What can I bring in from previous work experience?
The truth is: it depends on who is asking. What do you need? What are you looking for in an administrator?
Interface skills
I studied Media Systems, which sits between media technology and IT. That gave me a broad foundation across fields and terminology. Even though I worked in graphics and management in the entertainment industry, I always had the IT basics with me. That helps me see both sides, communicate both, and do both.
IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
I have professional experience with Git, markup languages, scripting, and versioning. Even when I sat inside Art and Design departments, the work was usually part of software development for real products used by customers—and sometimes even architecture.
Documentation
Floor plans and graphics work (e.g., logical diagrams in draw.io) are part of my toolkit. I’ve done documentation and asset management. In games, “assets” are different from physical hardware, but the discipline is similar: we organized and managed thousands of assets using SVN, Git, and similar tools.
Setting up servers
I’ve set up servers for rendering at Gaming Minds Studios, AI image generation, and local web services—from my Proxmox homelab to a render cluster that supported almost the entire company’s pipeline.
Building PCs
During my studies I assembled used PC parts and sold them on eBay. Recently, through my last job and my homelab, I got back into hardware—hands-on, as every technician should.
Administering test centers
At Skill Networks I set up rooms with many PCs for test candidates, installed and connected the testing software, handled surveillance and security, and spoke with Microsoft support when things broke. I was also expected to set up email accounts and VPNs.
Ticket systems
Not just receiving tickets: I’ve created tickets, built workflows, and managed timelines for features and tasks. I also worked as a QA tester. Most of my work was iterative and agile. (ITIL—not much.) Tools I’ve touched: Jira, Hansoft, Mantis, Trac. A favorite from my uni and freelance days was Clocking IT (FOSS). I adapt quickly to new systems, although some modern, always-online tools can create extra work. In my last work experience we did not even have a ticket systems, so I had to come up with my own. I’m currently involved with a company that routes everything through AI (Fountain). The AI isn’t the problem—lack of access to a human for special cases is.
English skills
I work in English comfortably.
Lifelong learning
I keep adapting to new tech. I use memory techniques like memory palaces and the Major System.
Presentations and teaching
I’ve taught and I’ve done QA, so I can explain, present, and train. I use techniques like graphic facilitation and Feynman-style teaching.
Media fundamentals
Media Systems also covers displays, print, DPI/PPI, color, light, spectral characteristics, and how to represent them across screens and modern media for games, film, and VR. Sidenote: reflection, refraction, scattering are common terms to me from light and color and I can translate that knowledge into Wi-Fi knowledge.
Negotiation, entrepreneurship, time management
Running my own studio with clients—from small to not so small—forced me to manage time and myself. Acting as a producer on game projects gave me management experience beyond a typical junior.
Quality assurance
I was once asked about QA experience—maybe to test my standards. I did freelance QA for about half a year at InnoGames to get some financing while I got started as a freelance artist. It taught me systematic testing and clear reporting.
Registered drone pilot
In my last job we used a drone to figure out what caused signal loss between two antennas. So, this can be used for checks on everything that is hard to reach and from setting up antennas to surveillance systems or other physical infrastructure.
Update 16.2.2026 Nothing from what I have seen and done has anything to do with the future ahead. I feel like most people are not ready for AI. The era of the agent is upon us and I meet with IT managers who can't even say if my documents are made with AI. My mom doesn't even understand email.
By the end of the day, it’s up to you: what do you want, what do you need? Like every new employee I would have to get to know YOUR workflows and not just your infrastructure but also how you use it and how you want it to be used. I have seen many different companies from the inside and worked with many different clients on projects worth billions. It is surprising to me how some employees act very surprised about how other companies handle workflows.