Resume

This resume informs you about my abilities and professional experience, and it could give you an idea about what kind of job I'm interested in. (Deutsche Version), (Greek version)

Personal data:

Family Name	Welter
First Name	Sascha
Birthdate	7.12.1968
Nationality	Swiss
Languages	German (first language), English (spoken and written very good), Greek (spoken very good, written good), French (spoken good, written fair).

Objective

A job in the field of programming, where I can employ my abilities and "know how" to improve on the company and the team I work with. The job should give me the opportunity to solve problems and to help people.

I'm looking forward to a motivated company with a good team.

Last experiences

Graphics Garage S.A.

April 2004 - present
The Graphics Garage is an advertising agency, active mostly in the print and packaging areas. Here I've developed software tools for administration and communication with the clients. Those tools are made with Zope and Python. In more detail:

An extranet solution that encompasses lots of stuff for the communication with clients, with Digital Asset Management, Archive, project communications and revisions, project management. This includes time and task management.
An application for the backoffice, financial controlling and reporting, administration of clients and jobs - intertwined with the extranet application.
A Web-To-Print application, customers can "fill" the pdf templates provided by the agency with their data to create individual cards, flyers, brochures, posters, etc. all of it in high-end print quality.
Various little tools and customers websites.

ZWiki (volunteer)

since February 2007
Zwiki is an open source wiki engine for the Zope application server. Since 2007 I'm a contributor for this project. Mainly I'm happy to fix bugs, but I also like to write tests a lot.

DBS AG

Oktober 2003 until end of march 2004, 70% occupation
The company DBS AG (in Wetzikon, Switzerland) develops solutions for the administration, installation, and organization of large quantities of PCs. Among my duties were:

Debugging of existing client tools. These tools work in a distributed client/server environment. Imminent in networked solutions like these are hairy timing problems, and the many versions of Windows operating systems all demand a bit of special treatment. I was able to solve the many obscure bugs, which the field service sent me.
Improvements and further development on the client tools. I altered and improved upon some of the client side programs, complying to customers demands. Often the objective was to make things run faster. Other times I had to amend tools to run in a special environment (e.g. Novell)
System architecture of the products further development. I took part in the concepts for the future of the product.

Punkt G Design School Zürich

Oktober 2003 until end of march 2004, 10% Occupation
The design school "Punkt G" in Zurich offers the students one year and three year programs in design. The one year program "Vorkurs" is state approved and opens the road to further studies in the wider field of design. The school features a network with Macintosh Computers, so students can work on the current range of software in their field. My job was the support of those computers and the network. Among my duties were:

Upgrade of all Computers from Mac OS 9 (using Macintosh Manager) to Mac OS X (Panther), and configuring them as clients to a server running Mac OS X Server. The students home directories were hosted on the server, so accounts and user privileges could be administrated from the server.
Improvements, updating, and corrections on the network infrastructure, cabling, router, and firewall.
Installation and upgrade, as well as support of the current software in the field of graphic design (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and also for other programs (e.g. web publishing).
Support of the 20+ iMacs and G4s, and of the server (running Mac OS X Server) in the daily battlefield of a school with kids age 15-20.

Freelance mac support and teaching seminars

Also Oktober 2003 until end of march 2004
Next to those two fixed jobs, I worked during this time as a freelancer doing mac support, and tought seminars. Most seminars were about administration of Mac OS X, for example at the University of Zurich (teaching their computer support personnel) and in many local swiss school organizations (teaching the teachers with computer support duties).
Further information in german on my seminars program can be found on my course page.

Network AG

June 2002 until end of September 2003
At the company Network AG (in Schlieren, Switzerland) I was working as developer, system administrator and IT supporter. Among my duties and projects were:

Programming of customer web sites (content management systems) using Zope and the language python.
Developing of our own applications, which the company used as an ASP (Application Service Provider) for special marketing purposes. Frontmost was the companies own frontend to the "Vividot" system. This too was running on Zope and programmed in python.
With Zope, I worked and gathered a lot of experience with Page Templates, python scripts, Zclasses and filesystem based python products.
Setup and administration of our own mail server (after solutions using external providers proved to be disappointing). I set up an OpenBSD (Unix) based server on older Mac hardware. The mail system ran very well with Sendmail, UW-Imapd and bind (as a caching name server). The users accessed their mail mostly with the mailclient of the Mozilla project (Mac/Windows) and with Apple's Mac OS X Mail.app client.
Setup and administration of a new development server, runnig OpenBSD, Zope, CVS, and other tools. The team's development work was done faster and much more agreeable on this server.
Remote administration of the production server (running Red Hat Linux), hosted by an external service provider. On this server we ran our Zope applications and many of our customers web sites and applications. Administration included looking after Zope and Apache, writing, configuring and setup of shell scripts and cron jobs.
Administration of the ASIP file server, retrospect server, 4D server; support of the Macintosh workstations (upgraded to Mac OS X) and windows PCs ("test machines" and people working with PCs, ranging from Windows 95 to Windows 98, NT4, W2k, and XP).

STAR TV

September 2000 until march 2002
At Star TV (located in Schlieren, Switzerland) I was working as IT supporter and webmaster. Some of my duties and projects were:

Relaunch of the web site with integraded DVD online shop and game shops (also successfull from an economic point of view).
Programming and set up of a simple content management system, to allow the journalists to update their web content themselves.
Programming of multiple cgi applications (auction, feedback forms, votings, event ticket dispenser, mailinglist administration, sweepstakes, order forms).
Updating of the computer systems, mainly to improve on stability and to reduce support demands, but also with an eye on user satisfaction.
Part of this was setting up a standard of installed applications, to ensure a similar work environment for all and make support easier.
Heavy improvements in the network infrastructure, recabling, setup of areas with "fast" networks, setup of a wireless network.
Setup of a simple Intranet, with an Intranet web server, database server, shared agenda server.
Support of user systems; especially support of digital video workstation systems (Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro)
The station was probably the first to offer a live SMS chat on the screen worldwide. The application on our side was planned and programmed by me.

From January 2002 until end of march 2002 I reduced my workload there to 60% and gave away the duty as web master for the most part.

School background

Training as a photographer

After having worked already some years as a photographer and photo assistant, I spent some years on official swiss photographers training ("apprenticeship"), at my fathers studio, from August 1992 until August 1994.

School

I had 9 years of primary and secondary school education in Switzerland (spring 1975 until spring 1985). After this, I went through the one year "Vorkurs" program at the school for design in St.Gallen, which ended in spring 1986.

Further background...

In the meantime I've worked in restaurants, cafes, at a motorcycle repair shop, as a photographer, night watch, construction worker, ice hockey coach, and copy writer in advertising. Amongst other places I've lived in Greece (1986 until 1989) and Austria (1989/1990 and again 1992).

Know how and abilities

Computer

I'm a professional computer guy. I'm experienced in support, system administration and programming. You will find a lot of information about these topics on my web site. Here is a short overview about some of my past and present expertises:

Troubleshooting,
support,
database development with FileMaker, and to some degree with MySQL,
automating and scripting on and around the computer,
debugging,
older machines and systems,
HTML, CSS,
support of Digital Video Systems (Avid, FinalCut),
network setup and support (including firewalls and routers),
Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server,
Windows NT4, W2K, XP

Unix know how:

Shell,
python and Zope,
perl,
cgi,
expect,
sendmail, postfix,
UW-Imapd, Cyrus
bind,
apache,
configuration of routers, NAT and firewalls,
PGP, SSL,
ssh, general system administration, etc.

Open Source Software

Apart from my contribution to the ZWiki project, I've also authored some smaller tools and projects as Open Source Software.

Ability to cooperate, team work, and lead others

I was for 2 years on the board of the Macintosh Users Switzerland user group, part of this time as president of this group with about 1800 members. This job requires a lot of team play and the competence to lead. It was most important for me to further raise the team's productivity, to focus on the success as a group. With the other members of the board I was successfull at getting more volunteers to help with user group duties.

Delivering talks and teaching seminars

For many years I delivered talks on computer subjects to local gatherings of Macintosh Users Switzerland. I also tought seminars on advertising subjects and later, computer subjects. My students find me a lively instructor with a full knowledge background and always alert to wake any "sleepers".

If you have printed out this page, you will be able to find my web page at http://www.betabug.ch.