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(The Russian Space Shuttle Buran on her way to the Technikmuseum Speyer. Picture taken on the rooftop of the United Nations tower in Bonn, Germany.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sic parvis magna<\/h2>\n

I’m blessed that I started using computers at a very young age and in a time where home computers had just arrived and only had one kilobyte of RAM. That allowed me to be part of the PC revolution from the start.<\/p>\n

I know what’s happening underneath the graphical user interfaces and how machines communicate with each other over a global network.<\/p>\n

I have commercially and professionally used multiple programming languages in my life and as far as operating systems are concerned, I am platform agnostic. I use a combination of tools that get the job done and that won’t break the bank.<\/p>\n

360\u00b0 Communication<\/h2>\n

I can feel and read the room and translate C-level visions into budgets and projects and customer requirements into working implementations – and I can translate tech talk and jargon into language that non-technical people can understand.<\/p>\n

Platform Development, Integration and Automation<\/h2>\n

I understand complex IT systems, their architecture, and how their components communicate. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

During my time working in commercial satellite communications, I have repeatedly proven that I can build custom solutions that enable otherwise incompatible systems to communicate with each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Network Weather Maps, Monitoring, Alerting and Automation, including triggering scripts for self-healing actions, have been my bread & butter for over a decade.<\/p>\n

Networking, Systems and Infrastructure
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I used to be a certified Mikrotik Certified Network Associate (MTCNA) and a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) for Windows Server.<\/p>\n

Such certificates are “time-bombed” and expire after three years or so, which is a nice business model to get the customers to pay for the exact same<\/em> certification again and again and again.<\/p>\n

When I was still in commercial satellite communications, I worked on a daily basis with:<\/p>\n