Rica Weller

Angestellt, System z SW Technical Leader for Eastern Erope/Middle East/Africa, IBM

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Skills

a strange passion called "mainframe" despite rumor
the desire to do everything fun and entertaining i
also have the capability to talk about business an
tags:
mainframe
system z
IT architecture
business consulting

Timeline

Professional experience for Rica Weller

  • Current 13 years and 2 months, since Mar 2010

    System z SW Technical Leader for Eastern Erope/Middle East/Africa

    IBM

  • Current 13 years and 4 months, since Jan 2010

    System z SW IT Architect

    IBM CEEMEA

  • 2 years and 2 months, Jan 2008 - Feb 2010

    System z SW Technical Sales Leader for Russia & Community of Independent States

    IBM CEEMEA

  • 1 year and 9 months, Apr 2006 - Dec 2007

    Technical Solutions Architect

    IBM NZ Ltd.

    - Designed on demand solution for internet banking infrastructure including servers, middleware, non-application software, storage, networks, and the physical facilities that support the applications and business processes required by the client. - Applied architectural concepts and ensured performance, availability and scalability targets for the infrastructure are met.

  • 1 year and 11 months, May 2004 - Mar 2006

    Senior IT Consultant and ITSO Project Manager

    IBM USA / IBM NZ

    Managed projects and lead teams of SMEs for the ITSO Center to produce Redbooks, course material and technical documents for publication

  • 2 months, Mar 2004 - Apr 2004

    Business Analyst and IT Consultant

    Certus Ltd, New Zealand

    Presented various IBM WebSphere products, analysed business processes and modelled them with IBM WBI Software, and developed Business Process Integration concepts for the IT environment for IBM and Certus customers in the Wellington region.

  • 2 years and 3 months, Nov 2001 - Jan 2004

    Senior IT Consultant

    IBM Development Ltd, Germany

    Consulted customers worldwide on architecture, setup and possible configurations for WebSphere MQWorkflow and WebSphere Application Server on zSeries

  • 2 years and 4 months, Jul 1999 - Oct 2001

    Systems Engineer for S/390 & zSeries

    IBM Germany Ltd.

    Supported S/390 and zSeries Sales Department and customers in the Southwest of Germany in all S/390 technical areas.

Educational background for Rica Weller

  • 2 years and 1 month, Feb 1998 - Feb 2000

    Business Management Systems

    Massey University New Zealand

    Innovation and New Ventures, Business in the Far East, Value Added Human Resource Management, Advanced Management Theory

  • 5 years and 8 months, Oct 1992 - May 1998

    Betriebswirtschaftslehre

    University of Technology Dresden, Germany

    Management Systems, Logistics and Production Management, Controlling

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    First language

  • Russian

    Intermediate

  • Arabic

    Basic

Wants

to find people who are in Dubai and want to meet for chats
exploring the city and country; maybe some female Arabic native speakers who don't mind talking really slow and teaching their mother tongue to a foreigner; new challenges and opportunities in work life

Interests

- learning Arabic and understanding the local culture as quickly as possible - especially in terma of Business - chats and conversations about the world
business
politics
IT
psychology
and everything else deep and meaningful (not the small talk type) - sporty activities such as
hiking
ice skating
inline skating
biking
Yoga
; - cultural activities such as
sightseeing
concerts
movies
plays
festivals

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