Stefan Tonkin CIO
Very experienced and impactful leader with many years strategic leadership in IT, including leading a large operations department. I create high-performance teams, help execute transformation and enable business growth. I enjoy combining strategic vision with operational excellence, and I thrive in environments where leadership, innovation, and execution go hand in hand. I can also lead and deliver leadership in areas like risk management, security, and organisational structures. Managing complexity in areas like hosting, supplier management and architecture is part of my offering.
About me
Jurisdiction
Sweden | Denmark | United Kingdom | France | Germany | Austria | Ireland | Finland
Notable employer
- Head of IT at Axiell Group AB
- IT Manager at Enercon Windtower Production
- Technical Authority at HP Enterprise Services
Experience
Leading Group IT, a large team of architects, system admins, security professionals, application specialists providing hosting services in a framework based on agility and ITIL methodologies. • Transformed IT Operations, both internal and external delivery of services • Professionalised the approach to data centre investment and technology • Developed strategy and budgeting (SEK 50m for IT), working closely with the C-level executives • Excellent at manging complex cloud strategy and operations • Senior vendor management, including top-tier IT companies. • Created excellent people culture within a multi-national team • Clear leadership of security, incident management and implementation of ISO27001. • Key member of tender processes (public and private) • Direct reports, including managers: 20 • Led the integration of subdivisions in other regions In this role I transformed the customer-facing hosting from a local problem to a modern and strategic cost-efficient growth enabler.
Managing day-to-day operations but also created significant enhancements supporting the infrastructure and planning tooling in a production environment. • Designed, created and delivered transformative digital planning tools for the production. • Project-managed the construction work of a multi-million move of the production plant. • ERP (SAP and IFS) roll-out supporting smarter and more efficient processes.
Technical leader for projects developing significant capability enhancements to military IT systems • Provided senior information management expertise to customers • Managed software development teams, from requirements through to product delivery. • Developed capability enhancements to IM systems
Software developer using different programming languages including C, C++, Java, Perl and others. Systems developed on UNIX and Windows. Participated in all stages of the Software Life Cycle (SLC).