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Name of Firm: Program Planning Professionals.
Name and address: HOLGER RIX
73 Willow Lea
Tonbridge
Kent
TN10 3RQ
United Kingdom
Home: +44 1732 367 207
Mobile: +44 794 753 4834
E-mail: holgerrix@aol.com
Year of Birth: 1953
Position/Specialisation in Firm: Account Manager/Program Manager/Partner Engagement Manager
Years with Firm: Since 1999
Career Summary
Holger is an accomplished Programme manager with 15 years of experience, delivering complex IT projects in a variety of industries. He has a proven track record of delivery in a in a number of areas covering IT strategy, Partner Management, IT Infrastructure, Partner engagement, Company Audits, Contract negotiations, Service Provider Services, Project Management, Internet/intranet, service desk, service strategies and implementation. Holger’s experience is underpinned by an assertive yet diplomatic management style that has allowed him to achieve results on even the most complex and politically sensitive Programmes.
Work History:
Program Planning Professionals, United Kingdom 1999 – Present
Cisco Systems.
Independent Software Vendor Manager.
ISV Programme Manager for Cisco Systems coordinating 3rd party ISV activities in a programme to create “best of breed” Operational Support Systems (OSS), to allow Service Providers to drive down the operational cost of delivering a service to their customers.
Responsible for selected Partner(s) commercial and technical performance within the Service Provider Line of Business.
Company audit for new entrants and ongoing yearly re-audits to the SPS Ecosystem covering Finance, Management, Organisation, Products, Product quality, Training and Support to assess whether a company is satisfies the membership criteria of the SPS Ecosystem.
Other responsibilities included driving Cisco revenue generation through partnerships and the product portfolio, negotiating contract conditions with 3rd party partners and vendors on behalf of Cisco Systems and driving marketing initiatives through Cisco and partner marketing departments to Service Providers.
Cisco Systems.
System Integrator Programme Manager (Service Provider Line Of Business, Cisco New World EcoSystem)
Programme Manager for Cisco Systems working with the following system integrators: CG E&Y, KPMG, Hewlett Packard, Managing 2 Programmes with responsibility for the deliverables from the 3 system integrators and 10 independent software vendors. This involved direct responsibility for the portfolio of 19 concurrent projects.
Cisco Systems Partner Engagement Manager (Service Provider Line Of Business, Cisco New World EcoSystem)
Partner Engagement Manager for Cisco Systems working with third party system integrators. Responsible for selected Partner(s) commercial and technical performance within the Service Provider Line of Business (SPLoB).
Management of Partner engagements in specific sales opportunities, to include but not limited to: resource management, commercial management (agreements), price negotiations, capabilities assessment, integration of partner responses and escalation management
Planning, development, implementation and life cycle management of New World Ecosystem partnerships, to include but not limited to: delivery of agreed projects within agreed budget, timeframe and delivery of agreed commercial and technical commitments (e.g. marketing, resources, training, laboratories, demonstration facilities, solutions); achievement of commercial goals (e.g. revenue, volume, market share)
Deutsche Bank
Project manager for setting up a portfolio management system for GCIT-OBS in Deutsche Bank London.
Phase 1 involved gathering information on all of the IT project initiatives being undertaken across the globe and consolidating them into a portfolio management system. Phase 2 was the initiation and supervision of a central PMO to manage the global IT portfolio.
Hewlett Packard United Kingdom 1998 – 1999
Project Manager/Program Manager, Hewlett Packard 1998 - 1999
Project Manager/Program Manager for a World wide facility management and Common Desktop environment (Windows NT) covering 900 servers and 30000 workstations located in 43 countries for Hewlett Packard UK.
The following areas where covered by the contract: Order management, Technical asset management, Deployment, Services implementation (Service Desk, Hardware Maintenance, Software maintenance, Server installation, Critical Systems Support) with responsibility for Scope of Work, project plan, process design, customer liaison to board level, for the following main countries France, Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom.
NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S 1987 - 1998
Consulting Engineers and Planners
IT-manager for Nellemann, Nielsen & Rauschenberger A/S with full responsibility for all aspects of IT and Telecom, strategy, budgets, project management, staff (10) and reporting to board level.
Internet solution, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Project manager for planing and implementation of an Internet solution based on an AIX-UNIX platform and Netscape server software with responsibility for project plans, technical design, sub contractors, implementation and budget
Implementation of financial solution, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Project manager for upgrading Concorde XAL 2.5 (DOS) to Concorde XAL 2.6 with a change of platform to AIX-UNIX and Oracle database with responsibility for project plans, sub contractors, SLA, implementation and budget
New software and Intranet, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Project manager for planing and implementation of a platform change from WordPerfect, Quarto Pro, and DrawPerfect to Microsoft Office 97. Implementation of an Intranet solution, based on Novell GroupWise 4.1 and Internet WEB server, with responsibility for project plans, technical design, SLA, sub contractors, implementation and budget
Platform chance, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Project manager for planing and implementation of a platform change from DOS to Windows 95 on 650 workstations responsibility for project plans, implementation/rollout and budget (£75,000)
Duration: 1 Month.
Network Infrastructure, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Project manager for change of LAN and WAN infrastructure in Nellemann, Nielsen & Rauschenberger A/S's main office and 5 branches nation wide for a total of 650+ workstations and 17 servers with responsibility for Scope of work (SLA), project plan, sub contractors, implementation and budgets
Merger, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Responsible for IT-part of Abrahamsen & Nielsen A/S in connection with the merger of the two companies (75 workstations).
Merger, NELLEMANN, NIELSEN & RAUSCHENBERGER A/S
Responsible for IT-part of Nellemann A/S in connection with the merger of the two companies (130 workstations).
Danish Defense Centre of Management (FCL).
The employment at FCL included the teaching of leaders and intermediate leaders, planning, preparation and implementation of an efficient and targeted education, elaboration of self-instructive teaching material as teaching pamphlets and data procured teaching on PC (CBT).
Consultant in questions regarding teaching technology.
Education
· Focus Project Manager (Hewlett Packard’s structured project manager tool) 1998
· Project manager (DEIU, Danish Engineers in service training, structured project manager tools) 1997
· Novell NetWare 4.11 Administration. (CNA) 1997
· Operation and support courses (Network, PC), Internet Course.1997
· Operation and support courses (Novell NetWare 4.0 and 4.11), 1994-1998
· AIX RS6000 IBM UNIX Consultant Course, 1991
· AIX RS6000 IBM UNIX Introduction Course, 1991
· Novell NetWare Supervisor Course, 1990
· Specialist teacher in teaching technology, 1984 – 1987
· Self confrontation using TV media as tool, 1985
· TV media production Course I, 1984
· TV media production Course II, 1984
· Course in data procured teaching (Danish) (DFU) and the use of Comcats teach software, 1984
· Interview technical training, 1984
· Course for leaders and intermediate leaders, 1984
· Management and teaching Course for general in-service training of sergeants in the group of regulars. Result: No. 3 out of 45, 1982
· Management and teaching course, 1981
· Teaching technological course for subdivision, 1981
Project Management, Computer and Manufacturing Skills
· MS Project 98, Focus PM, DIEU-PM, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, Visio, Internet, Unix, and Novell NetWare.
General
· Languages: English (fluent), Danish (fluent), Norwegian (intermediate), and Swedish (intermediate), Tagalog (Learning)