Volker Sameske
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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.
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
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