Curriculum Vitae

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Experience

2025cert Cisco Black Belts (12x):
Intersight Deployment (S1 + S2), SD WAN Deployment (S1), AI Fabric Design (S1), AI Data Fundamentals (S1), Nexus Switching Deployment (S1), Switching Deployment (S1), UCS Deployment (S1), MDS Deployment (S1), Intro to Splunk, Data Center – Veeam Pre Sales (S1), Cisco Wearables & Peripherals (S1)
2025cert SDWFND 2.0 (Cisco SD-WAN Operation & Deployment)
2024–… system.de, Berlin 🇩🇪
Senior Consultant + Team Lead
2023cert IPv6 Fundamentals Analyst (RIPE Network Coordination Centre)
2022–’24 system.de, Berlin 🇩🇪
Senior Consultant
2022 HelloFresh SE, Berlin 🇩🇪
Sr. IT Infrastructure Architect
2022cert AWS Cloud Practitioner (Amazon Web Services Certified)
2021 Teamleiter-Ausbildung (Johannes Buhr / katahdin.de)
2021cert Teams Administrator Associate (Microsoft 365 Certified)
2019cert RIPE Database Associate (RIPE Network Coordination Centre)
2019–’22 ITK Communications, Berlin 🇩🇪
Head of Infrastructure & Development
2017 “Aspirant” (IP-Only internal Leadership Development Program)
2016cert JNCIA (Juniper Networks Certified Associate – Junos)
2016–’19 IP-Only, Uppsala 🇸🇪
Team Leader, Service Activation
2014cert CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
2014 CCENT (Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician)
2014–’16 Borderlight AB, Uppsala 🇸🇪
Systems Developer
2012–’13 ResTech Pty Ltd, Newcastle 🇦🇺
R&D Engineer
2011–’12 Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth 🇮🇪
Post-doc
2011cert Doctor of Philosophy
2007–’10 Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth 🇮🇪
Ph.D. Student
2006–’07 Fachgebiet Regelungssysteme, TU-Berlin 🇩🇪
Ph.D. Student
2006cert Diplom-Ingenieur with “Summa cum laude”
2006 Centre f. Complex Dynamic Systems & Control, Newcastle 🇦🇺
Semester abroad for Diploma Thesis
2005–’06 DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology, Böblingen 🇩🇪
Industrial Internship
2005 Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth 🇮🇪
Semester abroad for Undergrad Thesis
2003–’06 German National Academic Foundation
Scholarship recipient
2002–’04 Max-Planck-Institut Magdeburg 🇩🇪
Research Assistant
2001–’06 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg 🇩🇪
Studying Systems Theory & Technical Cybernetics
2001cert Abitur and Baccalauréat (Collège Français de Berlin) 🇩🇪
1998–’99 AFS Student Exchange Year to Christchurch 🇳🇿
1992–’98 Collège Français de Berlin 🇩🇪

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here.

Languages

Native/bilingual proficiency in German, English, Swedish & French, as well as elementary proficiency in Spanish, Latin & (Ancient) Greek.


Random facts

Film roles

  • “Friedrichstadt-Palast”, director: Klaus Überall (1988)
  • “Karl May”, main role, director: Klaus Überall (1990)
  • “Von Herz zu Herz”, director: Ullrich Thein (1992)
  • “Das Gespenst von Flatterfels”, director: Rodica Döhnert (1995)

Voice acting

More details here. Various German TV and radio commercials for e.g. the “Europapark”, Coca-Cola, RTL II, Sat1, …

Dubbing

I’ve been working in the German dubbing industry since I was 5 years old (until I left Germany in my twenties). My voice has featured in a large number of movies, series and cartoons.

Leading roles e.g. in:
“Peter Pan 2 — Return to Neverland” – Peter Pan, “Digimon” – Tai, “Ranma ½” – Ranma, “Nói Albinói” – Nói, “Gen-Y Cops” – Alien, “Fear Of The Dark” – Dale, “Storytelling” – Scooby, “Leif Ericson” – Leif Ericson, “Little Giants” – Junior, “Le Grand Chef” – Eric
Supporting roles e.g. in:
“Stargate SG-1” – Jack O’Neill (as teenager), “Angel” – Connor, “Avatar the Last Airbender” – Jet, “Ping!” – Drac, “Seventh Heaven” – Mike Pierce, “Sexy Beast” – Enrique, “The Tribe” – Hawk, “Ship To Shore” – Ralph

Hobbies

If ever there is time left after family: keeping myself fit, pool billard, web development, volunteer work, photography, swimming, volleyball, singing, wing chun, drums, piano

Florian Knorn
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