Michael Bohlen
Director IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM)
Experience
Freelance Management Consultant / Interim IT Manager
- Advising companies on IT management in general and software licensing / IT Asset Management (ITAM/SAM) in particular
Director IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM)
TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbH
- Establishment & further development of the ITAM / SAM business unit
- Consulting German mid-sized and large customers on setting up, operating and optimizing their ITAM / SAM, focusing on ITAM / SAM governance
- Service management / customer retention
- Business development and acquiring new customers
Key Account Manager Software Asset Management (SAM)
AnglePoint (Group) Germany GmbH
- Establishing the German subsidiary for AnglePoint
- Advising German large customers on setting up, operating and optimizing their Software Asset Management (SAM)
- Service management / customer support
- Sales and acquisition of new customers
Freelance Management Consultant / Interim Manager
- Advising companies on IT management in general and software licensing / IT Asset Management (ITAM/SAM) in particular
Global Business Solution Owner SAMSimple (IT Service Manager)
SoftwareONE Germany GmbH
- Global IT management with responsibility for the service product 'SAMSimple' (standardized SAM service for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with customers in 82 countries worldwide)
Practice Leader Managed SAM (IT Service Manager)
Axians IT Solutions GmbH (formerly Fritz & Macziol)
Set up from scratch and strategic development of the Managed Service Software Asset Management area; including product/service development and marketing
Sales; i.e. acquiring new customers, maintaining existing customers at executive/chief level, and enabling account management
Project leadership for Managed SAM implementation
Service management for ongoing Managed SAM operations (including point of contact for customers, staffing, budgeting, controlling, etc.)
Key achievements: built a completely new service in no time and acquired and retained long-term customers (around 30 customers generating about €1 million in annual revenue)
Managing Partner, Principal Consultant
BTP BohlenTechPartner GmbH
Consulting companies in IT management in general and software licensing/asset management (SAM) in particular
Building and running the business; business planning, marketing, resource, delivery and partner management, financial management
Sales to acquire new customers and maintain existing ones
Key achievements: founded and established a startup focused on SAM consulting, successfully acquiring clients and delivering services to well-known companies in Germany
Group Operations License Manager / Overall Project Manager; Vice President IT Management, Group Headquarters & Shared Services
Deutsche Telekom AG
Operational management of the group-wide software license management for Deutsche Telekom Group; virtual organization with about 50 distributed (international) employees in the group
Management and oversight of software license management for all strategic business units in the group and service providers
Overall transformation/project management for design, setup and rollout of the group licensing management (about 20 project team members, budget: approx. €5 million)
Key achievements: achieved compliance for the group with major software vendors, resulting in cost savings of approx. €30 million p.a.
Responsible for the IT and voice infrastructure provision for GHS; i.e. traditional telecommunications, voice-over-IP and mobile communications for GHS employees (approx. 22,000) and executives in all business areas of the group (approx. 2,900)
Budget responsibility: approx. €35 million
Staff responsibility: approx. 70 employees
Key achievements: nationwide rollout of voice-over-IP, introduction of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), standardization of IT workplace systems
Vice President International Procurement Systems
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH
Responsible for T-Systems' procurement systems (national and international; especially SAP SRM & MM), multi-project management
Budget responsibility: approx. €10 million
Staff responsibility: 5 employees + technical leadership of distributed procurement systems staff (8 national, 10 international)
Key achievements: international rollout of the standard eProcurement system (SAP SRM), international standardization of procurement systems, establishment of eSourcing
Associate Partner
Deutsche Telekom AG
- Consulting internal clients on e-business and IT topics
- IT strategy, potential analyses, concept development and implementation support, business process (re-)engineering, (re-)organization, project management
Principal Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Service Unit Financial Services; especially banks
- E-Procurement (especially SAP SRM Enterprise Buyer professional); cost-benefit analysis, selection, design and implementation
- SAP module MM (Purchasing)
- Document and workflow management systems
- Business process (Re-)Engineering, project management
Consultant
INTEGRATA Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Document and workflow management
- SAP module SD (Sales)
- Business process (Re-)Engineering
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (18.5 years), Professional Services (11 years), Telecommunication (4.5 years), and Banking and Finance (3.5 years).
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Experienced in Information Technology (28.5 years), Project Management (14.5 years), Sales (9 years), Procurement (9 years), Customer Service (4.5 years), and Marketing (4.5 years).
Skills
- Software Licensing: Sap, Microsoft
- Sam Tools: Usu Lima (Formerly Aspera Smarttrack), Matrix42, Flexera, Spider, Snow, Pathlock Ptla
- Sap Srm-ebp, Sap Mm, Sap Sd, Sap Business Workflow
Languages
Education
Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster
Diploma in Business Informatics, Industrial Informatics · Business Informatics · Münster, Germany
GAD Cooperative for Automatic Data Processing eG
Vocational training as Data Processing Clerk · Data Processing Clerk · Münster, Germany
Certifications & licenses
ISO/IEC 19770-1 Practitioner
ITAM Forum
Certified Software Asset Manager
IATAM International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, Inc.
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Scrum.org
FlexNet Manager Suite
Flexera
Certified Microsoft Licensing Microsoft Professional (MLP) Trainer
Microsoft
PRINCE2 Foundation
Microsoft Certified Technology Microsoft Specialist: Designing, Assessing, and Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM)
Microsoft
ITIL V3 Foundation
TÜV Süd
SAP R/3 - SAP Walldorf Application Consultant Module SD
SAP, Walldorf
Corporate Data Protection Law, University of Münster
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