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Personal Details

Who:	Markus Amersdorfer, Dipl.-Ing.
Resident:	Salzburg, Austria
Year of birth:	1977
E-Mail:	markus <dott> amersdorfer <att> subnet <dott> at
Website:	http://home.subnet.at/~max/
GPG key:	6C1C85A3, fingerprint: `12C3 6CC5 50AF CD6E F642 1603 D941 BD6D 6C1C 85A3`
	03-09-16: The old GPG key 'A7B9FF0B' should be considered compromised.

Work Experience includes

Software Engineer, Project and Product Management (Salzburg, AT):
since Sep. 2008, Porsche Informatik.
Software Development, Project and Product Management (Salzburg, AT):
Jan. 2006 - Aug. 2008, self-employed (including an ongoing cooperation with Porsche Informatik).
Front Line Engineer (Camberley, UK):
Feb. 2005 - Dec. 2005, Mercury Interactive (meanwhile acquired by Hewlett-Packard).
Network Administrator (Salzburg, AT):
Jul. 2001 - Jan. 2005, subnet.

Education and community service

1997-2004:	Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Salzburg (also see my university page)
1996-1997:	Austrian Red Cross (in Tamsweg, Salzburg)
1991-1996:	Bundeshandelsakademie I Salzburg (Euro-Klasse)
1983-1991:	Rudolf-Steiner-Schule Salzburg

Some More Details

Software Development

As for my profession as software developer, I am concentrating on Java based web-applications. As part of this - besides project management for LAMP-based environments - every day life has it to cover SQL, JavaScript (including frameworks such as jQuery), CSS, etc.

(Meanwhile quite outdated information on this topic: I had developed a mini Java-based web-application CodexRerum in autumn 2004. You can also check out my corresponding Java web-applications mini-HOWTO.)

Network- and system-administrative experience covers areas such as

Based on Debian GNU/Linux (Potato, Woody, Sarge):
LDAP server to host Windows and Linux users (OpenLDAP, Samba).
File- and print-servers (NIS/NFS, Samba, LPR, CUPS).
Web-servers (Apache).
Mail-server (Postfix, Mailman).
FTP-servers (Proftpd).
DNS-servers (BIND 8, BIND 9).
Streaming servers (icecast/liveice/darkice, Real).
Internet-gateways (ipchains, iptables).
Network security (including Snort).
Planning and implementing corresponding backups (Arkeia, kbackup).
Diskless-clients network.
Based on the "Linux Router Project" (LRP):
Router-management.
Based on various flavours of Linux (especially Debian, Ubuntu, Mandrake) and Windows:
Planning, implementing and managing heterogenous networks.

Some other comments

Getting something to work and keep it that way (while eventually even improving it too) can be really hard work every now and then.
In order not to have to search for the same solutions over and over again, I started to thoroughly document the processes of work, explaining what and especially how I accomplished it.
Check out ~max for links to documents such as my LDAP, Diskless Workstations or HP Omnibook XE3 HOWTOs as well as information on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

Besides all this "administrative" stuff, I took care of the project SFS - Sicherheit, Free Software und andere Bits as part of my work at subnet. It includes regular newsletters and some more detailed articles (such as "Selbstaufgabe" oder "Die Kunst, Zu Verschenken") on the topics of Free Software and similar.