Summary
Steven Dias (full name: Steven Lelo Dias) is an IT specialist for system integration (German vocational qualification, 2022) from Essen, Germany. Since September 2025 he has been working as an IT administrator at Radio NRW GmbH in Oberhausen, a statewide radio broadcaster. Before that he was responsible for the plant IT of Verallia Deutschland AG in Essen, and he trained at the IT systems house iSAM Office Networking in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
He is not the Indian football coach Steven Benedic Dias and not the US software engineer of the same name (stevendias.com).
Experience
since 09/2025
IT Administrator
Radio NRW GmbH, Oberhausen
- Administration of Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID
- Migrated file servers to SharePoint Online, introduced Intune/MDM, hardened the terminal servers
- Monitoring with Zabbix and Grafana, automation with Power Automate, Docker and Linux/Ubuntu
- Migration of MusicMasterCS and AudioLogger
- New Oberhausen site: contributing to the build of a new VMware environment together with the service provider NetGo
05/2023 – 07/2025
IT Systems Integrator Office
Verallia Deutschland AG, Essen plant
Glass plant with more than 300 employees; solely responsible for on-site IT for about a year. Employer reference graded "very good". Position ended due to job cuts.
- IT/OT projects, WLAN and network segmentation, IT security of the industrial networks
- Connected serial measurement data from glass inspection via Moxa converters to the production system, coordinated in English with the development team in France
- New fibre connection for the plant, coordinated with service providers, the City of Essen and civil engineering
09/2019 – 05/2023
Apprenticeship and IT System Engineer
iSAM Office Networking, Mülheim an der Ruhr
IT systems house with more than 100 clients, mostly tax advisers and dental practices. Apprenticeship 09/2019 – 12/2022 (vocational school: Heinz-Nixdorf-Berufskolleg Essen), then IT System Engineer until 05/2023.
Focus areas
Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Intune, SCCM, Power Automate, VMware, Proxmox, Docker, Linux (Ubuntu), Zabbix, Grafana, ServiceNow, Sophos (SG/UTM, Endpoint/Central), network segmentation, WLAN, IT/OT integration, Moxa, DATEV, TeamViewer, Authentik (single sign-on).
Languages: German, Portuguese, English (English in day-to-day project work with developers in France).