Telefon 372 55512302 CURRICULUM VITAE . - Andreas Wagner

telefon 372 55512302emailandreas@whyservices.euhomepage www.andreaswagner.nameCURRICULUM VITAEAndreas WagnerPROFILEIT administrator, urbanist, manager, freelancerMain interest in organisational forms of urban labor & coworkingspaces and professionalizing IT knowledgeTHESKILLSLanguagesMother tongue German, Fluent in spoken and written English,Fair knowledge of French, Basic ArabicProject ManagementOrganized cultural events with budgets up to 20.000 andteams of up to 20 people, organized workshop infrastructure for20 to 150 people, for 3 to 7 day eventsOffice ManagementPromoting and running a coworking space / shared officeincluding networking people, balancing the accounting ,designing and outfitting the spaceIT KnowledgeWord & Table Processing (MS Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice,webbased), Presentation & Layout (Prezi, Scribus), experiencedin working with Microsoft operating systems (Windows 3.1 - 7),experienced in working with diverse Linux distributions, LPI-1level (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS), networking and hardware,basic AD administration, static and dynamic web programming(HTML & CSS, basic Javascript & PHP), hosting administration(vserver, automation via chef, aws integration), contentmanagement systems (Wordpress), RubyonRails development,programming language Ruby, shell scriptingWork Processesteam-based, resilient, repeatable, compliant work processes;lean operations; "everything is a product, everybody is acustomer" & "infrastructure as code"; release life cycle policiesand best practices for development and operations; PCI-DSSand FCA related auditing requirementsBASICS

EXPERIENCEHead of System Operations, Cash on go Ltd, since December 2013Leading a team of system administrators. Overseeing product and internalservice infrastructure of the organisation. Architecture and implementationof on- and off-premise server and network infrastructure. Implementationof standardized work processes and policies, as well as ensuring PCI DSS,and legal compliance. Close cooperation with other departments, inparticular development team. Lead contact with IT-related external serviceproviders. Holding the 201 4 Einstein Award, company-internal award foroutstanding effort to facilitate work across and between departments.Relocation to Tallinn, Estonia in January 2012Pursuing different projects and work as coworking spaceadministrator, project manager (INURA annual conference June2012, 3 day workshop for Goethe Institute September 2012),trader (ESTA wood products), freelance web administrator(whyservices OÜ)ALWAYSPersonal Assistant to Tamer Alawam, Syrian journalist and director,Berlin, Germany November 2011 to January 2012Student assistant in IT administration, International Research Centre“Work and Life Cycle in Global Historical Perspective”, Berlin, Germany2009 to 2010Mediator between research centre and computing centre of theuniversity; assistance to the staff and the research fellowsconcerning IT issues; Active Directory Domain Controlling; useradministration, network administration, hardware monitoring.Owner, whyservices, Berlin, Germany since May 2008Providing telecommunications- and internet services. Webhosting,webdesign, blog administration, remote administration.Internship, Telecentre of Agribusiness Cooperative “Centre Songhai”,Porto Novo, Benin September to December 2005Installation, configuration, testing and maintenance of hardware,Microsoft operating systems, network devices; teaching of basictechniques and repairing procedures; introduction of an inventorylist; experimenting with the Linux Distribution “Debian”,assistance to clients in the telecenter concerning functions of theInternet and the computers; maintenance of ITC equipment invarious departments; recuperation of lost dataORGANIZING

EXPERIENCE,continiuedInternship, “European Information-Center” of the Thuringian StateChancellery, Erfurt, Germany February to July 2004Assisting the preparation, design and execution of aninternational symposium titled “Via Regia – Streets of Kings inEurope”, Correspondence and negotiation with internationalparticipants and moderators; Operational management withexecuting enterprises; assisting the preparation, design andexecution of a multimedia exhibition titled “Via Regia – Streets ofKings in Europe”; assisting the preparation and execution of acongress titled “The Future of our enterprises inside theexpanded Europe” with the participation of the states of LowerSaxony, Hess, Thuringia and the European Commission;Supporting the daily process and information events in theInformation-Center and in the public Social service,Johanniter Unfallhilfe, Gotha, Germany 2002 to 2003Driver for handicapped people (school and kindergarten) andinternal transportation in between hospitals (patients of all ages)Further duties: Acceptance and dispatching of transportationorders on behalf of the movement’s inspector; support of theward, office maintenance

EDUCATIONStudies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Tilburg University, ManchesterMetropolitan University, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Tallinn 2010 to 2011Degree: MA European Urban CulturesThesis: Work & The City - Developments in Urban WorkingCulture: An Exploratory Research about Coworking Spaces inEuropean Cities and their Impact on Urban Working CultureSummer University “Metropolitan Studies”, Berlin, Germany 2009“Berlin is Berlin is Berlin: whose urban development?” Issues ofurban development in BerlinGeorg-Simmel-Center of Metropolitan Studies, HumboldtUniversityTerm abroad in Damascus, Syria 2008 to 2009Language course Arabic at the “Arabic Teaching Institute forNon-Arabic Speakers” in line with the bi-national scholarshipprogram of the 7th meeting of the German Syrian mixedcommitteeStudies at the Institute for Area Studies, Philosophical Faculty III,Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 2006 to 2010Degree: BA Area Studies Asia / AfricaThesis: Migration and Urbanization: The Social Construction ofCities exemplified on Lagos, Nigeria6th Pristina Summer University, Pristina, Kosovo 2006“Globalization, Transnationalism: Issues in Immigration, Justiceand Multi – Ethnicity”Prof. Ana Devic, Academic Training Association, NetherlandsStudies at Faculty of Administrative Sciences, School of AppliedSciences “Harz”, Halberstadt, Germany 2003 to 2004Seminar “European Administrative Management”UnfinishedHigh School “Bonita Vista”, Chula Vista, California, USA 1999 to 2000Student exchange program sponsored by the GermanBundestag and the US CongressCertificate: High school diplomaAward: Member of the “California Scholarship Federation”Staatliches Gymnasium Arnoldischule, Gotha, Germany 1993 to 2002(equivalent to grammar or high school)GPA 2.0 (Good)Thesis: “View on the USA from the perspective of an exchangestudent, in the English language”TRULYSTUDERE

VOLUNTARY WORK & REMARKABLE EXPERIENCESFormer board member of “Art der Stadt Gotha”, a local socio cultural platform; speaker of the class and the pupils;organization of social and cultural meetings and events in thecontext of school and association work (concerts, music festival,exhibitions); Voyage through Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Mali,Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon) 2005 to2006TRAININGS & SEMINARSOpenForum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2008“Expansion of civil society in the age of migration”Citizens of Europe e.V.2nd European Youth Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia 2007“Europe without Borders?” Issues of interlinks between Youth inEast and WestCreative Educational Council University of Novi Sad2nd International Student Week, Belgrade, Serbia 2007“Update local to get global”, Workshop: MediaWorld Youth Wave Serbia2nd International Youth Exchange, Lagos, Nigeria 2006Role of Youth, Democracy and “Good Governance” in NigeriaAfrican Youth for Transparency AYFT10. International European youth forum, Amsterdam,Netherlands 2001City partnership programs, Youth possibilities in Europe, YouthexchangeInstitute for European Partnership and InternationalCooperation, Dietmar Woesler, Director“Europawerkstatt”, Mühlhausen, Germany 2000Organs and Institutions of the European Community, Basicterms and policy areas of the European UnionInstitute for European Partnership and InternationalCooperation, Dietmar Woesler, DirectorFörderlehrgang, Gotha, Germany 1995Typewriting“InterDACT” Training coursesALONGTHEWAY

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Andreas Wagner PROFILE IT administrator, urbanist, manager, freelancer Main interest in organisational forms of urban labor & coworking spaces and professionalizing IT knowledge SKILLS Languages Mother tongue German, Fluent in spoken and written English, Fair knowledge of French, Basic Arabic Project Management Organized cultural events with budgets up to 20.000 and teams of up to 20 people .