IT Manager EMEA & APJ – Brocade GmbH

Infrastructure Services Datacenter and Remote

Support of EMEA and APJ company departments in all aspects of the IT Infrastructure

  • Administrative Support and Hands-on
  • Lifecycle Management – Plan, buy, deploy, maintain, dispose
  • Data Protection and Security
  • Datacenter Lab Services – resources required by developers, testers, pre- and post-sales support teams and others on an on-demand basis.

Client Management/SD/EUS (Level 1-3)

Control of the IT organization in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, customer experience and satisfaction, as well as productivity and Service Quality Improvement

  • End User Support – all aspects of User Support
  • ITSM Integration – Migration from Footprints to Remedy Force
  • Process calibration – revising processes on a regular basis and calibrate the ones which are not up to date anymore
  • SLA and KPI monitoring – monitor SLAs and KPIs in the End User Support and Infrastructure area
  • Management Scorecard – Excel based IT Scorecard
  • User Training – train users on important topics, some based on the outcomings of the Scorecard, some because of the introduction of new apps

Workplace Services

  • Hardware Lifecycle Management – End User Devices Lifecycle management
  • Define Hardware Standards – creation of a Global Hardware Catalog for the EUS organisation
  • Rollouts –
  • Compliance – Data Protection, Compliance for Computer and Mobile Devices
  • Security –
  • MDM – Data Protection, Compliance for Mobile Devices
  • Office Moves and relocations –

Customer Experience

  • improvement of customer satisfaction
  • service quality,
  • efficiency and effectiveness.

Professional development and disciplinary leadership

Career Development

  • Bi-annual Assessment of Employees Performances and Competences
  • Mentoring and Personnel Planning

Employee engagement

  • Plan and execute on the company’s strategies in increasing EEs engagement

ITIL Process development and implementation

  • Major Incident Process rollout
  • 24/7 Global Service Desk Operations (follow the sun) rollout
  • ITSM Reporting, SLA score improvement, KPI monitoring

Project Management

  • Plan, control and monitor critical IT projects in the infrastructure, end customer and service desk areas
  • ITSM Migration, O365 Rollout, SkyCure & Airwatch POC, CrashPlan upgrade/Legal Holds
  • Applications Rollout Strategy, Major Incident Rollout, Linux and Mac Management (Jamf Rollout)
  • Windows 10 Rollout, PulseSecure Rollout.

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