Frode (Redigh) Karlsen

Associate Director

Frankfurt, Germany

Experience

Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
3 years 1 month
Germany

Associate Director

Cognizant Business Consulting

Jan 2008 - Present
17 years 6 months
Germany

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 years 1 month
Norway

Innovator, Founder, Entrepreneur and MD

Mobile Innovation AS

Jan 1999 - Dec 2005
6 years
Norway

Principal Consultant

PA Consulting Group

Sep 1997 - Dec 1999
2 years 4 months
Germany

Project Manager

Telefonica O2 (VIAG Interkom)

  • Employee of Telenor Norway.
Jan 1994 - Aug 1997
2 years 8 months
Norway

Consultant

Accenture

May 1992 - Aug 1993
1 year 4 months
Oslo, Norway

IT Coordinator

Bjerke Borough of Oslo

Jan 1990 - May 1992
2 years 5 months
Norway

Software Developer

Den Norske Hypotekforening

Jan 1990 - May 1992
2 years 5 months
Norway

Software Developer

Miros A/S

Summary

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

Languages

Norwegian
Native
dk
Advanced
English
Advanced
German
Advanced
Northern Sami
Advanced

Education

Sep 1993 - Oct 1994

Bayes Business School

MBA · IT and Management · London, United Kingdom

Aug 1986 - Nov 1989

University of Oslo

MSc · Computer Science · Oslo, Norway

Aug 1984 - Jun 1986

University of Østfold

BSc · SW Development · Norway

Certifications & licenses

ISACA Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)

ISACA

Professional Scrum Master

Prince 2 Practitioner