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Christian Krumpholz

Project description: This project was to develop a flagship application for the recruitment department to manage applicants and to conduct the assessment center selection process.

Abstract of my tasks: Beside of common project management tasks it was my responsibility to understand the customer needs, propose the technical design, developing the core components / database of the solution and leading a fully remote working team. The application was built with the newest state of the art technologies: Microsoft store app for tablet computers, fancy 3rd party UI controls, SQL database with entity framework, Azure blob storage and Active Directory Services, Web Api, WS federation SSO, Visual Studio / TFS online and all component were hosted in the cloud.

Project description: Implementation of new regulatory compliance rules and integration of a new technical insurance vendor interface into a banking application.

Abstract of my tasks: End-to-end delivery from first requirement gathering until post production support.

Project description: Integration of several insurance consulting workflows from a large external insurance vendor into a banking application.

Abstract of my tasks: Common project management tasks and close alignment of the technical / functional interfaces with the distributed team from the banking customer, the insurance vendor, the development / test team in India and Germany. From a technical perspective this project was done using ASP.NET MVC, WCF web services and an identity provider for authentication.


Project description: Complex estimation in the multi million euro area to redesign the technical call center infrastructure at a large German bank.

Abstract of my tasks: Leading the estimation by analyzing the current functional/technical system, gather the requirements from the different stakeholders, evaluate possibilities with involved teams to achieve required goals, define a technical draft design, break done the tasks to work packages within the software lifecycle process of the involved teams and perform detailed estimation including documentation of risk and assumptions.


Project description: Goal of this project was to integrate the functionalities of the main retail banking system of a German bank, which is used in all banking branch offices from ~8.000 consultants of this customer.

Abstract of my tasks: Being the single point of contact for all integration projects to coordinate the different functional requests to remove the existing system. A common task was to consolidate the different requests and to define and estimate shared components and interfaces with synergies.

Project description: Ensure a banking application compatibility due a change of a browser version in production.

Abstract of my tasks: Leading the project to migrate 370 (partially very complex) webpages from IE6 to IE8. Furthermore I responsible to lead the technical part of the transformation and providing technical support when required by the offshore team.


Project description: Implementation of new security paper requirements into banking application

Abstract of my tasks: Managing the E2E offshore delivery of this project. Common project management tasks required. Estimating, scope-, schedule-, cost-, resource planning in the project planning phase. Performing quality assurance, risk management including preventive/corrective actions, earned/value tracking etc. during the monitoring and controlling phase of the project.


Project description: Updating of custom banking application by new state of the art technologies and new technical enhancements (SAML interfaces to external providers, identity provider, custom cryptography of sensitive data, integration of external test system etc.)

Abstract of my tasks: I worked as project lead and technical architect to deliver this project. Beside managing the project and propose a technical solution a special challenge was to setup a test to validate the technical changes and to ensure the new technologies will work without major interruption in production.


Project description: Planned renewal of a banking product in conjunction with the functional department.

Abstract of my tasks: Reverse-engineering of the application due to a lack of past documentation to gather all functionalities and plausibility checks. Estimating and planning the project which was postponed due to changes priorities of the customer.


In this year I was also involved in many other different tasks:

Trainings: I provided some technical trainings in a trainee program from the content preparation to conducting the training. (Repeated this tasks in some other years)

Applicant selection: Partially conducting assessment center days and interviewing applicants. (Repeated this tasks in some other years)

Over this year I was also responsible to lead the 3rd level application maintenance support, the quality assurance and I was involved in a performance improvement taskforce and extension of the test concept for the current customer.

Project description: Due to a merger of two large German banks it was required to migrate the logic of all retail banking documents (account creation forms, insurance contracts, credit forms, etc.) to make them working with the different account number systems of both banks.

Abstract of my tasks: Managing the project to migrate 800 PDF / XSLT documents. Furthermore I was responsible to analyze those documents, getting clarification with functional department, propose a technical solution and to coordinate the development and testing team working in India.


Other project tasks done in this year with own responsibility:

Chief-Developer to integrate a new primary customer data system into the main retail banking application of a large German bank. I was responsible to analyze which data will be replaced by the new system, how the data could be mapped and to specify and develop new data loading web service interfaces with a small development team.

Analyze, plan and develop a .NET WinForm application to graphically report on unit test cover coverage of a retail banking aplication.

Quality assurance lead (extend existing quality control guidelines, doing code reviews, conduct coaching’s with developers and tracking of audit findings) in a large .NET application.