Founder of ots Unternehmensberatung, CEO, process-, PLM- and IT-expert
Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Kaiser, founder and owner of ots Unternehmensberatung, has over 35 years of experience in product data management, product lifecycle management, CAD, document mangement (DMS) incl. input- and outputmanagement, change management, IT, organizsational processes, cross-divisional/interdisciplinary change management, software selection and implemenation, process optimization, digitalization as well as consulting at all theese areas.
As a student he already began in this area and continued after that as consultant (first with Andersen Consulting - today Accenture) for medium and a few large customers in different industry sectors. He not only has a good grasp of the theoretical fundamentals but also covers the overall bandwidth as successfull and established expert and doer with hands-on-mentality through his decades of experience with project work from analyze-, concept-, solution-, selection- and
implementation phase until test phase and golive and even user- and system support and maintenance.
1996 he founds ots Unternehmensberatung and offers complete service for consulting, implementation as well as support for Product Lifecycle Management, document management as well as overall and general IT-subjects (increasingly digitalization, virtualization and outsorcing) incl. project management.
Mr. Kaiser graduated at Technical University Munich in mechanical engineering (specialised on manufacturing and production technology) and was very deep into the whole IT-area already during school and studies (focus on programming and implementation); this was the successful basis for his extensive experience. Very much of his experience is with the Product Lifecycle Management Systen Agile ePLM of Oracle (former Eigner&Partner and Agile), also in combination with various system integrations (esp. for CAD, ERP - mainly SAP - and outputmanagement). Increasingly he is enganged with small and medium organisations for overall IT (incl. telecommunication), process digitalization/optimization as well as IT architecture and security.
Therefore he offers service for the analyze phase, which often is accompanied by organizational optimations, concept-, design- and solution-phase, the selection-phase of diverse extensive and complex software solutions (especially Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) or documentmanagement (DMS) and ERP-systems, and all other systems, too) for customer's optimal benefit, the implementation of those systems over all phases (preparation, installation, configuration/customizing, training, going-live, data analyses and migration) as well as the subsequent userand system-support and maintenance. The main goal is to bring the customers rapid and big benefit through fast and good planned project work, without loosing the focus on the important customer needs. With his know-how and his personality Mr. Kaiser was able to win and successfully complete already several big and renowned customers and projects.
Mr. Kaiser already wrote some articles and held international presentations about product data management and other themes. His focus is espacially on integration of PDM/PLM and EnterpriseRessourcePlanning (ERP), change mangement processes across several systems as well as distributed construction and work.
More and more topics like digitalization, integration, web and cloud computing as well as outsourcing and software-selection and -implementation come into focus, where data modeling, data analysing and -optimization and data migration from existing systems are basic tasks in nearly all projects.
Through his education and extensive experience in IT (incl. programming and implementation), engineer, project manager, founder and entrepreneur, CEO, in charge for budget and personell as well as honorary commercial judge he can cover all these areas (mostly absolutely deep going): informatics and IT, engineering / development and production companies incl. administration, workflow and processes, coach, business administration, project management, finance as well as legal aspects.
Publications and presentations
- „Business-Modelling in engineering department“ in ZWF CIM Zeitschrift für wirtschaftliche Fertigung und Automation 12/1993
- „Tying your cPDm Strategy To Your Business Objectives“, presentaion at CIMdata Europe Conference 2000 in Barcelona
- „Wholistic change management for distributed product development with PDM and ERP at KUKA Roboter GmbH“, presentation and article in VDI - Tagungsbericht „Informationsverarbeitung in der Produktentwicklung 2000, Produkte entwickeln im realen Umfeld (09.-10. November 2000, München)“
- „Bridge between people and technique“ in EuroMarkt Juni/Juli 2001
- „Construction engineers effectifly relieved“ in Computer@Produktion 12/2001
Languages
German and englisch (fluently in spoken and written), italian and spanish (basic knowledge), higher Latin (8 years)
Relevant trainings
presentation technique, moderation technique, non-violant communication, selling convincingly (Integral Training), selling more successfull (Dale Carnegie - trainer top-speaker Hermann Scherer), communication and leadership (Dale Carnegie - trainer top-speaker Hermann Scherer), Oracle administration and performance optimization (inhouse training with Oracle expert), Oracle RAC (Oracle partner in Munich), Oracle WebLogic (Oracle partner in Frankfurt), Professional Scrum Master Certification (scrum.org)
Practical and project experience
more then 35 years of professional, project and programming experience most likely in the area of consulting and solution integration as well as software selection, implementation, support and maintenance; lots of experience in project planning, management, execution and controlling; extensive in network planning, implementation and technique as well as complete system support (network, windows, database, applications, user, even telephone systems); deep experience in data modelling and optimization; experience in brand new technologies and outsourcing as well as coordination of external suppliers; tremendous experience in optimization and simplification as digitalization of complex and distributed prozesses in creative and administrative areas incl. all associated data and interfaces (even when the term digitalization was not existing); hugh experience in communication, negotiotion, moderation, workshops, trainings and presentation; comprehensive knowledge in business management, running companies incl. all areas and legal aspects of personel, company and commerce/trade; several IT-projects for company splits/ carve-outs and mergers
Roles and functions already done
Project manager, consultant, experte and coach, business analyst, business architect, requirements engineer, change manager, IT architect, network architect, IT infrastructure architect, solution architect, software architect, software engineer, software designer, software product manager, programmer/software developer, IT service technician, netzwerk administrator, windows administrator, linux/UNIX administrator, server administrator, DB administrator, system administrator, data analyst, data engineer, support manager, support ingenieur, support staff, operations engineer, trainer/instructor, telecommunication administrator, telecommunication engineer,
coordinator e. g. for external suppliers, licence expert Oracle DB
Strenghts
always have the econimic side in mind for all solutions; thinks unconventional and creates innovative solutions; decisive; can react with optimal solutions even in case of unforeseen events; ability to abstract and fast thinking and acting accoding to the company motto „thought. done.“; enormous experience; communication skills; can deal also with small budgets and resources; convincing personality; absolutely result-oriented, determined, reliable and commitet; always on customer side; sees his work as bridge between customer and supplier as well as between technique and human beeings; can deal with nearly every software product because of his hugh experience with so many applications
HBDI-(Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument) profile 1-1-1-1 (87-75-75-84) (occurance: ~ 3% of the population)
A word about project management
learned from the very ground; if you have the concepts/methodology internalized than the IT-tools and industrie sectore/area/theme are not quite important - then you can even do it with PowerPoint or Excel
Project ranges
budget: 5T € - 1Mio € per project
timeframe: a few days - several years per project
people: 1 - 5 per project
personnel responsibility: up to 10 people (own company)
Applications
• Office (Micosoft, Libreoffice, a.o.)
• CAD (several 2D und 3D)
• DTP (several)
• DMS (alfresco, thinkproject, a.o.)
• PLM (Oracle Agile, a.o.)
• ERP (SAP, BaaN, a.o.)
• trade and administration in general
• WebServer (Apache)
• WebServices (tomcat, WebLogic)
• Enterprise Integration platforms
• virtualization architecture and software (Vmware, …)
• several mail- and groupware-Server (Zimbra, MDaemon, a.o.)
• Outputmanangement- and Plotsystems (netplot, PLOSSYS, Cimgraph, uniplot, a. o.)
• several graphic- und fileformatconverter
• Cloudsystems
• Samba
• SaaS-Systems
• project management (MS-Project, Oracle Prime, Monday, ...)
• Reporting und Layout (XSL, XSL:FO, a.o.)
• several remote-tools
Networks
• architecture
• cabeling
• planning
• implementation & administration
• protocolls
• hardware components
• services
• security
• firewalls
• …
special knowledge for Oracle Agile PLM e6x
LogiView, DataView, all existing PLM-moduls, EnterpriseIntegrationPlatform, SAP-Integration, IP- (intelectual property) and access-control as well as data security (module PCV - vendor), processes and integrations across systems, printing and plotting (module PPO - vendor), data archiving and export as well as offline- research (module moSIS - vendor), installation, configuration, adoption, customizing, training, etc.
Programming languages
C, COBOL, Fortran, JAVA, Pascal, Basic, VBA, PL/1, Assembler, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, XSL, XSL:FO
Scripting languages
Windows, Unix, Linux
Datenbases
Oracle, MySQL, MS-Access, MS-SQLServer, Ingres, …
Operating systems
Windows all versions from 3.0 onwards incl. DOS; Unix from HP, Sun/Oracle, IBM; various Linux distributions from Oracle, RedHat, Ubuntu, Suse, …; Novell; AS/400; Apollo Aegis; Commodore GEOS; AmigaOS; IMB mainframe
Telephone systems
classical (Agfeo, Auerswald, Gigaset, ...), virtual/cloud (inopla, easybell, wirecloud, sipgate, ...)
Industries
capital goods, car manufactures, automotive suppliers, transportation, aerospace, military/defence, medical, manufacturing systems, packaging, access control, machine tool manufacturers, energy technology, kitchen appliances, household appliances, payment systems, tool manufacturers, watchmakers, kitchens and kitchen equipment, metal foundries, pipelining, precision measurement systems, building technology, measuring instruments manufacturer, vehicle technology, banking, plastics industry, lighting systems, marine systeme, food industry, education and training, fitness, textile, trade in general, ensurance, software development, cablenet provider, healthcare and social area, power grid operator
Further activities
several presentations at events, honory CEO of a nonprofit organization/choir (Munich Goes Gospel, 2016 - 2018), honorary commercial judge at district court Munich, singer and speaker
Licences
Driving licence passenger car and truck until 7,49t, sport boat driving licence, radio certificate (short range), diving licence
Design, development, sales and support of own products (since 2001)
- netCOS (netbased Content Organizing System)
Webbased database neutral knowledge- and content management system with support center, portal for newsletter and sitemanagement (internet, intranet) based on ASP-webserver and ODBC-enabled database (product is obsolet and does not longer exist)
- ProZeit (project time management)
Program for project related time recording, project invoicing, employee time and vacation management as well as comprehensive reporting based on MS Access (product is obsolet and does not longer exist)
- Oracle Agile PLM-Baan-interface
PLM-ERP-interface between the system Oracle Agile PLM e Serie and BaaN for transfering product data from PLM to ERP and ERP-information to PLM with overall transaction security for items, BOM's and documents (not longer under maintenance and development)
- moSIS (mobile Supplier Information System) for Oracle Agile PLM e-Series
Addon product for archiving, comparison of several archived issues, export and offline research of product data based on Oracle Agile PLM eSeries and XML, XSL consisting of server components and an offline research client using XML/XSL (not longer under development)
- PPO (Print- and Plotintegration) for Oracle Agile PLM e-Series
Convenient reporting/printing and plotting directly from PLM-system, gathering of data directly in PLM in a simple way, export of data on XML-basis, powerful formatting capabilities of XML-data with XSL:FO and several interpreters, complete and comfortable integration in PLM, compile (manually or with automatable logic) output folders with mixed content (reports and documents/files) for the (later) output i. a. via an output management system (e. g. netplot, PLOSYS, Cimgraph, Uniplot, a. o.)
- PCV (Project controlled visibility) for Oracle Agile PLM e-Series
powerful and simple protection of product data (intellectual property) against unauthorized access and transfer based on adoptable DB-vies, PL/SQL as well as performance optimization with minimal additional effort for administration
during his studies: several term papers at institute for machine tool and management science (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Milberg), a. o. implementation of an interface to transfer geometric objects from 3D-CAD-system Bravo3 (surface model) into 3D-simulationssystem COSIMA/USIS (volume model);
employed as computer specialist and software developer at local and international companies (a. o. Auto-trol Technology Düsseldorf), there implementation of a. o. VDAFS-processor (import and export), standard-parts-interface (VDAPS), integration with CADIM/EDB for their 3D-CAD-System Series 7000
Implemetation of our products PPO (Print- and Plot-Integration for reporting and output) for Oracle Agile ePLM at many customers in Europe, each with analysis, installation, configuration, partly adoption as well as mainly migration of existing reports, creating new reports (XML, XSLT, XSL:FO) as well as training and briefing
as well as implementation of PCV a. o. at
Albis Technologies, Besi Switzerland AG, bielomatik Leuze GmbH, Drägerwerk AG, E.G.O. GmbH, ERBE GmbH, ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse, Feintool AG, FERAG AG, Georg Fischer Piping Systems, Groninger GmbH, Kistler Intrumente AG, Komax AG, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH, Magna Steyr, Marel Holding B.V., Marquardt GmbH, Medela AG, Montaplast GmbH, Oerlikon Solar AG, PackSys Global Ltd., Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Philips Lightning N.V., Raytheon Anschütz GmbH, Rheinmetall Landsystem GmbH, Siemens AG A&D, Siemens AG PTD, Sivantos GmbH, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, SMS Siemag AG, Stork PWV, Synthes AG, VAT Vakuumventile AG, Veritas AG, V-Zug AG, Werner Turck GmbH, ZF Friedrichshafen AG