Thomas Poett

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Head of Microsoft Solutions @ IF-Tech AG
Bad Wiessee, BY, DE
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Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany, Germany
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Professional Summary:An accomplished IT and telecommunications leader with over 30 years of experience spanning software development, telecommunication, IT, mobility, and cloud services. Known for a deep technical acumen and extensive business and market development experience, particularly within Asia. Proven track record in leading complex global projects and managing intercultural and business relationships. A visionary early adopter of cutting-edge technologies.Preferred work locations are Malaysia, Singapore, UAE and Kuwait, due to broad range of inter-cultural experiences. Key Qualifications:- Extensive Experience: Over 30 years in diverse roles across software development, telecommunication, IT, mobility, and hosted/cloud services, as well as M&A- Leadership Expertise: Renowned leader utilizing modern management strategies, including leading through reputation.- Business Advocate: Actively serves as a business evangelist and trusted advisor with a strong technical and business background.- Strategic Thinker: Highly organized, logical, and analytical with exceptional problem-solving capabilities.- Communication Skills: Excellent communicator and collaborator with a proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships.- International Business Management: Experienced in strategically developing German SME subsidiaries in Asia.- Recognized Expertise: Modern Workplace Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Teams.Professional Achievements:- Seamless Integration: Ensures success by integrating sales through to operations within a global corporate strategy.- Process Innovation: Drives transformation in business processes, workflows, and traditional practices towards a Modern Workplace, leveraging innovative services such as Bots, AI, and Cognitive Services.- Team Leadership: Leads and mentors teams of Key Account Managers, Pre-Sales, and Business Analysts, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.This combination of extensive experience, leadership acumen, and strategic vision enables me to drive impactful results and deliver innovative solutions in today's dynamic business landscape.I was living for more than 6.5 years in SEA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Thomas Poett's Current Company Details
IF-Tech AG

If-Tech Ag

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Head of Microsoft Solutions
Bad Wiessee, BY, DE
Website:
if-tech.de
Employees:
57
Thomas Poett Work Experience Details
  • If-Tech Ag
    Head Of Microsoft Solutions
    If-Tech Ag
    Bad Wiessee, By, De
  • Avanade
    Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architecture
    Avanade Nov 2021 - Present
    Munich, Bavaria, Germany
    Leadership & Management:Lead and mentor technical teams, including on- and off-shore resources (up to 80 team members).Oversee the execution of M365 Merger & Acquisitions projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. Manage project timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation.Project Delivery:Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and effective management of expectations. Develop and execute project plans, including risk management and mitigation strategies. Monitor and report on project progress, addressing any issues or roadblocks promptly.Sales Engagement:Actively participate in pre-sales activities, working as a Sales Solution Architect (SiSA) to design and propose solutions that meet client needs. Collaborate with sales teams to identify and staff the right resources for successful project implementation.Technical Expertise:Provide high-level technical guidance and architectural direction to ensure the successful integration and deployment of M365 solutions. Yearly re-awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP since 2012. Stay current with industry trends and advancements in M365 technologies to provide innovative solutions.Regional Engagement:Engage with teams and stakeholders across Southeast Asia, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment with regional requirements and standards. Facilitate cross-cultural communication and collaboration to drive project success.
  • Microsoft
    Subject Matter Expert - Elite Advisory Board Category Experts For User Adoption
    Microsoft Mar 2017 - Present
    Redmond
    As an MVP Elite100 Category Experts I'm responsible reporting into Microsoft Product Group User Adoption Teams actual market trends, advisory for Change Management approach of Teams User and IT Departments. Working with the Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft Teams Engineering in direct engagement helping driving Digital Transformation for Partners and Customers.
  • Sycor
    Director Sales Enablement
    Sycor Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
    Munich Area, Germany
    With Sycor, I’m in a new Cloud related Sales Enablement role. A corporate, strategic position driving Digital Business Transformation. IT companies require moving into new, cloud related managed service and Business Process Management. Major topic along with DBT are modern Cloud Adoption Services. I'm driving the strategic Sales Enablement in cooperation with Business Development Units and Marketing, delivering new strategic customer solutions and the customer journey, ready for modern cloud age. I'm reporting directly into the Management Board, CSO and CEO.
  • Trans4Mation Swiss Ag
    Director Microsoft Alliance
    Trans4Mation Swiss Ag Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
    Munich Area, Germany
    Groupwide responsibility driving the Microsoft partnership and business alliance in the areas of EPG & SME. This is a global role within Trans4mation Group.Development of global Business Plans, GTM strategies and Customer Pipelines, incl. driving and coordinating publication, press releases, events and pushing marketing along our global strategy. Archiving steady growth and restructuring our company into a "Cloud Only" organization.The corporate revenue responsibility and stream enablement is the primary target of my groupwide engagement. Reporting directly into the Executive Board.
  • Trans4Mation It Gmbh
    Head Of Customer Success And Head Of Microsoft Sales Department
    Trans4Mation It Gmbh Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
    Munich Area, Germany
    As Head of Customer Success Center, I lead two departments, Customer Success Center, the new department builds the chain between Sales, Marketing and Delivery. Getting the right resources together, ensuring end-2-end customer success in all kinds of project (focused on Microsoft Cloud, incl. Modern Workplace). Success is ensured only if the process from Sales until Operations is seamless involved. Changing processes, workflows and traditional habits in corporations/ firms to a Modern Workplace, driving risk limited project with innovative services like, BOTs, AI, Cognitive Services. The second department is Microsoft Sales, managing Key Account Manager and Insides Sales. Optimizing sales processes and chaining DMaaS (Digital Marketing as a Service) into account. Structuring the sales into a department efficiently working hand in hand with direct customers and the partner Eco system, and involving Customer Success for smoother customer process optimization.
  • Westcon Group Germany Gmbh - Ucc Solutions
    Business Unit Leader Microsoft Skype For Business
    Westcon Group Germany Gmbh - Ucc Solutions Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
    Munich Area, Germany
    Responsible for defining new Value Add business for local (DACH+EE), international partners and system integrators. Building high return on invest solution business support with dedicated BDMs and preferred vendors. Development Skype for Business Ecosystem solution sales in alignment with Microsoft PDU head (Practice Development Unit). Development and establishment of a reseller Circle of Excellence as a managed partner program supporting end-2-end solution sales for on-premise and cloud voice projects. Convincing best-in-class Microsoft partners joining the program and develop their sales force. Strategic planner and business plan lead activating Westcon-Comstor as Microsoft CSP distributor, alignment of global GTM strategy and acting as Microsoft partner manager. Reporting directly into General Manager DACH+EE.
  • Allgeier Productivity Solution Gmbh
    Principal Consultant / Business Development Manager
    Allgeier Productivity Solution Gmbh Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
    Munich Area, Germany
    With Allgeier I expanded my consultancy and team leading capabilities with 9 team members. In addition, I focus of corporate business developing tasks. Starting with required certifications and partnering, where I promoted APS instantly as Microsoft Managed Partner in Germany and business partner with Deutsche Telekom Technischer Service. Cloud and on-premise service are to be developed, where business decision matrixes must be provided too the management board of the public holding company.I’m also assigned the task, in cooperation with the business developing team from Allgeier Solution AG, moving APS towards the TOP 10 German Microsoft consultancy companies in the CTM and SMS&P market.
  • Acp It Solutions
    Managing Consultant
    Acp It Solutions Sep 2012 - Nov 2014
    Kolbermoor Near Munich
    Managing Consultant for LYNC and Cloud Solutions.As Microsoft MVP LYNC, my focus is on business development, team development and professional sales in the common areas of Unified Communication (Voice) and Private Cloud.Lync 3rd level support under PLSP.Coordination with Microsoft Partner Management.MVP Site:https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=9BD91091-1967-4147-A306-F1E4DB242102
  • Infowan Asia Sdn. Bhd.
    Managing Director
    Infowan Asia Sdn. Bhd. Jun 2010 - Sep 2012
    Cyberjaya, Malaysia
    I continued the business started in Asia and convinced the company infoWAN Datenkommunikation GmbH to expand their business into SEA region. The relationship built with the CEO at the German Inner Circle enabled these changes. After the approach was confirmed, I went back to Germany to further study the business ethic of infoWAN, where I involved myself in several mid- and large-sized Exchange and Active Directory projects, additionally to establish business relationships with German companies e.g. Ferrari Electronic and KEMP technology to include their portfolio into infoWAN Asia, which enable’s me strengthen the business opportunities in SEA region. In my role as Managing Director, I intensified the relationship with Microsoft Malaysian and Singapore to become managed partner in this region. Due to the multi role assignment of my person, I lead the internal technical team, as well as the technical deployment teams our customers, manage and lead the largest SEA Lync implementation for PETRONAS and the associated IT provider iPerintis. Promote Unified communication in the SEA region with strong focus into Malaysia, where I lead PoC’s, pre-sales and provide the technical expertise, as well as training for internal infoWAN Asia staff. Hiring and management adjustments related to Asian job-hopping culture where also in my work scope.
  • Infowan Asia Sdn Bhd
    Senior Principal Consultant Unified Communication
    Infowan Asia Sdn Bhd Jun 2010 - Sep 2012
    Apac
    Development of Unified Communication solution, regading higher RoI and envisioning the corporate communication infrastructureDesigning Hybrid Cloud Solutions based on Office 365 and Microsoft On-Premise InfrastructureChief Technology Lead for world largest LYNC Private Cloud in Malaysia
  • Tria It Consulting, Malaysia
    Managing Director, German Company In Malaysia
    Tria It Consulting, Malaysia Jul 2007 - May 2010
    Cyberjaya, Malaysia
    Due to the relationship which I established with TRIA, I changed my job to work with TRIA IT Solution AG to convince the Management in establishing an Asian subsidiary. During the first year with TRIA, I freelance for certain EPG customer of TRIA and was leading Exchange 2003/ 2007 Migration. I established the Office Communication Server 2007 Voice Partnership between Microsoft and TRIA and leaded the OCS team, trained the local German technical and sales staff. During this time I was awarded to join the Microsoft Inner Circle Exchange in Munich, Germany. Beside the Exchange and OCS projects delivered with TRIA the planning process started to establish the Malaysian subsidiary. After management approval, I relocated to Cyberjaya, Malaysia (Q1 2008) after multiple trips to the South East Asian region. Founded the TRIA IT Consulting Sdn. Bhd. and managed to convince the Malaysian Government organization MDeC to grand the MSC Status to TRIA. From there I had to build a sales and technical team, I leaded the technical planning and execution for certain German and Asian projects, where I could build the first Private Cloud for American Eagle Tankers in Singapore and London (PETRONAS Group) based on Hyper-V R1, with NetApp storage replication and DR site usage for TestLab purposes.
  • Request² Gmbh
    Managing Director And Senior Principal Conusltant
    Request² Gmbh Jun 2005 - Jul 2007
    Graching Bei München
    With the good relationship to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, I founded Request² in Garching with a former FSC Sales Manager. I developed the technical expertise of Request², where I got in touch with the first deployments of VoIP system from SWYX Germany. Our customers came from the SMS&P and EPG market, where I leaded the teams to deploy mainly Exchange, Active Directory. I focused on identifying potential new products and solutions to become part of our portfolio. I went to US enhancing technical skills for Rainfinity products and distributed Rainstorage SAN based virtualization and migration solution as the first German company. Rainfinity informationI was also responsible to develop new partner relations, where I influenced TRIA IT Consulting in Munich to become our partner for project acquisition and delivery. Request² decided to move into a HR solution provider which was decision I was not willing support.
  • Tp-Systems For Fujitsu Siemens Computer
    Senior Principal Consultant, Managing Director
    Tp-Systems For Fujitsu Siemens Computer Jul 2001 - Jun 2005
    Munich, Germany
    Based on my first experience with Siemens Nixdorf, I decided to further study and develop my technical skills and joined Siemens as freelancer, later Fujitsu Siemens Computers, working as team member and partially as team lead in the main consultancy group. I was responsible for large customer deployments, e.g. Viag Intercom, Siemens Group and other. Beside of Fujitsu hardware/ software products I strengthen my focus on Microsoft Enterprise solutions for Active Directory and Exchange where at the end FSC awarded me joining the EasyXchange development group. I served customer in Europe, mainly Germany, Swiss, Netherlands and Austria.Later I was chosen to become the pre-sales technical team lead to develop technical solution and proposal for the strategic enterprise customers like Siemens Group, Continental AG, Commerce Bank, Deutsche Post and others. Beside of Microsoft technologies, consulting for PrimePower Mainframe systems were in my scope of work.I had the possibility at FSC to develop the first Exchange 2003 Geographical Cluster Solution without any 3rd party product, based on our own Microsoft related scripts and EMC storage replication (Siemens A&D)
  • Gemini Software Gmbh
    Chief Technology Officer
    Gemini Software Gmbh Jul 1998 - Dec 2001
    Munich, Germany
    In my position as CTO and Senior Consultant, I was responsible to develop skills of our technical team, supporting sales in technical pre-sales session and lead the customer deployments. The partner management was also an important role, where I had to manage Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft and other vendors. Siemens Nixdorf relationship became an interesting opportunity to make use of my individual technical skills.Personally I manifested my technical expertise in Microsoft infrastructure technologies, e.g. Domain technologies, Exchange and related products. In networking/ Internet technology I was responsible to support PSINet in south Bavaria for 3rd level connectivity issues in their FrameRelay network. I managed GEMINI to become one of the first Private Cloud partners with Citix WinFrame 3.51.
  • Tp-Systems
    Software Development
    Tp-Systems Jan 1992 - Jun 1998
    Essen, Duesseldorf And Munich
    STEAG AG, http://www.steag.com/, Ing. Büro Vössing, http://www.voessing.de/, Intergraph http://www.intergraph.com/Wärme und Elektrotechnik WET, http://www.wet.de/Job as Software Developer during my studies at University of Duisburg. Developing Cable Route Routing Software based on KKS. At Vössing Developer for Deutsch Bahn HAFAS. At Intergraph I developed DataWareHouse System Components for NT4.0 and experienced the first contact with NT 4.0 Domain Controllers. During my job at WET, I developed my first skills in system migration from Windows 3.11 / NDS to Windows NT 4.0 Domain

Thomas Poett Skills

Business Strategy Strategic Planning Marketing Strategy Cash Flow Management Market Opportunity Assessment Team Leadership Risk Management Sales Process Sales Management Strategic Partnerships Strategic Leadership Resource Management Roi Accountability Business Consulting Technical Design Unified Communications Cloud Computing Dynamic Datacenter Technical Leadership Enterprise Architecture Management Consulting Microsoft Lync Microsoft Exchange Digital Certificates Pki Asia South East Asia Singapore Malaysia Hong Kong Shanghai Beijing Bangkok Lync Lync Server 2010 Microsoft Technologies Virtualization Consulting Enterprise Software Data Center Integration Pre Sales Hyper V Solution Selling Microsoft Products

Thomas Poett Education Details

  • University Of Duisburg-Essen
    Electrical Engineering & Business Administration
  • Bertolt-Brecht-Berufskolleg Duisburg
    Bertolt-Brecht-Berufskolleg Duisburg
    Electronic
  • Stadtwerke Duisburg, Germany
    Stadtwerke Duisburg, Germany
    Electronic Operation

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Thomas Poett's current role is Head of Microsoft Solutions.

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Thomas Poett attended University Of Duisburg-Essen, Bertolt-Brecht-Berufskolleg Duisburg, Stadtwerke Duisburg, Germany.

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