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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 (99.9995%) through managed services Secured and managed the largest account in Germany/Switzerland as a key account manager and trusted advisor. Successfully transformed some major customer from a traditional reseller to a managed service provider, demonstrating your ability to drive business model change. Led virtual teams (Sales, Support, Solution Architects) across EMEA, ensuring seamless service delivery for all major customers. Served as a Cloud and Kubernetes Lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the International Market, actively contributing to the global DevOps team at Zadara. Collaborated with the CTO Office to evaluate potential technology partners like Taikun and Kasten by Veeam, strengthening the company's solution portfolio.

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 architecture including Server , Storage and Network, physical and logical implementation design including Rack Elevations, Datacenter Cable Management Plan, Floor and Space Planning, Virtual Machine Buildsheet, Network VLAN and Subnet Design, Firewall and Routing Topology, and deployment planning.• 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 team, leading physical and logical builds of over 2000 physical servers per datacenter.• 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 P, and deploying large complex middleware solutions.• 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 transition architecture based on the reference design.• 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 Service Line Component of SSO.• 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.