SASCHA STOPS Celes Systems GmbH, Frankfurter Landstr. 117, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany Phone: +49-6151-2799451, sascha.stops@celes-systems.com I am an experienced IT infrastructure consultant with a proven track record of success in both the private and public market sectors. I am currently focuses on cloud infrastructure (public, private, hybrid) based on Microsoft technologies. In addition I have a strong background in software development with a focus on.net/c#. I have achieved various industry certification including MCSE and MCSA. I am comfortable with short term projects as well as take long-term responsibilities for deployed environments. With the broad knowledge of various technologies my strength is in quickly recognizing the overall scope of a project and recognize the outside dependencies and the required technologies needed to successfully complete a project. ACADEMIC EDUCATION 1995 1999 University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany Computer Sciences with focus on and business informatics and telecommunications Degree in computer sciences (German: Diplom-Informatiker (FH)) Development of multi-tier applications using Microsoft Windows Distributed Internet Architecture Method changes, implications and prototypical development Award of Faculty for Outstanding Performance in Diploma-Thesis Professional EXPERIENCE 2012 - SCOM Unity Ltd. IT Consultant Industry: Information Technology - General Since 2012 I am providing consultancy service to SCOM Unity either in project manager or deployment lead roles as well as escalation consultant. Highlights: In 2013 I was responsible for the deployment of System Center 2012 Service Manager at SHL including customization and development of customer-specific modules. The Service Manager rollout was part of a data center relocation project in which other consulting services were provided as well. In 2015 I was project manager for a deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager at Dimension Data. The deployment is used to monitor systems of Dimension Data customers. 2009 - Celes Systems GmbH Managing Director Industry: Information Technology - Healthcare In 2009 I was assigned the position of Managing Director of the newly founded Celes Systems GmbH. The fields of business included hosted and outsourced infrastructure solutions, Softwareasa-Service platforms and the development of vertical industry solutions.
My regular work includes coordination with international customers both on business and technical aspects of projects. My regular work involves the supervision of a team managing the operations of a small size data center (350 OSEs), the coordination of development projects for standard and custom applications together with third party development companies and international teams of developers, regulatory coordination for medical applications, strategic technology planning. Highlights: In 2009 and 2010 I was responsible planning and supervising the migration and development of a customer s 10 server single-site infrastructure to a multi-national multi-site infrastructure with 60 servers and 300+ clients. The project involved migrating from Windows Server 2003/2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2, ISA Server 2006 to ForeFront Threat Management Gateway 2010, Deployment of SQL Server 2008, Migration of vertical LoB applications and the migration of server applications to versions that support Windows Server 2008 R2 including System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2. Since then Celes Systems GmbH became the lead company in managing and maintaining this infrastructure now including five countries with 30+ sites. The ongoing maintenance included amongst others the migration to Windows Server 2012 R2, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 including Enterprise Voice, and System Center 2012 R2. Since 2011 I am the principal system architect for a SaaS-solution for the Cirrus clinical trial solution, including amongst other SQL Server, ASP.NET, System Center 2012 R2 and Azure. 2010 2012 independent GmbH / Institute of Applied Informatics in Darmstadt IT Consultant Industry: Academia, Finance I am consulting the Institute of Applied Informatics in Darmstadt on projects involving IT-supported Business Process Management and Optimization using a variety of application including Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft BizTalk, Ultimus BPM Suite. 2008-2009 Arztservice Wente GmbH Director Celes Systems Group Industry: Information Technology Healthcare In 2008 I joined Arztservice Wente GmbH in their effort to build a new business unit which should ultimately resolve in a spin-off company called Celes Systems GmbH. During the first six months I lead a small team rebuilding the internal server infrastructure of Arztservice Wente GmbH on Windows Server 2008 along with new data center operations for the Celes Systems Division. The new systems are virtualized using Hyper-V and a mix of Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008. As part of my engagement I was responsible for building a new Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Platform on Microsoft Exchange 2007 and a hosting platform for ASWs medical line of business application that are offered as a SaaS solution. 2008 integration.ag Technology Consultant Industry: Information Technology Healthcare
In 2008 I left integration.ag because of changes in senior management and worked as a consultant in migration projects for the data center to Windows Server 2008 and larger migration and infrastructure projects for various customers using a wide variety of Microsoft server systems. 1999 2008 integration.ag Director Internet Technologies Group Industry: Information Technology Healthcare Originally employed by integration.ag as a technical evangelist for XML and Internet technologies in Healthcare, I was assigned various consultancy and development projects related to IT infrastructure, Internet services. Initially my responsibility was the development of position papers and proof of concept applications on the use of existing digital standards, XML and Internet application as a new approach for integrating legacy and modern IT systems within clinical environments. The projects lasted into 2002 with partners being the American Academy of Ophthalmology, various working groups of the NEMA DICOM standardization efforts. During this project we had regular contacts with the Microsoft BizTalk Team and the Microsoft Healthcare Business Unit. Starting in 2000 I was entrusted with building an early small-scale Internet data center and supervise its operations for the hosting of early medical web applications including web-based registries for monitoring drug-use in certain specialties. During this time I lead a both the development and the infrastructure side of the projects. The technologies used were ASP and later ASP.NET (C#). The infrastructure was built upon Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Message Queue Server, Microsoft Transaction Server / COM+, Crystal Report Server In 2002 I was entrusted with a project of building an e-commerce platform for contact lenses based on Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 handling upto 10,000 transaction per day for a customer of integration.ag. The technologies used in this project were again Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Advanced Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and IIS 5.0. The entire infrastructure consisted of approx. 20 servers because of the high volume of catalog data. My focus after that was improvement of the data center and included consultation of the development team on architectural topics related to the Windows hosting platform and the development of various.net-based standard applications. Parallel to the development project the data center was migrated from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003. Products and technologies I worked with during this phase included Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003/2003R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005, Microsoft ISA Server 2000/2004/2006, Microsoft.NET 1.0/1.1/2.0, IIS 5.0/6.0, Active Directory, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In 2006 I was responsible for planning and building a Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Platform based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. During this project I had my first experience with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. In 2007 I was the lead in the migrating the platform to Exchange Server 2007. Later in this project the infrastructure was also migrated from Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to System Center Operations Manager 2007. In 2006 I was assigned to a new business unit to develop a standard blueprint for networks in large medical practices and small and mid-size clinics. Parts of these blueprints included Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 (R2), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Small Business Server 2003 (R2), Cisco ASA firewalls. The blueprints were implemented under my supervision in about a dozen institutions.
In 2007 I was assigned lead in a development for a partner ISV in implementing a solution based on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006. The goal of this project was to supplement their monolithic product with the workflow and process management capabilities of BizTalk Server so that it is able to act as the center of communication within a hospital environment. The system was successfully demonstrated during a four day showcase in New Orleans sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Radiological Society of North America. End 2007 I was assigned to a project designing the IT infrastructure for a new multi-national group of eye care clinics with centralized management. This project involved the use of Windows Server 2003 R2, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager, ForeFront Client Security, ISA Server 2006, and Windows Sharepoint Services. The design was intended for a an 8 to 10 site network with one central data center with each site having approx. 50 workstations using System Center Configuration Manager for deployment. I consulted in this project during the deployment and the initial phase of operations. 1999 University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt Technical Trainer Microsoft Exchange Server Industry: Academia My limited engagement with the University of Applied Sciences was the training of staff from University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt as well as from East European partner universities in building and maintaining a server infrastructure using Windows NT 4.0 Server with NTDS and Microsoft Exchange 5.5. Part of this training was the guidance of the development of deployment plan of both NTDS and Microsoft Exchange 5.5 as well as additional consultancy during the deployment itself. 1997-1999 debis DaimerChrysler InterServices AG Web Technologies Development Industry: Computer Software Development Telecommunications During my work at debis I started out being responsible for development of the Intranet content management system and various Intranet-based applications using in the beginning PERL and later migrating to ASP. Later in my engagement with debis I help make the transition from a UNIX-based Intranet-Server-Platform to Windows NT 4.0 and IIS 4.0 working together not only with the development staff but also with the infrastructure staff assisting them both in pre-migration concepts, infrastructure change and migrating applications. INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS Microsoft Certified System Engineer - Private Cloud Charter Member Microsoft Certified System Engineer Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Certified System Engineer Windows 2000 Microsoft Certified System Administrator Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Certified System Engineer Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist Windows Server 2008 Application Infrastructure Charter Member Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Charter Member Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Charter Member Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist Windows Server 2003 Hosting, Configuration and Management
Software and Hardware Experience Server Operating Systems Windows Server NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 (all expert knowledge) Client Operating Systems Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (all expert knowledge) Server Applications SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008 R2/2012/2014 (advanced knowledge) Exchange Server 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013 (advanced knowledge) Lync 2013 / Skype for Business Server 2015 (advanced knowledge) Windows Sharepoint Services (advanced knowledge) Virtualization Security products Management products Backup software: Programming Languages / Scripting Languges Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 / 2005 R2 Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 (all expert knowledge) Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Services (expert knowledge) Microsoft ISA Server 2000/2004/2006 (all expert knowledge) Microsoft ForeFront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Microsoft ForeFront Client Security (advanced Knowledge) Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (advanced Knowledge) Watchguard Unified Threat Management (advanced Knowledge) System Center 2012 / 2012 R2 (expert knowledge) System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (expert knowledge) System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (expert knowledge) System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (advanced knowledge) Windows Deployment Toolkit / Windows Deployment Services HP Insight Manager (basic knowledge) HP Device Manager (advanced knowledge) (expert knowledge) Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (expert knowledge) Symantec Backup Exec (advanced knowledge) C# (expert knowledge) PowerShell (expert knowledge) JavaScript (advanced knowledge) Visual Basic Script / VBA / VB.net (advanced knowledge) C++ (basic knowledge) During my years I collected significant experiences with HP hardware including Proliant Servers, Proliant Blade solutions and StorageWorks SAN solutions.
SPECIALIZES IN - Windows Server Infrastructure - IT Infrastructure Management - Systems and Network Architecture - Web Service Development - Strategic technology assessment Professional strengths - Good understanding of base technologies and the ability to adapt knowledge of existing and known technology to new and more complex technologies quickly - Ability to quickly transfer knowledge and adapt existing solutions to meet new or current problems in different realms - The ability to quickly identify a problem (both business or technology) and draw up initial concepts for a IT-based solution - Always looking for possible real world applications when learning about new products or technologies Personal strengths - Ability to work under pressure - I work very goal oriented - Loyalty, confidentiality and integrity