Acting Head of IS Infrastructure Services at Norsk Hydro ASA
Cologne Area, Germany
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- Acting Head of IS Infrastructure Services at Norsk Hydro ASA
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- IS/IT Director Rolled Products at Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH
- IT Country Manager Germany/Switzerland at Amcor Flexibles
- IT Director Systems & Applications at Amcor
- IT Director Corporate Systems at Schmalbach-Lubeca AG
- Manager Logistics MIS at Messer Griesheim GmbH
- Education
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- Fachhochschule Mainz
- Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Maintal
- Bethmannschule, Frankfurt
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Armin Auth’s Summary
Acting Head of IS Infrastructure Services
global responsibility for
- Network Connectivity Services
- Infrastructure Operations Services
Head of Global Infrastructure Operations Services
- commercial management
- operational management and service follow-up globally with special regional responsibility for sites in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and APAC
Contract owner for global IS contracts of Norsk Hydro
- relationship management
- commercial management and negotiations
Responsible for License Management
Armin Auth’s Specialties:
Supplier negotiations, Service management, Software Asset Management, Outsourcing concepts and negotiations, IS Architecture
Armin Auth’s Experience
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Acting Head of IS Infrastructure Services
Norsk Hydro ASA
(Public Company; NHY; Oil & Energy industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Responsible for IS Infrastructure Services in Norsk Hydro ASA globally
Service and Commercial Management of Global Infrastructure Operations
Contract owner for global IS agreements -
IS/IT Director Rolled Products
Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; nhy; Mining & Metals industry)
February 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Responsible for IS in the business sector. Reported to CIO of Aluminium Business Area and Sector CFO. Sector consists of 7 plants, apr. 4.000 employees, annual sales volume 1 mio tons of aluminium flat rolled products.
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IT Country Manager Germany/Switzerland
Amcor Flexibles
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
July 2004 — February 2005 (8 months)
Responsible for 4 sites (3 in Germany, 1 in Switzerland).
Infrastructure Update in one site
Migration from Microsoft Exchange to Lotus Notes
MES implementation
Baan IV ERP -
IT Director Systems & Applications
Amcor
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
January 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 6 months)
Contract Management for global outsourcing agreement (SAP Hosting and Application Management Services)
Run a Global Tender for SAP Hosting and Application Management Services - lowered TCV by 50% compared to previous agreement
Implemented a Global Agreement for the purchase of PCs, Laptops, Intel Servers and Monitors (HP)
Negotiated and implemented a global agreement for Collaboration Software (Lotus Notes)
Consolidated multiple license agreements for ERP software (SAP) -
IT Director Corporate Systems
Schmalbach-Lubeca AG
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
July 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 6 months)
Service Management for global outsourcing agreement for SAP Hosting and Application Management Services
Project Management for Migration of german payroll system PAISY to SAP HR
Transition Management for divestment of divisions and implementation of agreements for buyer -
Manager Logistics MIS
Messer Griesheim GmbH
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Chemicals industry)
July 1990 — June 2001 (11 years )
1998-2001 Head of Logistics MIS (13 employees)
Project Manager for Logistics part of SAP implementation project for processes related to sales/production and distribution of industrial gases
Co-Project Manager for implementation of processes for Procurement, Sales of Services and Discrete Manufacturing on SAP (migration from legacy systems and SAP R/2)
Warehouse Management for specialty gas production
Plant Maintenance implementation (SAP PM)
1996 - 1997 Head of Information Systems (3 employees)
Project Manager for Data Warehouse implementation (Oracle/Micro Strategy on Sun HW)
Intranet implementation based on Web Content Management System (infopark NPS)
1993 - 1996 Senior Business Analyst -
Special projects related to sales and distribution process for industrial gases
1990 - 1993 Business Analyst -
Sales and Distribution process for Industrial gases
Armin Auth’s Education
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Fachhochschule Mainz
BA , Finance & Business Administration , 1990 — 1994
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Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Maintal
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Bethmannschule, Frankfurt
Additional Information
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Armin Auth’s Interests:
IS strategy, ITIL, service management, contracts & negotiations, Software Asset Management, Business Processes, Project Management, music, technology, literature, playing trumpet, outsourcing,
Armin Auth’s Groups:
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XING.com -
The BPO and Offshoring Best Practices Forum -
identi.ca
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