Sun STARS around the globe: Joerg Moellenkamp

Thursday Feb 21, 2008

Joerg, how long have you been employed with Sun and where are you located?

I'm at Sun since July 2001. I'm located in the Hamburg office.

What is your current job role?

Blooded Sunnie .... okay, more formally: I´m a Senior Systems Engineer at Global Systems Engineering. I see my primary role as an evangelist for Sun´s technology at customers and partners.

What do you like about working for Sun?

You see the world (okay, mostly it´s Germany, but I wasn´t in Las Vegas before Sun's Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) 2007 and I won´t visit it for vacation now. I didn´t like the city, the event was cool), the colleagues are nice, it´s paid well and they let you play with cool systems. And well, once you work at Sun you never have to buy a t-shirt or a polo again ... okay ... almost never.

Please briefly describe any projects you are involved in that support Sun's vision to see everyone and everything participating on the network.

A few years ago I invented and developed an secure online payment system for a mobile telephone provider. It was based on challenge-response and deliberate media breaks between web and mobile phones.

In the mean time I worked on many web projects as a networking specialist, as this was my specialty before and at Sun.

I´m an avid user of Web 2.0 services. My bookmarks are at del.icio.us, my favorite music is visible at last.fm, the list of my flights in the past are at flugstatisitik.de. I just don´t like services based on my actual location out of security reasons. People know where you are at a given time, but they know as well, where you aren´t.

My main project to support that vision: www.c0t0d0s0.org. A blog about Sun, my life at Sun and all the rest. It´s an important part of my life since three and a half years and it´s getting quite successful now. 5000 Visits a day. 500 to 600 subscribers (but: web analytics is to computer science, what astrology is to astronomy).

Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy efficient data centers? If so, please give us an example.

In LBS (Life before Sun) i worked as Senior Director for Networks and Infrastructure at Canbox Systems AG (Senior ... what a joke, I was 27 at that time). I was the manager and the lead architect for the world wide datacenter project. Two datacenters (in Singapore and Boston) were used one, but the one in Germany (in the nice but small city Oldenburg) was a complete new one. My team worked on more efficient cooling at that time and the usage of the heat in the datacenter to heat our offices. But then came the German version of Chapter Eleven as one of the smaller explosions of the burst of the dot com bubble.

Since i´m working at Sun I help my customers by working together with them to make their datacenter more efficient ... and by selling them CMT servers, of course

Do you have a favorite blog or website?

Oh, my feedreader collects 300 feeds. Hey ... I´m a news junkie. My "A-Blogs" list contains 10 blogs on average. But "favorite blog" is singular. That´s a difficult decision. The blog with the longest history of being in this list is Schneier on Security. This blog is written by the security luminary Bruce Schneier. Yes, the Schneier who knows Alice´s and Bob´s shared secret

What about a favorite "junk" food?

My favorite "junk" food isn´t really junk food in it´s normal definition. It´s a pastry called Franzbrötchen. It´s made out of flaky pastry dough with cinnamon and butter. This pastry is something local to Hamburg. Just a few kilometers outside of Hamburg it´s getting increasingly harder to buy some.

Do you participate in any social networking websites?

Yes ... I´m participating in LinkedIn and Xing. Xing is somewhat similar to LinkedIn but more popular in Germany.

Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.

I´m part of the Solaris Adoption team here in Germany. And I try to form a community of people around my blog. Hey, and I´m member of the SunDragons, a dragonboating team founded by some Sun employees.

If you could meet anyone tomorrow, who would it be? Why?

I would like to meet Hector Berlioz, as i want to know if he was really that weird as the massive orchestration of the "Grande Messe" suggests.

Tell us a little known fact about yourself.

The facts I want to share, are already in my blog, and the ones, I don´t want to share ... well, I won´t write them here, either Okay, one fact I didn´t publish in my blog so far: I´m a fan of the German soccer club Werder Bremen, but I´m not a really passionate fan. It´s more like local patriotism, as I lived near of Bremen for a longer period.

Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about?

I´m an avid semi-pro photographer. You can look at some of my photos on Flickr. In spring and summer I try to get as often as possible on my mountain-bike and try to avoid hitting jaywalkers. I´m a fan of classic music, jazz and electronic music.

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Visit Joerg's blog at c0t0d0s0.org: The Sun in a Lighthungry Universe

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Posted at 10:18PM Feb 21, 2008 by Candace Lomonaco in SunStars
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