Switzerland
A seasoned leader with over 25 years of global experience across IT Operations, Project Delivery and Governance, with emphasis on IT Infrastructure and Cyber Security, in various industries.
As Senior Consultant - Technology supporting the Sandoz business spin-off in a large-scale cross-functional cyber security program impacting the OT area / Manufacturing function (ROSA): • Program Management Organization: Supporting the Sandoz internal program manager in the governance of the program, including : o Planning Management: overall “big picture* planning management. o Risks and Issues Management: documenting and tracking relevant records until closure. o Quality & Compliance Management: working with Program Quality Manager and Information Security and Risk Management on relevant topics. o Vendor management: maintaining active relations to multiple vendors for resource / services contracts establishment and revisions. o Resource Management: supporting new resources onboarding and orientation. o Financial Management: tracking and forecasting (>6 mUSD budget). o Project Support: coaching and supporting other project streams to deliver according to established policies, best practices, and newly implemented processes. o Relationship Management: acting as interface to site Engineering / Automation teams. o Program Reporting: supporting Steering Committees preparation with accurate reporting to prepare for efficient decision-making. • Project Management: Accountable for the project delivery of the Secure Remote Access for OT Service (Internet to Manufacturing via AWS Cloud Gateway) o Architecture alignment with Security Architects. o Implementation with Cloud, Hosting and Network Engineers. o Qualification preparation (documentation) and execution. o ITSM onboarding (ServiceNow) and Handover to IT Operations. o Post Go-Live hyper care and migration support,
In a large IT/OT Cybersecurity Program, responsible for implementation of network segmentation across sites with a team of project managers, network engineers and security / firewall engineers - 20+ team members - 48 production sites across the globe - 310 new VLANs created - 9400 OT nodes moved into dedicated VLANs - Firewall traffic monitored and Firewall rules created / deployed to lock down all in scope OT VLANs
Responsible for Technology Lifecycle actvities in the Infra Hosting Service Area - Private Cloud Hosting (Vblock, Nutanix) - Backup and Storage - Physical Server Assets - Operating Systems (Windows, Linux) - Databases (Oracle, SQL) - Mass Deployments
Within the NBS/CTO IT organisation of Novartis, responsible for the overall infrastructure supply during a multi-year, global hosting Transformation project . This project is targeting to consolidate Data Centers, reduce number of physical servers to the favor of virtual instances, lifecyclefrom legacy Operating Systems (e.g MS Windows 2003 Server). This includes - Provisoning of Virtual Hosting platforms : VBlock, Nutanix - Delivery of Storage capacity based on NetApp NAS - Implementation of related backup infrastructures : TSM, NetBackup, Data Domain - Increase of capacity for related WAN links, supporting the desired end state - Readiness of affected Data Centers - Direct relation with affected operational teams - Process maturation and industrialization based on lessons learned and previous wave's input - Direct management of a globally distributed team of Deliver Managers, Engineers, - Stakeholders management and communication (including escalation management)
As Mail Systems Integration Engineer, engineered components and managed projects related to the service development of the internal Lotus Notes/Domino network, in collaboration with the operational teams • Managed the design, planning and implementation of the company’s redundant Internet mail connection based on Lotus SMTP/MIME MTAs • Proposed, Designed and implemented the corporate fax service, based on fax gateways for Lotus Domino • Completion of the company’s X.400 connection to the 400NET public network based on Lotus X.400 MTA. • Specification and coding of mail template extensions / customizations. • Concept and development of a proprietary HP OpenMail / Domino directory synchronization process. • Evaluation of new technology/tools : Lotus Notes/Domino 5.x, Pager Gateway. • Third level IT Support to internal email customers • Mail and Fax solution integration for a swiss customer (health care organization)
As System Engineer in the IT architecture team, responsible for the system design and evolution of a heterogeneous mail network in a ISO 9001 certified environment. • HP-UX system tuning and administration • HP-OpenMail, Lotus cc:Mail and Lotus Notes system administration • Connections to a worldwide X.400 Mail Backbone and Internet (X.25, TCP/IP) • Shell-scripting for directories synchronization mechanisms • Evaluation and implementation of remote access to the mail servers for mobile users, • Evaluation of SMTP/MIME and cc:Mail MTAs for Lotus Notes, • Dealing with customer demands and problems