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Martin Alfke
Niederbarnimstrasse 6
10247 Berlin
Germany

Email: martin.alfke <at> web.de

Designing and implementing new Linux/UNIX-based technologies
Staff positions and train new employees

BA Mechanical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.(FH)), University of Applied Science, Darmstadt, Germany, 1999

– since November 2008

- 1und1, Senior System Engineer
(since November 2008)
Plan, scale and setup a platform for a website editor
MySQL fail-over cluster
NFS fail-over cluster
Load-balanced Apache nodes

- QIRO GmbH, IT Specialist
(November 2008)
Setup and configuration of munin and nagios
PostgreSQL cluster and replication

– January 2007 - October 2008

- Project Leader for new Alarmingsystem
(July 2008)
Setup and configuration of nagios
Nagios - munin intergation

- Project leader for platform migration
(June 2008)
Support developers in migration
Support Project Managers in migration procdure

- Project leader for new IT infrastructure
(March 2008 - Mai 2008)
Calculation of IT costs
Collection information for other possibilities

- Project leader for network setup US office
(February 2008)
Support technical partner on-site in Santa Monica office
Initial setup of VPN connection

- Project leader for new development platform
(February 2008)
Setup Xen based system

- Project leader for platform migration
(November 2007 - January 2008)
Create necessary packages for RedHat Enterprise and Debian systems
Support developers and technical partner

- Project leader for internal migration
(October 2007)
Setup new fail-over cluster Migrate services to new cluster

- Project leader for automated installations
(September 2007)
Setup central FAI-Server
Setup central puppet server

- Project leader VPN solution
(August 2007 - September 2007)
Access for US offices to central servers via VPN.
Access for home-office to intranet via certificate based VPN.

- Project leader for network planning and design
(August 2007)
Make proposals for internal network layout in all offices.
Make proposals for security

- Project leader for new intranet servers and groupware solution
(June 2007 - July 2007)
Select groupware solution
Setup new IMAP-Servers

- Project leader for firewall upgrade
(March 2007 - May 2007)

- Project leader for platform migration
(January 2007 - February 2007)
Platform migration from Debian GNU/Linux to RedHat Enterprise Server 4.
Definition of monitoring parameters to fulfill SLA.
Supporting hosting partner in all concerns to run the platform.

– November 2005 - December 2006

- SiteOps project leader for new architecture
www.ebaymotorspro.co.uk
(April 2006 - December 2006)
The new Java based architecture will be used in different european countries.
I am responsible for all technical solutions and co-work with development to successfully deploy and run the new software and systems.

- SiteOps project leader for high performance search system
(January 2006 - May 2006)
This search engine sped up mobile.de search by 4x.
This project was necessary for the relocation process where we needed to switch of 2/3 of our MySQL based search nodes.
This was the first Sun Solaris system in mobile.de platform. I initially set up the jumpstart process and co-worked with development to get the software running.

- SiteOps project leader for monitoring system
(November 2005 - January 2006)
Using a monitoring system that also collects and shows historical server data we were able to analyze how many hardware was really necessary to run our site.
I reviewed different monitoring systems, presented all possible solutions and made recommendation.

- Support colleagues in different projects
My expertise in general Linux administration, Debian specials and creation of Debian packages is required in different SiteOps projects.

- Participation in on-call rota.

– September - December 2004 and April - September 2005

Course instructor elective course “UNIX for experts”

– July 2004 - October 2005

- Build and deploy web-clusters
(January 2005 - October 2005)
www.dws.de
We successfully updated the complete DWS platform without interruption of service.
The platform included development, preproduction and live systems. I have been responsible for all technical issues regarding the update.

- Build and deploy clusters for infrastructure services
(October 2004 - December 2004)

- Build and deploy demonstration cluster
(July 2004 - September 2004)
aksl has developed a failover software for high available platforms. The demonstration cluster was needed to show customers the functionality of our software.

- Leadership of colleagues, participation in on-call duty

– March 2002 - June 2004

- Project consultant for mission critical gateway clusters
(March 2004 - June 2004)
The central data processing gateway at DIT was running on a single node. We implemented a fail over cluster with minimum downtime. This was the last SPOF that has been removed by a clustered service.

- Project consultant for clustering fonds management servers
(September 2002 - February 2004)
We successfully set up a cluster for the centralized fonds management software at DIT.

- Project consultant for test environment
(May 2002 - August 2002)
After acquirement of Dresdener Bank by Allianz DIT has to proved that they could manage all fonds earlier held by Allianz Asset Management.
This project was successfully finished within time and budget.

- Build and deploy Samba-to-NFS-Gateway
(March 2002 - April 2002)

– October 2001 - February 2002

- Maintain and analyse customer systems
(October 2001 - February 2002)

– August 2001

- Build and deploy WAP gateway
- Support internal engineers on updating web shop systems

– June 2000 - June 2001

- Build, deploy and maintain all internal systems
- Build and maintain company's fair and exhibition systems

Second price Linux on POWER contest, June 2004

Tobias Harms , mobile.de, Software Architect, Berlin, Germany
Mark Semmler , Mark Semmler IT Security Services, Managing Director, Ruedesheim, Germany
Prof. Dr Juergen Mueller, University of cooperative education Mannheim, Professor, Mannheim, Germany

+10 years of Linux know-how with educational and industrial background
LPIC-2 January 2005

PPCNUX e.V.: chairman, webmaster, lector (http://www.ppcnux.de / http://www.ppcnux.com)
Debian GNU/Linux: Packaging software for Debian GNU/Linux Desktop (http://www.debian-desktop.org)
Linux PPC64 Community: participate in Wiki documentation (http://oss.gonicus.de/openpower/index.php/Main_Page)
unix-freak.org: collect findings that are baldy documented (http://www.unix-freak.org)

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