Gazi Barut

Senior IT Architect, SAP, SAP BTP Architect, CPI Senior Consultant and Architect

Cologne, Germany

Experience

Apr 2021 - Apr 2024
3 years 1 month
Germany

Senior IT Architect, SAP, SAP BTP Architect, CPI Senior Consultant and Architect

Uniper Corporate IT

Development and implementation of IT architectures for:

  • Business-critical applications

  • BCM/ITSCM

  • SAP, BTP and S/4 HANA

  • Azure

  • Interfaces

  • IT infrastructure in accordance with the Uniper security guidelines and compliance policies

  • IT Cloud Infrastructure Management:**

  • Requirements management and SLA definition for critical SAP and non-SAP applications and infrastructures based on the Key Production Environment (KPE) algorithm.

  • Creation of a conceptual target architecture in accordance with Uniper security guidelines and compliance policies.

  • Creation of agile project plans for migration.

  • Risk management and vulnerability analysis.

  • Development of training content and e-learnings for application managers and business application owners.

  • Establishment and optimization of risk management processes for applications and assets.

  • Creation of action catalogs, architectures, and ITSCM/emergency plans.

  • Identification and coordination of internal and external partners.

  • Development of BCM/ITSCM concepts and IT infrastructure architectures for business-critical applications according to Azure Cloud, SAP BTP and Uniper governance frameworks.

  • Development, documentation, and implementation of ITSCM/emergency plans in accordance with disaster recovery (DR) patterns and classes.

  • Creation of training materials and coordination of BCM and ITSCM training sessions.

  • Testing, simulation (including cyberattack scenarios), and optimization of BCM and ITSCM plans and IT architectures.

  • Ongoing training of management and staff in IT architectures, operating models, SAP BTP, as well as BCM and emergency plans.

  • Technical Lead of the SAP Services Team:**

  • Management and coordination of external vendors, service owners and application managers in accordance with SLAs and contracts.

  • Development and implementation of ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change, SLM, IT Security, Provider Management, ITSCM, Asset and Configuration Management).

  • Training of internal and external service providers, service managers and application managers in ITSM processes.

  • Optimization of IT service contracts and OLAs.

  • Updating the service catalog in collaboration with stakeholders.

  • Regular communication and escalation of issues between stakeholders.

  • Definition of responsibilities and monitoring of SLA criteria, including RPO and RTO.

  • Conducting root cause analysis and coordination among stakeholders.

  • Partial release manager for SAP ERP releases.

  • Migration Tasks:**

  • Requirements management:

  • Identification of IT infrastructures, applications, human resources and OKRs for migration.

  • Budget and financial planning.

  • Risk management:

  • Identification of potential risks and development of countermeasures.

  • Transformation activities and migration:

  • Definition and execution of transformation and migration plans.

  • Reporting:

  • Weekly reporting to the Uniper vice president and senior management.

  • Project management tools:

  • Maintenance of project plans and backlogs in Jira and Azure DevOps.

  • Stakeholder management:

  • Coordination of up to 50 internal and external stakeholders.

  • Workshops & meetings:

  • Preparation and delivery of trainings, meetings and workshops.

  • Quality assurance:

  • Definition of quality gateways and monitoring.

  • Test Management:**

  • Creation & documentation of test plans.

  • Evaluation of potential test risks.

  • Identification of stakeholders for test plans.

  • Documentation of test scenarios.

  • Definition of possible error categories.

  • Definition of quality gateways for test scenarios.

  • Coordination and execution of tests.

Business Area: Energy Method/Standards/Software: MS Project, ITIL® V3/V4, Enterprise Architecture Management Framework (TOGAF), ServiceNow, Symbio, Azure, SAP BTP, SAP CPI, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, ISO 27000, Linux and Windows Server, Jira, Confluence, SAP FieldGlass (SaaS for time tracking)

Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
2 years 5 months
Germany

Solution Architect, EAM IT Architect, Technical Project Manager, SAP Architect, ITIL® V3/V4 Expert

Uniper Corporate IT

Migration from on-premise to Azure cloud operation of business-critical SAP and non-SAP applications as well as IT infrastructure. Design, development and implementation of SLAs for external service providers. Development and implementation of a decommissioning guide for legacy systems.

  • IT Cloud Infrastructure Management:**

  • Support in decommissioning legacy systems such as databases, applications (SAP), servers and IT infrastructures migrated to Azure.

  • Design and implementation of IT architectures in Azure and SAP Cloud.

  • IT Project Management Tasks:**

  • Creation and management of projects for migrating SAP applications to Azure.

  • Identification of potential risks and development of countermeasures.

  • Weekly reporting to the Uniper vice president and senior management.

  • IT Service Management (ITSM) Tasks:**

  • Definition, design and implementation of an operating concept in ServiceNow for SAP and business-critical applications.

  • Continuous development and optimization of the operating concept.

  • Identification of external and internal stakeholders responsible for operating models.

  • Development and optimization of the service catalog.

  • Development, definition and implementation of SLAs.

  • Identification, management and coordination of external partners.

  • Implementation of Continual Service Improvement (CSI).

  • Documentation of technical requirements, cost control.

  • Optimization and improvement of IT service management & enterprise architecture management (EAM) in Uniper Corporate IT.

  • Design, development and agreement of SLAs.

  • Coordination and management of external and internal providers according to contracts and SLAs.

  • Preparation of tender documents for contract awards.

  • Support in compliance, audit, contract management & internal controls.

Industry: Energy Method/Standards/Software: ITIL® V3/V4, Scrum, Kanban, COBIT/IT Control, Enterprise Architecture Management, ServiceNow, Azure, SAP Solution Manager /CharRM, SAP Fiori, SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise, SAP GRC, SAP BTP, Splunk Enterprise, ISO 27000

May 2018 - Jun 2018
2 months
Germany

Process Analyst and Designer, IT Security Expert

Siemens

Continuous IT service improvement for IT security (CSIP for IT Security). Project for improvement and optimization of security patch management processes.

  • Tasks as Process Designer and QA Specialist with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0):**
  • As-is and to-be analysis of IT security patch management processes.
  • Design of existing patch management processes.
  • Quality control for security patch management processes.
  • Quality control for process roles and RASCI matrix.

Industry: Technology Method/Standards/Software: BPMN, ITIL, ISO 27001/27005, UML, Bizagi, yEd, draw.io

Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
5 months
Germany

IT Service Management and ITIL Specialist, Process Designer, Business Analyst

Vodafone

IT service management solution architect and process designer for the subprojects “One Call Steering (1CA) and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)” and Vodafone governance program.

  • Project 1: IT Service Management processes for Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP) in BI Vodafone Kabel Deutschland**

  • Project 2: Implementation of the EU GDPR in Business Data Warehouse**

  • Role in Project 1: Solution Architect for ITIL Service Transition and Service Operation Processes:**

  • GAP analysis for Service Transition and Service Operation processes.

  • As-is analysis of stakeholders.

  • As-is analysis of deployed ITSM applications.

  • As-is analysis of RACI matrix.

  • As-is analysis of KPIs and service reports.

  • Design and implementation of an operating model (Service Operation) for EDSP.

  • Design and implementation of the to-be state.

  • Design and implementation of release and deployment management.

  • Design and implementation of incident management.

  • Scope of the GAP analysis and solution design:**

  • Deployment Management

  • Change Management

  • Request Fulfillment

  • Problem Management

  • Incident Management

  • Application Management

  • Operations Control and Event Management

  • Operational Steering

  • Request & Order Management

  • Supplier & Partner Management

  • Service Catalog Management

  • Service Level Management

  • IAM Management

  • Service Introduction Management

  • Release Introduction Management

  • Technical Management

  • Major Incident

  • Security Management

  • Access Management

  • Disaster and Recovery

  • Role in Project 2: Business Process Designer for Art. 65 “Right to Erasure”**

  • Design and implementation of the business process for GDPR Articles 17 and 21.

  • Design and implementation of policies.

  • Design and implementation of technical and organizational measures (TOMs).

  • UAT and training.

Industry: Telecommunications / Vodafone Method/Standards/Software: ITIL® V3, EU GDPR, UML, SWOT, BPMN, Enterprise Data Warehouse and BI (based on Oracle Linux, PL/SQL and Oracle GoldenGate), Remedy, Visio, draw.io, Jira, HP ALM, MS Office

Nov 2017 - Present
7 years 9 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Enterprise Analyst, Contract Manager, Service Level Manager, Process Designer

HSBC

Commissioning of the SAP Payment Engine (PE) at HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG.

  • Tasks as Service Level Manager, Contract Manager and Process Designer:**
  • Definition and setup of a service catalog.
  • Definition and documentation of incident management categories.
  • Definition and documentation of SLA measurement procedures.
  • Development and documentation of an impact analysis matrix for incident management.
  • Development and documentation of a service/operating model for SAP PE.
  • Development and documentation of the service contract.
  • Development and documentation of data protection criteria according to EU GDPR.

Industry: IT Service Provider / Banking Method/Standards/Software: ITIL® V3, EU GDPR

Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
2 years
Walldorf, Germany

Technical Project Manager, Process Analyst, Process Designer, Process Manager, Business and Data Analyst

SAP

IT service management, DevOps and IT infrastructure management in SAP Product System Delivery (PSD) - DevOps business unit.

  • Tasks as Technical Project Manager and Stream Lead:**

  • As-is and to-be analysis of PSD IT infrastructure according to SAP Cloud Delivery (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), corporate acquisition (Sybase acquisition by SAP) and agile guidelines.

  • Setting up the landscape conversion project worldwide.

  • Migration of Sybase physical servers to SAP data center.

  • Definition, preparation and moderation of the landscape conversion project plan and solution approach.

  • Definition and implementation of controlling and accounting attributes.

  • Definition of stakeholders and a project organization.

  • Coordination of periodic workshops and project meetings.

  • Status reporting to stakeholders.

  • Project closure.

  • Operational tasks as interim IT manager to ensure operations for certain SAP products:**

  • Coordination and leadership of post mortem, root cause analysis, security incidents and major incident meetings with external and internal vendors.

  • Monitoring and reporting of security and major incidents and SLAs to senior management.

  • Coordination and monitoring of final solution implementations.

  • Coordination and leadership of MoD meetings.

  • Development and implementation of MoD shift plans.

  • Tasks as Process Designer and Trainer in GLDS:**

  • As-is and to-be analysis of IT and operational processes and procedures.

  • Design, development, optimization and rollout of the following IT processes/procedures according to SAP Cloud Delivery (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and agile guidelines:

  • Major Incident and IT Service Continuity Management

  • Validation and Verification process

  • Follow-the-Sun MoD concept

  • Postmortem process

  • Escalation notification procedure

  • Operational improvement procedures according to ITIL

  • Training of staff in ITIL and service management.

  • Tasks as Open Source Products & SW Developer:**

  • Identification of open source products for HANA development.

  • Installation and testing of open source products.

  • Introduction of potential open source products.

  • Maintenance and operation of products.

Industry: Software Manufacturer / SAP Walldorf Method/Standards/Software: ITIL, ISO 27001/27005, COBIT, SCRUM, UML, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Basis, SAP Fiori, SAP Solution Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Eclipse Neon, SAP HANA Studio Add-On for Eclipse, MaxDB, Jira, MS Office, MS Project, Signavio, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, SOLMAN

Jan 2015 - May 2015
5 months
Germany

Technical Project Manager, Process Analyst, Business Analyst, IT Architect

VW (Volkswagen/Bechtle)

Volkswagen/Bechtle – Establishment of a SW Package Factory.

  • Tasks as IT Architect:**

  • As-is capture and analysis of existing IT and business processes as well as IT infrastructure and applications.

  • Definition of the to-be state of the SW Factory for VW.

  • Establishment of a SW Package Factory within different operating models under a service contract and solution concept.

  • Tasks as Technical Project Manager:**

  • Project planning and execution of contract deliverables within the SW Package Factory solution.

  • Establishment of a SW Package Factory service organization.

  • Successful project completion.

  • Tasks as Process Designer and Business Analyst:**

  • Adaptation, coordination and documentation of operational and control processes according to the outsourcing contract (VW/Bechtle) for the SW Package Factory.

  • Establishment, implementation and coordination of agreed processes and SLAs.

  • Integration of the SW Package Factory into the incident management process.

Industry: Automotive Software: Altiris, Wise Package Studio, PowerShell, VMware, SCCM, MS SharePoint, Project 2013, Visio Prof., Office 2013, Enterprise Helpdesk (Peregrine/HP Service Manager)

Apr 2012 - Dec 2015
2 years 9 months
Walldorf, Germany

ITIL®, Process & Security Consultant, Designer, Business Analyst

SAP

Programs and projects with the following focuses for SAP customers in Walldorf and ROT. Technical solutions and implementation of compliance and security requirements according to SOX/SOC1/2, EU GDPR, SAP Cloud Delivery data center operations and ISO 27001:2005 in processes. Process design/optimization, process and service modeling, IT process maturity, IT value creation modeling, business process analysis (software procurement & licensing).

  • Tasks as IT Security Consultant:**
  • Requirements analysis and coordination of customer workshops.
  • Design, development, implementation & documentation of the following IT processes according to SOX, SOC1/2, ISO 27001:2005 compliance, cloud delivery (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), EU GDPR and SAP risk and security framework:
  • Service Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
  • IT Demand Management
  • Service Catalog Management
  • Backup and Restore
  • E2E Client SW Delivery
  • IT Security/Incident Management
  • Emergency and IT Service Continuity Management
  • User Access and Identity Management
  • Malware Management
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Network & Communication
  • SW Compliance
  • IT Change Management Processes
  • IT Security Management Process
  • Optimization and implementation of SOC 1/2 and SOX controls in:
  • Backup and Restore
  • IT Security Incident
  • Malware Management
  • Security Patch Management
  • User Access & Identity Management
  • Change Management
  • BCM/ITSCM

Industry: Software Manufacturer / SAP Walldorf Method/Standards/Software: SAP HANA, SAP Basis, SAP Solution Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Signavio, Sophos, McAfee, Oracle, MaxDB, Jira, MS Office

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
2 years
Germany

Lead IT Architect, Project Manager, Release Manager

Henkel

Outsourcing and global operation for SAP and job scheduling – HENKEL.

  • Tasks as Technical Project Manager and IT Architect:**
  • As-is capture and analysis of existing IT and business processes as well as IT infrastructure across data centers.
  • Definition and validation of the to-be state.
  • Development of a migration and transition concept according to the to-be state to transfer job scheduling from four different service providers to one.
  • Development of a project plan for execution.
  • Definition and setup of an operating organization in Hungary.
  • Development of an end-to-end migration solution (from AutoSys, UC4 to Tivoli Workload Scheduler).
  • Development of a transition and rollout plan.
  • Creation and definition of release guidelines, test scenarios and user acceptance criteria (UAT).

Industry: Chemical Industry / HENKEL USA/DE/HU/AT Software: SAP (FI, CO, HR), AutoSys, Oracle, Unix AIX, SAN, UC4, Tivoli Workload Scheduler

May 2009 - Dec 2009
8 months
Germany

Lead Architect, Process Designer, Service Manager

BMW Bank

Service management and ITSCM concept according to ITIL® V2/V3 for business-critical applications – BMW Bank.

  • Capture of existing BMW Bank business and IT processes.
  • Definition of the as-is state of existing BMW Bank business and IT processes.
  • Definition and alignment of a to-be service support and service delivery model for outtasking business-critical applications.
  • Preparation and moderation of workshops for delivery models.
  • Design, development and implementation of processes for service support and service delivery according to the contract and alignment.
  • Design, development and implementation of BCM/IT service continuity management and identity/access management processes.
  • Design, development and implementation of SLAs and OLAs according to contract management.

Industry: Banking / BMW Bank Software: Business-critical banking applications and SAP, Remedy

Oct 2008 - Jan 2009
4 months
Turkey

Consultant, Solution Architect and ITIL® Expert

Vadafone Turkey

IT service catalog

  • Customer consulting regarding the IT service catalog.
  • Creation of an IT service catalog for billing and sales business areas.

Industry: Telecommunications / Vadafone Turkey

Mar 2008 - Oct 2008
8 months
Germany

Consultant, Solution Architect, ITIL® Expert and Designer

Deutsche Bank

ITIL® V3 release and deployment management

  • Design, development and implementation of a release and deployment process.
  • Design and development of an operational organization for release and deployment.
  • Conceptualization of tool support for release and deployment management processes.
  • Coordination and facilitation of alignment workshops.
  • Creation of test scenarios and training materials.

Industry: Banking / Deutsche Bank Software: Visio, Rational Method Composer 7.2, Maximo 7.2, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes

Aug 2007 - Sep 2007
2 months
Germany

Consultant, Improvement Program Manager

Merck

Service improvement program and IT optimization

  • Service desk optimization.
  • Quality management and KPI definition.
  • Implementation and monitoring of KPIs.

Industry: Pharma / Merck Software: Remedy

Feb 2007 - Aug 2007
7 months

Consultant, Solution Architect, ITIL® Expert & Designer

Nordea Bank

BCM/ITSCM process design and implementation

  • Ensuring IT continuity in case of a disaster.
  • Design and implementation of BCM/ITSCM according to ITIL®.
  • Development of an IT emergency plan.
  • Development of test scenarios.
  • Implementation and testing of the IT emergency plan.

Industry: Banking / Nordea (Scandinavia) Software: Business-critical banking applications, Visio, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes

Jan 2007 - Feb 2007
2 months
Dresden, Germany

Consultant

AMD

Security management solution for user profiles based on ISO 17799

  • Presentation of a security management solution in accordance with ISO 17799 specifications.

Industry: Chip Industry / AMD Dresden

Jan 2005 - Jan 2007
1 year 1 month

Solution Architect, Process Designer and ITIL® Expert

Nordea Bank

Availability & capacity management

  • Design and implementation of availability & capacity management processes.
  • Ensuring and planning the availability and capacity of business-critical applications (online banking).
  • Development of a solution for IT availability and capacity.
  • Design and development of algorithms for calculating availability, capacity and performance.

Industry: Banking / Nordea Software: Business-critical banking applications, Visio, eESM, Unix AIX, IBM DB2, SAP, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes

Sep 2005 - Sep 2005
1 month
Germany

Consultant and ITIL® Expert

Unger

ITIL® v2 consulting

Industry: Automotive Supplier / Unger

Mar 2005 - Sep 2005
7 months

Solution Architect, Process Designer and ITIL® Expert

Nordea Bank

Change management process design/implementation

  • Development and implementation of the change management process.
  • Documentation of the process.
  • Creation of training materials for the process.
  • Creation of test scenarios and user acceptance criteria (UAT) for eESM.

Industry: Banking / Nordea Software: Business-critical banking applications, Visio, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes, eESM (IBM Incident, Problem, Change and Asset Management Tool)

Jan 2004 - May 2005
5 months

Consultant and ITIL® Expert

Nordea Bank

SLA

  • Introduction of service level agreement process.
  • Definition of KPIs and maturity levels.
  • Review of the solution.

Industry: Banking / Nordea Software: Business-critical banking applications, Visio, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes, eESM (IBM Incident, Problem, Change and Asset Management Tool)

Jul 2004 - Jan 2005
7 months

Consultant, Security Management and ITIL® Expert

Nordea Bank

Security management

  • Introduction and design of security management frameworks.
  • Documentation of security processes.
  • Creation of training materials for the processes.
  • Rollout of security processes.

Industry: Banking / Nordea Software: Business-critical banking applications, Visio, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes, eESM (IBM Incident, Problem, Change and Asset Management Tool)

Jan 2004 - Jul 2004
7 months

Consultant, ITIL® Expert & Process Designer

Nordea Bank

ITIL® v2 incident and problem management

  • Design of ITIL v2 incident and problem management processes.
  • Documentation of the incident and problem management processes.
  • Implementation of incident and problem management processes.

Industry: Banking / Nordea Software: Business-critical banking applications, Visio, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes, eESM (IBM Service Management Tool)

Aug 2003 - Dec 2004
5 months
Germany

Consultant, Remedy and Peregrine Specialist

Audi

Incident management tools selection and implementation

  • Setup of a test environment with Peregrine and Remedy software for the incident management process.
  • Design and customization of test scenarios in the test environment.

Industry: Automotive / Audi Software: Remedy, Peregrine

Jul 2003 - Jul 2003
1 month
Netherlands

Consultant and Trainer

ING Holland

Peregrine IRM Accelerator

  • Consulting on an accelerated ITIL service management solution (IRM-A).

Industry: Banking/Insurance / ING Holland Software: Peregrine

Jan 2003 - Aug 2003
8 months
Switzerland

Consultant and Solution Architect

Novartis

Knowledge management

  • Development and implementation of the knowledge management process.
  • Implementation and customization of WriteAnswer, SearchNow tools.

Industry: Pharmaceutical / Novartis Software: WriteAnswer, SearchNow, HelpNow, eESM

Sep 2002 - Nov 2002
3 months
Germany

Consultant

Telekom Germany

IT service support

  • Consulting on the development and implementation of the service support process.
  • ITSM tools selection.

Industry: IT Service Provider / Telekom Germany Software: Peregrine, Remedy, USU

Jan 2002 - Dec 2017
16 years

ITIL® / Instructor

IBM, Skill:Form, it-point

Worldwide training

  • Accredited trainer for ITIL®.

Industry: Cross-industry / IBM, Skill:Form, it-point

Jan 2002 - Dec 2011
10 years

Sales Specialist, Solution Architect, Consultant

IBM

Sales, PreSales specialist

  • Generation of solutions, offers and service descriptions.
  • Customer relationship management.

Software: IBM products and service solutions

Jan 2002 - Sep 2002
9 months
Germany

Process Designer and EMEA Change Manager

Visteon Germany

Change management

  • Development and implementation of the change management process.
  • EMEA change manager.

Industry: Automotive / Visteon Germany Software: eESM

Jan 1998 - Jan 2002
3 years 1 month
Turkey

System Management Specialist, Service Management Specialist, Developer

Various Clients

  • Switzerland (insurance, banking, pharmaceuticals), Netherlands (banking, insurance), Turkey (banking), Austria (insurance, hospitals), Germany (armed forces, BWI and Federal Employment Agency), Czech Republic (automotive).
  • System management (Tivoli monitoring, event correlation, inventory, software distribution, security).
  • Software development (C, C++, Shell, Java).
  • Development of a performance measurement method with C++.
  • Implementation of service management tools (Tivoli).
  • Network topology design and implementation.
  • Software packaging.
  • Database design and implementation.

Industry: Cross-industry Software: USU, Peregrine, Remedy, Tivoli, MS MFC C++

Languages

German
Native
Arabic
Advanced
English
Advanced
Turkish
Intermediate

Education

University of Cologne

Doctor of Physics · Physics · Cologne, Germany

Certifications & licenses

ITIL V4 Foundation

IHK Certified IT Trainer

IHK

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Splunk Certified Power User

Splunk

Design and Leverage of Business Processes

Managing Consultant

IBM

ITIL® V3 Expert

ITIL® Service Management Instructor Training and EXIN Certification

EXIN

ITIL® Service Management Education and EXIN Certification

EXIN

IBM Signature Selling Education and Certification

IBM

ITIL® Foundation and EXIN Certification

EXIN

Peregrine Service Desk Education and Certification

Peregrine