Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations at Hostway Corp. International
Hannover Area, Germany
Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations at Hostway Corp. International
Hannover Area, Germany
Network Operations (TCP/IP, ISO/OSI, BGP, OSPF, STP, VLAN, VPN, HSRP/VRRP), Multi Network Vendors (Cisco IOS/CatOS, Juniper JunOS, Foundry)
Internet Security, 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)
Scripting in Unix shell, Perl, PHP
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (6 months)
(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.
(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.
(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.
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1998 — March 2005 (6 years 8 months)
(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.
(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.
(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.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
June 1996 — August 1996 (3 months)
BSc (Dipl. Wirtsch.-Informatiker FH), Business Economics and Computer Science, 1995 — 2005
(at the same time as driving businesses)
My wife, penguins, contryside and city photography, Hawaii, IT management, data center management, network engineering, IT integration