PERSONAL STATEMENT
A highly motivated Certified TOGAF 9 and Archimate 2 Enterprise Architect with background and five year experience in Infrastructure and Development in IT Architecture of which the last two performing a global Technology (datacentre) and Application migration at GDF Suez and a Enterprise transformation at Perceval. Previous architecture activities include storage migrations, high availability and integration solutions. Throughout my career implementing automation as much as possible for efficiency increase, human-error reduction, cost effectiveness. Knowledge transfer is part of my DNA. Besides the architectural skills, extensive expertise in infrastructure exercising as an expert in (UNIX) Operating Systems, High Availability, Storage migrations and Performance and Troubleshooting, Sound set of soft skills: communicative, team player, customer-centric, service oriented, basic management, conceptual and analytic, strategic. Implementation of BPM has enriched my architecture skills in particular the business domain and their processes. Dynamic regarding work location, mode and training.
MAIN SKILLS (Summary)
- Enterprise and Infrastructure Architecture implementing TOGAF and Archimate.
- Architecture definition, principles, requirements management,
- Architecture implementation, gap analysis, risk and impact management
- Architecture roadmaps
- Modelling (HLD & LLD) using mainly Archimate
- Business Process Management and BPMN modelling
- Project management, security (main concepts)
- Soft skills: customer facing, communication, flexible, strategy, analytical and conceptual.
- Infrastructure: OS (VMS, UNIX, Windows), Servers, Storage, Network (TCPIP)
- Infrastructure: Automation, Virtualization, Cloud, High Availability, BCM/DRP
- Infrastructure: Capacity Management and Performance, Troubleshooting
- Application: Integration and Migration
- System Engineering, administration and (system) programming
- 30+ years IT experience: 25+ years IT Administration/Engineering; 5+ years Architecture
- 19 years ITSM experience: ITIL (incident, problem and change management)
- ITSM tools: Remedy (5 years), HPSC (7 years) and ServiceNow (7 years)
PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 02/2016 - 10/2024Role: IT Administrator
Customer: UBS, Zürich and Manno
04/2014 - 07/2015 Role: Infrastructure Architect
Customer: GDF Suez (Engie), Brussels
11/2013 - 03/2014 Role: Enterprise Architect
Customer: Perceval, Brussels
08/2007 -1 2/2013 Role: UNIX System Engineer
Customer: ING, Brussels
07/2002 - 08/2007 Role: System Manager
Customer: Solaris/VMS Proximus, Brussels
07/2001 - 06/2002 Role: System Manager
Customer: VMS Proximus, Brussels
04/1999 - 07/2001 Role: System Engineer
Customer: VMS Digital, Evry & Lille (FR)
TOOLS/PACKAGES
BANKING
- ST400, NOSTRO-VAX, SPOT, (all payment/banking packages)
- SWIFT-messages, IFT (message transfer package), Traffic-400
- KONDOR, VDPS, GEAR, Informatica
UNIX (SOLARIS ad RedHat)- Veritas Volume Manager 3.2-5.1, File System 3.2-5.1,Cluster Server
- SUN Cluster 3.0-3.3
- SUN Disksuite (Volume Manager), ZFS
- Hitachi SAN Command Interface (incl. HORC), EMC SRDF
- TCPIP, NFS, DNS, SSH, FTP, NTP, NIS, LDAP,SNMP
- Solaris Performance tools, Patrol, PRISM, ADB, MDB, Crash utility
- DTrace, strace, perf, vmstat, mpstat, iostat, (io)top, netstat, snoop, tcpdump
- TSM, CommVault
OTHER- HPSC, Remedy
- MS Project, PRINCE2
- MS Office Suite (including MS Access
- Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF 9)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Archimate 2.0, Archi, ARIS, UML 2, BPMN 2, Camunda
- DEVOPS, SaaS, CI/CD, SaC, Ansible, Puppet, YAML, Terraform.
MIDDLEWARE
SECURITY- Fundamental knowledge and experience:
- Access Control, Network Security,
- Information Security Governance and Risk Management,
- Cryptography, Security Architecture and Design, Security Operations,
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, Physical Security
FRAMEWORKS - TOGAF
- PCF
- Six Sigma
- ITIL
- Agile
Although the official period working as an architect is approximately two years, in reality the total amount of time performing an architectural function (which partly did not exist in the past) is much longer ?more than five years- as the following table shows2007 - 2013 (2 months)Customer: ING
Tasks:- Technology & Application
- Creation of (pseudo-) functional cluster from two separate clusters (Kondor-App and Kondor-DB)
2007 - 2013 (4 months )Customer: ING
Tasks:- Technology & Application
- Creation of SUN Kondor2 cluster. End-to-end build, hardware plus software, including procurement phase.
2007 - 2013 (6 months)Customer: ING
Tasks:- Technology & Application
- Creation of SUN Kondor1 cluster. End-to-end build, hardware plus software.
2001 - 2007 (1 month)Customer: Proximus
Tasks:- Technology
- SAN storage (HDS) migrations to midrange without business impact
2001 - 2007 (1 month)Customer: Proximus
Tasks:- Technology
- SAN storage (HDS) migrations to highrange without business impact
2001 - 2007 (3 month)Customer: Proximus
Tasks:- Technology & Application
- Major upgrade VMS v7 including non-OS systems software, application landscape, risk assessment and mitigation
1995 - 1995 (1 month)Customer: GSI
Tasks:- Technology
- Creation of an innovative mixed-architecture VMS VAX-Alpha cluster. Risk management, impact assessment.
1992 - 1995 (6 month)Customer: EC
Tasks:- Technology
- Creation of SY-system (facilitating management tasks) capable of monitoring and alarm on performance; system inactivity tool; automated backups.
1992 - 1995 (3 month)Customer: EC
Tasks:- Technology & Application
- IBM JCL ? VMS Batch application integration through networking (FTP) interface.
1989 - 1992 (2 month)Customer: WEB
Tasks:- Technology & Application
- ?Veranderen van Omgeving?, one of the first implementations of role based access to projects while linking users, applications and projects.
1989 - 1992 (6 month)Customer: WEB
Tasks:- Technology (Workplace)
- Replacement company wide of PCs to diskless PCs through automated dynamic proce