Per-Olof Lindqvist

Current

• CTO - IT Delivery Nordic at IBM

Past

• Executive IT Architect at IBM
• IT manager and architect at Nordea
• IT Specialist, IT Architect and Consultant at Financial Institutes

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Education

• Högskolan i Västerås

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Summary

I am CTO for IBM IT Delivery services in Nordic. I am the overall responsible for all technical solutions and the quality of the services delivered to our clients. I work closely with IBM’s clients and support the delivery of our engagements by dedication to every client’s success. As CTO I unite the strength of IBM as a globally integrated corporation and our global skills and resources to deliver innovation that matters. I travel to all Nordic countries supporting our delivery teams to create trust and personal responsibility in all relations. I provide guidance and technical leadership to both the technical and business organisations. I am part of the European IT Delivery technical leadership forum and I represent IT Delivery in the Nordic Technical Leader Team.

I have 20+ years experience in banking, finance and retail solutions. Anything from core mainframe systems to internet solutions on both Intel and Unix platforms. I have deep technical knowledge of all solutions and services delivered by IBM. I have been the leader for several Infrastructure, Application and Integration projects. I have experience from application and technical development and as manager for a large infrastructure department. I have extensive IT operations and development experience both as manager and as lead architect designing services for large and complex clients. I have lead several large transformation and integration projects for both IBM and other companies.

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Specialties:

Leadership skills, embracing challenge and earning trust, broad technical knowledge, deep understanding of IT processes, mainframe technology, database technology, very good collaboration and communication skills, I enjoy challenges in building strong teams with new partners and clients.

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Experience

• CTO - IT Delivery Nordic

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Chief Technology Officer (CTO) IBM IT Delivery Nordic, Executive IT Architect

• Executive IT Architect

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2003 — June 2008 (4 years 8 months)

  Lead Architect and Systems Engineer for large customers engagement in Strategic Outsourcing in Nordic

• IT manager and architect

  Nordea

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NDA.F; Banking industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  - Manager and lead architect for the technical department responsible for all infrastructure on; Mainframe, Tandem, Unix (IBM, Sun and HP), AS/400 (iSeries) and all data centre facilities
  - Consolidation of Sweden’s largest payment institute and a major bank and several other consolidations
  - Lead architect for Nordic data centre consolidation
  - Lead Integration architect for several large infrastructure and application bank consolidation programs
  - Lead technical architect for large high availability solution projects on:
  Mainframe, Unix and Intel platforms
  - Chairman of steering committees
  - Strategy for infrastructure development to CIO

• IT Specialist, IT Architect and Consultant

  Financial Institutes

  (Banking industry)

  1985 — 2000 (15 years )

  - IT Consultant delivering application architecture and application development for large bank’s migration of the entire retail application portfolio
  - Implementation of Mainframe parallel Sysplex and data sharing for high availability application platform
  - Design and development of new banking application solutions;
  - Main banking retail systems
  - e-banking
  - Self service solutions
  - 3 major bank migrations and consolidation projects
  - MVS, IMS and DB2 systems programmer
  - Operations and Application specialist and architect
  - DB2 and application design educator

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Education

• Högskolan i Västerås

  Higher Education , ADB Technology , 1984 — 1985

Additional Information

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Websites:

• My Company

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Groups:

Member of Technical Experts Council, TEC Nordic, an IBM Academy of Technology Affiliate

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Cloud Computing

Per-Olof Lindqvist’s Honors:

In 2006 I received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award as lead IT Architect for a major bank integration project for a leading Nordic bank.

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