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Zurich, Switzerland

- Technical responsibility for SwissID operations in all environments

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Responsible for the setup and operations of the SwissID production environment• Leading team of system engineers operating the SwissSign CA and the SuisseID Infrastructure• Certificates, SSL/TLS, PKI, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, Airlock, OpenAM, OpenDJ, Joomla, ...

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Responsible for OS Level Security for global DBaaS project, delivering about 50 Oracle Exadatas and about 100 Oracle Database Appliances globally• Definition, documentation and implementation DBaaS OS security standards• Integration into the global UBS eco system, following UBS security standards while retaining Oracle requirements for Engineered Systems• Autonomous learning of required Exadata skills at Infrastructure level

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Changed career focus from leadership to senior technical expertise, due to desire to be more technical again• Certified HP DL380 Gen8 and BL460 Gen8 servers for Solaris 10 Update 10 (8/11)• Provided latest Oracle OEM 12c agents to production DB servers• Investigated and assessed Oracle OpsCenter for use in UBS DBaaS project

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Merging and leading global Solaris and Linux Engineering teams with global responsibility for Solaris and Linux OS technology at UBS• Successfully managed up to 12 engineers globally (Zürich, London, New York, Chicago) with no travelling• Focussing on people and project management, as well as coaching and enabling engineers• Engineering and certification of Solaris 10 Update 10 (8/11)• Engineering and certification of RHEL 6.1 for early access use by selected pilot customers• Engineering and certification of RHEL 6.2 for global production use starting Q2 2012

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Merging divisional teams to a global, efficient, diverse and well-functioning Solaris Engineering team with a good team spirit• Global responsibility for Engineering of Solaris at UBS• Successfully managed up to 10 engineers globally (Zürich, London, New York, Chicago) with limited travelling• Focusing on people and project management, as well as coaching and enabling engineers• Leading and managing the global Solaris 10 engineering project, including certification of Solaris 10 for all UBS business divisions, thereby leveraging global synergies• Supported UBS Swiss Wealth Management (WM&SB) as primary Solaris 10 adopter leveraging non-global zones• Engineering and certification of approx. 15 Solaris 10 builds from 2006 to 2011 to allow keeping Solaris estate across UBS up to date• Porting of Solaris 10 build from SPARC to x86 hardware. Supporting the large WM&SB program to migrate existing Solaris 10 estate from SPARC to x86 hardware.• Continuously and iteratively increasing synergies and common layers across business divisions from build to build to enable consolidation and cost reduction• Introduced automated regression testing using unit tests, allowing for more tests in less time, resulting in an increase of quality• Introduction of ZFS into UBS, replacing Disksuite and Veritas VxVM, resulting in complexity and cost reductions• Engineering and introduction of "Solaris Update Service" (SUS) to enable consistent and automated updating of patches, packages and more on Solaris. SUS is still widely used at UBS today.• Introduction of and data migration to Atlassian JIRA as the new bug & issue tracking system for Unix Engineering. JIRA and associated products are still being used widely today.• Hardware certification of many SPARC and x86 servers with the corresponding current Solaris 10 builds

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Technical & engineering lead for implementation of various OLU Base releases, the foundation of the UBS Unix Application Server Platform, based on Solaris 8• Worked out design concept for adoption of Solaris 10 as foundation of future OLU Base releases• Leading the development and implementation of a fully automated Solaris upgrade mechanism, including unmirroring and fallback support, based on Solstice Disksuite 4.0 and 4.1• Integrated EMC Symmetrix support into OLU Base releases to support SAN connectivity• Maintained internal web presence of Solaris Engineering• Ported the OLU Base release from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8• Developed a new, UBS internal mechanism for installation of Solaris patches that is several times faster than Sun’s original patchadd/patchrm commands• Participated in Solaris 9 Gold Beta Program from August 2001 to March 2002• Evaluation and certification of new UBS hardware standards based on Sun hardware• Promotion to Director in February 2002, following a technical career path at that time

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Successfully managed Swiss Solaris Engineering team with up to 8 engineers• Responsible for Solaris OS technology in UBS Switzerland, including engineering, development and 3rd level support of the OLU Base releases, based on Sun Solaris• Team activities also include High Availability & Storage Engineering (SAN/NAS)• Engineering of the OLU Base releases 2.7, 3.0 and 3.5, based on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6• Main responsibility for Y2K compliance of OLU Base releases 2.7 and 3.0• Evaluation and certification of new UBS hardware standards based on Sun hardware• Ported the OLU Base to the Sun E10’000 and introduction of E10'000 to UBS• Promotion to Authorized Officer (AO) as of January 1, 1998, and to Associate Director (AD) as of July 1, 1999

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Ported parts of OLU Base from Solaris to HP-UX• Integrated early versions of SyMON and SunVTS into OLU Base• System administration of department server with approx. 200 users• Integrated A5000 (Photon) support into Solaris 2.5.1 FCS• Second and third level OLU, Solaris and Unix support to operations and developers

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• System administration of the server estate of the DB research group• Evaluation, planning, budgeting, coordination, acquisition, installation, operations• Solaris 2.3, 2.4 & 2.5, SunOS 4.1.3, Oracle, Sybase and more, with all aspects• Automation of many routine tasks, application and user support• Contributions to various research projects

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• Unix system administration of a small network of Sun hardware• Design and implementation of a printer interface solution for a GUI toolkit• Contributed to design and implementation of various finance applications

Oslo Und Umgebung, Norwegen

• First experience in Unix System Administration on a small network of Sun-3 workstations• Design and implementation of a PostScript based GUI for a Modula-2 IDE

Zürich Und Umgebung, Schweiz

• First exposure to Unix and Sun systems (SunOS 3.0 on tape cartridges!)• Contributed to various small projects as a trainee, gaining first professional experiences

Dipl. Informatik-Ing. Eth, Informatik

Matura Typ C