ProfileExtensive IT technical operations and project management in multi-national companies with 2-5 billionEuro annual sales. Progressive advancement the result of successful projects with on time, cost savings, achievements in data center restructures and IT process optimization that affected nine countries. Budget preparation and control for annual IT data center and project budgets to 4,600 million Euro. Strong collaborative relationship with business users facilitated acceptance to new IT systems and projectsKey Strengths • IT Contract Management and SLAs • International Project Management Experience• Budgets: Plan and Control • Skilled Technical Trouble Shooting• Build Productive, Committed Teams• Understandable Technical Training to End-users

Overall project management of IT projects in the Vorwerk Group* Project management for new IT roll-out in Portugal with €1.2 million budget* Modeled the “as-is” business processes for “to–be” development requirements in the SAPSOA Sales Solution* Designed a pre-study and analyzed historic data for a company-wide archival project thatincluded data requirement recommendations to cover a 10 year scope* Savings of €158,000 achieved with a project budget of €250,000 by implementingDatabase reorganization with the outsourcing partner, T-Systems* Created functional and performance specifications for a Sales Solution Project Portugal

Overall responsibility for IT operations in Germany, Italy, France, Portugal,Czech Republic, Spain, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Mexico, Russia, and Asia* Defined uniform IT standards and infrastructures for outsourcing partner, T-Systems inconjunction with SLAs* Led an enterprise-wide restructure and standardization project for PC Hardware andSoftware in 9 Countries with over 4000 Users. This was a main requirement to build an cost efficient and central User Helpdesk located in Switzerland with the outsourcing partner, T- Systems* Developed and operated a global MPLS network with a guaranteed availability of 99.75%* Implemented Phase I for the enterprise wide Active Directory domain structure (EMEA) that included 9 countries* Consolidated and restructured the core servers and software used across Europe into 2 central Datacenters.This project reduced server and maintenance costs 52%, and was the basic requirement to build “virtual workplaces” for Users, access over the Internet or via Mobile Phones.* Planned and implemented a company-wide standardized video conferencing solution

* Supported 120 corporate users and company management* Established enterprise-wide IT standards and infrastructure including ITsecurity requirements (firewall / external access rules / security concept)* IT project responsibility and functional control (e.g. planning and implementationof the project center in a Thin Client environment)* Analyzed and developed the 2 Year Plan for a enterprise-wide Active Directory Project* Planned, managed and implemented a Thin Client environment for the International ProjectManagement Department of 78 core analysts and developers (Austria)

* Managed a data center with 12 servers , 40 PCs and 10 Laptops* Responsibility and budget authority to purchase all IT infrastructure* Responsible for annual IT budget preparation with monthly track and report requirements toController* Sole responsibility for the design, plan, and control of IT landscape projects* Responsible for three relocations of the Thermomix data center* Supervised IT team of 5 assistants, trainees and separate IT intern program.

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