Managing Partner

Introduction of the data lake and the Big Data & Analytics platform. Migration of the Big Data platform from on-prem to the (Azure) cloud. Technical Product Owner Enterprise Data Catalog & Data Governance tool (Alation). Support / consulting for business units in the use of the data lake, analysis tools and data catalog.

• Maintenance of the Enterprise Data Catalog & Data Governance tool
• Work on data lineage and data governance within the data catalog
• Programmatic extensions of the data catalog (e.g. integration of glossaries via REST API or routines to monitor data quality)
• Migration of the catalog to the cloud
• Migration of big data applications to Microsoft Azure / HDInsight / Databricks
• Onboarding nearshoring staff
• Development and extensions in the big data environment
• Support for business units in implementing use cases in the big data environment
• All work performed under SCRUM
• Hadoop (Hortonworks / Cloudera)
• Hive
• Hive LLAP
• HBase
• Spark
• Databricks
• Solr
• Kafka
• Alation
• Scala
• Azure Cloud / HDInsight / ARM
• Scrum
• Ansible
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio Code
• REST API
• Postman
• Python
• Python Django

Setup of a technical DWH including ETL processes. Implementation of reporting in IT operations for various questions. Building the DWH solution in a big data environment (Hadoop).

• Setup of a technical DWH
• Data preparation (ETL) in a technical environment using Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration) and Informatica. Data deliveries from monitoring, scheduling, deployment, event processing, SAN, backup, DB applications and directly from applications
• Creation of automations (integration into scheduling, functionality extensions via Java)
• Report creation using Eclipse-BIRT / Cognos for internal control system, capacity, availability and license management
• Setup of a Hadoop cluster and tool evaluations
• Development of the reporting solution in a Hadoop cluster
• Eclipse
• SQL Explorer
• various SQL variants (Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL, Sybase-SQL, MySQL)
• BIRT
• Pentaho PDI Kettle
• Informatica PowerCenter
• Cognos
• Java
• Perl
• Hadoop (HDFS / YARN)
• Sqoop
• Hive
• Pig
• HBase

Migrations and redesign of event processing. Product evaluation for event processing.

• Migration of event processing tool from TEC to Omnibus
• Migration of a rule database from the trouble-ticket tool to Netcool Omnibus
• Redesign of technical event processing
• Product evaluation for event processing
• Integration into business service management
• Reporting
• Tivoli Netcool Omnibus
• Tivoli Event Console (TEC)
• Kyberna Ky2Help
• AIX
• Java
• Sybase
• Oracle
• PL/SQL
• BIRT

Design, development and introduction of a provisioning solution for Unix servers in the Avaloq environment.

• Project leadership and participation in the introduction of Unix provisioning
• Customizing provisioning to environments and operational procedures (test environments, production environment)
• Development of TPM workflows
• Integration of the first pilot applications into the provisioning solution (Avaloq-R and Avaloq-Z)
• Reporting
• Migration of the provisioning solution
• Tivoli Provisioning Manager
• Eclipse
• Avaloq
• AIX
• Subversion
• Maximo
• BIRT
• Cognos

Replacement of a monitoring installation primarily for cost reasons (open source solution).

• Evaluation of monitoring solutions
• Replacement of IBM Tivoli Monitoring with Groundwork
• Reporting
• Tivoli Monitoring
• Groundwork (Nagios)
• PostgreSQL
• Cognos
• BIRT

Consolidation and migration of a job scheduling installation in an ETL data warehouse environment under Unix (as part of a data center migration from IBM Maidenhead UK to TUI-Infotec Hanover). Integration into existing systems management.

• Migration from TWS 7.0 to 8.2
• Revision of existing ETL job scheduling considering migration to UC4:Global and migration from TWS to UC4:Global
• Integration of ETL jobs into existing systems management using IBM Tivoli
• Maintenance / consolidation of ETL jobs
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7.0, 8.2
• Framework 3.7 and 4.1
• Monitoring 3.7 and 5.1
• TEC 3.7 and 3.9
• UC4:Global 3.02
• Solaris 8
• IBM UDB 8
• Informatica PowerMart 7

Revision, consolidation and upgrade of a systems management environment (Tivoli).

• Analysis and consolidation of existing systems management
• Optimization of the Tivoli framework (MDist2) for software distribution purposes
• Automation of various workflows (using Perl and Tivoli)
• Migration to a new operating system (Solaris 8) and new Tivoli versions (Framework 4.1 and Configuration Manager 4.2)
• IBM Tivoli Framework 3.7.1 and 4.1
• Software Distribution 3.6 and 4.1
• Inventory 3.6
• Configuration Manager 4.2
• BMC Patrol
• TEC 3.6 and 3.7
• various proprietary tools
• Oracle 8.1.6
• Solaris 8 (Veritas Cluster Server)
• HP-UX 11.00 (MC-Service Guard)
• Windows NT 4.0 and XP

Design and implementation of the Tivoli systems management for an application service provider. Unix system administration.

Analysis and design in an OO software development project for an airline booking and reservation system.

Optical archiving, systems and network management, optimization of system and network infrastructure.

Support / design / further development and project management in a LAN-WAN infrastructure, its servers and connection to the mainframe.