Lothar Hinsche - Digital Strategist, System Architect, Change Manager

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Ditzingen, Germany

Experience

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024

2 years

Solution Manager

Shell AG and NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH

Investigated proof of concept and refined existing cloud- and IoT-based power plant control solution for certificate management of renewable energy plants (solar, wind, biomass)
Messaging with Kubernetes for large API-connected enterprise applications
Risk and attack vector analysis, software quality and bug assessments
Agile workload scheduling via Jira & Confluence
Evaluated messaging streams (Pub/Sub for MQ and Kafka)
Conducted tests of resilience patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead) and throughput measurement and monitoring, software governors
Designed automated PKI key management for robust network connection with EA design
Integrated API management with IBM API Connect to Kubernetes and with Google Apigee
Performed solution health checks for load burst situations and remediation
Researched and evaluated potential subcontractors in a solution manager coordination role (CIS20 Controls)
Conducted Dread and Stride security assessments

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

1 year

Lead Architect and Coach

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services

Focused on network resilience in transforming an automotive network-redundant solution and financing/leasing buy-back process
Standardized and refactored existing in-house code to a future-proof, extensible resilient system with cloud-native/Kubernetes architecture and PKI as a service hybrid-hosting design
Coordinated and coached the solution architect team

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

2 years

Lead Architect and Consultant

IBM EMEA and DB Systel

Advised on microsegmentation, Zero Trust, security, load balancing, intrusion detection
Transformed API management and implemented real-time log scraping and resilience extension with IBM API Connect, OpenShift, Kubernetes and software resilience patterns
Migrated monolithic solution to hybrid multi-cloud (AWS and Microsoft Azure) with Kubernetes refactoring
Performed risk assessments and Zero Trust-based architecture refinements
Refined consumer APIs with Zero Trust designs and microsegmentation of pods in hybrid cloud hosting
Integrated OAuth, single sign-on, authorization and authentication patterns
Conducted solution health checks for load burst scenarios and proof of concept for robustness and load balancing

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

3 years

Hybrid

Solution Manager and Integration Coach

EnBW Karlsruhe

Led group-wide implementation of a software asset management (SAM) system for hybrid, cloud and on-premise environments (SAP, Oracle, IBM, Office 365, Adobe etc.)
Developed architecture and concept using 12-factor app style
Ran agile cycles, concept presentations and refinement
Coordinated PoC testing, security reviews and rollout for 12,000 AWS, SoftLayer, Google, Azure and private cloud users and data centers
Optimized Microsoft Azure cloud components
Managed transformation with cloud-big-data analytics providers for license optimization
Advised executive and business units
Transformed JEE system modules for auto-deployment in microservice environments with Docker and Kubernetes

Jan 2017 - Dec 2022

6 years

Solution Manager and Transformation Coach

IBM Australia and New Zealand

Transformed banking applications for Westpac AU/NZ and global AWS regions (Ireland and Australia) with low-latency session optimizations, SDN, auto-deployment, load balancing, geo-location awareness, API lifecycle management and monetization
Built proof of concept for cloud-native messaging with SDN and Kubernetes load balancer strategies
Migrated middleware monolith to container-orchestration frameworks
Conducted business logic extraction BPM and enterprise architecture reviews
Coached teams in cloud-native architecture transformation, infrastructure tuning and resilience patterns

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

2 years

Project and Team Coach, Enterprise Architect

Telekom - T-Systems and BMW Bank – BMW Global Financial Services

Led PoC and integration of IBM Business Automation Monitor (BAM) and IBM Integration Bus toolsets for real-time workload and performance monitoring across global financial services modules
Visualized throughput metrics, KPIs and SLA health for BMW Group Financial Services solution
Pre-installed pilots on VMs, conducted load tests and created integration roadmap for BAM implementation
Scoped JEE client advisory on enterprise application cloudification and hybrid-cloud conversion
Sourced, screened, interviewed and coached consultants; prepared hiring and business cases
Managed a team of 24 and established training paths for OpenShift and WSO2

Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

3 years

Enterprise Architect and Cloud Competence Center Lead

Logica / CGI Deutschland

Established cloud competence and EA review centers for transformation of enterprise applications
Advised JEE clients on new architecture approaches and hybrid-cloud enablement of existing JEE applications

Jan 2009 - Dec 2013

5 years

BPM and Cloud Consultant

2Degrees Mobile – New Zealand

Audited JEE enterprise middleware and conducted architectural review and business logic extraction BPM for payment solutions
Introduced change management for new services
Performed BPM reviews and optimizations, middleware health checks (JBoss), application architecture and infrastructure tuning
Delivered BPM, BPMN, ESB, SOA, WS, Lombardi, WSRR, ILOG Rules, ODM and communications products trainings
Provided strategic advice and coaching on BPM introduction above SOA

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

3 years

Auditor and Strategic Consultant

Australian Electoral Commission

Conducted middleware health check (JBoss), application architecture and infrastructure tuning
Improved SOA components and BPM
Audited enterprise architecture and solution design
Tested Java enrollment solution, provided tuning recommendations for infrastructure and server clusters
Refactored enterprise application for BPM design, timing and decoupling
Extracted BPM logic

Jan 2008 - Dec 2023

16 years

Research Fellow

University of Wollongong

Conducted BPM and ODM transformations for enterprise architecture with software resilience patterns
Contributed to Decision Services Lab under Prof. Aditya Ghose

Jan 2005 - Dec 2025

21 years

Digital Strategist, Principal Consultant, CEO and Change Manager

MCS I.T. Services

Kubernetes routing and resilience proof of concept and tests of solutions for network stabilization and redundancy creation
Dread and Stride security assessments
Hybrid cloud hosting refinements
System hardening for clients, backend & datacenter
Routing system refinements within Kubernetes solutions using Tigera Calico and behavioural-profile-logs-based visualization tools for resilience and automation of fallback
Object storage integrations (AWS S3 <-> Google GCS)
Kubernetes platform integrations (AWS EKS <-> Google GKE)
Compute integrations (AWS EC2 <-> Google GCE)
Relational database integrations (AWS RDS <-> Google Cloud SQL)
Clients include IBM, Red Hat, FlightCentre, BMW, Daimler, Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Bahn, Westpac, Vodafone, 2Degrees Mobile, University of Wollongong, T-Systems, EnBW, NEXT Kraftwerke, Shell, BNZ, ASB, Allianz and others

Summary

Digital Strategist, System Architect, Change Manager for Cloud Native BPM and CNA and digital transformation, resilient infrastructures, EA and BPM coach, compliance frameworks and software resilience patterns

Languages

German

Native

English

Native

Education

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