Peter Walden
Information Security Consultant
Experience
Dec 2020 - Jul 2023
2 years 8 months Landau an der Isar, Germany
Information Security Consultant
actago GmbH
- external information security officer for local administrations (municipality, market town, city) and municipal utilities and educational institutions
Jan 2013 - Dec 2023
11 years Niederaichbach, Germany
Freelancer Projects and IT Service Management
- IT service management according to ITIL, IT services for elastic data center architecture and infrastructure, IT supply chain management and business continuity management with BIA, virtualization, migration methods with implementation (Vibracoustic PL and as part of the team for "technology exchange of core data center from concept, tender to exchange in live operation")
- Data and process visualization, setting up workflows, IT security and documentation requirements (BayernLB Munich with TopEase)
- Guidelines and technical instructions for monitoring and automation of infrastructures, IT change management including requirements, planning, implementation according to regional banks standard (HeLaBa Offenbach)
Aug 2008 - Dec 2013
4 years 5 months Ismaning, Germany
Senior Account Technology Consultant (PreSales)
EMC Deutschland GmbH
- Consulting for public sector clients in Bavaria on the entire EMC product portfolio with a focus on services, virtualization, ITSM
- Preparation and delivery of product presentations
- Handling tenders, preparation of bid submissions
- Liaison between clients, sales, technical specialists and partners, trade show organization
- Development of software for SAN switch migrations enabling seamless switching of virtual paths in fiber optic networks
- Introduction of innovation management and web 2.0 communication in the intranet and, among others, for the education market
- Building test/demo platforms including VMware farm, RSA Archer
Jul 2008 - Jul 2008
1 month Unterföhring, Germany
Project Manager
Allianz Shared Infrastructure Services GmbH (ASIC)
- project for data center transformation (consolidation, integration)
Feb 2007 - Jun 2008
1 year 5 months Unterschleißheim, Germany
Senior Consultant
santix AG
- Consulting on IT governance and services according to ITIL
- Project implementation of requirements and commissioning management
- Design and support of software platform certification for international automated software distribution in hardware-spanning release management, creation of interfaces in XML, UML with logbook adapter in HP Mercury for test documentation for international certification (Credit Suisse Zurich)
- Data center relocation including consolidation, platform migration to VMware with process integration, data center documentation in semantic MediaWiki and archivable formats (AGCS London / Allianz DC)
Jan 2001 - Jan 2007
6 years 1 month Moosburg, Germany
Consultant for BCM, ISO 27001, focusing on IT supply chain management, contingency plans and high availability (locations,
Heine & Partner GmbH
- Project planning/execution and management (systemic approach) around emergency planning (e.g. 70 Bavarian savings banks with IZB Soft, HVB Munich, RaiZE St. Gallen, SUVA Lucerne, Alte Leipziger)
- Conducting operational risk analyses (BIA), emergency planning, recovery concepts for business functions and processes, recovery tests with risk, compliance and policy management
- Data center relocations with fallback strategies, integration of emergency preparedness into ITIL and business processes (e.g. debitel Stuttgart, Generali Vienna to Aachen, HVB/Unicredit Munich to Milan)
- Administration of intranet/internet, central IT and telephony, WAN replication, recovery procedures, encryption, indexing, performance tuning, optical document archiving and smartphone integration
- Creation of numerous scripts for data import and integration into emergency manuals with CAPT, CM and various intranets
- Analysis of complex backup systems, physical storage locations and paths for risk assessment and policy-based migration (with PHP, Perl, HTML), integration into incident and change management (BMW Munich / Dingolfing)
Apr 2000 - Dec 2000
9 months Sauerlach, Germany
IT Project Manager
neusoft GmbH
- Planning, implementation and service for the integration of voice response systems (IVR) into trading platforms (online shops, credit checks, auction and logistics systems), Openshop partner training
- Data protection officer
Oct 1994 - Mar 2000
5 years 6 months Unterföhring, Germany
Head of IT Administration
ProSieben-Gruppe
- Administration of the SAP and Unix platforms of the corporate group
- Organization of strategic growth from 6 to 130 Unix systems
- Since 1997 department head with 10 internal staff and external employees in the highly dynamic environment of media companies
- Planning and implementation including automation, authorization concepts in SAP R/3, programming (ABAP, SQL, parser), administration (e.g., Unix, storage, Windows, Legato)
- Programming rollouts in a high-availability data center environment, including SAP transport landscape, software distribution and logbook analyses in granular firewall zones
Feb 1990 - Sep 1994
4 years 8 months Munich, Germany
System Technician for TARGON System Family (Unix) / Systems Specialist in Support Center for Unix/Sinix Servers
Siemens Nixdorf AG
- Support for customers and colleagues on TARGON/RM operating systems and platform software, central and decentralized peripherals, networks
- Performance tuning, remote configuration and version upgrades
Feb 1987 - Jan 1990
3 years Paderborn, Germany
Apprenticeship as Communication Electronics Technician with specialization in Information Technology
Nixdorf Computer AG
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Feb 1987 - Jan 1990
Nixdorf Computer AG
Training as a Communication Electronics Technician, specialization in information technology · Communication Electronics Technician · Paderborn, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Driver's license Class 3 (up to 7.5 t)
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