Peter W.

Information Security Consultant

Niederaichbach, Germany

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 companies and educational institutions
Jan 2013 - Dec 2023
11 years
Niederaichbach, Germany

Freelancer Projects in ITSCM and IT Service Management (SLA Provider)

  • IT-SCM: achieving DORA compliance, optimizing IT processes especially provider management with failover and recovery scenarios for physical and logical emergencies, focusing on blackouts, rollouts, and cybersecurity incidents
  • IT-SCM and BCM with BIA, ITSM according to ITIL, IT services for elastic data center architecture and infrastructure, virtualization, migration methods with implementation (Vibracoustic PL and in the team for "technology swap of backbone data center from concept, tender to live operation swap")
  • data and process visualization, setting up workflows, IT security and documentation requirements (BayernLB Munich with TopEase)
  • policies and technical guides for monitoring and automation of infrastructures, IT change management with requirements, planning, implementation according to regional bank standard (HeLaBa Offenbach)
Aug 2008 - Dec 2012
4 years 5 months
Ismaning, Germany

Senior Account Technology Consultant (PreSales)

EMC Deutschland GmbH

  • consulting for public-sector clients in Bavaria on the full EMC product portfolio with a focus on services, virtualization, and ITSM
  • preparing and conducting product presentations
  • handling tenders and bid preparations
  • serving as interface between clients, sales, technical specialists, and partners, organizing trade shows
  • developing software for SAN switch migrations to enable seamless switching of virtual paths in fiber networks
  • implementing innovation management and Web 2.0 communication in the intranet and for the education market
  • setting up test/demo platforms, including a VMware farm and 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 ITIL-based services
  • implementing project requirements and commissioning management
  • designing and supporting software platform certification for international automated software distribution in cross-hardware release management, creating interfaces in XML and UML with a logbook adapter in HP Mercury to document tests for international certification (Credit Suisse Zurich)
  • data center migration including consolidation, platform migration to VMware with process integration, data center documentation in semantic MediaWiki and archivable formats (AGCS London / Allianz datacenter)
Jan 2001 - Jan 2007
6 years 1 month
Moosburg, Germany

Consultant for BCM, ISO 27001, focus on IT-SCM, fallback concepts and high availability (locations, telephony, networks, IT

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)
  • Performing 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 strategy, integrating emergency preparedness into ITIL and business processes (e.g. debitel Stuttgart, Generali Vienna to Aachen, HVB/Unicredit Munich to Milan)
  • Intranet/Internet administration, central IT and telephony, replication via WAN, recovery procedures, encryption, indexing, performance tuning, optical document archiving and smartphone integration
  • Creating numerous scripts for data import and integration into emergency manuals with CAPT, CM and various intranets
  • Analyzing complex backup systems, physical storage locations and paths for risk assessment and policy-based migration (using 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 support for integrating 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 group's SAP and Unix platforms
  • Organizing the strategic growth from 6 to 130 Unix systems
  • Head of department since 1997 with 10 internal team members and external staff in the fast-paced media environment
  • Planning and implementation of automation, authorization concepts in SAP R/3, programming (ABAP, SQL, parser), administration (Unix, storage, Windows, Legato)
  • Programming rollouts in a high-availability data center environment, including SAP transport, software distribution and logbook analysis in granular firewall zones
Feb 1990 - Sep 1994
4 years 8 months
Munich, Germany

System technician for the TARGON system family (Unix) / systems specialist in the support center for Unix/Sinix servers

Siemens Nixdorf AG

  • Support for customers and colleagues with TARGON/RM operating systems and platform software, central and decentralized peripherals, networks
  • Performance tuning, remote configuration and release upgrades
Feb 1987 - Jan 1990
3 years
Paderborn, Germany

Apprenticeship as a communications electronics technician specializing in information technology (IHK) and technical consultant

Nixdorf Computer AG

Summary

I have extensive experience in information security, IT Service Management and business continuity across a wide range of industries including public administration, finance, media and technology. I have led projects in IT-SCM and ITIL-based services, supporting provider networks and ensuring compliance with complex technical and regulatory frameworks.

My background includes hands-on work with infrastructure virtualization, disaster recovery, risk analysis, process optimization and automation. I combine practical know-how with a system-oriented approach and have implemented solutions for technical resilience and secure IT operations in diverse, dynamic environments.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Feb 1987 - Jan 1990

Nixdorf Computer AG

Apprenticeship as a communication electronics technician, specializing in information technology · Communication Electronics Technician · Paderborn, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Class 3 driver’s license (up to 7.5 t)

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