Peter Gerner

Background

About Peter Gerner

Result driven technical leader with over 15 years IT expertise on the administration, engineering and managerial field, primarily on Wintel platform, in vastly multicultural, non-hierarchical environments. Designs, develops, integrates and supports infrastructure solutions with the target to cut costs, leverage best practices and provide a clear and elastic way for organizational growth. Familiar with Microsoft Windows, VMware, Symantec, Cisco, HP, F5 enterprise products and solutions. Successfully attained ISO27001 certification for his organizational unit. PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Implement measurable responsibility and accountability in the IT support (ticketing, KPIs, processes)- IT Budget planning for projects and organizational units - Organizational change management (functional reorganization, integration, merging)- Pre-sales support as CTO for complex solutions TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - Over 15 successful Active Directory migration of international merging companies to a world-wide network users)- Design, implement and support a regional enterprise data-center serving 8 countries and 15 business units in the Asia-Pacific (1.1M$ budget)- Design and implement an extensive monitoring and automation solution using Microsoft System Center solution (SCOM, SCSM, SCO) COST MANAGEMENT - Centralize I&O functions on the regional level (messaging, access control, hosting, support), reducing the operational cost by 15%- Automate software and hardware asset follow-up (obsolescence, license management)- Transform a cost-center to an internal provider, achieving higher user satisfaction with zero P&L - Migrate to an internal cloud solution to facilitate unpredictable, short-term solution needs without investment and amortization engagement - Organize the DCIM support using ITIL best practices to cover the regional needs (1200 user, 130 server, 21 TB storage in 15 business units in 8 different countries) by 4 FTE only