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About

Hi,

my name is Thorsten Ott. I am in my thirties, married, father of one child. I consider myself an entrepreneur with passion for web development. This is my online resume, which I put online for potential clients, employers and all the people looking for more information about my work and me.

Best regards,

Thorsten Ott

Curriculum Vitae

Objectives

Seeking a full time management position in a customer oriented environment as well as IT related partnership offers and projects.

Skills

  • Seven years experience in leading teams. Ability to coach and motivate the team members.
  • High customer interaction experience, ranging from customer support to complex on site setups and project internal communication.
  • High flexibility and capacity.
  • Excellent communication skills in English and German.
  • Nine years UNIX experience on systems ranging from BSD oriented server accounts to complex Linux setups and their administration.
  • Able to develop dynamic web applications utilizing technologies such as PHP, AJAX, CSS and other.
  • Excellent MySQL skills.
Experience
since 2008
Automattic, Inc.
VIP support
Currently working in the VIP support for Automattic, Inc. The company which stands behind projects such as WordPress, Akismet, Polldaddy and more.
since 2007
vision22 EOOD
CEO
Founding vision22 EOOD (bulgarian form of a LTD), a private hold full service web development agency. Acting as chief executive officer for this company.
2004 - 2007
Intergenia AG
Leading development department in Sofia
Establishing a development department in Sofia branch of Plusserver. Training the software developers and leading the team of 15 web developers in Germany and Bulgaria. Planning upcoming projects and managing the human resources. Acting as a communication bridge between development team and customers.
2004 - 2005
Intergenia AG
Reseller API for dedicated servers
Creating a possibility for reselling dedicated servers and performing all necessary provisioning actions like reboots, installations and similar processes using a XML based API. Deployment and on site assistance during the api installation with various customers.
2003 - 2004
Intergenia AG
Server4You establishment in the U.S.
Setting up new datacenter infrastructure in St. Louis (U.S.A) and leading on site development and deployment of a shared hosting and dedicated server hosting product including development of the backoffice and customer interfaces.
2001 - 2003
Intergenia AG
Launch of brands Server4You/vSERVER/Racer
Implementation of Intergenia's first fully automated dedicated server product. All steps from ordering a server to installation with various software selections can be performed handsfree. Later introducing similar technologies for virtual server hosting using SW-Soft's Virtuozzo technology as well as a shared hosting product.
2000 - 2001
Intergenia AG
Launch of brand Plusserver
Introducing one of the first dedicated server products in germany and leading a fast growing team of support engineers and technical staff. Switching over to product development for implementing automated procedures and workflows for the server administration and provisioning as well as customer control panels.
1998 - 2000
University of Bonn
System-/Network administrator
Being contact for all IT-related issues for three institutes. Solving hardware and software problems, setting up complex IT-solutions and server setups, as well as planning and implementing the network structure.
Education
2001
IHK Cologne
Trainer qualification
Due to the immense growth of Intergenia, the company decided to train their own IT specialists. Therefore i was able to earn a certification to train commercial apprentices to become IT specialists (german job title "Fachinformatiker-Anwendungsentwicklung"). Personal qualification based on the german "Ausbildereignungsverordnung". This Certificate is handed out by the german IHK after a successful exam.
1995 - 1998
University of Bonn / Electronics Lab
Apprenticeship
My apprenticeship years gave me the opportunity to acquire a broad knowledge of electrical circuits in the scope of scientific applications. In a challenging environment that provided education and the opportunity to work on real projects I gained excellent experience and earned skills in analogue and digital electronics in a variety from logic circuits over self developed micro controller systems to the usage and construction of various computer systems. Development of microcontroller circuits, knowledge of digital and analogue circuits, soldering, PC hardware, different bus architectures, network technologies.

Contact

Thorsten Ott
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
  • Phone
  • +359.885.600431 (mobile)
  • +49.700.8676.8676 (work)
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