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Europa

Grew a new German team (Sales, Solution Architects, Operations) from the ground up, driving monthly recurring revenue (MRR) from €0 to over €150k. Led the high-performing German Solution Architect team. Designed and implemented scalable cloud infrastructure solutions for customers, reducing operational costs by 40% and achieving near-perfect uptime.

Deutschland

München Und Umgebung, Deutschland

München Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Designed, developed, deployed and supporting real time provisioning and system management capabilities for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds for a private commercial customers. Responsible for Infrastructure.
• Led a team of 50 international IT Specialists supporting the deployment of the planned infrastructure in the 5th strategic datacenter
• Acted as lead technologist among Sales, Architecture and Delivery and leading RFS and PCR solution design.

Ehningen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

• Traveling generalist going on-site to 15 data-centers in 11 countries, among them Japan, France, Switzerland, US, Brazil, and Canada, to personally perform site assessment, datacenter planning together with the local.
• Deployed a variety of infrastructures including; Red Hat/KVM, VMware/ESXi, IBM AIX, building network platforms on Juniper Networks hardware, Brocade storage networks, mostly IBM Hardware including System X and System.
• Co-founded the IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise Plus (SCE+) solution. This was the first IBM Cloud IaaS offering.
• Chief Storage Architect designing continuous architecture to leverage across several offerings including the design patterns and roadmap.

Ehningen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

• Designed the building block reference architecture for IBM’s strategic outsourcing offering in all three German datacenters with a small group of Architects. Consultant during sales engagement, developing overall.
• Worked to reduce cost and improve infrastructure stability through innovation projects focused on virtualization.
• Supported financial planning, resource tracking (including Global Resourcing / Delivery), service line strategic planning, executive updates, and productivity & cost takeout initiatives for the Storage and Backup.
• Coordinated the leadership of critical situation (Outage) groups, using methods to analyzing the situation and communicate the workaround or solution between IBM and the customer management on C-Level.

Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

• Designed, Installed and administered high available infrastructure solution for a global IBM file store to fulfil the business critical data transfer around the world.
• Installed and tested new IBM hardware together with the IBM Lab and updated the IBM Linux and Storage interoperability matrix
• Consulting Storage SME for 20 different customers (banking, travel and transportation, energy and national security) in Europe focused on Storage, Backup and Storage area Network.