Lothar Hinsche - Solution Manager for PoC investigation and replacement and refinement of an existing cloud and IoT power plant control system

Q: Where is Lothar based?

Lothar is based in Ditzingen, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Lothar speak?

Lothar speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Native) .

Q: How many years of experience does Lothar have?

Lothar has at least 24 years of experience. During this time, Lothar has worked in at least 15 different roles and for 14 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 7 months . Note that Lothar may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Lothar's latest experience?

Lothar's most recent position is Solution Manager for PoC investigation and replacement and refinement of an existing cloud and IoT power plant control system at Shell AG and NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH .

Q: What companies has Lothar worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Lothar has worked for Shell AG and NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH , IBM , Mercedes-Benz Financial Services , IBM EMEA + DB Systel , and EnBW Karlsruhe .

Q: Which industries is Lothar most experienced in?

Lothar is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Professional Services , and Tourism and Hospitality . Lothar also has some experience in Education , Banking and Finance , and Telecommunication .

Q: Which business areas is Lothar most experienced in?

Lothar is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Strategy and Planning , and Research and Development (R&D) . Lothar also has some experience in Project Management , Operations , and Quality Assurance (QA) .

Q: Which industries has Lothar worked in recently?

Lothar has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Professional Services , and Tourism and Hospitality .

Q: Which business areas has Lothar worked in recently?

Lothar has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Strategy and Planning , and Research and Development (R&D) .

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Ditzingen, Germany

Experience

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024

2 years

Germany

Solution Manager for PoC investigation and replacement and refinement of an existing cloud and IoT power plant control system

Shell AG and NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH

Investigated PoC and replaced and refined an existing cloud and IoT power plant control solution for certificate management of renewable energy power plants (solar, wind, biomass, etc.) for the largest European renewable energy power plant operator in this sector, including review of the field-deployed IoT devices and their integration and network connection to enable automated PKI key management.
Messaging with Kubernetes for large API-connected enterprise applications
Risk and Attack Vector Analysis, Software Quality & Bug Assessments
Agile workload scheduling via Jira & Confluence
Evaluation of message streams Pub/Sub for MQ and Kafka.
Various tests with “best design approaches” regarding resilience patterns such as circuit breaker designs, throughput measurement and monitoring, bulkhead governors - for robust enterprise architecture design
Integrated API management with IBM's API Connect into Kubernetes - for platform-agnostic microservices API management designs. Google Apigee
Solution health check approaches for load burst situations and remedies
Researched and evaluated potential subcontractors in the coordinative role as solution manager. CIS20 controls.
DREAD and STRIDE security assessments.

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

1 year

Hybrid

Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud transformations of enterprise solutions

IBM

Kubernetes routing and resilience PoC and tests of solutions for network stabilization and creating redundancy, DREAD and STRIDE security assessments, hybrid cloud hosting refinements, system hardening for clients, backend and datacenter.
Routing system refinements within Kubernetes solutions using Tigera Calico and its network management policies and behavioral profile logs, as well as custom visualization tools for resilience refinement and redundancy of fallback automations.
Clients in the context of energy providers, network operators, banks, insurance companies and automotive.

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

1 year

Lead Architect - coaching and consulting for IoT, backend system hardening and KRITIS transformation

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services

Network resilience focused on transforming an automotive financing and leasing buy-back evaluation enterprise solution with architectural renewal and conversion to a cloud native / Kubernetes-based hybrid hosting design.
Standardized existing code and the evaluation enterprise solution, and migrated the initially in-house-built initial coding solution into a viable, future-proof, scalable, resilient system and solution concept. PKI as a Service.
Coordinated and coached the team of solution architects.
Lead architect - coaching and consulting on microsegmentation, security, load balancing, intrusion detection, as well as on effective log scraping and real-time analysis of threat situations for extending and expanding software resilience.
Created roadmap for implementation into the existing software architecture
Risk assessments and Zero Trust-based architecture refinements of the existing solution
Consumer API refinement via Zero Trust designs and microsegmentation approaches
Technical analysis of the requirements and security context concerning granted access rights and their minimization (need-to-know and least privilege principles)
Integration of API management with IBM's API Connect into Kubernetes - for platform-agnostic microservices API management designs
Solution health check approaches for load burst situations and remedies

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

2 years

API management transformation and dev app migration

IBM EMEA + DB Systel

Transformed API management and dev app migration between departments with associated IBM API Connect resource management, security and cyber risk attack vector assessments and refinements. OpenShift + Kubernetes + software resilience patterns
Transformed partner API integrations, various optional parameters and KPIs – multi-cloud and hybrid refactoring with Kubernetes
Technical analysis of the requirements and security context regarding granted access rights and their minimization
Segmented various in-production consumer APIs, Zero Trust designs, microsegmentation of pod solutions in connection with hybrid cloud hosting.
OAuth, single sign-on, authorization and authentication patterns
Proof of concepts for robustness and load balancing
Integrated API management with IBM's API Connect into Kubernetes - for platform-agnostic microservices API management designs
Solution health check approaches for load burst situations and remedies
Multi-cloud migration of a monolith solution to AWS and Microsoft Azure in a hybrid and multi-cloud context.

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

3 years

Karlsruhe, Germany

Solution Manager + Integration Coach

EnBW Karlsruhe

Company-wide introduction of a software asset management (SAM) system for group-wide and company-wide license monitoring of hybrid-hosted, cloud-based and on-premise installed solution packages (SAP, Oracle, IBM, Office 365, Adobe, etc.).
A cloud-based software asset management is pre-tested as a PoC for the entire group, security-checked and then rolled out to 12,000 end users and all data centers.
Coordinated the overall project as solution manager and then the rollout with service providers, system integrators and all affected stakeholders in data center operations, security teams, networking and smart client delivery, coordinating and managing. Also optimized the Microsoft Azure cloud components of the overall solution.
Company-wide solution transformation together with cloud big data analytics providers for license optimization, working with client teams and commercial and technical departments and stakeholders from all group divisions such as power generation, transportation, administration and billing, on software asset management.
SAM visualization and optimization
Consulting with management and specialist departments
Architecture and concept creation – cloud 12 factor app style – concept pitch rounds / agile cycles / discussions / refinements
Context: elasticity, resilience, composability, separation of stateless, ephemeral transient components from stateful persistent resilient aspects of the application, serverless lambda components, overlay networks, fallback and backup solutions, tunneling and SD-WAN integrations, dynamic path selection, load sharing.
Hybrid mix: AWS, SoftLayer, Google Cloud, Azure, private cloud components + internal datacenter

Jan 2017 - Dec 2022

6 years

Australia

Investigation and creation of an SDN PoC and pilot for a cloud-native messaging application

Westpac AU / NZ

Investigation and creation of an SDN PoC and pilot for a cloud-native messaging application with software-defined networking and load balancing (using Kubernetes, among others) running in various data centers and geolocations worldwide.
Including geo-awareness and load balancing region auto-routing, serverless components, and high resilience.
The system is part of a strategic application – migrated from a former middleware monolith solution – built on relevant container orchestration frameworks in the context of SDN & load-balancing services and container and VM arrangement management systems.
The 'classic' solution approaches via Docker and Docker Swarm were transformed into Kubernetes for its extended performance capabilities, and Kafka was evaluated and used as the messaging and streaming service.
Refinement and modification of the enterprise application in terms of latency, timing, and decoupling.
Creation of the roadmap to achieve optimized ESB usage, more efficient Kubernetes designs, datastore sync optimizations, and the use of resilience checks.
Integration of API lifecycle management solutions from Akana, Red Hat, and IBM (API analytics, API gateway, API management, developer portal, lifecycle manager, IBM API Connect).
Focus on monitoring, SLAs, and monetization.

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

2 years

Germany

Solution Architect for IBM Business Monitor PoC with integration, scaling, and rollout

BMW Bank – BMW Global Financial Services

Proof of concept and integration of IBM’s BAM IIB toolset to monitor real-time workloads, visualize throughput and real-time performance in detail, and display the throughput of the BMW Group Financial Services modules of various national banks, along with achieved KPIs, SLAs, and the overall health status of the operational solution.
Successful PoC execution for BAM, proving the feasibility of the target objectives based on the selected frameworks. Preinstallation of several pilots on different VMs with appropriate load tests.
Creation of an integration roadmap for implementing BAM for the given networking and messaging services (IBM Integration Bus v9 and v10) and for the related workload process monitoring of the cross-country 'Global Connected Financial Services Modules'.
Coaching of developer teams on BAM coordination regarding the affected module integration (blackbox monitoring / whitebox monitoring).
In-depth investigation of IBM Business Monitor’s capabilities in connection with IBM Integration Bus, MQ, and SOAP integrations.
Creation of an implementation roadmap after the successful PoC in coordination with all project partners to implement 24/7 real-time service monitoring and move into rollout.
Coaching and steering of the necessary organizational and architectural change process.

Jan 2014 - Dec 2017

4 years

On-site

Project and team coach and lead, change manager, enterprise architect - T-Onsite - Cloud Integration Center

Telekom - T-Systems

International recruitment to build a cloud architects group.
Consulting JEE customers on enterprise application 'cloudifications' and new architecture approaches to convert existing JEE applications to hybrid cloud capabilities.
Sourcing, screening, interviewing, and coaching suitable consultants and staff, including creating hiring and business cases.
Setting up the OpenShift and WSO2 training paths for a team of 24 employees.
Coaching of Kubernetes PoCs.
Technologies used: Kubernetes, OpenShift, VMware, OpenStack, load balancers, SDN, K8s network + CNI plugins, HAProxy, health checks, Contiv, Open vSwitch, T-Systems cloud artifacts.

Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

3 years

Germany

Lead Consultant for the creation of a Cloud Competence EA Review Center

Logica / CGI Deutschland

Creation of a Cloud Competence EA Review Center for transforming enterprise applications.
Consulting JEE customers on new architecture approaches and converting existing JEE applications to hybrid cloud capabilities.

Jan 2010 - Dec 2025

16 years

Brisbane, Australia

Solution Manager and Transformation Coach for microservice solutions with Docker and Kubernetes

Flight-Centre Travel Group AU

Microservice solutions with Docker and Kubernetes and various API management integrations as solution manager and transformation coach.
AWS transformation of existing JEE system modules for auto-deployment in various global AWS data center regions (mainly Ireland and Australia).
Latency session optimizations – loosely coupled optimizations, SDN, auto-deployment and load balancing, geo-location awareness, Layer 7 strategies and optimizations for local IPs, API lifecycle management, and monetization.
Kubernetes and KubeFed cluster federation / region auto-routing, serverless components, and CI/CD pipeline integrations (Jenkins, Argo).
Business logic extraction, BPM, and enterprise architecture review of existing solutions.
Project management and change management. Middleware health checks (jboss), application architecture, and infrastructure review – tuning and refinement of SOA.
Team coaching for cloud-native architecture transformation of the EA, testing and diagnosing the existing web solution, fine-tuning infrastructure and servers.
Refinement and modification of the enterprise application in terms of latency, timing, and decoupling.
Creation of the roadmap to achieve optimized ESB usage, more efficient Kubernetes designs, datastore sync optimizations, and the use of resilience checks.

Jan 2009 - Dec 2013

5 years

New Zealand

BPM + Cloud Consultant – JEE Enterprise Middleware Audit + Architectural Review

2Degrees Mobile

EA Review and Restructuring for Mobile Phone Provider.
Architectural Review and Business Logic Extraction BPM – SOA for existing payment solution as well as Change Management for the introduction of new services.
BPM Reviews & Optimizations.
Middleware Health Check jBoss, Application Architecture and Infrastructure Review, Tuning and Refinement of the ESB.
Strategic Advice and Coaching for introducing BPM above the existing SOA as well as related Source Code Transformations.
Technologies: IBM BPM, BPMN 2.0, Process Designer, Integration Designer, WebSphere Process Server, WID, WS Portal, Business Modeller + Monitor, Rational Software Architect + Application Developer, Version Control, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Kubernetes Dev Environments, CI/CD, SDN, Resilience System Hardening, Network Analysers.
Advising Management and Business Units.

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

3 years

Canberra, Australia

Auditor + Consultant for Enterprise Architecture and Solution Design Review

AEC - Australian Electoral Commission

Review of the JEE core application for software stabilization and software resilience patterns.
Middleware Health Check jBoss, Application Architecture and Infrastructure Tuning Improvements for SOA Components and BPM.
Testing of the Existing Java Enrollment Solution and Tuning Recommendations for Infrastructure and Server Clusters.
Transformation of the Enterprise Application regarding BPM Design, Timing and Decoupling, BPM Logic Extraction.

Jan 2008 - Dec 2023

16 years

Australia

Research Fellow – Decision Services Lab

University of Wollongong - Australia

Research Fellow at UoW Australia / DSL Lab since 2009 under Prof. Aditya Ghose.
BPM and ODM Transformations for EA with Software Resilience Patterns.

Jan 2005 - Dec 2025

21 years

Germany

Hybrid

Digital Strategist, Principal Consultant, CEO, Business Consultant, Dipl. Ing., Solution and Change Manager and Coach for BPM,

MCS I.T. Services

Team Leadership + Coaching
Technology Transformations
System Integration
Change Management
Hybrid Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Enterprise Solutions
Software Resilience Patterns
Cyber Compliance Frameworks – CMMC, NIST, DORA, BSI, NIS-2, Swiss Federal, KRITIS
Object Storage (AWS S3 <-> Google GCS), K8s Platforms (AWS EKS <-> Google GKE), Legacy Apps (AWS EC2 <-> Google GCE), Relational DB (AWS RDS <-> Google Cloud SQL)
Clients e.g. IBM, Red Hat, Flight Centre, BMW, Daimler, Mercedes Benz, Deutsche Bahn, Westpac, Vodafone, 2Degrees Mobile, UoW, T-Systems, EnBW, NEXT Kraftwerke, Shell, BNZ, ASB, Allianz etc.

Jan 2002 - Dec 2024

23 years

New Zealand

Trainer, Consultant, eBusiness Architect, Enterprise Application Reviews, BPM + Cloud Native Consultant

IBM

Training and Consulting Partner with IBM for IBM Germany as well as IBM EMEA, IBM Australia and IBM New Zealand.
Training and Consulting around BPM, BPMN, ESB, SOA, WS Lombardi, WSRR, ILOG Rules, ODM, Communications Products, Cloud Native, Tigera Calico, Kubernetes.
Advising Management and Business Units.
Strategic Advisor for Enterprise Architecture and Solution Design Reviews.

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Information Technology (24 years), Professional Services (21 years), Tourism (16 years), Education (16 years), Banking and Finance (8 years), and Telecommunication (6 years).

Information Technology

Professional Services

Tourism

Education

Banking and Finance

Telecommunication

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (24 years), Strategy (24 years), Research and Development (17 years), Project Management (16 years), Operations (6 years), and Quality Assurance (5 years).

Information Technology

Strategy

Research and Development

Project Management

Operations

Quality Assurance

Summary

Telecommunications / Electrical Engineering, Dipl. Eng., Digital Strategist, System Architect, Change Manager for Cloud Native BPM and digital transformation, resilient infrastructures, EA and BPM coach, compliance frameworks and software resilience patterns.

Skills

Team Leadership And Coaching
Technology Transformations
System Integration
Change Management
Hybrid Multi-cloud Kubernetes Enterprise Solutions
Software Resilience Patterns
Cyber Compliance Frameworks – Cmmc, Nist, Dora, Bsi, Nis-2, Swiss Confederation, Kritis
Industries: Across Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy, Insurance, Banking, Finance, Telecom, Government, Travel And More.
12 Factor Applications, Cloud Native Designs
Enterprise Application Transformations
Agile Methods, Scrum, Waterfall, Safe
Declarative Concepts
Software Resilience Patterns
Kubernetes Enterprise Solutions, Resilience And Cyber Hardening
Certification Frameworks
Multi- And Hybrid-cloud Hosting, Migrations And Solution Transformations
Lift & Shift Projects And Architecture Refactoring When Moving To A New Solution
Dread And Stride Security Assessments
Cloud Native Solution Designs And Kubernetes Security
Microsegmentation, Zero Trust Strategies
Ibm Bpm And Odm, Esb And Messaging Solutions, Integration Bus, Websphere And Soa As Well As Related Communication Products And Solutions
Kubernetes, Calico, Argo, Helm, Docker, Kafka
Platform-agnostic Cloud Solution Designs, Sdn, Load Balancing
Bpmn, Uml, Bpel, Wsdl, Xml, C, Jee
Intellij, Eclipse, Soap, Yaml, Html, Maven, Git, Spring Boot, Rest
Tigera Calico, Wireshark, Iptables, Linux Tc – Traffic Control, Gremlin, Firewalld
Nginx, Ingress, L7 Balancer, Bulkhead, Governor, Circuit Breaker
Queue Size & Timing Automation
Argo, Jenkins, Helm, Grafana, Prometheus
Various Log Scrapers, Kubernetes Monitoring Via Calico And Datadog Etc.

Languages

German

Native

English

Native

Education

Dipl. Eng. · Telecommunications / Electrical Engineering · Ulm, Germany

Profile

Created

June 2025

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Where is Lothar based?

Lothar is based in Ditzingen, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Lothar speak?

Lothar speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Native).

How many years of experience does Lothar have?

Lothar has at least 24 years of experience. During this time, Lothar has worked in at least 15 different roles and for 14 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 7 months. Note that Lothar may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Lothar be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Lothar would be well-suited for roles such as: Solution Manager for PoC investigation and replacement and refinement of an existing cloud and IoT power plant control system, Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud transformations of enterprise solutions, Lead Architect - coaching and consulting for IoT, backend system hardening and KRITIS transformation.

What is Lothar's latest experience?

Lothar's most recent position is Solution Manager for PoC investigation and replacement and refinement of an existing cloud and IoT power plant control system at Shell AG and NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH.

What companies has Lothar worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Lothar has worked for Shell AG and NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH, IBM, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, IBM EMEA + DB Systel, and EnBW Karlsruhe.

Which industries is Lothar most experienced in?

Lothar is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Professional Services, and Tourism and Hospitality. Lothar also has some experience in Education, Banking and Finance, and Telecommunication.

Which business areas is Lothar most experienced in?

Lothar is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Strategy and Planning, and Research and Development (R&D). Lothar also has some experience in Project Management, Operations, and Quality Assurance (QA).

Which industries has Lothar worked in recently?

Lothar has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT), Professional Services, and Tourism and Hospitality.

Which business areas has Lothar worked in recently?

Lothar has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Strategy and Planning, and Research and Development (R&D).

What is Lothar's education?

Lothar holds a Master in Telecommunications / Electrical Engineering.

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