The largest ICT employer in Hungary, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions (formerly IT-Services Hungary, ITSH) is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. Established in 2006, the company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5000 employees. ITSH was awarded with the Best in Educational Cooperation prize by HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as one of the most attractive workplaces by PwC Hungary’s independent survey in 2021 and rewarded with the title of the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.

My responsibilities are:

• Architectural consultancy in the field of Cloud, Automation, Infrastructure, Security, CI/CD
• Create and High-Level architectural designs (including blueprint, scope, requirements, service design, compliance) and review Detailed Designs from engineering.
• Architecture/Solution Consultancy to Customer
• Responsible for Service Development/Enhancements and Service Roadmap content (new Releases, additional Features).
• Identify Service or Application-Landscape Improvement opportunities contribute to pre-Sales opportunities from an architectural perspective.
• Continuous focus on Solutions with increased automation.

Skills: Infrastructure as code (IaC) · Agile Project Management · Scrum · Virtualization · Cloud Computing · Solution Architecture · Information Security · Technical Documentation · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · OS X · Linux · Ansible · JIRA · Team Leadership · Team Motivation · People Management · Technical Leadership · IT Infrastructure Management · Agile Leadership · Proactive Monitoring · Nearshore · Confluence · DevOps · Leadership · Team Management

In general:

• Act as a Scrum master in the team.
• Act as an Agile Technical Project Manager in DevOps methodology.
• Act as a gatekeeper between the management and the team.
• Oversee day-to-day operation.
• Participate on Daily Scrum of Scrum, TL follow up and PO meetings.

Organization:

To the team:
• Plan resources and lead the team to reach the undertaken goals.
• Track personal utilization (absence, trainings, running tasks)
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics.
• People management
       ◦ 1st level people management.
       ◦ Motivate the team.
       ◦ Listen to the feedback of team members and resolve any issues or conflicts.
• Team meetings
      ◦ Hold the daily stand-ups.
      ◦ Hold weekly meeting with the architect.
      ◦ Task related ad-hoc meeting within the team or involving required other parties
• Fit the team to deliver CAS requirements
      ◦ Define the way of working
      ◦ Monitor professional strengths and weaknesses and suggest trainings to fulfill the needs

To CAS organization:
• Status reporting of
      ◦ ongoing activities
      ◦ closed tasks
      ◦ tasks in the queue
      ◦ issues, risks, changes where support needed
• Single point of contact for any CAS and external teams

Technical part:
• Based on technical knowledge and experience support the architect in Automation and/or Linux related tasks.
• Act as backup of architect

Skills: Infrastructure as code (IaC) · Agile Project Management · Scrum · Virtualization · Cloud Computing · Solution Architecture · Information Security · Technical Documentation · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · OS X · Linux · Ansible · JIRA · Team Leadership · Team Motivation · People Management · Technical Leadership · IT Infrastructure Management · Agile Leadership · Proactive Monitoring · Nearshore · Confluence · DevOps · Leadership · Team Management

Open Telekom Cloud: scalable infrastructure based on OpenStack and hosted in Telekom's highly secure datacenters in Germany. With Open Telekom Cloud, Deutsche Telekom is offering a secure Infrastructure as a Service solution

My responsibilities were:

• Creation, integration and further development of cloud architectures
• End-to-end analysis of technical architectures including the assessment of impacts (technical / commercial) as a function of customer requirements
• Integration of standard cloud products into customer advertisements with individual additional services for public / hybrid cloud solutions
• Securing cloud offers / answering cloud alerts
• Supplier management tasks according to the Lead Architect role
• Close cooperation with the Vendor

Achievements:

• Got awarded with "Employee of the Quarter" after 3 months in the role.
• Coordinated and led LDAP implementation on the platform from technical perspective
• Led in-house staff (developers and sysadmins) during various projects
• Got promoted after 6 months in the role

Founded in 2009, Planorama has successfully established itself as the market leader in image recognition solutions for the retail industry, helping consumer good manufacturers such as Coca Coca or L’Oréal improve their sales force effectiveness and boost sales thanks to accurate and comprehensive in-store data collection.

Our strength is our ability to combine technological and business expertise while providing the flexibility and insights that our clients need. Our primary goal is to preserve a dynamic and creative spirit in the company while building a high performance team, capable of sustaining our growth and our leading position in the market.

Planorama is an international company with more than 80 employees serving clients in more than 40 markets, through its offices in France, Hungary, United States, Brazil, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom and South Africa. The diversity of our team, comprising 15 nationalities, combined with our constant goal of reaching excellence, allows us to effectively carry out complex international projects.

My responsibilities were:

• Lead in-house IT staff and communicate with third-party consultants
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to the IT Infrastructure network design, processes, and business continuity plans.
• Administration of production services and systems in the cloud (Amazon Web Services 150+ Linux apps/servers, 81 Linux app/server in vSphere environment, MongoDB servers, Heroku)
• Responsible of the IT purchase ordering system and keeping the inventory
• Monitoring and maintenance of the company’s network (multiple offices + nomad users) (LAN/WAN, VLAN, VPN, VoIP solutions)
• Anticipate problems but effectively manage and timely resolve IT Infrastructure incidents.
• Assisting and advising our DevOps team by working closely with them
• Planning and implementing the infrastructure cost decrease by revisiting the complete IT environment
• Work on automating repetitive IT tasks (for example: Ansible)

Achievements:

• Saved 7000€ monthly by revisiting the infrastructure
• Upgraded all end of life, not supported OS versions to the latest Long-term Supported
• Improved stability, relialibility and security
• Became "PlanoChampion 2015" after 3 months
• Were promoted after 6 months in the role
• Built a new team/division (not just hiring, also managing the workflow) for the company
• Deputy CTO for 3 months

My responsibilities were:

• Lead in-house staff (6 engineers) and third-party consultants
• Direct operations for complex and advanced Information technology environment.
• Design information architecture with full responsibility for systems security and business continuity.
• Develop total systems solutions within project time lines and cost constraints.
• Creating technical documentations including change management, access control matrix, disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Provide business information analysis and process improvement initiatives to our clients.
• Perform functional analysis and cost – benefit studies to determine proper allocation of resources.

My responsibilities were:

• Planning, designing, implementing and managing virtual machines (Linux, Windows etc.)
• Creating VMware failover cluster environment (EVC, DRS, HA)
• Managing virtual networks (VLAN, vSwitch, vMotion, management, internet, intranet etc.)
• Managing resource pools
• Monitoring virtual machines, datastores and system hardware
• Proactively troubleshoot degrading health warnings daily
• Keep proper documentation of servers for client billing and to reduce troubleshooting efforts
• Maintain and troubleshoot virtual machine backups and replication
• P2V (physical to virtual) and V2V (virtual to virtual) migrations
• Creating technical documentations including change management, access control matrix, disaster recovery and business continuity planning

My responsibilities were:

• Plan, implement, install, operate and maintain systems hardware, software applications and IT infrastructure.
• Keep proper documentation of servers for client billing and to reduce troubleshooting efforts
• Oversee the testing and monitoring of applications and systems performance.
• Install and implement new programs, modules, servers, hardware, network equipment when necessary to upgrade, improve resources or increase compatibility.

As an employee of this company I had the privilege to create the whole IT infrastructure from ashes for the companies I will mention below and they used me as a consultant for years, because of my experience. The names stands for themselves:

Government sector:
Belügyminisztérium (Ministry of Interior), Pest Megyei Rendőr Főkapitányság (Pest County Police Department), Nemzetbiztonsági Szakszolgálat (National Security Service), Vám és Pénzügyőrség (Customs Police), Budapesti Rendőr Főkapitányság (Budapest Police HQ)

Media:
Juventus Rádió, Danubius Rádió, Roxy Rádió, Rádió 1 Népszabadság, FIX TV

Transportation:
MÁV Tervező Intézet (Planning Institute of Hungarian Railways), LRI Légiforgalmi és Repülőtéri Igazgatóság (Air Traffic and Airport Administration), MASPED RT (First Hungarian General Forwarding Co. Ltd.)

Education & Research:
Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem (BME), Semmelweiss Orvostudományi Egyetem (SOTE), Központi Fizikai Kutató Intézet (KFKI), Földmérési és Távérzékelési Intézet (FÖMI), Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (MTA), Magyar UNESCO Bizottság

My responsibilities were:

• Experience in Banking procedures.
• Support users in systems issues, malfunctions or other problems.
• Plan, implement, install, operate and maintain systems hardware, software applications and IT infrastructure.
• Oversee the testing and monitoring of Apps and System performance.

My responsibilities were:

• Manage and monitor Windows Servers and Workstations.
• Manage and monitor LAN/WAN network services.
• Recommend and acquire equipment replacements and upgrades.

My responsibilities were:

• Create animations and renders for the customers.
• Create visualizations from AutoCAD blueprints and floor plans.

My responsibilities were:

• Answer and handle tech questions to the clients of the ISP.
• Diagnose and repair internet service and other network failures.
• Install and maintain anti-virus, firewall and other security SWs.
• Understand networking software, hardware and protocols.

My responsibilities were:

• Hardware-software maintenance of customers' computers.
• Recommend SW and HW to existing and new customers.