Amriswil, Thurgau, Switzerland
▪ Proficient Senior IT Manager with many years of leadership experience in: - developing and implementing IT & digitalization strategies at global level > most recently as CDO ▪ Distinct competences in managing large (sourcing) projects and overseeing system launches ▪ Profound expertise: Digital transformation | building, consolidation, optimization and restructuring of IT organizations | business process analysis | management of large (sourcing) projects | datacenter technology | ERP & CRM systems | lean IT concepts | cybersecurity ▪ Achievements: Development and implementation of the IT and digitalization strategy resulting in efficiency increase of 30% | successful implementation of GDPR regulations for all national companies | business process optimizations and restructuring of the ERP system, thereby reducing complexity and FTEs ▪ Responsibility: directly managing 7 department heads, indirectly managing 200 employees (as COO) | directly managing 3 department heads and 18 employees (as CIO/CDO) ▪ Committed and motivated leader with: - excellent communication skills - knowledge of human nature - ability to deal with conflicts and structured & goal-oriented working method > who knows how to form strong teams ▪ Analytical | flexible | readiness of mind | courageous
▪ Developing and implementing the IT and digitization strategy ▪ Responsible for the design and implementation of: - strategic projects (digitalization and industry 4.0) ▪ Carrying out cross-company business analysis and optimizing processes ▪ In charge of support and further development of all applications: - ERP, CRM, BI, etc. as well as all infrastructures ▪ Responsile IT law and data protection (GDPR implementation) and IT procurement ▪ Developing and implementing cybersecurity measures ▪ Rebuilding and securing the supply chain - as well as optimizing inventory management and processes in the role of COO
▪ Disciplinary, content-related and commercially managed the IT operations department ▪ Established the department and merged various companies taken over ▪ Designed and implemented the IT strategy, including: - a distinct cybersecurity concept
▪ Disciplinary, content-related and commercially managed the IT operations department ▪ Ensured high-availability data center operations for: - Switzerland and subsidiaries ▪ Planned, procured and integrated platforms as well as: - software components and standard applications ▪ Ensured application operation and the application landscape ▪ Responsible for the operation of the SAP platform: - Basis, FI, HCM ▪ Managed major projects ▪ Optimized the organizational structure according to ITIL ▪ Established and implemented Group IT-Procurement ▪ Member of the Group IT Strategy Board ▪ Developed and implemented IT strategies/IT governance
▪ Direct and indirect leadership of 7 employees ▪. Responsibility for the implementation of service management - following best practices (ITIL) ▪ Responsibility for the implementation of group IT-governance ▪ Construction and implementation of new infrastructure components - according to group standards ▪ Ongoing identification and realisation of optimisation measures: - technical, procedural, financial ▪ Safeguarding of the interface „Group IT Operation <=> country-specific-IT Organisation“ - based on Operation Level Agreements (OLAs) ▪ Management of external suppliers and outsourcing partners
▪ Direct and indirect leadership of 28 employees ▪ Development of a transnational service management ▪ Consolidation of the IT-Operations in Germany and Austria with: - the Swiss company organisation ▪ Responsibility for all cross-platform applications of Helvetia insurances ▪ Responsibility for the operational engineering , the midrange and storage infrastructure - and for the Implementation of ITIL processes ▪ Introduction of a central cross platform monitoring system Conceptual design - and implementation of a software distribution system for server (Windows and Linux) ▪ Development and realisation of infrastructure strategies