Rainer Graemer

Current

• Environment Manager at Nomura

Past

• Consultant for Release Management and Environment Management at Rabobank International
• Release Manager at Barclays Wealth
• Release Manager at Servista

• Senior Software Developer and Release Manager at Investmaster Group
• Release Manager at Barclays Capital
• Senior Software Developer at Churchill Insurance

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Education

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Friedrich Rückert Gesamtschule Ebern

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Rainer Graemer’s Summary

20 years experience in software development under UNIX and ORACLE and 10 years experience in Release Management in various companies mostly from the Investment Banking sector. Currently expanding my knowledge into Environment Management and Capacity Planning.

Rainer Graemer’s Specialties:

Release Management, programming in C under UNIX, ORACLE development

Rainer Graemer’s Experience

• Environment Manager

  Nomura

  (Public Company; NMR; Investment Banking industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  I am looking after the four non-production (test) environments for SMO, GLOSS, DODGE and PHOENIX. After the acquisition of half of Lehman Bros, the current setup has changed drastically. The Nomura HW and SW now needs to cope with more than double the load of trades per day. There are many more test streams utilising the four test environments. Other projects are online geared up to allow higher trade volumes to be processed on a daily basis.
  I am managing the day to day usage of the four test environments, attaching the SYBASE servers and compute servers to the SAN, SOL10 upgrade, environment refreshes.

• Consultant for Release Management and Environment Management

  Rabobank International

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  April 2007 — November 2007 (8 months)

  My responsibilities were managing the deployments of software releases into the various test environments. Ensure that the UAT and OAT environments were refreshed with the production and useable. Covered for the RM while he was away and handled the production releases. Documented and fine-tuned some of the processes used by the implementation services team I was member of.

• Release Manager

  Barclays Wealth

  (Public Company; Insurance industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

• Release Manager

  Servista

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — June 2005 (8 months)

  As a Release Manager I was responsible to manage the 30+ environments and hand them to the PM for development and testing, owned the release calendar, liase with development manager and project manager possible production release dates.

• Senior Software Developer and Release Manager

  Investmaster Group

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

  February 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 9 months)

  Started off as a senior software developer; main responsibilities were porting of the application from IBM DYNIX to Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and technically related projects. After about 18 months took over from the previous Release Manager.

• Release Manager

  Barclays Capital

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

  July 1997 — February 2001 (3 years 8 months)

  first sole Release Manager of the FISS team (Fixed Income Strategic Solutions). Later also became the RM for the FIFES team.

• Senior Software Developer

  Churchill Insurance

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

  December 1991 — January 1997 (5 years 2 months)

  Responsible for inhouse C training, specialised software, i.e. benchmarking, PAF on CD, etc.

Rainer Graemer’s Education

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  1981 — 1987

• Friedrich Rückert Gesamtschule Ebern

  Abitur , general , 1975 — 1979

Additional Information

Rainer Graemer’s Groups:

•    Configuration management
•    Expat alumnis of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
•    Expat Focus
•    International IT Professionals Forum

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