Deployment and Systems Management (Red Hat Satellite 6.6)
Identity Management (Red Hat Identity Management 4.5)
Hybrid Cloud Architecture and Design with Focus on Automation (Ansible) and Linux Authentication Authorization for Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) and On- Premise using AD as central identity store. POC, Documentation, hand over to Operations.
Multi Datacentre Satellite 6 Design and Implementation + handover to Operations
Various Infrastructure Designs for different internal projects
Linux & Security Consultant
ITGilde
Since 2015
2021: Building the CyberArk Training Environment for ITGilde teams members. Based on Proxmox/ZFS with Unifi Hardware
Infrastructure Architect
Liberty Global
December 2016
to 2018
Freelancer
OpenShift 3 Architecture Design
OpenSCAP security hardening using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Baseline
RHEL7 Technical Designs for the new LGI Private Cloud infrastructure in EdgeConneX Data Center
Design of various Infrastructure Services (squid proxy, DNS, NTP, ssh jump server) for a Multi-tenant Cloud Environment with Cisco ACI
Infrastructure/Solution Architect
Ahold
May 2012
to October 2016
Amstelveen
Netherlands
2016: Technical Solution Architect
RHEL7/Docker introduction, Cloud OS Provisioning Automation, Testing, Documentation, Handover to Capabilities in India/Bulgaria
Migration from Tivoli TSM to VEEAM
Project: Consolidation of over 200 MS-SQL Databases from MS Clusters to VMware
2015: Infrastructure lead Architect Project Global Private Cloud: Automation of RHEL (Linux) and Windows 2008R2/2012R2 Standard Virtual Services via HP-SA, HP-OO on VMware ESX 5.1 and leveraged Infrastructure for EU and US regions. Deliverables: Requirements, Architecture Specification, Service Technical Design, Virtualization Platform Architecture Design
2014: Infrastructure lead Architect Project Fast Provisioning: Providing the Customer with 5 predefined stacks that can be delivered 4 times faster than standard delivery and in a predictable way. End to end responsible for the 2 RHEL stacks, RedHat Linux 5.9, on Virtual Machine, ESX5.1, and on HP Blades. OS provisioning implemented using HP-SA, 3PAR storage, 10GB network. Successful project leading to time/costs savings and customer satisfaction.
2014: Architect Project: Hosting of Financial Application Create Design for a new Financial Application running on Windows 2008 R2 with MSSQL as RDBMS. Gathered Vendor requirements, and worked with SMEs to create a Design and Documentation leading to successful implementation.
2012/2013: Architect. Various projects:
Oracle EBS Migration from Solaris to Linux + Upgrade Infra to provide scalability. Worked as lead architect with Oracle, customer and HP internal teams to reach a go live in time.
RedHat Cluster for Fusion Middleware. Disaster Recovery tests
Windows Antivirus Server migration
Application migration (Windows/MSSQL based)
Infrastructure/Solution Architect
Royal Bank of Scotand
June 2006
to April 2012
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Responsible for detailed designs of Web applications Infrastructure. Worked on various projects:
Engineering of WebSphere Application Server: proof of Concept, Infrastructure design, scripting (jacl/jython), packaging software into rpm (RHEL 4) and training Operation team.
RSA Securid upgrade. Evaluation of RSA Authentication Manager 7.0, development of migration scripts (tcl), writing of installation manuals, migration of RSA clients
Applications migration from HP-UX and Solaris to Linux (including design of new infrastructure in Linux RHEL cluster environment)
WebSphere Application Servers consolidation
2012: Datacenter migration project (ADCE): Responsible for migration of WebSphere environment, LDAP, RSA, JBoss from Datacenter in NL to Datacenter in UK (New IPs, hostnames)
Unix/WebSphere Administrator
ABN-AMRO Bank (for Vioro Consultancy B.V.)
January 2001
to May 2006
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Responsible for the implementation of the infrastructure of http://www.gts.abnamro.com in cooperation with HP: Implemented Service Guard clusters under HP-UX in a SAN environment with EMC Storage XP256, middleware’s, especially WebSphere application servers, Oracle Databases, Java applications.
Installation, test, documentation and administration of Service Guard cluster and Integration of middleware, Databases, Java applications in cluster environment
SAN and storage administration with XP256 and EMC DMX storage arrays
Installation, Administration tuning of WebSphere Application servers as well as apache and iplanet web servers
Installation, Administration of Iplanet directory server (ldap) and MQSeries
Unix Administrator
ABN-AMRO Bank (for Vioro Consultancy B.V.)
August 1999
to December 2000
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Responsible for UNIX administration and ETX administration, including reorganising scheduling and implementing a new backup system:
Unix administration of 30 HP9000 systems with EMC disk arrays
Solaris administration
ETX middleware administration (TIBCO)
Complete reorganisation of scheduling under Maestro (Tivoli)
Implementation of backup system using EDM (EMC)
Unix and Middleware Administrator
ST Microelectronics
November 1994
to August 1999
Saint Genis Pouilly
France
Responsible for management of over 100 HP-UX systems, ITO Openview management, the Oracle and Ingres databases, Tuxedo middleware and applications in an English-spoken world wide data centre.
HP-UX, Oracle, Ingres administration: 25 HP9000 on local site + 3 EMC cabinets
Computers control implementation with HP Openview IT/Operations
Installation, configuration, administration and tuning of TUXEDO (80 domains on 80 UNIX systems)
Maintenance of a ServiceGuard cluster in an High Available environment
Applications Start-up (intermediate of development teams in India and of the support application teams in France) following the company standards - Trips to India
Asia/Pac region Support for 1 year, then US support.
