Currently in the same role under renewed management. During normal department duties in 2019/2020, I've also had the chance to successfully execute a once in a lifetime IT project for Liebherr. Liebherr USA executive management enabled me and my team to plan, budget, design, procure and oversee the build into production of the entire IT infrastructure for a new campus at 4800 Chestnut Ave in Newport News (Cisco network, WiFi, AV, Security, DataCenter, etc.). Selected, purchased and provisioned latest technology in A/V systems and conferencing rooms.

Designed, procured and built a new state of the art data center from scratch, using Liebert/Vertiv/Samsung components with self sourced local contractors and resources. Worked with the City of Newport News for permitting and closely with the GC (WM-Jordan) from ground breaking to the certificate of occupancy during the construction of the campus.

Coordinated the relocation of the moving Liebherr USA employees to their new campus in terms of IT, which concluded the project successfully on time and under budget by 1/2 mil.

Liebherr - Inside the New Liebherr USA, Co. Headquarters in Newport News, VA. - YouTube

Due to a restructuring merger of several Liebherr divisions into trading and production companies within the US market, IT was designated a shared service provider and was moved into the only production company in the US, under the existing IT manager of Liebherr Mining Co. Roles and responsibilities stayed the same under new leadership.

Managed IT operations of all Liebherr US divisions (10) for Liebherr's presence in the USA. Provided Baan IV ERP finance support: Year end closings, audits, IRS audit and litigation support. Managed windows domain for approx ~1000 end users. Supervised lawsuit data recoveries . Implemented disaster recovery policies and procedures to ensure business continuation. Managed and executed all hard and software purchases, among other inherited duties.

Executed legacy ERP data migration of multiple Liebherr divisions from various legacy systems to Baan IV ERP system (comparable to SAP). Designed from scratch, installed, managed and maintained MS-Exchange email and Proxy/Firewall environment for all US and Canadian Liebherr divisions (~800 Users). Selected and hired additional personnel to build up working IT departments in several divisions. Managed and executed all hard and software purchases. Designed and built state of the art data center infrastructure to comply with tight corporate IT security policies (backup generator & ups power management / fire suppression / emergency lighting / etc.).

Selected, purchased and installed server and networking hardware to build up initial IT environment, provisioned and installed first Internet Communication Services with local Telco, launched first e-mail service and provisioned initial fire walled Internet access. Selected and trained key users for upcoming ERP migration. Built fuzzy logic heavy data migration platform in MS-access that ran on eight workstations in parallel for several weeks to transform and facilitate the migration of all existing legacy data to new Baan IV environment. 

Among the duties and tasks shown below that carried over, managed installation and programmed several two ton railed robotic vehicles to transport containerized stacks of cam shafts from one machining center to the next (helped lay down the heavy rails by hand). Helped to pitch and sell and then later managed the design stage of the first telescopic, six headed gantry line that Liebherr ever built - to move Jaguar engine heads from machine to machine operation.

Installed 120 gantry robots covering the transportation of in process work-pieces: Camshafts, Crankshafts, Cylinder Blocks and Cylinder Heads.
Executed the assembly of the various parts and beams, delivered from Europe, the mechanical installation, alignments and initial try-out at the customer site. Rewrote from scratch most of the factory designed CNC programs, once the customer discovered that they didn't meet customer requirements. Lead all mechanical and electrical aspects of the installation, including communications and dealing with the local auto workers union (UAW) over the course of several years.

Summer job to bridge vacation gap to return to Liebherr after military service: Gained extensive knowledge about commercial food processing, hygiene laws and regulations to operate a business in this field.

3 months of standard combat training, vehicle and weapons handling, care and use training. Joined the administrative division and was promoted to replace the departing  corps wide logistics administrator. Processed all requisitions for spare parts, munitions, fuel, and consumables as well as food supplies for the division.

Installed, programmed and taught eight multi million dollar overhead gantry robots to transport and help manufacture large ten cylinder engine blocks for hydraulic excavators.

Responsible for planning, setup, power-up and troubleshooting of large automotive gantry robots on the factory floor, sometimes longer than 2500 ft. Often tasked to meet with international customer engineering teams to for final sign off on the product. First exposures to many different cultures from various countries.

Side Job: On customer premises troubleshooting, delivery and programming of TV's and Audio equipment. Later in shop troubleshooting and repair of TV's and Audio equipment.

- Mechanical apprenticeship in metalworking with ferrous metals , brass, copper, aluminum and plastics. After 6 months mechanical and passing that, transition to the Electrical group after passing that, later on to the Electronics group at Liebherr. Completed projects that included operation of large and small milling machines, surface grinders, hones, welders, turning pieces on lathes, operating gear cutting CNC machines, operating 6-axis arm style welding robots and simple, but extremely large three axis gantry robots.
- Commercial Trade Degree in Electronics and Programming, specialized in Industrial Robotics. Graduated early, with best in state honors by IHK Schwaebia.

Excelled in technical drafting, physics and chemistry.