Director European Systems Operations and Engineering & Managing Director UK at Hostway
London, United Kingdom
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- Managing Director at Hostway UK Ltd
- Director of European Systems Operations and Engineering at Hostway
- Past
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- Acting Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations at Hostway Corp.
- Director Technical Operations at Hostway Deutschland GmbH
- Manager European Networks at Hostway
- Director Technical Operations at Server-Service
- General Manager & Co-Founder at Edler Informationssysteme GbR (Self-employed)
- Unix-Engineer & Systems Consultant at cid - christliche internet dienst GmbH
- Unix and Network Assistant at University Hannover, Institute for Water and Costal Engineering
- Unix Assistant at Fachhochschule Hannover, Computing Center
- Electronic Publishing Assistant at Heise
- Education
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- Fachhochschule Hannover
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Andreas Edler’s Summary
Vast experience in a multi-vendor ISP with IT operations, IT documentations, and IT projects, as IT lead. Datacenter Management. Process Documentation, Change Management, Incident Management. Business Management. Internet technologies since 1997.
London / Hannover.
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Hostway is a multinational web hosting company headquartered in Chicago, IL, US, founded in 1998. It provides individuals, small- to medium-sized businesses and large corporations with hosting services for web sites, databases and business applications.
Examples of operations and offerings: service over internet, Enterprise Hosting Services, Managed Hosting, Managed Server, Dedicated Server, Root-Server, Serverhousing, Colocation, Webhosting, Mailservices, Hosted Exchange, eMail-Cluster, MySQL-Cluster, Loadbalancing, HA, DR, Virtualization, IT-Outsourcing, Datacenter Rack-Space, Data Center Services, TCP/IP, IP-Connectivity, IP-Upstream, IP-Transit, VPN, Server-Monitoring, Domains, DNS, Domain-Reselling, DNR, Systems- and Network-Engineering.
Internet routing, performance and anomaly tracking, security, and integration of complex systems.
Andreas Edler’s Specialties:
Network Operations (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, STP, VLAN, VPN, HSRP/VRRP), Multi Vendor Networks (Cisco IOS/CatOS, Juniper JunOS, Foundry); Internet Security, Intrusion Detection, Network Engineering&Design; Data Center Management (Facilities, Power/UPS/Generator, Cooling); Linux/UN*X (Debian/Ubuntu/RedHat/SuSE, Apache, Exim/Postfix/Courier, MailScanner/Amavis, Bind/MyDNS, MySQL); Systems Operations, Monitoring (Munin, Nagios, MRTG/RTG/Cacti, Zabbix, Snort); Scripting - Unix shell, Perl, PHP
Andreas Edler’s Experience
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Managing Director
Hostway UK Ltd
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Managing Director of the UK business unit.
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Director of European Systems Operations and Engineering
Hostway
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Overseeing several Systems Operations and Engineering groups across Europe, setting directions and priorities, and being involved in managing their day-to-day tasks.
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Acting Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations
Hostway Corp.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
April 2008 — September 2008 (6 months)
Restructuring the North American Systems Operations groups, and starting integrations, including India. Hiring a new Systems Operations Manager for Chicago HQ. Forming a new GlobalNOC, building its footprint in the organisation. Improving procedures and documentation. Raising awareness for unification projects. Initiating PCI compliance project.
[ Chicago IL USA | Tampa FL USA | Ft.Lauderdale FL USA | Vancouver BC CA | Mumbai IN | London UK | Hannover DE ] -
Director Technical Operations
Hostway Deutschland GmbH
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — May 2008 (7 months)
Managing a team of 10 employees responsible for systems, network, and datacenter operations. Company was renamed from Server-Service to Hostway Deutschland GmbH in 11/2007.
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Manager European Networks
Hostway
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Responsible for the networks of the german datacenters, their internet connectivity and peering relationships. Supervising remote network administrators throughout Europe.
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Director Technical Operations
Server-Service
(Internet industry)
April 1999 — November 2007 (8 years 8 months)
Grown the technical side of the business from having had just one webhosting server up to now managing a complex infrastructure of hosting systems, European-wide networks, and datacenters. Company integrated into the HOSTWAY group and lately renamed to Hostway Deutschland GmbH.
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General Manager & Co-Founder
Edler Informationssysteme GbR (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1998 — March 2005 (6 years 8 months)
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Unix-Engineer & Systems Consultant
cid - christliche internet dienst GmbH
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 1996 — April 2002 (5 years 8 months)
Co-founder of the business unit. Technical design and operations of the internet hosting and dial-in infrastructure. Later external technical consultant.
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Unix and Network Assistant
University Hannover, Institute for Water and Costal Engineering
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Environmental Services industry)
May 1997 — February 1999 (1 year 10 months)
Systems operations of a Sun Solaris workstation network (with NFS and a central NIS+ domain) and numerical computing servers.
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Unix Assistant
Fachhochschule Hannover, Computing Center
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Services industry)
October 1995 — April 1997 (1 year 7 months)
Systems operations of IBM AIX workstations, and a Linux server for shell access, uucp, mail, news, and PPP internet dial-in services.
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Electronic Publishing Assistant
Heise
(Privately Held; Writing and Editing industry)
June 1996 — August 1996 (3 months)
http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/1991/12/999/@00000@/art.htm
Andreas Edler’s Education
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Fachhochschule Hannover
BSc (Dipl. Wirtsch.-Informatiker FH) , Business Economics and Computer Science , 1995 — 2005
(at the same time as driving businesses)
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Andreas Edler’s Interests:
My wife, penguins, contryside and city photography, Hawaii, IT management, data center management, network engineering, IT integration
