Profile

• Engineer for Information Technology with experience in system administration of big server farms (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows Server and Debian)
• Specialized in development and administration of web applications
• Several year of experience in IT project management within critical environments (E-Commerce, high-traffic web sites)
• Software development with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET (C#) and JavaScript
• Specialist for server virtualization using VMware (Certified VMware Professional) and XEN
• Database modeling and administration on MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle

Experience

Senior System Engineer, Swiss TXT, Biel, since 2010

• lead in the datacenter virtualization project (VMware vSphere, Cisco Nexus and UCS, EMC storage)
• development of CDN services for serving media assets
• architecture and operation of the linux server platform
• responsibility for storage, archive and backup infrastructure

Head of IT Internet Competence Center, The Swatch Group Ltd, Biel, 2007-2009

• architecture, planing, realization, maintenance and administration of the Swatch Group web hosting infrastructure
• consulting for internal customers and web agencies
• organization of information days and responsibility for the trainee

Diploma work for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bern, 2006

• Development of a web application used for the planing and management of client project using Ruby on Rails and Oracle
• Analysis of the project requirements using User Centered Requirements Engineering

Traineeship as IT Engineer, Telematic Services, Swatch Group Ltd, Biel, 2004-2005

• Software development using .NET, network monitoring, scripting

IT Internship, STAAR Surgical, Nidau, 2003

• Introduction of a software for quality assurance and management of the measuring equipment

Education

• Engineer for Information Technology (BS in Software Development), HTI Biel – School of Engineering Biel, 2002-2006
• Professional maturity, Commercial-Industrial Vocational School of Bern, 1996-2000
• Precision Mechanic, Ernst Roser AG Bern, 1996-2000

Courses & Diplomas

• VMware vSphere 4: What's New, Magirus Zug, 2010
• EMC NAS Operations and Management with Celerra, EMC Copenhagen, 2010
• VMware Certified Professional 3 (VCP #: 40565), 2009
• VMware Infrastructure 3.5, Install & Configure, Digicomp Zürich, 2009
• Cambridge First Certificate in English, LSC (Language Studies Canada) Vancouver, 2000
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization, Red Hat Training Center Munich, 2008
• Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Database, Trivadis Zürich, 2009
• Microsoft Server 2008 Administration, Microsoft Switzerland, 2008
• Implementing Windows Share Point 2007, ZFI Zürich, 2007

Knowledge

• system administration: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Debian
• in depth knowledge of the configuration and administration of web servers like Apache, IIS, nginx
• modeling and administration on the following database systems: MySQL, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• programming languages: Ruby, C#, PHP, VB.NET, Bash
• development of web applications using Ruby on Rails, AJAX and ASP.NET
• DNS administration and automatization on Bind and Windows Server
• used and administered versioning tools: Subversion, Git
• good knowledge of server virtualization using VMware vSphere
• administration of EMC storage systems
• client operating systems: from Mac OS X to Ubuntu and Windows 7 - the mix makes it interesting

Languages

• German: mother tongue
• English: oral: very good, writing: very good
• French: oral: very good, writing: good