25 years of experience in IT infrastructure, information security and international IT/OT environments - from strategy, governance and budget to technical acceptance in live operations.
Open to permanent leadership roles and to fixed-term mandates in Austria and Europe - on-site, hybrid or remote.
Employers & mandates - selectionT&F Agriculture · GroupDF International · MIPT CET · RWGG · Transkor-K · GMAC CIS · Auto3P · M-Skou IT · Digisky · Astern Energy · Rhinestone · Greenfield
Permanent
For industry, energy and international groups: building and leading the IT organisation, budget and vendor accountability, security governance, board reporting. Open to long-term commitment - including equity and board-track perspectives.
Interim & project leadership
For companies that need leadership for a defined period: bridging a vacancy, transformation phases, building an IT organisation - with a clearly scoped remit and a defined outcome.
IT strategy, operating models, building and leading IT organisations, reporting lines up to executive management.
Information security as a risk discipline: access control, incident analysis, data-protection and export-compliance practice.
Separation and interplay of IT and control systems in production environments; security and backup architecture from day one.
Windows Server, virtualisation, Citrix/VDI, networks, migrations - built from scratch or modernised in place, always operable.
Tenders, TCO evaluation, negotiation, acceptance and the transition from contractors to internal teams.
Digital products with full ownership: web platforms, native clients, subscription operations - architecture to support.
Situation: fragmented IT landscape across several countries, geopolitically unstable environment, strict regulatory and export-compliance requirements.
Approach: unified infrastructure and security strategy, reorganisation with zero downtime, consistent vendor governance, secured communications for the leadership level.
Result: uninterrupted operations through several crisis years; consolidation of the telephony and communications landscape; governance that holds up in front of auditors and partners.
Situation: multi-site project (city office, engineering base, production sites) without a defined IT organisation, operated by external contractors.
Approach: design of the IT operating model, clear separation of IT vs. OT/control-systems responsibility, definition of the specialist structure, plan for the transition from contractors to an internal team.
Result: a sustainable operating model with defined interfaces to international technology partners; security and backup architecture planned in from the start.
Situation: outdated local infrastructure, distributed team, no internal IT.
Approach: hardened Windows Server domain with remote desktops and file services on European cloud infrastructure, controlled data migration, corporate telephony and company website.
Result: ongoing, managed operations as an external IT partner - delivery, documentation and accountability from a single source.
Situation: start-up phase of a research organisation: six employees, one office, no infrastructure.
Approach: built virtualisation, private cloud, compute clusters and a helpdesk; IT planning for a new R&D facility; growing the IT function alongside the organisation - from IT manager to CIO.
Result: uninterrupted research operations through years of growth and several relocations.
Situation: a growing store network with POS, warehouse, logistics and staff processes and no unified system.
Approach: concept and full-stack delivery of one platform: point of sale, warehouse with scanning, logistics, HR and role-based dashboards for management and accounting.
Result: a working end-to-end system across all roles - proof that concept, delivery and operations can come from a single source.
Situation: the need for trustworthy, secured remote access with the standards of a commercial service - not a hobby project.
Approach: as a founder: distributed European server infrastructure, own Android and Windows clients, subscription management, monitoring and support - product ownership from architecture to operations.
Result: a live service with real users; P&L, product and operational responsibility in one person.
Further mandates are covered by non-disclosure agreements and are not shown here. Specifics can be discussed in person, within what those agreements allow. References on request (after an initial conversation).
Work outside permanent employment - as an external IT partner and as a product owner.
Replaced two hypervisor hosts with a single Dell R640, migrated the domain including directory services and terminal server, deployed SQL Server 2025 for the ERP - without interrupting operations.
Domain, web server with the corporate site, a separate SFTP file server and expense tracking; dashboard covering server health and accounting.
Two coupled phone systems in two countries: calls from the CRM are routed by destination number, and the customer sees a local number in each market.
Self-hosted PBX on a dedicated server, Austrian phone number, calls from the app and straight from the browser (WebRTC); optional transcription and call summaries.
Own product: training, nutrition and sleep data drive a digital twin - tracking, sober projections, progress compared over time.
Interactive graph built straight from source: 2,441 nodes, 197 clusters, function and database relationships - a tool for reviews, handovers and onboarding.
Security as a governance duty: access and vendor control, incident analysis, reporting lines to leadership - lived practice in international environments with data-protection and export-compliance requirements. Not a list of tools, but accountability.
Legal education complementing the technical career: contracts, liability, compliance and vendor control are handled with a legal eye - a working advantage in regulated environments.
Raised in Austria, based in Vienna; German as a native language. References on request; ready for background screening. Work strictly within the legal framework - including environments with sanctions and export-compliance requirements.
The real problem first. Build systems that stay operable. Total cost, not purchase price. Verify results personally - responsibility does not end with the presentation.
Responsible for IT operations and information security; continuation of international infrastructure and security programmes.
IT security and infrastructure strategy across 7+ countries; operational continuity and secured communications in a geopolitically demanding environment.
Full infrastructure from scratch; IT design for a new R&D facility; building the IT organisation.
Global 24/7 support function built from zero, aligned with ITIL.
Recovery and modernisation of a deteriorated IT landscape; AD, communications, security.
Banking-grade processing environments, Solaris/Oracle, AV and digital-signage systems (Digisky), international vendors - including interim IT director roles.
Full CV with company names available to recruiters; references on request after an initial conversation.
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