Alexander von Renesse

Systems Engineering & IT-Management

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M.Sc. Business Informatics /IT-Management

happily converting caffeine into code

since 1992

Focus areas

My focus is on client management, software distribution (packaging and MCM/SCCM), as well as the automation of processes in software distribution.

For almost 30 years my primary field has been the fully automatic software deployment and virtualization of Windows based operating systems and applications. I gained Microsoft SCCM, virtualization and SQL certificates and gained extensive experience in application management and planning and establishing standard images for office computers in NetInstall/SCCM environments. I planned, coordinated and performed several roll outs on networks containing over 100.000 workstations. I’m a native German speaker. My English is fluent verbal and written. I have been working on international projects where we worked after ITIL regulation for many years. I studied Business Informatics and finished with a master’s degree.

updated April 2025

residence Munich

year of birth 1967

nationality German

diploma M.Sc. Business Informatics/IT-Management

profession Systems Engineer, IT-Manager

in IT-Job since 1992

self-employed since 2001

international experience Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy

languages German, English fluently - 855 points in TOEIC

E-Mail

phone +49 170 5537237

Projects:

IBM 12 months

E.ON 18 months

adidas 9 months

Allianz 39 months

Motorola 60 months

Munich Re 6 months

Zurich Financial Services 13 months

Project SCCM Migration/Highly Availability

duration Since 2025/02/12

sector Mititary

contractor Hays

Job description

- PoC Site by site Migration of a Primary Site

- Setup a test environment for the PoC.

- Migration of Applications, Packages, Task-Sequences, Queries and Collections.

- Highly availability through a redundant Primary Site-Server in Passive-Mode.

- Analysis of the expected workload and risks in production.

- Finally the decision was made to go with an In-Place Update of the OS, SQL and SCCM.

Project Software Deployment/Packaging

duration 2021/11/08 to 2024/12/31

sector Public Sector

contractor Delta Projects

Job description

- Packaging and deployment of software / Win 11

- Migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11

- Introducing PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit PSADT

- Packaging with PSADT and DX-Union

- UATs, planning and deployment of software

- Troubleshooting

- PoC SCCM Configuration Manager

- Architecture, planning and setup of the SCCM/MCM Configuration Manager Environment

- Migration from DX-Union to SCCM

- Automation of processes

- Workflow optimization with Orchestrator and REST-API Control

Project Windows 10 Migration

duration 2020/07/28 to 2021/09/30

sector Bank

contractor VOQUZ

Job description

- Handling several main topics of Windows migrations

- SCCM/MECM

- Troubleshooting

- Packaging

- Migration Win 10 1709 to 1809 via Task Sequence

- Migration Win 10 1809 to 1909 via Servicing

- Migration Win 10 1909 to 20H2 via Task Sequence

- Roll-Out planning

Project SCCM Administration

duration 2019/11/01 to 2020/06/30

sector public administration Justice Dep.

contractor Gattaca

group leader Michael Loh

Job description

- Administration of the SCCM environment

- Automation of repetitive processes

- Packaging

- Updates with Patch my PC

- Execution of smaller projects in the SCCM environment

Project SCCM Automation

duration 2018/02/01 to 2019/10/31

sector Military

contractor DIS AG

Job description

- Creation of all Applications, Packages, Task Sequences, Collections and Deployments via PowerShell-Cmdlets

- Full automation of installations and processes

- OSD und Software deployment to Windows und Linux Clients

- Created Runbooks for Orchestrator

- Packaging

- International Team

Project Stream Lead Windows 10/SCCM Migration

duration 2016/08/01 to 2018/01/31

sector Bank

contractor iET SA

Job description

- Migration from Marimba to SCCM

- Migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10 > 100.000 Clients

- Migration from Office 2010 to 2016

- Migration of 4000 apps

- Engineering stream lead of 35 engineers

- Virtual team, worldwide distributed

- Technical support for Project-Management

- Installations on VDI and hardware

- SCCM Infrastruktur mit 1E Nomad

- Requirements Engineering for Windows 10 und SCCM

- Management of requirements and tickets via JIRA

Project Rollout-Coordinator IE11 Roll-out

duration 2016/04/07 to 2016/06/30

sector Bank

contractor expertplace

Job description

- Migration from Internet Explorer 8 to version 11 via SCCM 2012

- Creating technical test guides for the application-owners

- Support Application-Owners in case of compatibility issues

- Using new GPOs and IE Enterprise-Mode

- Roll-out planning

Project Project Lead in Client-Management

duration 2015/07/01 to 2016/03/31

sector manufacturer of sports equipment

contractor HWS

Job description

- Migration from Internet Explorer 10 to version 11

- Developing an approval process

- Creating test guides for the application-owners

- Coordination of world-wide UATs for about 600 applications

- Provisioning of test devices (virtual and hardware)

- Support Application-Owners in case of compatibility issues

- Using new GPOs and IE Enterprise-Mode

- Coordination of third party support

- Roll-out planning

- Software deployment via SCCM 2012

- Implementation of Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)

- Developing an approval process

- Coordination of world-wide UATs

- Roll-out planning

Project Third Level SCCM Support

duration 2014/03/18 to 2015/06/30

sector Insurance

contractor Spirit/21

Job description

- Third Level SCCM support and SCCM troubleshooting

- WSUS Patching

Project Migration FrontRange DSM7 to SCCM 2012

duration 2014/06/23 to 2014/12/31

sector Facility Management

contractor Barcatta GmbH

Job description

- Create MSI packages based on the enteo NetInstall DSM-Spy sources

- Analyze Script.inc and associated NIR files

Project SCCM 2012 Migration

duration 2013/01/07 to 2013/12/31

sector Mining

contractor IQ-Plus

Job description

- Migration of the worldwide SCCM 2007 environment to SCCM 2012

- Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7

- WSUS Integration

- SCUP Integration

- Packaging

- Coordination of UATs

- Extending/Optimizing the SCCM-Environment

- Create a wrapper in VBS

- OSD task sequences

- Planning and executing of Roll-Outs

Project SCCM Third Level + MSI Packaging

duration 2011/07/25 to 2012/12/31

sector IT-Service Provider Munich

contractor Concat AG

Job description

- Third Level Support SCCM

- Set up SCCM test environment with VMware vSphere

- Application Packaging with Wise Package Studio

- Coordination of UATs

- Extend/Optimize SCCM-Environment

- Create a wrapper in VBS

- Product Stewardship Internetexplorer

- Migration of IE 6 to IE 8 including definition, test and Roll-Out of GPOs

- PCI-DSS certified environment

Project IT-Infrastruktur-Management

duration 2010/06/28 to 2011/07/22

sector Insurance

contractor Bitech, GFU-Softec

Job description

- IT-Infrastructure-Projects

- launch test center virtualization with VMware

- application management

- coordination of MSI-Packaging (in India) and tests (UAT)

- Quality Assurance MSI-Packaging, Deployment with BMC Marimba

- write VB scripts to exchange data between databases

Project Windows Server 2008 R2, Desktop Virtualization

duration 2011/04/01 to 2011/05/31

Job description

Evaluation/Preparing for Microsoft Exam 70-669

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP 2010, Virtual PC, MED-V, Windows XP Mode for Windows 7, App-V, Remote Desktop Services,

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Hyper-V, resulting in certification

Project SCCM Administration – daily business

duration 2009/11/02 to 2010/06/24

sector public administration

software Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7

contractor Goetzfried AG

Job description

- administer SCCM, support the deployment team, VBS, task sequences

- use Remedy for ticket handling

- Trouble Shooting SCCM

Project SCCM Maintenance & Optimization

duration 2009/01/05 to 2009/10/31

sector energy supplier

software Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7

contractor Barcatta GmbH

Job description

- create DDR files for prestaging via VBS

- join SCCM database and asset system

- SQL database analysis

- create SQL reports

- Documentation of the SCCM infrastructure in German and English

- create tools and scripts to optimize the SCCM environment of 80.000 clients

- support the SharePoint add on Colligo

Project Packaging for NetInstall und SCCM

duration 2008/05/13 to 2008/12/31

sector energy supplier

software Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7

contractor Barcatta GmbH

Job description

- Packager for NetInstall and SCCM

- create MSI packages

- tailor vendor MSI packages (MST)

- repackaging of Legacy-Setups

- adapt Legacy-Setups for NetInstall and SCCM

- migrate older software packages from NetInstall to SCCM

used tools:

- (InstallShield) Adminstudio

- Wise Packager Studio

- VMware Workstation

- Orca

- RegMon, FileMon, Procmon

Project Migration of High Availability Clusters from NT4 to Server 2003

duration 2009/07/07 to 2008/06/30

sector IT/TK-Industry

software Windows NT4/Windows Server 2003 Enterprise on Compact PCI

contractor Harvey Nash

Job description

automate migration of approximately 12,000 clusters from NT4 to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (unattended setup)

- IT Infrastructure Library V3 (ITIL V3) compliant processes

- except for a five minute period, the two-node-cluster kept productive during the upgrade procedure

- all commands and progress indicators were managed by telnet – no GUI available

- the upgrade ran totally automatically

- it was impossible to step in during the upgrade because the Servers were allocated word-wide

- created MSI-Packages and Transforms with Wise Installer and Adminstudio

- created installation-routines with VBS

- WMI configuration of the systems with VB Skript

- backed up and restored the configuration unattended (DHCP, Cluster, TK-Software)

- implemented self-developed and signed drivers

- group policy (GPO)-configuration and deployment

- Security Architecture (GPO), including Patches

- set up a Win PE environment for multihomed servers

- software management with Rational Clear Quest and Rational Clear Case

- project language: English

- place of action: Munich und Stockholm (Sweden)

Project Configuration script for Windows XP migration

duration 2004/03/01 to 2004/12/31

sector insurance company

contractor CSC Ploenzke

Job description

- Create configuration software for the Allianz call centers

- coding with VBS and Visual Basic .NET

- CTI, Host, Oracle

- created MSI-setup-routines with InstallShield and Wise Installer

Projekt Migration NT4/XP and Office 97/XP

duration 09/10/2003 till 12/31/2005

sector insurance company

contractor CSC Ploenzke

Job description

- Desktop Management, Roll Out Management

- MSI-Packeting

- conception and creation of the strategic backup program to save local files and settings

- analysis of proprietary applications and services

- calculated the effort to adapt the former used applications

- created configuration-scripts with VBS and KIXTART

- Total Migration of 40,000 PCs

Projekt Optimizing SMS

duration 01/09/2003 to 06/30/2003

sector reinsurance company

contractor T-Systems

project leader Martin Vogel, Munich Re

Job description

Optimize the existing worldwide SMS-Environment

- OS-Installation with NetInstall (enteo) OSD

- deployed standard-software with SMS 2.0

- increaseed the performance for first-time-installations of clients by SMS-Tuning and scripting

- WSH/VBS Scripting

- WMI configuration via VB Script

Projekt KSC (Customer Support Center)

duration 02/01/2001 to 12/31/2002

sector insurance company

contractor CSC Ploenzke

Job description

Set up five Call Centers, packaging with InstallShield, SMS Installer und Wise Windows Installer, planning and executing of Roll Outs, development of installation and inventory methods

- Configuration-Management

- Source-Management

- Version-Management/Release-Management

- Helpdesk for the test environment

- development of test cases with all departments

- establishment of test cases with QARun from Compuware

- planning and programming a software deployment environment for 1000 PCs

- migration of applications to Windows 2000 Terminal server/Citrix

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