Sebastian Ziemke

Focussing on scaled agile development, competencies development, coordination of competence centres and servant leadership.

As senior consultant and agile coach, Sebastian applies his expertise in following assignments: • Introducing agile frameworks to Impact Hub Basel. • Implementation of a new grant management platform for Fondation Botnar.

As a member of the BalAgile core team Sebastian has the opportunity to help form the direction of the companies agile strategy. He currently transitions one of the business areas into a release train, delivering value by aligning multiple scrum teams, based on quarterly big room Program Increment plannings.

As senior consultant and agile coach, Sebastian applied his expertise in following assignments in association with november ag: • Delivery Manager: Aligning and insourcing the agile delivery management across multiple suppliers for FIFA. • Agile Coach: Introducing scalable agile principles with a pilot project at Migros, the largest retailer in Switzerland. • Consultant: Performing "health checks" for a range of projects with focus on agile adoption.

Role: Responsible to establish and manage the corporate business intelligence framework Assignment brief: Transform the existing silo waterfall delivery approach into an Agile delivery framework based on Business Intelligence principles.

Role: Deliver end-to-end complex projects across the airline’s operational areas. Assignment Briefs: Air New Zealand is having 4 subsidiary airlines with a total of 11,000 employees. Sebastian was responsible to initiate, select vendors, implement and transform the business for critical and key projects.

Role: Following the success with the previous engagement, Sebastian was asked to manage the transition of cash operations from an external provider to an in-house operation. Assignment: The external provider gave notice to seize operation within 6 months. Sebastian was responsible to prepare and transition to the in-house operation within the given timeframe 6

Role: Review and restructure an evolving program and manage it to completion. Assignment: The company manages a large part of New Zealand’s cash in transit operation. A program of work was underway to replace the operational procedures and cash processing systems including the move to a paperless transport operation.

Role: Management of an extranet project definition. Assignment: Establish the scope and prepare a business case to consolidate a single extranet platform for 130 subsidiary companies worldwide. Kick start the project by delivering the Information Architecture design. Sebastian subsequently handed the project over to an internal project manager.

Role: Manage the legacy red-brick Data Warehouse environment Assignment: The redbrick data Warehouse needed to be adapted to the new upstream billing and CRM systems. In addition, a large backlog had to be cleared due to an extended freeze period.

Role: Architect and Project Manager for a new Business Intelligence Framework Assignment: Design and implement a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Framework with Oracle tools and databases.

Role: Business Intelligence Architect and Manager of a joint Cargo Data Warehouse between an airline in New Zealand and one in Australia. Assignment: Define and implement a project with a team in New Zealand and a team in Australia to deliver a common Business Intelligence platform for the Cargo business of both airlines.

Role: Management of 9 consultants across Europe and coordinate 13 experts to drive the company’s technology strategy. Assignments: Retrospective validation of an adverse events system. Validated expert knowledge management system development. Business Intelligence framework definition for a large world wide distributor.

Role: Business Analyst and Solution Architect Assignments: Loyalty system requirements definition and solution design. As solution architect and Oracle Designer specialist review and approve solution design proposals and implement a common design approach using Oracle Designer.

Role: Business Intelligence developer Assignments: Replace the legacy mainframe reporting with Business Objects for the goods forecasting and warehouse management systems.