Dr. Friedrich Straker

Freelance work / interim management Experience: - build bridges between corporate IT and "the business" - focus on end-to-end perspective of initiatives - ensure delivery of customer benefits via a pragmatic, down-to-earth and phased approach My competences - large volume paper slip processing chain (receiving, scanning, data extraction, back-end system feed) - data center operation / expansion - managing of and operating IT infrastructure platforms and services - working with international teams

Helsana Postal Services processes 20-30'000 letters per day as a central receiving service. About 60'000 pages per day are digitized, augmented with metadata and routed to the appropriate claims handling unit. Physical mail is distributed to the 70+ branch offices all over Switzerland. Using state-of-the-art technologies and automation for - bulk letter receiving - high-speed scanning - automatic metadata extraction and enrichment - document management is the key to handle the daily volume.

IT Base services include - Datacenter logistics - Systems Management - Telephony - Corp. directory

Production Quality center was optimizing the IT landscape by end-to-and analysis of multi-tier applications and did performance tuning, troubleshooting and continuous improvement. Responsible for the SAP Basis team and a landscape with ABAP & Java stacks consisting of HR, BI, SRM, TREX and EP. I was defining the platform operational architecture based on Solaris/Linux and Windows 2008 featuring high-availability.

Managing globally the development of IT infrastructure solutions according to business needs. This includes the following technology stacks: Server OS (Solaris, Linux, Windows), Workstation OS (only Windows in various flavors), Middleware (Websphere), Databases (DB2, Oracle, SQL), Application frameworks (Lotus Notes, EDMS) and ERP systems (SAP) and the corporate data and voice network.

My unit provided infrastructure services for the SR headquarter and EMEA region (ex UK). This included engineering for all standard technology stacks (decentral server & workstation landscape, relational DBs, mainframe, middleware, etc.), the corporate data and voice network and the operations of two redundant data centers (5000 MIPS mainframe, several hundred decentral servers). 24 x 7 operations control center and governance services.

Responsibility for the engineering of all decentralized server platforms (Windows, Solaris, AX400). Global functional lead for Groupware and file services platforms. Line / budget management responsibility for a team of about 20 employees.

Responsible for the successful introduction of the Lotus Notes platform to Swiss Re. This was together with the establishment of the group data network the first step towards globalization of IT infrastructure.

Responsible for predicting the rating of new switching devices for ABB's products (e.g. locomotives, power transmission and distribution) and finding possible improvements.

Thin-film technology is used to create miniaturized and ultra-reliable electrical modules for special purpose applications. I was responsible for creating a CAD package to calculate the layout of the devices from given specifications.

Semiconductor physics, numerical mathemathics, physical modelling and simulation, prediction of semiconductor device characteristics by computer simulation, software development of device simulators

Thesis about physical models for the computer simulation of electrical networks.