At Ordina, I worked on several projects, one of which involved the migration of a RDS gateway server and fileserver from start to finish. Another project entailed the installation, configuration, testing and deployment of a Secure FTP server with certificates to production. Additionally, I was responsible for the setup of a VMware farm for a school, which included complete documentation and a successful handover to the IT department.

As a consultant, I have worked with several clients to set up a COSN (Cloud OS Network) environment. This environment consisted of highly available Hyper-V clusters, separate Active Directory domains, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, SQL 2014 Always-on and Windows Azure Pack. Upon the completion of the project and knowledge transfer, our clients were able to provide their customers with a Microsoft Azure-like on-premises environment. Additionally, for some clients, I prepared and delivered custom training for their internal infrastructure team on topics such as Hyper-V, Failover Cluster Management, and Windows Azure Pack.

As a system engineer, my day-to-day responsibilities included server monitoring, backups, deployments, updates, troubleshooting, incident solving, and service calls. I worked in a team of 4 systems engineers, together we managed over 500 servers. Each of us had an area of expertise, and my expertise was VMware. I was responsible for maintaining a highly available VMware infrastructure, which included testing software and firmware updates on a separate environment before deploying them to our production cluster.

I was responsible for the upgrade of the VMware farm from 4.1u3 to 5.5 for De Lijn, working in collaboration with an external architect to deliver the architectural design and installation manuals. During the migration, a separate cluster was setup for the virtual machines to move from IBM Blades/SVC to HP Blades and HP 3PAR storage.

I also managed the migration of De Lijn’s storage infrastructure from IBM SVC to HP 3PAR, and completed several trainings at HP (Diegem) to manage the HP 3PAR storage environment. The Windows server infrastructure at De Lijn consisted of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012 and 2012 R2. As the end-of-life for the 2003 and 2008/R2 servers approached, we migrated them to server 2012 R2 (Microsoft Lifecycle) and encouraged the development team to upgrade their internal applications to be compatible with the latest server technologies.

I worked on several projects such as CRM Dynamics, RETIBO, SharePoint 2013, and SAP/ERP for scaling of the servers and deployment. 

My main tasks/responsibilities at ICT4Me were:

– Resolving issues, incidents and service requests on a daily basis for their clients
Windows Desktop platforms (XP, Vista and 7), Windows Server platforms (2003, 2008, 2008R2 and SBS 2008), Exchange, Terminal Servers, Active Directory, GPO, File and Print servers, Antivirus (McAfee Epo en Vipre Enterprise)
– Verifying and restoring backups via Symantec Backup Exec 12.5

– Colleague replacement (for 3 weeks)

– Windows Server 2000, 2003 & 2008 management
– File & Print server management
– Symantec BackupExec 12.5 (Weekly & daily backups)
– Active Directory (account creation, rights assignment, GPO, …)
– IIS Management
– General support (MS Office 2007, printers, scanners, MFC, …)

At Ineos Phenol, I was hired on a temporary basis to migrate their infrastructure which consisted of the following components:

– Conducted a comprehensive Office migration for 170+ desktop and laptop systems, moving from Office 2000 to Office 2003.
– Implemented a software update strategy utilizing a WSUS server to ensure all systems were kept up-to-date with the latest security patches and software versions.
– Utilized GPO to deploy and manage updates for key software such as Adobe Flash, Reader, and Java.
– Made necessary changes to the Active Directory environment, including updating and modifying the AD structure and permissions for improved security and ease of use.

At userfull I am assigned to following Clients: Ancienne Belgique, Bon VZW, Corelio, Eye-Light Group, Federatie (CCI), Fiskodata, Grimaldi Associati, Kamer van Koophandel – Halle Vilvoorde & Leuven, RBVastgoed, Var.

– Windows XP & 7
– Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008r2
– Hyper-V
– Active Directory
– Exchange 2003 & 2007
– Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
– Symantec Backup Exec 10, 12.5 & 2010
– Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
– Trendmicro Scanmail for Exchange
– Trendmicro Interscan Web Security
– Postini (anti-spam)
– Cisco Firewalls (configuration and maintenance)
– Security Auditing

– Windows Server 2000 & 2003 management
– File & Print server management
– Net-backup Administrator console (Weekly & daily backups)
– Active Directory (account creation, rights assignment, …)
– Patching Ethernet & telephony
– General support (MS Office 2007, printers, scanners, MFC, …)
– Migration from Microsoft Windows 2000 to XP and Vista (desktops & laptops) 5000+ pc’s
– Software packages assignment via ITonDemand
– Hardware replacement (Dell & Lenovo)

– Windows Server 2000 en 2003 management
– Active Directory
– Microsoft Exchange 2003 en 2007
– Barracuda Anti-spam
– Symantec Endpoint Server / client management
– Manage Engine – Op-manager 7
– Checkpoint firewall
– Creation of Windows XP and Vista unattended cd’s/dvd’s
– Beta testing Windows 7
– Creation of Share Point 2007 site’s (Asset management tool)
– Patching van Ethernet en telephony
– General support (MS Office 2007, printers, scanners and MFC, …)
– Installation of Windows XP & Vista (laptops and desktops)
– Hardware replacement (Laptops and desktops) (Dell, HP, IBM and Toshiba)

– Windows 2000 en XP (support)
– Active Directory (Account unlocking, password resets and group changes)
– Microsoft Office 2000 – 2007 (support)
– Lotus Notes (installation, configuration and support)
– AS400 and Mainframe (Printer resets, rerouting and account resets)
– Remedy (incident / request system)
– I also gave support on several in-house applications

At Netmedia Europe I started as a junior project manager. I was responsible for the website promobutler.be

– Running queries in MySQL database for statistics.
– Adding content to the website (this content was delivered by their clients)
– Testing (in-house applications)
– General IT support

– Configuring and installing internet for home users.
– Mailbox setup (Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express)
– Installation of FTP applications, creating new FTP users