Andreas Edler

Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations at Hostway Corp. International

Hannover Area, Germany

Current
  • Acting Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations at Hostway Corp.
Past
  • Director Technical Operations at Hostway Deutschland GmbH
  • Manager European Networks at Hostway
  • Director Technical Operations Germany 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
  • Fachhochschule Hannover
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Andreas Edler’s Summary

Andreas Edler’s Specialties:

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


Andreas Edler’s Experience

  • Acting Director of Global Systems/Infrastructure Operations

    Hostway Corp.

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2008Present (6 months)

  • Director Technical Operations

    Hostway Deutschland GmbH

    (Internet industry)

    November 2007May 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.

  • Manager European Networks

    Hostway

    (Internet industry)

    May 2006March 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.

  • Director Technical Operations Germany

    Server-Service

    (Internet industry)

    April 1999November 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.

  • General Manager & Co-Founder

    Edler Informationssysteme GbR (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1998March 2005 (6 years 8 months)

  • Unix-Engineer & Systems Consultant

    cid - christliche internet dienst GmbH

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    September 1996April 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.

  • Unix and Network Assistant

    University Hannover, Institute for Water and Costal Engineering

    (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Environmental Services industry)

    May 1997February 1999 (1 year 10 months)

    Systems operations of a Sun Solaris workstation network (with NFS and a central NIS+ domain) and numerical computing servers.

  • Unix Assistant

    Fachhochschule Hannover, Computing Center

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Services industry)

    October 1995April 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.

  • Electronic Publishing Assistant

    Heise

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

    June 1996August 1996 (3 months)


Andreas Edler’s Education

  • Fachhochschule Hannover

    BSc (Dipl. Wirtsch.-Informatiker FH), Business Economics and Computer Science, 19952005

    (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


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