Curriculum Vitae, Thomas Poett

1. Thomas Pött
social: find me on Linkedin.com/Thomas Poett find me on Xing.com/Thomas Poett
Lync: sip: find me on Twitter/Thomas Poett
Professional, consistent, and experienced expert who is technically savvy with over 25 years of experience in IT,
telecommunication and software development. Additional extensive experience in business and market development.
Specialized in intercultural and business relationship in Asia. Successful in providing leadership on new topics and
complex global projects that require interfacing with internal/external teams and ecosystems. Early adaptor of visionary
technologies.
 25+ year career within different companies in the areas software development, telecommunication, IT, mobility and
hosted/cloud services.
 Strong technical and business background – was member of Microsoft´s German Inner Circle.
 Organized, logical, rationale thinker and problem solver with superb communication and collaboration skills.
 Business Management skill in strategic and organized developing German SME subsidiaries in Asia
 Business Development skill in setup new businesses area and sales coaching
HISTORY--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2014 – present Principal Consultant, Business Developing Manager
Allgeier Productivity Solutions GmbH, http://www.allgeier-ps.com
With Allgeier I expanded my consultancy and team leading capabilities with 9 team members. In addition, I focus of
corporate business developing tasks. Starting with required certifications and partnering, where I promoted APS
instantly as Microsoft Managed Partner in Germany and business partner with Deutsche Telekom Technischer
Service. Cloud and on-premise service are to be developed, where business decision matrixes must be provided too
the management board of the public holding company.
I’m also assigned the task, in cooperation with the business developing team from Allgeier Solution AG, moving APS
towards the TOP 10 German Microsoft consultancy companies in the CTM and SMS&P market.
2012 – 2014 (2 years) Managing Consultant
ACP IT Solutions AG, http://www.acp.de/
I relocated back to my home country Germany where decided working for ACP IT Solutions AG, an Austrian/ German
IT company operating in a profit center setup. The company was addressing the need of a new Unified
Communication unit homed near Munich. Starting with building a new team and propagating the new business area
within the DACH region. I had to establish the same partner relationships with all necessary vendors and focused in
addition into video conferencing solution (Polycom), where I managed establishing a fast return in sales. The market
awareness for ACP I established due to a greater number of public conference where I was assigned as speaker.
Building my new team required the engagement of young trainees into a mentoring program, guiding those member
through the entire process from technical understand up to the technical planning process. After a new subsidiary
joined the ACP group, I became a member of the 3rd level support team under Microsoft PLSP (Microsoft Premier
Support for Lync Partners), dealing directly with the Microsoft product group. Acquiring the first customer for ACP
under the new service group was challenging process, which I managed professionally and fast. Focusing on new
customers, I build a good relationship with companies like DataGroup and Thales, where large Enterprise projects
were launched for core Microsoft services like Active Directory, Exchange and Lync.
2010 – 2012 (2.5 years) Managing Director and Senior Principal Consultant
infoWAN Asia Sdn. Bhd., http://www.infowan.de/
I continued the business started with TRIA in Asia and convinced the company infoWAN Datenkommunikation GmbH
to expand their business into SEA region. The relationship built with the CEO at the German Inner Circle enabled
these changes. After the approach was confirmed, I went back to Germany to further study the business ethic of
infoWAN, where I involved myself in several mid- and large-sized Exchange and Active Directory projects, additionally
to establish business relationships with German companies e.g. Ferrari Electronic and KEMP technology to include
their portfolio into infoWAN Asia, which enable’s me strengthen the business opportunities in SEA region. In my role

2. as Managing Director, I intensified the relationship with Microsoft Malaysian and Singapore to become managed
partner in this region. Due to the multi role assignment of my person, I lead the internal technical team, as well as the
technical deployment teams our customers, manage and lead the largest SEA Lync implementation for PETRONAS
and the associated IT provider iPerintis. Promote Unified communication in the SEA region with strong focus into
Malaysia, where I lead PoC’s, pre-sales and provide the technical expertise, as well as training for internal infoWAN
Asia staff. Hiring and management adjustments related to Asian job-hopping culture where also in my work scope.
After establishing the first local Government contact, I was able to sell the world larges Lync Enterprise Voice and
Exchange Private Cloud into the Malaysian Government under Telekom Malaysia, which is a complicated Bumi Putra
base law implication in Malaysia and very politically.
2007 – 2010 (3.5 years) Managing Director and Senior Principal Consultant
TRIA IT Consulting Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia, http://www.triaconsulting.de/
Due to the relationship which I established with TRIA, I changed my job to work with TRIA IT Solution AG to convince
the Management in establishing an Asian subsidiary. During the first year with TRIA, I freelance for certain EPG
customer of TRIA and was leading Exchange 2003/ 2007 Migrations. I established the Office Communication Server
2007 Voice Partnership between Microsoft and TRIA and leaded the OCS team, trained the local German technical
and sales staff. During this time I was awarded to join the Microsoft Inner Circle Exchange in Munich, Germany.
Beside the Exchange and OCS projects delivered with TRIA the planning process started to establish the Malaysian
subsidiary. After management approval, I relocated to Cyberjaya, Malaysia (Q1 2008) after multiple trips to the South
East Asian region. Founded the TRIA IT Consulting Sdn. Bhd. and managed to convince the Malaysian Government
organization MDeC to grand the MSC Status to TRIA. From there I had to build a sales and technical team, I leaded
the technical planning and execution for certain German and Asian projects, where I could build the first Private Cloud
for American Eagle Tankers in Singapore and London (PETRONAS Group) based on Hyper-V R1, with NetApp
storage replication and DR site usage for TestLab purposes.
2005 – 2007 (3 years) Managing Director and Principal Consultant
Request² GmbH, Garching near Munich
With the good relationship to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, I founded Request² in Garching with a former FSC Sales
Manager. I developed the technical expertise of Request², where I got in touch with the first deployments of VoIP
system from SWYX Germany. Our customers came from the SMS&P and EPG market, where I leaded the teams to
deploy mainly Exchange, Active Directory. I focused on identifying potential new products and solutions to become
part of our portfolio. I went to US enhancing technical skills for Rainfinity products and distributed Rainstorage SAN
based virtualization and migration solution as the first German company. Rainfinity information
I was also responsible to develop new partner relations, where I influenced TRIA IT Consulting in Munich to become
our partner for project acquisition and delivery. Request² decided to move into a HR solution provider which was
decision I was not willing support.
2001 – 2005 (4 years) Principal Consultant as Freelancer
TP-Systems for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Munich, http://www.fujitsu.com/de
Based on my first experience with Siemens Nixdorf, I decided to further study and develop my technical skills and
joined Siemens as freelancer, later Fujitsu Siemens Computers, working as team member and partially as team lead
in the main consultancy group. I was responsible for large customer deployments, e.g. Viag Intercom, Siemens Group
and other. Beside of Fujitsu hardware/ software products I strengthen my focus on Microsoft Enterprise solutions for
Active Directory and Exchange where at the end FSC awarded me joining the EasyXchange development group. I
served customer in Europe, mainly Germany, Swiss, Netherlands and Austria.
Later I was chosen to become the pre-sales technical team lead to develop technical solution and proposal for the
strategic enterprise customers like Siemens Group, Continental AG, Commerce Bank, Deutsche Post and others.
Beside of Microsoft technologies, consulting for PrimePower Mainframe systems were in my scope of work.
I had the possibility at FSC to develop the first Exchange 2003 Geographical Cluster Solution without any 3rd party
product, based on our own Microsoft related scripts and EMC storage replication (Siemens A&D)
1998 – 2001 (4 years) CTO and Senior Consultant
GEMINI GMBH, Dachau near Munich
In my position as CTO and Senior Consultant, I was responsible to develop skills of our technical team, supporting
sales in technical pre-sales session and lead the customer deployments. The partner management was also an
important role, where I had to manage Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft and other vendors. Siemens Nixdorf relationship
became an interesting opportunity to make use of my individual technical skills.
Personally I manifested my technical expertise in Microsoft infrastructure technologies, e.g. Domain technologies,
Exchange and related products. In networking/ Internet technology I was responsible to support PSINet in south

3. Bavaria for 3rd level connectivity issues in their FrameRelay network. I managed GEMINI to become one of the first
Private Cloud partners with Citix WinFrame 3.51.
1992 – 1998 (5 years) Software Development
STEAG AG, http://www.steag.com/, Ing. Büro Vössing, http://www.voessing.de/, Intergraph
http://www.intergraph.com/
Wämre und Elektrotechnik WET, http://www.wet.de/
Job as Software Developer during my studies at University of Duisburg. Developing Cable Route Routing Software
based on KKS. At Vössing Developer for Deutsch Bahn HAFAS. At Intergraph I developed DataWareHouse System
Components for NT4.0 and experienced the first contact with NT 4.0 Domain Controllers. During my job at WET, I
developed my first skills in system migration from Windows 3.11 / NDS to Windows NT 4.0 Domain
TRAINER----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker at Microsoft TechED 2014, Barcelona
Content writer for Microsoft Exchange 2013 MOC course
Microsoft Training for Exchange and Unified Communication
Microsoft 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
EDUCATION----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Business administration (not completed), University of Duisburg, Germany
Electrical Engineering (not completed), University of Duisburg, Germany
Electrical Technician, Stadtwerke Duisburg, Germany
Fachhochschule, Duisburg, Germany
QUALIFICATIONS--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Solution Sales Professional (SSP) Qualification (P-Seller)
Microsoft PLSP 3rd level Support Engineer Lync
CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Microsoft Licensing Specialist
Certified Technical Professional QLogic SAN
Raptor Certified System Engineer
Certified UC Engineer via UC Ignite and Alpha Software release training
And multiple other certificates and completed trainings
AWARDS--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Microsoft Most Valued Professional category Lync (yr 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
 School Award for awesome Software Development Skills (Age of 15)
 Former member of Microsoft Inner Circle Exchange, Germany
 Former member of Microsoft Inner Circle Unified Communication, Germany
 Microsoft Official Curriculum Write (Exchange 2013 Voice), USA
 Fujitsu Siemens Recognition for Excellent Project Delivery
 Member of German-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce
 German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (leading Officer)

4. REFERENCES-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Niko Walraven
Polycom Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Director, Voice and UC Solutions
Mr. Daniel Jonathan Valik
Microsoft , Sr. Product technical marketing Manager
Mr. Martin Wenzel
Gieseke & Devrient Malaysia, Managing Director
Mr. Raphael Erb
Software One Singapore, VP APAC
Mr. Johannes Deutinger
Ferrari Electronic AG, Board Member
Mr. Tan Song Giap, Simon
Fujitsu Malaysia, Director Infrastructure Integration Services
Mr. Chan Toh Yen
PETRONAS ICT SDN.BHD., Head Of Department
Due to the confidentiality and privacy of Managing Directors, only I personally establish the reference request.