Gazi Barut

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

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Cologne, Germany

Experience

Apr 2021 - Apr 2024
3 years 1 month

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

Uniper Corporate IT

  • Developing and implementing IT architectures for business-critical applications, BCM/ITSCM, SAP, BTP and S/4HANA, Azure, interfaces and IT infrastructure according to 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 algorithm; creating a conceptual target architecture; creating agile project plans for migration; risk management and vulnerability analysis; developing training content and e-learnings; establishing and optimizing risk management processes; creating action catalogs, architectures and ITSCM/emergency plans; identifying and managing internal and external partners

  • Developing BCM/ITSCM concepts and IT infrastructure architectures for business-critical applications according to Azure Cloud, SAP BTP and Uniper governance frameworks; documenting and implementing ITSCM/emergency plans in line with disaster recovery patterns; creating training materials and coordinating training sessions; testing, simulating and optimizing BCM/ITSCM plans and IT architectures; ongoing training of management and staff on IT architectures, operating models, SAP BTP as well as BCM and emergency plans

  • Technical lead of the SAP services team: Managing and coordinating external vendors, service owners and application managers; developing and implementing ITSM processes (incident, problem, change, SLM, IT security, provider management, ITSCM, asset and configuration management); training internal and external service providers and service managers; optimizing IT service contracts and OLAs; updating the service catalog; communicating and escalating issues; defining responsibilities and monitoring SLA criteria; conducting root cause analysis; partly acting as release manager for SAP ERP releases

  • Migration: Requirements management, budget and financial planning; risk management; defining and implementing transformation and migration plans; weekly reporting to Uniper vice presidents and senior management; maintaining project plans and backlogs in Jira and Azure DevOps; managing up to 50 internal and external stakeholders; workshops and meetings; quality assurance: defining quality gateways and monitoring

  • Test management: Creating and documenting test plans; evaluating test risks; identifying stakeholders for test plans; documenting test scenarios; defining error categories and quality gateways; coordinating and executing tests

Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
2 years 5 months

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

Uniper Corporate IT

  • Migration from on-premises to Azure Cloud and operation of business-critical SAP and non-SAP applications as well as IT infrastructure

  • Designing, developing and implementing SLAs for external service providers; designing and implementing a decommissioning guide for legacy systems

  • IT cloud infrastructure management: Supporting the decommissioning of legacy systems (databases, applications, servers); designing and implementing IT architectures in Azure and SAP Cloud

  • IT project management: Planning and leading the migration of SAP applications to Azure; identifying potential risks and developing countermeasures; weekly reporting to Uniper vice presidents and senior management

  • ITSM: Defining, designing and implementing an operating concept in ServiceNow for SAP and business-critical applications; continuously developing and optimizing the operating concept; identifying and managing external partners; developing and optimizing the service catalog and SLAs; implementing continual service improvement; documenting technical requirements, cost control; coordinating external and internal providers; preparing tender documents; supporting compliance, audit, contract management and internal controls

May 2018 - Jun 2018
2 months

Process Analyst and Designer, IT Security Expert

Siemens

  • Continuous IT service improvement for IT security (CSIP for IT Security), optimizing security patch management processes

  • As-is and to-be analysis of IT security patch management processes; designing existing processes; quality control for security patch management processes; quality control for process roles and RASCI matrix

Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
5 months

IT Service Management Solution Architect and Process Designer

Vodafone

  • Project 1 (“One Call Steering”): Solution for ITIL service transition and service operation processes on the Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP); gap analysis, as-is analyses (stakeholders, applications, RACI matrix, KPIs and service reports); designing and implementing the operating model, release & deployment management, incident management and other ITSM processes according to the gap analysis scope

  • Project 2 (EU GDPR Art. 65 “Right to Erasure”): Business process design for Art. 17 and Art. 21; designing and implementing policies and technical and organizational measures (TOMs); UAT and training

Nov 2017 - Present
8 years 3 months

Service Level Manager, Contract Manager and Process Designer

HSBC-Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG

  • Commissioning of the SAP Payment Engine (PE)

  • Defining and setting up a service catalog; defining and documenting incident management categories; defining the measurement method for SLAs; impact analysis matrix for incident management

  • Developing service/operating models for SAP PE; creating service contracts; defining data protection criteria according to EU GDPR

Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
2 years

Technical Project Lead and Stream Lead

SAP Product System Delivery (PSD)

  • As-is and to-be analysis of the PSD IT infrastructure according to SAP Cloud Delivery, corporate acquisition and agile guidelines

  • Setting up the landscape conversion project worldwide; migrating Sybase servers to the SAP data center

  • Defining and facilitating the project plan and solution approach; implementing controlling and accounting attributes; defining stakeholders and project organization; coordinating workshops; status reporting; project closure

  • Interim IT manager: coordinating post-mortems, root cause analyses, security incidents and major incidents; monitoring and reporting security issues, major incidents and SLAs; coordinating final solutions and MoD meetings; developing MoD shift schedules

  • Process design and training: as-is and to-be analysis of IT and operational processes; designing, optimizing and rolling out major incident, IT service continuity, validation/verification, follow-the-sun, postmortem and escalation procedures; operational improvement procedures according to ITIL; education and training in ITIL and service management

  • Open source development: identifying, installing, testing, deploying, maintaining and operating open source products for HANA development

Jan 2015 - May 2015
5 months

IT Architect, Technical Project Lead, Process Designer and Business Analyst

Volkswagen/Bechtle

  • Building a SW Package Factory: as-is assessment and analysis of IT, business processes, infrastructure and applications; defining the target state; establishing a service organization and achieving successful project closure

  • Project management: planning and executing contract deliverables; integrating the SW Package Factory into the incident management process

  • Process design and business analysis: adapting, aligning and documenting operational and control processes according to the outsourcing agreement; SLA implementation

Apr 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 9 months

IT Security Consultant

SAP

  • Technical solutions and implementation of compliance and security requirements (SOX/SOC1/2, EU GDPR, ISO 27001:2005) in SAP Cloud Delivery data center processes

  • Process design, optimization and service modeling; maturity assessment and business process analysis (software procurement & licensing)

  • Requirements analysis and coordination of customer workshops

  • Designing, implementing and documenting IT processes (service portfolio, risk, demand, service catalog, backup & restore, client SW delivery, IT security/incident, emergency & continuity, IAM, malware, intrusion detection, network & communication, SW compliance, change, security management)

  • Optimizing and implementing SOC 1/2 and SOX controls (backup, security incident, patch management, IAM, change management, BCM/ITSCM)

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
2 years

Technical Project Lead and IT Architect

Henkel

  • Outsourcing and global operations for SAP and job scheduling: as-is assessment and analysis of IT, business processes and infrastructure; defining and validating the target state

  • Developing migration and transition concepts for job scheduling consolidation; project planning; setting up an operations organization in Hungary; developing a complete solution (AutoSys/UC4 to Tivoli Workload Scheduler); transition and rollout plans; release guidelines, test scenarios and UAT criteria

May 2009 - Dec 2009
8 months

Lead Architect, Process Designer and Service Manager

BMW Bank

  • Service management and ITSCM concept based on ITIL V2/V3 for business-critical applications: capturing the as-is state; defining service support and service delivery models; facilitating workshops

  • Designing and implementing service support, service delivery, BCM/ITSCM and IAM processes; designing and implementing SLAs and OLAs

Oct 2008 - Jan 2009
4 months

Consultant, Solution Architect and ITIL Expert

Vodafone Turkey

  • Consulting and creation of an IT service catalog for billing and sales
Mar 2008 - Oct 2008
8 months

Consultant, Solution Architect and ITIL Expert

Deutsche Bank

  • Design, development and implementation of release & deployment management processes; setting up the operations organization; tool design; coordination workshops; creation of test scenarios and training materials
Aug 2007 - Sep 2007
2 months

Consultant and Improvement Program Manager

Merck

  • Service Desk optimization; quality management and KPI definition; implementation and monitoring of KPIs
Feb 2007 - Aug 2007
7 months

Consultant, Solution Architect and ITIL Expert & Designer

Nordea Bank

  • BCM/ITSCM process design and implementation according to ITIL; development of IT disaster recovery plans and test scenarios; implementation and testing of the IT disaster recovery plan
Jan 2007 - Feb 2007
2 months

Consultant

AMD Dresden

  • Presentation of a security management solution based on ISO 17799
Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
1 year 1 month

Solution Architect, Process Designer and ITIL Expert

Nordea Bank

  • Design and implementation of availability & capacity management processes for business-critical applications; development of availability and capacity calculation algorithms
Sep 2005 - Sep 2005
1 month

Consultant and ITIL Expert

Unger

  • ITIL V2 consulting
Mar 2005 - Sep 2005
7 months

Solution Architect, Process Designer and ITIL Expert

Nordea Bank

  • Change management process design and implementation; documentation; training materials; test scenarios and UAT criteria for eESM
Jan 2005 - May 2005
5 months

Consultant and ITIL Expert

Nordea Bank

  • Introduction of service level agreements; definition of KPIs and maturity levels; solution review
Jul 2004 - Jan 2005
7 months

Security Management Consultant and ITIL Expert

Nordea Bank

  • Design and introduction of security management frameworks; documentation and rollout of security processes; creation of training materials
Jan 2004 - Jul 2004
7 months

Consultant, ITIL Expert & Process Designer

Nordea Bank

  • Design and implementation of ITIL V2 incident and problem management processes; documentation
Aug 2003 - Dec 2003
5 months

Consultant, Remedy and Peregrine Specialist

Audi

  • Selection and implementation of incident management tools (Peregrine, Remedy); setup of test environment; design of test scenarios
Jul 2003 - Jul 2003
1 month

Consultant and Trainer

ING Holland

  • Consulting on an accelerated ITIL service management approach (IRM Accelerator)
Jan 2003 - Aug 2003
8 months

Consultant and Solution Architect

Novartis

  • Development and implementation of knowledge management processes; implementation and customization of WriteAnswer, SearchNow and HelpNow
Jan 2002 - Dec 2017
16 years

ITIL Trainer

ITIL Training

  • Accredited trainer for ITIL® worldwide

Skills

  • Industry: Energy, Technology, Telecommunications, Banking, Software Vendors, Automotive Industry, Insurance, Chemical And Pharmaceutical Industry, It Service Providers, Public Institutions

  • Methods/standards: Operational Excellence, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Project Management, Itil® V2/v3/v4, Nist Cybersecurity Framework, It Forensic, Cobit, Lean (Six Sigma) Management, Deming Quality Management Method, Iso 20000, Iso/iec 27001:2005 (17779), Ibm Global Services Methods, Issue-based Techniques, Ibm Deep Blue C, Information Technology Process Model (Itpm), Uml, Ibm Unified Method Framework, Rational Unified Process, Capability Maturity Model (Cmm), Business Process Model And Notation (Bpmn 2.0)

  • Sw/os/cloud Knowledge: Open Source Products & Software, Linux (Suse, Ubuntu, Debian), Windows Server, Azure, Servicenow, Sap Btp, Sap Erp On-premises, Sap S/4hana, Office 365, Symbio, Draw.io, Kubernetes, Mysql, Jira, Confluence, Azure Devops, Splunk, Hp Alm

  • Special Knowledge: Development Of It Infrastructures, Interface And Application Architectures Considering Governance, Security, Standard And Regulatory Requirements

  • Conducting Requirements Analysis And Requirements Management

  • Designing Cloud, On-premises And Hybrid It Infrastructures As Well As Interface And Application Architectures

  • Implementing Architectures For Test, Development And Production Environments

  • Optimizing Existing It Architectures

  • Creating Test Concepts For Migrations And System Transitions

  • Developing Test Plans, Error Categories And Quality Gateways (Test Passed: Yes/no)

  • Planning And Executing Tests

  • Requirements Analysis And Requirements Management

  • Designing Cloud, On-premises And Hybrid It Infrastructures, Interface And Application Architectures

  • Optimizing It Architectures

  • Creating Test Concepts For Migrations

  • Creating Test Plans, Error Categories And Quality Gateways (Test Passed: Yes/no)

  • Executing Tests

  • Stream Lead & Technical Lead: Coordinating And Managing Internal And External Service Providers

  • Developing And Implementing Service And Support Models

  • Coordinating And Managing Escalations And Major Incidents

  • Migration Management & Migration Coordination: Creating And Managing Agile And Traditional Migration Plans

  • Executing Migration Plans Using Classic Or Agile Project Management In Jira

  • Creating Test Concepts And Plans For Migrations

  • Itsm & Itil®: Itsm And Enterprise Architecture Management (Eam) Solutions

  • Designing, Developing And Implementing Itsm Processes

  • Service Asset And Configuration Management

  • It, Itsm & Itil® Training And Creating Knowledge Bases, Training Materials And Wiki Documentation

  • Outsourcing And Outtasking Contract Management According To Itil® V2/v3/v4

  • Information Security: Defining, Developing And Auditing It Controls For Information Security

  • Creating Reports For Audited Security Controls

  • Developing And Implementing An Information Security Management System (Isms) According To Iso 27000

  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: Developing And Implementing Business Continuity Management (Bcm) And It Service Continuity Management (Itscm) For Complex It Environments

  • Designing And Testing It Emergency Plans For Business-critical Applications, Including Sap

  • Sap, Cloud & Sap Btp License Management: It Architecture For Sap, Sap Cloud Products And Azure

  • Operational Responsibility For Various Sap Modules And Sap Btp

  • Analyzing And Evaluating Sap Erp Solutions

  • Managing And Coordinating External And Internal Teams As Service Manager For Sap Operations

  • Advising On Sap Btp License Management

  • Risk Management And Process Optimization: It Risk And Security Management, Data Analysis And Modeling

  • It/business Process Design, Reengineering And Optimization

  • Developing And Implementing A Service Catalog

Languages

Arabic
Advanced
English
Advanced
Turkish
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

University of Cologne

PhD in Physics · Physics · Cologne, Germany

Certifications & licenses

IHK Certified IT Trainer

Splunk Certified Power User

Design and Leverage of Business Processes

Managing Consultant

ITIL® V3 Expert

ITIL® Service Management Instructor Training and EXIN Certification

ITIL® Service Management Education and EXIN Certification

IBM Signature Selling Education and Certification

ITIL® Foundation and EXIN Certification

Peregrine Service Desk Education and Certification (Certified Application Engineer)

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