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Alexander Mette

Fontanestraße 30
12049 Berlin
Germany

tel: + 49 30 22 43 37 43
gsm: +49 170 73 44 44 1
mail: mail@amette.eu

Date of birth: 12th January 1981
Nationality: German/Finnish

Profession

Freelance Sociotechnical Advisor, Berlin

  • Open Source consulting
  • System Administration
  • Especially support for implementing, customizing and hosting of TikiWiki

08/2006 - 09/2009 : LivingLogic AG - Bayreuth

  • Lead System Administrator
    • System administration and analysis
    • Project management and analysis
    • System design and sizing of server setups
    • Administration of high availability setups consisting of Heartbeat, Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), JBOSS-/Tomcat-Cluster, Foundry Networks loadbalancers and Juniper Networks Firewalls
    • Administration, consolidation and documentation of the internal heterogeneous server and network infrastructure
    • Management of external service providers

2005 - present : TikiWiki CMS/Groupware

Open Source LGPL wikibased Collaboration Platform


2004 : Reorientation


2003 : Top Recruiting Executive Search - Munich

  • Research and acquisition in the vehicle construction sector

2002 : Infineon Technologies - Munich

Student Trainee
  • Corporate Logistics Frontend
  • Designing simulation models for the semiconductor fabs in Regensburg, A and Perlach, D
  • Writing software for automated import of data into the simulation models from strategic and operational logistics databases
    • Oracle PL/SQL
  • Extending the ASAP-software with corporate-specific extensions
    • C++

2001/2002 : Semiconductor Research Corporation

Student Researcher
  • FORCe Project
  • Research on scheduling of batch machines with TABU-search
  • Implementation in C++

2000 - 2003 : Swing e.V., VWI student group Ilmenau

  • 2002 : Swing On Tour - Fellow organizer
    • A germanwide Tour to visit several companies for workshops and seminars
    • Organization of sponsoring, accomodation and travel
  • 2001 : inova2001 - Fellow organizer
    • TU Ilmenau's business and job exhibition, biggest of its kind in eastern Germany
    • Acquisition of companies
    • Organization of the exhibition days
    • Catering on exhibition days
  • 2001 : Management Board Swing e.V.
    • Marketing Department
    • Designing and organizing the external communication

Education

1999 - 2008 : Technical University of Ilmenau

  • 05/2008 : Degree in Commercial Information Technology (Wirtschaftsinformatik)
    • Specializing in Information and Knowledge Management
    • Thesis title: "Organizational change management facilitating the open sourcing of a commercial software project"
    • 2004 : 2 terms on sabbatical

1999 : Graduation from Kimpisen Lukio, Finland



Languages

German
native tongue
Finnish
mother tongue
English
fluent in spoken and written
French
some basics


Skills

TikiWiki
Hosting, Adaption, Training, Customization
Sys-Admin
Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo), Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Cyrus, Dovecot, Samba, TCP/IP
Web Technologies
XHTML, CSS, XML, µFormats, DiSo
Programming
PHP, JavaScript, bash, SQL
Technical writing
vi, LaTeX, OOo Writer
Development Methodologies & Tools
Open Source, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Software Development, UML, VCSs (git, SVN), Eclipse
Soft Skills
Community organization and governance, Presenting, having the right touch for emerging technologies

Hobbies

Free Software
Collaborating, using and evangelising
Cinema
Enjoying and analyzing good movies to the bone
Mountainbiking
Riding and tinkering with my bike
Wing Tsun
Finding my own inner center
Golf
Same as Wing Tsun, just without the violence ;)


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