Projects
A selection from more than thirty years. Client names are given only where agreed or publicly known.
| Period | Client | Role and tasks |
|---|---|---|
| 2022–2024 | Payment processor of a major German airline | Business expert within an agile team of 20 improving transaction processing in an SAP system: story writing, approval sessions and sign-off, cross-team integration testing. |
| 2020–2024 | Major international acquirer | Product manager in the international SCA programme: introduction of 3-D Secure 2 for e-commerce PSPs and merchants, card scheme changes, internal testing and acceptance, coordination of PSP and merchant interface changes. |
| 2020 | German banking cooperative | Evaluation of options for continuing or replacing the current operating platform (2 months). |
| 2019–2020 | Major international acquirer | Product manager and SCA/PSD2 lead for Germany: management reporting, detailed requirement specifications, change requests to the processing platform, test strategy with international partners. |
| 2015–2018 | MasterCard Advisors | Consulting for several banks: PCI DSS scoping and segmentation, issuing architecture and supplier evaluation for a fintech bank in Berlin; effort estimate for an in-house issuing solution at a major Swiss bank; requirements for a foreign bank launching an issuing product in Germany. |
| 2015–2017 | Major German acquirer | POS acquiring product manager: migration and go-live, product portfolio consolidation, renewal of supplier and partner contracts, decision papers on POS terminal purchases. |
| 2012–2013 | Deutsche Card Services | End-to-end test management for acquiring: concept and test data generation. |
| 2012–2013 | Card system software vendor | Project support for a prepaid issuing project at a prepaid card issuer in Hamburg. |
| 2011–2012 | Private investor | Mobile banking and e-wallet solution for merchant payments, prepaid issuing (closed and open loop). |
| 2011 | Easycash GmbH | Integration of a prepaid issuing solution with Visa authorisation and clearing. |
| 2011 | Software company, Paris | Technical due diligence for an acquisition: solution, business model, structure. |
| 2009–2010 | Orbiscom (Mastercard), Ireland | Technical expert witness on rule-based card fraud prevention; expert report and mediation sessions in Dublin. |
| 2008–2009 | Deutsche Card Services | Management of the acquiring vendor selection, evaluation of a POS market entry in another European country, clearing interface optimisation. |
| 2005–2007 | Private bank, Luxembourg | Sale of and migration to a new issuing and acquiring solution: prepaid and credit cards, authorisation and clearing, EMV card production, acceptance and launch – with five consultants from Schäffter Consulting. |
| 2005 | ING | Project office for the launch of a Visa/Mastercard credit card in Germany. |
| 2003–2005 | AtosWorldline Processing, Frankfurt | Manager Application Architecture: migration of an issuing solution to a new authorisation system (6 million cards), cryptographic key management, EMV projects; before that project manager for the migration to the SIRA acquiring solution. |
| 1992–2000 | RS2 Software (co-founder) | Sales, project management, implementation, architecture and development; projects for HSBC Malta, Telekurs, NatWest, Sberbank, Kazkommertsbank, Romcard, GiroBankcard and banks in Hungary, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Kenya, among others. |
New projects are added to this table on an ongoing basis.