Bert Boerland

Current

Manager Business Development at Dutch Open Projects
Board Member at Drupal Association
Member General Assembly at Drupal Association

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Past

Business Consultant, Speaker at Getronics PinkRoccade
Co organizer DrupalCon Barcelona 2007 at Drupal Association
Business Consultant at PinkRoccade

Lead organizer DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005 at Drupal Association
Lead Architect at PinkRoccade
Senior Network Engineer at KPN
Kernel member Uni-CERT at KPN
Senior Network Engineer at Unisource Business Networks
IT Management at PinkElephant
Writer for Dutch Amiga Magazine at DIVO (Self-employed)

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Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Sint Maartens College (ongedeeld VWO)
lagere school tynaarloo

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Recommended

6 people have recommended Bert

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Bert Boerland’s Summary

My strength is to be the bridge between customers / sales and delivery where I am responsible for making new products that are either customer business driven or operation driven. An example of the first is helping customers through the process of making agile websites, the second to optimize the service in quality (tooling) or reduction of costs needed in the delivery of our for high end e-business webhosting. I have for filled many roles within my employer from management to business development and high end consulting and currently act as an innovation manager for our media customers.

I have been presenting / speaking at Mediaplaza (multiple Drupal events and Open Source conferences), guest speaker at Haagsche Hoge School, JaarBeurs Utrecht (ICT en logistiek, Linux World Expo), T-Dose 2007, eduvision and many other conferences as well as numerous presentations for the board of prospects and customers of my employer.

Privately I am passionated about Drupal (an open source CMS) MythTV (an open source PVR), my girlfriend, daughter (http://brecht.boerland.com) and son (http://aart.boerland.com).

Bert Boerland’s Specialties:

Open Source evangelist, Network Design, IT Business alignment, Intellectual Property, Content Management Systems, outsourcing, Enterprise Architecture, Behavioral Finance, Social impact of new media, Drupal

Bert Boerland’s Experience

Manager Business Development

Dutch Open Projects

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (9 months)

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Board Member

Drupal Association

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (10 months)

As a Permanent Member I am on the 2008 Board of the Drupal Association. This Not for Profit is guarding the GPL licensed assets of Drupal, an Open Source Content Management Framework and the association is facilitating the growth of this community as well.

For more information, see
http://association.drupal.org/user/Bert_Boerland
http://association.drupal.org/
http://drupal.org
Member General Assembly

Drupal Association

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Since 1/1 2007 I am a Permanent Member of the General Assembly of the Drupal Association. This Not for Profit is guarding the GPL licensed assets of Drupal, an Open Source Content Management Framework and the association is facilitating the growth of this community as well.

For more information, see
http://association.drupal.org/user/Bert_Boerland
http://association.drupal.org/
http://drupal.org/
Business Consultant, Speaker

Getronics PinkRoccade

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 1 month)

As the person being the bridge between (media) customers, sales and our delivery organization responsible for making sure innovations at our end meet the expectations at the customers side and helping translate the functional requirements of the customer towards delivery. Focus on high end e-business webhosting, primarily in the media sector.

I speak often at conferences, for customers' BOD and information sessions. I have been asked for guest college's (Haagsche Hoge School), Mediaplaza sessions (Open Source sessions and Drupal presentations), a broad range of industry conferences and nearly weekly for CTO's/CIO's of customers of Getronics-PinkRoccade.
Co organizer DrupalCon Barcelona 2007

Drupal Association

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — October 2007 (2 months)

Co-organizer DrupalCon Barcelona (http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/) where 430 Drupal consultant from 5 continents discussed about all things Drupal. My primary task was to align the local organizers with the Drupal Association.

See http://flickr.com/photos/developmentseed/1408740558/ for a snap of the opening speech.
Business Consultant

PinkRoccade

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 7 months)

As a consultant I was hired to be responsible for the Mobile Solution offering of PinkRoccade, developing both the market, the products and the combination of these two. During this period I also was the project lead for migrating a large Unix farm to GNU/Linux (suse) virtual farm, gave consult the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment regarding online identity management and did various other consultancy projects.
Lead organizer DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005

Drupal Association

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — November 2005 (2 months)

Lead organizer for the Drupal Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2005 where 80 persons discussed for 4 days about Drupal in presentations, BoF's and other form. Speakers included Dries Buytaert (lead Drupal), David Axmark (co founder MySQL AB) and Rasmus Lerdorf (starter PHP, lead architect Yahoo! Inc)
Lead Architect

PinkRoccade

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PINK; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — May 2005 (5 years 5 months)

While located in Amsterdam, I was the lead architect of a server based computing environment for 20k seats, created the redundant BGP internet connection as project manager / architect and managed a backoffice group (starting with 10 FTE growing towards 30 FTE in 1 year) working for customers with high availability business critical websites.
Senior Network Engineer

KPN

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KPN; Internet industry)

April 1999 — March 2000 (1 year)

Managing, expanding and developing the IP backbone structure of KPN, the leading tier 2 ISP in the Netherlands. Deep understanding of TCP/IP, unixes, internet protocols and many routing protocols including BGP4.
Kernel member Uni-CERT

KPN

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KPN; Security and Investigations industry)

April 1999 — March 2000 (1 year)

The Uni-CERT deals with with internetwork / security related issues for the customers of KPN; such as dDOS-es and hack (attempts). The Uni-CERT is the first commercial Computer Emergency Response Team in the Netherlands.
Senior Network Engineer

Unisource Business Networks

(Internet industry)

January 1997 — March 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Managing, expanding and developing the IP backbone structure of KPN / Unisource, the leading tier 2 ISP in the Netherlands. Deep understanding of TCP/IP, unixes, internet protocols and many routing protocols including BGP4.
IT Management

PinkElephant

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PINK; Computer Networking industry)

January 1995 — December 1996 (2 years)

I worked as a contractor for AT&T where I I managed some of the largest websites in Europe and corporate firewalls for Fortune 500 companies.
Writer for Dutch Amiga Magazine
DIVO (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

January 1990 — October 1994 (4 years 10 months)

As a student I wrote articles and stories for the Dutch paper bi-monthly "Amiga Magazine". This magazine was dedicated to the Commodore Amiga computer. The circulation was around 20.000-50.000 subscribers and it was distributed in the Netherlands and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.

I talked to soft- and hardware vendors to get demo copies of their work, investigated their products and wrote stories about their products.

Bert Boerland’s Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

drs, Plannologie, 1999 — 2005

Urban Planning, Multi Criteria Analysis, Geographical Information Systems

Activities and Societies:

R.K.S.V. Albertus Magnus (http://www.albertus.nl/)
Sint Maartens College (ongedeeld VWO)

August 1982 — August 1988
lagere school tynaarloo

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Bert Boerland’s Interests:

OpenSource, CMS, Behavioral Finance, Social Impact of new media, webservices, Identity Management, Web 2.0

Bert Boerland’s Groups:

Drupal Association, RKSV Albertus Magnus, drupaljam, drupal related work, twitter friends, the next web

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