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How did I end up here?
1. Baby Steps

▶️ Back in the day, when job titles still had a maximum of two words, I was a hotline support agent1 for a specific Windows program2. I provided (remote) support for customers across the DACH region and France.3.

2. Gear Shift

⏭️ (Fast forward) — at some point, I got the chance4 to play a key role in setting up the IT infrastructure for a production hall that processed convenience food. I was the only on-site hero, dealing with everything that had a cable — from “my printer doesn’t work5” to “why is there smoke coming from the rack6?"

3. Waking up from the Matrix

⏭️⏭️⏭️ I’m no longer a Windows admin. I’m now a convinced Apple admin, managing devices for several user groups:

  • Marketing, photographers, developers — basically creative people7)
  • C-level (managers who have Macs simply for prestige reasons)8
  • Office users (reception9, email writers, web surfers, Excel jugglers, PowerPoint perfectionists, IT nerds — there is someone from every area10)
  • Occasionally still Windows users, because I simply cannot say “no” 😁

Why?

2 things:

  • I come from the Windows or Android world and know what I am talking about when I say: “There’s definitely an easier, faster, cheaper – and above all, better – way to do things.”
  • All the jobs I had before, as different as they were, usually had one thing in common...

Sitting at the hotline, helpdesk, support — you name it — is often a demanding job that often goes unnoticed, because you usually only receive calls when someone has a problem. “Problem” in this context is usually equivalent to frustration, annoyance, anger, and so on.11 & co.

⏭️ Instead of constantly trying and fixing problems, I aimed to stop them before they even appeared. Through a clean, fast, automated, scalable setup, a lot of work and future problems are eliminated during the onboarding of (work) devices:

  • No helpless employee on the first day who still has to get their access to everything.
  • No onboarding buddy who has to spend the whole day setting up the computer while explaining the processes, because “that still doesn’t work,” “I’ll look into that later,” “I’ll write that down so we can set it up later,” “VPN access will take a while,” etc.
  • No more different setups where one has to think: “What special configurations does this computer have?” “What do I have to pay attention to here?”
    Bonus 💡: If something does stop working, the problem can be categorized immediately since it no longer works for everyone, for example:
    • 1. It’s not the computer.
    • 2. It’s not the user.
    • 3. It’s the service/software, etc.

Support efforts drop dramatically compared to other platforms — it feels like a 1:100 ratio. That frees up time to work on improvements rather than spending every day troubleshooting.

If you’ve made it this far, I assume I’ve somehow caught your interest. I’d be happy to continue the conversation in person:


Footnotes / Fun-Facts:

  1. Today probably “Sir Senior Windows Application Remote-Support Engineer, Second Grade.” ↩︎
  2. Known today only as an “app” ↩︎
  3. Yes, I really wanted to somehow mention that I speak (or spoke) a bit of French. ↩︎
  4. Thanks to Franco for the opportunity ↩︎
  5. I’m just saying: Rage Against The Machine. ↩︎
  6. If you don’t plug in the stack cables all the way and they “wiggle” a bit — that can happen… so I’ve heard. ↩︎
  7. People who come up with new and cool things every day. ↩︎
  8. Addressed informally — they’re just people too… and very grateful if you solve their (IT) problems. ↩︎
  9. Believe me, you always want to stay on good terms with them; they have connections all the way to the top. ↩︎
  10. Because it simply works and, above all, works better than other solutions. ↩︎
  11. I repeat myself: Rage Against The Machine ↩︎
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