Skills

A selection of my work and skills

Role

Freelance IT consultant, support engineer, IT architect and DevOps specialist

Specialist areas

Networking, messaging, project management, Docker, Kubernetes, support, training and SQL

Certifications

Novell: CNE, CLE
LPIC 1 and LPIC 2

Operating system skills

NetWare/OES, Windows NT4-2012, Linux (Suse, RedHat, Gentoo, Debian, CentOS), FreeBSD, HP-UX and macOS

Support & troubleshooting

3rd level: NetWare (3.12-6.5), OES, SLES 8-15, GroupWise 5-18, IDM, ZENworks (3-2020)
2nd level: ZCM, Exchange, RHEL, WebSphere, Tomcat, Apache, NGINX, Puppet and Big Data (Hadoop)
Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu, RedHat, Apache, NGINX, Postfix, Amavis, SpamAssassin and Rspamd
Foreman/Katello, IIS, Docker, Git, eCommerce, CMS, Ansible and Kubernetes
Administration of the listed products

Scripting

Bash, Ruby and Perl scripting

Project management & design

Virtualization and workload management with VMware and Citrix
User account management, groupware design and implementation
Networking, patch management, lifecycle management and migration
Administration, implementation, CMS, hardening, deployment and operation of web applications
Hosting, Python, Docker and Kubernetes

Groupware / messaging

Novell GroupWise, Lotus Notes, MS Exchange and Open-Xchange
Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, Dovecot, Rspamd and SpamAssassin

Security

Novell Access Manager, IPTables, Barracuda and other security components.