Background picture

Roland Woldt

Roland Woldt is a well-rounded executive with 25+ years of Business Transformation consulting and software development/system implementation experience, in addition to leadership positions within the German Armed Forces (11 years).

He has worked as Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect for many projects. Within these projects, he was responsible for the full project life cycle, from shaping a solution and selling it, to setting up a methodological approach through design, implementation, and testing, up to the rollout of solutions.
In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings during their lifecycle from definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them.

Roland worked as the Head of Software AG’s Global Process Mining CoE, as Director in KPMG’s Advisory, and had other leadership positions at Software AG/IDS Scheer and Accenture. Before that, he served as an active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.

In addition to this, he runs the successful What’s Your Baseline? podcast, which was rated in the top ten Business Process Management podcasts by Feedspot in 2022.

Skills

  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Business development & sales
  • Business & people management
  • Transformation
  • Program & project management
  • Agile/SAFe
  • Product management
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • BPM & Process Mining
  • SW development lifecycle & CI/CD
  • Enablement & curriculum development
  • Connect the dots
  • Think in systems
  • Cut through complexity
  • Create momentum
  • Care for people

Education

  • University of the German Armed Forces, Masters Degree in Education (Diplom-Pädagoge, univ.; 1990 – 1994)
  • Military Education (comparable to civil service education; gehobener Dienst): 5th army officer course (graduated 1989), promotion to Lieutenant 1990

placeholder

Community involvement

  • KPMG’s global representative in The Open Group’s architecture forum, the standards body of the TOGAF standard (2015 – 2020)
  • President of EcoVillage Community Association (2011 – 2016): managing of Board of Directors and external relationships for the homeowners association
  • North American lead and coordinator for IDS Scheer’s Defense Industry community (APEDAS; 2008 – 2010)
  • Co-founder of ProjectPier (www.projectpier.org, 2007), an open-source tool for project management: the creation of the website, coordinator of translations for the first release
  • Contributions to other open-source projects such as Drupal, a content management system – mostly translations and bug reporting (2004 – 2007)

placeholder

Technical and communication skills

  • German, English – fluent
  • TOGAF and SAFe
  • Systems Software, Applications and Platforms
    • ARIS Platform, Mega, Visio (architecture, processes)
    • Atlassian Confluence and JIRA; MediaWiki; Microsoft Azure DevOps (collaboration)
    • SAP R/3 MM, QM, SD, PS, FI/CO (ERP)
    • ServiceNow CMDB, APM, PPM, Financial Mgmt, Agile & Test Mgmt, SIM
    • Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Google Suite (office)
    • Drupal, WordPress, (web)
    • Macintosh, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS (OS)