Motivated all members of the department to contractually accept new working conditions, to adapt toa new business culture and to move from english to german as the business language.

* Grew team to 130 direct and indirect reports, including 5 managers, 2 technical leaders and many pod leaders, spread over multiple locations in 5 countries* During boom time, dropped staff turnover from 40% to 3% in under 3 months* Right-sized and right-skilled the team in line with predicted market demand* Enjoyed and encouraged a culture of openness, honesty and bringing your whole self to work

Some of my wins in this position:- built the IT Operations team - significantly reduced monthly outsourcing costs, without reducing service quality- improved reliability and performance of the development infrastructure- improved deployment automation- restructured management of in-house IT issues, improved measurement of team efficiency- migrated the hosting of staging and production systems to a new providerResponsibilities include:- the operations of Raisin's production, test, development and auxiliary environments and internal office IT - the operations of and application support for Raisin's applications- product owner and scrum master roles for all operations projects - roadmap creation, negotiation of quarterly roadmaps with the CTO and with the Product team and negotiation of quarterly KPIs with the CTO- functional and disciplinary leadership of all IT Operations staff, including recruitment, salary negotiations, position descriptions, performance reviews, etc- compliance aspects of IT Operations, including the response to due diligence and audit requests from partner banks and potential partners regarding operations- management of supplier relationships- management of on-call support and processes

Provided consulting in IT security and standards compliance and implemented monitoring services for European firms in the banking sector.

Performed four IT Audits for BNP Paribas companies within Europe. Performed the annual Risk Assessment of eight BNP Paribas companies.

Foci: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ruby on Rails, Project Management methodologies, Unix-like systems (Debian, Ubuntu, MacOS X), Oracle VirtualBoxFull skills list:Virtualisation (AWS, VMware, VirtualBox, openvz, Solaris zones), Automation (puppet, AWS auto scaling, AWS CloudFormation), Website support (apache, JBoss, JRun, tomcat, iPlanet, IIS), Scripting (bash, perl, PHP, SQL, powershell),UNIX & Linux (Solaris, Ubuntu, SLES, Debian, RedHat), Database (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL), Security (audits, firewalls, ACLs), networking (openVPN, routing, Cisco IOS), Storage and Filesystems (OpenStorage, NetApp, zfs, ufs, QFS/SAM-FS, ext*, VxFS), Backups (NetBackup, rsync)Monitoring (nagios, munin), Clusters (VCS, GCM, VxVM), Best practices (ITIL, ISO9001), Project management (Agile with scrum, waterfall), outsourcer and supplier management, Team leadership.

Project management, supplier management, Oracle & MS SQL database administration, query optimisation, VMware, Application administration (MACH, Spider, Crystal Reports, SMSreise), Windows server administration. Led the SAP-Basis project area of the SAP implementation. Responsible for application integration in the Administration Department.Verwaltete VMware, Windows Servers, Oracle Databases, MicrosoftSQL Databases, MACH, Spider, Crystal Reports, SMSreise. Tailprojektleitung SAP-Basis bei der Einführung SAP. Realisierte und verwaltete mehrere Schnittstellen.

Storage and Backup Team Leader, project management, UNIX & Linux administration (Solaris 11/10/9, SUSE, SLES, CentOS), puppet, OpenStorage, SAM-FS, Symantec NetBackup, VMware, Sunray, nagios

Team leader (9 direct reports), technical project manager, scrum team member,performance and scaling of large heterogeneous environment, UNIX & Linux administration (Solaris 10, Ubuntu), vendor management and on-call support

Project management, Solaris 10/9, Linux & Windows server administration, iPlanet, IIS, JRun, tomcat, Oracle 9i administration.Supported Websites on four continents.Consolidated physical servers from several countries into one data centre.

Project management, Solaris 9/8 administration, implemented ISO9001, ITIL, clustered with VCS, GCM & VxVM, administered 12 Sun E10K servers

Solaris administration, VxFS, VxVM, NetBackup, 5 x Sun E10000, 8 x E450

Security audits, firewall installations, configuration and management, UNIX & Linux administration (Solaris, Red Hat)

Security audits, firewall installations, configuration and management (Checkpoint Firewall-1, FWTK, ipf, iptables), Solaris administration, router configuration and management (Cisco IOS)Australia-wide IT Consultancy (NSW, Vic, Qld, ACT)While working for Uniq Professional Services Pty Ltd, the company merged with another and changed it's name to eServ Pty Ltd. I started with Uniq in Sydney and after the merger, moved to Melbourne to provide consulting services in the branch there.

Security audits and Database optimisation on short contract basis for various companies, including The SysAdmin Group.

Security analyst for a large Australian Internet Service Provider.

Wrote and maintained the then world-renowned AusCERT UNIX Security Checklist.Researched and wrote security advisories.

Systems programming (VAX/VMS, Alpha/OpenVMS, SunOS 4.1.1, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2) for the Prentice Center, UQ.Facilities management for various departments within UQ and Griffith University.