... it's better to have good questions
What I’m doing today
I work full-time for The OpenNMS Group as a subject-matter expert for OpenNMS and advocate for Open Source working with people in providing internet infrastructure or managed services
Contact manager for our german development team and first point of contact for OpenNMS customers and partners in Europe
Work as a digital nomad since 2010 with people in different culture and different time zones
Adopted the principles from Tarus Balog, help people, have fun, make money and I try to spend less than I earn
Research and Eduction
Research assistant in the Computer Science department at University of Applied Sciences Fulda
Lecturer Computer Science department at University of Applied Sciences Fulda
Distributed systems
Network communication
Network and system monitoring and introduction to configuration management
Cisco Academy program Cisco IP telephony and CCNA and volunteered in lab documentation for the CCNP course program
Wrote Diplom degree dissertation about outsourcing of network monitoring functions
Volunteering
Speaker about open culture and open source technology at various events like OSMC, OUCE, FOSDEM, Linux Tag
Mentor HHN Barcamp 2023 - Green IT & Nachhaltigkeit
Mentor HHN Barcamp 2023 - KI with KI Salon at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
Mentor GSoC 2013 : Distribute an instance of OpenNMS across different physical machines to improve availability and scalability
Mentor GSoC 2012 : Integration of Flume and ElasticSearch to analyze big log data
2010: Co-founder OpenNMS Foundation Europe e.V.
2010: Co-founder Hacker space Magrathea Laboratories e.V.
Event coordinator and speaker at annually OpenNMS User Conference Europe (OUCE) from 2009 - 2018
2000: Co-founder MCL2k organizing LAN-Parties up to 828 people
Places I’ve worked
2023 - today, counselor for product management and product strategy building the open-source network monitoring platform OpenNMS Horizon/Meridian
2022 - 2023, joined the product management team at OpenNMS as subject-matter expert for network monitoring and performance management
2015 - 2022, full-time contributor at The OpenNMS Group as an open source network monitoring advocate
2011 - 2015, University of Applied Sciences Hochschule Fulda, research assistant Computer Science department
2010 - 2015, Advocate for the open source network monitoring tool OpenNMS, Freelancer
2007 - 2010, NETHINKS GmbH, building solutions and network monitoring services with OpenNMS. and various other open source monitoring tools
1998 - 2004, Drimalski & Partner GmbH, IT network infrastructure, network security, and MS Active Directory design and implementation
Education
2001 - 2006, Diplom-Inform. (HS), University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Telecommunication / Network Engineering
2000 - 2001, Worked as an IT system engineer, did some industry certifications around network security, network design
1998 - 2000, Apprenticeship IT system engineer
Publications
