I work at present for Evoila, an IT services and consulting company. As a Lead Consulting Cloud Architect in a business unit focussing on VMware-based technologies, I’m leading and driving solutions that assist our customers to effectively plan, build, run and manage their multi-cloud environments.
I have been working in the IT industry for many years, most of them with specialising in virtual data center infrastructures and cloud architectures, but also have a deep background in systems management, operations, and automation in enterprise and service provider environments. I have several years of experience of directing teams as a technical lead and the ability to communicate with all levels and functions within organisation. My primary areas of expertise include the following:
- Architecting and engineering of VMware cloud platforms, ranging from small ROBO installations up to large scale service provider solutions (VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud Director)
- VMware system operations and automation (ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, Aria Automation, Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Cloud Foundation, Cloud Director, Tanzu, API programming with JavaScript, PowerShell, Python)
- Amazon Web Services administration and automation (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3, VPC, CloudFormation)
- Linux system administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian) and Linux system programming (C, Perl, Python, Bash)
- System automation and monitoring, DevOps engineering, Site reliability engineering (Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Git/SVN, Cobbler, Kickstart, Nagios, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Perl, Python, Bash)
I hold industry certifications in the IT field from Amazon, Cisco, EXIN, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware:
- VMware Certified Implementation Expert – Data Center Virtualization (VCIX-DCV)
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV Deploy, VCAP-DCV Design)
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Management and Automation (VCAP-CMA Design)
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud)
- VMware Certified Professional – Cloud Management and Automation (VCP-CMA)
- VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
- VMware Certified Specialist – Cloud Foundation
- VMware Certified Specialist – vSphere with Tanzu
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (AWS-CSAA)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- EXIN ITIL V3 Foundation
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
I have been awarded the VMware vExpert designation for my contributions to the community.
I received both a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Engineering with distinction from the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. The master’s degree program had a focus on telecommunications and Internet technologies.