Jörg Herzinger

Automation, integration, clear-sighted devops This first full time job gave me insight into medium to big IT projects and how to handle the workloads required to complete them successfully. I helped moving projects from classic waterfall to agile methodologies, having the customers wishes and needs in mind instead of sales. Among my key responsibilities were infrastructure automation, testing and cloud migration. I used and developed those skills mostly at a major eastern european Bank with multi national projects and proprietary software on a big scale. Migrating the infrastructure and services into a public cloud gave me insights in security and other structural aspects of big company networks.

IT handyman A small NGO like GLOBAL 2000 hardly was able to afford its own IT, so this job was a real challenge for me working only part-time with an autistic apprentice. My area of responsibility included network hardware and cabling, full server administration for bare metal and virtual machines, and client administration for some 80 employees. The financial responsibility to the donors required using free and OpenSource software wherever possible and finding creative solutions to support all employees wishes and needs with the best possible suite of software and services.

Organizing and IT For the students union, I took care of mainly two things. Firstly their server, including mailserver, fileserver and other minor services. Secondly I found interest in organizing various events with official approval and sponsoring. The size of these events varied from less than 100 up to 1000 people. During this time I also attended several group dynamics seminars intended to help first semesters with the universities onboarding phase.

Life, the universe and everything Understanding the very source of a Problem has always been a passion of mine. In physics I found a topic that, at least in theory, covers everything. Although, in the end, I found myself in a different field of expertise this study gave me all the tools and mindset required. I learned to solve problems considering all derminining factors and to approach things step by step. In my thesis about an experiment with ultracold neutrons at the ILL Grenoble I had my first contact with a massive project where many other experiments, technical parts, people and software had to play nicely together, so time management, organizational and communication skills were as much a requirement as physics and technical understanding.