Tom (Thomas) Freudenberg

IT and business consultant with over 30 years of experience in the design, introduction, implementation and development of system environments for companies. Goal-oriented and pragmatic approach, resilient and analytical, keeping a cool head in a calm and thorough performance. Versatile and successful project implementation, management competences in complex tasks in an international environment.

COMPETENCIES

Project Management

• Project managers and product responsibility for the preparation of real-time, mobile and hybrid apps
• Leading project management of large and complex ERP, BI, KMS and CRM/BRM projects
• Responsible for development of an XML framework for CRM, BRM and KMS systems and the reference implementation in a medium sized chemical trading company
• Responsible for the development of e-commerce and social commerce environment
• Outsourcing and operation of IT and cloud services

Strategic Consulting

• Strategic advice in cutting-edge technologies
• Organizational consulting and strategic advice on the development of cloud computing environments and services
• Strategic advice and assistance in adapting and optimizing internal corporate project management processes (KANBAN, SCRUM)
• Strategic advice and implementation of toolkits for control and documentation of projects and the monitoring and planning of budgets
• Strategic use of OpenSource software like frameworks, components and applications

International Experience

• Leading project management of international projects
• 1.5 years roll-out and project assistance for the development and establishment of a centralized CRM / BRM / ERP solution across D-A-CH and MOE
• 1.0 years project manager, lead architect and team manager while creating an anti-fraud solution in a global insurance group
• 1.5 years project manager, lead architect and team manager for building up a BI- and monitoring environment in a global insurance group
• 2.0 years project manager and lead architect for optimizing a payment solution and integration in the health sector
• International conferences (OpenSource)

Business and Personnel Management

• Foundation, business plan development, development and expansion of several companies
• Building, management and development of strong international teams
• Management by objectives and training on-the-job, use of common assessment methods, especially performance tests

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Extensive practical project know-how in the areas of Cloud-computing, AI/KI, Blockchain, mobile communications, (E)CMS, DMS, WMS, knowledge management, CRM, BRM, ERP, e-commerce, IoT and mobile apps.

In-depth knowledge of the following systems, techniques and applications: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, BSD, RHL), HP-UX, Mac OSX, Android, IOS, Windows, GNOME, Firewall, IpSec, (Open)Vpn, OpenID, Apache, Nginx, Exim, Microsoft Exchange Server, Terminalserver, Thin Computing, Citrix, MySql, Mariadb, Microsoft Sql Server, Postgres, Oracle, Interbase/Firebase, SQLite, NoSQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, MQTT, Monitoring, RHO, Redmine, Jira, Lucene, Solr, Django, Rails, Magento, Wordpress, Drupal, Meteor, Gatsby, React, Vue and some more.

Years of experience in the use of different IDEs and development tools. Great knowledge about GIT and source code revisioning. Regular use of these (programming) languages and notations (alphabetically): Basic, BPMN, C/C++, CSS, Delphi, Go, GraphQL, HTML, Javascript, JSON, Lex, NodeJS, NoSQL, Ontologien, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, RDF, React, Ruby, Semantic Web, Shell (bash, csh, ksh, sh), SOAP, SQL, Typescript, WSDL, XML, XML-RPC, XSL, Yacc, YAML.

In developing the focus is on modern real-time web- and mobile-apps. Special interest in the creation of formal and generic systems (framework) and languages, construction of compilers, and in the design of business ontologies and content architecture.