
member at VCB & Company LLP
Hamburg Area, Germany

member at VCB & Company LLP
Hamburg Area, Germany
education
He completed his studies in chemistry, oriental studies , computer science and economics at the university of Hamburg with the diploma in chemistry with a diploma thesis from physical chemistry. He prepared a doctoral thesis on a subject from theoretical chemistry and was awarded with excellence to become a doctor rer. nat. Additional subjects of his doctoral examination were computer science and technical chemistry.
experience
Since 1975 Horst Walther operates in the area of information technology. From 1984 on he was successfully acting as a Management Consultant in the business areas automotive, chemistry, pharmaceutics, shipping and banks, insurances and other financial institutions. Recently he focused on insurance companies, banks and the automotive sector.
special skills
Horst Walther has acquired the following special professional skills ...
Identity Management - Process design, Systems evaluation and implementation.
Automated assignment of User privileges, evaluation and implementation of User-Provisioning-Systems,
Implementation of software quality managment
Project management, certified as a project management professional (PMP) by the PMI
Management of off shore-Software development projects
Evaluation and selection of policy management systems for life insurance contracts, "Riester-Pension" and Pensions funds
Dr. Horst Walther is a member of the PMI (Project Management Institute), the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik), the DASMA (Deutschsprachige Anwendergruppe für Software-Metrik and Aufwandschätzung e.V.) and active contributor to the Arbeitskreis Security a chapter of the initiative of Hamburg's Senate Hamburg@work
Dr. Horst Walther, PMP is the president of the SiG Software Integration GmbH in Hamburg. He works as a Management Consultant since more than 20 years. He focuses his expertise on Audits and analysis of the potential of IT-shops and enterprises in the IT-business, Development and assessment of IT-strategies and the implementation of selected strategic actions of information management, like security management, project management and identity management.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
Program Management Core Banking Systems,
Unified Front-End System,
Business Continuity Management,
QA & Testing
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2006 — Present (3 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Continous Project & Risk Monitoring
Mentoring
Interim Management
Contract / Issue / Cooperation Monitoring
Project Office Automation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1997 — Present (11 years 8 months)
IT-Audits
IT-Strategy Development
Project Management in large international projects
Management of off-shore development sites
Identity Management Consulting
Corporate Culture Assessments
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2009 (8 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — 2008 (3 years)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1993 — December 1997 (5 years)
providing IT-strategy development, software related consulting services, project management and Quality Management to banks and large and medium sized insurance companies.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1991 — December 1992 (2 years)
Leading a Team of up to 25 software Professionals of the GENESiS Ges.m.b.H in Klagenfurt / Austria. Definition, introduction and fine-tuning of the enterprise software development process, design of the software development platform for the 90th, sales support, responsibility for the ‚leasing’-department with two large and innovative development projects.
(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1989 — December 1991 (3 years)
‘Manager’ at KPMG Consulting and Nolan Norton & Co. in Frankfurt, implementation of Methodology- and CASE-Tool-Training, enterprise audits, enterprise modelling, IT-Strategy consulting.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 1990 — December 1991 (2 years)
The innovative small consulting firm was originally founded by the two Harvard professors dick Nolan and Dave Norton.
They marketed their IT-spending-growth model.
The company focused on IT-Baselining, IT-Strategy and IT-Architecture-Consulting.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
January 1988 — December 1989 (2 years)
Appointed as a DP-Coordinator for the R&D-Department of the Grünenthal GmbH (pharma), in Aachen to implement and manage a new generation of IT in across the R&D-Department, Coordination of IT-users, EDP und external resources.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1984 — December 1987 (4 years)
Implementation and management of the Mini¬/Micro¬-team at the ACS Systemberatung GmbH (former Hapag-Lloyd-Systemberatung) with special focus on methodology for systems analysis, Consulting, Client-Server-software development.
System Consultant at the Hapag-Lloyd-Systemberatung in Hamburg, responsible for the development of substantial part of large Mainframe dialog applications (using MVS-XA, IMS¬DB/DC, ADF II, COBOL, PL/I).
Doktor , Chemistry , 1970 — 1984
Abitur , Math. Classes , 1962 — 1970
managing cross cultural project, preferrably in Asia