Olaf Harmssen

Angestellt, Director Solutioning, CGI

Hamburg, Germany

About me

PRESALES, SOLUTION and AUTOMATION EXPERT / PROJECT MANAGER Versatile Automation Expert, Solution Engineering - and results driven professional, over 33 years comprehensive experience in enterprise presales, senior leadership to provide individual sustainable automation/cloud solutions for customers. Superb project leadership abilities and personnel management skills with strong expertise in problem solving and analytical thinking. A fast learning curve to adapt the needs of an evolving industry. And to jump on the trends that the customer wants. A dedicated professional with the drive and skill-set to excel in a fast-paced leadership role enhancing company’s ability to capture profitable markets

Skills

Enterprise PreSales
Robotic Process Automation
Automatisierung
Bid & Proposal Management
Enterprise Architektur Management
IoT
PRINCE2
Tivoli
ITIL
IBM
z/OS
Artificial intelligence
AIX
Control-M to TWA
Application Release Automation
Business Process Management
Management
MySQL
Sales
Marketing
Professional services
Human resource management
Linux
Devops Tool chain
RPA
Rubrik
Business Development
Puppet
z/OS Sub System Programmer
Projektmanagement
Jenkins
Docker
Blockchain
Automation
VMware
Solution Architecture
Ansible
IT-Architektur
SAP
Geschäftsprozesse
FSM Flex Systems Manager
DevOps
Configuration Management
CMM
Universal Automation Center
Migration Projects
Transition Management
USU Valuemation
Control-M to TWS
CA Autosys to Universal Automation Center
TWS for z/OS E2E to Universal agent technology
Solution Engineering
Opswise
Transition Expert
Cloud Solutions
Scrum
Automic AWA
Workload Automation
Pre-Sales
Virtualisierung
Instructor
Learning Specialist
Sysplex
Ubuntu
Electric Flow
UC4
PMI
Chef
Education
Unternehmensführung
Partnermanagement
Cloud Computing
Microservices
AWS
Microsoft Azure
MS SQL Server
V7000 Flex Storage System
Universal Agent
Stonebranch Universal Agent
CA7 to TWS
IBM Flex System
Stonebranch Universal Data Mover
Technischer Vertrieb
Strategic alliance
OTC Open Telekom Cloud
Beratung
Architektur
Design
Empathie
social skills
Mitarbeiterführung
Hochverfügbarkeit
collaboration
Dynamic Services for Infrastructure with vCloud (D

Timeline

Professional experience for Olaf Harmssen

  • Current 4 years and 1 month, since Dec 2019

    Director Solutioning

    CGI
  • 1 year and 11 months, Jan 2018 - Nov 2019

    Vice President (VP); Enterprise PreSales, Professional Services & RPA

    SYSback AG
  • 6 months, Jul 2017 - Dec 2017

    Director PreSales

    SYSback AG
  • 5 months, Mar 2017 - Jul 2017

    Senior Solution Engineer EMEA PreSales

    Electric Cloud Inc.

    Application Release Automation (ARA) - DEVOPS

  • 6 months, Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

    Senior Presales Engineer

    Automic Software GmbH

    DevOps, Release Automation, D.A.CH.

  • 7 months, Mar 2016 - Sep 2016

    Director Solution Engineering EMEA PreSales

    Stonebranch GmbH
  • 1 year and 2 months, Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

    Senior Solution Engineer EMEA pre Sales

    Stonebranch GmbH

    Pre Sales, EMEA, Transition Development,

  • 16 years, Jan 1999 - Dec 2014

    Senior Technical Solution Architect

    IBM

    IT Projekte, Leading Architect Groß- Mittel und Klein Kundenprojekte. Tivoli Workload Automation ( Scheduling ) Projekte. ITIL Business Process Assessment, Design and Development. Project Manager, ITIL Service Manager skilled. Migrationsspezialist von 3rd party Vendoren ( CA7, Control-M, UC4 etc. ) nach TWA ( Tivoli Workload Automation ) ReHosting Projekte ( Plaftform Migration --> TWA ). AIX Systemadministration. Konzepterstellung, AIX Projekte, Projektmanagement (PRINCE2), Hochverfügbarkeit Durchfüh

  • 8 years, Jan 1991 - Dec 1998

    Leiter System Operating - Marine Data Center Glücksburg

    Bundeswehr

    IT, MVS, System Operations, Data Center

Educational background for Olaf Harmssen

  • 2005 - 2006

    Project Management

    IBM intern

    Complex Projects

  • 2003 - 2005

    IT Architect

    IBM intern

    z/OS / AIX / Windows / Linux ( Open Systems )

  • 2001 - 2003

    Erwachsenenbildung

    Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten

    - Erwachsenenbildung - Durchführung von Schulungen, Ausbildungen - Erstellung von internationalen Schulungsmaterial + technischen Praktika - Wissensvermittlung - kognitive Entwicklung fördern - Erstellung von weltweiten Kursen für IBM Education Services

  • 1997 - 1999

    z/OS System Programming - Top Gun

    IBM internal

    z/OS Tivoli Operations Planning & Control Tivoli Maestro

  • 2 years and 1 month, Jul 1991 - Jul 1993

    IHK Flensburg

  • 8 years, Jan 1991 - Dec 1998

    Bundesmarine

    MVS, Omegamon, Leiter System Operating

  • Technische Informatik

    Fachhochschule Wedel

    Digitaltechnik Mathematik Elektrotechnik Programmierung

Languages

  • German

    First language

  • English

    Intermediate

Interests

Die Familie
Restauration alter Holzmöbel
Schiffsmodellbau
Motorrad fahren
Meine Firma Fallen Seraph® - Motorcycle Fashion parts & more

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