About me

ℹ️ I am Michael, a Rhineland based senior IT generalist.

> I am seeking a new challenge, whether as a Project Leader, Data-Center Administrator, or as a participant on an interdisciplinary research or development team.

> Preferably in a private health-care organisation, a digitization improvement project, or in an initiative that promotes digital sovereignty.

> I welcome inquiries regarding suitable opportunities.

Trained or certified in the following aspects:

#As IT System Administrator Well Experienced in

• Analyzing and Reverse-Engineering Complex IT Environments
• Providing, Migrating and Enhancing IT Infrastructures, Including:
  • Writing Department Specific Domain Policies
  • Orchestrating Customized Services (On-Premises)
  • (Semi-/)Automating and Solving Cost-Expensive IT Workarounds Including Reproducible System Failures
  • Modernizing and Streamlining Legacy Workflows in Over Decades-Grown Environments

#Theoretical Expertise in

• Operating System Concepts
• Relational Databases
• Computer Networks & Distributed Systems
• Theory of Computation & Formal Methods
• Computer Architecture & Organization
• Fundamentals of Low-Level & High-Level Software Development in
  • Assembler
  • C++
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL

#Practical and Self-Taught Experiences in

• Computer Languages
  • Bash
  • Powershell
  • CMD (BATCH)
  • CSS/HTML
  • PHP
  • Ansible
• Software Packaging, Deployment Issues & Concepts
• Operating System Customization & Deployment of OS-Derivatives Based Upon
  • Unix Kernels
  • Linux Kernels
  • Windows-NT Kernels
• Virtualization & Sandboxing
  • VMWare's vSphere
  • Oracle's Virtualbox
  • Docker
  • Flatpaks
  • Nix Derivations
• Documentation and Massive Note-Taking in Obsidian
  • Nearly Zettelkasten-Compliant
  • Documentation of IT Knowledge & Practices
    • >1.000 Notes Written within one Year

#2024-2025 Training Courses: Agile Software Developer

Complementing my expertise in system migrations by attending full-time courses in

• Project Management
• Professional Scrum Master
• Business English
• Python
• Java
• C++

#2019-2024: IT Coordinator at a Metropolitan Medical Diagnostics Center for Body Fluids

Self‑reliantly, I revolutionized the diagnosis center’s heavily customized and decades-grown IT infrastructure by

identifying the common and individual properties of every system, system cluster, and system class. Then backing up and rebuilding or hardening each one individually while adhering to regulatory security policies.

✅ The transformation resulted in a significantly higher level of automation, increased availability of core services, and improved long‑term stability while keeping expenses affordable.

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#Digital Autonomy Since 2007

As a teenager with more recreational time and enthusiasm than budget, I liberated myself from the disadvantages of commercial software.

Self-Taught Engagement in

• Free Operating Systems
• Free Software Repositories
• Network Protocols

Attended the software development class in school.