Maxwell Kameny

Senior IT Project Manager with 8+ years delivering large-scale transformational technology programs across pharmaceutical, banking/finance, insurance, and enterprise technology sectors in Germany and internationally. Proven track record leading cross-functional and distributed teams, managing complex multi-stakeholder environments, and driving on-time, on-budget delivery across hybrid Agile/Waterfall engagements. PMP- and Scrum-certified, with an MBA and deep expertise in cloud migration (AWS), enterprise IT system rollouts, PMO leadership, and defect/quality management.

Trilingual (English, French, German) with strong commercial acumen spanning vendor negotiation, budget oversight, contract/SOW governance, and executive stakeholder communication. Career progressed from software quality/defect management into full project and program management ownership.

IT Project Manager — Pharma System Rollout at Tata Consultancy Services (2022-10 – 2025-12)

Pharmaceutical industry client

• Directed end-to-end delivery of complex pharma system deployments in a hybrid Agile/Waterfall environment, achieving 95% on-time and on-budget project completion.
• Built and coached a distributed team of 10+ across multiple sites, completing full system rollout in under 6 months on scope and aligned to SOW requirements.
• Established project KPIs from scratch, enabling proactive risk flagging and reducing delivery delays by 20%.
• Sustained 98% stakeholder satisfaction from kick-off to go-live through structured communication, steering committee reporting, and daily stand-up cadence.
• Improved delivery accuracy by 30% through rigorous SOW alignment, documentation discipline, and knowledge transfer protocols.
• Scope definition, resource management, risk assessment, and contract creation for a multi-phase pharmaceutical rollout program.

IT Project Manager — Cloud Migration at Tata Consultancy Services (2019-03 – 2022-09)

Insurance industry client

• Delivered AWS cloud migration workstreams across a 3.5-year enterprise engagement with a budget of $500K–$800K, maintaining a 96% on-time, on-budget delivery rate.
• Chaired daily project meetings and enforced deliverable traceability to SOW, reducing rework by 30% through structured planning and dependency management.
• Conducted post-implementation reviews after each phase, applying lessons learned to improve subsequent delivery cycle efficiency by 15%.
• Managed scope drift proactively using KPI dashboards, ensuring leadership visibility and preventing cost overruns across a complex, multi-phase program.
• Planned, monitored, and controlled multiple cloud migration projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including post-migration evaluation.

Transition Support Lead — Banking System Rollout at Tata Consultancy Services (2018-10 – 2019-02)

Banking industry client

• Authored user manuals and transition playbooks that accelerated onboarding and minimised post-go-live disruption across a large banking rollout.
• Facilitated stakeholder workshops combining hands-on training and feedback loops, ensuring 100% of stakeholders were informed and ready at go-live.
• Bridged technical and business teams, translating complex system changes into clear, consumable guidance for non-technical end users.

IT PMO Lead — Transition & Transformation Program (Optics/Electronics) at Tata Consultancy Services (2018-04 – 2018-09)

Optical electronics industry client

• Owned project governance, scope planning, and risk tracking for a large-scale IT transformation, achieving 95% compliance with timelines and deliverables.
• Built and operated the program's service management and governance structure, including risk management and action/issue/decision tracking.
• Coordinated alignment across departments as the central point of contact, maintaining momentum throughout the transformation program.
• Established structured governance reporting for risks, decisions, and open actions, increasing on-time closure of action items from 65% to 92% within six months.
• Reduced project escalations by 30% through proactive risk identification and stakeholder communication and cut decision turnaround time by 40% (from 5 to 3 business days).

Defect Manager — Software Development (Banking / Instant Payments) at Tata Consultancy Services (2017-10 – 2018-03)

Investment banking client

• Managed full defect lifecycle for instant-payments software in pre-production using HP ALM across the entire development and pre-production environment.
• Built real-time defect status and trend dashboards that replaced manual leadership reporting.
• Reduced resolution time by analysing defect trends, tightening triage processes, and coordinating escalations between QA and business teams.
• Led/chaired daily triage calls with QA, testing, and business leads, assigning priority and ownership and routing defects to the appropriate resource.

Portfolio Management Assistant / Software Developer (early career) at Lilly Pharma / Financial Services (2017-10)

• Managed P2P transaction processing, executed IT cost center data clean-ups, resolved financial discrepancies, and performed vendor cost comparisons to optimize telecom and budgeting expenditures
• Contributed to development of a new pricing tool for a Forex trading platform (360T), providing early hands-on technical grounding ahead of the transition into project and defect management.
• Supported project assignment preparation, coaching of project managers and associates, and meeting/task-tracking cadence in a PMO capacity.

Master of Business Administration in MBA – University of the People (2025)

Bachelor of Science in Business Mathematics – Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (2012)