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CHARACTERISTICS

Languages: fluent English, Polish, and German. Seven years of French and one and a half years of Spanish.
SKILLS: strong Project Management, Strategy Development, Financial Modelling, Business Development, Go-to-Market Development, Sales, Management Consulting, and Executive Level Communication Skills
Hobbies: travel, panoramic photography, playing piano, ballroom dance, alpine skiing, badminton, squash, tennis, swimming, computer graphics

SOFTWARE:

very familiar with the usage of MS-DOS 6.2, MS-Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, MS-Explorer, MS-Office 98, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2008: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, FrontPage, Kinetex 3D Studio Max, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Quarks, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, SAP Value Lifecycle Manager, SAP CRM (intermediate), SAP R/3/ SAP ERP (intermediate), SAP Enterprise Portal (intermediate), SAP Business Warehouse (basic), Business Objects Crystal Xcelsius (expert).

OTHER:

German driver’s license, American driver’s license, car, typewriting skills

EDUCATION

AUSTRALIA
2004-2005

Monash University, Faculty of Business & Economics, Melbourne, Australia
Master of International Business
Grade: Distinction (top 15%)

POLAND
2000-2004

School of Business – National-Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland
American Bachelor of Business Administration
Polish Licentiate in Management & Marketing
Grade: High Distinction (top 5%); University Honors for: Bachelor Thesis

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1999-2000

Graduation at Peetz Plateau RE-5 High School, Peetz, USA
American High-School Diploma
Grade: 4.0 (max=4.0), Honors: Best Grade Point Average, Biology, Jazz Band, School Band

GERMANY
1998-1999 Christoph-Jacob-Treu-Gymnasium, Lauf a.d. Pegnitz. Natural sciences
1993-1998 Willibald-Gluck-Gymnasium, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., Natural sciences
1992-1993

Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, Röthenbach a.d. Pegnitz , Liberal Arts

1990-1992 Volksschule Rückersdorf
1989-1990 Volksschule Nürnberg
1988-1989 Berliner Schule, Essen-Frohnhausen

SUMMARY

✪ Tier-One Enterprise Software Sales Specialist and Advisor
My name is Vic and I have more than a decade of experience as a Management Consultant specializing in Business Transformation, Business Consulting and large deal Enterprise Software Sales. I develop top-end technology-enabled strategies and innovative new business models that unlock tangible business value in the millions and billions of dollars for my customers while aiming to minimise operational risk and/ or maximise compliance and consumer satisfaction. I have successfully justified billions of dollars of business transformation investments over the span of my career.

✪ Running the Office of the President
Currently I work for the President of SAP Asia Pacific Japan and run her Office by supporting daily managerial, and operational tasks while advising on and executing our business strategy. I work in very close collaboration with the global offices of the SAP CEO, Board Members, Global Executive Managing Board as well as the offices of the Market Units' Managing Directors in Asia Pacific Japan.

✪ Volunteer, Traveler and Fine Art Photographer
In my private time I enjoy various sports, roaming the world and producing panoramic fine art photography. From the art sales I donate all proceeds to various charitable causes and collect tens of thousands of dollars each year to help others in need.

✪ Citizen of the World
I lived and worked in the United States of America, Germany, Poland, Singapore & Australia, but have further travelled over 50 countries especially in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. My international first-hand experience, language skills and highly developed adaptability serve me very well in the business world especially when dealing with cross-cultural and/ or internationally dispersed teams.

Specialties:
✔ Bluechip and Government Business Transformation
✔ Economic Value Management
✔ Management Consulting and C-Level Advisory
✔ Complex Enterprise Software Sales
✔ Regional Business Development

 

DETAILED WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 2014 -
ongoing

Office of the President "SAP Asia PTE Ltd." in Singapore

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Head of Operations in the Office of the President SAP Asia-Pacific Japan
  • Responsibilities: January 2014 to present
    Managerial and operational support of all activities of the Regional President for SAP Asia-Pacific & Japan
  • Recognitions/ Awards:
    • SAP High Potential Program
    • SAP Fast Track Program
Apr 2013 -
Dec 2013

Industry Principal for Public Sector "SAP Asia PTE Ltd." in Singapore

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Business Development Manager
  • Responsibilities: Responsible for driving growth, go-to-market definition, and large deal support across the Asia-Pacific and Japan Urban Government sector (State, Council, City Management). Part of the role involves the provision of expert advisory regarding existing SAP Solutions designed specifically for the Urban Government and Public Sector Organisations in general. Amongst many others, topics discussed with customers often involve solutions for Big Data Intelligence, Connected City, Citizen Engagement, Smart City, Intelligent City, City Mobile Applications.
    The ultimate goal is to support public outcomes and strategies most efficiently and effectively through the implementation of available and future co-innovated cloud, on-premise and mobile SAP Solutions.
  • Recognitions/ Awards:
    • Overall performance rating FY2013: "exceeding expectations"
    • Best B2B PR Campaign for SAP Urban Matters in APJ 2014 - Silver Award
    • SAP Asia Pacific Japan Innovation Leadership Award 2013
    • SAP High Potential
    • SAP Asia Pacific Japan Chief Operating Officer Award for Charitable Community Engagement raising 25,000 SGD for Kids with Cancer foundation
Jan 2012 -
Jul 2012

Industry Principal for Life Sciences "SAP Asia PTE Ltd." in Singapore

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Half-year long Rotational Talent Development Assignment overseas
  • Responsibilities: Development of Go-To Market Strategy, Business Development, Pipeline planning and execution and and roll-out of new products introductions to Life Sciences companies and organisations. Close collaboration and support of SAP Sales Teams and their respective sales opportunities across the Asia-Pacific region.
  • Recognitions/ Awards:
    • Overall assessment: consistently exceeding expectations
    • SAP High Potential Program
Jan 2008 -
Mar 2013

Senior Value Engineering Consultant at "SAP Australia Ltd. Pty." in Melbourne, AU

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Value Engineer within Australia/ New Zealand Sales Department
  • Responsibilities: providing Value Services to our local clients focusing on Value Identification, Value Realisation and Value Optimisation of potential and existing SAP Investments. Heading up the SAP ERP Upgrade Services within the Value Engineering Team. Training of Premium Customers, Account Executives, Solution Architects, Value Engineers, and Business Transformation in the usage of the Value Engineering "Value Lifecycle Manager 2" (sophisticated SAP-specific Business Case Development Tool) and Business Objects Crystal Xcelsius. Further development and maintenance of national sales opportunity, pipeline, team and utilisation reporting.
  • Recognitions/ Awards:
    • Individual annual sales achivements: 144%/ 167%/ 150%/ 199%/ 260%
    • Overall performance rating FY2008: "exceeding expectations"
    • Overall performance rating FY2009: "consistently exceeding expectations"
    • Overall performance rating FY2010: "exceeding expectations"
    • Overall performance rating FY2011: "exceeding expectations"
    • Overall performance rating FY2012: "exceeding expectations"
    • Overall performance rating FY2013: "exceeding expectations"
    • High Potential overseas Fellowship - 6months development rotation
    • Supported pull-through revenue through targeted Business Cases: AUD +19mn (2008), AUD +26m (2009), AUD +27m (2010), AUD +34m (2011), 27+mn (2012)
    • Promotion to Senior Value Engineering Consultant: 18 months
    • Providing training in Value Lifecycle Manager 2.0 (VLM): +275 SAP Sales employees/ 12 Partners/ 13 Customers
    • Active Participation in over 12 Value Academies for Customers and Partners
    • Providing training in Business Objects Xcelsius Dashboard Reporting: +15 SAP colleagues
    • Recognition for professionalism for the training of SAP's Sales Group
    • SAPRA (Employee Award) Nomination for "result orientation" Q4/2008
    • SAPRA (Employee Award) Nomination for "result orientation" Q2/2009
    • SAPRA (Employee Award) Winner for "community focused" Q1/2011
    • Winner of the 2008 Global Corporate Challenge (both individual and team)
Apr 2010 -
ongoing

Photographer at "Victor Marz Photography" in Melbourne, AU

  • Type of company: Charity/ Artist
  • Post: Owner
  • Responsibilities: planning, shooting, post-processing, advertising and selling spectacular large print panoramic photography of the highest quality with the intent to collect funds for various charities
  • Recognitions/ Awards:
    • 5 x Bronze Award at the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards 2011
    • 19th Place (amongst +3800 submissions) at the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards 2011 in the amateur class
    • Donation of one of my works at the Governor Genera's House High Tea 2011 Live Auction for the Malkara School for Children with Special Needs collecting 2,800 AUD
    • Overall Donations of over 5,000AUD for various charities incl. Red Cross, Oxfam International, Redkite and Malkara School in Canberra for the FY10/11
    • Acceptance of two works into the 2011 Kolor Pano Book
Jan 2006 -
Dec 2007

Business Consultant at "SAP Australia Ltd. Pty." in Melbourne, AU

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Associate Business Consultant (CRM/ SCM/ Business Intelligence/ Knowledge Management)
  • Responsibilities: providing Value Services to Global-1000 companies focusing on Value Identification, Value Realisation and Value Optimisation of potential and existing SAP Investments. Partially providing pre-sales services when identifying the value of SAP for the individual customers based on their existing system landscape and business processes. Further heading up the Knowledge Management Initiative for Business Consulting Asia-Pacific, Business Consulting Portal Homepage Administration and Business Consulting APA Management Team support.
  • Recognitions/ Awards:
    • Promotion from "Associate Business Consultant" to "Business Consultant": 11 months
    • Individual consulting utilisation achievement 2006/ 2007: 151%/ 118%
    • Overall achievement of budgeted target 2006/ 2007: 162%/ 142%
    • Supported pull-through revenue through targeted business cases 2006/2007: AUD +27mn
    • SAPRA (Employee Recognition) Nomination for Innovation in Q4/2007
    • Most utilised Consultant in Australia/ New Zealand in Q3/2007
    • Global Recognition: SAP Field Services Fast Impact Award
Nov 2004 -
Feb 2005

Student Business Consultant at "SAP Australia Ltd. Pty." in Sydney, AU

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Intern (Knowledge Management for the Business Consulting Department across the Region (Asia/ Pacific))
  • Responsibilities: Development of a Knowledge Management Strategy to assist Asia/Pacific SAP Business Consultants to sell and deliver projects, and facilitate roll-out of Business Consulting templates. Further to prepare and consolidate an inventory of tools & methodologies from various regions (Americas, EMEA, APA), assisting in various client projects and client engagements. Implementing necessary Knowledge Management Processes involved with capturing experiences and knowledge from delivered projects and creation of a Knowledge Resources Map across all internal and several external information sources.

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Apr 2004 -
Jun 2004

Student Business Consultant at "SAP Deutschland AG & Co.KG" in Walldorf, GER

  • Type of company: Software
  • Post: Intern (Customer Management / Service Industries)
  • Responsibilities: Topic development "Customer Management" - conception and preparation of various types of documents like sales presentation, handbook about Data Mining, Market Segmentation/ Differentiation, white paper concerning Customer Asset Management (CAM), design different project tools to approach CAM projects more effectively in the future, consolidation and creation of international industry reports (Service Provider: Postal, Logistic, Railway, Hospitality, Consultancy, etc.), providing assistance and supportive functions in various international client projects and engagements (personal and through telephone conferences)

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Jan 2004 -
Mar 2004

Writing my Bachelor Thesis for the "Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH", in Gummersbach, GER/ Nowy Sacz, POL

  • Topic: "Identifying the Needs of a Management Consulting Company towards a Document Management System for the Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH"
  • Recognitions/ Awards:

 

Jul 2003 -
Dec 2003

Internship at "Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH" in Gummersbach, GER

  • Type of company: Management Consulting
  • Post: Intern in the CEO's Office
  • Responsibilities: Design and program a database for external contact data, creation of a competition analysis of the international consulting market, helping in creation of numerous presentations, several other office duties

 

Aug 2002 -
Aug 2002

Internship at the "Bank Slaski S.A. (ING Group)" in Siemanowice, POL

  • My main focus was the credit service of the bank. I learned about criteria that have to be fulfilled to obtain a credit. Financial analysis of potential credit-clients etc.
  • click here for the reference letter: page 1

 

Aug 2002 -
Aug 2002

Internship at “Power/Heat-Plant EC Tychy S.A.” in Tychy, POL

  • During 2 weeks I learned about the production cycle of the company, legal issues with the nearby population and the contamination of the environment because of the coal. Regenerative energy was my main focus. I got especially to know about bio mass.
  • click here for the reference letter: page 1

 

Jul 2002 -
Jul 2002

Internship at “Bonn – Abfallwirtschaft” in Schwabach, GER

  • During 3 weeks I went through different departments of the company.
  • Post: Assistant
  • Responsibilities: Maintaining part of the companies database, assisting the senior staff in preparing a project (mainly financial calculation, writing the offer, etc.), graphical layouting a flyer for the company.
  • click here for the reference letter: page 1

 

Feb 2001 -
May 2001

India Day”, Nowy Sacz, PL

  • Beneficial Rock music concert for India’s earthquake victims (more than 1000 students attended)
  • Post: Logistical Organizer and Financial Assistant
  • Responsibilities: manage a team of 12 people, renting city hall, setting up security, inviting bands, renting a PA-system and lights, controlling set-up, finances
Jan 1999 –
Feb 1999

Web-Design, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., GER

  • Type of company: Internet Site Creator
  • Post: Graphic Designer
  • Responsibilities: creating animated and non-animated graphics for web pages
Dec 1998 -
Feb 1999

Rosenmontagsball 1999”, 92318 Neumarkt i.d. OPf., GER

  • Rock music concert for more than 3,500 students
  • Post: Logistical Organizer
  • Responsibilities: manage a team of 16 people, renting city hall, setting up security, inviting bands, renting a PA-system and lights, controlling set-up, etc. 
Sep 1998 -
Jul 1999

„Asbierin“ school paper, 92318 Neumarkt i.d. OPf., GER

  • Type of company: Grammar school
  • Post: Chief Editor
  • Responsibilities: Coordination and delegation of 12 co-workers, finding sponsors, advertisement, writing articles, lay-outing, correction, censoring, correspondence, selling, budget planning, finances
Aug 1998 -
Aug 1998

Summer job at Pfleiderer AG, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., GER

  • Type of Company: Industrial Production Company
  • Post: Somebody to help out
  • Responsibilities: Checking wood delivery, Sorting Invoices, writing reports
Dec 1997 -
Dec 1999

Johann-Georg Stadelmann, Amberger Strasse 10, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., GER

  • Type of Company: Accounting, Financial Consulting
  • Post: Secretary
  • Responsibilities: Secretarial work including typing, correspondence, copying documents, answering customers’ calls, mail distribution, and general office duties

TRAINING

Jul 2010 "Negotiation Skills" – Introductory course to foster Negotiation Skills (1 day)
Mar 2009 "SAP Value Academy" – Value Management Methodology and Toolset training (3 days)
Aug 2008 "Apollo" – Competitive Selling Training (1 day)
Jun 2008 "Value Lifecycle Manager 2.0" – SAP-specific Business Case Tool- Train-the-Trainer Certification (3 days)
May 2008 "Strategy" – Sales Methodology Training/ Account Management Methodology (4.5 days)
Sep 2007 “SAP Upgrade Evaluation” – SAP Course to evaluate costs for a technical R/3 Upgrade to SAP ERP (2 days)
May 2007 “SAP Upgrade Analysis” & “SAP Accelerated Value Assessment” – SAP Methodolgy Courses (2 days)
Apr 2007 “ASAP Focus Methodology” – SAP Methodology Training for All-in-One Implementations (2 days)
April 2007 “Questions to Win” – Interview Skills and Sales Strategy Course (2 days)
Sep 2006 "Career Management" - How to plan the right career (based on Belbin Assessment of Skills and Interest) (2 days)
Jun 2006 "Executive Selling Focus" - Training to enhance understanding of C-Level Executives and their drivers (2 days)
Apr 2006 "Value Engineering 101" - Training to promote Value-Based Selling methodologies and understanding (1 day)
Feb 2006 "Gold of the Desert King" - Team Building Exercise to illustrat group dynamics and the importance of strategy
Oct 2005 "Consulting Skills Workshop" - Training to improve consulting related skills based on Belbin's Team Dynmics (3 days)
Jan 2005 "mySAP Business Suite" - Complete overview of the SAP Product Portfolio (2 days)
May 2004 "Analytical Customer Relationship Management" - Infoday about analytical CRM in practice (Audi/Heidelberg, etc.) (1 day)
Apr 2004 "SAP System Introduction" - Introduction to SAP used computer systems (2 days)
Dec 2003 "Customer Orientation" - Training to increase customer orientation among employees (1 day)
Oct 2003 "Negotiation Techniques" - Training how to lead an arguement (3 days)
Sep 2003 "The Perfect Job Application" - Training how to properly apply for a job (1 day)
Aug 2003 "Presentation and Moderation" - Training to increase presentationional skills with an introduction to moderation (2 day)
Jul 2003 "Training & Coaching" - Introduction to Human Resource Development (1 day)
Mar 2000 “Quo Vadis” – Conference about Poland and its role in the process of globalization (3 days)
Oct 1997 “Anti-Drug Promotion” – Seminar to promote anti-drug-thinking among high school students (3 days)