Basman Consultants. Since 1974.
Corporate contractor for IT Services Management for large accounts. Commodity and volume contracting business in Germany and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Specialities are: To design and operate time and mission critical large, complex, area-wide IT-related services.
Today I’m typically at the interface between business and technology. I work as a contractor for large enterprizes and IT service providers. Across the nation and international. My professional interest is in IT services and its management with emphasis on infrastructure services - and additionaly a “free leg” on interactive webbased application services to a certain extend. Within IT service management I have a focus on ‘IT outsourcing’ and ‘IT service delivery’ since many years. I have founded and run several companies in the IT services industry. You may call me a serial entrepreneur.
Full disclosures and professional life.
I’m associated with many large projects in Germany and EMEA for service delivery organizations of HP, Siemens Business Services (SBS), T-Systems, a & o group and exempTec were I work as a contractor, business & company developer and senior project manager.
I was the founder and CEO of Basman Informatik which became later one of the two founding pillars of Lufthansa Systems Network (LSN), based in Hamburg and operating worldwide in IT infrastructure services and IT outsourcing. At LSN I was a member of the board for many years and CEO of pob Network Engineering, a subsidiary company of LSN and the engineering competence center of the LSN group. Leaving LSN I co-founded Bizzlogic in Hamburg, a software development company with expertize in Java and J2EE, but where I am not involved anymore.
Non-Disclosures.
Here at this site you won’t find any information presented or discussed with my participation which is due to a non-disclosure agreement of anykind - written or as a verbal gentlemen’s agreement. That’s understood.
Entrepreneurship.
I like the idea of being a ‘creative entrepeneur’ in opposite to being an ‘arbitrageur’. I believe in an economy driven by passion where anyone can choose to afford a life of passion, experiencing new learning and personal growth by collaborating with others to create inspiring new businesses whenever they want to - doing what they love most.
I am a world citizen.
I was born in 1953 on a hot August day in Istanbul’s Nişantaşı quarter right downtown at the waterfront at the European shores of the Bosphorus strait in the American Hospital. My family roots are Turkish from my father’s side and on my mother’s side I have a Swedish heritage.
Since my childhood Hamburg is my hometown. But I have lived, got educated and worked in several other places in Europe and the U.S., too.
I learned several languages by practice and education: Turkish, Swedish, German, English, and in the course of my career I use all of them. When I’m travelling I try always to pick up bits and phrases of new languages from taxi drivers, hotel receptionists, friends and colleagues. Once in Italy I was asked if I was from Marseille because my French had an definitive southern Italian accent. I had to disappoint them. I speak neither of these languages …
At the bottom line, I suppose, I practice some sort of an individual Pidgin best … since languages are made for contacts.
Family life.
I live in Hamburg, Germany. I’m happily married and father of three sons.
I’m a passionate blogger.
In the blogosphere I’m pretty much a nomad. Something inbetween a blogging bedouin and a wandering bushman. I had already consecutively four blogs since 2001 which I deleted also consecutively after I got bored of their respective concepts. The one you knew best was maybe jimmiz journal. I’m arguably rather a hunter than a farmer I suppose. I don’t like to look back. I’m more interested of the future. I like to experiment.
Some current details and linkology for you:
- My corporate site Basman.com
- My corporate blog about IT sourcing & shoring (which is now inactive due to some changes)
- If you want to see my corporate bio, check out my Xing/openBC profile (Come, join the network!).
- Recommendations in LinkedIn
- See me from above.
Stay tuned.
