Experience
My experience is relatively broad. It aligns to the need of christian organizations with 2-50 PC clients in these fields of activity:
- deaconess motherhouses
- missions
- theological education
- schools
- retreat centers
- bookstores/publishing house
- nursing homes
- ambulant healthcare
- dentist
for these functions:
- accounting
- controlling
- pension and health insurance
- donation management
- human resources
- secretariat
- address management, mailing publications
- order processing
Planning, Setup and Administration of Networks, Servers and Client PCs
Central efficient administration of about 50 servers (mostly Debian Linux, occasionally Windows) in about 25 locations totalling about 220 client PCs (mostly Windows, occasionally Mac and Linux):
- file and print services
- internal web (static pages, eGroupware, Dokuwiki, WordPress)
- remote networking by VPN (preferred tool: OpenVPN)
- support/helpdesk, also as a team, using then ticket system RT
- fault isolation, including data recovery, on servers and client PCs
- virtualisation of servers (preferred tool: KVM)
Security
- encryption (mail, web incl. SSL certificates, hard disk, files)
- VPN
- firewall
- antivirus (incl. central management for more than 500 client PCs)
- general strategic planning, incl. non-technical aspects
Setup and Operation of Application Programs
- Mesonic WinLine accounting and controlling
- Optigem address and donation management
- Forum and Vivendi nursing home administration
- Medifox and Vivendi for ambulant healthcare
- and many others
Custom Programming
Currently using the programming languages Swift, Ruby, PHP, Kixtart, AutoItScript, Access VBA, Shell. Previous experience in many others.
- Access applications (DGD database, pension accounting, payments to supplementary pension fund)
- web application (meal plan, group calendar, job board)
- data conversion, e.g. for interfaces from and to accounting
- automation of system administration, e.g. backup
Telecommunication
- market research (German market)
- plan optimization
- dealing with provides (placing and tracking orders, switching providers, trouble cases)
- configuration of equipment
for
- telephone (PBXes with 2-100 extensions)
- mobile phones
- Internet access
- Internet presence
Building and Maintaining Web Presence
mostly in German language, in cooperation with a professional designer (mostly www.designbuero-oetjen.de)
- leben-hat-sinn.de
- hilfsbund.de (ProcessWire)
- naturfoto-haubner.de
without external designer:
- supervision-homberger.de
- marion-stut.de
- stut.de (ProcessWire with standard theme)
General
- structuring and solving of problems; I love to learn about new areas
- find ideas, including unconventional ones, for your situation, once the basic whys and hows are known..
- listening (I used to do telephone counseling)
- vocational training for "IT specialists in system integration" (German name: "Fachinformatiker, Richtung Systemintegration")