2018 ? today: more Projects.

Customer: Independent Advisor, Frankfurt and Heidelberg, Germany

Role: Cybersecurity, Compliance, IT Operations and Transformation Consultant

Tasks:

Independent advisor for international client base consisting of small-mid sized businesses, research firms, and Dax30 enterprises. Provide advice and support on topics such as:

• Security strategies to accelerate behavioral changes and increase adoption rates
• Optimization of IT processes and technology roadmaps for digital transformation
• Compliant cloud migration strategies for highly regulated international enterprises
• Optimization strategies to simplify compliance models in highly regulated industries
• Leadership development and coaching in highly political intercultural environments

Interim CISO for international pharma company with 11K employees and 4B in revenue

• Served as Interim Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and developed comprehensive organization wide security strategy, road map, and operating model
• Obtained board level approval to launch multi-million euro program to establish global cyber capabilities and onboard external expertise to accelerate program delivery
• Managed contract negotiations and onboarding of 2 external firms (16FTE) to deliver key functions while initiating recruitment processes for the end state organization
• Led review of 314 policies and delivery of roadmap to achieve ISO 27001 certification

Provided legal and compliance advice to Dax30 Medical company with 114K users during complex O365 migration of 50K users operating in 67 countries and 200 sites

• Managed distribution, signature and adoption of global cloud use, data classification, and data retention policies to all companies and subsidiaries to foster user compliance
• Harmonized local country assessments of data privacy, cross border data transfer, data localization, and stringent compliance laws with corporate regulations and guidelines
• Evaluated relevant data protection and data loss prevention technologies to mitigate risks, increase adoption, and improve overall function and security of cloud services
• Deployed e-learning compliance training in 23 languages to 40k users in 67 countries
• Designed and managed dashboards and key performance indicators to align stakeholders

2016 - today: Mentoring, coaching, teaching, and speaking

Customer:International non-profit organization operating in over 240 lands

Role: Volunteer

Tasks:

Mentoring, coaching, teaching, and speaking on a wide variety of topics such as:

• Resolving conflict with peaceful solutions, fostering personal transformation, building work life balance, creating unity, accelerating cultural integration, and family happiness
• Provide support and assistance for wide range of day to day operational activities of over 120 additional volunteers living and working in the Mannheim Rhein-Neckar Region 

2014 - 2017: Responsible for building and leading

Customer: Merck Group KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Role: Global Head of Security, Risk, Compliance and Integration (CISO)

Tasks

• Responsible for building and leading the vision, strategy, and initiatives to protect Merck?s IT, data, systems, and intellectual property worth over ?15B in annual revenue
• Completed global security assessment against 10 security benchmarks at 20 locations to establish Merck?s security, risk, and compliance rating in the Pharma and Biotech industry
• Established and led Board approved multi-million euro ?Protect Merck? program which drove Merck?s score to the top 10% for 6 of the assessed benchmarks in under 1 year
• Gained 700% increase in operational budget to build new CISO organization which trained and mentored companywide staff, reduced vulnerabilities by 45%, increased system visibility 16 fold, and optimized global risk and governance processes
• Built external partnerships and drove industry innovations in the areas of mobile mail encryption, cloud security encryption, data leakage prevention, vulnerability and application scanning, intrusion detection, and advanced ?red-team? testing techniques
• Revolutionized Merck?s CISO operating model while simultaneously achieving companywide ISO 27001 re-certification; praised by auditors for raising the bar in Pharma
• Built corporate committee of Executive Vice Presidents, Corporate Legal Counsel, and business leaders to align security initiatives with business strategies; won Board and President level support to educate 50K employees on new security practices
• Founded Merck?s annual Security and Compliance Symposium which brought together over 150 technology leaders from 30 countries to collaboratively improve processes
• Hosted security round table with CISOs from DAX 30 and public organizations to share knowledge and launch a security academy designed to certify 1K IT employees
• Responsible for IT integration of Merck?s largest M&A in its 350 year history worth $17B
• Established board approved multi-year, multi-million euro, M&A IT integration portfolio of 100 broad initiatives; refined synergy targets, and reprioritized CIO?s global initiatives
• Built matrixed team of 60 internal and external technical experts from both companies; hosted virtual and onsite workshops to build high level of respect, cooperation, and trust
• Established executive change advisory board and governance processes to solve unique integration challenges and improve global management of complex architecture changes
• Drove interoperability of disparate architectures by harmonizing WiFi, cross connecting networks, and optimizing SSO to improve user satisfaction for 50K users in 66 countries
• Delivered virtual cloud infrastructures to bridge legacy systems and global ERP harmonization initiatives and provide seamless access to over 26,000 diverse applications
• Drove implementation of board level KPIs, dashboards, and global communication campaigns to improve transparency and decision making for users, staff, and executives

2007 ? 2014: Responsible for guiding the development and maintenance of the vision

Cutstomer:US Army Europe, Office of the CIO, Wiesbaden, Germany 

Role: Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Advisor to CIO, and Director of Process Improvement

Tasks:

• Responsible for guiding the development and maintenance of the vision, strategy, and programs necessary to support 65,000 IT system users operating in 20 countries
• Served as Chief of Staff during his absence and managed effective utilization of $310M annual budget across the headquarters staff and 10 subordinate organizations
• Created the CIO?s initiative group, which saved the Army over $100M USD through IT consolidation, drove leadership accountability programs, and grew multinational cyber capacity and coalition partnerships throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
• Prepared the CIO for strategic engagements with Department of Defense leaders reporting to the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. government; rewarded with additional funding and headcount for IT consolidation and new operating models
• Guided creation of first joint cyber center prototype in Europe which was later adopted as nucleus for the new cyber center operating models of Army and US Cyber commands
• Responsible for optimizing operations, processes, and budget expenditures of a European IT enterprise with a $310M annual budget and 1,500 employees operating in 15 countries
• Built and managed corporate process improvement program supporting over 40 IT organizations within US Army Europe; achieved $20M/year in savings and cost avoidance
• Selected, mentored, and certified 20 Lean Six Sigma Black Belts and 35 Green Belts to guide and advise senior officers and staffs through resolution of complex process issues
• Worked closely with the CIO to refine broad concepts into operational business models which won 4-Star General Officer (board of directors) approval for global implementation

2004 - 2007: more projects

Customer: US Army Europe Enterprise Technology Command, Mannheim, Germany 

Role: Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Manager

Tasks:

• Responsible for creating organizations, programs, and strategies based on ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management to evolve the unit to a centralized operating model
• Drove strategy to collapse 21 help desks into 1 service desk, 400 Datacenters into 2 regional Datacenters, and to rationalize disparate organizations and processes
• Facilitated the Army?s adoption of centralized European operating models and organizations into new global operating models for the Army?s worldwide IT operations

Chief of Knowledge Management for Enterprise operations and security

• Responsible for driving agency efforts to increase collaboration, improve decision making, and integrate information sharing platforms of geographically dispersed units
• Created robust knowledge management program and managed portfolio of 15 projects to improve interagency and intra organization collaboration and decision-making
• Launched educational campaign and published new knowledge management policies, which increased higher headquarters buy-in and aligned decentralized peer organizations
• Consolidated over 30 separate information sharing systems into 1 centralized enterprise portal, which increased availability of operational information to personnel at all levels

2002 ? 2004: Maintained accuracy, availability, and reliability of all operational information

Customer: US Army Regional Operations and Security Center, Stuttgart Germany

Role: Knowledge Management Officer

Tasks:

• Maintained accuracy, availability, and reliability of all operational information within the Battalion?s area of responsibility supporting military operations on 2 continents

1995 - 2002: communications support to multinational, multibillion dollar counter drug

Customer: US Air Force and Joint Interagency Task Force Experience, Worldwide assignments

Role: Communications systems controller / Communications Watch Officer

Tasks:

• Provided 24x7 communications support to multinational, multibillion dollar counter drug, counter narcotics operations for 5 DoD services, 9 government agencies and 15 countries
• Maintained satellite, terrestrial, and tactical communications for the largest Department of Defense facilities in Europe and Asia supporting over 200,000 users in 32 countries