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Textfeld:                                                                

                                                               Ernst Ditges 

                                                               2 Jainba St

                                                               Indooroopilly, 4068 QLD

                                                               Australia

 

                                                               Phone:    +61 7 38 78 78 95

                                                               Mobile:    +61 420 499 280

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                                                               Date of birth:   06/07/1956

                                                               Place of birth: Herzebrock, Germany

                                                               Nationality:       German

                                    

 

 


 Professional experience:

 01/2007 – ongoing         Managing Director DFIS Technology

·         Development and marketing and sales of integrated telemetry solutions

·         Covering all steps from idea, design, HW development, programming to marketing and sales

·         uP based HW development (ATmEL)

·         Programming in Visual Basic, embedded Visual Basic, BASCOM, C++

 10/2006 – 12/2007          Leader of competence centre “IT Architecture service and Enterprise management”

                                         Siemens Business Services GmbH and Co. OHG (SBS)

                                         Department System integration / IT transformation                

                 

·         Development and management of the competence centre “IT Architecture service and Enterprise management”, with a team of 33 employees

·         Responsible for the realisation of IT architecture service and IT Enterprise consulting projects

·         Cost centre responsibility

 10/2000 – 09/2006          Team leader “IT Architecture service“

                                         Siemens Business Services GmbH and Co. OHG (SBS)

                                         Department System integration / IT transformation

 

·         Development and management of the group “IT Architecture service”, with a team of 10 employees

·         Responsible for the realisation of IT Architecture service consulting projects

·         Realisation of key projects in the area IT consulting

 10/1996 – 09/2000          Team leader “Data Warehouse”

                                         Siemens Nixdorf (SNI)

                                         Department System engineering

                                        

·         Management of the group “Data Warehouse”, with a team of 12 employees

·         Responsible for the realisation of Data Warehouse- and “Very Large Database Projects”

 01/1991 - 09/1996          Leader of the “Customer Benchmark Centre”

                                         Siemens Nixdorf (SNI)

                                         Department System engineering

 

·         Management of the group “Customer Benchmark Centre”, with a team of 10 employees

·         Responsible for the realisation and presentation of Customer Benchmarks on high end UNIX platforms, R/3-Benchmarking, R/3-Sizing, R/3 System consulting. 

01/1990 - 12/1990           Further Training “Leader of complex projects”

                                         Nixdorf Computer AG (NCAG)

 

·         One year training programme of Siemens Nixdorf Information system PLC for the role “leader of complex projects”.

·         Aim: Professionally manage the complex tasks of a leader of large scale projects.

·         Internal and external training within various projects.

01/1984 – 12/1989          Team leader “Process Automation”

                                         Nixdorf Computer AG (NCAG)

                                         Department Production technology and automation

 

·         Management of a professional group with a team of up to 8 employees

·         Responsible for the conception, implementation/ programming, and introduction of control systems for the process automation at Nixdorf manufacturing sites worldwide

·         Development of a memory-programmable controller (PLC)

 06/1980 – 12/1983         Development Engineer “Process Automation”

                                         Nixdorf Computer AG (NCAG)

                                         Department Production technology and automation

 

                                         Conception, implementation/ programming, and introduction of control systems for the process automation at Nixdorf manufacturing sites

  


Education:

 

1976 – 1980                     Electrical engineering, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld (Fachhochschule Bielefeld), Germany
Degree: Dipl. Ingenieur (FH) (Diploma in engineering equivalent to a Master degree) 

1975 / 1976                      Technical college for electrical engineering, Gütersloh Qualification: Advanced technical college entrance qualification 

1972 – 1975                     Apprenticeship as an / specialisation: Electronics
Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn

                                         Qualification: Trade certificate electrical technician/ specialisation: Electronics 

1963 -1972                       Elementary school Herzebrock, secondary school Harsewinkel Conclusion: Middle maturity

 


Professional development/ qualifications:              

      2005                                                                    ITIL, “Foundation Certificate IT service management”  

2004                                 Advanced security examination “Ü2” according to §9 SÜG to work on armed forces projects  

1990 / 1991                      One-year internal training in large-scale project leadership  

 


IT Skills:

·         Assembler

·         Pascal (UCSD-Pascal / Turbo-Pascal)

·         Visual Basic / embedded Visual Basic

·         SQL

·         Microsoft Office

 


Languages:

·         German, native

·         English, business fluent

 


Hobbies:                 

·         Soaring (Glider pilot; competition & instruction)

·         Programming of “Glider Information systems”

·         Sports

·         International travel
  


Project Experience:                                    

 

2007 - ongoing                 Development and marketing of temeletry solutions

                                         Covering all phases: Idea, design, development and marketing of telemetry solutions on self employed base. Data capturing, transmission and processing in the business segments gastronomy/catering and aviation. Business plans, HW design & testings, SW design, programming, testing. Marketing of the solutions.      

2005 - 2006                      Introduction of central server scenery for standard applications

Role in the project: Entrepreneur

Development and realisation of the business idea “Central hosting of standard applications for pensioners and middle-class enterprises”. Business planning, partnering (with the city carrier "BITel"), concept development of Thin Client architecture, central server architecture, application environment, operational concept. Realisation of the solution with the partner BITel. Marketing of the solution concept to other prospective customers (worldwide).

2005 - 2006                      Consulting IT system technology and IT system management

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

Consultation for the customer “Municipal utility of Bremen” and optimisation of their IT systems, cost savings through SLA adaptations and support with the selection of core applications.

(Municipal utility, Bremen)

2005 - 2006                      Development of a “Team flight and security system” based on existing anti collision systems for gliders (private project)

Real time processing of flight data from several gliders in the same airspace. Data evaluation and visual indication of team flight and safety information.

2005                                 Development of a new Data Centre infrastructure on SOA basis

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

IT requirements analysis, concept development, and presentation of a new system scenery for Banking Core applications to the customer "Gazprom Bank" in Moscow on the basis of an IT SOA architecture.

(Gazprom Bank, Moscow)

2004                                 Disaster Recovery Assessments

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

Realisation of Disaster Recovery Assessments for the customer DaimlerChrysler in the main Data Centres of Milton Keynes (UK), Vitoria (Spain), Madrid, Rome, Paris, Melbourne, Hambach (France), Rastatt, Sindelfingen, and Bremen. Besides weakness analyses, solutions were also developed and evaluated. Results were documented and introduced in presentations.

(Daimler Chrysler, worldwide)

2003 - 2004                      Project management “Development and introduction of infrastructure for a new data centre”

Role in the project: Overall project manager

Management of the project “Development and introduction of a new Data Centre infrastructure” for the customer Siemens A&D in Erlangen, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Fürth, Amberg, Chemnitz, Regensburg.
Wintel servers, Blade servers, Solaris partition servers, EMC SAN-and NAS-Storage systems as well as ADIC robots were installed. Besides the systems, applications were installed and configured; the data backup / recovery and a multi-site disaster concept was implemented. 

(Siemens A&D, across Germany) 

2003                                                                   Conception of data distribution to 4,000 final devices

Role in the project: Project manager data distribution

Conception of data distribution to 4,000 final devices via WAN (DEKRA, Stuttgart) 

2001 - 2003                      Conception / introduction of a new “Central server environment”

Role in the project: Project manager central IT systems

Conception / introduction of a new “central server scenery” incl. load test, sizing, middleware, database systems

(DEKRA, Stuttgart)  

2000                                 Conception of a “Digital thermal map to optimize long distance gliding flights” (private project)

Automated loading / gathering of flight log files from the internet. Loading the flight log data into a database. Analysis and aggregation of log data taking into account various meteorological parameters. Loading the aggregated thermal data into existing flight information systems. Practical tests.  

1999                                 Storage- and Server-consolidation

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

(German post, Berlin)  

1998                                 IT Weak spot analysis and Troubleshooting

DWH project

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

(German post, Darmstadt & Stralsund)  

1997 - 1998                      IT conceptions in presales phases

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

(Turkish customs, Ankara; Berlin police, Berlin) 

1997                                 IT-Assessment / Weak spot analysis

Role in the project: Senior IT System Architect

(German customs, Frankfurt; Medscheme, South Africa) 

1996                                 R/3-Benchmark 1,000 ++ SD user world champion

Role in the project: Project manager

(SAP / Fujitsu-Siemens, Walldorf)
 

1995 – 1998                     Development of a “Flight information system for gliders”

                                         (private project)

Conception and design of the entire system including hardware, software, firmware, interfaces, data management, user interface. Software implementation, hardware assembly / integration. Practical tests. Analysis of flight data gathered. 

1991 - 1995                      SAP R/3 system integration

Role in the project: Project manager

·         system integration of SAP R/3 on Siemens Nixdorf UNIX systems (SAP Walldorf)

·         production of a R/3 Sizing concept / tool

·         realisation of R/3-Sizings

·         system requirement analysis in R/3-projects (e.g., AST Ireland, ZF Nuremberg)

·         customer presentations of R/3 system technology, R/3 configuration, R/3 sizing

·         training sales employees in R/3 system technology

(SAP, Walldorf) 

1987 - 1988                      Development of a memory-programmable controller (PLC)

Role in the project: Project manager & System engineer

Full responsibility for the development and introduction of Nixdorf’s own memory-programmable controller. Overall conception, hardware and mechanical specifications, software design, and implementation of the PLC operating system and the development environment; PLC data link interfaces. Firmware development of integrated stepping motor controls and serial interfaces. Documentation and introduction of the PLC (at all Nixdorf manufacturing sites and as part of Nixdorf’s internal apprenticeships).

(Nixdorf Computer, Paderborn) 

1980 - 1990                      Automation of manufacturing processes

Role in the project: System engineer

Conception, implementation / programming and introduction of controls for process automation at Nixdorf manufacturing sites Paderborn, Berlin, Cologne, Singapore, Toledo

·         paint-spray line control

·         paint-spray robot integration

·         handling robot- welding, engraving- control

·         process control for magnetic disc manufacturing

·         assembly- conveyor belt controls

·         display heat endurance test control

·         automated guided vehicles (AGV) integration

·         drilling machine control

·         print head intake system control

·         ….

(Nixdorf Computer, Paderborn / Berlin / Cologne / Singapore / Toledo)
 


Competencies:                    

Personnel management

Responsible for personnel / authority to issue directives for teams of up to 33 employees including

·         Assignment and control of tasks

·         Supervision of work load and quality

·         Planning of personnel development from basic to advanced training measures

·         Applicant selection, wage negotiation, staff meetings  

·         Realisation of reorganisation measures

·         Integration of personnel and employee representative bodies

·         Responsible for / supervision of dissertations 

Cost centre responsibility

·         Development, organisation, and management of a team / Competence centre with a volume of approx. 6 Mil. euros per year according to business, economic, and personnel targets

·         Planning of the business with respect to employee delegation, satisfaction of sales and result targets, cost control

·         Expansion of the range of services offered and adjustment to market demands with a focus on system architecture/ system integration

·         Sales-oriented acquisition of consulting orders

·         Preparation and calculation of offers

·         Negotiation and signing of contracts

·         Organisation of project realisation including planning, pricing, service definition, project management, scheduling, integration of partners, risk assessment, project controlling

·         Introduction of an efficient business organisation, implementation of measures to evaluate target achievement, reporting, awareness of cost centre responsibility

Professional responsibilities

·         Customer presentations

·         IT requirements analysis

·         IT weak spot analysis

·         Development of IT system concepts focussing on

o        Server

o        Storage

o        SAN

o        High availability

o        Backup / Recovery

o        Cluster

o        Database

o        Operation / Monitoring

·         Management of complex IT projects

o        Project volumes:> 12 Mil. €

o        Project employees:> 50

o        Project duration:> 9 months 

Methods

·         ITIL (IT Service Management) Certification

·         Chestra Project management

·         Chestra Proposal management

·         IT-Assessment (requirement-/ weakness analysis)

·         FMEA (risk assessment)

·         ROI- / TCO-Analysis

  

Indooroopilly, June 30, 2009

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