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Oh bother. I'm really sorry guys, I forgot to introduce myself first. I foolishly created a topic for my recent adventure, and completely forgot to do an introduction there. Hope I don't come over as a dolt. Anyways. Let my 7th post be my first one.
Hi there fellow carbon-based lifeforms. I'm a 32yo Systems Architect working in Budapest, Hungary. I work for a large Telecommunications company; I'm a holder (and user, if I might add) of an IBM Websphere, a VMWare vSphere 5, and also a Red Hat Admin certificate. At this job I manage, analyse, and troubleshoot our customers' various environments, and also do system design when I'm asked. I'm able to give multiple solutions to a problem, detailing the pros and cons of each solution.
In my spare time you'd most likely to find me next to cars, as I'm doing fault diagnosis and repair. Most recent was a hard-starting Renault Twingo, which turned out to be a disconnected camshaft position sensor. Hey, they can't always be "random communications fault on the CAN gateway", or my best yet, "the car won't idle unless the passenger door is open" < now that _was_ fun.
I'm hard pressed to qualify electronics as my other hobby, as cars nowadays are so tightly intervowen with various sensors, actuators and solenoids, that the good old days of 'gapping a plug' seem far away now - when a car rolls in with a problem, the first tool I take out is the OBD2 reader; plus, the last project I created was a power window regulator for my brother. Yeah, you won't find an old Opel Kadett with fully automatic windows elsewhere in Hungary. Now that I think of it, a 27yo car, which has a strong tendency to expose its raw metal to sunlight... may slowly be one of a few around these parts.
I have the ability to do a product from the ground up, like designing a circuit, building it on a bench, do troubleshooting/minimalisation, then design a PCB, make that PCB, populate it, and boom: ready to go. When I have to I mainly use Atmel uCs for my project, for the simple reason that those were the first I laid my hands on, I have no preference, I had to do some Microchip PICs in the past, so I'm good with them too. I can program in C, can debug lots of other languages
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I also speak German (have to, all my colleagues are working in Munich).
ps. I'm much more worse IRL, I can talk until you fall asleep. Thanks for reading through.
ps2. Oh. My daily driver is a black Volvo 960, the last of the big RWD boxes. Gets fewer MPGs than a 737 but I love it.