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Volker Sameske

Selbstständig, Founder, Quality Management Academy & Einfach Krisenfest
Stuttgart, Germany

Skills

Projekt Management
Software Development
Software Test and Quality Assurance
z/VM and virtualization in general
IBM System z & Mainframes
Quality Management
Engineering Excellence
IT-Security
Management
Release Management
Engineering Maturity
Processes
Continuous Integration
Agile Methods
Test-Automation
Quality Control
Operations
Operational Excellence
Krisenmanagement
Business Continuity Management
Qualitätsmanagement
Leading international teams

Timeline

Professional experience for Volker Sameske

  • Current 1 year and 6 months, since Jan 2024

    Founder

    Quality Management Academy & Einfach Krisenfest

  • Current 1 year and 9 months, since Oct 2023

    Founder and Quality Management Enthusiast

    Quality Management Club

  • 4 years and 7 months, Oct 2019 - Apr 2024

    Head of Corporate Quality Management

    Utimaco

    Global responsibility for Quality Management across all functional units, processes, products, and services.

  • 1 year and 7 months, Apr 2018 - Oct 2019

    Director Quality Engineering

    Cinemo GmbH

    Built-up quality engineering organization from scratch and managed all aspects of quality activities to improve the entire organization's success. Introduced requirement management and other key processes. Transformed the company to achieve an ISO 9001 certification.

  • 2 years and 9 months, Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

    Senior Quality Manager

    Sophos GmbH

    Leading the Quality Management team in the Network Security Group, distributed over locations in Germany, Hungary, Canada and India. Furthermore leading engineering excellence activities and development productivity teams, responsible for test automation, test hardware and test lab, performance and documentation. Responsibility for the cross-functions Quality Management, Architecture, Security and Tooling.

  • 2 years and 3 months, Apr 2013 - Jun 2015

    Manager System z Virtualization Test

    IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH

    Manager of a test team with more than 15 direct reports distributed over two locations in Germany. Worldwide responsibility for the test of virtualization solutions on the System z platform. Functional guidance for test teams in US, India and Brazil. Test architect role within this project. Technical adviser role for Linux on System z distribution test, supporting a test team in India to provide enterprise ready Linux distributions.

  • 1 year and 3 months, Jan 2012 - Mar 2013

    Manager System z Software Information Development

    IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH

    Manager of an international information development team with direct reports from Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and Finland. Delivered high quality documentation for Linux on System z, z/OS, z/VSE, Tivoli and other products. Technical adviser role for Linux on System z distribution test, supporting a test team in India to provide enterprise ready Linux distributions. Test Architect of a major test project with test teams in Germany, US and India.

  • 4 years, 2008 - Dec 2011

    Linux on System z Distribution Test Lead

    IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH

    Responsibility for distribution test planning and execution. Led distribution test teams in Germany, US and India. Quality assurance to provide enterprise ready Linux distributions for IBM zEnterprise servers. Several years experience with leading Indian teams and bridging cultural differences between India and Europe. Presentations on cultural differences.

  • 1999 - 2008

    Software-Developer

    IBM Research & Development

    Linux kernel and user space development for Linux on System z. Major work areas have been storage device driver and tools, high availability, multipathing, SCSI and FCP.

Educational background for Volker Sameske

  • 5 years and 8 months, Sep 1993 - Apr 1999

    Theoretical Mathematics (Dipl. Math.)

    Freiberg University of Mining & Technology (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)

    Specialized in optimization and banking management

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    First language

  • Russian

    Basic

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