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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
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4 years Physics degree, 3 scientific publications, thesis, 5 years scientific work in Physics, additional course work, 2 years mechanical engineering; minors in computer science and el.engineering.
Formal training and >15 years hands-on experience in supercomputing hw/sw, hpc, networking (high performance, redundancy, routing, switching, LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN),
Microsoft, Unix, Linux and mixed environment integration
Advanced storage appliance design and support
Formal training and >8 years experience in project management, consulting best practices, project life cycle; obtained SME CEI and CEM certifications (discontinued) and multiple certifications on the way showing constant upkeep of skills and knowledge.
Experience working with device/system certifications and safety standards compliance, thermal and acoustical testing of systems.
Fluent and current in English, German, French, some workable Portuguese (Brazil)
Relocate anywhere.
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OBJECTIVE:
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Looking for a good challenge with respect to work environment, tasks, systems.
Fitting positions can be installation/maintenance/rollout/design of systems, networks, multi tier application systems.
Would also go as geophysical explorer (did that for some time, planting seismometers and waiting for the shot), physical and systems support (I worked for some time for the Geophysical Institute at the University of Karlsruhe providing numerical data evaluation of seismic profiles).
Looking for the 'impossible', 'cannot do', 'need that now' type of positions.
Also considering 'adventurous' types of postions where Physics, technology, and outdoors meet, remote regions totally acceptable.
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WORK EXPERIENCE:
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08/07-current: Nittmann Consulting; consultancy with focus on the Small Business community. Microsoft Partner Program registered partner. Services include all
Microsoft OS maintenance, and architecture/solution consulting; mixed
Microsoft/Linux environment support, expansion, design; LAN/WAN/VPN
Internet/Extranet/Intranet. Microsoft Small Business Specialist, and MCP certification in progress. Obtained Dell DCSE certification.
05/04-08/07 Systems Engineer with an OEM manufacturer. Running the Technology and Certification Lab: Intel and Microsoft certifications, product engineering, evaluations, manufacturability assessments. Working with vendors and suppliers.
Defining and maintaining test plans, prototyping, form fit function assessments.
Reporting to the VP marketing.
12/03-03/04: Feldmann Imports: parts advisor. Identify, locate, procure parts for internal and external customers. Joined company in need of ERP system integration and support.
11/02-5/04: consulting and web site work; obtained SME CEI and CEM
certifications, joined local SME chapter in Minneapolis.
4/01-11/02: Tricord Systems, Inc.: Manager Technical Support. Technical management role, managing a small group of support specialists, being the senior support resource. Working together with engineering and developers to solve difficult issues, formulate engineering change requests. Working with customers at all levels on product use, integration into heterogeneous environments containing Microsoft servers and clients, Unix/Linux servers and clients, Macintosh servers and clients, and on networking and interoperability issues. Defining support procedures, maintaining support database, coaching and training team members. Reporting to the Director of
Technical Support and IT. Tricord finished chapter 7. On 12/15/2002, all employees were dismissed.
1998-2002: Ncinc, Inc.: own consulting firm and nationwide ISP. Consulting projects in various settings, own ISP. Activities involve company management, nationwide dial-up management, Radius realms, firewall design and deployment, server and hosting issues. Very successful consulting work, received excellence award from
Carlson Companies for a very difficult migration and integration into IT environment of a three-tier hosting system. Consulting projects for ISPs and small to medium size businesses.
1996-4/22/1999: MCI Systemhouse, Technical Architect: multiple projects with different customers, ranging from mainframe via client/server to network security and optimization. Systems and network management architectures, connectivity issues, mainframe database tuning (db2 on MVS). MCI Systemhouse closed on 4/22/1999.
1995-1996: IDT Internet Service: Brought network from unusable to a stable and performant switched nationwide ATM backbone. All aspects of Internet service provider. Managed small staff of network group. Backbone design, server farm and point of presence design. Full life cycle projects, customer Internet access integration projects. Built first of a kind nationwide switched ATM backbone.
1994-1995: Wisconsin Internet provider B3, later US Cyber: Expanded network from second tier local provider to presence at MAE East with backup through another first tier provider. All aspects of Internet service provider, architecture, and ISP to ISP
relations. Head end design and project management.
1992-1994: The Trane Company: Senior Network Architect: Excellent work on campus and nationwide business unit networks. Introduced first of a kind nationwide
VPN between headquarters campus and business units using ANS networking services.
1984-1992: Cray Research GmbH, Germany: Career starting as a software site analyst, finishing as Training Coordinator for Central Europe. Supercomputer networking issues, hardware issues (hardware and software training in COS,
UNICOS, hardware up to Y-MP), interoperability issues. Working with customers on day to day operations, software port and optimization (hand optimizing assembler code to match CPU functional unit, and result settling times). Mentionable specials:
created a working TCP/IP OSI TP4 gateway based on a Sun workstation and GMD
net* library. Port of RQS (Cray reduced version of NQS) to Apollo workstations.
1980-1984: University of Geneva, Switzerland: Scientific research work on dielectric breakdown in cryogenic liquids. Lab automation, design and build 30MHz transient recorder in pure TTL. Member of the Swiss board of examiners for medical students.
Scientific publication. Teaching duties.
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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION:
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Education:
2 years mechanical engineering, Physics degree, 3 scientific publications, minors computer science and electrical engineering.
Work was with heavy ion implantation (300kV linear accelerator, superconducting probes), and dielectric breakdown in cryogenic liquids (basically spark milling in liquid nitrogen and helium)
Certifications:
-Dell DCSE certified (Dell Certified Systems Expert)
-Fluent in German, English, and French
-Working knowledge of Portuguese (Brazil)
-Linux and Microsoft system building and customization
-Desktop and server building/manufacturing technology ('unattended' and 'ani')
-Extensive skills in Microsoft NT, XP, Server 2k, 2k3, 2k3r2, sbs, vista
-Extensive skills in Redhat, Gentoo, SuSE/Novell, Slackware Linux
-VBasic and command shell scripting, *nix scripting, Fortran, C, C++, diverse assembler language experiences
-SME CEI/CEM certification in 2002
-Certified Netanalyst (Pine Mountain Group certification program)
-Many training certificates, e.g., Tivoli, Systems Security, People Management, -
Support Customer Focus training, Interop Workshop participations.
-Training in NT/Unix DNS/WINS integration (Softbank Forums: Building switched networks with Ethernet, IP, and ATM, and Networking with NT and Windows)
-Router and firewall configuration (Cisco, Bay, Nortel, Lucent, Morningstar, have own CCO account)
-Network security, Audit (Interop training)
-Project Management (TechData 10 steps program for network life cycle projects) -
Systems Integration (MCI Systemhouse training; MCI Systemhouse was former SHL)
-Behavioral interviewing training.
-Management training: how to supervise people; team building.
-Methodology training, full life cycle consulting project training, with MCI
Systemhouse; participation on small to very large projects, from inception phase work to specialist crisis interventions.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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German national, permanent US resident (can work anywhere).
Will relocate to anywhere.
Looking also for some kind of adventure - maybe a technical position that combines Physics, Technology, and outdoors.
I am very reliable, an 'on time' person, don't promise too much (got the experience....)
While I seem to have 'seen it all' I do know that I don't know about most things in this world, keeping an open mind in all situations. That gives me intelligent flexibility.
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