{"id":4026,"date":"2024-03-06T21:36:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/?page_id=4026"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:22:26","slug":"it-consulting-for-hire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ElWinni_Roundabout_V3-1024x772.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ElWinni_Roundabout_V3-1024x772.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ElWinni_Roundabout_V3-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ElWinni_Roundabout_V3-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ElWinni_Roundabout_V3.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My full name is Winfried Edmund Stephan Maus and I was born in 1970. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a native German and Europe is my home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I earn my living in IT, but I am not limited to being &#8220;an IT guy&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am an independent critical and strategic thinker who gets the job done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have over three decades of professional experience in multi-cultural, geographically distributed international environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My current job title is Head of IT (again) and some of my previous job titles were (also) Head of IT, Manager IT, Senior Consulting Engineer, Software Developer and Technical Writer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I understand how things work in complex, distributed systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can write code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can document, write and teach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I happen to know a thing or two about getting complex IT projects done &#8211; either with a team, leading a team or &#8211; in true Sigma male fashion &#8211; as a one man army all on my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love building IT infrastructures from scratch: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can drop me by parachute over the Siberian Tundra, and when you come back a month later, I would have built a data center using the scrap metal I found on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My full name is Winfried Edmund Stephan Maus and I was born in 1970. I am a native German and Europe is my home. I earn my living in IT, but I am not limited to being &#8220;an IT guy&#8221;: I am an independent critical and strategic thinker who gets the job done. I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}