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+title: 'About Me'
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+{{< figure src="me.jpg" width="1200" height="800" >}}
+
+{{< icon "address-card" >}} Hi, my name is Marco Blessing and I live in the south of Germany near a city called
+[Karlsruhe](https://goo.gl/maps/kDpo6bb9V2r).
+
+### {{< icon "terminal" >}} Projects
+
+Take a look at this [Projects]() page to get an overview of my current work.
+
+### {{< icon "heart" >}} Favorite Topics
+
+I'm very interested in **PowerShell**, **NodeJS**, **Go** and **Software Engineering** in general.
+
+Additionally I love building **CI/CD Stacks** with different open-source products to spread the word
+of **DevOps** and **Containerization**.
+
+### {{< icon "cubes" >}} Skills
+
+_Here comes a list of subjects I've worked with, grouped by topics..._
+
+#### {{< icon "cube" >}} Container and {{< icon "docker" >}}Docker related
+
+Traefik &bull; Portainer &bull; Docker Swarm Mode &bull; Sonatype Nexus Repository &bull; Aquasecurity Trivy &bull;
+Prometheus &bull; Node-Exporter &bull; cAdvisor &bull; Alertmanager &bull; Karma
+
+#### {{< icon "code" >}} Scripting and Programming Languages
+
+PowerShell &bull; JavaScript &bull; Go &bull; Python &bull; PHP &bull; Object Pascal &bull; C++ &bull; Visual Basic
+
+#### {{< icon "terminal" >}} Operating Systems
+
+Microsoft Windows 98SE++ &bull; Microsoft Windows Server 2000++ &bull;
+CentOS _(and other Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives)_ &bull; SLES &bull; ubuntu
+
+#### {{< icon "cloud" >}} Cloud Orchestration and Automation
+
+Microsoft Azure &bull; eCloud Manager &bull; FLOWSTER Studio &bull; Citrix Cloud Platform &bull; Citrix Cloud Platform Business Manager
+
+#### {{< icon "cogs" >}} Server Roles, Features and Products
+
+Active Directory &bull; File Server &bull; Web Server _(IIS and Apache)_ &bull;
+DBs _(MSSQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle 10g)_ &bull; Backup & Restore _(IBM Tivoli Storage Manager)_ &bull;
+Server Hypervisor _(VMWare ESX, HyperV)_ &bull; Terminal Server _(Microsoft, Citrix XenApp/ XenDesktop)_ &bull;
+Software Virtualization _(VMware ThinApp)_ &bull; Software Packaging and Deployment _(Enteo Netinstall, Matrix42)_
+&bull; Monitoring _(Zabbix)_ &bull; Build Engines _(Jenkins, AppVeyor)_
+
+#### {{< icon "cog" >}} General Software
+
+HAproxy &bull; Keepalive &bull; git SCM &bull; Phabricator &bull; VSCode &bull; Notepad++
+
+### {{< icon "briefcase" >}} Experience
+
+#### {{< icon "calendar-alt" >}}&nbsp;2018 - 202{{< icon "question" >}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{< icon "building" >}} [Komm.ONE](https://komm.one) as **SysOp** / **DevOps Engineer**
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2019**&nbsp;&nbsp; Internal Self Service Portal
+
+I spent the second half of the year creating a single-page application based on [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) for
+visualizing product changelog and configuration details. Therefore I had to relearn javaScript and started working
+with the [materialize-css](https://materializecss.com/) framework and other well known node modules.
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2019**&nbsp;&nbsp; Release Management Tool MkII
+
+First part of the year I was focused on expanding the Release Management tools and workflows for our cloud hosted
+applications:
+
+- Added automated aggregation of release details for each hosted application.
+- Added changelog workflow for documenting releases.
+- Defined rollout life cycle states for each new release.
+- ITIL compliant syncing of the release data into centralized CMDB.
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2018**&nbsp;&nbsp; KIVBF merged with its partners to form Komm.ONE in order
+to be able to offer uniform services. After adjusting the internal organizational structure, I'm now part of the
+business unit 4.2 _(Integration-, Security- & Application Managent)_. My previous team was reassigned to this new
+unit as well, and was renamed into CAFS _(Cloud- & Application-Frontend-Services)_. So my range of tasks changed
+slightly.
+
+#### {{< icon "calendar-alt" >}}&nbsp;2012 - 2018&nbsp;&nbsp; {{< icon "building" >}} [KIVBF](https://www.kivbf.de) as **SysOp** / **DevOps Engineer**
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2015**&nbsp;&nbsp; In 2015 I started automating several platform and workload
+related use cases. Unfortunately it's closed source, so I can't talk about details. But to give a glimpse at the
+underlining technologies I can notice they were based on **Microsoft**, **VMware** and **Citrix** products.
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2014**&nbsp;&nbsp; As the automation team got bigger and bigger, we needed to
+define standards. That's why I began using [Phabricator](https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/) as a developer
+framework in combination with [Jenkins](https://jenkins.io/) to build our modules. This enabled us doing code
+review, lint tests,unit test and building our own CI Environment.
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2013**&nbsp;&nbsp; I joined into a new team which was building our new cloud
+infrastructure. We purposed to offer our customers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and EaaS services. My focus shifted
+to automation and cloud orchestration. Back then I started using Powershell.
+
+{{< icon "calendar-plus" >}}&nbsp;**2012**&nbsp;&nbsp; I needed to get away from those wacky enterprise applications
+which were used in the public sector. So I took the chance to work in much bigger datacenter at
+[KIVBF](https://www.kivbf.de). There I ran the backup and restore solution called IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
+
+It was a great place to get to know such large environment and I finally started automating again. At this time I
+implemented the monitoring system [Zabbix](http://www.zabbix.com/). Unfortunately I couldn't find any extension to
+monitor out IBM tape library or TSM data itself. So I developed own interfaces therefore.
+
+#### {{< icon "calendar-alt" >}}&nbsp;2008 - 2012&nbsp;&nbsp; {{< icon "building" >}} [Pforzheim municipal administration](https://www.pforzheim.de/) as **SysOp**
+
+At the municipal administration of Pforzheim I was responsible for the**Software Packaging and Deployment**,
+**MS-SQL Servers** and **Web Hosting**.
+
+### {{< icon "graduation-cap" >}}&nbsp;Education
+
+I successfully finished two undergraduate trainings as **IT Specialist For Application Development** and
+**Management Assistant in IT-Systems**.