DeLaval GmbH - Glinde, Germany

Senior T&T Project manager Deploying Next Generation Firewall technologies globally (106 locations) replacing existing SPI Firewall products - driven by the SecurityManagement to improve security awareness and security profile.  Involved in product & vendor selection process in addition to moving to a MSSP (Managed Security Services Provider) model.  Log Management strategy and also performance issues globally including WAN acceleration.Additionally providing Management Consultancy to help improve Project Management processes.

Getronics GmbH - Zürich, Switzerland

Management Consultant / Senior PM - Performed analysis on a Transition & Transformation Program and presented a report to executive management - involved crisis managementand strategic planning - worked together with various partners like KPN (Holland) & Connectis (Switzerland) - in addition to the end client in Switzerland.  Extensive travel to Holland, Hungary, Switzerland and Germany.

BMW AG – Munich, Germany
IT-Project & Rollout Management for BMW i brand for eMobility, covering 41 global markets - Mobility services and networked car technologies (Connected Drive)

Bombardier Transportation – Berlin, Germany
Acting as a Senior / Lead Infrastructure Architect / PM and working with Executive IS management to establish a comprehensive Capability Framework Maturity model - intended to establish & maintain company wide policies and IS standards - conform with Enterprise Architecture, and to establish documentation management & approval processes & IT Governance. This involved also external outsourcing partner management as well.

Wincor-Nixdorf - Paderborn, Germany

After completing a project with Wincor Nixdorf Portavis on a short term
Strategic and Architectural related project, I then worked for the CISO and CIO for the parent company (Wincor Nixdorf International) on a high level security review on datacenter virtualization (Cloud Technology), ADS strategy, SAP, SharePoint & SIEM system and PCI-DSS compliance projects.

Ericsson - Karlskrona, Sweden

Senior Systems Manager/Business analyst role where I was researching payment terminal technologies (NFC) and industry standard protocols for real-time bank account connectivity (ISO 20022 and 8583) for a Mobile Money platform.

Bank of Scotland (LloydsTSB plc) – Berlin, Germany

Online retail bank designed on a 5 country platform based on Oracle Flexcube technology. Hired by the group CTO and ccting as a Lead Solution Architect & Interim Manager on an exciting expansion project for an online banking platform in Japan - managed a team of 5 and was considered a work stream leader on a multi-stream project. Responsible for the enterprise architecture (TOGAF) and for the end to end project documentation for a strategic approval committee. Third party vendor management as well as stakeholder and senior project management were the key skills.

Hypo Real Estate / Pfand Brief Bank /Depfa Bank – Münich & Dublin

Short term analysis role supporting a complex Liquidity Risk reporting and Transformation project including customized software development.

Suhrkamp Verlag (Publishing) – Franktfurt & Berlin, Germany

Renominated Traditional German publishing house – moving main offices from Frankfurt to Berlin – working as a Senior Project Manager responsible for various IT transition and business continuity projects - Company move project and mail transition from Linux IMAP to MS Exchange, and transition from Novell to Microsoft ADS.

BaFIN (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) – Frankfurt, Germany

Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (same as UK FSA) – working on a large scale securities reporting system for CESR (Committee of European Securities Regulators) – As Senior PM managing a team of developers & QA on an IBM DB2 Warehousing platform (Wepsphere, AIX, SQW, ETL, etc.) for reporting nationwide security transactions to the EU – this entailed large scale data transformation and transport – with complex DB process & controls .

Zurich Financial Services – Zürich, Switzerland

Global Insurance based Financial Services company – As a Senior Project manager working on a Global programme for T&T (Transition & Transformation) – moving over 60,000 users from one outsourcing partner to another (IBM → CSC) – Responsible for desktop image standards, distribution, Microsoft ADS conversion and development . Managing a global team of IT managers and third parties.

ComDirect Bank – Quickborn, Germany

Online Bank and daughter of 3rd largest German bank (Commerz Bank) – I worked as a Senior Project Manager on a datacenter relocation and disaster recovery project. I was responsible for the planning and coordination using CMMI project standards and methodologies – coordinating technical staff and liasing with 3rd party suppliers to guarantee delivery on an aggressive timescale.

RWE Trading – Swindon, UK & Essen, Germany

RWE Trading is the trading arm of RWE Group - a very large energy company. The company operates throughout Europe and acts as a hub for all tradeable commodities in physical form, such as power, gas, coal and oil, and for trade in energy derivatives geared towards hedging price risks. I performed several high profile projects including an assurance review for a multi-million pound ECM, WorkFlow and DMS project (for the back office) and presented a strategic report to upper management. I was also leading a "Best In Class" initiative to improve the infrastructure and service delivery streams, and performed a strategic study on “deal capture” systems & technologies used across the Front Office.

IBM Sweden / Nordea Bank – Stockholm, Sweden

Starting as a Senior Network & Security Architect, I was responsible for design, strategy and project management for several consolidation projects moving over 1500 bank specific applications in over 12 data centers being consolidated into two “super” data centers. Then I moved on to a Senior Project Manager role responsible for deploying a large scale, pan-Scandinavian Proxy solution (using Bluecoat products) for the banks 45000 users. Budget responsibility of €12M.

Please Note: This document illustrates my proven ability to quickly adapt to a new environment and tackle challenging problems (both technical and business!). I pride myself on being "solution" based and “results” oriented, I don't claim to know everything, but I know how to find answers quickly!

Lycos Europe (Bertelsmann) – Stockholm/Güterslöh

Acting as a Senior Product/Project Manager heading up a transitional team for an online product used in 8 European countries and over 500K users – Responsible for all technical and business streams including development, marketing, resource and production. Managed a staff of 20+ individuals. Hired receiving staff to take over the product. We moved the development and product management teams from Stockholm, Sweden to Gütersloh, Germany.

Dionex Corp. – Multiple European Countries

High level SOX 404/302 IT Auditing project for a US based technology company in 4 European countries. In addition to coaching and preparing the IT controls, I personally assisted several locations to rectify open gaps in addition to help deploy a worldwide Cisco network infrastructure. I travelled to several locations in Switzerland, France, Germany and England during this project. I also performed a high level gap analysis and managed the gap resolution processes.

Bankhaus Wölbern – Hamburg, Germany

Senior Project Manager for an "IT Move Auditing" project for a midsize bank in Hamburg. They were a daughter company of South African Absa/Barclays Bank. The move included all technology related issues for the new facilities including a new high performance switched networking infrastructure, unified messaging and VoIP Telephone system, video surveillance and time tracking systems (to mention a few). I was responsible for every technology related systems and infrastructure (from cabling on up) for an 800 person company moving to new facilities.

Marquard und Bahls – Hamburg, Germany

World wide independent oil trading and terminal operator based in Northern Germany (with €5 Billion gross). Acting as a Senior Project Manager, I managed a large networking conversion project and also a Windows/Linux integration project (merging LDAP/SAMBA with Microsoft Active Directory Services worldwide) - as well as performing Senior Level IT Management Consulting (up to board level) – Including IT departmental reorganization and restructuring.

Philip Morris, GmbH - Munich, Germany

Largest tobacco company worldwide, owns Miller brewing company, Kraft Foods, General Foods, Oscar Meyer and Freia Marabou (chocolates) to name a few. Worked on a Germany wide network management project. Initially the project was based on IBM AIX platform with NetView (SystemView), CiscoWorks and Cabletron SPMA products. After strategic comparisons and testing, a shift was made towards Cabletron Spectrum enterprise products running on both AIX and Windows NT multiprocessor machines. I was responsible for evaluation, testing, configuration and deployment of the management platforms in Munich, Berlin and Dresden. Key systems used TCP/IP, IPX, SNMP, RMON and DNS (to name a few). Mixed environment of token-ring and Ethernet, Cabletron and Cisco equipment. Also involved with Internet connectivity and firewall testing, and troubleshooting various Novell, Win95, and NT related issues.

UniLever (Lever France) - Paris, France

Multi-national company, worldwide installations and network. Based in Paris, I traveled and installed 8 countries throughout Europe. Also supported the additional 8 countries from Paris. Installations included OS/2 1.3 & 2.1, Lotus Notes server & clients, DEC Pathworks (DECNET), Windows 3.1, Novell IPX/SPX, Lan Manager 2.1, and various other software. Multi-protocol environments. In addition, helped troubleshoot WAN communications issues, server performance optimization, remote administration issues, etc.

Bank of America - Corporate Headquarters (SF), CA

25+ Fileserver environment. 16/4 Token-ring with source routing. Supported 4 floors. Radio dispatched troubleshooting. Network analysis, planning and troubleshooting. Full compliment of LAN/WAN technology including: 3270 & AS/400 Connectivity, Sniffer, Windows 3.1, Print services and Cisco routers. I supported both PS/2 & Compaq platforms (x86) and all mainstream applications including Lotus Notes, ccMail, WordPerfect Office, Etc.

Syntex Labs - Palo Alto, CA

18+ Fileserver environment, 800+ Nodes - Token-Ring with source routing, Macintosh's on an Ethernet cloud. Help Desk environment. Assisted with Novell Netware 3.11 upgrades and implementation. Worked extensively with Windows 3.0, MS-Dos 5.0 and OS/2 including CC-Mail and most mainstream application software. Established backup procedures, resolved memory management problems, installed 3270 software support within Windows. Created "Standards" documents for Dos configuration, Windows setup, and general networking procedures. Resolved hardware conflicts and researched new products. Major duties included network planning, design, and implementation.

Citicorp - Oakland (San Jose, Los Angeles and Arizona), CA

Installed complete system in Phoenix, AZ from ground up. Netware 3.11 fileserver with 18 nodes. Installed, configured and tested entire system including all scripts, UPS configuration, remote dial-up, backup, and printing. 10-Base-T topology, EISA Fileserver with mirrored 600M drives and intelligent UPS. Upgraded three Netware 286 systems to 386 v3.11. Remote support via modem. IWI Equipment & 27 remote site installations with dialup.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) - Redwood Shores, CA

Installed & configured a Netware 3.12 superserver based on a NetFrame 450 platform. Designed volume structures and managed full data migration. Established a Windows NT Advanced Server (NTAS) with SQL Server and configured Netware requester. Configured 30+ Pentium based workstations with Windows for Workgroups (WFW) 3.11 & Netware connectivity. Established remote dialup support and hired replacement contractor. Worked closely with many Windows applications, ie: Microsoft Access, Crosstalk & Word 6.0 to mention a few! Also traveled to Denton, Texas for further configuration & resolution of network systems.

The GAP, Inc - San Bruno, CA

International retail organization (Banana Republic, GAP Kids, Etc.) OS/2 predominant environment. Helped establish their Lotus Notes PILOT server including dual FDDI ring setup using TCP/IP and Netware Requester. Also assisted in backup strategy and network management facilities/utilities. Cleaned up troublesome network and chronic problems related to ccMail and the Netware Servers. Researched and recommended network management utilities including remote access. Installed and configured dial-in/out modem pool for multiple sites.

Cisco Systems, Inc - Santa Clara, CA

Leading bridge/router company. Joined the engineering group to resolve outstanding PC networking issues. Also, designed & installed a full featured Novell server with TCP/IP and NFS. Consolidated the development group machines and configurations. Worked extensively with WFW, Windows NT, TCP/IP, WP Office (Symmetry) and PVCS, just to name a few. Acted as liaison with the main IS organization. Established company policies for PC systems support and configurations.

Matson Leasing Company - San Francisco, CA

Worldwide shipping container-leasing firm. Originally started with workstation configuration and consolidation project in San Francisco. Resolved configuration issues with Novell, OS/2, WFW and Xcellenet package. Established companywide configuration policies. Traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia (17 countries in all!) deploying the standard workstation configurations over two months. Also, played a key role in design of worldwide TCP/IP network using Cisco products and SITA network services – and designed the global Microsoft ADS infrastructure.

BHP Minerals - San Francisco, CA (Broken Hill Proprieties - Australia)

International organization headquartered in Australia, primary business is mining, steel and petroleum. Traveled to remote offices (Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, London & Rio) upgrading all PC systems for standardization and migration from WordPerfect/Lotus 123 products to MicroSoft Office. Also established MSMAIL products for conversion from cc:Mail. Documented each site and optimized all configurations. Resolved outstanding computer problems in each location. Installed Lotus Notes servers and workstations. Performed major cleanup of existing Novell environments and eradicated any viruses. Managed & trained a team of seven consultants on a tightly scheduled project to upgrade 400+ machines in the SF office to WFW and MSMAIL. Solved key technical issues related to NT Servers (ADS) and Cisco router configurations

Mellon Capital - San Francisco, CA (Mellon Bank)

Investment management firm, subsidiary of Mellon Bank. Established configuration standards for Windows 95 installations with multi-protocol stacks including PCNFS-Pro and Netware 32bit client. Resolved dial-in conflicts for international clients on a USR modem pool and tested various transfer protocol standards. Converted a HDB-uucp installation to Taylor-uucp on Sun Solaris Sparc systems, wrote scripts and supervised cut-over with the vendor. Trained key personnel on system usage and connectivity.

Teknekron Software Systems - Palo Alto, CA

Worldwide financial information systems company, primarily UNIX based. Established full development and operations LANs. Traveled to Zurich, Switzerland twice to establish remote development and demonstration LANs. Managed PC to Unix connectivity including PPP & Xterm sessions. Multi-protocol environments: TCP/IP, IPX, NetBios, Etc. Created company wide PC policies. Extensive work with the following packages: Windows 3.1 & Windows for Workgroups, NetManage, OS/2, Windows NT, Novell Netware 3.11, and most Windows applications. Also worked with Sun IPX, Sparc 2 & 10 machines

3Com Corporation - Santa Clara, CA

Focus on Lotus Notes. Install Notes SMTP Gateway and FAX gateway products. Optimize & standardize OS/2 2.1 desktops on 14 servers. Build two additional server for the gateway products and troubleshoot connectivity issues. Installed TCP/IP on OS/2 host for SMTP connections.

DeTeSystem (Daughter of Deutsche Telekom) - Frankfurt, Germany
Servicing several prominent customers throughout Germany (ie: BMW, Otto Versand, Desdner Bank) - I worked as a Senior Project Manager on a complex network management system customized for each customer using a product called MicroMuse NetCool. This product requires intimate knowledge of several other network management systems (Tivoli, SystemView/NetView, Spectrum, etc.) Coordinating the efforts of a small team (4), I established procedures and created management reports. I helped establish management probes for some customers. Also drove a special development project.

Digital Equipment Corp./CIBA Chemicals (Ciba Geiger) – Valbonne, France

A global computer organization which has a network control facility in Valbonne (near Nice, France). They have a large global customer, Ciba Chemicals, which outsourced the worldwide network support for the network monitoring and infrastructure. I was brought in for a concentrated several week period to assess the chronic issues plaguing the Ciba network and the user community. Specifically, there were OSPF and Frame relay router problems on the global network. This was also a high level assessment to evaluate and report on policies, procedures and organizational issues that were challenging Digital in supporting their customer. I liased between various internal and external groups (British Telecom – frame relay issues, Microsoft – NT WINS related, etc). A high level report was produced and presented to Senior management which outlined several observations and suggestions. This was a Senior IT Management consulting role – very high profile.

Seagrams (Universal Music Group) and Compaq - Germany Wide
A £90 Milo. project covering over 44 countries together with Compaq Computer Systems. Under the guise of a Y2K project, they were updating over 10K PCs worldwide to a common standard platform (Win98/Netware5) with distribution using ZenWorks. Representing Compaq, I was responsible for all of Germany (over 5 locations & 2000 users) in a Senior Project Lead role in a politically challenging environment (high profile). I was chosen for my German language skills and my experience in large scale Senior project roles. Managing a team of over 8 people, my main responsibility was to ensure integration of non-standard and in-house developed applications into the "core" standardized distribution. Despite aggressive time constraints, we were able to achieve full integration and testing prior to a live deployment of new systems in time. Several mainstream technologies were involved (too many to mention).

Fujitsu Computer Products of America (FCPA) - San Jose, CA

Major cleanup of existing 7 server environment (Netware 3.11) Updated servers with latest patches and solved chronic problems. Evaluated and installed Novell’s NFS Gateway product. Evaluated and recommended various TCP/IP client solutions: NetManage Chameleon NFS/X, LAN WorkPlace, WRQ Reflection, and Novix by Firefox and PC-NFS. Researched compatibility issues and memory configurations. Also evaluated UnixWare. Worked closely with Oracle SQL*NET products, Sun Sparc 10 & 2 machines, Sequent PT/x and Portable Netware. Also installed a Solaris x86 platform for a SMTP gateway with connectivity to ccMail and the INTERNET. Helped cleanup existing TCP/IP address and masking problems. Established SNMP, DNS and NIS services company-wide.

Charles Schwab & Co. - San Francisco, CA

Multi-server, multi-location environment. Mixed topologies of Token-Ring and Ethernet. Novell Netware 3.11. Primary responsibilities included product research, network application installations, network performance tuning, memory management issues, remote communications, PC E-Mail installs, SQL Server testing. Extensive OS/2 2.0 installs & testing including Netware requester and 3270 emulation.

ASL (Auto Service Leasing) - Munich, Germany

A relatively large car leasing company throughout Germany. Originally I was asked to help qualify external resources for their IT organization. Then I aspired to a Project Manager role (EDV Leiter) helping on a strategic level to set company direction for the future related to IT. I worked closely with a large external strategy consulting firm (Bain & Company) and the firms executives to facilitate an IT reorganization. There were several historical problems with the IT group within this firm and they needed a clearly defined strategy and direction. I helped define organizational improvements, set standards, increase communication between management and IT staff, streamlined operations (team building) and assisted in personnel changes. In addition, I was also closely involved with technical decisions (both short & long term). This was a highly politically charged environment and required a very strong communicator and facilitator. The work which best describes this position is "Professional Catalyst".

Notable Special/Extra Projects: The following projects are either too small by name or too short-term to add to my main CV. Still I believe they are notable for the caliber and/or special circumstances:

McAfee Associates, Inc – European Professional Services, Amsterdam

Well known software company best known for its virus scanning software. They also have Enterprise wide HelpDesk, Network Inventory, Management, Diagnostics, and Software distribution packages. They were slightly under resourced and needed somebody to help in a Senior Consultant role installing and training large customers on their products. The program is called Jump Start, and is usually 5 – 10 days worth of consulting. Customers I have personally worked with were Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axter (3rd largest lawfirm in Germany), Giesecke & Devrient (they produce various currencies including the German DM) and EuroWings (relatively small airline in Germany). McAfee’s products work on various platforms (Novell, Microsoft Server ADS, SQL, NT, SMS, Win95) and require a broad technical background.

EINSTEINet – Hamburg, Germany

Upstart ASP-Provider in Germany, took over a larger firm called Computer Partner (AG) ~450 employees. Offering ASP solutions together with Nortel Networks as a technology partner. My position was Senior Technical Design Authority (TDA) – large data center environment – ASP model using Microsoft Office products (Win2K based ADS) and Citrix Winframe products, Nortel predominant infrastructure with Nokia firewall technology. Other technologies included Sun Microsystems iPlanet, EMC storage (NAS/SAN), Veritas, Tivoli Systems and private SDH (ATM) backbone infrastructure. I evaluated new technologies, responsible for design issues (network and systems) and some pre-sales support. Researched SAP integration into the datacenter. Performed technical analysis on integration, migration and development issues related to a large datacenter environment.

SportGate (PixelPark) – Berlin, Germany

A venture capital incubator (daughter of Pixel Park) called Venture Park needed an interim CTO for a new internet sports portal. Involving four major investors/founders: Boris Becker (German tennis star), Dr. Prof. Helmut Thoma (RTL fame), Paulus Nief (Pixel Park) and Manfred von Richthofen (DSB) – I was responsible for all technology related issues (internal and external) – managing external resources (up to 30 person development team) and establishing the internal IT organization (build-out of the group). Negotiated multi-million DM contracts and SLAs, and coordinated the communications between various entities. Executive level decision making, budgeting and involvement.

Berliner VolksBank – Berlin, Germany

One of Europe’s largest regional banks – with over 125 branch offices. On request of the bank’s Board of Directors, I was brought in as a high-level, independent consultant to analyze a DM 150 Mio. Project to create a broadband network infrastructure for the entire bank (with VoIP services to replace the normal PBXs). They wanted a technical review and audit of the technology and project practices in progress to determine the bottlenecks or inefficiencies. Short term, but very high profile - dealing with the bank’s Senior Executive Management and external vendors like Boston Consulting. Had to present my findings personally to the Board of Directors.

Underwriter Laboratories (UL) – Frankfurt, Germany

UL is an independent, not-for-profit product safety and certification company (equivalent to the German TÜV). Over 100 years old, and expanding internationally, the title was interim European IT Manager – Based in Frankfurt, I was responsible for building out the IT infrastructure within Europe, and coordinating the different country IT efforts. I traveled to Denmark, the U.K. and Holland – managed external vendors and facilitated intra-country communications. Worked extensively with Arthur Anderson individuals.

First-E/ENBA – Dublin, Ireland

Hired as interim CTO (Chief Technology Officer) for their Credit Products division. Responsible for building out the IT organizational structure, negotiating with external vendors (SLAs) and establishing development channels. Identifying operational and technical inefficiencies, and working together with the CEO – budgeting for the build out and business development of the new division (specific for credit products and potentially insurance offerings)