Easy-to-integrate team player with demonstrated combination of visionary thinking and attention to details.

Permanent business driver, who always acts on opportunities of improvement.

• Over 14 years of multi-national business experience in:
  • Venture management
  • Financial management and banking
  • Information technology implementations
  • Quality assurance

• Well-exposed to private corporations from Silicon Valley start-ups to worldwide leaders with positions held in finance, software development, and consulting.

• Additional work experience in the military and public sectors.

Foreign language knowledge in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian.

Outstanding academic record with BA/BS and MBA degrees in Economic Sciences, Political Economy, and Business Administration. Studied at 4 universities in 3 countries in only 4 years, in part with academic performance-based scholarships from the European Union and from German and U.S. states.

Telecommunications Manager (Since 07/2001)
Responsible for design, implementation, operation and maintenance of all voice, video, data and security communications systems.

• Design and implementation of a Cisco Systems-acclaimed high-performance optical, wired and wireless data network at a new state-of-the-art civic center. (See Cisco Systems iQ Magazine, Q2/2004.) It was 80% cheaper to purchase and implement than the originally proposed solution and delivers more than 10 times the throughput with many additional features.
• Continuous expansion of the metropolitan area optic fiber network infrastructure. All core sites and most remote sites have been connected with full path redundancy.
• Comprehensive data center networking upgrades, including full path and equipment redundancy using optic fiber links. Implementation of new ISP connectivity, VPN and firewall security, and remote video-conferencing.
• Exhaustive cost analysis and implementation of detailed reporting facilities for the switched and wireless telephone infrastructure. Immediate cost savings in excess of 60% realized.
• Test and acceptance of many innovative solutions, such as video surveillance and public safety mobile networking. Ensured operational status of Emergency Ooperations Centers.

Network Manager (12/1999-07/2001)
Responsible for operation and maintenance of all data communications systems.

• Consolidation, upgrade and maintenance of the original electronic mail server infrastructure using Microsoft best practices.
• Standardization of the entire equipment and wiring specifications throughout all sites, resulting in great cost and administration time savings. Centralization of all server systems in a single data center.
• Orchestrated no-downtime moves of all data communications to and from the temporary civic center site.
• Implemented first organization-wide anti-virus security solution on over 600 workstations and servers.

• Advisor for e-Xtended Enterprise Solutions (05/1999-10/1999)
  Project: Integration of personnel and products of Crescendo Services, Inc. after merger.
• Director SAP Training (06/1998-10/1999)
  Project: Design, construction and start-up of a Technology Center.
• Resource Manager (08/1997-06/1998)
  Senior technical recruiter for SAP R/3 consultants worldwide.