug 2018 - Sep 2019

    Program Manager and Test Manager

    FirstData GmbH from fiserv

    Head of MasterCard Dispute Resolution Germany at FirstData GmbH from fiserv. Change of Chargeback Processes and Software CBK by FIS. To save the program ,I additionally took over Test management from Summer 2019. Pilot was very smooth and successful. thus an internal PM was able to take over the lead and I got my much needed Sabbatical. Jira, Confluence

  • 6 months, Nov 2017 - Apr 2018

    Head Workstream Payment Brexit Project

    KPMG AG

    my work quality was definitely fine. I found special deals with German Central Bank to save timeline of Program. I was vulnerable because of a stressful and unhappy marriage. this weakness used a freelancer hired by the client and mobbed me out of the project. Program Head of KPMG was unable to support me due to own huge work load.

  • 3 months, Sep 2017 - Nov 2017

    Software Test Manager

    Raiffeisen Schweiz

    Testing Card Payments in Core Banking Transformation. Unfortunately I was vulnerable because of stressful and unhappy marriage. I got unfortunately poached by KPMG and left the relatively smooth running project.

  • 5 months, Jan 2017 - May 2017

    Testengineer

    PostFinance AG, Bern

    Test of new payment software with Tosca. Unfortunately I was not performing well because of a stressful unhappy marriage. Mutual agreed finish of project due to downsizing of team

  • 1 year and 3 months, Sep 2015 - Nov 2016

    Testengineer

    Zürcher Kantonalbank

    Testing SEPA and SWIFT automated with Tosca. More than 2000 Test cases, 160 defects detected and fixed. Change of Payment Software. HP ALM. GEFEG. unfortunately I was vulnerable due to a very stressful unhappy marriage. But my work quality was fine

  • 3 years and 9 months, Jan 2012 - Sep 2015

    Head Workgroup

    VR Payment GmbH

    Head of Sub Workgroup and interim Head of SEPA Card Clearing . Product manager SEPA. Geldkarte. Contactless Payments

  • 3 years and 4 months, Jan 2012 - Apr 2015

    Senior Business Consultant

    SYNGENIO AG

  • 1 year and 5 months, Sep 2010 - Jan 2012

    Investment and Insurance Advisor

    Self Employed Freelancer

  • 2 years and 8 months, Feb 2008 - Sep 2010

    Product and Network Manager Global Transaction Banking

    HypoVereinsbank – UniCredit - Deutschland

  • 9 years, Feb 1999 - Jan 2008

    International Payment Specialist

    Sparkasse

  • 9 months, Aug 1995 - Apr 1996

    Air Traffic Specialist

    German Air Force

    In Wing Command Post of Germanys famous Tactical Wing 71 Richthofen

  • 3 years, Aug 1992 - Jul 1995

    Vocational Training for Banking

    Sparkasse

Educational background for Martin Van Lessen

  • 1 month, Jul 2015 - Jul 2015

    Project Manager Prince2

    Axelos

  • 2 months, May 2013 - Jun 2013

    Requirements Engineer

    IREB, SOPHIST

  • 5 months, Sep 2011 - Jan 2012

    Project Manager IPMA /GPM

    IPMA

  • 2 years and 5 months, May 1996 - Sep 1998

    Economics

    University of Osnabrück

  • 6 years and 10 months, Aug 1985 - May 1992

    College

    Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium

    My First Project: Manager Abitur Magazine

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