Dr.-Ing. Michael Castner
Head of Product Management at Klopotek & Partner GmbH- Claim this Profile
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Englisch Full professional proficiency
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Experience
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Klopotek & Partner GmbH
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Germany
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Product Management
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Jan 2004 - Present
• Responsibilty for the overall design of the standard software for Publishing• Coordination of all organizational processes regarding the system design• Elaboration of new product strategies for the market - definitioan of the road map• Core areas are Order2Cash systems, Title Management, Editorial, Production and Web applications• Requirement analysis and business process analysis for large scale projects • Board Member of the Software Technology & Services Board covering development, QA, customer Services and SaaS provision
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Managing Director
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Jan 2001 - Dec 2003
• Responsibility for the department „Consulting Germany“• Responsibility for the department „Customer Service” (Hotline & Bug fixing)• Management of the department „Consulting Germany“• Responsibility for the project methodology in all implementation projects• Project responsibility as Project Director for international projects• Quotations, presentation, contract negotiations mainly in English• Constitution of a co-operation with an English partner in the UK• Responsible Management of an English large scale project in the UK • Member of the executive board of Klopotek UK Ltd.
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Head of Consulting
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Feb 1999 - Dec 2000
• Building up and Management of the consulting department • Member of the executive board• Project responsibility as Project Director for different implementation projects• Quotations, presentation, contract negotiations in German and English• Maintenance of the customer relations• Constitution of a co-operation with a Dutch partner for implementation projects• Project Director for Dutch and Belgian implementation projects
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Head of Software Development - Subscription Systems
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Feb 1997 - Jan 1999
• Management of the software development for the standard software JSD (Journal Sales and Distribution) and AVM (Advertising Management)• Conceptual design of the standard software• Management of implementation projects for different publishing houses• Acquisition of new customers (quotation, presentation, contract negotiations),• Customer consulting regarding technological issues (hardware, network, data bases)• Business consulting and maintenance of customer relations
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Head of Software Development - Publishing System
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Oct 1992 - Jan 1997
• Management of the software development responsible for the standard software PPM (Product Planning and Management System), BSD (Book Sales and Distribution) as well as JSD (Journal Sales and Distribution),• Conceptual design of the client server based Order2Cash systems.• Management and support of implementation projects• Customer consulting regarding technological issues (hardware, network, data bases) • Elaboration of system architectures• Support of acquisition processes (mainly system architectures)
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Condat
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Germany
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager
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Oct 1991 - Sep 1992
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Technical University Berlin - Department Computer Science
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Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland
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Scientific Assistent
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Oct 1986 - Sep 1991
• Software Engineering • Software Ergonomics • Lecturing • Graphical user interfaces and guidelines • Development of a "window management system" • Software Engineering • Software Ergonomics • Lecturing • Graphical user interfaces and guidelines • Development of a "window management system"
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Education
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Technische Universität Berlin / Technical University Berlin
Dr.-Ing., Computer Science -
Technische Universität Berlin / Technical University Berlin
Dipl.-Inform., Computer Science