Profile
My work focuses on transforming IT-Infrastructures, IT-Processes, and Applications. The integration of modern technologies and capabilities of modern Cloud Providers is the key to success. Absolut necessary and remarkable help is to sand close to the business and understand the division areas by designing the right solution. Infrastructure or Application evolutions only succeed by paying attention to business requirements and needs. Cloud- or Hybrid-Cloud Solutions only benefitting in an alignment with the business requirements and finally resulting in an advantage over competitors.
- More than 20 years of experience in IT projects with complex systems and processes.
- Experienced in IT organization, management, and leadership.
- Fast learner, entrepreneurial thinking & acting.
- Business-oriented problem solving and project implementation.
- Experience in working and leading international teams.
- High social competence as well as integrity.
- Ready to travel, resilient.
Experiences
Member of the ZTCoE (ZeroTrust Center of Excellence) team to implement Zero-Trust architectures to improve user experience.
- Focus on solution design and engineering of scalable multi-cloud (Azure, AWS) applications in complex enterprise production IT environments.
- Transforming traditional WAN connections (MPLS, VPN, SDWAN) to broker-based (ZScaler).
- Technology architect and advisor for line-of-business-driven projects in complex enterprise environments to evaluate Industry 4.0 solutions.
Member of CCoE (Cloud Centre of Excellence) Team, Responsibility Cloud Connectivity.
- Responsible for the architecture, design, and planning of modern IT environments, focusing on Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- Cloud Advisor for infrastructure and solution architecture for the line of business, focused on Production IT.
- Reference design of a scandalized Connectivity setup in a Hybrid- and Multi-Cloud environment (Azure, AWS, SaaS. Providers, on-prem. Datacenters).
- Design and Implementation of Cloud Projects.
- Responsible for the architecture, design and planning of new IT environments.
- Organizing and leading of a global team focused on Azure Cloud.
- Implementation of the “cloud strategy” in the company.
- Transforming and extending the existing applications to cloud solutions.
- Infrastructures and technologies, such as:
- MPLS and VPN connections.
- Data Hosting (File and Databases)
- Web Services
- Migration from IaaS to PaaS and SaaS Services in Azure.
- IoT for analyzing field data from cement plants.
- HPC (high-performance computing) in Azure Cloud.
- Solution architect for the migration of local IT systems in the remote locations worldwide, as well as centralization and consolidation of global services (DNS, DHCP, SCCM etc.) into the main data centers and integration of these with Microsoft Azure cloud solutions.
- Solution Architect and part of the team to migrate the two largest central data centers in Denmark to Microsoft Azure.
- role: Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Management of an international team, consisting of 15 colleagues, in the area of infrastructure and IT core systems.
- Responsible core technologies:
- Network (WAN, MPLS, VPN / LAN)
- Backup Systems (CommVault, Veeam).
- Server / Desktop Virtualization (VMware, Microsoft).
- Storage Systems (SAS, iSCSI and FC with EMC, Hitachi, DataCore).
- Firewall (Checkpoint, Cisco).
- WAN Optimization (Riverbed).
- Areas of responsibility, design and planning for:
- All globally distributed data centers (Europe, America and Asia)
- Globally connected remote sites (about 100).
- Organizational area:
- Team coordination.
- L2 support coordination.
- License Management (VMware).
- Concept development.
- Report to the global IT manager.
- Support of other technology teams.
- Coordination of external consulting projects.
Member of the corporation, global strategic IT team
- Network and Infrastructure Team (LAN, WAN - MPLS, VPN, Cisco).
- Hosting Services Team (VMware, Storage, Backup)
- Integration Team (planning and development of global IT standards)
- Technical IT planning and management of all EMEA offices (locations):
- Italy
- Germany
- France
- Russia
- Spain
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- South Africa
- England
- Austria
- Switzerland
Projects
ZeroTrust Modern Connectivity
- Desin and build a new modern connectivity with ZScaler in aligment with the ZeroTrust strategie
Kubernetes Cluster with PAS-X® (PoC)
- The PoC aims to evaluate the PAS-X application's transformation from a 100% on-premises bare-metal installation to a modern containerized setup.
Sandbox Environment of Production IT (PoC)
- We are building a Referent design to provide a possibility to create a clone of the Production IT Application- and Infrastructure (Digital Twin) in Microsoft Azure, to use it as Develop, Troubleshooting, Validation Environment.
Transforming POInT to Microsoft Azure (PRD)
- We are transforming the Production IT Application “POInT” into a cloud-native Azure Application. The currently used POInT installation is based on a bear-metal SQL Server deployed in one of our NNIT Datacenters, and the Server ran out of capacity and hardware maintenance. Uses technologies in Azure are Microsoft Azure Managed SQL Instance and Microsoft Azure Web Application.
ZeroTrust Connectivity with zSCALER®
- Following the company’s strategy of a ZeroTrust future design. This contains a redesign of the global connection setup. The goal is to switch from an infrastructure connectivity desing (MPLS, SDWAN, IWAN) to a more application-driven design (Broker based). It contains both use Cloud Provider (Azure, AWS), on-premises data centers (Equinix, NNIT), and all affiliates on a global scale.
HPC in Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Building an HPC (high-performance computing) solution for Ansys and Rocky, based on Docker container technology. Placed in Microsoft Azure and available to end engineers. The systems are distributed in 3 different Azure regions (West Europe, Central India and East US2). The solution replaces an existing HP locally hosted HPC solution.
Migration Remote Sites
- Migration of all remote sites in EMEA (28) and Australia (18). Existing servers and systems will be globally centralized and relocated to Microsoft Azure Cloud. Partly in lift-and-shift scenarios, partly in new implementations of existing IT systems (ERP, EDM and PDM systems).
Migration global Data Centers
- Closing the two largest global data centers in Denmark. More than 1300 servers and services needs to get analyzed and discovered for the transformation to Microsoft Azure (placed on VMware vSphere 6.5 infrastructure).
Designing a WAN connection between different company locations
- This project was a cooperation with my friend's company to help him with my knowledge about building a redundant WAN Network infrastructures. The project's goal was to interconnect different company locations for his customer to provide VDI solutions on VMware Horizon to all employees in the various company departments (3 geographical areas).
Transforming the global ERP (Epicor 10) to Azure
- Following the Cloud Transformation strategy, we faced the challenge of migrating our global ERP system (EPICOR 10) to Azure Cloud. After a try by doing this in a Lift and Shift scenario with the on-premise deployed and designed servers (VMware vSphere VMs), we ran in a lot of performance issues after the migration. On a global scale, users complained about the performance and usability of the provide ERP system after the migration.
Realize the global Cloud Strategie
- It is is an ongoing project and involves the implementation of the FLSmidth cloud strategy. Workloads of all global datacenters get analyzed and prepared for the transfer to a cloud environment (Azure). We use lift-and-shift technologies as well as the development and expansion of all-important global and local applications. Besides, new applications and workloads will be developed in Azure and made available to users. The goal is to accompany FLSmidth on the way to the cloud (Azure).
Datacenter migration to INEXIO hosted Co-Location
- This project was about to migrate the largest Datacenter in Germany (Wadgassen) operated by FLSmidth to a Co-Location hosted by INEXIO (Astra Park Saarlouis). The main site in Wadgassen was connected to the Datacenter of INEXIO in Saarlouis with a dark-fiber connection. The goal was to perform a no business interrupted migration of all applications and systems during the migration without downtime, as well as a performance- and user experience improvement during the daily work with the applications and systems.
3D Datacenter hosted Workstation with VMware Horizon View
- This project was about to exchange the existing 3D workstations with a 3D VDI solution. The management' focuses on hosting 3D workstations in the central datacenter without losing engineers' usual performance experience and improving the performance by editing and creating 3D designs with SolidWorks. Great emphasis got placed on better utilization of the system resources of all 3D workstations. Sharing and optimizing the utilization of the 3D environment was one of the keywords.