In 1979 not only Pink Floyd released "The Wall" and Sony the Walkman, but my parents, a math/informatics teacher married to a kindergarten teacher, received me on the second to last day of May.
Born and raised in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, a bycicle ride distant from the green border with the Netherlands, I found early in life my passion for water sports and board/roleplay games.
Through all my 13 years of school, it turned out, that I have an aptitude for math, physics and informatics. Logic and natural science spurred my interests. In 1988 my father handed down to me his Commodore 64 home computer and connected to our old color TV it became the magnet for my attention from then on.
Many hours were spend loading Mafia the game from datasette and playing with 4 friends hot seat, noses inches from the buzzing TV screen. With my Abitur in 1998 and Zivildienst, as orderly for the elderly, done, I studied electrical engineering at the RWTH-Aachen. Earning my livelihood with different side jobs (Life guard at the local pool, flipping burgers in the nightshiftat MC, building and repaiing PCs), I started a scientific assistant position as system administrator for a mechanical engineering institute.

Expat in Greece for 3 years

At the moment I am a T-shaped Professional, a universla dilletant or universalamateur, My horizontal line, my abse, domain knowledge is Information Technology I am passioned about Documentation. Writing, editing and using it. Ducumentation is the first pillar of Success, also Customer Success. Write it, so that your future self understands it without any context. Use a git repo to replace CYAM - Cover Your Ass Mails, with a publice Git History.

KISS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle Keep it simple and stupid

In my humble opionion you get a good picture of another human being and perhaps some shared interests by knowing there favorite things. To keep it short and nice, here only my top 3 from the 3 categories I spent most of my quality time with.

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
3. Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

1. Saint Petersburg (2004) - Bernd Brunnhofer
2. Android: Netrunner (2012) - Richard Garfield
3. Imperial (2006) - Mac Gerdts

1. Don't Stop Me Now (1979) - Queen
2. (10) and Counting (2006) - BoySetsFire
3. Family Tree (1996) - H2O

• Listening, learn with your customers and their challenges and transport this knowedge to your other customer
• Asking questions, asking why and the next questions, asking for the goal, not the next steps. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
• Communicate in significant, unambiguous and explicit way.
• Continous Holistic Learning
• Knowledge Recovery, Google Search
• CYAM - Cover Your Ass Mails

• English
• German (Mother Tongue)
• Greek

• Bash
• Powershell
• Python
• JavaScript

• Security Learnings https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-awards-program.html
• 10 Finger Tyoing
• Morning and Evening journal

I like explicit asks. I’m better at helping when I have a good idea of what you need. “Take a look” is less helpful than “I’m looking for feedback on X and Y, by end of month”. I like knowing what you've already tried. Explain what you've already searched for on your own, and what assumptions have been challenged.

Communicating with me I tend to make suggestions and asks, rather than commands. This can make my input unclear. If I’m not communicating expectations effectively, please say so and I’ll do my best to adjust my style. If I have a strong opinion about something, I will say so. I try to express gratitude frequently. This is genuine.

I try to be a structured communicator and thinker, but sometimes start to speak in an unstructured way when I get excited about something, when I'm on the go, or when I'm crunched for time.

Please interject if you’re not getting what you want out of me. Brevity does not equate to being rude, short, or perturbed. Please do not take offense to periods of silence. I prefer long, uninterrupted windows of time for deep work. I disable all notifications on my Mac and everything but iMessage on my phone. This allows me to focus deeply on one task at a time, which is a more efficient way of working than attempting to multitask. In return, I will devote my full attention to your request and respond thoughtfully, with context and passion. Unless specifically mentioned, I don’t expect immediate responses from anyone. I respect others’ time and want you to have the space for a thoughtful response.

The goal is to achieve 3 meaningful outcomes every day, week, month, and year. Small outcomes add up to meaningful and long-term results Productivity is about doing the right things at the right time. Choosing 3 tasks forces prioritization and helps avoid context switching Key benefits of this system include: reduction in time spent on unimportant work improved personal efficiency and effectiveness increased sense of accomplishment increased results over time Choose a recording system that works for you: notepad, sticky notes, Mac reminders, GitLab issues, etc. Each day, choose what needs to get done today and decide what can be punted to future days/months Other things will come up outside of your 3 tasks. When they do, write them down on a next or future card. Write them down so you can take remove the pressure of having to remember these tasks. Adapt this system to meet your own needs