Dave Cottlehuber’s Résumé

Values

I am first and foremost a values-driven person and leader. I work best with, and for, people who share this philosophy:

Strengths

I am at my best when I can share things: contributing to & building communities, operating and managing large infrastructure environments, pairing with, or leading and mentoring staff, and finding ways to continually improve through technology and process.

You’ll find me as comfortable with debugging complex problems, from network flows and packet traces, to hard-to-find distributed systems issues, as discussing business strategy and organisational structure, with or without a whiteboard, or helping teams work more effectively together.

Expertise

I have an extensive technical background across both opensource & proprietary technologies, a solid business and customer experience, and the enthusiasm for delivering high quality solutions & services through technology.

Tech Skills

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Open Source Interests

For much of the last decade I have been closely involved with Open Source projects and communities, from the Apache CouchDB project, and the FreeBSD project, along with the Erlang and Elixir programming language communities.

I have contributed to a large number of open source projects, starting way back with Perl in 1999 and more recently to:

Career History

Founder of SkunkWerks GmbH, Austria

Due to family relocation to Europe, I created a new Austrian-based company, completing a variety of contracts that continued on from JSONified.

Building backends for 2 startups, using FreeBSD, Elixir, RabbitMQ, and Phoenix.

FreeBSD 10 to 12.1-RELEASE migration support for Klara Systems & other customers.

I have also supported iWantMyName, a domain name reseller, in stabilising their infrastructure, acting as Technical Lead, including:

Founder of JSONified Ltd, New Zealand

Providing Data Migration and Open Data implementation & consulting

Manager of Engineering Optimisation & ICT Operations Leadership Team

Drive cost & efficiency improvements, via operational budget > 2m$, across ICT Operations

Transition Manager & ICT Operations Leadership Team

Manage transitions of new customers & capabilities into production, across people, processes, tools/technology, and organisations

Technology Operations Manager

Accountable for technical delivery of ITIL-based managed services to 2 clients in Financial & Construction sector

EMEA Storage Services Lead

Ensure reliable & cost-effective delivery of backup/restore + storage services according to ITIL framework

Technical Project Manager

Develop & Drive 30% monitoring event reduction through standardisation, across Trade & internal clients

Technical Writer for Telecommunication Protocols

Structure and develop technical documentation for Telecoms products

IT Consultant

Provide pre-sales support, and project-based consultancy

IT Consultant

Facilitate, coordinate & implement University IT policy & strategy

Training & Education

Formal Education:

Formal Certification

Technical Certification

Spoken Languages & Citizenship

Personal Interests