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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 a Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect on 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 roll-out of solutions.

In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings throughout their life-cycle, from definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them. This also included the stand-up and development of consulting teams, and their day-to-day management.

Roland worked as a Vice President at iGrafx, Director in KPMG’s Advisory, as a Practice Director at Software AG/IDS Scheer, and as a project manager at Accenture. Before that he served as active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.

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

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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)

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Technical and communication skills

  • German, English – fluent
  • TOGAF and SAFe
  • Systems Software, Applications and Platforms
    • ARIS, iGrafx, Mega, Ardoq, Visio (architecture, processes, process mining)
    • KNIME (data modeling)
    • Atlassian Confluence and JIRA, Asana, 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 (CMDB/ERP)
    • Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Google Suite (office)
    • Drupal, WordPress, (web)
    • Macintosh, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS (OS)