Thomas Fahle

Current

Systemadministrator Trainer Developer at Thomas Fahle

Past

Systemadministrator Softwaredeveloper at dpa-AFX Wirtschaftsnachrichten GmbH
Freelance Systemadministrator Softwaredeveloper at Thomas Fahle
Softwaredeveloper Systemadministrator at efinum AG

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Education

Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nürnberg

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Thomas Fahle’s Summary

Service-driven IT-professional with more than 12 years experience in system administration, perl programming, linux and training.

Looking for
Perl or Linux training opportunities
and
Perl programming or Linux system administration opportunities

Thomas Fahle’s Specialties:

Deploying Open Source Software
System Administration
Perl Programming, good CPAN knowledge
Data Munging, Data Mining
Good understanding of IT security
Experience setting and managing budgets
Experience managing technical staff

Thomas Fahle’s Experience

Systemadministrator Trainer Developer

Thomas Fahle

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Perl Training
Perl Programming
Linux Systemadministration
Linux Training (LPIC)
Systemadministrator Softwaredeveloper

dpa-AFX Wirtschaftsnachrichten GmbH

(Public Company; Newspapers industry)

July 2001 — July 2007 (6 years 1 month)

dpa-AFX Wirtschaftsnachrichten GmbH is one of the leading news agencies for German language real time financial news. dpa-AFX provides independent, reliable and fast news for institutional and private investors. As well as having close contacts with traders, brokers, analysts and other financial specialists, dpa-AFX profits from the international news network of its three shareholders: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), Hamburg, AFX News Ltd, London, and APA - Austria Presse Agentur, Vienna.

Provided maintenance of operation, created maintenance programms, incorporated internal data security systems, devoloped custom software, integrated sophisticated data systems and services, provided first class support for users, suppliers and customers, lead a small group of systemadministrators and developers, trained staff.

Notable Contributions:

Maintenance and further development of a realtime financial news distribution system. Beside a significant lowering of costs delivery speed and customer satisfaction increased significantly.

Developed Domain Frameworks which helped to automatically create news.

Developed Application Frameworks to speed up integration of new suppliers and customers.

Created and programmed in-house tools for journalists to increase productivty and delivery speed.
Freelance Systemadministrator Softwaredeveloper

Thomas Fahle

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2001 — June 2001 (4 months)

Main customer was dpa-AFX who employed me later.

Provided maintenance of operation, created maintenance programms, devoloped custom software.

Notable Contributions:

Implemented dpa-AFX Radio which helped the newly founded audio department to launch.

Migrated an unreliable e-mail service to a secure and stable service.
Beside a significant lowering of costs staff (customer) satisfaction increased significantly.
Softwaredeveloper Systemadministrator

efinum AG

(Financial Services industry)

June 2000 — February 2001 (9 months)

efinum AG aspired to be the leading one-stop portal for european consumers focused on financial information. Customers could use free services like e-mail and SMS and receive personalized advertisements.

Provided maintenance of operation, created maintenance programms, devoloped custom software, integrated sophisticated data systems and services.

Notable Contributions:

Implemented the SMS-Service and delivery of personalized advertisements, a business corner stone.

Migrated an unreliable e-mail service to a secure and stable service, another business corner stone. Beside a significant lowering of costs customer satisfaction increased significantly.

Thomas Fahle’s Education

Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nürnberg

Dipl.-Ing.(FH) , process engineering , 1986 — 1992

Additional Information

Thomas Fahle’s Interests:

opensource, linux, perl, openoffice.org, programming, teaching, entrepreneurship, investing, upcoming technology trends, management, six sigma, continuous improvement, kaizen, operational excellence, best practices,