🌍 Site Architecture

CSL Behring — Global Footprint & AHEAD Engagement Status
4
Active Sites
Sept 28
Bern Migration Due
3
Active Nutanix Clusters
$1.5B
Kankakee Investment
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King of Prussia
📍 Pennsylvania, USA — Global HQ
HQ Active
Key Contacts
👑 Kevin Shea — VP Infra
🎯 Craig Martin — Champion
Senthil — Cloud/DevSecOps
Tom Rycak
Krishna
Tom Kent
Kenya — CIO
Current Environment
Corporate HQ — primary IT decision-making hub. Mixed legacy infrastructure. Network LCM program underway. DevSecOps team running cloud-native workloads alongside legacy systems.
AHEAD Deliverables
Network LCM Program — active, George coordinating
IaaS Advisory Engagement — proposal submitted, pending award
Discovery/Design session with Senthil — week of Sept 15
Oct 1 Executive Presentation — Kevin presenting to Kenya + Mark Hill
Open Items
IaaS-as-a-service strategy due Sept 30 → Mark Hill
MSP RFP escalation — AHEAD not invited
Senthil session locked week of Sept 15
Network LCM IaaS Advisory MSP RFP Risk
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Bern
📍 Switzerland — Manufacturing Site
⚠️ Critical Sept 28
Key Contacts
⭐ Ueli — IT Business Liaison
Stefan — Automation Lead
Chris Blake — AHEAD
Brandon — Nutanix SE (on-site)
Current Environment
Plasma manufacturing facility. Drug manufacturing change control environment — strict approval process for all changes. Legacy GBW cluster migrating to NTS. Nutanix BRN Prod cluster deployed. ACI networking (GBA cluster).
Technical Clusters
BRN-PROD GBW NTS GBA (ACI)
AHEAD Deliverables
CRITICAL: GBW→NTS migration — Sept 28
BRN Prod Nutanix HCI deployment (Brandon on-site)
Automation workstream with Stefan
Manufacturing dependency mapping (Ueli)
Open Items
Pre-work for Sept 28 migration must complete by Sept 21
Manufacturing dependency map from Ueli — pending
Workforce reduction impacting team capacity
GBW→NTS Sept 28 BRN Prod Nutanix HCI
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Marburg
📍 Germany — Manufacturing Site
Active
Key Contacts
Armin — Infra Lead
Jan-Henning Maser — Mfg Architect
Achim Klinger — Mfg Architect
Sven Brueske — Mfg Architect
Current Environment
Major biotherapeutics manufacturing facility. Three manufacturing architects manage IT architecture for production systems. Methodical team — requires detailed technical specs before approving changes. Strict EU regulatory environment.
AHEAD Deliverables
Infrastructure assessment and planning
Manufacturing IT architecture review
Alignment with global CSL Cloud model
Open Items
Current state documentation pending
Follow-up technical deep dive to schedule
Planning Phase Manufacturing IT
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Kankakee
📍 Illinois, USA — Future Facility
🔮 Future 2031
🏗️
$1.5 Billion Expansion — PRIORITY OPPORTUNITY
New plasma manufacturing facility. Groundbreaking: March 2026. Operational target: 2031. Full IT build-out required — greenfield opportunity. Whoever architects the IT from the ground up owns it for decades.
Key Facts
Investment: $1.5 billion
Groundbreaking: March 2026
Operational: 2031
IT planning window: 2026–2028
Estimated IT spend: $50–100M+ over build period
AHEAD Opportunity
Greenfield facility = no legacy systems. AHEAD can design the ideal CSL Cloud architecture from scratch — Nutanix private cloud, AWS public cloud integration, DevSecOps pipeline, full monitoring stack. This is the definition of a foundational engagement.
Action Required
Get AHEAD named in Kankakee IT planning NOW — before anyone else stakes claim
Include Kankakee in Oct 1 Kevin board presentation
Identify who owns Kankakee IT expansion planning
GREENFIELD $50-100M+ IT 2031 Target