Internet Linux Web Hosting Specialist ☼ Owner Ber|Art Visual Design ☼ info@ber-art.nl ☼ LION
Breda Area, Netherlands
Internet Linux Web Hosting Specialist ☼ Owner Ber|Art Visual Design ☼ info@ber-art.nl ☼ LION
Breda Area, Netherlands
After I finished my school in 1990 I had to go in the army where I trained to work in a field hospital. I started working with ITS in 1992 where I was responsible for the Packaging and Materials department. I completed several Management and Computer studies that time. ITS was taken over by Nichols Institute Diagnostics where I stayed for a short while. I decided to take the job at US Bioscience where I was hired to build a European Distribution Center. US Bioscience worked at clean room level.
While I was still in my probation time I received an offer of Amgen Europe B.V. I decided to take the job and moved to Amgen. At Amgen I had to build a European Package Development department from scratch, I went to the USA to study al the necessary software, hardware and infrastructure and to learn about the Package Development Department on the headquarters of Amgen. I took the knowledge with me to the Netherlands and build the department. During that time I did several different (Software, DTP en QA) courses and seminars all over Europe and USA.
In 1998 everything was ready so there was nothing left to do for me. I started Ber|Art Visual Design (www.ber-art.nl) and made designed and developed websites. Soon my customers wanted Hosting as well so I became a hosting reseller next to the design work. I hired a designer so I could learn a bit more about hosting, DNS etc. At this moment we host our own cabinets with collocated, dedicated and production servers. We manage everything ourselves, Switches Firewalls and Servers. We host >2000 domain names and we deliver and develop specialized application hosting like Typo3.
In 2004 I started and founded Stichting Hostmerk Nederland and (www.hostmerk.nl and www.hostethics.eu) together we build a foundation witch stands for quality. ISP’s can join our foundation by signing and compiling to the codes and regulations we made. This way we try to separate the serious business hoster from the “rest’
Running building and managing my own ISP Web Hosting and Web Design company Ber|Art Visual Design (www.ber-art.nl) specialized in Managed Dedicated Secure Linux Plesk Servers and Shared Plesk Hosting or application webhosting.
Builder, co-founder and board member of Stichting Hostmerk Nederland
Admin and Moderator on the forums WHT (webhostingtalk.nl), WDT (webdesigntalk.nl) and WMT (webmastertalk.nl)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Sinds 2004 I am a member and sinds 2006 a Discussion Leader (Moderator) on the largest hosting & design fora of the Netherlands.
Webhostingtalk (WHT) is a public forum for the ISP Hosting branch about Webhosting and everything that’s related with Webhosting. (www.webhostingtalk.nl)
Webdesigntalk (WDT) is a public forum for the graphical industry about (web)design and everything that’s related with (web)design. (www.webdesigntalk.nl)
Webmastertalk (WMT) is a public forum for webmasters about programming and everything that’s related with webmasters. (www.webmastertalk.nl)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)
The purpose of this non-profit organisation is to create a clear distinction between high-quality and low-quality webhosting companies. Approved members are allowed to put a special seal on their website. (www.hostmerk.nl and www.hostethics.eu)
Hostmerk is also a Group on LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/65146/7ED7525B97F5
(Internet industry)
January 1999 — Present (9 years 7 months)
I am the owner and director of Ber|Art Visual Design. Ber|Art is an Internet Service Provider Web hosting and Web design company. Our core business is (shared) Linux Plesk webhosting, collocated and dedicated server hosting from our own secure and fire walled cabinets and network in the Netherlands.
We manage everything ourselves, Switches Firewalls and Servers. At this moment we are hosting more than 1500 domain names. (80% = dot NL)
Ber|Art has experience with application, CMS (Typo3), eCommerce (Magento) hosting and design; of cause we can do all domain name registrations and we can deliver professional Google website tuning and several web promotion services.
A few customers of Ber|Art Visual Design:
- Scandic Sanadome (Hosting, Design and programming)
- Holyday-Inn Seaportbeach Hotels (Hosting and Design)
- Proctor & Gamble (Design)
For more recommendation on Ber|Art Visual Dersign please have a look at: http://www.webhosters.nl/gegevens.php?id=635
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
November 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 3 months)
Amgen Europe B.V. package and distributes medicine to > 14 countries in Europe. In November 1996 I started as packaging development specialist and graphic designer with Amgen Europe B.V. After six weeks of training on the headquarters of Amgen Inc in Thousand Oaks, California (USA) I started in Breda.
I build a packaging development department, made and control the packaging of all medicine shipped from Breda. All the work I did was archived in SOP’s and was according to cGMP and FDA regulations. I worked with Macintosh, Plotters, PDF, Postscript, Adobe, Macromedia, CMYK separations etc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
August 1996 — November 1996 (4 months)
U.S. Bioscience in Nijmegen makes medicine on clean room level and distributes them all over the world. I worked there for 4 mounts (then I got the job with Amgen Europe) as there logistics (distribution) manager. My task was to build a distribution center to ship the medicine from.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
February 1992 — August 1996 (4 years 7 months)
I started with ITS (Immuno Technology Services) in Wijchen right after I came from the army in 1992, in 1994 ITS was taken over by Nichols later Nichols Institute Diagnostics. I was responsible for the Packaging and Shipping department and Materials. We made Immunological Diagnostic essay’s with radioactive materials and we shipped them all over the world. I had 8 college’s working for me at my department.
Certificate, Postscript and Internet Publising, 1998 — 2003
I took several courses: Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat Distiller, Digital delivery of files, Adobe Acrobat Master class, PDF-Update, Macromedia Freehand and Macromedia Fireworks. We learned the book: O' Reilly DNS and BIND. I took several courses: Postscript and Printing, CMYK Separation and Plotters
Certificate, Macromedia Freehand, 1997 — 1998
I took a 4 day course to learn al about Macromedia Freehand.
Certificate, Digital Printing and Color, 1997 — 1997
The course I took at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester USA was called “Printing for People Who Aren't Printers” We learned in two weeks what Digital Printing was and we could answer the question: What is color?. We also visited AGFA.
Certificate, QuarkXpress Passport, 1997 — 1997
I took a five day one on one course to learn: Desktop Technology – QuarkXPress Passport, in Los Angeles. I had to build medical doctor leaflets for 14 countries for Amgen with QuarkXpress Pasport.
Certificate, Regulatory in Pharmaceutical Packaging, 1997 — 1997
In London I took a 4 day’s course “Regulatory in Pharmaceutical Packaging” where we learned the Regulatory side of the packaging. After some internal GMP and audit courses I could do supplier audits for our packaging suppliers in Munich, Brussels and Luzerne.
Certificate, Logistic Management, 1993 — 1993
The Logistic Manager course at Topa Institure in Voorhout was 2 times two weeks, where we learned all about FIFO, Packaging and Shipping, GMP regulations etc...
Yes, Technical, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 1987 — 1991
I started my study in OSS when it was called Chemical Laboratory School, the first year there where no specialties. I did not like the chemical side so I decided to go to Nijmegen to the Medical Laboratory School. The second year I had to choose between Cytohistology, Clinical Chemistry and Microbiology. I picked the last one and went to Eindhoven to study Medical and Technical Microbiology. In the last year I did take an extra specialty namely Immunology. So I graduate as Technical and Medical Microbiology and Immunology annalist.
Yes, Netherlands, Englisch, Math, Science, Natur, Biology and Arthistory, 1983 — 1987
Family, my dog, internet, hosting, (web) design, Google, computers, music and holidays and last but not least my company.
Board member and founder of Stichting Hostmerk Nederland (hostmerk.nl and hostethics.eu), Admin on Webhostingtalk.nl (WHT), Webdesigntalk.nl (WDT and Webmasterstalk.nl (WMT)