Michael Horn
About Michael Horn
Michael Horn is an Expert System Engineer at TomTom with extensive experience in data protection and storage management systems.
Title
Michael Horn holds the position of Expert System Engineer at TomTom. He has been involved in this role since 2009, contributing his expertise in various system engineering capacities.
Current Company
Michael Horn is currently employed at TomTom, where he operates as an Expert System Engineer. His work at the company, located in Harsum, Germany, commenced in 2009. At TomTom, Michael leverages his extensive experience in system engineering to enhance the company's technological infrastructure.
Previous Roles at Tele Atlas
Before joining TomTom, Michael Horn served in multiple roles at Tele Atlas. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as the Domain Manager for Germany and Poland, stationed in Harsum, Germany. Prior to that, from 1997 to 2004, he held the roles of IT Team Lead and Senior Systems Engineer in Hildesheim and Harsum, Germany. These positions enabled Michael to develop his skills in IT management and domain oversight.
Education and Expertise
Michael Horn's academic journey began at the Spezialschule für Mathematik und Physik an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he studied Mathematics and Physics and earned his Abitur over two years, from 1975 to 1977. He then attended the Technische Universität 'Otto von Guericke' Magdeburg, where he specialized in Applied Mechanics, achieving a Dipl.-Ing. degree after five years of study, from 1979 to 1984.
Skills and Specializations
Michael Horn has refined his specialization in data protection, focusing on archiving, backup, restore, and disaster recovery of data. He has a broad knowledge of storage management systems including NetApp 7-mode and C-mode, DELL Compellent and Fluid FS, and IBM V3700, V7000, V7000Unified, and SVC. Additionally, he utilizes monitoring tools such as Nagios UMI to oversee storage and backup landscapes, and he is proficient with backup tools like Veritas NetBackup, CommVault Simpana, and IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM).