Lead Consultant & Head of Information Security / Unified Communication

• Interims Management
• Outstanding technical background including experience with IT Strategy, IT Operations and IT/Business Risk Management
• Expert in PDI (Plan/Design/Implementation),Cisco/Tandberg, TelePresence, Unified Communication and Videoconferencing
• Expert knowledge of Infrastructure Strategy Planning, Portfolio & Solution Management, Vendor and contract Management, Investment & Risk Management, Process Improvement, Cost Reduction and Computing virtualization
• Certified CISSP
• ISO27001 Certified Lead Implementer
• Project Management: registered PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Certified Cisco TelePresence/Video Conferencing specialist:
Design and Implementation of Cisco/Tandberg TelePresence/Unified Communication/Video Conferencing solutions.
• Experience in a wide range of projects including client/business initiated requests, through the full project lifecycle
• Highly skilled in establishing programme governance, control, and improvement processes
• Experienced in supporting financial planning and budget development and supporting the identification and reporting of Key Performance Indicators
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, fluent in German and English
• Highly adept in personnel management and delivering cultural and process change
• Experienced in the business change and change management for effective systems implementation including Team Management on technical projects, monitoring Performance and Document Management
• Experienced in the development of business case proposals to demonstrate business needs, financial impact statements including ROI, resource requirements and performance metrics
• Dedicated to effective coaching and mentoring to facilitate professional and personal development of staff and colleagues
• Builds lasting relationships with of stakeholders (CEO’s, CIO’s) and directors
• Experience developing and aligning shared service within cultural and organisational constraints

since 28.04.2014 Global Rollout Project Engagement for Hewlett Packard
End-Customer: Commerzbank
Position: Technical Transformation Lead

01.04.2014 Confsec Consulting®
Lead Consultant | Head of Information Security & Unified Communication
In founding confsec Consulting ® I have applied extensive business knowledge coupled with expert technical skills to provide the service of, not only myself, but a recruited team of highly skilled consultants, able to deliver insightful, cost effective and industry leading IT project management and advice.
Services:
• Acting as head of Information Security and Unified Communication
• Providing collaborative Consulting and Consulting services (Plan, Design, Implementation), Providing Operational Services in Information Security and Unified Communication (remote and onsite).
• Delivers expertise on global midsize and enterprise customers and for Service-Providers as subcontractor.


2000-2014 BT (Germany) & Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
During my time with BT consultancy department, I have completed numerous training courses and certifications in the pursuit of personal and professional development. I have delivered expert technical skills as well as effective senior consultancy services on various projects as detailed below.

2011 – 2014 Senior Security and Unified Communication Consultant
In this project the customer was BASF, Heidelberg Cement, DB Schenker Logistic
Services:
• Delivered Plan, Design, Implementation and operational Handover of global failover redundant TelePresence/Video Conferencing solutions based on Cisco/Tandberg and Polycom technology.
• Provided security risk management and hardening for the UCC solutions stated above.

2008 – 2011 Security Consultant
In this project the customer was International Bank Sector
Services:
• Provided consultancy on Security Management, Risk Management, Ethical Hacking, Internal Audit Compliance
• Delivered Information Security Management System, Encryption.
• Ensured proper use of Security Documentation management (ISMS).
• Utilized Thales DataCryptor firmware release testing (TCP stack testing, malformed packet testing, encryption testing, redundancy testing).

2005 - 2008 Technical Design Authority
In this project the customer was Marconi, Computer Science Corporation, DuPont, Invista
Services:
• Conducted Bid Management, and Presales activities
• Network Management Application: Cisco Works, HP Open-View,
eEhealth, Radius, Tacacs, Cisco ACS, RSA SecurID
• Designed and Implemented network monitoring, CheckPoint Firewalls and
IDS/IPS solutions.

2004 - 2005 Site Manager
In this project the customer was DuPont
Services:
• Escalated network management support for all Layer 2/3 Cisco devices.
• Carried out Troubleshooting and call-out support.
• Managed Network project engagements.

2003 - 2004 Network Project Engineer
In this project the customer was Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
Services:
• Designed and implemented a failover redundant Internet gateway based
on Checkpoint Firewall clusters, internal/external DNS servers,
Layer2/3 Cisco devices, proxy servers, load balancers, IDS/IPS etc.
• Implemented and maintained a call detail record solution (CDR), based on
a Sun/Solaris technology, to allow the customer telephone record review and
controlling and billing purposes.
• Responsible for Sun Solaris related Firewall and Network devices.
• Conducted Server Operating System security hardening and testing.

2000 – 2003 2nd Level UNIX Administrator
In this project the customer was Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
Services:
• Carried out Installation, Updates, Migrations and Backup/Restore of Sun Solaris systems,
IBM AIX and HP HU-UX based UNIX systems (>100 Server)
within DuPont’s European datacentre.
• Conducted Server security hardening and patch cycle management
• Monitored and delivered change control

1998 – 2000 B&S Card Services, Atos Processing GmbH
Computer Operator
Duties:
• Carried out operator duties on 24/7 shift operations
• Delivered OS390 Mainframe Operator tasks
• Processed VISA and EUROCARD card services (day/night batch cycle) for global Bank
institutes.
• Created reports and delivered on a daily base.

1998 – 2000 City Administration Frankfurt/Main
Electronic Engineer
Duties:
• Carried out measurement and troubleshooting of fibre-optic and main power cable within
Frankfurt’s public city fibre and 230V/400V/10kV/30kV power network.