{"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":"2025-10-19T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:40:40","slug":"it-consulting-for-hire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5221 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ElWinni_Roundabout_V3-1024x772.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"396\" 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: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\">I have over three decades of professional experience in multi-cultural, geographically distributed international environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My current job title is <em>Head of IT <\/em>(again) and some of my previous job titles were (also) <em>Head of IT,\u00a0 Manager IT, Senior Consulting Engineer, Software Developer and Technical Writer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I understand how things work in complex, distributed systems. I can write code. I can document, write and teach.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>I love building IT infrastructures from scratch:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">You can drop me <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q\">by<\/span> parachute over the Siberian Tundra, and when you come back a month later, I <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q\">would have<\/span> built a data center using the scrap metal I found on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4026\/revisions\/6236"}],"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}]}}