About Me

Michael has worked with global high-tech companies and has been responsible for worldwide standardization initiatives (Intel/Infineon/Siemens). His focus is on transformation, standardization, and international organizations. Michael collaborates with clients to implement innovative strategies that consistently exceed their expectations.

Michael also coaches international teams and managers of global organizations. He drives standardization and change initiatives, and leads stakeholders to commit and cope with change. Michael helps teams and managers enhance business value through increased awareness, striving to maximize the positive effects of cultural diversity.

Sustainability and the achievement of long-term value are Michael’s commitments.

Profile

Expert in managing international teams in a global environment
Certified senior project manager and Scrum master
M&A transformation expert implementing global standards
Effective communicator successfully managing conflict and resistance
Committed to people management

Experience

5+ years as IT Director leading engineering teams in global organizations
10+ years as leader of global projects
20+ years overall in global high-tech industry (Siemens/Infineon/Intel)

Testimonials

"I would like to give special recognition to Michael for all the planning, guidance, and hard work during the migration of our legacy Manufacturing Execution System to the corporate standard solution. Michael's profile has been exactly what we needed - a true leader with experience in M&A integration and technology transformation."

Chitvuttichot Pongyut, Head of Manufacturing, Semiconductor Manufacturer, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Projects managed (excerpt)

M&A

Led multiple IT M&A transitions, driving revenue growth for business units. Successfully identified risks, negotiated contracts, resolved conflicts, and ensured compliance throughout the process.
Conducted analysis of IT services within acquired companies, crafting and executing tailored transition roadmaps for each service. Aligned transitions with business unit requirements and global IT strategy.
Streamlined the integration of technology environments to align with parent company standards. Effectively merged acquired IT teams into the existing corporate IT organization.

Service Delivery

Enabled machine vision learning by building an on-premise Big Data Cloud with artificial intelligence tools to handle image data to be captured, processed, and analyzed.
Built IT services for 4000+ R&D engineers globally: high performance computing, virtualization, data analysis, storage, and application hosting.
Developed a progressive web application for mobile devices (HTML/JS/CSS). Defined and implemented monetization strategy via ads and in-app purchases.

Transformation

Established a DevOps culture by implementing DevOps and Agile practices: Scrum, Kanban, Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Delivery, Feedback Learning Culture.
Executed global vendor consolidation. Merged scope of 12 legacy vendors to 2 strategic partners. Offshored application services to near- and offshore partners.
Built an IT service organization managing 15 data centers supporting 4000+ R&D engineers. Formed a true global organization by merging site- and regional teams.

Operational Excellence

Established a 24h service desk by creating regional hubs to provide follow-the-sun support for incident- and change management.
Introduced ITIL Service Management to better align IT services with the needs of the business.
Defined service strategy, roadmap, and execution plan to improve operations practices and ensure high reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure and application ecosystem.

Standardization

Standardized business intelligence architecture on 9 locations with 12000+ users. Phased out legacy applications and deployed a central solution.
Enabled cross department R&D collaboration by standardizing global IT services and infrastructure in multiple data centers.
Standardized software development workflow on 13 R&D locations to help application engineers to develop and exchange code cross-regional.

Certifications

■ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect Associate

■ International Project Management Association (IPMA) Senior Project Manager
■ Certified Scrum Master
■ Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – Certified Agilist

Technical Specialties

Infrastructure: Linux, Windows, server, storage, NAS, SAN, virtualization, hosting, high performance batch computing, private cloud, public cloud (AWS), backup and restore

Software engineering: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, C++, SQL, database, Progressive Web Apps, cloud services (AWS)

DevOps: Scrum, Kanban, Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing, Feedback Learning Culture, Hackathons, Scaled Agile Framework

Projects