Projects

• Ongoing consulting and support for various customers from different sectors in the areas of SAN/Storage (Brocade, EMC, NetApp) and Unix (above all­ HP-UX, Linux environment, Solaris)
• Error analysis
• Performance analysis and optimizing
• Technical support

• Responsible IT Architect for design­ and implementation of a cloud-based zero-downtime infrastructure for an application in a connected car environment
• Transformation of a conventional infrastructure into a cloud-based infrastructure
• Integration of private and public cloud elements into a hybrid cloud solution
• Coordination of customer requirements with various expert teams in Europe
• Technical conceptual design and implementation, identity management (LDAP-based, connection to a Linux environment, Load Balancer, firewalls and all application components)
• Design and implementation of high availability­ scalable secure and high-performance basic services (DNS, LDAP, NFS)
• Design and implementation of a central logon service
• Design and implementation of standardized CentOS templates
• Support in designing and implementation of a fully automated scalable application (automation and orchestration)
• Contribution to pre-sales activities (drafting of a highly scalable and cloud-based outsourcing solution)
• Significant products and technologies: NTT Enterprise Cloud (VMware vCloud Director), Linux environment, CentOS, OpenLDAP, BIND, Oracle, Docker

• Virtualization of a physical HP-UX 10.20-Systems (PA-RISC) to current Hardware (IA64)
• Consulting and support in procurement, operation and proof of concept
• Drawing up concept for data backup (disc-to-disc)
• Significant products and technologies: HP Integrity, HP-UX 11.31, HP9000 Containers, HP ARIES

• Conceptual design and accompanying of system migration in the context of a multinational computing centre consolidation and virtualization
• Important role in drawing up architectural documents
• Technical planning of company hand-over
• Error analysis and technical support (HP-UX, HP Serviceguard, ARIES, HP9000 Containers, Solaris, Linux environment, Storage)
• Design and implementation of an automation solution

• Symmetrix VMAX, building from scratch of Brocade-based SAN)
• Introduction of storage system EMC Clariion CX4
• Online migration of ca. 80 servers (Solaris, Linux environment, Windows, VMware)
• Introduction of current best practices
• Responsible for project execution
• Performance analyses and optimizing
• Storage and SAN administration and operation, troubleshooting
• Storage cost calculation and internal costing (chargeback)
• Solaris       and Linux administration (RedHat Enterprise Linux environment, Oracle Enterprise Linux environment, Oracle Solaris 10, Solaris 11)

• Building from scratch of a computing centre (server, storage, infrastructure) in an SAP environment
• Building an operating system, including transfer of know-how as an essential task
• Drawing up of and contribution to concepts and documentation (including cluster/ high availability, data back-up, patch strategy, operating manual)
• Active system administration Unix (HP-UX 11.31), cluster (HP Serviceguard), Windows Server, SAN (Fibre Channel, Brocade), storage systems (HP EVA 4400 and 6400), LAN (Ethernet Switches, HP Procurve), Load Balancer (Cisco ACE 4710)

• Extensive performance analysis and optimization across the board (server, SAN, Storage)
• Infrastructure design and planning (server, SAN, storage, backup) for       re-engineering of core applications (insourcing)
• Environment: HP-UX 11.23, HP Superdome, HDS storage, IBM DB2 databases

• Storage system virtualisation (FalconStor IPStor) in a highly scalable Unix environment (Sun Solaris, Sun N1AA deployment engine, Veritas Volume Manager)
• Storage system migration (HDS to EMC Clariion)

• Fluent transition from predecessor’s project
• Administration of storage systems in a large storage-on-demand environment (EMC² Clariion, EMC² Symmetrix DMX, Net­App Filer)
• SAN administration (various Brocade switches and directors)
• Unix administration (HP-UX, Solaris and others)
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Technical support for customer escalation (due to performance problems and others)
• Programming and further development of high-performance tools and management tools (Perl, MySQL 5, Unix) for administration (including provisioning, accounts, reporting) of one of the largest SANs worldwide and a storage-on-demand landscape in an SAP environment
• Migration of a MySQL database to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in the context of       proprietary storage lifecycle and administration tools

• System administration HP-UX, Linux and other Unix systems in the SAP R/3 environment to various hardware platforms (several thousand servers)
• Administration of storage systems (EMC² Clariion, EMC² Symmetrix DMX) and others with EMC² Control Centre
• SAN administration (various Brocade switches and directors)
• Sub-project management (Project: Migration of a high-availability application complex to HP-UX 11.23, 6 TByte/System, IBM DB2, Legato Autostart, EMC² Symmetrix DMX-3, Implementation of an HA solution Implementation of a disc-based cloning solution)
• Server consolidation and virtualization
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Development and programming of extensive provisioning tools for a Stor­age-on-demand environment (Shell script, Perl)
• Troubleshooting and support

• Consulting, planning, support in the system environment of a highly scalable computing centre which operates more than 50 SAP R/3 instances and other applications
• Consulting, planning and support in building from scratch, expansion and operation of a high-availability computing centre
• System (HP-UX, Linux) and Cluster (HP Serviceguard with Metrocluster) administration, troubleshooting, system programming
• System environment: HP-UX 11.00, 11.11 (11i V1.0), 11.23 and 11.22 (11i V1.5) to HP-Unix servers with PA-RISC and Itanium processor architecture (D/K/L/T/V class, rp2470, rp3440, rp4440, rp5470, rp7410, rx4640)
• Script programming (ksh, sh, bash), programming of tools in C
• Building and administration of a load balancer cluster (Nortel Alteon application switches 2424)
• Administration of LAN components (HP ProCurve switches), planning of network infrastructure
• SAN administration (HP/Brocade Silkworm 2900, EMC/Brocade Silkworm 12000, EMC² VolumeLogix, HP CommandView SDM)
• Storage administration: EMC² Symmetrix and Symmetrix DMX 1000, EMC² Control Centre (ECC), HP StorageWorks VA7410
• Administration and support in data backup (HP OpenView Omniback 3.5, 4.1 and 5.1, HP/Compaq ESL9595 LTO tape libraries)
• Performance analysis and optimizing
• Security analysis and optimizing
• Design and implementation of a high-availability directory service (LDAP) on the basis of Netscape/iPlanet directory server 6.x

• Setting up of a HP ServiceGuard high availability cluster on HP Proliant servers under SuSE Linux Enterprise server 8 using HP/Compaq StorageWorks MSA500 storage system

• Setting up of a HP rp2470 (A class) with HP-UX 11i
• Setting up of an HP OpenView storage data protector (Omniback) 5 cell servers, integration of an HP SureStore 10/180 LTO library and backup of EMC² Celerra systems
• Preparation for NDMP backup

Server baseline study as SAN preparation in the environment of HP-UX, Solaris, Tru64 Unix

• Setting up of an LDAP implementation concept for an environment with 200 HP-UX workstations and 15 servers
• Netscape directory server 4.16 under HP-UX 11.00
• HP LDAP-UX integration, HP YP LDAP-Gateway
• OpenLDAP under HP-UX 11.00

• Consulting and support in migrating SNI to HP
• Sizing
• System administration and system programming in a high-availability HP environment
• System environment: HP-UX 11.0 to several HP L3000 (L-Class)/rp5470, HP N4000 (N-Class)/rp7400, HP V2500 (V-Class), EMC² Symmetrix
• Connection of an IBM 3494 tape library with IBM Magstar 3590E tape drives to an HP-UX server, integration in HP Omniback, interface concept, programming and certification
• Cluster administration (HP Serviceguard with Metrocluster)
• Printer administration (HPDPS, lp)
• Data backup (HP Omniback)
• 2nd level support for users and software developers
• Troubleshooting, problem analysis
• Performance analysis and optimizing
• Storage management for EMC² Symmetrix
• Script programming (ksh, sh, bash) and programming of tools in C
• Realization and introduction of a task management system
• Documentation, drawing up several manuals
• Training
• Migration of a high-availability computing centre
• SAN planning

• Operative management in an IBM SP/SP2 environment (70 nodes)
• System administration AIX 4.2.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3
• 2nd level support
• Script programming (ksh)
• Drawing up and implementation of a security concept (SSH introduction)
• External security auditing
• Software packaging and distribution

• Planning and coordination of acceptance tests in the context of designing a disaster recovery solution
• Parametrization
• coordination of a “User Manual”
• Management of change requests
• Design of an EMC² SRDF implementation concept
• System administration SUN Solaris 2.6

• Programming of shell scripts (bash)
• Programming of PHP3 scripts, each under Solaris and Linux

• Unix-(HP-UX-) Training and coaching of computing centre staff

• Migration of 60 workstations from HP-UX 9 to HP-UX 10.20 (planning and execution) (scattered across a large geographical area)
• Conversion from stand-alone workstations in client/server environments
• Administration of HP workstations under HP-UX 9.x/10.20
• Administration of RS/6000 servers and of an SP2 under AIX
• Installation and support for X-terminals, network computers (NC), network printers and a backup server (IBM ADSM)
• Programming from shell scripts (bash)
• Programming from PHP3 scripts, each under Solaris and Linux respectively

• Set-up, administration/maintenance, expansion of existing infrastructure (primarily Linux-based), and others, migration of individual components to a Cisco router, setting up of a Satlink newsfeed
• Set-up, expansion and maintenance of a customized network, Unix and Windows NT installations
• Programming of billing solutions in C and script languages under Linux, data retention with ADABAS D
• Programming of Intranet solutions via PHP/FI and PHP3 under Apache/Linux
• User support in the area of Unix and Windows NT

• Setting up of a Linux-based Internet/Intranet server, integration of 80 Windows-95 and Apple Macintosh computers into a TCP/IP network

• Setting up of a Linux-based Internet/Intranet server
• Introduction of TCP/IP
• Integration of Windows PCs

• Administration of a Linux file, print and mail server
• Support for a Windows 95 network (hardware and software) including administration of multimedia hardware (FAST video machine, MPEG encoder, authoring)
• User support (Windows 95, MS Office, Corel Draw!, Photoshop, Eudora, Pegasus Mail, Netscape Navigator and Communicator)

• Setting up of network infrastructure for an Internet service provider
• Setting up of the usual Internet and Intranet services
• Protecting the network against unauthorized access (firewall)
• Maintenance, administration of infrastructure
• Support for business customers

• Setting up of network infrastructure for an Internet service provider
• Setting up of the usual Internet and Intranet services
• Protecting the network against unauthorized access (firewall)
• Maintenance, administration of infrastructure
• Support for business customers

• Planning and setting up of an Internet service provider
• Installation and configuration of network infrastructure
• Setting up of the usual Internet and Intranet services (DNS, SMTP, POP3, NNTP (News), HTTP, Proxy-Cache etc.)

• Development of customized software for the analysis of electronic drivers’ logbooks
• Development of various smallish customized applications (MS-DOS-based)

• Programming of customized solutions
• Support for PCs and networks of small companies (1 to 5 PCs)