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Guido Somers Top Executive

CTO Europe & Chief Architect within IBM Global Delivery carrying end-to-end responsibility for all Data Center and Cloud Migration engagements across Europe. Currently leading the European team of 70+ Chief Migration Architects.

A senior certified Executive IT Architect with a wide range of experience in both the Financial Services Sector as in CPG/FMCG.

Trusted advisor and leader providing proactive technical counsel to CIO, CTO and other key IT executives on technical strategy and innovation, direction and projects (cognitive, big data, cloud, security, Blockchain, IoT). Improve and broaden client access to IBM’s global technical and innovation expertise. Increase the value that clients derive from application of new and existing technologies and accelerate innovation. Provide architectural thought leadership based on the client's business need.

More than 20 years of IT business experience with a broad spectrum of technical (cross-platform hardware, software and services) and leadership skills. International experience through projects and assignments. Acting as thought leader within different technical and industry specific communities (FSS & CPG).

Acknowledged technical leader in several domains like complex IT infrastructures, Business Analytics, Cloud, DC Optimization and ISV Solutions (SAP & Oracle).

Member and founder of several technical expert communities of practice within IBM. Author of multiple technical publications on virtualization and infrastructure (Platinum Redbook Author). Mentoring people around the world on profession and career aspects.

Specialties:Architectural creativity in competitive sales situations, leading sales teams to deliver innovative solutions, enterprise architecture, analytical skills for business and technical problems, infrastructure solution design, broad and deep architectural and technical skill set, client partnering, first of a kind implementations.

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Super Industry: Quantum Technology
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Headquarters: Montreux, Vaud
Followers: 3364
Title: CTO & Chief Architect Europe
Company: IBM
Company Website: https://ibm.com
Company Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/
Company Founded In: 1911
Company Size: 10001+
Current Job Duration: 9 yrs 6 mos
Country: Switzerland
Work Experience: Title: CTO & Chief Architect Europe Company: IBM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/ Industry: Information Technology And Services Company Size: 10001+ Location: Switzerland Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 01-2017 Ends At: Present Description: Chief Architect & CTO within IBM Global Delivery carrying end-to-end responsibility for all Data Center and Cloud Migration engagements across Europe. Currently leading the European team of 70+ Chief Migration Architects. Operating across the full migration life cycle including pre-sales support, solutioning, project delivery and project recovery. Title: Executive IT Architect & Global Technical Leader Nestlé Company: IBM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/ Industry: Information Technology And Services Company Size: 10001+ Location: Switzerland Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 09-2011 Ends At: 12-2016 Description: Chief architect responsible for the end-2-end architecture for the world's largest CPG company. Defining long term IT strategies. Build a trusted relationship with the technical community (especially the lead Architects) and C-level executives. Involved during the full life cycle of a project. Act as technical advisor for the business service projects. Lead the sales and technical teams before and during proposal stage, maintaining consistent and qualitative responses to the client’s requests. Current Projects: Large scale IT transformation in which cost optimization, agility and flexibility are the main focus points. Cognitive and big data analytics solutions. Infrastructure solutions for SAP. Green Data Center and Cloud Computing. Title: Enterprise Infrastructure Architect / CTO FSS - CITA Company: IBM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/ Industry: Information Technology And Services Company Size: 10001+ Location: Antwerp Metropolitan Area Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 09-2008 Ends At: 08-2011 Description: Lead Architect for the IT Strategy and Architecture Service Product Line. Part of a consulting team working on national and international Data Center Optimization and Relocation projects. Projects: Largest Bank in Belgium - Chief Architect for DC relocation study. Defined long term strategy for capacity and optimization through innovative technologies. Analyzed applications and existing interdependencies. Leading Belgian Bank - Lead Architect for consolidation study and outsourcing project. Leading Telecom in Turkey - DC optimization study Lead Architect. Analyzing applications and infrastructure to build an optimized solution which improved the TCO by 20%. Public Sector customer - Chief Architect for consulting study. This included consolidation of 5 existing Data Centers into 1 existing and 1 new DC. Planning for migration and relocation including planning for disaster scenarios. Improved TCO through optimization and use of virtualization technologies. Title: Global ISV Solution Architect Company: IBM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/ Industry: Information Technology And Services Company Size: 10001+ Location: Antwerp Metropolitan Area Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 02-2006 Ends At: 08-2008 Description: Lead Architect for Benelux in the e-Business Solutions Technical Sales organization. Covering both Oracle Applications (EBS, Fusion, Siebel, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft,...) and SAP infrastructure solutions. Pre-sales ISV solution architect for the sales and consulting teams. Design and present solutions to the customers. A key contributor for the sales team to win in complex and competitive sales situations. Projects: Largest Bank in Belgium – Acted as lead solution architect for a Siebel implementation. Designed an end-to-end infrastructure that was integrated in the existing landscape. Leading Belgian Bank - lead architect for Oracle RAC engagement. Largest baggage handling company in the world - Lead solution architect for the JD Edwards implementation. Defined the best possible infrastructure for the customer by evaluating different types of infrastructure and evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the different solutions. Developed a strategy to integrate existing business applications into the new platform taking into account functional and non-functional requirements. Public sector customer – TCO study to optimize Oracle RAC and Infrastructure. Largest dairy cooperative in Belgium - designed the complete JD Edwards based solution. Public Sector customer – delivered the architecture and sizing for the PeopleSoft project. Leading global manufacturer of cooling equipment - defined as lead architect the infrastructure for this PeopleSoft based solution. Besides being the technical lead, I also acted as project manager on-site during the implementation phase of this project. Title: Systems Architect Company: IBM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/ Industry: Information Technology And Services Company Size: 10001+ Location: Antwerp Metropolitan Area Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 06-1999 Ends At: 01-2006 Description: Hardware pre-sales Architect and Specialist cross-platform and cross-industry. Pre-sales and sales activities, prepare and perform, installation and implementation services around virtualization solutions. Large win back experience. Author of 10 books & papers on virtualization, hardware and databases. Presentations both to customers as at national and international events. Many first of a kind virtualization implementations. Title: Programmer/Analyst Company: IBM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/ Industry: Information Technology And Services Company Size: 10001+ Location: Brussels Metropolitan Area Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 11-1998 Ends At: 05-1999 Description: Year 2000 and Euro conversion projects for mainframe customers. Title: Adjunct Director Heavy Metals Company: VMM Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmm/ Industry: Government Administration Company Size: 501-1000 Location: Antwerp Metropolitan Area Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 11-1996 Ends At: 10-1998 Description: None Title: Researcher Theoretical Physics Company: UAntwerpen Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-antwerp/ Industry: None Company Size: None Location: None Country: None Employment Type: None Start At: 01-1993 Ends At: 10-1996 Description: None
Education: School: VLEKHO Business School Brussel Degree: Business Administration and Management, General Activities: None School: University of Antwerp Degree: Master of Science (MSc), Physical Chemistry Activities: None School: Ghent University Degree: Master of Science (MSc), Chemistry Activities: None School: University of Antwerp Degree: Master of Science (MSc), Biotechnology Activities: None School: Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen (RUCA) - State Universitary Center Antwerp Degree: Electronics Activities: None School: Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Degree: Scientific A - Mathematics Activities: None
Headline: CTO & Chief Architect Europe - Cloud - Global Delivery
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