Frode (Redigh) Karlsen

Associate Director

Frankfurt, Deutschland

Erfahrungen

Jan. 2013 - Jan. 2016
3 Jahren 1 Monate
Deutschland

Associate Director

Cognizant Business Consulting

Jan. 2008 - Bis heute
17 Jahren 6 Monaten
Deutschland

Independent Consultant

  • Experienced and reliable consultant who specializes in digital strategies, IT governance, control remediation, process management, marketing, sales, and eCommerce.
  • With a strong entrepreneurial mindset and a proven track record of delivering results, helps clients develop and implement new strategies for success.
  • Strong industry knowledge: 70 projects, 15 industries, more than 40 clients across 8 countries.
  • Worked with clients in Banking & Financial Services such as Deutsche Bank, BonusCard.ch, Experian, LBS München, the Norwegian Postbank (12 projects).
  • Worked with clients in Telecommunications such as EWE Tel, Deutsche Telekom AG, Telefonica O2 (VIAG Interkom), Call Norwegian, ITC, BT Ignite, Telenor, TeliaSonera (22 projects).
  • Worked with clients in Interactive Media & Services such as Vizzavi, Mobile Innovation AS (6 projects).
  • Worked with clients in Other Industries such as IT Services (a.o. DB Systel GmbH), Personal Products (Beiersdorf/NIVEA), Building Products (Saint-Gobain), Health Care Technology (Fresenius Medical Care), and others.
  • Strong focus on results and delivery.
  • Project management to achieve agreed outcomes within time and budget across different functional areas in multi-cultural environments. Stepping in to turn-around projects that do not meet expectations.
  • IT-Audit/IT-Assessments; design and implementation (remediation) of IT-Controls, certified IS Auditor, ISO 27001, IT security, data protection.
  • Digitalization/improvement of business processes using packaged- and custom-developed IT solutions, ensuring usable and pragmatic solutions that meet business needs, e.g. Improving B2B selling processes.
  • Business Analysis: planning cloud migrations, due-diligence, value chains, redesigning data flows, specifying changes to applications, develop business cases and plans for insourcing/outsourcing of applications.
  • Data modelling: Designing and implementing new data models for e-commerce platforms to improve scalability and performance.
  • Technical expertise and knowledge: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, and different technologies such as ServiceNow, SAN storage, Oracle, MySQL, AWS, procurement processes (EDI) and integration of customer POs and invoicing over SAP Ariba procurement platform, software development languages and others.
Jan. 2005 - Jan. 2011
5 Jahren 1 Monate
Norwegen

Innovator, Founder, Entrepreneur and MD

Mobile Innovation AS

Jan. 1999 - Dez. 2005
6 Jahren
Norwegen

Principal Consultant

PA Consulting Group

Sept. 1997 - Dez. 1999
2 Jahren 4 Monaten
Deutschland

Project Manager

Telefonica O2 (VIAG Interkom)

  • Employee of Telenor Norway.
Jan. 1994 - Aug. 1997
2 Jahren 8 Monaten
Norwegen

Consultant

Accenture

Mai 1992 - Aug. 1993
1 Jahr 4 Monaten
Oslo, Norwegen

IT Coordinator

Bjerke Borough of Oslo

Jan. 1990 - Mai 1992
2 Jahren 5 Monaten
Norwegen

Software Developer

Den Norske Hypotekforening

Jan. 1990 - Mai 1992
2 Jahren 5 Monaten
Norwegen

Software Developer

Miros A/S

Zusammenfassung

Frode is an experienced and reliable consultant who specializes in digital strategies, IT governance, control remediation, process management, marketing, sales, and eCommerce. With a strong entrepreneurial mindset and a proven track record of delivering results, he helps clients develop and implement new strategies for success.

  • Strong focus on results and delivery.

  • Project management to achieve agreed outcomes within time and budget across different functional areas in multi-cultural environments. Stepping in to turn-around projects that do not meet expectations.

  • IT-Audit/IT-Assessments; design and implementation (remediation) of IT-Controls, IT security, data protection

  • Digitalization/improvement of business processes using packaged- and custom-developed IT solutions, ensuring usable and pragmatic solutions that meet business needs, e.g. Improving B2B selling processes,

  • Business Analysis: planning cloud migrations, due-diligence, value chains, redesigning data flows, specifying changes to applications, develop business cases and plans for insourcing/outsourcing of applications.

  • Data modelling: Designing and implementing new data models for e-commerce platforms to improve scalability and performance.

  • Technical expertise and knowledge: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, and different technologies such as ServiceNow, SAN storage, Oracle, MySQL, AWS, procurement processes (EDI) and integration of customer POs and invoicing over SAP Ariba procurement platform, software development languages and others.

  • Entrepreneurial mindset: 5 years’ experience as entrepreneur, with an ability to think out of the box and create order out of chaos.

  • Comfortable working in and leading cross-cultural- and multinational teams: Delivered projects in 8 countries together with people from Europe, India, UK, and USA.

  • Business and IT liaison: Understanding both sides well and frequently act as the "linking pin".

  • “Keeping people honest” – formulating- and asking the right questions.

  • Deep understanding of operational needs and technology capabilities

  • Balanced understanding of the importance of implementable solutions vs. ideas and concepts

Sprachen

Norwegisch
Muttersprache
dk
Verhandlungssicher
Deutsch
Verhandlungssicher
Englisch
Verhandlungssicher
Nordsamisch
Verhandlungssicher

Ausbildung

Sept. 1993 - Okt. 1994

Bayes Business School

MBA · IT and Management · London, Vereinigtes Königreich

Aug. 1986 - Nov. 1989

University of Oslo

MSc · Computer Science · Oslo, Norwegen

Aug. 1984 - Juni 1986

University of Østfold

BSc · SW Development · Norwegen

Zertifikate & Bescheinigungen

ISACA Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)

ISACA

Professional Scrum Master

Prince 2 Practitioner