About Me

I am a Zurich-based IT system administrator in the field of network and IT security with a strong interest in research. My main responsibilities in my 10+ years of professional experience have been in the area of system and network administration as well as infrastructure monitoring.
Therefore, I have experience with:

  • Infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting (Checkmk)
  • System and network administration of a group-wide infrastructure (esp. routers, switches, firewalls and wireless networks), troubleshooting (Extreme Networks, Enterasys, Fortinet, Sophos, Aerohive)
    • VPN
    • LAN, WLAN, WAN
    • Hardware
  • Configuration and administration of network access control (NAC) and network analysis software (Extreme Networks)
  • First & second level support
  • Evaluation and administration of remote access software (FastViewer)
  • Leadership of employee training sessions
  • Hardware and software installation and commissioning
  • Documentation (Zetema CabDoc)
  • Performance monitoring (Netcor GeNiEnd2End)
  • AutoIt
  • IBM/HCL Notes, Atlassian Confluence & Jira


Education

04/2019 – 06/2022

Distance learning in Applied IT Security (M.Sc.)
isits AG resp. Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
Final grade: very good (88%) (ETH GPA: 5.52)
Master‘s thesis: “Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization – Stärken, Schwächen und Umsetzbarkeit in der Praxis”
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Evren Eren

You can see my Master’s degree project in action here. It is based on this project.
Sample JSON-based SSVC decisions for import can be found here.

09/2014 – 03/2019

Extra-occupational studies in Business Informatics (B.Sc.)
FOM University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt a. M.
Final grade: 1.3 (ETH GPA: 5.80) with distinction
Bachelor‘s thesis: “Einsatzmöglichkeiten künstlicher Intelligenz im Security Information and Event Management”
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernd Ulmann

08/2008 – 06/2011

Vocational training as an IT specialist (system integration)
at JUMO GmbH & Co. KG, Fulda