Dr. Christian Nowak

Selbstständig, Retired (Open for consultancy/advisory activities from Nov. 2022), —-

Vienna, Österreich

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

IT Management
Line Management (CIO
CEO)
Programme & Project Management
Programme & Project Change Management
Project Portfolio Management
Process Management (Development-CMMI
Governance-COBIT
IT Services-ITIL)
IT Architecture Management
Enterprise Architecture
International experience (Africa
Asia
The Americas
Eastern Europe - development and developed areas)
Financial Institutions / Banking
Systemic Consulting
IT Infrastructure Outsourcing
Quantum computer science

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Christian Nowak

  • Bis heute 2 Jahre und 1 Monat, seit Mai 2022

    Retired (Open for consultancy/advisory activities from Nov. 2022)

    —-

  • Bis heute 2 Jahre und 11 Monate, seit Juli 2021

    Program Manager 'FlexCore: Core Solution Modernization'

    Erste Digital

  • Bis heute 4 Jahre und 5 Monate, seit Jan. 2020

    Programm Manager 'Core System Modernization'

    sIT Solutions AT

    Management of a 5Y initiative on renewing legacy core systems for digitization, ccordinating mainframe platform utilization extension measures, core banking solution refactoring, target architecturing.

  • Bis heute 7 Jahre und 3 Monate, seit März 2017

    Transition & Transformation Manager

    Erste Group

  • 4 Jahre und 5 Monate, Okt. 2012 - Feb. 2017

    IT Architect / Consultant

    IBM
  • 11 Monate, Sep. 2011 - Juli 2012

    Project Lead

    s IT Solutions AT

    Project Lead reporting to CEO. Analyse options to reduce mainframe cost (Erste Bank, Ceska Sporitelna, Savings Banks). Options analysed are port to midrange (UNIX, Windows) with or without code transformation, outsourcing and optimization. Based on a decision to outsource, role as negotiation lead, resulting in a contract with IBM to Outsource basic mainframe operations ('hosting').

  • 1 Jahr und 10 Monate, Nov. 2009 - Aug. 2011

    Chief IT Architect (CTO)

    Erste Group / s IT Solutions Holding / s IT Solutions AT Spardat GmbH

    Coordinating all IT technology strategies, roadmaps, frameworks, standards for Erste Group.

  • 1 Jahr und 6 Monate, Mai 2008 - Okt. 2009

    Lead Architecture; Lead Transition

    s IT Solutions AT / s IT Solutions Holding

    Lead of Architecture in s IT Solutions Holding, caring for coordinating It architecture strategies, roadmaps, decisions and activities for s It Solutions, the It solutions provider to Erste Group. In Charge of coordinating all Organizational Change activities of s It Solutions entities from a Holding perspective.

  • 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, Apr. 2006 - Mai 2008

    Board Member

    s IT Solutions Slovakia

    Board member for legistic entity s IT Solutions SK (~350 FTes, 5 branches in CZ, SK and HU). In addition to international responsibilities as s IT Solutions Board, responsibility for Customer Relationship Management SK. Sponsorship for Slovenska Sporitelna's programmes Euro & Core System Replacement

  • 2 Jahre und 7 Monate, Okt. 2005 - Apr. 2008

    Board Member

    s IT Solutions

    Board Member of sIT Solutions, the (virtual) software development service center of Erste Bank group (1500+ FTEs). Within my direct responsibility are areas project management, process management, ,organisational development

  • 2 Jahre und 1 Monat, Okt. 2003 - Okt. 2005

    Lead Division, Programme Director CMMI

    Spardat

    Build up of a Division concentrating project management skills (=project manager pool) and methods together with Process managment. Management of a cross organization CMMI Appraisal and Improvement programme.

  • 8 Monate, Nov. 2004 - Juni 2005

    Lead Feasibility Study

    Spardat / Erste Bank Group

    Lead management of a study on how to concentrate all development resources of Erste Bank grouop into a group wide 'service center'

  • 4 Monate, Juni 2003 - Sep. 2003

    Sabbatical leave

    Spardat

  • 7 Monate, Nov. 2002 - Mai 2003

    Programme Manager

    Slovenska Sporitelna

    Programme lead for implementation of 'Symbols' as new core banking system for Slovenska Sporitelna.

  • 3 Monate, Aug. 2002 - Okt. 2002

    Lead Programme Management Office

    Spardat / Erste Bank Group

    Lead of Programme Management Office for joint core system replacement project of Ceska Sporitelna and Slovenska Sporitelna. (Programme was stopped shortly after start)

  • 2 Jahre und 10 Monate, Okt. 1999 - Juli 2002

    Programme Manager easd+

    Spardat / Erste Bank

    Programme lead for complete replacement of core bankins system of Erste Bank against Spardat solutions. Special responsibilities for programme areas data migration and test support / test environments

  • 4 Monate, März 2002 - Juni 2002

    Task Force Lead

    Spardat

    Task Force lead for analyse of a potential cloning of Spardat's core systems to suport Erste Bank's international setups in Czech republic and Slovak Republic.

  • 9 Monate, Jan. 1999 - Sep. 1999

    Head of Division Architecture & Methods

    Spardat

    Division head, responsible for all architectural design, for project and development methods and infrastructure, for project methods, for middleware development. (100+ FTEs)

  • 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, Nov. 1996 - Dez. 1998

    Project Manager EURO & Year 2000

    Spardat

    Project lead for 'Euro transformation project' of Austrian Savingsbanks, together with project to prepare for Year2000 changeover of all Spardat systems.

  • 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Sep. 1995 - Okt. 1996

    Project Manager

    GiroCredit Informatik / Spardat

    Project Manager for project "Client /Server 1996". Development and start of deployment of new C/S based (Office & Branch) Infrastructure for Savingsbanks. (10.000+ workstations)

Ausbildung von Christian Nowak

  • 1978 - 1983

    Computer Science [Informatics]

    TU Wien

    Artificial Intelligence Computability Theory

Sprachen

  • Deutsch

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  • Englisch

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  • Slovak basic skills still learning

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Interessen

Photography [Fotografieren]
Mental Magic [Mentalmagie]
Gardening

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