Roland Arendes

Leadership of Corporate IT teams (Microsoft-, Linux-, VMware- and Database Teams). Core Team Member of Culture Change Projects within the group - Work Smart (Office 365) and Service Management (ServiceNow). Corporate Data Center Management, Hybrid Cloud Initiatives and Cloud Connectivity of Enterprises.

Dedicated sabbatical for focussing and researching

Building up a new IT department from a former enterprise in a carved out now mid tier company. Implementing an IT Service Management process based on ITILv3. Introducing and ramp up of SAP support infrastructure, Operational SAP Basis Support. Strategic and operational responsibility and administration of all IT Systems. Administration of private cloud systems, Windows, Linux and LAN/WAN/Firewalls. Managing customer connectivity via VPN. Service Management to SAP consulting companies.

Implementing global IT strategy in and leadership of the local IT of the site. Documentation of local IT processes and migration to corporate IT teams. Administration of all local IT Systems (Windows, Linux, VMware).

Conception, Ramp Up and Administration of an HA solution based on VMware vSphere on SAN/NAS storage. Administration and strategy development of all Unix-, Linux- and Windows Server Systems. Definition and Design of internal IT standards and processes and their documentation. Development of a data backup concept based on the operational business requirements for servers and workstations. Administration of Microsoft SQL, Oracle DB and MySQL database systems.

SAP Basis (System-, User and Permission Management) and Oracle DB Administration. Conception, Implementation and Operation of an Oracle DB backup solution and SAP archiving based on optical WORM media. Participation in the on-call duty of SLA-based IT services.

Moderator of the national customer bulletin board. Firewalling and hardening of the feed servers used for signal broadcasting. Implementing a VPN site-to-site connectivity based on vtund/openVPN between linux systems. Administration of the IRC server as an interactive customer interface to the anchorman.

Industry 4.0, Configuration Management Databases, Architectural Patterns. Topic of M.Sc. Thesis: "Configuration Management in Industry 4.0 (IoT) scenarios"​. Winner of "Franz-Wagner-Preis" award for high degree of innovation and academic achievements.

Topic of B.Sc. Thesis: "Low-end devices and Industry 4.0 (IoT) – Evaluation and prototypical concepts"​