Career
Technical Skills
Personal Skills
Education
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
1991
(comparable to HBO)
University of Colorado at Boulder – Boulder, Colorado USA
Work Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
dec. 2023 – dec. 2024
Royal Schiphol Group (freelance) Schiphol, Netherlands
Function:
Work in a business team building CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code deployment of application workloads in an OpenShift container platform and Azure landing zone
Results:
- Assisted business teams to deploy application workloads optimally using central platform resources and enterprise building blocks to support airport operations
- Building of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Terraform code
- Monitoring and optimizing of application workloads for performance and reliability with Splunk
- Set up two Site Reliabiltiy Enigneering (SRE) teams to support business applicaitons
Technical Skills:
- OpenShift Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Observability
- Terraform, Powershell, Bash, Ansible
- Git, Azure DevOps, diverse tooling, Agile, DevOps, SRE practices, Confluence, Jira, Slack
- Azure: PostgreSQL, Storage, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Policy, DNS Private Resolvers and Zones
Senior DevOps Engineer
apr. 2023 – oct. 2023
Cloudiction - Global IT Works (freelance) Baarn, Netherlands
Function:
Work in a project team on the design and building of Infrastructure as Code deployment and CI/CD pipelines for an Azure Virtual Desktop environment for a digital examination environment for the client The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Results:
- Building of Infrastructure as Code en CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Bicep code
- Application of Microsoft CAF Landing zones design and code to the requirements of the use case
- Building of a framework to make deployments easier and repeatable
Technical Skills:
- Core Azure services, Bicep, Powershell
- Git, various tooling, Agile, Azure DevOps
- Azure: Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Files, Storage, Key Vault, Azure AD, Log Analytics Workspace, Azure Policy, DNS Private Resolvers and Zones, Azure Image Builder
Senior DevOps Engineer
jan. 2023 – apr. 2023
Conclusion Enablement (freelance) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Function:
Work in a project team to design and build AWS and Azure landing zones based on a multi-cloud, multi-client design
Results:
- Building of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD deployment of Azure landing zone resources with Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions
- Building of reusable modules for shared components and blueprints
- Implementation of landing zone deployment strategy for platform and workload resources
Technical Skills:
- Core AWS and Azure services, Terraform Cloud
- Git, GitHub Actions, various tooling, Agile, Azure DevOps
- Azure: Storage, Key Vault, Azure AD, Log Analytics Workspace, Policy, Management Groups, Azure vWAN, Express Route, DNS Private Resolvers and Zones
Senior Mission Critical Engineer
jul. 2017 – dec. 2022
Conclusion Application Innovation Amsterdam, Netherlands
Function:
Work as Mission Critical Engineer with multiple clients in Enablement and Cloud Platform teams to help DevOps teams build and deploy quality software with clients including Royal Flora Holland, Eneco and Jumbo
Results:
- Design and building an Enterprise Scale Azure landing zone following Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
- DevOps Engineer for development and administration of AWS and Azure infrastructure
- Design and building of blueprints, CI/CD pipelines and solutions for multiple workloads in AWS and Azure environments
- Execution of changes and resolution of incidents and problems following ITIL processes
- Support of DevOps teams with the use of Infrastructure as Code and DevOps tools
Technical Skills:
- Core AWS en Azure services, TopDesk, Office 365, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Logs.io,
- Splunk, DataDog, TopDesk, Office 365, GitHub, Kubernetes (beheer), various tooling
- PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Cloudformation, CDK, ARM
- ITIL, Agile, DevOps, Scrum, Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence
- AWS: S3, EC2, ASG, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Kinesis, Route 53, RAM
- Azure: Storage, Key Vault, Azure AD, Event Hub, App Function, Policy, Management Groups, Azure vWAN, Express Route, DNS Private Resolvers and Zones
Senior Systeemspecialist SBC/Citrix
apr . 2014 – apr. 2017
Politie Nederland (freelance) Driebergen, Netherlands
Function:
Operational systems admin of multiple Citrix environments
Results:
- Execution of changes and resolution of incidents and problems following ITIL processen
- Provide advice and support on projects and other operational teams
Technical Skills:
- Citrix XenApp 6.5, Citrix Storefront 3.5, Citrix Netscaler, RES Workspace Manager 2012 / 2015, Microsoft App-V 4.6, Microsoft Office 2003 / 2013, Vmware 5.5 op HP Blade servers, various applications, BMC ExpertDesk
- PowerShell, VisualBasic, DOS Batch
- Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2008 R2, Windows 7 SP1
- Complex IT environment in a national data center
IT Support Engineer
jan. 2013 – nov. 2013
NUON / Vattenfall (freelance) Schiphol Rijk, Netherlands
Function:
Operational systems admin of software distribution and client deployment via SCCM 2012 environment during migration of SCCM 2007 and Windows 7 upgrade
Results:
- Assist projects with technical solutions and advice
- Provide 2e-line technical support remotely
Technical Skills:
- System Center Configuration Manager 2007 / 2012,, Microsoft Office 2003 / 2010, Citrix XenApp 6, Vmware Thinstall, Symantec Antivirus, PGP encryptie, Enterprise Vault, various applications, Remedy
- Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1
3-lijns Systeemspecialist Windows
aug. 2010 – nov. 2012
Politie Nederland (freelance) Zwolle, Netherlands
Function:
Work in a Server Systems team at a regional data center to support a data migration project
Results:
- Build and execution of scripting for mail and data migrations
- Resolution of incidents and analysis/execution of changes within a 3-lines technical systems team
- Provide technical support on data center projects
Technical Skills:
- vSphere 4.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, Microsoft Cluster Server, SCOM 2007, Office2003, Citrix 4.0, RES Workspace Manager 2008, App-V 4.5, various applications, CommVault 8.0, ExpertDesk
- Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows XP SP3, DOS
Certification
sep. 2021 Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (renewal 2024)
sep. 2021 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (renewal 2024)
apr. 2021 AWS Certified Security – Specialty (SCS)
dec. 2020 Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (renewal 2024)
sep. 2020 Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (renewal 2024)
jun. 2020 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP)
jun. 2020 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP)
jun. 2018 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA) (renewal 06-2020)
mei 2018 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA) (renewal 06-2020)
jun. 2017 MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Azure)
feb. 2017 CCP-V: Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization 7.6
jan. 2017 MCSA: Windows Server 2016
feb. 2014 CCA-AD: Citrix Certified Associate – Apps and Desktops 7
feb. 2014 CCA: Citrix Certified Administrator for Citrix XenApp 6.5