Horst Walther

Current

advisor to the CIO at Raiffeisen Bank AVAL, Ukraine
Identity Management expert at Kuppinger Cole Ltd
member at VCB & Company LLP

Owner at SiG Software Integration GmbH

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Past

Management Consultant at RBA
advisor to the CEO at myService.com
consultant at Raiffeisen Bank Aval

Senior analyst at Kuppinger Cole + Partner
Managing Senior Consultant at agens Consulting GmbH
Head of methods & tools, head of leasing dept. at GENESiS Hardware Software Consulting Ges.m.H.
Manager at KPMG Consulting
Senior Consultant at Nolan, Norton & Co.
DP-Coordinator at Grünenthal GmbH
Head of Mini- / Micro-computer Software Development Group at ACS Systemberatung

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Education

Universität Hamburg
St. Viti Gymnasium Zeven

Connections

213 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Horst Walther’s Summary

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

Horst Walther’s Specialties:

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.

Horst Walther’s Experience

advisor to the CIO

Raiffeisen Bank AVAL, Ukraine

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)

Program Management Core Banking Systems,
Unified Front-End System,
Business Continuity Management,
QA & Testing
Identity Management expert

Kuppinger Cole Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)
member

VCB & Company LLP

(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
Owner

SiG Software Integration GmbH

(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
Management Consultant

RBA

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year)
advisor to the CEO

myService.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2009 (8 years)
consultant

Raiffeisen Bank Aval

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Senior analyst

Kuppinger Cole + Partner

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2008 (3 years)
Managing Senior Consultant

agens Consulting GmbH

(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.
Head of methods & tools, head of leasing dept.

GENESiS Hardware Software Consulting Ges.m.H.

(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.
Manager

KPMG Consulting

(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.
Senior Consultant

Nolan, Norton & Co.

(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.
DP-Coordinator

Grünenthal GmbH

(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.
Head of Mini- / Micro-computer Software Development Group

ACS Systemberatung

(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).

Horst Walther’s Education

Universität Hamburg

Doktor , Chemistry , 1970 — 1984
St. Viti Gymnasium Zeven

Abitur , Math. Classes , 1962 — 1970

Additional Information

Horst Walther’s Websites:

Horst Walther’s Interests:

managing cross cultural project, preferrably in Asia

Horst Walther’s Groups:

cci (Corporate culture Institute), PMI (Project Management Institute), affiliate Member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), member of the PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers International Association), member of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik), the DASMA (Deutschsprachige Anwendergruppe für Software-Metrik and Aufwandschätzung e.V.) and NIFIS (Nationale Initiative für Internet Sicherheit)