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Mar 2026 - Present

Senior Project Manager / IT Manager - Email Gateway Migration & Information Security

Public Authority

Position summary
Senior Project Manager / IT Manager - Email Gateway Migration & Information Security at Public Authority
Industries
Government and Administration
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Strategic planning, detailed technical preparation and operational management of an email gateway migration in a security-critical government environment.
  • Preparation of the technical specification and development of technical concepts and migration approaches in line with BSI requirements.
  • Technical requirements management with business units, information security and operations.
  • Coordination of external service providers, integrators and implementation partners; maintenance of project plans, milestones, resources, risks and dependencies.
  • Regular reporting to project management, the program environment and internal stakeholders.
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025

Lead Project Manager

Energy Supply Industry

Position summary
Lead Project Manager at Energy Supply Industry
Industries
Energy
Utilities
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Management of a large-scale transformation project to replace a complex multi-provider/multi-technology infrastructure with a consistent single-provider platform
  • Overall responsibility for planning, management and implementation of the migration of all LAN, WAN and WiFi components at national and international locations under high availability and security requirements (critical infrastructure)
  • Development and implementation of the migration strategy, including a detailed rollout roadmap and risk management plan
  • Management of interdisciplinary project teams and coordination of service providers and internal stakeholders
  • Ensuring compliance with schedule, budget and quality requirements
  • Introduction of standardized operating processes and handover to regular operations
  • Close reporting to the Steering Committee and C-level
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025

Enterprise IT Architect Data Center

Compusafe

Position summary
Enterprise IT Architect Data Center at Compusafe
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Development of IT concepts for the construction of a data center, taking high security requirements into account
  • Planning of data center infrastructure, including site selection, building design, power supply, UPS systems, network architecture and rack layouts
  • Creation of hardening concepts to secure the IT infrastructure, including staging processes and security logging mechanisms
  • Coordination with various manufacturers and service providers to select and implement hardware and software solutions for the data center
  • Conducting risk analyses and security assessments to ensure comprehensive protection of the data center infrastructure
  • Review of concepts with a focus on IT infrastructure and IT security
  • Consulting on concept development and advisory support during implementation as well as the setup and operation of the data center
  • Requirements gathering, analysis and stakeholder interviews
  • Definition of scope and boundaries, taking compliance and security requirements into account, especially BSI requirements
  • Capturing performance requirements such as throughput, latency, uptime and resource consumption
  • Evaluation of future growth requirements regarding scalability, elasticity and sustainability
  • Design of the network architecture, taking data volume, redundancy and security into account
  • Selection of hardware (servers, storage, network devices) and software (operating systems, management tools)
  • Design of server and storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, cloud) and backups
  • Virtualization strategy using VMware, Kubernetes or cloud virtualization and containerization
  • Planning of data backup and disaster recovery (backup frequency, external storage strategies)
  • Definition of the security architecture, including network segmentation, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, encryption and access controls
  • Planning of load balancing and high availability (failover mechanisms and clustering)
  • Consulting on technology selection and potential risks
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024

Cloudification of an SAP ESM Environment

E.ON

Position summary
Cloudification of an SAP ESM Environment at E.ON
Industries
Utilities
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Advising IT architecture management on identifying and documenting the interfaces and IT systems involved
  • Identifying and coordinating requirements and required changes
  • Preparing reporting documents as part of the project work
  • Participating in meetings in an advisory capacity, including subsequent preparation of the content, solution approaches and results
  • Ensuring that the teams understand the backlog content
  • Coordinating special topics with other business units
  • Reviewing the implementation of the architectural prerequisites for the cloud move
  • Reviewing group requirements and Azure readiness as well as the prerequisites for the target architecture
  • Independently clarifying open questions with the relevant contacts
  • Further development of frameworks, methods and procedures
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023

Technical Project Manager Network for a Data Center / Application Relocation

FIS Finanzinformatik System

Position summary
Technical Project Manager Network for a Data Center / Application Relocation at FIS Finanzinformatik System
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Technical network support for an application relocation from a historically grown legacy environment (CISCO FabricPath) to a new, distributed environment based on CISCO ACI
  • Technical assessment of the current and target states and creation and enforcement of a valid and secure migration path
  • Project management toward stakeholders and technical staff
  • Management of a nearshore team consisting of subject matter experts
  • Assessment and management of project priorities regarding time, quality and cost
  • Order and change order management for additional services and assignments with customers, suppliers and third-party providers
  • Handling current incidents, changes and Bambi tickets using Remedy and ServiceNow
  • Central documentation of all IT and telecommunications resources in FNT Command to improve the efficiency of operational processes
  • Use of Sunbird dcTrack (DCIM) to document, plan and track data center infrastructure as part of the data center and application relocation
May 2023 - Sep 2023
Munich, Germany

Subproject Manager – Client Standardization

City of Munich

Position summary
Subproject Manager – Client Standardization at City of Munich
Industries
Government and Administration
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Took over subproject management for TP 2.10 Client Standardization within the neoIT program
  • Took on technical work packages in workstreams of the neoIT TP 2.10 project
  • Planned and structured the subject areas
  • Drove and tracked activities
  • Supported the development of an optimized organizational structure
  • Organized and documented the hardware lifecycle area
  • Analyzed and documented requirements for future target processes
  • Analyzed fundamental optimization opportunities in IT workplace operations
  • Led a workstream
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024

Emergency Control Center System Architect

DB Netze

Position summary
Emergency Control Center System Architect at DB Netze
Industries
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • Provided functional and technical consulting in the DiNo-ECC project (Digitalization in Emergency Management – Emergency Control Center) for DB Netz AG to optimize the technical architecture
  • Advised on and prepared a comparison of options for operating the infrastructure in the cloud or in-house
  • Created the technical architecture for the selected option while considering information security requirements
  • Advised on the selection of suitable cloud providers and hardware
  • Set up and performed the basic configuration of the selected environment
  • Created backup and recovery concepts
  • Created and coordinated a concept for connecting mobile devices
  • Created test cases
  • Coordinated content with the project management
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

Project Manager – Virtual Emergency Data Center

FürSie Cooperative

Position summary
Project Manager – Virtual Emergency Data Center at FürSie Cooperative
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Created a detailed concept for providing an emergency data center in a co-location (on-premise) and in a private cloud (VMware)
  • Assessed the use of in-house firewalls and internet connections
  • Gathered requirements and identified solutions
  • Consolidated and compiled information
  • Prepared data for management and documented meetings
  • Included GRC aspects in the new emergency concept
  • Reviewed current regulatory and legal requirements and guidelines
  • Planned and coordinated activities and aligned with operational service providers
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

Enterprise Architecture Manager for Multi-Cloud Management

DB AG Group Executive Board

Position summary
Enterprise Architecture Manager for Multi-Cloud Management at DB AG Group Executive Board
Industries
Information Technology
Transportation
Business areas
Information Technology
Strategy
  • Performed a functional and technical review of the existing overall cloud architecture (AWS, Azure) for inherent weaknesses and outage risks
  • Presented, described, and quantitatively assessed outage scenarios and risks in a transparent manner
  • Developed optimization approaches and alternative architectures with regard to technical architecture, redundancies, and network connectivity
  • Analyzed ways to improve resilience, availability, redundancy, backup and recovery, IT emergency management, and multi-cloud management
  • Determined indicative implementation and operating costs for the optimization approaches
  • Considered legal implications and framework conditions
  • Contributed current insights from the cloud market on technologies and products for data protection
  • Designed and coordinated the result documents with stakeholders
  • Created a recommendation letter for Azure and AWS
  • Worked with group emergency management and BCM, incorporating new GRC requirements
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Leverkusen, Germany

IT Application Manager / Carve-Out

Arlanxeo

Position summary
IT Application Manager / Carve-Out at Arlanxeo
Industries
Chemical
Manufacturing
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Supported a carve-out in the non-ERP area to separate the systems
  • Migrated the on-premise environment to Office 365 and cloud solution providers
  • Managed application migrations and was responsible for OT applications (LIMS) and IT applications (XPAT, Documentum)
  • Planned and managed changes to the complex IT landscape
  • Communicated with project stakeholders and supported the separation process
  • Consolidated internal demand planning and monitored project progress
  • Managed contracts and amendments for additional services and coordinated service providers
  • Supported the transition of Active Directory and the migration of all Windows-based applications
  • Supported the migration to Microsoft Azure
  • Advised on creating and cleaning up application-specific access control concepts
  • Restructured organization-specific access control concepts and documented cleanup activities
  • Coordinated project tasks with IT product management and business departments
  • Coordinated and followed up on changes using Topdesk
  • Put sub-processes for starters, changers, and leavers into production
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Wuppertal, Germany

IT Manager Consumer Goods Industry

Veritas

Position summary
IT Manager Consumer Goods Industry at Veritas
Industries
Manufacturing
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Building relationships with key stakeholders to ensure IT strategy is aligned with business requirements
  • Handling new IT requests as part of demand management
  • Ensuring that all IT service requirements are recorded in the demand portfolio
  • Managing projects according to company methods from initiation to completion
  • Implementing and continuously improving service management processes, including SLA management and reporting
  • Responsible for IT performance management at the local level (financial, SLA and customer satisfaction management)
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019

Overall Project Manager / Transition Manager

Dell EMC

Position summary
Overall Project Manager / Transition Manager at Dell EMC
Industries
Automotive
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Advising on the takeover of IT hardware, services and processes, as well as the transfer of operations to a new service provider for an automotive manufacturer
  • Independently planning and managing the transition of a service extension and its handover into operations
  • Implementing new SLAs
  • Qualifying, initiating and planning projects (scope, goals, milestones, resources, costs) in cooperation with account management
  • Managing projects using standard PM methods and tools
  • Designing and conducting on-site meetings for project initiation and status handover with customers at management level
  • Managing projects according to BSI basic protection standards
  • Designing, planning and operating data center services
May 2017 - Oct 2018

Program Management Project Steering Network Deployment

Unitymedia NRW GmbH

Position summary
Program Management Project Steering Network Deployment at Unitymedia NRW GmbH
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Operations
Procurement
Project Management
  • Managing the construction, expansion and modernization of data centers as part of NO & T Network Deployment
  • Taking into account site selection, structural design, security measures, climate control and power supply in accordance with DIN 50600
  • Managing the planning areas for construction and building services (NE1), civil engineering (NE4), hub design (NE2/NE3), transport/IP technology, TV/video technology and monitoring
  • Coordinating the request and review of quotations using SAP (actuals, commitments, budget planning)
  • Coordinating construction work in the data center through acceptance and handover to network operations
  • Decommissioning old technology sites in Bielefeld and Bad Homburg
  • Preparing network cutovers to new technology sites and connecting 20 HFC networks
  • Designing solutions according to BSI basic protection standards and documenting construction work
  • Project reporting and change management using Remedy
  • Cost controlling in SAP
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Boston, United States

Project Manager Office 365 Migration North America

Fresenius Netcare GmbH

Position summary
Project Manager Office 365 Migration North America at Fresenius Netcare GmbH
Industries
Healthcare
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Managing the O365 migration for end users of Fresenius Medical Care in North America
  • Creating the migration plan and designing the migration content and tools
  • Setting up a comprehensive feedback system to monitor and continuously improve the migration
  • Supporting the analysis and preparation of migration steps from Lotus Notes to O365
  • Briefing and managing external agencies
  • Providing operational support for the migration (newsletters, intranet articles, QA page)
  • Managing the Change Agent Community network for local communication
  • Supporting stream leads in the areas of change, processes, rollout, infrastructure, as well as legal and compliance
  • Setting up the local team on site in Boston
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

Senior Project Manager

Kelvion Holding AG

Position summary
Senior Project Manager at Kelvion Holding AG
Industries
Manufacturing
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Migrating the existing IT infrastructure from the former parent company to a new environment
  • Identifying the applications to be transferred (500-800 applications) from the old AD domain to the new one
  • Adapting corporate standard clients and reviewing legacy systems (Lotus Notes) for replacement with Exchange or O365
  • Reviewing service-oriented architectures to identify weaknesses and minimize production outages
  • Assessing server and file server environments and reviewing security status (BitLocker, antivirus)
  • Communicating with around 150 locations worldwide and creating an application catalog
  • Creating and executing the migration plan, including risk analysis
  • Providing subject-matter support to the Program Manager and Global IT Infrastructure Leads
  • Assessing functional applications in terms of criticality, business impact and dependencies
  • Coordinating with business and application owners on Active Directory authentication
  • Managing escalations and coordinating external partners
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016

Contractor – Senior Project Manager

GEA

Position summary
Contractor – Senior Project Manager at GEA
Industries
Manufacturing
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Identification of applications to be handed over together with local stakeholders
  • Technical support in creating milestones and the transition timeline
  • Analysis and assessment of applications based on criticality, as well as planning handover dates
  • Moderation of knowledge transfer meetings, mainly online
  • Escalation management for follow-up work in neighboring countries
  • SPOC for Accenture Tower Leads in Manila and Romania
  • Support for the Accenture and GEA program management teams
  • Collaboration with service providers to introduce agile methods in application development
  • Quality assurance according to DIN ISO 9001 and knowledge management
  • Communication with manufacturers and suppliers, as well as analysis of tickets from SMC
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Brussels, Belgium

Senior Move Group Manager / Service Manager / Architect / Project Manager

IBM / Allianz

Position summary
Senior Move Group Manager / Service Manager / Architect / Project Manager at IBM / Allianz
Industries
Insurance
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Analysis and assessment of the current state of technologies in use (data center topologies, LAN/WAN/VOIP, firewall, proxy, storage, backup, LDAP/AD, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes)
  • Development of a strategic roadmap for IT infrastructure areas and preparation of technology decisions
  • Preparation of infrastructure guidelines and concepts for future projects
  • Evaluation of product architectures and service portfolios against the target architecture
  • Technical definition of projects to modernize technologies
  • Coordination of system design, development, and service management
  • Review of project results (architecture concept, technical design, operating manuals, security concepts)
  • Technical requirements management and assessment of non-functional requirements
  • Preparation of effort estimates and business cases, including feasibility analyses
  • Main point of contact for senior management in Benelux and for the planned data centers in Paris and Frankfurt
  • Responsible for all reporting and compliance with quality gates
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015

Process and Demand Manager / Senior Project Manager

Dorma Time and Access

Position summary
Process and Demand Manager / Senior Project Manager at Dorma Time and Access
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Demand management for the data center, network infrastructure, workplace, and service desk areas
  • Ensuring the operation of the IT infrastructure based on defined SLAs
  • Introduction of a global ticketing system
  • Project management and support within Area and Group IT
  • Qualification, escalation, and support in problem, change, and incident management
  • Continuous improvement of service management and definition of KPIs
  • Implementation and optimization of service management processes and preparation of reports
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

Interim Service Manager

Qiagen Sample and Assay Technologies

Position summary
Interim Service Manager at Qiagen Sample and Assay Technologies
Industries
Biotechnology
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Service management for the data center, network infrastructure, workplace, and service desk areas
  • Ensuring the operation of the IT infrastructure and workplace environment
  • Management of external service providers based on defined SLAs
  • Internal and external stakeholder management and project management
  • Validation of processes to provide documented evidence that requirements have been met
  • Support in problem, change, and incident management
  • Implementation of service management processes using ServiceNow
  • Automation of IT workflows and ticketing systems
  • Configuration, asset, and problem management
  • Analysis of IT performance and weekly reporting to management
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Munich, Germany

Senior Country Project Manager / Senior Project Manager

Telefonica O2 / IBM

Position summary
Senior Country Project Manager / Senior Project Manager at Telefonica O2 / IBM
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Responsibility for the transition/transformation data center move from Munich to Alcala, Spain
  • Transfer of a group of applications from as-is to to-be, involving external service providers
  • Analysis and evaluation of existing CMDBs
  • Coordination of the conversion of analog conference and video systems to IP telephony (Central CBX as PaaS)
  • Management of the validation, design, build, cutover, and warranty phases
  • Assessment of the virtualization or modernization of server systems
  • Acting as Change Manager for the Remedy system (creation, approval, and management of tickets)
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Germany

Senior Project Manager

ThOLG Thüringen (Thuringian Higher Regional Court)

Position summary
Senior Project Manager at ThOLG Thüringen (Thuringian Higher Regional Court)
Industries
Government and Administration
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Responsibility for restructuring measures in the IT infrastructure area
  • Review of centralization versus decentralization approaches
  • Focus areas: server consolidation, hardware replacement procurement, operating system upgrades
  • Migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange and Exchange consolidation
  • Backup and archiving concepts
  • Preparation for a merger with ITOS and the IT service center of the Thuringian specialized courts
  • Long-term assurance of the availability of specialized applications, taking cost-effectiveness and service levels into account
Jul 2011 - Apr 2013

Senior Overall Project Manager / Program Manager

DB Systel

Position summary
Senior Overall Project Manager / Program Manager at DB Systel
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Management of the DB WAN Backbone Lot 2 project to upgrade ICT technology rooms at 54 locations in Germany
  • Development and monitoring of the project plan, including milestones, resources, and costs
  • Review of dependencies on other infrastructure projects
  • Support with proof of concept and quality gate reviews
  • Identification and documentation of issues and project obstacles (Issue + Risk Log)
  • Management of projects according to BSI Basic Protection
  • Preparation of a bill of materials with the Solution Design Architect
  • Initiation of ordering processes for provisioning the required infrastructure (rollout management)
  • Implementation of communication structures and regular reporting
  • Execution of project tasks according to the S-O-S method (13 success factors for large projects)
  • Development and integration of work instructions into the Remedy ticketing system
  • Preparation of operational documentation and process descriptions
Nov 2010 - Apr 2011

Senior Project Manager

AWO Rhein-Oberberg

Position summary
Senior Project Manager at AWO Rhein-Oberberg
Industries
Government and Administration
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Consulting on requirements for the system landscape, server farm, application environment, and backup strategies
  • Focus on virtualization, user management, and security aspects
  • Support of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (XenDesktop) and SSL VPN solutions (Access Gateway)
  • Solutions for WAN optimization (Branch Repeater) and monitoring (EdgeSight)
  • Implementation of single sign-on (Password Manager)
  • Single point of contact for internal and external matters
Aug 2009 - Jun 2010

Senior Project Manager / EMC

Deutsche Telekom

Position summary
Senior Project Manager / EMC at Deutsche Telekom
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Legal
Project Management
  • Project on compliance and its impact on the office environment
  • Preparation of a positioning paper presenting the potential of implementing compliance rules
  • Document management and communication of project progress through regular on-site updates
  • Organization of workshops for the departments involved to align knowledge
  • Preparation of proposal documents for the next steps
  • Acted as the single point of contact
Apr 2008 - Mar 2009

Senior Project Manager - Advisor to the EDC Director

Daimler - European Data Center EDC

Position summary
Senior Project Manager - Advisor to the EDC Director at Daimler - European Data Center EDC
Industries
Automotive
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • Program / Data Center Management as the central point of contact for EDC senior management
  • Interface management between management and subordinate management levels
  • Ensuring requirements in a multi-project management environment
  • SLA management and audits in first-level support (on-site and offshore in India)
  • Preparation and revision of process documentation and work instructions
  • Support of the infrastructure within the data center and coordination of technical contacts
  • Preparation and execution of migrations and installations
  • Analysis of the ticketing system and implementation of work instructions
  • Capacity planning, hardware sizing, and facility management (power, climate control, security)
  • Emergency management and contingency planning for backup power scenarios
  • Introduction of a quality management process according to DIN ISO 9001
  • Preparation of relevant key performance indicators for weekly reporting
Oct 2006 - Dec 2010

Practice Manager

EMC Consulting

Position summary
Practice Manager at EMC Consulting
Industries
Professional Services
Business areas
Operations
Project Management
  • Scope definition and delineation for consulting projects
  • Feasibility analysis and creation of project plans
  • Project costing and definition of milestones
  • Definition of roles and responsibilities
  • Proposal preparation and definition of SLAs
  • Price calculations and resource planning
  • Conducting workshops to present proposals
May 2006 - Dec 2007

Senior Transition / Transformation Manager

EMC / HP

Position summary
Senior Transition / Transformation Manager at EMC / HP
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Planning the data center transition and coordinating with the team in the USA
  • Reviewing customer data and confirming locations, applications, and storage systems
  • Data collection, analysis, and support for application mapping
  • Documenting and validating the current inventory
  • Developing data center operating policies, processes, and procedures
  • Level of effort (LOE) estimation for transformation activities and services
  • Defining change requests and maintaining the project plan
  • Project issue and problem management, including escalation management to the PMO
  • Cost management and determination of Actuals to Date (ATD) and Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Dec 2005 - Mar 2006

Project Manager

EMC / Otto Versand

Position summary
Project Manager at EMC / Otto Versand
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Implementing a storage class concept to resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Analyzing existing problems and providing suitable solutions
  • Analyzing data migration to newer storage systems
  • Business impact analysis for NOA applications
  • Reviewing implemented fast restore procedures
  • Creating a disaster recovery concept taking logical database errors into account
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005

Preliminary Study Project Manager

EMC / ING-DiBa

Position summary
Preliminary Study Project Manager at EMC / ING-DiBa
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Creating a high-level concept for an operations manual in cooperation with the customer
  • Developing detailed plans for operating the IT infrastructure beyond a disaster scenario
  • Focusing on storage topics and related areas
  • Determining time frames and effort required for implementation
  • Presenting the results in a workshop
Apr 2005 - Sep 2006

Manager / Delivery Director

Accenture / EMC Consulting

Position summary
Manager / Delivery Director at Accenture / EMC Consulting
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Strategy
  • Specialist in Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and project delivery
  • Responsibility for several teams in the EMEA region
  • Sizing and costing for large-scale projects, as well as project coordination
  • Strategic management in heterogeneous industrial environments
  • Consulting on storage consolidation, data protection (backup/DR), and process design according to ITIL and CMM
Jan 2005 - Dec 2005

Senior Consultant

Capgemini / Vodafone

Position summary
Senior Consultant at Capgemini / Vodafone
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Execution of a plan-build-run project for new workplaces
  • Set up the first Global Service Operations Center (SOC) for Vodafone
  • Transition to live operations for MMS services and mobile streaming in Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Spain
  • Customization of personalized workplaces in a listed building
  • Consideration of technical challenges such as limited load-bearing capacity and air conditioning (chilled water lines)
  • Building services planning and implementation of high-availability concepts
Jan 2004 - Nov 2004

Product Manager

Capgemini / Hewlett-Packard Deutschland GmbH

Position summary
Product Manager at Capgemini / Hewlett-Packard Deutschland GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Strategy
  • Development of new strategies and concepts related to customer relationship management
  • Focus on Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for different data sources and types
  • Creation of archiving concepts for growing data volumes
  • Consideration of legal requirements and retention periods (up to 30 years)
  • Definition of access rights, security, and data protection for system failures (RAID, replication)
  • Establishment of QoS policies for data retrieval
Mar 2003 - Jan 2004

Staffing / Knowledge Manager

Capgemini Telecom Media Networks

Position summary
Staffing / Knowledge Manager at Capgemini Telecom Media Networks
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Human Resources
Project Management
Strategy
  • Staffing and project resource planning for national and international requests
  • Development of a knowledge architecture to optimize business processes
  • Setting goals, strategies, and milestones
  • Collection of best practices and lessons learned
  • Consolidation of project budgets and costs
  • Coordination of knowledge management and provision of project teams
Dec 2002 - Feb 2003

Consultant

Capgemini / Arcor AG

Position summary
Consultant at Capgemini / Arcor AG
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Implementation of an inventory system
Dec 2002 - Dec 2002

Security Auditor

Capgemini / Allianz Slovakia

Position summary
Security Auditor at Capgemini / Allianz Slovakia
Industries
Insurance
Business areas
Audit
Information Technology
  • Conducted a security audit for Allianz in Slovakia
Aug 2002 - Nov 2002

Consultant

Capgemini / Vodafone

Position summary
Consultant at Capgemini / Vodafone
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Operations
  • Support in creating an operations concept
Mar 2002 - Aug 2002

Architect

Capgemini / Deutsche Telekom AG

Position summary
Architect at Capgemini / Deutsche Telekom AG
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Support in creating a common language for IT architecture
Mar 2002 - Aug 2002

Architect

Capgemini / T-Mobil

Position summary
Architect at Capgemini / T-Mobil
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Support in creating an architecture framework
Dec 2001 - Feb 2002

Security Consultant

Capgemini / T-Online International AG

Position summary
Security Consultant at Capgemini / T-Online International AG
Industries
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Security concept for standardizing the dial-in password
Oct 2000 - Jun 2001

BCM Consultant

Capgemini / T-Online International AG

Position summary
BCM Consultant at Capgemini / T-Online International AG
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
  • Creation of a disaster recovery concept, emergency management, and business continuity management (BCM)
Apr 2000 - Oct 2000

Consultant

Allianz Versicherung AG

Position summary
Consultant at Allianz Versicherung AG
Industries
Insurance
Business areas
Quality Assurance
  • Conceptualization for the creation of international standards
Sep 1999 - Mar 2000

Application Group Manager

Compuware / Ford Werke AG

Position summary
Application Group Manager at Compuware / Ford Werke AG
Industries
Automotive
Business areas
Information Technology
  • Management of application groups for Ford Werke
Oct 1998 - Sep 1999

System Engineer

debis / Westdeutsche Landesbank

Position summary
System Engineer at debis / Westdeutsche Landesbank
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
  • Setup and support of the data warehouse infrastructure
Oct 1986 - Oct 1998
Cologne, Germany

System Programmer and Administrator (Team Leader)

Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG Köln (ITERGO)

Position summary
System Programmer and Administrator (Team Leader) at Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG Köln (ITERGO)
Industries
Insurance
Business areas
Information Technology
Operations
Project Management
  • Design, development, testing, and optimization of back-office applications for health and life insurance
  • Planning and design of IT architecture for client/server applications
  • Design and implementation of the internal network architecture, including the intranet
  • Maintenance and tuning of network components and software
  • Management of operational software in host and client/server environments (OS390 mainframe)
  • Introduction of new system software components and management of external networks
  • Migration planning for network components and application-oriented software
  • Fault management and security analyses of LAN/WAN and MVS systems
  • Development of single sign-on and reliability concepts
  • Project management according to BSI baseline protection
  • Design, planning, and execution of data center operations
  • Setup of user help desks and capacity planning
  • Implementation of backup procedures for host and client/server systems
  • SNI coupling of MVS systems and migration planning for CICS application data

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Experienced in Insurance, Information Technology, Telecommunication, Professional Services, Manufacturing, and Transportation.

Insurance
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Professional Services
Manufacturing
Transportation
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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Operations, Strategy, Quality Assurance, and Procurement.

Information Technology
Project Management
Operations
Strategy
Quality Assurance
Procurement
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Summary

Senior IT Manager, Program Manager and Enterprise IT Architect with more than 39 years of experience in IT architecture, data centers, cloud, networks, information security, GRC and BCM. The focus is on the professional and technical management of complex IT initiatives: from requirements gathering and concept development through architecture and security assessment to migration, operational handover and management reporting. Experience includes government environments, organizations close to critical infrastructure, corporations, telecommunications, energy supply, financial services, automotive, chemicals and healthcare. Data center focus: new data center construction, data center relocation, co-location, network, server, storage, backup and operations architecture as well as operational readiness.

Skills

  • Program And Project Management: Project Structure, Milestones, Resources, Budget, Risk, Reporting, Escalation And Service Provider Management
  • Information Security And Grc: Bsi It-Grundschutz, Iso 27001, Security Risk Assessment, Compliance, Audit Readiness, Zero Trust And Devsecops Fundamentals
  • Email Gateway And Government Environments: Migration, Technical Specifications, Requirements Management, Coordination With Business Units, Operations And Security Requirements
  • Data Center Infrastructure And Data Centers: New Data Center Construction, Data Center Relocation, Co-Location, Din En 50600, Site Planning, Power Supply, Cooling, Ups, Rack, Network, Server, Storage, Backup And Operations Architecture, Dcim And Sunbird Dctrack
  • Cloud And Enterprise Architecture: Aws, Azure, Multi-Cloud, Sap Esm, Target Architecture, Option Assessment, Backup, Recovery And Operating Models
  • Network And Sd-Wan: Lan/Wan/Wifi Migration, Sd-Wan Refresh, Fortinet Fortigate, Provider Management, Cutover, Hypercare And Operational Handover, Cisco Aci/Fabricpath And Data Center Network Architectures
  • Service Management And Operations: Itil, Incident, Problem, Change, Slas, Kpis, Service Desk, Transition, Operational Readiness And Handover To Regular Operations, Runbooks And Acceptance Criteria For Data Center Services
  • Bcm And Emergency Management: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Data Center, Backup/Recovery, Tests, Acceptance And Documentation, Restart And Resilience Concepts
  • Technologies And Methods: Iso 9001, Vmware, Office 365, Sap Erp, Lotus Notes, Servicenow, Remedy, Fnt Command, Documentum, Active Directory

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

High School Diploma

European Institute of Business Management

Programmer Certificate · Programming

University of Dortmund

Civil Engineering · Dortmund, Germany

...and 1 more

Certifications & licenses

Security Clearance SÜ2

Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Working With Virtual Machines

Auditor For Qm Systems According To Din En Iso9001:2008 Ff

Bsi It-Grundschutz

Creating Virtual Machines

Mvs Systems Programmer

Storage Technology Foundation

Vmware Infrastructure Architecture

Vmware

Vmware Infrastructure Networks

Vmware

Vmware Infrastructure Storage

Vmware

Vtsp Accreditation

Vmware

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 44
Experience in Insurance 12.5 y
Avg length 1 y
Longest experience 12 y

Global experience

Countries worked in 3 (Germany, United States, Belgium)
Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Senior Project Manager / IT Manager - Email Gateway Migration & Information Security, Lead Project Manager, Enterprise IT Architect Data Center
Main industries Insurance, Information Technology, Telecommunication
Main business areas Information Technology, Project Management, Operations

Qualifications

Certifications earned 13

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Frank is based in Lindlar, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

Frank speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

Frank has at least 37 years of experience. During this time, Frank has worked in at least 39 different roles and for 42 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months. Note that Frank may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Frank would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior Project Manager / IT Manager - Email Gateway Migration & Information Security, Lead Project Manager, Enterprise IT Architect Data Center.

Frank's most recent position is Senior Project Manager / IT Manager - Email Gateway Migration & Information Security at Public Authority.

In recent years, Frank has worked for Public Authority, Energy Supply Industry, Compusafe, E.ON, and FIS Finanzinformatik System.

Frank is most experienced in industries like Insurance, Information Technology, and Telecommunication. Frank also has some experience in Professional Services, Manufacturing, and Transportation.

Frank is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Operations. Frank also has some experience in Strategy, Quality Assurance, and Procurement.

Frank has recently worked in industries like Transportation, Chemical, and Manufacturing.

Frank has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.

Frank attended education in High School Diploma.

Frank has 13 certificates. Among them, these include: Security Clearance SÜ2, Working With Virtual Machines, and Auditor For Qm Systems According To Din En Iso9001:2008 Ff.

Frank is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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