During the past 7 years, I have been working on numerous successful projects for leading European banks and insurance companies. My focus is on banks middle and back office functions, i.e., FX and money market business and strategy consulting, especially in the area of IT risk management. In these areas I have assumed project roles on both business and technology issues. Here, my strong analytical and quantitative skills helped me in realizing valuable business benefits for the clients through strategic advice, functional designs, technical solutions as well as project coordination ensuring that goals and timelines were met in budget. My skills base on an apprenticeship at a German cooperative bank, followed by a university degree. This degree was focused on finance, banking and organisation. From the strategic and controlling viewpoint I have focused on IT risk management during my recent project. In this context I developed an approach for IT risk management that was set in place