Mr. Schoch developed the project controlling, including presentation for the management and the review process for projects with a budget> 1 million €.

He was partner of all the project managers with their own project reports related to actual status, milestones, planning, costs, budget and riscs. After analyzing these reports and interviews with the project managers  Mr. Schoch created the IT project report and presentated the results for the  top management (Group CIO, IT Group managers and the CIO of the international group companies.

Mr. Schoch did this job for the completely IT portfolio for our company with more than 65 projects and more than € 750 million Euros budget and he supervised and coached the project managers. The largest projects with a budget of more than € 100 million Euros were very complex and strategically of greatest importance. These projects were usually very important according to internationality, offshoring, multiple stakeholder relationships, time and cost pressures.

All methods were used to support the projects: waterfall, agile, classic and agile, distributed and virtual teams, large-scale programs with other apects, e.g. projects with responsibilities for several countries and more than 100 project employees.

Technical focus:  e.g. Cloud applications and operations, mobile apps, IOT, improvements, digitization, SAP / S4 HANA, third-party and in-house development, regulatory tasks such as (cyber) risk management, ICS, ITSM, data protection, major rollout, outsourcing, and sourcing projects. ....

Mr. Schoch succeeded in establishing the review process for the projects, both for the project manager and for the management. The projects were reviewed passing in a new phase by a team consisting of reviewers with a specialist focus on project management, functionality, architecture, security, test and operation. He presented the results to the top management with a management summary. Mr. Schoch coached the assessments and carried out assessments by himself. 

Mr. Schoch managed all the tasks very well; we are complete satisfied with his positive and sustainable results.

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"... Mr. Schoch was appointed by the management / COO i.e. to deal with critical issues pertaining to internal personnel and customers. The issues which were of great importance to our company and could only be entrusted to a consultant whom we had full confidence in. Technical, organisational knowledge were necessary to perform tasks. 

In all critical situations entrusted to him, he managed to solve the problems with our key customers and achieved positive results. This led to a significant increase in customer satisfaction. Mr. Schoch had the ability how to establish contact with customers in all relevant hierarchical levels and specialists. He was able to win over all relevant departments and managers within our company in order to solve the problem at hand. 

This ensured that our company's reputation was maintained.

He always documented the results of his work in a comprehensible and, if necessary, revision-proof manner. The analyzes, derivations of the results and the presentations were recognized in all cases. His advice as a coach enabled our executives to cope with the high internal and external demands placed on them as part of a reorganization and to was able to successfully complete their tasks.

The critical situations / escalations managed by Mr. Schoch were always successful. Mr. Schoch's vast experience has always been of great help in our planning and decision making processes in organizational matters.

Mr. Schoch was asked to take over responsibility of the Program Management Office (PMO), reporting directly with the program manager. The program consisting of several projects, which was one of the most important projects in our company.

Mr. Schoch was additionally asked to, support, advise and manage the program manager to set up the program. As the program was of great importance to our company, it was entrusted to an experienced consultant who had our full confidence. Mr. Schoch supported the program management with planning, recording and information tasks.

Mr. Schoch took on the role of first person of contact, coached project managers in day to day tasks and provided administrative support for the projects. He advised the program manager referring to skills of project staff and project managers.

He advised the program manager on which project staff and project managers would be best suited...".

"...Mr. Schoch was the responsible project manager for the following IT areas:

- Documentation of IT requests and applications of suitable methodologies

- Creating / accessing a broad and consistent requirement documentation

- Guidance within the different teams

- Consistent updates (in real time) of required documentation to ensure tender documents are detailed for the relevant 

  suppliers

- Budget and resource planning during the procurement phase

- Support for external partners with regards to their budget validation

- Support regarding the TCO requirements within the procurement team 

- Drafting and finalising contracts

- Evaluation of the market analysis via internet research, the request for information (RFI), the request for proposal (RfP 1.0 and

  RfP 2.0) for all working areas 

- Bridging the gaps between interdisciplinary requirement elements

Mr. Schoch was recommended by the Head of IT (CIO) to assume his role, because of the complexity regarding the technical and organizational aspects. The success of the project was of great importance. As a consultant he possessed all the characteristics and the skills which were necessary for this task. We had full confidence of his trustworthiness and he easily gained acceptance in all the teams he was placed in. He was knowledgeable of organizational matters related to department requirements...".