Highly skilled senior IT manager with over 10 years experience developing and executing IT strategies in alignment with corporate objectives. Successful in global manufacturing environments during all cycles of business, including high growth, downturns and acquisition integration. An established record as a leader & business partner who collaborates with other executives to use information and communication technology to transform and simplify business processes while delivering an understandable and measurable benefit for the corporate management. Solid project management skills, with the ability to deliver milestones on-target and under budget. Strong talent for process reengineering and optimisation, focused around cost reduction and improved efficiency. Able to work with multicultural and international teams to achieve common ground and meet company objectives.
Lead European IT Infrastructure and services, own production and daily functionality as well as future developments. Ensure the daily existencefor 15 countries, 5000 end users, own service based approach to reach corporate targets on the maximum performance by minimal fix costs. Agile to find opportunities and synergies in a geographically distributed environment.
• Established transparency, business driven service • Implemented basic ITIL methodology, global incident management and problem management, escalation • Reorganized low performing outsourcing contract • Formed one team from 40+ independent internationally distributed professionals and aligned them for common targets • Took human and fiscal ownership, moved the organization from locally linked ITs to one centralized corporate IT
