Professional background
e-tge stands for the IT Management consulting services by Thomas Gentsch, based on the experiences accumulated during more than 20 years in IT Management.
Career main steps:
- 1987 - 1992 Student of Computer Science at TU Chemnitz (emphasis Operating Systems, graduated as Diplom-Informatiker)
- Oct 1991 - Mar 1992 Diploma thesis at Hewlett-Packard Böblingen (Prototype of today's HPOM Logfile Encapsulator)
- 1992 - 1999 Software development at Hewlett-Packard Böblingen / Fort Collins
- Design and development of various HPOM product components (core platform, several agent processes, server components, RPC communication, ...)
- Design and development SPIs for Remedy v2, Peoplesoft, Tuxedo
- Technical Marketing of SPIs (technical documentation, training material and delivery, trade shows)
- 1999 - 2001 Independent consultant IT Management
- Several customer projects (primarily using HPOM)
- Custom development of HPOM extension modules
- Technical trainings for HP education (HPOM, HP-UX, C programming), Certified trainer
- 2001 - 2012 Co-founder/-owner and -manager of blue elephant systems
- Design and developent of various MIDAS (basis of HPOM AdminUI) components
- BES customer projects (primarily with MIDAS and/or HPOM), international customers of different segments (telecom, finance, industry, ...), large environments
- Technical documentation and trainings (primarily MIDAS or HPOM)
- Contract development HPOM modules and training material for HP
- Certification ITIL v3 foundation
- since 2012 again independent consultant IT Management
Services
Though not exclusively, this amount of practical experience resulting from customer projects in combination with detailed technical insider knowledge certainly
yields most benefits in projects related to IT Management (primarily with HPOM), for example:
- Consulting about the implementation of IT management solutions
- Development and delivery of classroom trainings
- R&D contract software development
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Particularly, detailed knowledge and experience about the HP OpenView products
- HP OperationsManager Unix 9.x and earlier
- HP OperationsManager Windows 9.x and earlier
- HP OM AdminUI and BES MIDAS
- HP Service Navigator
- OS and Infrastructure SPIs
- SMART Plug-In for Remedy AR System
- SMART Plug-In for Databases (Oracle)
- SMART Plug-In for PeopleSoft and Tuxedo
- Network Node Manager
- PerfView/Glance
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can be offered. The integrated applications Remedy
AR System, Oracle,
PeopleSoft and BEA
Tuxedo are covered to a certain extent as well.
Detailed development and administrative background is available for
- Unix (Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, ...)
- MS Windows
- TCP/IP Networking
- Object-oriented software design and development in C/C++ and Java (incl. different development tools and environments)
- Relational Databases and SQL (esp. Oracle)
- Web-Technologies (XML, XSD, XSL, JavaScript, ...)
- Client server application development
- Multithreaded design and development
- Rule Engines Clips / Jess
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A complete profile or references are available on request in English and German.