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Work Experience

(Manager and Principal Consultant)
Voorschoten, The Netherlands, Jan 2003 – present.
Pre-sales, installation and customer support for various clients including financial, industrial and IT clients. Managed all the projects executed by including a VoIP solution for a call-centre; a core-network, server and firewall installation and migration for an international company; a thin-client datacenter solution for an ASP and numerous smaller projects and installations. Experience with Cisco switches, routers, PIX firewalls, Cisco Callmanager, IP telephones, VG200 Voice Gateway, Microsoft 2000 server, Exchange 2000, Cisco wireless solutions, Communigate email system, Tarantella, Citrix.

placed at Pink Roccade (Consultant)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2002 – Jan 2003
Design, Develop and implement a corporate network, available for all the business units and locations of Pink Roccade.
Design a corporate network infrastructure on which all the separate networks will be connected onto. MPLS cloud delivered by BT. The Local LAN and WAN’s connected to the main network within Pink Roccade. Their thin-client solution will be available by the Corporate network.

Secondly, migrations of customers file and print environments to a new developed client server platform based on Windows2000 and Citrix. IBM Server farm based on MS Windows 2000 platform providing File and Print services through the developed Pink Portal services. Experience with Citrix, Windows 2000, IBM server hardware, MPLS, Cisco routers.

Network (Development Manager)
Voorschoten, The Netherlands, Jan 2002 – May 2002
Research and development of VPN, Wireless, VOIP, Security and Internet.products. These were to create a range of standard solutions for customers.
Experience with Cisco switches, routers, PIX firewalls, Cisco VPN concentrators, Cisco Callmanager, IP telephones, Cisco H.323 and MGCP Gateways, Cisco wireless solutions,


placed at major options trading company (Technical Project Manager)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2001 – December 2001
Acted as Project Manager for a project to design and setup a new infrastructure at the New York office. Their new state-of-the-art dealing-room network had to be ready in a very short time-frame due to an office move. The network also had to be connected to the NYSE trading floor, the Chicago office and trading floor and various other market connections Trading had to be possible either from Amsterdam or New York so a new ATM core network was commissioned.

After the New York project, two more projects were executed to for network management and system performance monitoring. All projects were executed using Prince II and using MS Project for documenting the project and demonstrating the plans and the progress to the directors.
Experience with Cisco switches (3500, 4908G-L3, 6509 with MSFC), routers (2500, 2600, 3600, 7200 and MSFC), PIX firewalls, Cisco VPN concentrators.

placed at major options trading company (Consultant and Project Manager)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2000 – May 2001
As technical project manager responsible for the implementation of a complete new infrastructure; including servers, LAN/WAN connectivity, security and new computer room, he had to ensure that the whole computer room was migrated in a staged approach over a sequence of service windows. There was no possibility of any outage during trading, so all system dependencies had to be carefully researched to ensure that after each migration all systems and applications would work perfectly. It was a very complex environment with tens of connections to market feeds, exchanges and trading systems. The company had attempted and failed to do the migration themselves and so had hired in to manage the project.
The migration was successfully completed within timescale and budget, and without a single outage during trading. Experience with Cisco switches (3500, 4908G-L3, 6509 with MSFC), routers (2500, 2600, 3600, 7200 and MSFC), PIX firewalls, Cisco VPN concentrators.


placed at Elsevier Science Amsterdam (Consultant)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2000 – December 2000
Elsevier had an NFS environment hosted on Novell Netware. This systems was core to all their data storage for all internal and external users including suppliers and customers. It was completely mission critical that this file store was available 24x7. The whole environment had to be migrated from Novell to an NT-based design. The NFS environment included Unix, Novell, NT and VAX/VMS systems. Due to the criticality of the system, the design had to be correct, but more importantly the migration plan had to be rigorously planned and executed. The solution was designed and implemented successfully. Experience with Novell Netware, Windows NT, NFS, Unix, VAX/VMS.

KPN The Hague (Technical project leader)
The Hague, The Netherlands, March 2000 – November 2000
As technical project leader responsible for migrating the complete server farm from Novell Netware 4.11 to 5.1 including all software and hardware. This was a 24x7 environment. He was responsible for both managing the project and implementing the new environment. The project was successfully completed within the timeframe set. Experience with Novell Netware.

Elsevier Science Amsterdam
(Assistant Computer Centre Manager/Teamleader)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 1999 – March 2000
Responsible for the IT-infrastructure of Elsevier Science Amsterdam servicing 1200 end-users. As Team Leader System Management he was also responsible for the File and Print Group - a group of 5 staff responsible for running the NT File and Print environment based on Windows NT and Netware. He later became team leader for the VAX/VMS Group and the Network Group finally was promoted to assistant Computer Center Manager. In this role he was responsible for managing the Computer Center with 25 employees. Experience with Windows NT and Windows 2000; ADSM, TSM, Robomon, Veritas Backupsoftware, Exchange 2000, SAN, NAS, HSM

Elsevier Science Amsterdam (Teamleader)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 1999 – August 1999
Team Leader Desktop department.
The desktop department had 9 employees. I was responsible for the planning of the projects, jobs and basic workload of the desktop members. The desktop department was fully responsible for the working of the desktop environment of 1000 users. Experience with Novell Netware 4, Windows 95, 98, NT, Exchange.

Elsevier Science Amsterdam (Consultant)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 1997 – January 1999
Network & Desktop Consultant: I advise directly to the management on future network and desktop products and solutions. I was the architect of the new standard desktop system for Elsevier’s worldwide offices on Microsoft Windows NT. I also managed various projects evaluating and/or implementing Microsoft Exchange, SMS and an NT-based development workstation. Experience with Novell Netware 4, Windows NT, Exchange, SMS.


Elsevier Science Amsterdam (Project leader)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 1997 – August 1997
Project leader: The project was the migration of 800 users from DEC Pathworks to Novell NetWare 4.1. My responsibility was the detailed project co-ordination, including the planning, prioritisation, advising and reporting to the management, and the control of the project team. There were many difficulties to be overcome - specifically migrating all the users’ applications to the new servers and planning the migrations of each department round their work commitments. The project was successfully completed within the time-scale I had set with minimal impact on the users. Experience with Novell Netware 4, Windows 95, 98, NT, DEC Pathworks.


Elsevier Science Amsterdam (Consultant)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 1996 – January 1997
Project team member: The above-mentioned NetWare project. This involved design of the Novell infrastructure, including the NDS for Elsevier worldwide. Specification and commissioning of 12 NetWare servers and migrating the users’ workstations. Experience with Novell Netware 4, NDS design, Compaq and DEC hardware.


PTT-Telecom Heerlen (Network Manager)
Heerlen, The Netherlands, April 1996 – October 1997
Network manager: Planning, design and configuration of new-networked computer systems, offering technical support for clients and project leaders. Analysis of current systems and designing new solutions, preparing the migration plan, and implementing the migration. Responsibility for functional management, including security procedures, 2nd line support and problem and change management. The system were based on Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware environment. Experience with Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows server and desktops.


Zurich Leven The Hague (Network Specialist)
The Hague, The Netherlands, December 1990 - March 1996
Network Specialist: Installation, management and support of servers and workstations. Install connectivity for PC LAN network and Mainframe using IBM 3172 Control unit. Migration project from IBM 4MBPS token-ring network to 16MBPS network based on MADGE network equipment. Experience with MS Windows, IBM Lan-server 3.0 and 4.0, NetWare 3.x and 4.x, OS/2, Windows, SNA gateway, IBM network hardware and various LAN components.

Education

Academy of ‘s-Gravenhage HTS (Hoge Technische School)
Information Engineering (HTS Informatics) 1995 Propaedeuse
Open University (OU)
Introduction to Informatics, 1992
Cap Volmac - Programmer & Network management, 1990
Cap Volmac - Application management, 1989-1990
Information Engineering (HTS Informatics) 1987- 1988

Skills

Team worker, customer service minded, ability to plan and work on own initiative or within a team, documentation in both English and Dutch, strong drive to finish tasks and complete projects, no 9-to-5 mentality.

Business: Project Management, Prince II, MS Project, Team leadership, Change Management (ITIL);
Network: Cisco routers (800, 1600, 2500, 2600, 3600, 4000, 4500, 7200, RSM); Cisco Catalyst switches (1900, 2900, 3500, 4908G-L3, 5500, 6500);
PIX Firewall 506, 515;
Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator;
Routing protocols: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF;
WAN protocols: Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, HDLC, PPP;
LAN protocols: IP, IPX, Tokenring, ethernet, 10BaseT, 100BaseTX, Gigabit;
Network Management: Cisco Works, HP Openview, Network analysers;
Backup software: Veritas, ADSM, TSM, DLT, ROBOMon;
Email systems: Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, Communigate;
Thin-client systems: Citrix, Tarantella, SunRay
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, NT, 98/95, Netware 4 and 5, Red Hat Linux, OS/2, Cisco IOS;
Servers: Dell servers, Compaq Servers, IBM Servers.
Workstations: Laptops, Notebooks, IBM, Compaq, Dell etc

Languages

Dutch, english

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