Self evaluation

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Multimedia production / Graphic artwork. (12 years experience in various techniques, very experienced in Adobe Photoshop, main strength: bringing together creativity and technical knowhow/programming knowledge), including advanced experience in artistic photography).

Project leadership. (8 years experience sharing (50/50) the responsibility for strategic planning for all IT aspects of the Swiss academy of Sciences. Leading projects from the initial state of vapourware to the final deployment of the products... Leading software development groups, running a naturopath office and guiding patients on their way towards health).

Teaching. (12 years experience in various teaching activities. From simple first level user support to teaching classes in medical physiology, from writing manuals for my own software to creating a whole pathophysiologal course including multimedia material. Experience as a naturopath and NLP practitioner educating patients).

Networking
(8 years experience in planning, building and maintaining a 10/100/1000 MBit ethernet network of 40 Macs including 12 dedicated servers, 2 DSL Uplinks, routers, managed and unmanaged Switches etc.).

Security
(6 years experience in managing every security aspect of the above network and all nodes, from initial threat analysis, to writing concepts, evaluating, installing/configuring and maintain the firewall and the workstation security solutions)

Hardware
(10 years experience in planning, evaluating, ordering, installing, configuring and managing the complete hardware pool of the network described above, including servers, workstations amd peripherals.)

Server Administration
(8 years experience in planning, evaluating, ordering, installing, configuring and managing web- (WebSTAR,Apache) , database- (Filemaker, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Openbase), ftp- (pure-ftp), DNS- (Bind 8.x), Mail- (qmail, postfix,WebSTAR, Apple), data- (ASIP, MacOSX/FreeBSD), Backup- (Retrospect) and groupware (NUTD) servers)

Webdesign (10 years experience in all aspects of modern webdesign - initial evaluation and analysis, data architecture, navigation concepts, graphics artwork and interface design, HTML/DHTML programming, database integration, scripting... (JavaScript/PHP/CGI/AppleScript/perl).

Software dev. (12 years experience in developing mainly smaller applications and tools, from educational multimedia frontends to medical multiuser database interfaces. Analysis, modelling, prototyping, testing, deployment, user instructions... Programming languages used: RealBasic (OOP), PHP, AppleScript, shell scripts, ObjectiveC, JavaScript, perl, C/C++)

Database dev. (6 years experience in developping databases of various levels of complexity, analysis, design, implementation with Filemaker and RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL and OpenBase. Used to bring relational databases to the web, doing every necessary task: networking, administrating the server, database programming, building web interface, interface artwork, standalone database clients, writing manuals and prepare the user education).

Dull administration. (35+ years experience in dealing with people that try hard to make your day difficult, to block your creative energy, to pull down brilliant ideas all in the name of formalism and deaf bueraucracy. I still haven't found a very good way to deal with that. Read more in the "You" section).