Diplom-Informatiker Univ. (TU)
Heimgartenstr. 25A
D-85716 Unterschleissheim
Germany
| Phone: | +49 (89)-4423893-0 |
| Email: | thomas@thomaskuerten.de |
| URL: | http://www.thomaskuerten.de/ |
| Thomas Kuerten Diplom-Informatiker Univ. (TU) Heimgartenstr. 25A D-85716 Unterschleissheim Germany
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| Professional Profile |
Thomas is a Technical Consultant for Hewlett Packard Services Consulting & Integration. He has been with Compaq / HP since May 2001 and has 7 years of well-founded experience in the Computing Industry. His current focus is on providing consulting for customers by designing Microsoft Enterprise solutions and creating concepts for integrations and migrations. Thomas coordinates projects with several specialists as a Technical Project Leader to provide broader design solutions. Before joining Hewlett-Packard / Compaq Consulting, Thomas was IT service manager for Cable & Wireless in Munich, a British world-wide provider of telecommunications and Internet services. Previously, Thomas ensured Cable & Wireless' Year 2000 readiness as project manager for the Y2K Project in Munich. During his Cable & Wireless employment with regular visits to Paris, France and London or Slough, UK, Thomas gained very good international experiences and interpersonal skills. Thomas is well known for his analytical skills that help to find solutions
even in difficult situations. With theses skills, Thomas has gathered
experiences and knowledge in many different environments, such as professional
Video Conferencing, telecommunication techniques, and, in particular,
Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows. As a technical project manager, Thomas
uses this broad horizon of knowledge to organize and build larger scale
solutions for customers together with other complementary consultants
and specialists. |
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| Work experience | August 2003 - now |
Founder and Head of INITSOL GmbH, Edisonstr. 11, 85716 Unterschleißheim. Duties: Building an IT Service company from scratch to success |
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May 2001 - July 2003
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Technical Consultant for Professional Services Compaq
Computer GmbH, Freischuetzstr. 91, Munich, Germany, later merged into
HP Services Consulting & Integration for Hewlett Packard
GmbH, Dornacher Str. 3, Feldkirchen by Munich, Germany. Duties: Technical project management, conceptual work and consulting for several customer projects (Windows 2000 system design and migration, network restructuring, integration Windows / Unix) Projects: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA), Munich, Germany: Design and implementation of a new Windows 2000 Active Directory Server infrastructure with rollout of 300 PC clients including roaming user concept and software distribution based on RIS and Netinstall 5.5 MAN Roland (Augsburg and Plauen, Germany): Migration for a 3000 user NT4/Novell/Windows 2000 environment, distributed over two locations, into a newly designed Windows 2000 network infrastructure (e.g. DNS, Active Directory) DPMA: Projekt management for the project "New mail infrastructure for the DPMA with an Exchange 2000 Cluster System", including backup, introduction, training) |
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March 2000 - February 2001 |
Service Manager Platforms for Cable & Wireless ECRC, Landsbergerstr.
155, Munich, Germany. Duties: Managing a growing team of 15 permanent and contractored employees for the internal IT Services. Ensuring no failure services through relocation of the main offices in Munich and during the fast headcount growth period from 80 to 260 users. Supporting the European integration of Cable & Wireless with offices in Paris, Vienna and London. Budget responsibility included. |
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April 1999 - February 2000 |
Project Manager Y2K (Year 2000) Project for Cable & Wireless ECRC, Munich, Germany.
Duties: Running the project from scratch to success for the whole German company as a team leader of four people with delegated resources in each department. Mission goals were: Motivation of the company, documentation in the company intranet web pages plus setting and achieving milestones in an incredibly short timeframe. |
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October 1998 - March 1999 |
IT systems administrator at B2B internet provider ECRC Network Services (name changed in 1999 to
Cable & Wireless ECRC), Arabellastr. 14, Munich, Germany. Duties: Internal IT systems and LAN support in heterogenous environment - including Solaris and Windows NT 4 servers, Windows NT 4 and Linux Desktops, working in a group of three Administrators for a fast growing user base from 40 to 80 users. Projects:Netscape Calendar (LDAP / iCalendar client / server tool for company wide integrated date scheduling and resource booking), Unattended setup for Windows NT 4 desktops | ||
| August 1997 - September 1998: | IT support specialist for Germany and Austria at PictureTel GmbH, Feringastr. 6, Unterfoehring,
Germany. Duties: Single responsible person for management of internal systems, office application support and network administration in Germany and Austria, working together with headquarter IT group in Slough, UK. Later including customer support for PictureTel videoconferencing systems as a certified Videoconferencing Engineer |
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| 1996 - July 1997: | Application engineer at Tekelec
Airtronic GmbH, Kapuzinerstr. 9, Munich, Germany. Duties: Technical services and consulting for customers and internal users, including management of the internal network with TCP/IP and Novell 4.11 |
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| May - July 1993, October - December 1993 and May - July 1994: |
Student's programming assistance at the
University of Technology (TU)
in Munich, Germany for the main computer programmers hall (40 HP900
workstations with HP-Unix). Duties: Helping users with questions, programming tasks + exercises and system support | ||
| April 1992 - June 1994: | Part-time student and freelancer at the PC Hotline of
Digital Equipment (DEC Direct) in Munich, Germany. Duties: 1st and 2nd level support on the phone with direct customers, directing on-site support maintenance crews and solving HW and SW issues in the test-lab |
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| March - September 1990: | Part-time student at the Sales division for Digital Equipment GmbH,
Munich, Germany. Duties: Responsible for programming and database services (data collection and queries for the sales team) |
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| Education | 1978 - 1987: | Carl-Orff-Gymnasium Unterschleissheim (Grammar school) | |
| Abitur: | Average grade of 2.6 (A-Levels: Economics, Physics, English, Religious Education) | ||
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1987 - 1988 |
Military service (1. Flugabwehrraketengeschwader 32, Freising) | ||
| 1988 - 1995: | Studies of Computer Science and Economics at the University of Technology, Munich (TU) | ||
| Diplom (MSC): | Total grade 2.3 | ||
| Final year project: | Development of a visualisation tool for the AMG setup-phase data (GUI visualisation programming project for very complex mathematical data tables - solved with very good results) | ||
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| Private interests and activities | Computers, Internet, graphics, music, vehicles, soccer | ||
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| Languages | German, English (good), Italian (some) | ||