Education

High-school Odenwaldschule, Heppenheim 1987-1990

Major Englisch, Deutsch, Religion

Degree Fachabitur (A-Level) 1990

Civil Service Alice Hospital, Darmstadt 1990-1992

Work Offset Print, Langen 1992-1993

University 1 Fachhochschule Darmstadt 1993-1995

Major Information & Documentation

University 2 International American University,

 Kyrenia / Bellapais / Cyprus 1995-1996

Major Computer Information Systems

Degree Bachelor of Science, hns. (GPA: 2.92 of 4.0) 1996

Hard Skills

Mastering MS SQL Server (1998-1999)

Visual Basic Fundamentals

Mastering Visual Basic

Visual C++ Fundamentals

Mastering Visual C++

Windows Open Systems

Basic training for OCTOPUS-Products (Mar. 2000)

Solaris 8 System Administration 1 + 2 (Mar. 2001)

SUN Storage (A5x "Photon") (May 2001)

SUN Enterprise Server Ex000 + Ex500 (May 2001)

Fabasoft eGovernment Suite (Dec. 2003)

Soft Skills

Relationship management

Conflict management

Languages

Deutsch (mother tongue)

English (fluent)

French (3 years in school)

Dutch (Basic)

Turkish (Basic)

Operating Systems

Microsoft DOS ver. 3.3-6.22

Microsoft Windows 3.0-3.11

Microsoft Win ́95 / 98

Microsoft Win NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP / 7

IBM OS2 ver. 3-4

UNIX SCO / Solaris 8

Linux SuSE (SLES) / Red Hat (RHEL) / Slackware / Debian (Ubuntu)

Software

Messaging

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000

Microsoft Outlook

Lotus Domino Server

Lotus Notes 4.x -5Gold

Sendmail/Postfix (MTA)

Dovecot/UW (IMAP)

Adobe Campaign (Newsletter)

Office

Microsoft Office 97-XP / Microsoft FrontPage

IBM Works

Star Office 3.0-7.0

OpenOffice 1.x, 2.x

LibreOffice 3

Programming

HTML / PHP / Perl

shell: ksh, csh, bash (GNU tools)

Fabasoft eGouvernment Componants

Workflow

Lotus Notes R4.X, R5

OCTOPUS-Products

Fabasoft eGouvernment

Peregrine Service Center (HP-Service-Center)

Remedy Action Request

Service Now (SNOW)

Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Trello)

Tools

Borderware Admin

Microsoft Resource kits

Seagate Backup

Trend Virus

Sybari Antigen

Exchange Admin

MS Project

Visio Professional

Mind Manager

Borderware Firewall (*BSD)

Mandrake Single Network Firewall

VNC Viewer

HP Jet Admin

Solstice Disk Suit

Solstice Enterprise Manager

Nagios NRPE

Splunk Monitoring

Linux LVM (CLVM)

Linux Heartbeat incl. STONITH via HP-ILO

Linux DRBD Cluster

Linux MD-RAID

RedHat Satellite Server

IBM Urbancode Deployment (uDeploy)

Linux Kickstart

Peregrine Service Center

GNUpg (pgp)

ssh, rdp, rsh

OpenVPN

Veritas VCS

Veritas VxFS

OpenSSL (Certificates, TLS)

Databases

MySQL

Oracle Client

Web-server & Technology

Apache 2.0 – 2.4

Tomcat 6/7

jBoss

IBM Websphere

Adobe CQ5/AEM

Load-balancing & Technology

BigIP F5 (managing, iRules)

INlab proxy balance

Apache mod_proxy / proxy balance

Work Experience:

Period: 04/2022 - ongoing

Sector: service for medical technology

Project: Daily Linux Administration. Architect for a new environments. Pre-Sales support. Setup security guidelines. Implement automatic deployment to enforce IT governance and ISO27001 compliance.
Implemetation of SecurityScorcard security measures
Webserver hardening
Migration from RedHat 6.x/7.x to RedHat 8 | Debian Cluster with Linux HA/Pacemaker and HA Proxy

Period: 01/2022 - 12/2022

Sector: federal government

Project: Controlling & Setup of the Cloud-Architecture

Analysis and continuous development & deployment of federal cloud architecture. Setting up and implementing the security governance. Controlling the security measurements of compliance aspects. Pre-Audit sessions and implementation of findings.

Period: 04/2021 - 03/2022

Sector: Service / software manufacturer

Project: Deployment, further development and general administration of cluster systems.

Construction and administration of firewalls clustered on pacemaker with IPTables, load balancers

with ldirectord and databases with Postgesql.

Dates: 01/2020 – 08/2020

Industry: Service / sporting events

Project: Deployment and development of a high security environment for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Setup of an automatic installation for Ubuntu Linux and post installation via Ansible. Migration of various legacy systems from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 18 (LTS) – including Nginx, IPTables, Varnish, Squid and middleware (Tomcat, Jboss).

Dates: 10/2016 – 08/2019

Environment: Bank, International

Project: Deployment and customization of Online-Banking Environment, configuration and automatic deployment via IBM-UCD, configuration of MQ connection to Tandem Host, configuration of the Weblogic Instances and creation of local queues, Server hardening for BaFIN/BAIT; Migration of Web-Applications (Microservices) from Solaris to RHEL as parallel environment; configuration of Hazelcast Cluster; setup and configure splunk monitoring. HW-Env: SUN T524, IBM xServer

SW-Env: SunOS 5.10 (Solaris 10), RedHat RHEL6.x; Weblogic 12.1.3, mqm Websphere MQ 7.1/8.0

Dates: 03/2017 – 02/2018

Environment: Pharma, International

Project: Infrastructure setup, planning and migrating the CMS based on Adobe AEM (CQ-5 Migration)

HW-Env: VMWare

SW-Env: RHEL 6, SLES 11, Adobe CQ5, Apache 2.4, Kibana, Logstash

Dates: 10/2016 – 01/2017

Environment: Bank, International

Project: Architecture and Setup of the infrastructure including automatic deployment of the initial setup and campaigns (Newsletter) and CMS (Public Website)

Hardware: IBM xServer, VMWare

Software: RHEL 6, Adobe AEM, Adobe Campaign, Apache 2.2, Tomcat 7, Java 7

Project: Deployment and customizing Online-Banking environment Hardware: SUN T524

Software: SunOS 5.10 (Solaris 10)

Dates: 04/2016 – 10/2016

Environment: Press publishing, Daily Newspaper (50%)

Project: decommissioning of the old environment, migration of running systems from Linux to Windows. On-call administrator for specific services (Newsletter, ePaper) and Load-balancer. Documentation of the Load-balancer.

Hardware: VMWare, BigIP F5

Software: SuSE Linux, Windows 2012 Server, BigIP F5, Apache 2.4, Tomcat 7

Environment: Finance Bank, International (50%)

Project: Infrastructure setup, planning of deployment automation, setup of campaign solutions (Newsletter) and CMS (Public Website)

Hardware: IBM xServer, VMWare

Software: RHEL 6, Adobe AEM, Adobe Campaign, Apache 2.2

Dates: 08/2015 – 04/2016

Environment: Press publishing, Daily Newspaper (International)

Project: Migration of the online news portal to a new external service provider. Migration of the “satellite services” (news feeds, sport, games; not directly connected to the portal)

Hardware: HP DL 380 G8, VMWare

Software: SuSE SLES 11, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Varnish, Polopoly CMS, Jira, Confluence

Dates: 02/2015 – 07/2015

Environment: Finance – Governmental Bank

Project: Migration of all Internet portals

Structured analysis of the running portal and design of the target architecture. Multi tier access through loadbalancers to the backend systems. Balancing the load between two datacenters in the Rhein-Main area (WAN, Campus-Cluster).

Hardware: DELL r715/r515, VMWare (via vCenter), BIG-IP f5

Software: RHEL6, RHN-Satellite, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Oracle-Client, Adobe CQ5, Adobe CQ5- Dispatcher

Dates: 07/2014 – 12/2014

Environment: Finance – public-law institution

Project: Disaster recovery environment based on SLES11

Structured analysis of the SLA relevant systems and design of a warm-restart after a disaster. Planing, implementation and documentation of the disater-recovery (Linux bare metal disaster recovery) based on REAR (Relax-and-Recover), Tivoli und Config-2-HTML. Deployment via SuSE-Manager (SW-Chanel & rpm).

Dates: 04/2014 – 07/2014

Environment: Federal law enforcement

Project: Migration SLES to RedHat

Analysis of Web Applications. Planning and implementation of the migration from SLES 11 to RedHat Linux.

Environment: jBoss applications clustered over a geo-cluster on S.u.S.E. Enterprise Linux, virtualized by VMWare ESX. Oracle RAC on HP Blade

Dates: 03/2014 – 04/2014

Environment: Telecommunication

Project: Analysis of Storage-systems

Analysis of the RedHat Server environment and the used Storage-solutions. Creation of a detailed migration plan.

Cluster-solutions: Veritas, Hp-Serviceguard, Oracle RAC, HA Cluster & Standby Storage-solutions: EMC VNX5001, VNX5300, Brocade VDX6740 and 6740T

Dates: 06/2013 – 12/2013

Environment: Aviation

Project: Migration of complex Web-Infrastructure

Analyses, Plan & Design of target environment

Setup of Web servers using Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, MySQL and Oracle

Source environment: several Linux-distributions (S.u.S.E., SLES), several UNIX-Derivate (AIX, HPUX) Target-environment: VMWare, RedHat Enterprise 6

Due to the migration towards a standardized VMWare based RHEL environment a high grade of cost savings was achieved.

The project covered a complete analyses (due diligence) of the current environment and the design of the target systems.

Dates: 09/2012 – 05/2013

Environment: Telecommunication

Project: Planning and development of a multi-tier environment in the area of IPTV

– Satellite RedHat Server

– VMWare ESX – 80 virtual guests per Environment (Development, Test, Acceptance, Production)

– 6 physical servers HP DL385

– SAN with multi-path

– 10GB LAN bonding with LACP

To implement the project, a complete network infrastructure has been rebuilt, in which load balancers further direct the requests from consumers to the application server which manages the TV content.

Dates: 02/2006 – 09/2012

Environment: Aviation

Project: Migration of server applications and complete system landscapes from SUSE Linux 7.3 to SLES 9 / RHEL4 / 5

Creation of actual data on total system solutions and the creation of target configurations and migration plans to upgrade the system landscapes on RHEL4 / 5

Evaluation, development, implementation and evaluation of test scenarios and environments Preparation of documentation such as technical collection, checklists for migration and controlled go-live operation with migration systems

Migration of various web applications and database systems from SUSE Linux 7.3 on SLES 9 and RHEL4, migration of databases and data bases of industry applications

Maintenance of the CMDB with Peregrine ServiceCenter

Support & Engineering in daily business

Migration of web applications of aviation using RHEL 4 and Windows Server 2003 Project support for migration a bank

Supported the structure of the server environment Westphalian general newspaper

Construction & Maintenance of a functional test environment under VMWare ESX 3.5

IT Environment:

Apache 1 and 2, CVS, Java, Oracle Tools, Peregrine Service Center, Tomcat, RHEL 4 & 5, Red Hat Satellite Server, SUSE Linux 7.3, SUSE kickstart, autoyast, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, MySQL 4 and 5, Windows 2003 server, CMDB

Hardware:

HP DL 360 G4, HP DL380 G4 and G5 Server, HP ProLiant DL385 G5, HP ML 585 G4, SUN Metra T1, Sun Fire 2400, Sun Enterprise Server 450, SUN Enterprise Server 6000 and 6500, Photon SUN, IBM X-Series X300, X330, X380, IBM Netfinity, IBM Storage 9000

Dates: 10/2005 – 01/2006

Environment: Logistic

Project: Project consulting in a SUN Solaris environment

Hardware:

SUN E280, E450, E15K, Netra

HP DL740, DL360, rx4640

Software:

Peregrine Service Center Solaris 8, 9, 10

Linux SLES 9.0, RedHat ES 3 Linux Slackware (Workstation) VMWare ESX, GSX 3.0 Windows 2000 Server

Dates: 03/2005 – 09/2005

Environment: Financial Consulting

Project: Leading the 3rd level Support-Team on site in Frankfurt Conception of Firewalls over 5 Zones

Setting up Applikation server (Apache/Tomcat)

Setting up High Availability (Heartbeat)

Conception of Load Balancing (Pound)

SSL Conception

Disaster-recovery Conception

Documentation of the implemented Linux-solutions

Dates: 03/2004 – 09/2004

Environment: Consulting

Project: Planning and Conception of the LAN/WAN infrastructure Structured Design of the Network

Controlling

Statusreport and Milestone-Trend Analysis

Documentation of Installation- and operational handbook

Dates: 04/2003 – 12/2003

Environment: International Research Community

Project: Planning and conception of the LAN/WAN infrastructure Consulting for the Hardware procurement

Building up the Network (Slackware Linux, Windows XP) LAN/WAN & Security Concept

Setting up internet connectivity (http, https, smtp, imap)

Dates: 06/2002 – 03/2003

Environment: Consulting

Building up a network-department to increase the consulting portfolio Re-structuring the internal network

Analysing the concepts for Swiss energy company

Rewriting Print / Secure Print concepts

Process analysis through „Structured Analysis“

Building up a project auditing for Swiss energy company

Controlling

Dates: 11/2001 – 06/2002

Environment: Consulting

Project: Setting up the complete Company-Network using: Mandrake SNF (Firewall, IPTables)

SuSE Linux Fileserver (SMB, NFS)

Microsoft Small Business Server

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Consulting for the Hardware procurement

Complete conception and documentation of the project (Security, User)

Dates: 07/2001 – 11/2001

Environment: Antivirus Software

Project: Product Management

Responsible for the release plan of antivirus products Business Development

Organizing training for resellers and customers Building a representation of AV company in Germany. Setting up a partner and reseller program

Setting up a marketing strategy

Representing AV company in the press in Germany

Public relation strategy with Maisberger in Munich Organizing a trade show (Systems 2001 / Munich)

Dates: 02/2001 – 07/2001

Environment: Hardware

Project: Service Account Management

Technically supervising three named accounts

Responsible for the service contracts

Responsible for the technical realization of the SUN hard- and software implemented in these accounts

Escalation management of the critical systems

Organization of action plans for software migration

Organization of hardware support plans

Backup concepts for time- and mission-critical systems in data centers Soft- and hardware upgrade management

Dates: 03/1999 – 02/2001

Environment: IT Business Integrator (employed)

Project: Y2K Project, Bank

Building up a network on the base of the Microsoft Domain Model (1 PDC, 2

BDCs, 4 Servers, 20 Clients)

Installing a Raid 5 system on Siemens Primagy with Mylex Raid controllers Installing MS Cluster Server

Testing the automated installation for the clients and severs

Documenting the Y2K tests for custom products used in a bank Project: Terminal Server for the bank. Trouble shooting the installed software

Training for MS-Windows NT Client

Project Terminal Server for SaaS provider

Co-project management for the technical realization of the project Resource planning for the project

Building up an ASP server-farm with Citrix Metaframe

Project management for ASP

Business Development introducing a partner concept Sales and Key-Accounting concept

Introducing an intranet solution

Project Localization for Lotus Notes. Planning of the technical realization of the project Resource and budget planning for the project Documentation of the project

Process management and analysis of the workflow

Dates: 02/1999 – 03/1999

Environment: Logistics

Project: PC Rollout with NT, HSD Host emulation and Office 3rd level support

Dates: 07/1998 – 09/1998

Environment: Insurance

Project: Administrating the basic network with Windows NT 4 Administrating Exchange

Migrating MR Office, a customized work flow management on the base of MS Office with Outlook as Desktop environment

3rd level support for all Office products

Project: introducing an electronic archive as the base for a global knowledge base

Planning the intra / Internet of Insurance

Programming in HTML (basic)

Dates: 09/1996 – 12/1996

Environment: Insurace, Dubai UAE

Project: Planning and coordinating the network using:

SCO Unix with ASCII Terminals and Desktop Computers with Windows NT 3.5 Organizing the WAN connection to the Headquarter in Doha / Bahrain Administrating the network