Jens Schutt's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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- 20+ years experience in multinational corporate environments and state government as well as technology focused startup companies. - Managed Product Mgnt., Engineering, QA and DevOps teams with the responsibility of the entire life cycle from idea to implementation and post implementation support/tuning. - Established and ran the enterprise architect group for a major government branch. - Managed key relationships with major software vendors. - More than ten years experience implementing large-scale ERP systems for multinational companies gaining detailed knowledge of multiple ERP packages such as SAP R/3, MFG/Pro, BaaN and Process/1. - During implementations, I have filled many different roles: Sr. Dir. Of Product Management / Engineering., Lead Technical Architect, Project Manager, Process Analyst, Developer, System Administrator, Database Administrator and Change Management Coordinator. - In addition to my technical and functional skills, I have international experience working in different cultures/countries such as Denmark, USA, Brazil, Switzerland and Italy.Senior Principal Product Manager @ Part of a team designing the next generation of Infrastructure as a Service technology from the ground up. Building on over a decade of cloud experience and redefining the cloud to fit the requirements of the modern enterprise. We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBrand Ambassador @ Help promote the Shift-SF brand. Think group exercise classes are boring and provide limited results? Our community combines today's top performers in endurance sports with weekend warriors and people just trying to fit exercise into their busy schedules to create a vibrant and eclectic environment. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Sr. Director of Product Management @ Part of Joyent’s executive team, heading up Product Management, Portal Engineering, Quality Assurance, Business Operation Systems and Project Management. Originally hired to provide industry specific knowledge around building cloud services, but as part of a company wide reorganization, my responsibilities expanded to include planning and building an organization focused on developing a customer friendly “Infrastructure as a Service” Cloud. Completely redesigned the Joyent’s customer’s portal to increase ease of use, customer conversion and ability to accommodate new differentiating features. From May 2013 to July 2015 (2 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. Director of Engineering @ Joined a small team at ServiceSource to be part of developing the next generation SaaS offering for managing service renewals. Initially headed up the Dev-Ops team and built a QA team from the ground up. As the product organization matured, my responsibilities expanded to include the entire engineering team. Managed a mixed team of employees, contractors and out sourced resources around the world (~40 people total) in a fast paced environment with many conflicting priorities. Spearheaded process improvements for the product organization and the implementation of an agile development methodology. Recruited key resources through my extensive professional network and built a "work hard/play hard" culture with a team of extremely talented people. Released and deployed Renew onDemand on a bleeding edge technology platform based on node.js, MongoDB hosted on AWS to high profile ServiceSource customers. From July 2011 to May 2013 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaPresident @ Independent Contractor From March 2003 to December 2011 (8 years 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSolution Technical Architect @ As the lead Enterprise Technical Architect for the AOC, I managed a team of up to four Technical Architects with the responsibility to develop and implement a statewide technical architecture for all the IT/IS initiatives under AOC control including the entire project life-cycle from design to implementation. Some of the key projects include a custom developed, statewide case management system with an estimated 20,000+ end users and a data integration project based on TIBCO for integrating more than 500 Justice Partners throughout the state of California. From March 2003 to June 2011 (8 years 4 months) Technical Architect/Independent Contractor @ As Edgile’s Technical Architect, I designed and built their J2EE based framework plus core components for their key product. After the development of Edgile’s first product was completed, I have continued to work with them on enhancements and subsequence product offerings. From June 2002 to June 2006 (4 years 1 month) Director of Technical Operations/Independent Contractor @ Director of Technical Operations/Independent Contractor Member of core group that developed a web-application platform, focused on Open Source components, rapid implementations and scalability. During the different phases I was involved in everything from architecture, design, development and implementation. After going live, my role changed to guiding the co-locations facilities in managing the sites and maintaining a stable and secure production environment. Lead technical resource for re-implementation of the entire site working with external partners such as MFN (SiteSmith, AboveNet), Global center and Loudcloud. As site complexity increased together with overall load of the site I continuously tuned the architecture to accommodate the new demands. From August 1999 to March 2004 (4 years 8 months) Director of Implementations @ I managed LiveCapital’s Professional Services group, which was responsible for implementing LiveCapital’s J2EE financial platform for credit automation. My responsibilities also included mapping client’s customization needs to our standard platform, configuration, tuning and monitoring of the core Apache, WebLogic and Oracle Database components as well as liaison between the engineering team and operations group From 2000 to 2002 (2 years) Technical Consultant @ Technical Consultant (USA, California: Project Manager, Technical Specialist) Worked on large implementation with up to 400+ end users both as a technical tuning specialist and as project manager managing up to 7 people. My responsibilities included designing customers’ system architecture and managing the actual implementation which includes XML based e-commerce and Java clients. My working experience in the functional areas made it possible for me to assist the functional as well as the technical implementation. From April 1998 to June 1999 (1 year 3 months) System Specialist @ Project Manager: (Denmark/Switzerland: Material Management) Member of the core project team of seven people with the responsibility of implementing SAP R/3 in a division of a multinational company. (At the time I left the company, 14 sites were implemented successfully and on time). My role in the team was to act as a Project Manager for the implementation of a global warehouse management solution. The project included coordination spread over four continents, managing consultant resources, mapping of business processes (BPR), writing standard operation procedures, conducting relevant end-user training, ensuring project wide integrity and leading inventory conversion. Due to my knowledge in quality cost and process-based manufacturing, I worked as a representative for the manufacturing division to ensure that the project was aligned with existing systems such as Quality, Manufacturing and Laboratory Information Systems. System Specialist (Denmark: Manufacturing, Distribution) Worked in a small core team reporting directly to the CFO/CTO. I designed and led the implementation of a data warehouse solution both from a technical and functional standpoint in order to make diverse ERP solutions more suitable for C-level management as decision support tools. System Specialist (USA, North Carolina: Manufacturing, Finance, Sales) As System Administrator for an MFG/Pro installation at the North-American subsidiary, I upgraded the system, changed operating system platform and expanded the usage of the system to include all business areas. At the same time I carried out an in-depth performance analysis, which resulted in dramatic cuts in system response times by up to 95%. System Specialist (Brazil: Manufacturing, Infrastructure) Expatriated for a three months period to Novo Nordisk’s plant in Brazil where I started a local IT- department to support the daily activities at the site. From March 1991 to April 1998 (7 years 2 months) BS, DIA-E data @ Danmarks Tekniske Universitet From 1988 to 1991 Solrød Gymnasium From 1985 to 1988 Jens Schutt is skilled in: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Management Consulting, Cloud Computing, Start-ups, IT Strategy, Architecture, Application Architecture, Technical Architecture, Architecture Frameworks, Consultancy, System Architecture, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, ERP