Alexander Schumann
Selbstständig, Information Technology and Compliance Consultant, Self-Employed
Düsseldorf, Germany
About me
I am a freelance technology and compliance consultant, working with small to enterprise level organisations. Offering consultancy services ranging from I.T. enterprise architecture, servers, cloud, virtualisation, and networking engineering and architecture to information security management, I.T. strategy and roadmaps, risk management, cybersecurity and ISO/IEC 27001. Business: https://itworkings.com I have extensive experience in a large variety of technologies, from architecture, implementations, management and small to large scale project planning. During my career, I have worked on a lot of technologies, from a single system to large enterprise architecture. Building the maximum supported user capacity following the recommended documentation and best practises by the manufactures.
Timeline
Professional experience for Alexander Schumann
Current 3 years and 9 months, since Jun 2019
Information Technology and Compliance Consultant
Self-Employed
o 16 years’ Cloud experience o 16 years’ Virtualisation experience o 14 years’ networking experience o 18 years’ Windows servers experience o 19+ years’ Windows Desktops experience o 19+ years’ Linux/Unix experience o 12 years’ Unified Communications (UC) experience o 19 years’ E-mail platforms experience o 10+ years’ storage experience o 16 years’ solution architecture experience o 16 years’ enterprise architecture experience o 9 years’ compliance experience o 9+ years’ project management experience
2 years and 6 months, Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Other Clients
Freelancer
Provided Consultancy Services for GDPR and ISO 27001
2 years and 6 months, Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
AutoEntry (Ocrex) - Head of Infrastructure - Contracting
Freelance
AutoEntry was a start-up that was sold to Sage PLC. This was a contract role as a freelancer and my role was to managing the smooth integration of AutoEntry with the Sage infrastructure after acquisition. The mission for this role was to complete the IT integration and the existing IT projects for AutoEntry.
2 years and 4 months, Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
AutoEntry (Ocrex) - Head of Security and Compliance - Contracting
Freelance
This was a contract role as a freelancer and my role was to managing the smooth integration of the AutoEntry Compliance with the Sage Compliance team after acquisition. ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information security management systems. ISO/IEC 27017:2015 ISO/IEC 27018:2014 General Data Protection Regulation. Internal organisational and external vendor and customer audits. Risk Management
1 year and 8 months, Oct 2017 - May 2019
Head of Infrastructure, Security and Compliance - Contracting
Ocrex Limited (AutoEntry)
Ocrex Limited was a start-up and my role as a contractor was to design, build and lead the company in three different business areas: 1. Infrastructure 2. Security 3. Compliance The mission for this role was to turn the start-up into an enterprise level organisation. The end goal being, to service the companies customers and to prepare the company for acquisition. In 2018 Ocrex Limited was rebranded as AutoEntry TM. In 2019 AutoEntry was acquired by Sage PLC.
7 months, Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Transition Manager & Technical Account Manager
Evros Technology Group
I joined Evros as a Transition Manager and Technical Account Manager and acting Service Delivery Manager. My role is a mixed role whereby I interface between all departments, Professional Services, Sales, Pre-Sales, Consultants and the customers directly. - Project Implementations - Supporting the sales team and presales, Managed Services for Transitions and new opportunities - Team management
4 months, Feb 2017 - May 2017
Sabbatical
Extended Leave
After I completed and delivered all my projects, I went on a vacation of three months. I travelled around Germany, Italy and Holland, before I started my next challenge.
3 years and 5 months, Sep 2013 - Jan 2017
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Unified Communication Specialist - AVP
Citibank N.A.
AVP – Unified Communications Senior Engineer as an internal Subject Matter Expert for Citi, developing and engineering the technology infrastructure Strategy, Design, solutions and standards for Citi’s global Unified Communications, “Building the Bank”. Working on products that provide Video Conference, Audio Conference, Web Conferencing, Audio and Video Streaming. Responsibilities include engineering of Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, WebEx and other Unified Communications technologies.
7 months, Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
IT Force Limited
Responsible for the design, implementation and health checks of client Infrastructure. Advising Service Desk Engineer on best practise and provide training to Engineers. - SC 2010, 2012 DPM installation and configuration - Windows 2012 implementation - SAN, DAS Installation and configurations (FC, iSCSI) - Clients Infrastructure technology review and optimisation - Training technical support teams
9 months, Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
Support and Systems Engineer
Smartbox Experiance Limited
Responsible as the lead for design and hands-on implementations for all Windows server environments in a multi datacentre environment and all global offices.
2 years and 2 months, May 2010 - Jun 2012
Systems Administrator
FINEOS Corporation
I provided a wide range of technical skills from software and hardware installation, including server installation and configuration. The role required me to collaborate with many technical teams to advise, troubleshoot, support, build, configure systems and application servers. - Installed and support for Windows 2003/2008 and Red Hat Linux images. - Regular global business trips for server installation, hardware and OS upgrades - Supported a geographically distributed production environment
7 months, Nov 2009 - May 2010
Sabbatical Leave
Sabbatical / Extended Leave
- Completed the PRINCE2 Certificate - Travelled between, Ireland, Scotland and Germany
My responsibility was to understand the needs of the business and implement the necessary infrastructure requirements. I provided technical and managerial skills together with commercial awareness. - Developed and managed the annual IT budget - Managed additional IT staff and contractors locally and remotely in the Irish and UK office - Managed multiple operational projects, changes and initiatives simultaneously and remotely - Managed the helpdesk - Policy review and process development
IT contracting to Accenture, Celanese AG and HB Fuller. Some of my key contributions to these companies have been: - Managed Windows 2003, DNS, Active Directory, Exchange 2003, RAS, File/Storage servers - Created detailed documentation of systems and processes to allow agents to resolve clients issues more efficiently - Managed projects as required by clients
Languages
German
Intermediate
English
First language