European
curriculum vitae
format
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European curriculum vitae format
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Personal information |
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Name |
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Toerl, Nico |
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Address |
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11 Rancorn Road Westbrook Margate Kent, CT9 5DG, UK |
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Telephone |
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+44 7881 421735 |
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Nationality |
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German |
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Date of birth |
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23.08.1975 |
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Place of birth |
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg |
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Marital Status |
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single |
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Availability |
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I am not currently looking for work.
Don't even bother trying to contact me unless you have a very interesting systems-administrator role available with a job-location between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and a full relocation package. |
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Work experience |
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• Dates |
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03/2005 – present |
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• Name and address of employer |
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The Bunker UltraSecure Ash Radar Station Marshborough Rd Sandwich Kent, CT13 0PL, UK |
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• Type of business or sector |
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IT |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Systems Administrator |
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• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Systems Administration providing 24x7 support cover for The Bunker's operations. (The ultimate in secure hosting environments: ex-MOD nuclear bunkers converted to provide state of the art computer hosting facilities.)
installation, monitoring and support of a wide spectrum of systems (primarily OpenSource Managed Service systems), from High Availability Firewalls (OpenBSD PF/CARP) to MySQL database servers with Terabyte scale disk arrays. High performance, secure web applications (Java/Tomcat, PHP) with replicated database backends. Backup solutions (Amanda, Bacula). Mail servers (Exim, Sendmail, Cyrus Imapd). VPN Tunnels. |
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• Dates |
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2003 – 2004 |
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• Name and address of employer |
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- |
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• Type of business or sector |
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A break for a trip round the world |
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• Occupation or position held |
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traveller |
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• Main activities and responsibilities |
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I traveled eastward until I reached my point of origin again, thats why it took me a while ;) |
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• Dates |
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06/2000 – 05/2003 |
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• Name and address of employer |
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InternetCafe le bit, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 32, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
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• Type of business or sector |
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IT/Media |
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• Occupation or position held |
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IT-Networks and Linux support Department leader |
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• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Server administration and support, operating, project development |
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• Dates |
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12/1998 – 05/2000 |
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• Name and address of employer |
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InternetMediaGroup GmbH, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 2, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
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• Type of business or sector |
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IT/ISP |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Network and system technician |
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• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Operating, building new systems, customer support |
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• Dates |
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09/1998-12/1998 |
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• Name and address of employer |
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InternetMediaGroup GmbH, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 2, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
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• Type of business or sector |
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IT/ISP |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Trainee |
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• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Practical course |
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Education and training |
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• Dates |
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09/1998 – 12/2000 |
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• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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Technisch-Kaufmannische-Bildungsstaette |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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IT, planning, management, economical knowledge
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• Title of qualification awarded |
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Informatikkaufmann (Information technology officer) degree assessed by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce |
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• Dates |
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10/1995 – 08/1998 |
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• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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University Leipzig |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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Hardware knowledge, programm/database design, programming languages |
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• Dates |
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1990 – 1994 |
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• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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secondary education |
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• Dates |
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1982 – 1990 |
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• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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Nikolai Gastello Oberschule |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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primary education |
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Personal skills and competences Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas. |
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Mother tongue |
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German |
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Other languages |
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English |
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• Reading skills |
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Excellent |
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• Writing skills |
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Good |
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• Verbal skills |
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Good |
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Technical skills and competences
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7+ years UNIX/Linux-system-administration in professional environment Installation, configuration, upgrading, tuning and hardening of various Linux distributions, [free|open|net]BSD and other Unix flavours.
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Applications and Services:
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apache (HTTP), sendmail and other SMTP servers (SMTP), mysql (SQL), bind (DNS), squid (PROXY), proftpd, wuftpd, vsfptd (FTP), samba (CIFS), SSH, NFS, dhcpd/bootp, radius , Jakarta Tomcat, horde, VPN (openVPN, Ipsec, freeSWAN), zope/OpenCMS/Typo3
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Backup: |
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bacula, amanda, tar, cpio, dump
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Databases: |
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installation, support incl. HA/replication of MySQL & postgres
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High Availability: |
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wackamole, spread, heartbeat, carp, DRBD, mod_jk, slony, EVMS
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Security: |
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physical security, system design, system reviews, encryption, monitoring systems such as nagios and BigBrother, firewall configuration with PF, IPFW & iptables
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Scripting: |
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shell scripting, bash, sed, awk, PHP, HTML, and some perl, java, SQL & make/gcc
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Misc: |
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good Win9x, ME, NT, XP, 2000 & 2003 knowledge Hardware (IA32 single & SMP) clustering (openMosix) Cisco-router (7xx, 36xx), Livingston Portmaster |
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Driving licence(s) |
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German and International for cars up to 7,5t and Motorbikes |