Peter Walden - Information Security Consultant

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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 public 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 business impact analysis, virtualization, migration methods with implementation (Vibracoustic PL and as part of the team for “Technology switch of backbone data center from concept and tender to live operation replacement”)
data and process visualization, setting up workflows, IT security and documentation requirements (BayernLB Munich with TopEase)
regulations and technical guides for infrastructure monitoring and automation, IT change management with requirements, planning, implementation according to state bank standards (HeLaBa Offenbach)

Aug 2008 - Dec 2012

4 years 5 months

Ismaning, Germany

Senior Account Technology Consultant (PreSales)

EMC Deutschland GmbH

consulting for public clients in Bavaria on the entire EMC product portfolio with focus on services, virtualization, IT service management
preparing and delivering product presentations
handling tenders, preparing bids
interface between customers, sales, technical specialists and partners, trade show organization
software development for SAN switch migrations to enable seamless switchover of virtual paths in fiber networks
introducing innovation management and communication with Web 2.0 in the intranet and 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)

data center transformation project (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 for requirements and commissioning management
designing and supporting software platform certification for international automated software distribution in hardware-agnostic release management, creating interfaces in XML, UML with logbook adapter in HP Mercury to document tests for international certification (Credit Suisse Zurich)
data center relocation including consolidation, platform migration in VMware with process integration, data center documentation in semantic MediaWiki and archival formats (AGCS London / Allianz DC)

Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

6 years 1 month

Moosburg, Germany

Consultant for BCM, ISO 27001, focus on IT supply chain management, fallback concepts and high availability (locations,

Heine & Partner GmbH

project planning, execution and management (systemic approach) around business continuity planning (e.g. 70 Bavarian savings banks with IZB Soft, HVB Munich, RaiZE St. Gallen, SUVA Lucerne, Alte Leipziger)
conducting operational risk analyses (BIA), continuity planning, recovery concepts for business functions and processes, recovery tests with risk, compliance and policy management
data center relocations with fallback strategy, integrating continuity provisions 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, WAN replication, recovery procedures, encryption, indexing, performance tuning, optical document archiving and smartphone integration
creating numerous scripts for data migration and integration into continuity manuals with CAPT, CM and various intranets
analyzing complex backup systems, physical storage locations and paths for risk assessment and migration according to policy (with PHP, Perl, HTML), integrating 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 integrating IVR systems 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 Group

administration of the group’s SAP and Unix platforms
managing strategic growth from 6 to 130 Unix systems
since 1997 head of department with 10 internal and external staff in the fast-paced media environment
planning and implementation including 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 transports, software distribution and logbook reporting in granular firewall zones

Feb 1990 - Sep 1994

4 years 8 months

Munich, Germany

System Technician for TARGON System Family (Unix) / Systems Specialist in Unix/Sinix Server Support Center

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 release upgrades

Feb 1987 - Jan 1990

3 years

Paderborn, Germany