Curriculum Vitae

Thomas PöttManaging Director infoWAN Asia Sdn. Bhd.Senior Principal Consultant

Professional Experience since: 1989

Languages: German (native speaker)English (Business and daily, perfectly spoken and written)Mandarin – very basic Knowledge (studying)

Experience: Managing Director, Leader of Board, Business Developer and Principal Consultant for Corporate development and strategies, Senior Principal Consultant for Infrastructure Services and Networking, specialized into Unified Communication

Project Management-Experience: Business Management, Managing Director of German GmbH (limited liability company), Business Developer Manager, Field of competence: Microsoft, TCO, ROI, Unix, IT Due-Diligence

Trainer/ Speaker-Experience: Microsoft Training for Exchange and Unified CommunicationMicrosoft KeyNote speaker and exhibition booth leader (Exchange/ UC for CeBit)Coach for Microsoft technologies and 3rd level support, Quest Software Coach, Rainfinity Coach, Ferrari Fax and OCS SBA Trainer for APAC

Certification: CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA)Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)Microsoft Licensing SpecialistCertified Technical Professional QLogic SANRaptor Certified System EngineerCertified UC Engineer via UC Ignite and Alpha Software release trainingAnd multiple other certificates and completed trainings

Awards: School Award for awesome Software Development Skills (Age of 15)Member of Microsoft Inner Circle Exchange, GermanyMember of Microsoft Inner Circle Unified Communication, GermanyMember of Microsoft Voice Ignite Trainings, GermanyFujitsu Siemens Recognition for Excellent Project DeliveryMember of German-Malaysian Chamber of CommerceGerman Federal Agency for Technical Relief (leading Officer)

References:Fujitsu Siemens, Siemens, Petronas (iPerintis), Message Labs, PSI Net (Interroute),Microsoft Germany, Ferrari ElectronicContact on request only

Vita:

Employment: Managing Director and Senior Principal Consultant, infoWAN Asia Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia 2010 – now (www.infowan.de)Managing Director and Senior Principal Consultant, TRIA IT Consulting Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia2008 – 2010 (www.triaconsulting.de)Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Request² GmbH, Germany2005 - 2008 (www.request2.de) Principal Consultant and freelancer, TP-Systems, Fujitsu Siemens, Germany2001-2005 (www.fujitsu.com/de)CTO and Senior Consultant, Gemini GmbH, Germany1998 - 2001Software Developer Steag AG, Ing. Büro Vössing and IntergraphDuring University studies

Education: Business administration, University of Duisburg, GermanyElectrical Engineering, University of Duisburg, GermanyElectrical Technician, Stadtwerke Duisburg, GermanyFachhochschule, Duisburg

Career:

I started my career in the IT business at the age of about 14 years, when I developed a variety of software products for computers at Commodore 8000 series. I then put a special emphasis on school software development, for which, at the age of 15, I was awarded an unprecedented price by my school.Since then I have demonstrated by programming knowledge to various companies. These companies included STEAG AG Essen, Kraftwerk Kennzeichnung System (KKS) Software, the consulting engineers Vössing in Düsseldorf, HAFAS Bahnsoftware und Intergraph Munich, Customizing Management Controlling Software (across Germany).

Development of Consulting Skill’s:With the implementation of Windows NT 4.0, I have successfully migrated the first medium sized company to Microsoft Backoffice from Microsoft Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. In the following years, several Microsoft Windows NT 4.0-based installations and migrations followed. In order to reach a higher specialised level, I have been working on highly integrated solutions with Microsoft Backoffice products like NT Server, Exchange 5.0/ 5.5, Terminal Server, SQL Server and Proxy Server. My expertise led to a pre-stage of the Microsoft Share Point Portal Server principle known today, which, by means of intermeshed dependencies between von Microsoft Exchange 5.5, SQL Server 6.0 and Office 97 Web Service offers web-based file services. In order to implement further highly integrated solutions, I have deepened my network knowledge by means of an apprenticeship as CISCO Certified Network Associate. During the internet boom I was thus able to provide 3rd level support and coordination between the internet provider (PSINET) and the local telecommunication provider.And since the implementation of Microsoft Windows 2k/ 2k3, this knowledge enables me to conduct the complex migration of heterogeneous networks with Windows 2k/ 2k3 or with infrastructures based on the Windows 2k/ 2k3 Server. The long years of experience in the IT sector gave me a competitive edge and I made my knowledge available for Fujitsu Siemens Consulting Teams. My consulting activities include bilateral network infrastructures of Windows and Unix Systems, migration to Windows 2k/2k3, migration to Exchange 2k/ 2k3, development and integration of backup-systems, high availability solutions and storage systems., implementation of security solutions, as well as consulting and project management. Today’s technical skills include the entire Microsoft Core Infrastructure with specialization into Unified Communication.

Development of Management Capabilities:Managing companies was from the early stages during my school an area of interest. I decided to gain experience in Management, when I had setup a two person entity to develop ERP and School-Software. In age of 27 is started my first career step into the Management Sector, always with technical interests beside the Business Administration. After managing German based small companies, I developed my interest into the Asian market and establish for TRIA AG/ TRIA IT Consulting GmbH the first German high skilled IT Consulting company in Malaysia. After the Headquarter in Munich got hit by German Management mistakes and Financial Crisis, I convinced the well-known German company infoWAN to establish the entity in Malaysia, where I managed fast integration into the local market and acquired the some of the large Oil and Gas companies to be our customers.

History:16 yr first experience in setup a two person entity for Business Software Development (hobby)18 yr Show Laser Event Company (hobby)20 yr beside the university studies, establishing Freelance Business in Software Development

Computer Literacy:

Dynamic Data Center: Developer of DDC NG4

Hardware: Server (HP, Fujitsu, Dell, FSC, IBM)NetApp, Hitachi, EMC² (Brocade, Qlogic)Mobile Client/ SmartPhone (Specialist)Network Components (Cisco, 3Com, HP, CheckPoint, ISA/ TMG)SNOM OCS Phones, PolyCom Phone and MCUTandberg Video Equipment, Cisco Call ManagerFerrari Electronic Manufacturer APACKEMP Technologies Hardware Loadbalancer (Specialist)

Data bases: MS SQL Server (only server)Informix (only Server)Oracle (only Server)dBase, Paradox, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows (DOS, 98, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008 R2, MobileEdition etc.)- Windows Cluster Services NT - 2008 R2- Data Center Edition (Specialist and Consultant)- Hyper-V Server

Consulting in Linux, SCO, Solaris

Virtualization: Microsoft Virtual Technologies (Hyper-V)/ System Center Virtual Machine Manager, SoftGrid (APP-V)VMWare Virtual Server/ ESX/ Virtual CenterDynamic DataCenter (DDC) and Cloud SpecialistSAN Virtualization (Rainfinity, DataCore)

Computer Languages: Visual Basic, VBA, VBS, AssemblerPascal and Delphi

Security: TMG/ ISA Server, Check Point, SonicWallGFI, TrendMicro, Symantec, MacAfeeForefront SecurityMicrosoft PKI Structure in deep knowledgeNetwork Analytics

Data Communication: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN (MPLS, ISDN, ATM, FrameRelay) IPX, Banyen ViniesSpecialist WINS, DNS, DHCP (Lucent QIP)FAX, VoIP/ SIP, UMS, (GFI/ Servonic/ Swyx/ Ferrari, Snom)Exchange 5.0 – 2010, Office Communication Server and Lync

Product/Standards/Experiences: Visual Studio, HTML, XMLMicrosoft (Server, Exchange, SMS, MOM, IIS, SQL, ISA, TSE)GFI, Servonic, Tobit, OpenView, Ferrari