Pedro Weinzettel
About Me
Sr. IT Manager with +10 years’ experience in the B2B Gaming Industry.
Extremely driven, to acquire new and unique knowledge and skillsets, while always remaining a motivated team player, who translates business goals into action plans that improve performance, profitability, growth, and customer satisfaction.
Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities in a highly competitive, performance-driven environment. I've always proven to be a self-starter and shape results on given tasks and projects. I have also participated several times of gaming industries most important B2B shows – G2E Las Vegas, Peru GamingShow, Sagse & ICE London - and have done demos, startups and trainings around the world – United States, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Colombia, Aruba, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Liberia
Skills:
Big picture thinking
Leadership and Teamwork
Gaming Market Know-How
Interests:
Documentation
Pro-Automatition
Pro-OpenSource (not exclusive)
I.T. Goals
Areas of Knowledge:
Oracle DBA
Linux SysAdmin
I.T. Automation
Networkinkg: [ routing, firewalling, VPN, etc ]
Infrastructure
Languages:
Spanish (Native)
English
Professional Experience
Octavian de Argentina S.A. - Novomatic Group Of Companies
[ 07/2010 - Present ] - [ SysAdmin · DBA · Tech Support Leader ]
As a part of my work, I travel to our customers to make demos, startups and training their employees in all of their aspects. I always try to explain everything in a very didactic way and giving practical examples involving employees. In this travels, I always learning more from our customers about this area in which I currently develop my work.
In the same way, I train all the internal support staff to be able to give them personal and professional growth within the technologies used by the company.
I make another international travels to train me about new products for the company.
I dont always keep my head in the systems, I know that the system is for our customers and I try to undestand the need of them, evaluate the requirements and fit our I.T. Solutions in the best way for them.
As part of my daily routine work, I work with Linux servers and I'm the responsible for:
Company services:
Primary and secondary DNS server (bind9)
Mail server (postfix + dovecot + rainloop web mail)
File server (samba + FTP + NFS)
FreeNAS as NFS Storage for ESXi hosts (for develop/testing)
Zabbix server and checks
Puppet server and manifests
YouTrack
xWiki as documentation platform
Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB
OpenVPN, Racoon, IPSec, PPTP, strongSWAN
Linux firewall - iptables, route, vlans, fail2ban
Docker / Docker Compose
FreePBX
Internally, most commonly Linux distribution is Debian, some SLES, and one Red Hat and another Centos.
As a part our customer’s infra:
Manage and responsible for:
~100 SLES 11 / 15 - Of which:
~80 have Oracle 11g
~80 have Web Servers / Web Services
All of them runs propietary software
Virtualization
KVM
Docker / Docker Compose
VMware (ESXi, Fault Tolerance, High availability, vSAN)
Windows
AD Management
Internal DNS Server
Extra knowledge about
PHP - NodeJS
IBM / Lenovo / DELL - Servers and Storages:
Hardware Raids (depending on throughput/redundancy needed)
OS / ESXi installation
Management web consoles
Health / Performance checks
Data mirrororing
VPN configuration on Linux / Cisco / Fortinet / MIKROTIK Routers
Side projects:
Hobbies:
Program microcontrollers to automate some common tasks
Make some wood works at home
Help others regarding my areas of knowledge (and more)
Amateur radio operator ( LU9ABM )