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ad interim Management, Cloud , IT Infrastructure Services, IT Transformation, IT Consulting

Company: Edelmann IT Consulting GmbH
Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional)

Attachments

CV-Soo-Saek-Edelmann-EN_190324.pdf
CV-Soo-Saek-Edelmann-DE_190324.pdf
01-Reference-iET-SA-Zurich-Corporate-Center_190324.pdf
02-Reference-Letter-final-Zurich-Insurance-LLC_190324.pdf
03-B-Source-SA-Reference-Letter_190324.pdf
04-Reference-Schindler-Informatik-AG_190324.pdf
05-Reference-CSC-Switzerland-GmbH_190324.pdf
06-Abschlusszeugnis-ZFS_190324.pdf
07-ITIL-Foundation-2014_190324.pdf

Skills

Principal Consultant with a broad know how within IT enterprise covering IT Infrastructure, IT Security, Cloud Governance, IT Transformation support and many other topics over the past 20 years. Experience within Banking areas, Financial Services, Industrial and manufactural industries, Telecommunications, Specialty Pharmacy and other regulatory industries.
Helping both, the business and the IT areas to transform their needs into concrete deliverable items on the IT infrastructure side and above. Understanding todays challenges around public Cloud solutions connected to existing corporate IT environments in hybrid mode around legal, compliance, security and regulatory preconditions. Designing and driving scalable, flexible solutions that meet today's demand and which can grow with new demand.
Helping businesses understanding and using central services and central portfolio wherever it is possible and be a bridgepoint to local / regional requestors.
Offering quick assessments about operational health status around running IT environments and try to simplify, harmonize and optimize if applicable.

Strategy & Service Design, IT Management, IT Operations, Project Delivery, TSA Phases through Mergers & Acquisitions (IT), Carve-Out, Stakeholder Management, Technical Projekt Management (PDU), Technical Architecture, Solution Architecture, Cloud(s) from IaaS, PaaS, SaaS - Private to Public to Hybrid, Virtualization, DaaS, Security Architecture (IAM, Directory Services, Hardenings  & Policies / Guidelines), Large Enterprise Environments to SMB with Special Focus within Industry, Telecommunication, Insurances and Banking, accountability for IT Infrastructure Architecture and Consultancy

Project history

10/2020 - Present
Senior Project Manager local integration
International Power Grids Company (Insurance, >10.000 employees)

Local IT project manager for the Swiss Corporate Center, responsible for the integration of Swiss Real Estate IT services within a global employee application. Coordinating IT integration with 3rd party suppliers and internal IT, creating SLA & Public SaaS contracts with the vendors. Engaged by Real Estate Senior Management to mitigate project at risk on various levels

12/2019 - 12/2020
Senior ITSM Consultant & Techstream Lead (Merges & Acquisition)
Insurance Company (Insurance, >10.000 employees)

Technical Workstream Lead IT Infrastructure for a CEO driven project (M&A). Responsible for an M&A project to cover all IT infrastructure, security and collaboration topics for the TSA phase of ~150 project members. Act as SPOC on the buyer side covering 9 different areas (server, storage, networks, secure filetransfer, Sykpe for business, MS Teams, IT Security & Risk, Mail & Messaging, Sharepoint 365). Also responsible for the IT part on a newly build subsidiary location for workplace, local LAN, WAN, migration of TSA'ed data. The project was a great success and even with COVID all had been delivered

06/2019 - 12/2020
SENIOR CONSULTANT & TECHSTREAM LEAD
Zurich Insurance Company (Insurance, >10.000 employees)

  • Consulting the Head of Data Management within the new organizational transformation. Leverage redundant operational divisions, harmonize and standardize IT processes to increase operational platform and DWH efficiency.
  • Running a team within Data Management ad interim.
  • Technical Workstream Lead IT Infrastructure for a CEO driven project (M&A)
  • Technical Workstream Lead Platform and Services for a CFO driven project (regulatory financial services reporting platform) >3 Mio CHF platform for business critical purposes

07/2020 - 10/2020
Senior Consultant IT Service Management
International Power Grids Company (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)

Support the TSA phase after a carve-out on the buyer side. Analyze the current TSA early termination process, identify gaps and process inconsistencies. Create a verification board for the early termination request, build and ran the CAB for the client with the 3rd parties

10/2019 - 12/2019
Senior Solution Architect
Private Wealth Bank (Banks and financial services, 1000-5000 employees)

  • Mandate to assess the current IT environment and its threats and challenges.
  • Evolve a high level solution design that meets UX improvements and to build up the reputation of internal IT against the LoBs.
  • Creating a high level solution design for the project STC covering option models from on-premise, hybrid to full off-premise in line with security, compliance, IT architecture and other stakeholders.

07/2015 - 05/2019
Head of Infrastructure Architecture & Project Delivery
Zurich Insurance Company (Insurance, >10.000 employees)

Owning and govern the infrastructure architecture discipline within the Swiss legal entity Zurich Insurance Company. 
Owning the project delivery function for all BU related IT infrastructure services and designs. Accountable for infrastructure architectural guidance 
and governance and delivery of standard / non-standard IT infrastructure and security patterns. Leading a team of specialized SMEs covering 
ITSM, Architecture and work as a Project Delivery Unit. Evaluating all public to hybrid Cloud requests from business or IT in terms of security 
contract and IT Service Level agreements for the Head of IT and the COO. Cloud Service Owner of the BU Switzerland. 
Running ~20 projects myself from small, medium to large (>5mio Infrastructure costs) with Executive Management attention. 
Member of the AoA community (Architects of the Architecture) to ensure a customer centric solution offering

Accomplishments:

  • Successfully designed, architected and delivered several CxO driven initiatives as success stories within 2015 – 2019
  • Supporting, consulting and driving the global architectural principles and designs on local level. Change the designs with the Country IT flavor
Make the Difference 2018 is a new, agile, creative way of working that embodies the companies purpose and values by empowering the people to embrace new ideas and accelerate strategy execution. Selected employee to work together in teams with top leadership (GCEO, EXCO) on key projects addressing some of the biggest challenges IT faces today

03/2013 - 06/2015
Head of Cloud Operations
B-Source SA (now: Avaloq Sourcing Switzerland & Liechtenstein) (Banks and financial services, 1000-5000 employees)

Responsible to ramp up the operational Cloud team serving services to internal and external clients with IaaS / PaaS templates. Support the operational divisions in identifying possible automation patterns and flows.
Creating the operational readiness process to establish on the cloud environment for standardization and harmonization on X86 platforms
Accomplishments:
  • Successfully drove a seven month RfP Cloud evaluation with different suppliers acting as Lead Cross-Platform SME. Evaluating the PoC criteria’s between the final two vendors, supporting the Program Management with the technical and operational topics which was highly appreciated and awarded by the CEO, CIO & CFO
  • Successfully drove a VDI Multi-Tenant Service Solution for different private wealth banking customers. Harmonizing the existing heterogeneous VDI and Remote Desktop of the out tasked IT departments of the clients through environmental assessments and improvement plans

09/2011 - 02/2013
Global Head of Server Competence Center & ad interim Global Head of Data Center Services
Schindler Informatik AG (now: Schindler Digital AG) (Internet and Information Technology, >10.000 employees)

Accountable Service owner of 2500 Servers and their Services (Design, Build & Run) for the HQ, 4 DC’s and >500 branch locations. Responsible to standardize and consolidate services within the global Datacenters reaching a >86% virtualization. Evaluating and driving new technology solutions to support customer’s demands on global and decentral Environments through Microsoft, VMware and Citrix technology
Accomplishments:
  • Owner of the global SCC budget of 10Mio CHF for onboarding new services and maintaining existing infrastructure within the global Datacenters. Successfully owned CAPEX /OPEX cost control & transparency with ~99% match 
  • Successfully drove the global Active Directory Services  & Strategy
  • Increased the virtual ratio on cost efficient virtual infrastructure strategy from 86% to 93% total
  • Global Windows & RHEL Server Service Owner & Service Provider
  • Global Service Creator and Owner of the VDI service across 500 Branch offices & Main subsidiaries for published applications, published desktop and HD VDI (CAD based)


Certifications

ITIL Foundation
Axelos
2014
MCSE
Prometrics
2010
MCSA
Prometrics
2010

Local Availability

Open to travel worldwide
Available Q3 2020 (80%), quick assessments  to verify demand and initial briefings are generally possible. Travel / onsite work possible depending on the rates, Mixed Mode for long term Projects appreciated based on negotiation.
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