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Freelance Consultant for IT Management
- interim-management, project management and coaching for IT management
- major topics: ITIL, IT Service Management, IT organisations, agile methods (scrum, aliando)
- interfaching IT and business administration: risk management, MBO, KPI, management information systems, business intelligence, IT Governance, SAP
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| 11/2005-01/2008 |
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Principal Business Analyst, Finance & Controlling (reports to: CFO)
- responsible for cost based planning and reporting as well as corporate plan/actual comparisons with senior management.
- designed and implemented corporate cost-unit accounting with SAP-CO
- develops accounting policies for financial accounting including cost type, cost center as well as cost unit accounting
- manages projects for liquidation and spin-off of subsidiary companies including mass asset transfers (SAP-AM, Customizing, ABAP)
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| 02/1999 — 10/2005 |
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09/2004 — 10/2005 |
Principal Business Analyst, Corporate Processes (reports to: CFO)
- responsible for corporate risk management
- responsible for corporate project controlling
Substantial Projects
- Split of accounting ledgers and SAP systems following the acquisition of the WEB.DE Portal by 1&1 Internet AG (a United Internet company)
- Split of IT and other assets following the acquisition as well as CPA-proof documentation to be included in the acquisition contract and annual statement (13.000 assets, volume € 35 mio.)
- Developed performance measurement and reporting systems for product as well as accounts receivable management
- Conducted a feasibility study for implementing a corporate management information system
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| 04/2001 — 08/2004 |
Technical Director (reports to: CTO)
- Responsible for corporate division Information Technology including 70 reports (6 direct department reports)
- Responsible for IT service management and operations of the WEB.DE portal site including online business critical infrastructures as well as hosting centers
- Responsible for corporate information security
- Responsible for steering of several audits for IT security and protection of data privacy (conducted by regulatory authority or CPA company) including corporate governance.
- Consulted software development and product management divisions in terms of software architecture
Substantial Projects
- Designed, implemented and operated the four WEB.DE hosting centers
- Designed and implemented mass data storage architectures for WEB.DE portal site (including WEB.DE FreeMail)
- Implemented corporate agile IT Service Processes based on ITIL
- Implemented corporate security policies and processes based upon German "Grundschutzhandbuch" (issued by BSI)
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| 02/1999 — 03/2001 |
Senior Manager IT (reports to: CTO)
- Responsible for IT infrastructure and IT Service Management of WEB.DE AG (a Cinetic spin-off) including online and corporate infrastructure
- Headed the technical purchasing unit
- Responsible for steering of external technical audits for initial public offering (IPO) and annual report (CPA)
Substantial Projects
- Designed, implemented an operated our first WEB.DE hosting center
- Managed projects for relocation and migration of any infrastructure and systems to our new hosting center
- Managed the migration of our office infrastructure into new facilities
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| 03/1996 — 01/1999 |
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| 01/1997 — 01/1999 |
Network Manager (reports to: CTO)
- Responsible for corporate IT infrastructure
- Hosted internet sites for German Fortune 500 customers
- Operated travel portal and flight booking systems flug.de and lastminute.de as well as the freshly developed portal site WEB.DE
- Designed and operated corporate network and workstation infrastructure
- Brought linux to the company as a hosting platform substantially improving efficiency
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| 03/1996 — 12/1996 |
Freelance Administrator/Developer
- Developed and administrated internet sites of German Fortune 500 and industrial companies (BASF, Comparex, Knoll, Novartis, VDE etc.)
- UNIX programming in C/C++, Javascript, PERL/CGI and shells
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| 03/1992 — 06/1995 |
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Freelance Consultant for software development
- Designed and implemented parsers used by surface recognition systems for exchange format VDAFS (automotive industry) according to ISO 9000 on UNIX (SGI), Windows and OS/2
- Designed and developped drivers for DSP controller interfaces for tube robots in cooperation with Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
- Designed and implemented interface drivers for periphery in mobile robot contol stations with OS/2 and Windows NT
- Designed and implemente object oriented automation modules for magnetism guided storage facility robots
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| 01/1988 — 09/1991 |
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Freelance Consultant/Writer
- Developed Software and Documentation for demonstration and teaching purposes
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