Experience

Sogeti
• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee
• Senior Manager

  • Aug 2021 - Present


Worldstrings Promotion

• Founder

  • Jan 2003 - Present

  German-born Bernd Haber who lives in Phoenix/Arizona, USA, is the founder of Worldstrings Promotion®. (www.worldstrings.com) The Pete Seeger-endorsed mission of Worldstrings Promotion, founded in 2003, is to Keep Bringing People together through the Power of Music. It specializes in producing unique music events using music as a common language to bring people together and to promote mutual and peaceful understanding of diverse cultures. Bernd serves as an agent, promoter and presenter of traditional and contemporary music collaborating with musicians across continents. For many years, he has successfully organized concerts, managed music tours and has worked with music venues, partners and agencies in Arizona and other states in the United States, Europe and Germany. One of his biggest achievements so far was when he worked as the artist manager and booking agent of John Kay (founder, vocalist and primary songwriter of Steppenwolf) in 2019-2020, working with John on his transition from rock music star to solo artist. In 2021, Bernd has initiated the #SwedishMusicShowcase - a global endeavor of an envisioned evolution to establish the it as a recognized music brand that specializes in promoting more Swedish music & artists in Arizona and across North America. Show less



Hexawise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Strategic Advisor

  • Jul 2020 - May 2021

  Developed value propositions to maximize benefits of using Hexawise at strategic global vendors, such as Accenture. So far, identified and qualified more than 50 related engagement opportunities. Developed and implemented a business case model that includes relevant Return on Investment (ROI) projections to increase testing thoroughness, improve productivity and time to market using factors like: - IT project delivery defects statistics, i.e. defect leakage, of relevant releases from System Test/System Integration Test (or Sprint cycles) to User Acceptance Test and from User Acceptance Test to Production - Actual production incident backlog - Quality Assurance/Quality Engineering/Tester and Business Analyst resource capacity participating in System Test/System Integration Test and User Acceptance Test - Actual (or estimated) effort to create/maintain a test case of the existing test suite - Actual (or estimated) effort to manually execute a test case of the existing test suite - Cycle time duration of System Test/System Integration Test and User Acceptance Test Show less



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager

  • May 1992 - Jun 2020

  Various leadership roles as related to both IT project and IT service delivery and strategy. 2017 to 2020: Quality Engineering Business Development & Delivery Lead for North America and Canada • Single Point of Contact (business development/delivery) in NA for clients in Retail, Life Science, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Utilities, Oil & Gas and Hospitality and market development across multiple regions improving deal win rates by 15-20% • Increased testing service sales across North America by >30% during the three most recent fiscal years • Increased win margins of testing service deals by >20% during three most recent fiscal years with modern quality engineering 2005 to 2017: Senior Executive, Intelligent Testing and Quality Engineering Capability Team • Responsible for successful test service delivery at Fortune 500 clients (notable clients: Walmart, Merck, Costco, Chevron, United Health Group, Marriott International, DuPont, and Procter & Gamble) • Grew global testing practice from 25 resources (2005) to more than 40,000 (2020) • Developed test service business case modeler for ROM investment/outcome calculations as global standard for TCOE engagements • Lead architect of the Accenture Delivery Method for Testing as global standard and policy for all Accenture projects resulting in annual project productivity gains of 5-10% • Lead architect of Accenture’s global Test Metrics Framework (patent holder) as global standard for client test project engagements Speaking Engagements & Keynotes • (2016) QUEST - Quality Engineered Software and Testing – ‘Why Should CIOs and IT SVPs Care about a Business Case for Software Testing and QA Operations?’ • (2014) QUEST - Quality Engineered Software and Testing – ‘Test Data Management – Is It Really Just About Data?’ • (2013) QUEST - Quality Engineered Software and Testing – ‘Value of Testing in Quality Software Delivery’ • (2011) Dutch Testing Conference – ‘Business Case Optimization for Testing’ (Keynote) Show less